Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-12-13
LOCAL NEWS.
4hrsEHEsTs TONIGHT.

II .,(Iau, hter 90 the Regiment, and thosA thHra
4 fore " no would see her as Marie" must avail
themselves of this last opportunity. Moss.
Fcuchr will dance pas d>Us with Miss Nil
son. and the " hole performance will Goa -luds
| with grand o.f;et
aKovER's TBBATBR-Manaser Grover has
| at the earnest request OF many Of his patrons
tcheented 10 have the "Romaic- of a Poor
YCurg Man" per oIIned again TO night T.
| will therefore, ~ produc-,:, nd for the Last
time with al is mag ficent emery, EXQUISITE
| music and fine mechanical effects.
CANTERhUEY EALL.-I o-night a-sin viii! :,e
performed ala i'oquetiere," wherein Annatta
Galieti and ' iardc, supper I'D by tho entire
Ia;iet co. ls, spear. "The tiips-y's Law" will
| aea.n lie ~ II rmed by Julia Mort mer and Kate
Pennoyer, and the entire company will app ar
an rev songs, acts and dances.
TAEIETIEs.-s.Eat,lr of Farnhrouyhn ov,i
au-vent "ihe fsiries,'' "french Dancing
Mae.er, and AL thu Other amusing acts VIII IN
have the pact week SO cow ulsed with laugat-r
Inr a"arncrs At me Varieties, will be given As
The closing Performance of ,he week Herman.
dez has very good company.
TIE "PEACE COMMISSIONER" UNDER Az.
REST--On W "Wednesday last, long staten a,.t
app asrd in the CHICAGO TSmes from an Judi.
Siaual calling himsrlf J. Wesley Green, which
p!oieesed to be an account Of his rscei wing say-
elal propositions Tor peace from Jefferson d.
Wis, lwho had sent for him. which be comma.
nicatFd 70 the President. His staten mt b A,
ben copird extensively, and teiegraphsd
Throughout the country, and has n ade the author
come hat notorious, and from rscent develop
msnts he 10 likely TO become more so.
from what we can learn, Mr.. Green visited
me city, IN company with several ladies' about
me sth OF last month, and put up at Wizards;
OUT ~ this time no one suspected him OF being
pienipot-ntiary although he lived rather fast,
ano was riding nearly every day; but on Leaving
he promptly paid his bill About the 22d of
hovemb+r (sbout the time he alleges that he
visited the Presidency he arrived in thu city a
second time, and put up a. wiilards, being in
Company with a gentleman from Balti.nor. anI
" a. several times a. the War Department. aud
the W hl'e House. During his stay he stopp,.:l
IN the hat and fur store of H. II. Stinpm-,,z and
examined magnificent fur cape worth ,,bout
SIS, but told Mr.. - AZ he was not iudca OF
the article he would bring a friend To px,;niu.,
IL He and his friend subsec uantly sx ,,oin.j
the cape, Mr.. s. being absent ~ dinner ana je;r
word with the clerk if Mr.. - would Lake SIS
Tor II 10 send il 10 has room, md If h. Was NOT
there TO Sid II 10 the War department. MIR
= shortly aftir came in, and determined - let
IL 20 al tn price named; but before he cauid
send 1t 10 the place deeign Ited, Mr. Gr-pn re.
turned with Acairiase, and requested the cierk
to 90 with him to the War Department and he
would receive t:e money. ON arriving at the
Departing Mt tIret took posse Ssiou of tn. cane.
ami save the clerk ,t,e following check written
Oh War Department papr:
sNoyEMBER -, 1sS2
''SecTsfnry Treasury Pay L. H. StinemeiZ one
hundred ard seventy five dollars, and charye
10 the account OF j. ". Green.
-. WESLEY GREEN"
The clerk remarked tia the Department was
clossd, when GrsTn told him that those con.
nected with The Departments could ct in the
tack way, and offered 10 20 to the Treasury asd
s.. MIN get the mon.y. The two started throu IN
the Presidents grounds, and on g.,ttil g in front
OF the WhI'e H"use, Gre:'n told the young m IN
TO " ak o., anu he " ould overtake him-that
be hsd some business it'll the Pr .sident-and
he boi;ed in the front door. The clerk wen. on
q little iurtiI.r and waited for him. but hr not
making his appearance he went back to look
for nm, bat he had lift. On inQuiTias at vii.
iards II Wa found thar he had gune OIL, forget
ting To pay has hill, which, by the way, wa,
small. Some OF the Clerks at the War Depart
NJ n for .orf ~
Will known mel chant of Pitts burg
Tie metropolitan Police OF this city some
days since to TX IN a urss for his arrest, and
yesterday SUPER ntendent w ebb received - dis
patch from hirf or Police Bradley, of Chic go
stating that ne bad been arrested. and awaits
the 1eauisltion of cur authorit.s. Captain
mcheiyy, OF inc detectives, was yesterday di,
Pateht d for him, and he may be expected here
shortly.
Green claims 10 be- somewhat acquainted
In BALTIMORE, and Say that he was induced to
visit Richmond by a man named Horala NJ
Wilson, foil friy detective polio. officer in
this city. The Philadelpha Press appear.
10 think that this j. Wesley Green is idan-
hcai with Rev. John w. Green who was
engaged IN some dIsreputable transactions in
that city some years since. Green's story
occupies THREE columns of The Chicago Tim-s
bat is too ridiculoUsly improbable 10 be seri.
oUsiy refrtsd. He claims II have left Pittsburg
OIL the morning of the rid of October, and to
have arrived In Richmond on the morning Of
the 10Th. going by the W y of Wheeling, Staua-
ton and GoIdons willie. This route would in.
travel and nearly one hundred miles of horse
6aek riding, and its accomplishment in three
dave, In these times, is hardly possible.
The New York Tribune, which, to support its
ridiculous peace proposition stories, has eager
ly ErasPed al such tales as this and ssDr. Bar
neys," will really have TO try again.
An IMPoeTRR.-In the First w ard there lives
man named Charles Carroll, who, IL seems
makes his living by begging, and recently he
has spent much of his time in the workhouse,
where he has been com mittrd by Justice Drury
Early in the spring he was arrested for stealing
cleaver from meat store, and pretended TO
be 30 lame in one leg as to scarcely walk, and
thu officers allowed him 10 limp along in front
of thu m, but on turning q corner b., started at 8
run, and was with difficulty caught For this
ohence ne was sent TO Jail, but no one az pcaring
against him before the grand jury he was dis
charged In a few days be was again arrested
on the charge OF drunkenness, and il WAS fou nd
That he had been goias from door to door repre-
sentlng himse IL as woundAd Union soldier
and had received money from several nersons
with which he bought liquor and got al.
For this offence he was sent 70 the workhouse
and served q short time, but 50 soon as ne was
out, he went hack TO his old tricks, this time
sentins fsaHs6oE persons may symIasn.
!N was thrn sent second time 10 The ,Eort
bouse, from which he was released last wrek.
and Few days since the police picked him ~
again drunk and teok him 10 the alta tion. FROM
paper found In his possession, il Is likely that
he has got money in = new way, having found
neither the Union or Rebel soldier imposition
70 operate we'll. The paper Is q petition signed
~ himself, md states that he wishes TO Pur-
chase an elastic anclc for 4 broken leg he re.
ceiyed In q fall in Georgetown. Justice Drury
for the third time this season sent him TO the
workhouse.
POLICE Aird PTee,net.-MaryRoxer drunk;
workhouEe. Elisha Chamb~rlin, do; dis mi sed.
FOURTH {Tsctact.-Robert +. Lawder, drunk
and di>orderiy; fined Sl.73. Hugh Logan and
Andrew Sullivan, drunk; do 80 each-work-
house.
Sixh Prsciret-John Barron, hucks.ering
wi hout license; finrd IS. Francis f.. Adams
and Jas. h aEcorn, suspicious characters dis
missed. Bartlett Lipsco1nb, drunk In street;
do. Arthur Brown, grand larceny; Jail. Geo
Hollen, fighting in street; fined q. Peter
Brooks, do; do -. Huett Hawk cruelty
20 his hors--, and Patrick Kerrigan, tntoxicat ted
and ditsTdsrly; turned over to military.
Tentk Precire'.-Tbos. Mart-n, drunk; sent 70
HE quarters. Patrick Anderson, do; locked n =
house. II. johnson, assault; fined So 81 w