Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-08-03
LOCAL NEWS.


LUCAL NEWS.
AMussh1Ars TONIGHT.
WASHINGTON THRAfER-In addition to the
troupe, Mr.. Cassidy has added fine dramatic
company, With Kate Fisher, protean actrass.
OF fine ability, at its head, and the first dra-
matte performanc will be given this evening,
the plsy OF "1n and Out of Place., having
been selected. Mr.. Clarke, the Boston COM
edian, is also now connected with this resort.
Marietta Ravel, Rosita, and the st. Denis
Troupe, Will appear might.
CAhTRRRrRY.-Manage Sim announces
extraordinary attractions the present week.
The Zanfretta troupe OF pantonimists, rope
dancers and acrobats-Alexanare, Louise, Jo-
sephine, Henrique and Louisville maketheir
first appearance to- night. Susie Summerfeld,
Julia Marsh and Maggie Wilson, have also
been added to the company, and will appear
an conjunction with the already large and bril-
liant Canterbury troupe.
VARIRTIRs.-NIiss Julia Barton, an operate
songstress OF some note, will make her first
appearance here this evening. Agnes Snther-
land, Jim Budworth, Addie johnson, and
Others of the old favorites, remain. The comic
pantomime, sJocko, the Brazilian Ape" with
Moreste as Jocko, will be performed Albert
Henderson will give an exhibition in Juggling
PREsTIDIaITATIoN:-A All who delight in
sleight of hand and in entertainments calau-
lated to mystify, will be glad to know that
Professor Anderson will remain at Odd FL
lows Hall for six nights more. His original
the public evidently desire a fe " mo e exhibit
tions, and he has therefore acceied TO their
wishes.
ARTILLERY REyIRw.-Malor Glen. H 'intZel.
mau, commanding the Department of Wash
ingtoE, will review, this afternoon at six
o'clock, on the grounds on East Capitol street,
the fsllo wing field batteries:
Seventh Massachusetts, Capt Davis; I'd Con-
necticut, Capt. Sterling; 4th NewYork, Capt.
J. E. Smith; 18th New York, Capt Stahl; 1st
INala aid 9Th
Lieut. Herr; 18th Ohio, Capt Johnson 10th
rIichigan, Capt Schultz: Battery A, LIST Virgil
lia, LIST Lieut.. Furst; Battery F, lst New York,
Capt. Wilson; Battery II. 1st PENNSYLVANIA.
Capt Pagan; Battery 1, 5th United States, I'd
Lieut.. Mcconnell. In all thirteen batteries,
comprising force of sixty guns, eleven hum
dTed men, and one thousand horses.
With one exception. these batteries all
veterans, having participated since the COM
mencement of the rebellion in from four to
twelve engagements each.
These have been replaced in the Army OF the
Potomac by full and more efficient ones,
detailedfrom Camp Barry, the artillery depot
and camp OF instruction near this city. They
are now being refitted, and will themselves in
turn soon relieve other batteries, which the
chances and hard knocks of war render tenn
pOrarily unser yiceable.
During the past few months more than thirty
field batteries, old and new, have been received
at Camp Barry, made efficient for field service,
and sent to different armies in the field.
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Bushing. who lives on G street, between New
Jersey avenue and North Capitol street, was
arrested by Officer Kelly. Of the Fourth Ward,
for cowhiding Mrs. Elizabeth Schneider. 1t
appears Mrs. 5. is the wife of man who
drives for n sutler, and is absent from the city.
They have a room In Bushing's house. Bush
ing, it is stated, has had no friendly feeingIfor
her heretofore. Yesterday Mrs ). was sitting
In her door switching cowhde, and Bushing
was walking in the yard with a child, and got
in reach OF the cowhide, which touched his
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numerically, drawing blood from her head
and neck. The officer said that when he got
TO the house he took the cowhida from Bush
ing, who was then strutting about the yard in
an almost nude condition. The females of the
neighborhood hooted and Kissed Bushng as he
went off with the officer, and for few min
u.es the officer thought the women would take
him and chastise him by Judge Lynch's rule.
Bushing was held to bail for court, and also to
keep the peace by Justice Johnson. =
HORSE SrEAL1sa.-Y esterday morning SOL
der named Horace Stops, company G., Sd
Pennsylvania cavalry, came into the city with
four horses, which he offered for sale on the
avenue. A very fine horse, wsrth at least
$3.50, he offered for s25. Oficer Hessler came
along and suspecting that horses to be sold so
cheap must be stolen, arrested Stops, and
retained horses. He says that one horse be-
longs TO his captain, another to a lieutenant Of
another company, the third belongs to himself,
and the fourth he picked mp on the road from
Rockville, Md. He was sent to jail for court
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were turned over to the Government and the
fourth to the property clerk.
DEGRADING THB CRAFT.-Yesterday Officer
Grown arrested F. T.. Pitman, a printer en-
ployed in The Government Office, fer robbing
Louis Fectig of S11 and James Neil of 500 80.
The victims are also employed in the Govern
ment printing Office, and are boarders at Mrs.
Glover's, No. $50 Fourth street west, where
the robbery was perpetrated. Pitman went
there TO room with them on Saturday night, and
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both. The money wa recovered, and the
prisoner was sent to Ill for court. The Sl1
was found between the bed and sacking on
which Pitman slept, and the S62 so was in q
PS,ket-book and hid on the roof of the house,
wnere Officer Grown discovered it.
VOLUNTEER SUReEoss,-Surgeon Jos. R.
Smith has, by direction of the Surgeon General.
issued & circular letter to the Surgeon Generals
of the different States, relative to the employ
ment OF volunteer surgeons He states that
dant surgical aid be secured, and suggests that
the Surgeon Generals of each State organize
each corps ofthlrty surgeons of known abli-
ty, who shall hold them SO yes in readiness i'm
mediately after q battle. They shall guarantee
to serve at least fifteen days volunteering,
and shall receive or not at their pleasure, the
psnsation Of contract rgeons, and be sub.
ject to the orders OF the medical authorities.
ME-. LowREY's FUsERAL.-Ths funeral Of
MIR. Charles L. Lowrsy took place yesterday,
dno W dS Dy tuS
icai Society and the Bookbindars' Association,
under the marshalship of MIR. Norvail w. King,
the whole preceded by the Marine Band The
funeral services were conducted by Rev. p. D.
Gurley, and the corpse was inferred in the
Congressional Cemetery. The pail bearers
were Messrs. James English, VIM. NJ. Belt,
John Sessford, Henry Walker, E. J. klopfer,
and Jos. r. Waters. The services were con-
cluded by the performance Of 3 dirge around
the grave.
nRArpYCrYny Iru
morning about o'clock, q large ice house be-
longing 10 Mr.. J. Pettibone, on the bank of the
Potonia &c, near Fourteenth street, was destroy.
ed by fire. The ice house contained many tons
OF Ice, much Of which was lost. A Govern
ment stable, near by the ice house, caught fire,
but the damage was slight. The firemen were
cutprenptly, bnt we learn that no apparatus
except that Of the Frap kiln, could obtain
full supply OF water. That company obtained
water by carrying suction into the river at
Sycamore beach, the firemen standing In the
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