Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-07-23
LOCAL NEWS.
ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

LOCAL NEWS.
EtT ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT. $3.50
CANTERBURY.-S Saturday night invariably
brings with 1t a good bill at Canterbury Hall,
and crowds always resort fhither 10 enjoy
hearty laugh after the tolls and laoors OF tne
week. The side splitting farce OF the "mls-
chievous Darkey," the extrayaganZa "higglng
a Purchase" and the beautiful ballet sine
Sailors Carnival" will be performed among
other acts. Fs.
S.SFORp's AND PARKER's continuation
troupe OF minstrels make their parting bow to-
night at Growers Theater. The popular Dick
Parker will be the recipient of a benefit, and
his hosts of friends will undoubtedly turn out
in force and aid to make his benefit an accept
able and worth one. The bill announced is an
unusually good one.
CENTER MARKET To.DAY.-Beef, best cuts
per pound, c.; next, Csc. Salt Beef, 15a2Oc
Dried Beef, 25c. Veal, 25c Mutton, best
chops, Csc. Lamb, per pound, 25a3Oc Pork,
fresh, 25c. Pork, corned, 25c. Bacon, hams,
uncut. 3Oc.; sliced, 40c., breasts, &c. shoulders,
pc. Butter, i5a5Oc. Chickens, per pair, Slas2
Ducks, per pair, SIPS. Eggs, per dozen. CSC.
Tomatoes per peck, Sl.40. Pears, per peck, 81.
Cymblins, per dozen, 25a3Oc. Cucumbers, 35a
4Oc. Green Corn, per dozen, 4Oc Apples, per
peck, new, Acc Il 81; dried, soc. ae1 Potatoes,
irish, per peck, 75c. Green peas so. String
b. ans, per peek, Soc Peaches, new, per peck,
SlSaS2 dried, per quart, 25c. Cherries,
dried, Csc; Raspberries, 3Oc.; Whortleberries,
2Oc.; Blackberries, 10c Beans, butter, CSC;
white. l0a12c. Raddishes, bunch, 5a10c. Beets,
head ,2ya25c. Lettuce, per head, 3a1Oc. Fish
ROCK, large, each, 81 5OaS3; small, per bunch,
50a6oc; halibut, per pound, 20c.i sea bass, 15c.;
blue fish, 15c; lobster, 12c sturgeon, 15c.; pike,
per bunch, 50c.asl perch, soc. Rye, per
bushel, Sl.75aS2. Cornmeal, S1.95aS2. Ship
stuff, 6Oc.as1. Brown Stuff, 60c. Shorts, soc.
rel, s9aslO Oats, per bushel, sOc.asl25. Hay,
per cwt., 2I.75aS2 Straw, Sl.25aS2 Glover
Hay, s1.2sasi.5O Egg Plants, each, 20a25c.
Watermelons, 50c.a$i.
A FoRGKRY-Tnursday night a respectable
looking co1orPd man ran into the Fourth Ward
Station and said he came from the Colored
Methodist Church on Sd street, near New York
lief Of sick and wounded colored soldiers. Two
white rHen. strangers, had visited the fair room
a copy. The messenger thought it was for
gerry, ard wanted the police to say whether
they should close their church The officers,
of course, told them to go on with their festi-
val, as the note was bogus:
WASHINGTON, July 21st, 1864.
MI. Payne, hereby notify you not to hold
meetings In your meeting house after 10 O'Clock,
as the neighbours have lodged complaint of
more of this You will be made to pay a fine,
and the parties after 10 O'Clock be arrested.
MAYOR WALLIC.
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRs.-Cdrdlry Scout-A
cavalry scouting party, consisting of detach-
ments from the 10th New York and LIST Mch.
from an extensive scout in the direction of DC.
coquan village and Wolf Run Shoals. They
met with no guerrillas, and ascertained that
kincheloe with his band had been ordered
away from that vicinity on last Tuesday.
The party camped at o'clock this morning
In the vicinity OF Accotink, tie loyal citizens
of which place extended to the fatigued and
hungry troops a cordial welcome, AMI would
not allow them to depart this morning until
each individual OF them had been bountifully
replenished from their own tables. Such hos
pitahty TO Union troops Is not often found in
the regions traversed by our scouts, nor are
any better Union men than those who dwell
in the vicinity of Accotink to be found any
where.-Aler. Journal, July %.
BIST-Yesterday afternoon as one Of the
city railway passenger cars was passing the
state department II was hailed by richly
dressed lady, or female. The car, which was
crowded with passengers at the time, was
stopped, and the lady, or female, entered,
wheIeupon an elderly gentleman arose from
his seat and offered it to the woman, which she
took without sign of recognition OF the cour-
tesy shown her. A moment or two afterwards
the gentleman turned TO the lady and said,
S'Madam, did you speakl' to which the fem ale
replied mo, sir" s'Oh, excuse me-" the gen.
tleman remarked, 81 though int you thanked me-"
The passengers seeing the "point," laughed,
and a sudden effusion Of color upon the wo-
mans face indicated that she too saw it.
NEEDS ATTRSTIoN.-The rancho OF Mary
Ann Burke, on south G. street, between 9th and
10th streets west, has been an intoerable nui.
sance for a long time, being the resort Of both
white and colored prostitutes, and a place Of
frightful disorder. 1t is place continually
frequented ny soldiers, who get liquor there,
and under its influence behave in a way to
make themsel es the terror of the neighborhood.
The police have tried many times to correct the
whenever she is arrested and sent to the work.
house, che always finds means to get bailed
out, and s'starts business" again.
The Provosr Guard would find 1t worth their
while to give this rancho an overhauling.
MILITARY ORGANIZATIoNs.-The clerks OF
the Second Auditors office have formed two
companies, and are Differed as follows: First
Company-Captain, q. B. Remission; lst Lieu.
tenant, A. Jordan Swatz I'd Lieutenant, Chas
III. Gardner. Second Company-Captain, S.
b. Morse. LIST Lieutenant Geo. q. Colby; I'd
Lieutenant, G w. Akers.
The coloIed laborers attached to Assistant
Quartermaster Aliens office, foot Of TIN street,
have been formed into two companies, and
They are fully armed and equipped, and ap.
pear to make considerable progress in military
tactics. The clerks and other employees of this
office are also forming into company.
CARELESS SHooTING-A few nights since, as
party OF ladies and gentlemen from the Navy
Yard were taking a pleasure trip IN the Eastern
Branch, when off BuZZard's Point, a ball. fired
by some person on shore, passed among the
excursioHists, striking the water just beyond.
Those on the boat were singing and amusing
themselves at the time, and when this incident
occurred Immediately stopped, when the party
who fired inquired and received the name of
the boat, which passed on. 1t is thought that it
was sentry who fired at the boat; but If such
IL the case, we suggest that he should have
fired a blank cartridge first, or else not fired
among the party in the boat. who by the way,
barely escaped.
ONE OF 'EM !-Yeserday afternoon, officer
Nicholson arrested q colored woman, named
Sarah Johnson, who had q few days before been
released from the workhouse on the charge of
being drunk and disorderly. In taking her
along, quite crowd was attracted, and she
stopped in the street and disrobed herself, and
refused to o further, when other officers came
up and placed her in wagon, in which she
was hauled 10 the Fifth ward Station, from
whence she was sent to her old quarters this
morning by Justice Ferguson.
FRsTIvAL FOR PATRIOTIC PURPosEs.-The