Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-08-19
LOCAL NEWS.
AMUsEMENTs TONIGHT

ri CONFERENCE.-The performances at this
popular resort are always rich, rare ana racy.
The manager always has q large iorce on SWEEP
singers, graceful dancers and witty Ethopians
and comedians, and he is therefore aole 10 pre-
sent a bill calculated to please all VINO may
attend.
with his concert hall entertainment, and to-
night again his company VIII perform the ''Six
Degrees of Crime inns wid BE preceded and
plan acIs,
CHR1sTY MISsTRELs at Fords tonight
again. Mr.. ]. w. Raynor. one of the most
popular of the troupe will take a benefit, and
for this occasion only Mr.. J. j. Peck has vol.
unteered. Tomorrow afternoon there will he
matinee, and In the evening the last oppor-
tunity OF seeing this troupe will be afforded
FRED. DOUGLASS LECTURE.-This colored
orator had quite an ovation last night at the
18th street Presbyterian Church, which was
literally crowded by colored and white. He
was introduced by Rev. Henry H. Garnett
(colored) in few remarks. Mr. Doulass has
a g9oa voice, distinct articulation, and is not
announced that he had not come prepared with
a lecture, but would make few practical sug-
gestionS as to the position OF the white man
and the colored man in this country.
The relation existing between the colored race
and the white was now, as 1t long mad been,
and long would be, the great problem to be
solved by this people, II was the great ques-
tion before the war, had been the great ques.
ton during the war, and he somf times feared
he had yet to see the policy sufficiently COM
prehensive to enforce its riddance-that is, to
expel it from the public arena, the platform,
and the press. 1t would never he removed
from discussion, never be put at rest, until jus.
tice, entire and absolute, should be established
throughout the land. .s.-....
The speaker noticed the many times slavery
had las was said) received its death blow
First, when the Declaration OF Independence
diers fought in the war of the Revolutions and
afterwards, when they fought in 1912, and
when Gen. Jackson, in an address. called the
colored soldiers fellow citizens. But slavery
had survived all these stdeath blows, and now
again the colored man had on the "Fedsral
blue" and it was said this was the death
blow Of slavery. But slavery would not be
killed out until equal and exact Justice was
melted ont TO the cOlored man. The speaker
spoke of Gen Banks mode ct conducting af-
fairs with regard to the negro In Louisiana,
and argued that it still kept them in condi-
ton of slavery. He did not ask that kind of
Justice whicG some said they claimed, viz: So
cial equality with the whites The negro did
not desire that; they only asked to be let alone
and work out their own destiny. He claimed
that the colored people would be the best eIe-
ment for the preservation of the Union in the
South after the rebellion was crushed.
In conclusion, he referred to his own politi-
cal position, and said: alt will be time enough
to declare for whom will vote when all the
candidates shall be in the field. But enc thing
Is certain, shall do nothing for compromise
or peace men. The election of q Copperhead
would place the black man in a worse position
than before the war; would insure a deathly
silence upon the subject of anti-slavery for
twenty years, and render mob violence the
certain portion of all who would speak for the
black man. l would Tather the ills we have
than fly to those we know not Of"
THE "UNTERRIFIED" PROPOSE TO RATIFY.-
The committee of thirteen appointed at the last
meeting of the sN National Democratic Assoeia-
ton" to make arrangements for a ratification
meeting, 10 be held in this city ON the 18th of
September next. held meeting last night at the
rooms of the association.
fph my b.
the affair a grand one, and suggested that 1t
be continued for four days, beginning Friday,
10th, at night, with q display of fireworks, on
the Mall south of the Presidential Mansion
and ending on the night of the following Mory-
day. with grand torch-light procession.
This was objected to not practicable-in.
volyng too much time and expenditure, which
might be employed more probably otherwise.
After considerable discussion the folio wing
propositions from DIR. Clayton was agreed
upon THAT the meeting be confined to the day
proposed and that the exercises consist of pub
lie speaking at the Capitol grounds from eleven
to three o'clock, and speaking at night from the
portico of the City Hall.
The following Committees were appointed:
On Firance-Messrs Smith, Adams, Clayton,
Brereton, and Lakener.
On CorrespoHdence-Messrs. Florence, Clay
ton, and Flynn.
On Transparencies and observation-disclosures.
Davis, Minnix, Gait, Adams, and Lyon.
Adjourned to meet at the call of the chairman.
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRs.-About 6H o'clock
last evening, man named Pearse, employed
in the paint shop of the Manassas railroad de.
pot, was accosted, on the corner OF Wolfe and
Water streets, by a woman named Simpson,
who proceeded to draw a six-barreIIed re.
volver, with the evident in tentlon of shooting
Pearse. He, however, rushed up to her, and
seized hPr arms, thereby preventing her from
acccmplis hing any mischief, and the revolver
was wrested from her by parties interfering
Subsequently the enraged woman assaulted
PeaIse with his dinner bucket, making the
small crockery fly about his ears in alarm.
ing close proximity. accompanying her actions
with some very severe threats and ungenteel
imprecations. We understand that the affair
grew out of an alleged improper intimacy on
the part of Mr.. Pearse with Mrs. simpsons
daughter The case came up before the Mayor
this afternoon for trial.
We understand that g. person was deserted
from the deck of the mortar schooner on Tues
day night, making his way past the vessel
toward this shore, in small boat that he was
commanded to halt, and refusing, he was fired
upon several times by the sentinel Not heed
Ing the f1ring, he made his way to the shore
without harm, and escaped.-Aler. Journal,
August iS.
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FINE ENTERTAINMENT IN PRosPRCT.-Com.
Foote, his sister Miss Eliza Nestel, and Col.
Small, three of the smallest people in the world,
will commence a series of entertainments at
Odd Fellows Hall, on Monday evening next
These little people have been here before and
have delighted thousands by their original en-
tertainment. Com. Foote is q grand comedian
actor and dancer, as indeed are the other two
little people, and all who have seen them know
that they are refined and intelligent. With
these little people, land who will appear in the
entertainments are Miss M. g. Ellinger, the
justly celebrated lady pianist, and our old
friends, the Continen tai V ocalists, Franklin and
Smith, and Prof q. III. Brooks, the blind PIan.
ist and Violinst The first two entertain ments
will be for the benefit OF charitab BILE institutions
That OF Monday evening tor st. Joseph's Or
phan Asy lum, an d that of Tuesday evening for
St AIMS Infant Asylum.
IMPosITION-Soms of the female pealars,
whose stock in trade is usually carried about
in basket, from whence it is sold to soldiers
at the wharves and about the streets, do not
seem 10 he satisfied with reasonable profits on
their goods, but in some instances they extort
profit Of from two TO three hundred per
cent. few mornings since, when a boat con.
tanning regiment arrived at the Sixth street
wharf, ii was beset by a small army of the fe-
male pedlars, each armed with baskets of
bread and fruit, the former being disposed of
Tor thirty cents per loaf, when it is retafled at
aicht cents. and the neaches or no rat ott tr,a