Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-09-20

RICHMOND, Sept. -, 1865.
FRIEND GoODALL:-A stranger arriving IN
Richmond for the first time and viewing the
mvriads of bar rooms, would doubtless put its
citizens down as nation of drinkers, and as
doing nothing but drink from early morn till
Gewy eve, but such is not the. case, and it is
really astonishing how so many bar-rooms can
exist here, but from all appearances they are
making money and others are sprlnglng up
whenever an available spot presents itself.
The theatre having been closed for the last
| four weeks, the management has been having
the entire inside remodeled (something necessa-
ry after the last three years wear and tear). 1t
has been repainted, the seats recushioned, &c.
1t was re-opened last Saturday evening with
the play of Money and new farce Of 'He
Would and She Wouldn't'' A brief history
of the present theatre, and what energy and
perseverance will accomplish will not come
amss to your readers: Some time in the latter
part of '6l, the old theatre was burned
to the ground; hardly were the bricks cold ere
worknen were seen clearing away the rubbish
preparatory to rebuilding; the energetic pro-
prietress, Mrs. E. Magill, was warned by her
best friends to desst from such a herculean
task, as the war was then going on and no
supplies necessary could be got and that in the
end it would ruin her pecuniarily if she per-
sisted in the undertaking, but she knew what
she was about. She made her contracts, took
her company and played them at small hall
called the ''Varetes, now known as the
''Cante rbury," and made nearly enough to
pay for building the theatre, and to-day she
can point with pride to the new theatre as a
monument of her indomitable energy and good
sense; would that Richmond had plenty such
energy as hers distributed amongst its citizens.
The present manager. Mr.. R. D. Ogden, has
held the same situation for several years,
albeit the ''Confederacy'' attempted, and even
| tually succeeded for time, Of deprving him
of the honor Of catering to the taste of the
amusement loving public Of Richmond, yet as
lss IS back in his oldplace, he has promised us
that he will have run Of good stars this fall
| and winter, and among the list ofnames have
seen those of Miss Fanny 3. Price and Mr.. D.
Hanchett well known to the patrons of your
Atheneum.
Police, who has the welfare of the citizens of
Richmond at heart has just been creating a
fa,Yore among the hackmen, who have been
charging cxorbtaut rates for tie of their
hacks since the evacuation, but who will now
learn that from this time forth will be things of
the past. regular set Of rates has been fur
nished them, and the police have been instruc.
ted to that they strictly obeyed
On paying a visit to the Capitol Square "a
public garden wherein the State Capitol is stu
ated), it is painfully apparent that it has been
! sadly neglected. and that there has been roth
ing done to keep it in good trim. The grass
plats have been trampled down, the statue of
one of Virginia greatest sons-Henry Clay
has been deiaced and broken by some of the
sacrilegious relic hunters the benches have in
nearly every instance. been demolished, &C.,
&C., but at last another era has dawned, for
! the police have also been instructed to see that
| every person caught defacing or destroying any
thing be arrested. This-Capitol Square-is
the pride of Richmond, and before the war the
| convicts in the Penitentiary, who were sent up
| for light offences, were made, in various ways,
under the eye of the public guarl "a State mil.
itary organization) to work in, and beautfy it.
In several papers which have come into my
possession, l have read articles on the Mexican
| question, in which the Maximilliaa Government
was lauded to the skies, and that the Mexcans
were incapable Of self-government, as forty
years of civil war in that country attested
Now, it is my opinion that if they were once
| oy,1a IL
| United States protectorate they would get along
just WELL if not better, than under a mon
archy. But that is leaving the question. My
. objections to those articles are, simply, that
they are preparing the minds of our people for
the recognition Of that government, which, in
itself, would be the death blow for all the small
Republics on this continent; for, what surety
have we, if our Government at Washington re-
ceives Max. S Minister that some other foreign
power will not pOunce down upon Peru, or
adjoining States and, when refused recogni-
ton, point to Mexico and ask what justice there
| is in recognizing it and refusing them. These
matters should always be kept before the
public, and especially now, when our
| Government has avowed that it will
MAINTAIN the Monroe Doctrine intact AS far
! as Maximillian is concerned no doubt lie means
well for Mexico and would establish good
government there if allowed to do so, but is
he not foreigner, and sustained by foreign
/ bayonets? Let the French leave aud how
much would his throne be worth to him? To
use the classic phrase of one of our great men,
Of by-gone days, it would not be worth d--n
Quite an interesting and, for Richmond,
novel scene was witnessed on Broad street
few days ago. 1t was no less than one of our
unbleached Americans and his wife enjoying a
horseback ride. 1t must have been quite a
treat to the parties in question, to notice the
stir they produced for the eyes of both males
and females, Of all colors, were upon them
throughout their entire route
One Of those pretty, but rare, phenomenons
was witnessed here few nights ago, in the
shape of a Lunar rainbow. ] enclose a slip,
cut from the Bulletin, which will explain it:
a LUNAR RAINBOw.-Last night, between
the hours of eight and nine o'clock, during
slight fall Of rain, the rare phenomenon of a
lunar rainbow appeared i'll the western hori-
Zon. The moon was nearly full and had been
up about three hours. She was shining with
intense Erlancy in the eastern sky, while the
| western part of the heavens WAS ovorspread