The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-11-17
the shooting themselves, and hence
their dislike to the Fenians.

we SdtueT ITOm some O1OtS thrown
out by the London press that Adah
Isaacs Menkin has been successfully
palming herself off on the people of
that city as "The Child of the Sun. -
1t Is well known in this city that they
are not related at all. Little did the
British public think, when it so
warmly applauded her as s'Mazeppa, ~
IN the Georgia costume, that it was
nursing In its bosom an Adah tina I {
would turn and sting it with such a
deception.
Macauley, whose essays and History
of England are not wholly unknown,
IS playing Bamboozle "~at the Varie-
ties, in New Orleans. We are glad to
see that he has abandoned the field of
the essayist and the historian, for
which he is altogether untitled, and is
addicting himself to low comedy.
Theatricals are brisk in New York.
Mat Maretzek is also having q heavy
run In the operatic line. He has re-
Gently brought out a new composition,
IN which the celebrated thorough
base,' James Gordon Bennett, ap-
pears as the Knight Of the Black
Mail, " and is made to sing small. The
latter incurs the chief expense, the
enterprise having cost him about
500, 900. Henry Ward Beecher is
still starring it at Plymouth Church,
the chief place of amusement in
Brooklyn. He recently appeared
there in new farce. entitled "What
and Where is He'll 90 They say he
didn't get fully down to his subject on
the occasion, but there is little doubt
that he will after awhile.
'tWhat Will He Do With It., is the
title of dramatized version of the
Abolition story of ''The Colored Ele-
plant, " which is just now having a
splendid run on the radical boards.
The fine old aria from the Opera
d d'Afrique-
f'Dat you, Sambo? No, it's jim;
You're good looking nigger,
But you can't come in
No use knocking at the door,
has recently become very popular in
Connecticut, and was rendered with
fine effect on q recent occasion, when
many thousands Of voices Joined in
the chorus.
We are pleased to announce that a
young amateur of this city, who occu-
pies an apartment over the shop of
an Israelite, and who was recently
indicted by him as q nuisance for
practising on the trombone and clari-
onet, viii shortly come out with
new piece of sheet-music, adapted to
the bass-drum and Chinese gong, and
entitled ''The Ear of the Jew Below"
A very unsuccessful miner, just re-
turned from Idaho, gave, as we learn,
private rehearsal Immediately on
his arrival last evening, for the benefit
OF his wife, singing the beautiful solo:
81 bring thee an ivy-lcaf-
Only an ivy-leaf,
with such impressive skill that his
declared that the strain had ''dying
fall, and affected her very peculiarly,
reminding her of her unpaid milliner's
bills on Dauphin street. 1t must
have been delightful.
The old combination of 'sShak-
speare's two plays, the "Comedy of
Errors and Measure for Measure"
continues to draw good houses at the
daily Municipal naati,eee Not little
to the satisfaction of the Treasurer,
the performances always end with the
capital pantomime entitled:
81 lay ten dollars down,
And count them one by one
1t is whispered in the higher circles
of society that the writer Of this arti-
Gle (whose gorgeous sleeping apart
monts are very near the counting
rooms of two printing Offices, and
who is aroused every morning, ''ere
the morning STAR by the boysterous
and profane cuttings up of the street.
dealers in newspaper iterature,) is
seriously thinking of bringing out
new drama in one act, intended chiefly
to illustrate the true design of the
undergrowth of the country. and