Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-04-12
LOCAL NEWS.
ANHsfMHNTs ia. NIGHT


AMgsEMINTs To NIGHr.
FoRD's THRATRR.-Last night but two of
Miss Laura Keene, who appears again, by re.
ssThe Worklnen OF Washington supported
by the entire company.
growers THRATRR.-The Oriental spec
facle OF ALADDIN, or the Wonderful Lamp"
house.
OxFoRD.-Negro delineations, songs, ballets
ana ouriesques, by the entire company, con.
cIuofng with side-splitting afterpiece
son, ana new programme every nlgnt, WIN all
the great company in huge bill OF ballet, Dur.
Aesque and comicalities.
THE GEORGETOWN CELEBRATION. Last
night, in compliance with call of Mayor
Addison, the citizens assembled in the hall of
the Custom House to make arrangements for q
demonstration in honor OF Gen. Grant and our
late victories.
Mayor Addison presided, and Jenkin Thorn
as, Esq, was appointed secretary.
The secretary read the CALL and the Mayor
explained that it was not expected that the
meeting would be very large, because of the
attractive displays at Washington and the in
clemency of the night. 1t was, however, de.
signed that the meeting should be preliminary
10 demonstration on the part Of the citizens
Mr. Craig offered the following preamble and
resolutions, which were adopted:
Whereas, The joyful intelligence has been
with lightning speed communicated from one
end OF the republic to the other that the city OF
Richmond has, together with General Lee and
his entire army, been surrendered to Lit. Genu
Grant, crushing the rebellion and restoring
De 1t
Resolred by the people in tom meeting assembled,
That we, together with all others throughout
the country, who love the name of an Ameri-
can, hail with JOY and gratitude TO Almighty
God these unmist akable evidences that he has
not forgotten us as nation in the day OF our
UOnplEafp6
to see the bow of promise and peace in the dis
lance, and for which we have so long prayed
and hoped; and though war has laid waste and
its track has been marked with blood and fire,
yet, thanks to the God OF our fathers the Re-
public still lives, more respondent than ever,
In spite OF the ordeal through which 1t has
been called to pass. May it live so long as the
sun and moon shall endure!
ReSoloed, That the Mayor be, and he is here
by requested to issue proclamation at such
time as may be determined, inviting the cId-
zens to illuminate their dwellings, aud make
such other demonstrations as may be meet and
proper in honor of the triumph Of the national
arms and the looked for speedy restoration of
peace and good will throughout our entire
country.
TO appoints committee of twelve, together with
himself, to make such arrangements as shall
fully carry out the objects OF these resolutions.
The meeting then called for addresses from
Capt. Goddard, President of the McClelland
Club in the last Presidential contest, who de-
clared that he had been misunderstood and
ODfOH udC al ways De6n
the dearest object of his affections, however
much he may have differed with others upon
matters of minor importance. Capt. Goddard
dwelt upon the magnaninity of General Grant
Is exhibited in his terms offered to Lee. 1t
elevated him ten thousand degrees in his esti-
NATION yet he did not believe that the credit
was due only to Grant; Abraham Lincoln was
At the bottom He (Capt. e., believed that the
business OF the President there was to propose
Just such terms, and together they had sue
ceeded il obtaining this greatest, because blood
less victory, Lees army had been quietd.
The armies of Grant and Lee will shed each
Others blood no more forever. Credit is due
TO Lieut.. Gen. rant and double credit to Abra-
ham Lincoln.
MIR. Tenney followed, contrasting the meet
ing in this town in $780, which was riotous and
disorderly, when he, for resolutions OF loyal
~, obtained but one vote, his own, and this
meeting, where all is peace and harmony. Mr..
Z. was willing TO let by cones be by-gones. He
was for amnesty TO the whole human family,
dent of the so-called Southern Confederacy.
He did not believe jeff. Davis human. MIR. T.
quoted the Language OF Robert Ould, the Rebel
Exchange Commissioner, and applied 1T to
JEFF. Davis. In the Harrison campaign, Ould,
alluding to Van Buren,, said it was an ancient
belief that when an infant was born, the soul
OF some adult who died at that instant passed
into the body of the child. When Van Buren,
was born, no man died. Mr.. T. firmly be-
leyed that when JEFF. Davis was born no man
died, and the soul that entered his body be-
longed to some other than the human race.
Messrs. Craig and Thomas followed in ap-
propriate addresses, after which the meeting
adjourned.