Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-09-02
From the sunday Mercury
Theatres and Things.

There is not so much laughing in Shat.
fers.on as formerly.
Nor there won't be until the show folks
return TO their labors next September.
| indulge in the belief that had as lief
be mulbury leaf or the leaf Of a spelling
book OF anyshipg that might be unaffac,-
cd by the change from busters and straw
hats to ovcrcoats, double breasted drawers
and lined undershirts.
Ever since the conspirators we're execu-
ted there has been n GOODNESS in the at
mosphere, and although have no fear OF
Atmus in my sphere of action, I do have
fear of this hanging bussess.
The mole especially as i; was inaugu.
rated by on actor,
But how many ministers Of the gospel
are there who have gone into murder,
rape and burglary by the Wholesale, and
had their little peccadilloes carefully con-
ceaIed from the public by their meek and
lowly worshippersF
1t may be better that the creates! and
basest assassin Of the age was an actor, in.
aswuch as an exception always proves q
rule. Aud so far as my memory serves
me, he is the only one on record who has
beeu guilty of any crime other than that
of compelling nomadio managers to
"sccque' up salary.
Such a summer as this, so summary in
its changes, beats the great Summer-up
in Vermop!-the Lightning Calculator,
BY the way, wouldn't ii be profitable
speculation for Baruup to engage the
Hun terian "Militaray Commission" at
Washington, and exhibit them through
country, as be did the specimens of the
Choctaw tribe las! year.
Or gel samples of the War Department.
which closed Ford 5 theatre.
Is Stanton jealous of Ford! I. ne
afraid Ford will get up greater burlesque
than the Military Commission Or pro.
duce greater tragedy than that which
had, as its chelest tabieau, the leading of
an old woman in mauacle. from her cell
to The scatold, and then hanging her !
Perhaps Stanton is jealous Of Ford II
isn't the first Ford, deep OF shallow, which
he has crossed Nor will it be the last
so long as President Johnson can afford
to keep capital humbug in the Capito
to execute capital punishment (no pun II
meant) upon women whose guilt was not
half so transparent as the gilt upon The
Court Martial's martial buttons, But or
this, silence. Fort Delaware still exists
and the habeas corpus is 10 the same con
dltion in wbicb---should he--suspended
You can tilI mp the blank 10 sui, your
self.
The acty folks are not much preyalep
just now. That's SO, and no more.
Long Branch and other frst-class wat
ering places are houored by their presence
Which reminds me that ono of the Can t
getaway Brigade, who was renchau
! (beiDg a singer and a writer, he ought t
have pen chant for eyorything,) for do
, ing up 'quibs upon ghastly subjects.
His later efforts are thus:
Stanton is a great drinker He can
even punish a criminal without treatin
him with drop.
He is so cruel tha. he even wounde
the executioncr of the conspira,ors b
= giving hun man it was Payne 10 hang
+ All!
' The oil wells of Yenango are bored b
machinery, but the Oily Welles Of WASH
ington is bored by the Navy Department
. All board Tor the next attempt.
. Yours, comfortably,
t GUY GRIPSACK.