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(1816 To 1860) By Chas. H. Haswell Originally published 1896 |
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In January the Chatham Garden Theatre was revived as Blanchard's Amphitheatre. Under this style very good equestrian performances, with rope-dancing and the like, were offered.
May 2, James Watson Webb of the Courier and Enquirer, feeling aggrieved at some action of Duff Green, editor of a paper in Washington, went there for the purpose of resenting the charge against him by punishing Green, who, upon the appearance of Webb in a threatening manner, drew from his breast a pistol and presented it at Webb, who immediately ceased all hostile demonstration, and on his return to New York published an article over his name, relating the meeting with Green on the steps of the Capitol, and that the pistol was of a given length with a mahogany stock. The article was held to be very injudicious and humiliating to his friends. Bennett, upon his publication of the Herald in 1838, took advantage of it; and for a long while after, when he referred to Webb, it was " mahogany stock," " barrel and all," etc.
A new line to Philadelphia was established in the spring : running time (by steamboats and coaches), twelve hours - mirabile dictu !
About this period India-rubber overshoes first appeared ; the exact date I cannot give. They were wholly made of pure rubber, and were very rough and unsightly in fashion. Prior to this, provident elderly persons wore overshoes of leather, men and boys greased their boots or shoes in winter, or suffered with wet feet.
The popular letters of Major Jack Downing first appeared in the New York Advertiser. They assumed to be from the pen of an Eastern pedler, who having been intimate with General Jackson, the President, they jointly occupied a bed, and he addressed him in that strain. They were written by Charles Augustus Davis of this city.
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