... and laughs as hearty as ever. At his recep- tion one evening last week in the White House the negroes were as thick as blackberries in Jersey. Among them was a coloured barber named Burke; he was an applicant for an office in the New York Custom House ...

... nced by the attractions of a first-rate military band. Now, this is all changed. Amateur companies are as plentiful as blackberries. The smallest country town boasts a fit-up Theatre in its Music Hall. Two or three gentlemen of decent education perform ...