Article on a Disturbance at Bryants’ Minstrels

     “The Fall of Richmond, or something else, seems to have excited our actor-people to a very belligerent degree. In another paragraph we give a brief notice of an emeute last week, in which a number of actors ‘warmed’ some-traducers of Edwin Forrest. We have just heard of another ‘difficulty,’ in which a minstrel manager figured quite conspicuously. It appears that the policeman in attendance at Bryants’ Minstrels was taken sick, and his brother attended the hall in his stead. If we are correctly informed, the man was about collecting the waste paper of the place to sell, as his brother was in the habit of doing, when, it is alleged, Dan Bryant interfered, high words ensued, and the result was that Dan gave the man an unmerciful pounding. A lodge to which the beaten party belongs has entered suit against the minstrel, putting the damages at five thousand dollars!”