THE MINOR DRAMA. The Acting Edition. No. CXLV. COLUMBUS EL FILIBUSTERO!! A new and audaciously original historico-plagiaristic, ante- national, pre-patriotic, and omni-local confusion of circumstances, running through two acts and four centuries. BY JOHN BROUGHAM, COMEDIAN. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Seven by JOHN BROUGHAM, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. AS PERFORMED AT BURTON’S THEATRE, DECEMBER, 1857 NEW YORK: SAMUEL FRENCH, 122 Nassau Street, (Up Stairs.) DISTRIBUTION OF CHARACTERS, GOOD, BAD AND INDIFFERENT. FERDINAND,

1 King of Arragon —an aggressive and progressive monarch, of rather a speculative turn, with a good many irons on the fire, besides an eye on Castile, Mr. Mark Smith. JUAN RODERIGUES DE FONSECA, Archdeacon of Seville, keeper of the king’s conscience, [a handsome sinecure

2,] and court spiritual adviser generally, therefore, naturally opposed to Columbus and the spread of knowledge, Mr. Holman. FERNANDO DE TALAVERA, an old picture, very much improved by time, Mr. Barrett. LUIS DE ST. ANGEL, a contented office-holder pursuing the even tenor of his way, Mr. Alleyne. ALONZO DE QUINTANELLA, a courtier of much lower note, Mr. Gledhill. DON CHRISTOVAL COLON alias COLUMBUS, a clairvoyant voyager, whose filibustering expedition gave raise at the time to a world of speculation, Mr. Brougham. DIEGO, a semicolon among the king’s pages, Miss Orten. Distinguished members of the Historical Society

3, now meeting together for the first time. VASCO NUNEZ, Mr. Hurley. HERNANDO CORTEZ, Mr. Atkins. AMERIGO VESPUCCI, Mr. Paul. PONCE DE LEON, Mr. Lawson. A noisy crew of mutinous Seapoys.

4 SANCHO RUIS, Mr. McRae. PEDRO NINO, Mr. Bishop. BARTOLOMEO, Mr. Hayes. JUAN PEREZ, Mr. Bruce. &c., &c. ISABELLA, wife of Ferdinand, possessor of half-a-crown by marriage rite, and a whole one by right of having to carry its weight on her own shoulders, Mrs. Holman. COLUMBIA, a national debutante, her first appearance on any stage, Mrs. L. W. Davenport. LITTLE MISS KANSAS, a discordant element, Miss Taylor. Members of the Reception Committee, Aldermen, Discontented Politicians, Independent Voters, and other natural curiosities by Competent Representatives. Full-grown States, Juvenile Territories, &c., by an Energetic Host of Auxiliaries.