Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-05-23
DAILY EVENING STAR.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

meeting Of Temperance League, No. /. was
held st the Hall in E street. on which occasion
General Carey, of Ohio. addressed those "a.
ssmbled, at great length, in favor of the Maine
Law cOntending that the attempts made to
regulate the liquor trade had been tried and
hsd all failed He maintained that the liouor
traffic was not the subject of regulation. and II
was proved by experience for the simnlest of
all reasons, that it was an '.irregularity and
therefore an irregularity was not proper sub
ject for regulation. Could a surgeon regulate
0 cancer and the licensing system was like a
poultlce applled TO cancer, which only az
grayated the disease. The only way TO cure
il is to cut 1t out; it cannot be regulated He
contended tina. government had a light to med
die with persons private business; for instance,
one man follows thieving; another makes coun-
tsrfeit money, and the Government interferes
with their business A butcher puts up Il
slaughter house where it is hurtful to the
neis hborhood, and the City Councils prevent
IT, Such an interference was all that the
Maine Law supporters required, namely that
the liquor sellers should be removed TO where
they could sell their liquor without hurting the
morals or well being of the neghborhood
Chief Justice fancy, from the bench of the
Supreme Court, had said that no man has n
right to introduce into a neighborhood am;
thing tina, will endanger the life and health
or peril the public peace and virtue of the
community. He would ask what was the DIFF
ference between civil liberty and natural lib.
erty? The latter was the liberty to do what
we liked; civil liberty was the same, abridged
so far as society demanded it, and therefore
in the liquor trade it had a right TO interfere
He went over the various objections alIepel
against the Maine Law saying that we Gave
up our personal liberty. and even our lives
when society required it, as instanced in wars
between our own and other nations. Civil
governments could not exist without the right
Of the government to seize and destroy a MANS
property if it chooses for the public good fla
house was on ire, the fremen would not ask
permission to tear down an adjoining house if
Ii was required, or even to put in a key Of
gunpOwder, and blow it up if necessary. and
yet to destroy liquor was considered a terrible
waste Of property. A man could not grow
upon bis ground what he liked he could not.
for example, grow Canada thistles, at least he
could lot in Ohio, for he would be fined for
doing so, and even if he did not cut down, by
the 10th of August, the thistles growing by
the way side. The speaker continued at COZ
siderable length, interspersing his address
with various anecdotes, some of them replete
with humor, and concluded by apologizing for
the length of time that he had detained them.
although he was not subject to the hour rule
o: Congress speechifying.
UNION CHOIR Yesterday eve
ming, the members Of the Union Choir Asso-
citation, which Is composed of the Cheirs of a
number OF churches In our city, assembled at
Wesley Chapel, at the corner of f and 5th
streets, for the purpose of a grand rehearsal of
sacred vocal music of all the choirs combined
The members of the different choirs occunied
the body Of the church amounting to several
hundreds. the ladies being seated in front, and
the exercises were gone through under the
leadership of Mr.. T. A. Tucker, the conductor
Of the choir Of the NJ. E. church South. These
we're very beautifully executed, and we're pre-
faced by prayer; they consisted of hymns and
anthems, and were sung in excellent time. no
instrumental mdslc afording them it's aid
At times the grand chorus singing was varied
by the execution of duets, quartettes, &C., by
individual choirs. The first, a duet and chorus,
was performed by the Fifth PRESBYTERIAN
Church. In the course of the evening. the
Navy Yard Baptist Church, the Ebenexer
Methodist Church, and the Church of the AS
>ension also contributed to the exercises of the
evening. The choir of the last named church.
under the direction of Mr. j. l.. Club, gave
the gem of the evening. The last piece sung
was the Old Hundredth, which was directed
by Mr. Tucker in excellent style, and the ex-
ercises concluded with the benediction. It
next re union would be on the fourth Monday
in June, at the Lutheran Church. The effect
OF the melodious blending of so many voices
In singing the anthems of praise to God. re-
sounded grandiy and solemnly through the
sacred aisies, raising the soul to thoughts and
CONCENTRATIONS Of the hosts that sing Saliva
ton to our God" around his own eternal
throne,
CROSSING THE TRACK.-On Sunday evening.
as the train was proceeding from Baltimore to
" asnington, when pear the crossing of the
Arlington turnpike. two negroes who were
standing some distance from the track in the
road, attempted to cross the track in front Of
the locomotive. One of them, however, stop
ped on approaching the train, whilst the other,
thinking that he had time to cross kept on
and was struck on the heel by the cow-catch her.
and knocked some ten feet off from the place
where he stood. The train was stopped imme-
dlately, and on taking the injured man I'D, it
was found that both the knee joints were dis
located Such was the violence with which he
was struck, that the impressions of the nails
In the heels Of his boots are distinctly visible
on the cow-catcher. He was taken I'D, and
placed on board the train by the co1du to-.
Captain Owens, who paid him every atteni n
ana on the arrival Of the cars at the ANNAPOLIS
junction, he was sent TO Baltimore by the ND
train, and placed in the Infrmary. where he
now is- His name il Reuben Tilghman, and
be acknowledges to being drunk at the time
that be attempted to cross. The number of
the engine was 127, the engineers name,
Cough.
INTERESTING RELICS.-Several interesting
relics of the revolutionary war, consisting Of
the standards taken at the surrender of York
town, and which were presented by the Con-
gress OF the revolution to General W ashinptop.
as commander in chief of the combined armie,
Of America and France, were brought over,
on Thursday last, from Arlington House, by
the venerable Mr.. Custis, and presented to
the President, as a gift of General Washing
tons sole surviving executor to the govern
ment and people of the United States.
Among those old standards are q British
and Hessian one. The British is the regimen
tai coiors OF the It'll regiment of the line. In
the centre OF the famed red cross banner is
the Order of the Garter surmounted by a
crown, with the motto, Z" Hon. sost out NAL n
penJs The HessiaH standard is elaborately
worked. In the centre is an eagle soaring
alotr, In one talon trunebeon of command,
In the other an olive branch Motto Pro
PItncesse ct Patrra. I775''
Both nags are Of silk, and nearly eighty
years old, dilapidated by time
Ihey have been Temporarily depc sited at the
War Ofhce, but it is said that the President
intends to submit the final disposal of them 10
me congress, to form a nucleus around which
10 De gathered all the standards of the past
and OF the future triumphs of the American
arms 1t has been suggested that portion of
me magnificent room in the eastern wing of