Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-04-13
DAILY EVENING STAR.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE,

SIN iNohOui.-Ne attended the lecture of
Prof. Williams at the Yariete last evening. and
were much amused aid in some things in.
s,ructed. He announced that his discourse
would be upon the Will, Sovereignty of Man,
Affirming tina, mems will were great withercd
in this degenerate period, and that mistaken
course of educating the youth of our conntry
was now being pursued, which only aided in
redu;ing the will, and causing the mind 70
prePonderate- he compared the human sys.
TEN to one hundred jars of electricity ear3 ;,
said he. twenty of these form the will the
other eighty the mind, and whenever snfic;ent
electrielty can be indicted into the system to
counterbalance these twenty iars-or in other
words, the wiil-then the man il in a pscby
Geological state-his will is gone. he has no will
OF his own, and my will, or your will as the
case may be, acts upon his mind-and when /
tell MIN that this cane is a snake, holding up
cane) my will forces this conviction upon his
mind, and he would be willing to take his oath
that this was bona fide snake"
Inc Dr bore pretty hard upon the spiritual
rappers, but not unjustly, or without demon
stratlng his assertions; but in speaking of the
great sseendaney which the will might gain
over the mind, he averred that man could so
train his will, that pain-such as tooth ache
and head ache-might be instantly bani,bed
by simply tciiftng 1t. We thought that doc.
trine about as ugly pill as spiritualism. He
performed great many singular experiments
upon several of the audience CAUSING a graot
deal of laughter, In fact one can't helm lanoh-
ing at the odd things that are done by wav Of
experiment and illustration To zee half a
dozen persons get frightened at cane, each
one endeavor1ng to get be hind the other or
stripping off their coats before a large audience
in quest of feas, or imagining themselves
ROSTERS, and after Tapping and growing. sud-
denly feather up to each other, and commence
to peck and spur IN good earnest is enough to
make statue grin The house was full and
will no doubt be filled again to night
The CRYING LANDS OF VIRG1S1A.-It il
NOT, perhaps generally known that large num-
bers OF cattle are driven over into Virginia at
this season of the year, from Maryland, to be
tattened before being transformed into beef.
on the pastures of the Old Domin ion. On Tues
day, a drove of cattle in very lean condition.
which, we were informed, were from DIR.
Clagett farm, In Prince George county. Md.
amounting in number to somewhere abput -
hundred, were being driven along MARYLAND
avenue, on their way to the land of promise
to fatten in its pastures and thus furnish our
own and the Baltimore market with a good
supply Of prime beef.
GERMANIA CONCERTS.-We would remind
our readers that the Germania Musical Society
Will give two grand vocal and instrumental
concerts, on the 18th and Goth inst, on which
occasion they will be assisted by Mile Caro-
line Lehman, the accomplished vocalist
From the well known and we'll merited
celebrity OF the Society, large and fashion
able attendance of our musical diZettauti NAV
be anticipated, as these will be their farewell
concerts. We do not wish to draw inyidous
comparisons between the Germania and Julien
Let every one, we say. judge for themselves but
as every eye makes Its own beauty, so should
o n 10 nm
own part, we are free to confess that the con-
certs of the Germania are more attractive tn
us, than those of o. la Jailten notwitbstand
ing the Cossack marches and new-fangled
polkas of the latter orchestra.
MUsICAL.-On Monday last, st. Matthew
Church, was crowded by large congregation.
among whom were President Pierce and JUL
lien, the orchestra leader, to hear the trial Of
the new organ for the above-named church
which was made by Mr. Berger. of Baltimore.
and that gentleman and Mr.. Linhard, orgauist
nj the Cathedral, playing upon it alternately
from TWO to SIX O'Clock. 1t is said that Julien
who may be considered judge of such mat
tiers, gave favorable opinion of the organ az
Tine toned instrument. having had each stop
tried separately. 1t contains twenty-four stops
Ii all, and will be splendid accompaniment
to the choir of the church.
CIRCUIT CoURr--The chaneery suit pending
between White and Richards of which we
made mention on Saturday, has occupied this
court during the last eight days, of which seven
have been consumed in the argument. V
Ellis, Esq, who closed the debate, finished a
Iucid AMI powerful argument yesterday, he
having occupied two days and a half in repIv
to Richards counsel. The papers are vol
luminous, and the questions both of law and of
fact discussed, were numerous and intricate
The jury trials are postponed to Monday next.
LouDOS AND HAMPSHIRE RAILRoAD.-At a
meeting of the shareholders of the Alexan-
dria. LOudOn and Hampshire Railroad. held
yesterday, ii was determined to locate upon
the northern survey to the coal field. in Hamn.
shire County, Va, by Leesburg, HiIlsboro'
dc, and to cross the Blue Ridge Mountain at
heyes Gap, thus taking the road about half a
mile south OF the Shannondale Springs in JEFF
ferson County. The mountain will be crossed
at grade not exceeding ffty-two feet to the
mile, and the curves will not be very sharp.
C0NMITTED.-A young man named c. L.
Burr, went into Fullers restaurant, corner of
sixth street and the avenue this morning and
calling for everything he wished, was served
and treated as gentleman. When the bar
keeper asked him for the amount due Burr
drew = five shooter and threatened to kill
him Burr was taken before Justice Goddard
where he stood upon his dignity as a Virginia
gentleman, but denied having a pistol One
OF the officers then took from him a pistol
loaded and capped Justice Goddard immedi-
ately told him he could no longer look upon
him as a gentleman, but as some one who
wished to appropriate to himself a character
he did not possess. The justice sent him to
Jail for further examination.
PUBLIC AUCrIoN.-The Corporation sale of
yesterday for unpaid taxes was we'll attended
and much spirit eyinced by the different bid
ders. As the law upon the subject may not be
generally known, we herewith have given it
for public information
Amy lot bought at this sale can be redeemed
by the orig inal owner within two years. on the
payment of ten per cent. per annum upon the
money thus invested, to the extent of the tax
If the property shall not be redeemed within
the above named period the bidder of yester-
day can procure a corporation title to it by
paying the assessed value of the lot"
EXTENSION or THE WASHINGTON RAILROAD
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
design extending their branch road at Wash
ington to some convenient point on the Poto-
mac, so as to afford a more perfect conmunica-
ton with the Southern lines of travel A bill
for the purpose has already been introduced
into Congress by Senator Mason of Virginia
SUGGEsTIoS.-Several Of our militar y
friends who have witnessed the afternoon pa
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