Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-05-15

Counscl gave notice OF motion Tor 4 new trial.
Cooley for p:f., IIollinshead for defendant
After dsposing of few applications for con-
tinuances the Court adjourned. \
LIE Petit Ole Bull.
Our musical education consists of a tolerable
acquaintance with rustic Church Psalmody,
snatches from "Zip Coon" and ssOh! Susanna'' and
the chorus of several popular airs.
Our musical experience like every body's else
In this musical country, has been varied by faint
"reminiscences of Don Juan, agonics from Marct-
zek's howling travety of Norma, by raptures
trlling from the mellow throat of Lind or Bishop,
not to mention sensations from Christie's Min
trels, sudden shocks of organ grinding and infic-
tions of instrumental dexterty, ranging upward
from the improvisations of the Jew's-harp to the
tinabulum of the Piano forte under the soulless
touch of fashionable education.
We are not therefore without material for COM
parison in forming our impressions of Master
Goodall, who played last night at Mazourka Hall.
AS we said before we are no judge of music,
and do not therefore propose critical analysis of
Master Goodall's skill, or to test his success by
rules Of art. We judge music as We judge the
fragrance of the rose, by standard Sensation,
"a simple and universal one, all the purcr for its
simplicity and all the more authoritative for its
universally.
That is the best music to us which touches us
most profoundly, and excites the highest class of
emotions. While, therefore, the profcsscd dille-
tante, who sat by our side, was astonished at the
marvellous triumph of the boy in the most diff
cult passages Of tho old sMaestros,' & pronounced
him an artistic of the very first order, with less
taste only knew that passion Of most sweet mus
ic was rained on us from his deep eyes, a supreme
sensation filling the soul brmfull, and subduing
all thought and feeling to the one overpowering
ecstasy of the moment.
He is great boy, no trained fiddler merely
There is nothing mechanical in the effects he pro-
duces. lie can't help it. He is the embodied soul
of music. You see the article in the fash of his
dark, spiritual eye in his utter preoccupation in
his art; in the tremulous excess of poetry that
quvers in his nervous touch. His instrument
seems to be part of his organization, to BE- a
thing Of nerves and consciousness, and sublime
faculties. The little artistic but touches the string
and it breaks like a fountain in a diamond spray
of music.
In the exaltation of some pass lges, where the
artistic "wreaks his soul upon expression" we
could have bowed down and worshippcd in little
Nick the divinity, as he is the incarnation of mus
ic.
GT The funeral of Father Peyraygrosse took
place on Tuesday, long procession followed
him to his grave in the Catholic cemetry. 't ~
There was no hearse nor carriages. The coffin
was borne by pedestrians. Priests walked before
with open books and a monotonous chant in Latin.
The children Of the Catholic Church proceeded
them with uncovered heads, and in front of the
procession three boys led the way in strange
livery, each bearing a cross. 1t altogether an
interesting scene and 10 less sad for being
strange.
The funeral Of Mr.. Henry P. Pratt took place
in the afternoon at 5 o'clock. Ar. Nell preached
the funeral discourse on the occasion. The re.
mains of the deceased were deposited in Oakland
Cemetery.
WHAT BECOMES OF THE IMNICRANTs?-A young
man recently returned from trip to Long Pra-
re informs US that the country on the west side
of the Mississippi, and moro especially on Sauk
river, is filing up with astonishing rapidity.--
Benton county is undergoing thorough expor-
alton, and every available point for farming pur-
poses is seized upon with avidity.
Accounts from the Minnesota river glow with
the excitement Of the eager throngs who are
piling in around the thriving towns up that way
and occupying the fertile lands of the back coun-
try. The vast extent of country over which our
incoming population expands, easily accounts for
the rapid absorption from the hotels and streets of
the multitudes which every steamer disgorges at
our Levee without the necessity Of explaining the
phenomenon by the principle of evaporation.--
We know the boats don't carry them back.
! ca The Luella arrived here yesterday from
Galcna with her usual amount of freight and pas
senegrs. She returned the same day.
e GEx. HoCsToS.--A Texas paper states that Gen.
Houston intends tor Issue a circular announcing
himself an independent candidate for the Presi-
dcncy.r rshs9I r4sssasy lsusaae 1,7nr -
The General is said to have no doubt Of his cleo
ton to the Presidency. A history of the General
has appeared, work Of 400 pages, in the Davy
Crocket style of Biography; chiefly devoted to
prove that handsome man who has killed N In
dian, and shot deer running, would make The
best possible President Of the United Ssates.-
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