Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-01-17

measures to perfect and extend the organization
In the various wards Of the CITY, In accordance
with Mr., Winder's military constitution, the
meeting adjourned.
SO much for the s'National Volunteers. Az
Charles Lamb would say, "the more we think OF
them, the less we think Of them"
In THE CIRCUIT CouRr, Yesterday, the hnbea,
corpus case, wherein Arthur Smith applied to
be discharged from the Insane Asylum, on the
ground that he 10 not a lunatc, was continued at
length and closed. The Court decided that in
asmuch as the two physicians at the Asylum had
both expressed the opinion that they would not
Ike To take the responsibility Of disc harging the
Young man after the short time he had been con-
nned there, he must be remanded to the ASYLUM
until such time as the physicians might deem IL
safe to permit him to be set free. (The physicians
had testified that they had seen no traces of in
sanity about the young man during the ten days
ne had been confined there) Smith had been
confined In the asylum some ten days He was
present In court and behaved intelll gently and
nationally. His hallucination was alleged to be
hostliity TO his mother and other members of his
FAMILY, which had, according to the testimony,
taken the form Of threats and occasional personal
violence towards them. One threat used towards
HE family by him, as alleged, was that he would
nunt them Into their collins; a threat which had
seriously alarmed the younger membe Of the
family, and caused the m to sleep together in the
paflor, with the furniture against the door, and
finally to send for a policeman, who remained one
entire night In the house.
mony OF legal gentleman Of high standing in
the community, that young Smith was a very in
teliigent and well-conducted young man. The
legal gentleman had first met the young man at
his mothers house, where he had gone to transact
business for a CLIENT and shortly afterward he had
met him In the street The young man asked ad-
vice as to how far party acting under instruc-
lions In certain unlawful transactions could be
held criminally liable. The whole matter was
founded upon dstrain which had been levied
by the Marshal upon the FURNITURE In Mrs.
Smiths house, at the instance of gentleman
VINO was the Witness client The witness ad-
Vlsed the young man as well as he thought the
case demanded, and left him. Some time after
wards the witness again met young Smith. He
came to witnesses office, and said that his mother
and family had treated him so outrageously that
he had lost all affection for them. He said that
tmight seem strange to the witness that he should
talk In such strain, but the treatment he had
ceived was Of such character that he could not
refrai N from doing SO. He then went on to CON-
municate to witness intelligence concerning the
dlstrain above alluded to, Of the utmost import
ance to witness,s client. He talked calmly and
nationally, and discovered no evidence of insanity
Nearly everything communicated to witness by
him had since been corroborated by facts 50
much so that witness had taken his entire state
mcnt for Gospel truth.
During the examination young Smith was In
court, surrounded by number Of personal fri ends
and behaved with much self possession. After
the decision Of the court he was taken back to
the Asylum.
CENTER MARkEr.-This morning, the attend
ance at the princi pal city ket was much better
than FOR several sale days past. The roads from
the farms are probably safer than Monday
night, and offer an inducement for the country
dealers to make the journey to the market; and
the dewalks afford an opportunity for purchasers
to attend. large lot Of country pork was Of
fered at the scales, the superior quality of which
attracted much attention. The hay market was
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