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SAVANNAH DAILY HERALD.
VOL. I—NO. 171.
The Savannah Daily Herald
fMORNLNG AND EVENING}
18 PUBLISHED BY
0. W, MASON <fe CO.,
At 111 Bsf Street, Savannah, (Sequoia.
mui:
for Copy... Kve^n*s-
- Year 4UO
ADTIBTIBIH4:
Two Dollar* per Square of Ten Lines for flrat in
«prt'on • One Dollar tor each subsequent one. Ad
vertisements Inserted in the morning, will, if desired,
appear in the evening »ithout extra charge,
JOB PRINTING,
In every style, neatly and promptly done.
' MSPBAKCE.
MARINE INSURANCE
AT LOW RATESI
COLUMBIAN INSURANCE COMP’T
OF NEW YORK.
River Risks on Favorable Terms.
CASH CAPITAL
THE undersigned are ready, through their open po
licy with the above, to effect Insurance lor Au
gusts, New York, and Jacksonville,
AT THE LOWEST MARKET RATES.
Mdse onffrst-clasa Ocean Steamers SIOO,OOO
“ •• “ bailing Vessels 76,000
•• “ " River Steamer or Flat 16,000
Shippers will And it to their Interest to call before
effecting insurance elsewhere.
CHARLES L. COLBY A 00.,
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IS YOUR LIFE INSURED ?
THIS Is an important question for every man and
important also To every wife and mother, as it
affects their future welfare. ,
SEE TO IT AT ONCE. DO NOT DELAY.
The “Knickerbocker Life Insurance” of New York
will insure you at the usual rates in any sum from Jloo
$1(1.000. They also issue the favorite TEN YEAR
S O \-FOltt’KiT l) i,i£ Policies, and will after two years
payment give a lull paid up i oiicy for Two Tenths the
wuole sum, and Three Years Three Tenths, and so
on. Thus a Policy oi SIO,OIXI, Two Premiums paid
upon it will be entitled to a paid up Policy of $2,u00.
and five years live-Leuths for- every additional year.
For further information apply to
A. W ii,JBUR, Agent,
At the office of the Home insurance Cos.,
ju27 , * so bay st., Savannah, Ga.
HUE JiEW ENGLAND MUTUAL LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY,
O P BOSTON.
PURELY MUTUAL.
THIS Is one of the oldest and best Companies in
America.
Policies on Lives for any amount up to $16,000 are
taken by them. '
The Policies of these Companies were not cancelled
daring the.war until beard imm—a fact which shews
their dealing and determination to bejust and honor
able in all cases. Apply to
juiil A. WILBUR, Agent
INSURANCE.
Knickerbocker Life Insurance Company
or
IST Z 2 W YOB K.
ASSETS nearly three QUARTERS OP A
MILLION DOLLARS.
Policies of all descriptions, Including the favorite
TE* YEAR YOX-FORFEITI'RE POLICIES,
Will be Issued by this Company.
'ERASTUS LYMAM, President.
Gso. P. Sjiffeh. Secretary. . ,
A. WILBUR, Agent,
At Home Insurance Company's Office,
jy7-law4w 80 Bay street. Savannah, (la,.
Commercial Mutual
MARIE INSURANCE COMPANY
OF NEW YORK.
TP HIS Company, with over a Million Dollars as As-
JL sots, are taking Marine Risk to and from New
York on Steamers and Sailing Vessels at usual rates.
DANIEL DRAKE SMITH, President.
A. U. UuLmES, Vice President.
Hens? Kino, Secretary.
A. WILBtJR, Agent,
At Home Insurance Company’s Office,
JyMawtw 89 Bay street, Savannah, Ga,
REAL estate.
HOUSE AND LOT FOR SALE.
THE subscriber offers for sale his three story brick
dwelling house, situated on Montgomery street
one door south of York street. There Ts gas fixtures
through the house. To a person who desires a com
fortable home now is their chance. A dwelling house
and store is effered by this sale. _
jy2C-2w PETER 9TRAUS,
STATIONERY, Ac. ~~
* NTATIONEItY.'
TO MERCHANTS AND SUTLERS.
We offer our large and varied Stock of STATION
ERY at the lowest cash prioes.
Our stock in the above line ja.the largest in the De
partment, and all our goods are of the first quality,
fresh ard direct from Manufacturers.
We solicit the attention of purchasers to our goods
and prices.
* BAVILLE & LEACH.
Comer Bryan street and Market square,
Timber Cutter's Bank,
Savannah, Ga.,
AND—
Merchants’ Row* Hilton Heady S. C.
Jyi
ITsTbundy,
Qeneral Ago at
AND
ATTORNEY FOR CLAIMB,
No. £47 P Stbekt, Between 13th an® lAth Streets,
(Near Pay Department,!
WaaiHinstoxir X3. O.
juso **
CHOICE BALTIMORE SIDES,
For Sale*
LANDING PER BTEAMER PEBIT, FROM NEW
YORK, THIS DAY. • *
> I. D. LaROCHE,
aoB Corner Bay and Barnard streets.
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1865.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Ac.
TO SHIPPERSOF COTTON A>T) OTHER
SOUTHERN PRODUCE.
FINHBE, BENNETT * BOWMAN,
Successors to Hotchkiss, Fenner & Bennett.
couu merchants.
No. 40 Van Street, lew York.
__ • „ Aad Memphis, Tens.
Thomas Fxnnrb, HtmrßniMTT, D. W. Bowman
Jy« 6m
CHAS. L. COLBY & CO.,
Sbippiag Commission and Forwarding
MERCHANTS.
JONES BLOCK, OOXNXB BAY AND ABEROORN STBBBTS,
SAVANNAH. QA. .
LIBERAL CASH ADVANCES
Made on Consignments to the firm of Chas. L. Colby,
of New York, or to our friends in Boston.
MAUDE & WRIGHT, Agents at Augusta, G*.
timmoit;
Messrs. Dabney, Morgan A Cos., New York.
Jarirs Slade, Esq., New York.
Hon. J Wiley Edmands, Boston.
Gardner Colby, Esq., Boston. jylß—tt
Lewis L. Jones,
SHIPPING AND COMMISSION MERCHANT,
A’o IT Broadway* -Veto York.
Liberal advances on Shipments to above Consign
ment, made by ■ ’ ' m 1 '
HUNTER A GAMMELL,
Agents Pioneer Line Steamships,
84 Bay Street, Savannah.
Reference In New York—
Messrs, Spoffoed, Tu.yston A Cos.
may‘2o 3mo
Woodward, Baldwin & Cos.,
110 Duane Street, New York,
9 and U Hanover St., Baltimore.
DRY GOODS COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Liberal advances made on Consignments, Sheetings,
Osnaburgs and Yarns. Jylß
L. J. Guilmartin & Cos.,
GENERAL COMMISSION AND SHIPPING
MERCHANTS,
14® Bay Street.
(Opposite the City Hotel,}
SAVANNAH, G A ,
PARTICULAR * .tention given to procuring Freights,
and filling orders for Hard Pine Timber and Lum
ber, Cotton, Wool, Hides, ice.
L. i. etTILMABTIM, JOHN FLANNERY. X. W. DRUMMOND.
jylT lm
CEO. R. CRUMP & CO.,
AUCTION AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
208 Bboad Strut, Augusta, Ga.
Ju2o 3m
James B. Cahill,
GROCER and COMMISSION MERCHANT
AUGUSTA, GA.
CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED.
COTTON Purchased and Shipped. Merchandise
bought and sold on Commission.
Will also take Agencies for the sale of any Goods
and Merchandise required in the Southern market.
Jy22 3m
M. J. SOLOMONS,
Commission Merchant,
TTTTLL attend to the Selling or Receiving and For-
Y ▼ warding all kinds of Merchandise. Produce, Ac.
office for the present at the Drug Store of J. M.
Abrahams A Cos. Jy2l-lm
J. SHAFFER,
Ooxnmisslon Dealer
In all kinds of
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC FRUITS and PRODUCE,
West W asm noton Market,
Opposite 143 West st„ bulkhead between Barclay and
Vesey sts.,
NEW YORK.
Potatoes, Apples and Onions constantly on hand, and
put up for the Southern market
All consignments promptly attenkcd to.
nf Refers to A. L. Bradley, A. Haywood, T. J.
Walsh, and J. H. Parsons.
jyl2 eodly
NEWSPAPERS.
PROSFBOTUS
OF THE
Mercantile Mirror
A Weekly Commercial and Advertising Sheet,
WITH AN EDITION OF 10,000 COPIES, FOR GRA-
TUITOUS CIRCULATION.
To be Jteued on or about the 16th of July, 1866, A.
Bi J. W. BURKE A GO., - MACON, Goi
This enterprise is undertaken at the suggestion
many of the leading merchants of the country, as a
method of extensively advertising their business.—
While we will publish the advertisements of all who
may favor m with their patronage, the paper will also
contain Prices Current of the Markets In all the princi
pal Cities, Rates of Exchange, Brokerage, Ac., and
Commercial News of every description that will be of
Interest to the Mercantile Community.
Nor will the “MIRROR " be exclusively filled with
advertisements; but the paper will be sufficiently large
to leave ample room for Editorials, Correspondence,
Select Reading Matter, Ac. It will be a family, as
wkll as a business papeb, and we intend that it shall
visit every City, Town and Village In the Country.
All can Derceive the advantage of advertising in a
paper*o/* this description. OUR TERMS Will BE
LIBERAL. We are enable to publish them in this
Circular, not knowing what number of our friends will
wait their Business Cards, Notices, &c., brought be
fore the Public through thiß medium. We will only
eay to all, send your Advertisements to us immedi
ately : staU how much space you wish them to occu
py, directions, &c. We have a large Stock of Fancy
Type, Cuts and material for displaying them, and feel
confident of meriting the patronage and approval of
all Business Men. As soon as we arrive at the amount
of matter and size of paper required, we will make an
estimate, and publish the rates f r advertising, in the
first number. They will be as low as possible, to
allow us to publish the pafib. Deeming it superflu
ous to argue the benefit of this enterprise to the adver
tising world, we leave the subject with it, feeling as
sured it will meet its cordial co-operation and sup
port. Address J. W. BURKE A CO.,
Macon, Ga.
Agent lu Savannah: .....
Geo. N. Nichols, Bay Street. Jylß-tf
“The Hospital Transcript#”
The paper above named is published at Hilton Head
S. C., by M. J. MoKjkwa.
It la designed by the Publisher to make an Interest
ing and Instructive Paper, not only tor 1
SICK AND WOUNDED OLDIERS,
but a WELCOME WEEKLY VISITOR to all residents
of Hilton-Head.
It will contain Original LOCAL NEWS, a summary
NORTHERN NEWS, sad carefully Selected MIS
CELLANEOUS ITEMS. ‘iS-ti
PHY POODS AND CLOTHING.
H. A. TOPHAM? ~
158 Congress Street, Savannah, Georgia.
NO. 7 merchants' bow, hilton^iead.
CALLS the attention of Wholesale and Retail pur
chasers to his superior Stock of
MILITARY, NAVAL and CniZENS*CLOTHINO,
BOOTS,
SHOES,
REGULATION HATS,
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS,
For sale at the Lowest Market price.
Additions to the Stock received by every Steamer
from New York. ju2l-ti
Carhart, Whitford & Cos.,
Mannfactnx ere and Wholesale Dealers In
READY MADE CLOTHING,
SSI and 333 Broadway, ook. Worth Stbrrt,
NEW YORK.
T. F. Carhart, I Henry Shaver,
Wm. H. Whitford, | AT. Hamilton,
J. B. Van Waocnen.
Office of Payan A Carhart in liquidation.
jys 3m
RIDDELL & MURDOCK,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
SUTLERS’ AND NAVAL STORES, DRY GOODS,
BOOTS AND SHOES, HATS AND CAPS,
Gentlemen's Furnishino Goods, do.,
So. 8 Merchants’ Row, Hilton Head, S. C„
W. C. RIDDELL. rjul3-tfj H. J. MURDOCH.
STEELE & BURBANK,
11 Merchants Row, Hilton Head, So. Ca.
I~tALL the attention of Wholesale and Retail pur-
V chasers to their superior stock of
MILITARY AND NAVAL CLOTHING,
AND
FURNISHING GOODS,
Watches, Clocks, Fancy Goods, Jewelry, and Plated
Ware, Swords, Sashes, Belts. Embroideries, Boots, Caps
Field Glasses, Gauntlets Gloves, Ac., Ac., Ac.
NEW SKIRT FOR 1865.
THE
GREAT INVENTION OF THE AGE
IN— i
HOOP SKIRTS.
J. W. Bradley’s new Patent
DUPLEX ELIPTIC, (or double,
SPRING SKIRT.
This Invention consists of Duplex (oi two} Elliptic
Pure Refined Steel Springs, ingeniously braided tight
ly and firmly together, edge to edge, making the
toughest, most flexible, elastic and durable Spring
ever used. They seldom bend or bresk, like the sin
gle Springs, and consequently preserve their perfect
and Deautifal shape more than twice as long as any,
Single Spring Skirt ever has or can be made,
The wonderful flexibility and preat comfort and
pleasure to any iady wearing tbe D .plex Elliptic Skirt
will be experienced particularly in all crowded Assem
blies, Operas, Carriages, Railroad Cars, Church Pews,
Arm Chairs, for Promenade and House Dress, as the
Skirt can . be folded when in use to occupy a small
place as easily and conveniently as a Silk or Muslin
A lady having enjoyed the pleasure, comfort and
great convenience of wearing the Duplex Elliptic
Steel Spring Skirt for a single day will never after
wards willingly dispense with their use. For children
misses and young ladies they are superior to all
others. '
The Hoops are covered with 2 ply double twisted
thread and will wear twice as long as the single yarn
covering which is used on all Single Steel Hoop
Skirts. The three bottom rods on every Skirt are also
Double Steel, and twice or double covered to pre
vent the covering from wearing off the rods when
dragging down staire. stone steps, 4c., which they are
Ci .nstamly subject to when in use.
All are made of the new and elegant Corded Tapes,
and are the best quality in every part, giving to the
wearer the most graceful and perfect shape possible
and are unquestionably the lightest, most desirable,
comfortable and economical Skirt ever made.
WESTS’ BRADLEY 4 CARY, (late J. L A J. O.
West, ) Proprietors of the Invention, and Sole Manu
facturers, 37 Chambers and 79 and 81 Keade streets,
New York.
For Sale in all first class stores in tbls city, and
throughout the United States and Canadas, Havana
de Cuba, Mexico, South America, and the West In
dies.
Inquire for the Duplex Elliptic (or double)
Spring Skirt. jyS Stf
COTTON.
COTTON GINST~~
THE
EMERY PATENT GIN,
WHICH FOB ,1 ~ t
Compactness, Eoonomy of Time,
Spaoe and Labor,
Far Surpasses any otber Gin ever before
offered to tbe Public.
rpHE undersigned are prepared to furnish them at
X regular rates, being the sole Agents for Horace
L. Emery, Patentee and Manufacturer
Messrs. AM Ed, PEABODY A CG., No. 16S Congress
street, have the above Gin on exhibition. Samples
can also be seenat tbe warehouse of
CHAS. L. COLBY A CO.,
jy2s-tf comer Bay and Abercora streets.
TO COTTON SHIPPERS'.
Alexander ZZardeo,
COTTON SHIPPER,
IS PREPARED to take Cotton on Storage, at the
lowest rates, and
—HAS OPENED,
ON THE CORNER OF JEFFERSON A BAY STS.
For the purpose of
WEIGHING, i
repairing,
REPACKING,
SAMPLING,
CLASSING,
AND—
Shipping Cotton for the Public
AT THE
ZiOWZWT FLATDB,
Furnishing Ink, &c.
JyT lm
FINANCIAL.
The Savannah National Bank
is NOW -*
PREPARED FOR BUSINESS,
AT THE
BANKING HOUSE, IN THE EXCHANGE.
Deposltnand Paper for Collection received.
Bills on Northern Cities purchased.
Checks on New York furnished.
L. C. N.ORVELL,
President.
JACOB SPIVEY,
. :i Cashier.
DIBEOTOXS:
L. C. Nortel l, I Fxanois Sorrell,
Noble A. Hardee, I J. *7. Lathbov.
Robert Erwin.
HENRY S. FITCH,
Notary and Solicitor.
Savannah, 26th June, 1866
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, j
Office or Comptroller of the Curexnoy, V
Washington, June 10th, 1865. 1
Whereas, By satisfactory evidence presented to tbe
undersigned, it has been made to appear that “Tub
Savannah National Bank,” In the City of Savannah,
In the County of Chatham, and State of Georgia, haa
been dnly organised under and according to the re
quirements of the Act of Congress entitled “ An Act
to provide a National Currency, secured by a pledge of
United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation
and redemption thereof,” approved June 3,1864, and
haa complied with all the provisions of said Act re
quired to be complied with before commencing the
business of Banking under said Act:
Now, therefore, L Freeman Clarice, Comptroller of
the Currency, do hereby certify that “The Savannah
National Bank,” In the City of Savannah, in the
County of Chatham, and State of Georgia, Is author
ised to commence the business of Banking under tbe
Act aforesaid.
In testimony whereof, witness my hand and seal of
office, this 10th day of June, 1865.
FREEMAN CLARKE.
[So. 1256.) Comptroller of the Currency.
|u26 2mos
Manning & DeForest,
BANKERS AND BROKERS,
No. 19 Wall Street, New York,
, Dealers In
Gold, Silver, Foreign Exchange
and Government Securities.
GIVE special attention to the purchase and sale o!
Virginia, North .Carolina, South Carolina, Geor
gia Alabama, New Orleans and Tennessee Bank
notea Southern states Bonds and Coupons, Railroad
Bonds and Coupons.
Interest allowed on deposits. Jyl6-8m
~
ROSENFELD
& Cos.,
Bankers,
No. 8 Broad Street,
New York.
u We draw at sigltt, and at sixty days,
on London, Paris, Frankfort, and all
other principal cities of Europe.
Parties opening current accounts, may
deposit and draw at their convenience,
the'same as with the City Banks, and
'will be allowed interest on all balances
over One Thousand Dollars, at the rate
of pour per cent, per annum. Orders
for the purchase or sale of various issues
of Government and other Stocks, Bonds,
and Gold, executed on Commission.
WANTED,
SPECIE AND IINCFRBENT HONEY,
THE highest price paid at comer Bay and Jefferum
streets.
aul-lw ALEX. HARDEE,
DRUGS. .
Drugs, Medicines, and Chemicals#
A choice selection of
DRUGS,
MEDICINES,
CHEMICALS,
PATENT MEDICINES
and TRUSSES,
LANDED FROM HEW TOE*.
Apothecary, Planters, and traders from the interi
or, oan be supplied at the shortest notice,
I can war rant every article aa being pure.
A large, quantity of European LEECHES, finest
quality.
All the Patent Medicines extant on hand.
One hundred cases Jacobs’ Dysenteric Cordial
ALL WILL BE SOLD LOW FO CASH,
■1 WHOLESALE IIP RETAIL.
ATAPOTHECABIES* HALL,
Corner Broughton and Barnard street*.
N, B.— Fresh Garden Seeds.
W. M. WALSH,
Jnl4-8m Proprietor.
3600 TONS
—or
ENGLISH RAILS,
*Of beet quality, (ox6B per lineal yard.
jul» 6a» ***" ** FOWLS *QV
PRICE. 5 CENTS
Extraordinary Casualties In Russia.
FIRES, MURDERS, SUICIDES, DROWNISQB, AC
CIDENTS AND ROBBERIES.
Fires continue to prevail in various parts
of Russia. The Russian correspondence of
Bt. Petersburg says :
“A conflagration has destroyed 108 house*
in Gorodok, in the government of Wilaa.
Nearly all of them belonged to Jews. Two
children perished m tbe flames. Three day*
after another fire broke out in the Jewish
quarter at Grodno, and destroyed 82 houses.
A considerable fire has also taken place (n
Borisofl, in the government of Mohilew.
The church, the synagogue, 296 houses and
136 shops became the prey of the flames.
The government uses all Its efforts to prevent
these disasters. A sura of 6,630 roubles has
been granted by the Governor-General of
the western provinces for the purchase of
fire engines. Henceforth every district town
will possess one constructed according to the
French system ; a hand-pump,hatchets, lad
ders, &c. It remains now for the inhabi
tants to organize the service properly."
As appears from last year’s returns, there
occurred in European Russia (a term In
which the capitals of Moscow and St. Pe
tersburg, as well as the two separate de
pendencies of Poland and Finland are not
included; no less than 546 fires In towns,
and 4,005 fires in villages within the four
months lrom May to August. The damage
in the towns was estimated at 3,812,607
roubles; in the villages at 9,262,216 roubles.
Large as these figures are, they must be
small in comparison with the damage of tbe
current year.
Within the same period, 200 mur
ders and 542 suicides were reported
to the authorities, 137 people were killed in
affrrys, 408 were killed by horses or by
carts, and trees falling upon them and crush
ing them to death, 81 by engines aud ma
chines, 421 by lightning, 107 died in conse
quence of injuries received from fire or wsro
suffocated by gas inhaled from stoves, 478
succumbed to delirium tremens, 4,094 wera
drowned, and there were 477 cases ol acci
dental death and 2,316 cases of sudden
death not coming under any of the abova
categories; 1,322 human corpses were found
iu tbe fields and public thoroughfare*,
of which 144 bore tbe marks of a violent
death. In strange contrast to these terrible
figures, no more than 131 robberies are re
corded.
The Cholera the Work of a Dishonest
Contractor.— Government contractors in the
United States have a great deal to answer
for here and hereafter, for their dishonesties;
but they are innocents bv the side ot the
contractors of Egypt. They are there ac
cused not only of cheating the Government,
but of introducing the cholera again. It hap
pened in this wise: The Sultan Abdul Med
jid had founded an endowment of 4,000 pias
tres to be spent annually for the Interment of
the remains and oflal of the sacrificed beast*
during the religious festivals. The 40,000
piastres have been duly paid to tbo contrac
tors for this business, who quietly pocketed
the money, and left the putrid mass of flesh
to engender disease and carry death and de
struction over the world.
A Severe Case of Love-Sickness.— The
son of a well-known federal official In New
York, became so frantic on Monday last, la
consequence of being discarded by tbe lady
to whom be was paying attentions, that he
swallowed a large dose of laudanum for tbe
purpose of committing suicide. His mother
was soon after informed of the ra9h act, and
sent for the family physician, who, by the
forcible application of antidotes saved the
young mau’s life. The only recognition the
physician received for his services was a tor
rent of foul invectives, the would-be suicide
declaring no man has a right to prevent him
taking Ins own lifo when the lady whom he
1 wed called him a goose.
Roebuck's Enmity. —Roebuck, in his ad
dress to the people of Sheffield, says:
Recollect that the United States of Amer
ica extends over a territory so large and so
beautifully fertile, that by and by, when it
is filled, as it will be filled, with the great
Anglo-Saxon race, that people—mark
words, our children may learn to believe
them—that people will govern the world.—
My feeling was, and is, that they have mani
fested so arregant a disposition, they bare
Insulted England whenever she could be in
sulted, that I said, “ I will, as for as lam
concerned, aid and assist in breaking up that
{>owerful Union in communities that will be
ess powerful and better behaved.”
The State House.— We learn that noth
ing has been done toward repairing the
State House at Milledgeville. It is, however,
the design of Gov. Johnson to thoroughly
repair and refurnish it before the meeting of
the convention in October. To do this it
Will be necessary to procure glass, locks and
almost a complete outfit of chairs and otber
furniture from the North. The building ia
its present condition is perfectly untenable,
but the members of the convention will find
their bodily comfort and convenience pro
vied for on reaching the capital.— Macon
Tekgragh.
The Cable Excitement in Newfootland.
Recent advices from Heart’s Content, New
foundland, state that considerable excite
ment prevails in that region iu reference to
the Great Eastern and the cable. Everything
in the shape of a bouse has been hired or
bespoken months ago ; and these being in
adequate to the demand, it is contemplated
t© pitch whole camps of tents.
The .first important surgical operation
with “laughing gas” as an an«stbetlc agent,
wa3 performed on Saturday last in
New York The operation was the
removal of a cancer with one entire
breast, from a lady who was in delicate
health. The time occupied by the operation
was sixteen minutes, and forty gallons of gas
were used. It is not improbable that this is
the inauguration of the substitution of nitrous
oxide gas for chloroform in surgical practice.
The young man who received the first
prize for commencement-day oratory at Ro
chester University, was, nine years ago, a
canal driver, parentless, unable to read, ig*
norant even of the time of his birth.
