Newspaper Page Text
wpw rapTTMrr
i li e Greorgia- eelcly Telegraph and. Journal & Messenger.
Legrapl 1 and Messenger
jUOON,
APRIL 19 ! 870.
medk al association,
«** * i'pmWc
IS. Xotlliicrlmm
presldtnt
. nc yon, gentlemen of the Medical As-
. fhA commencement of this, our
Is?**” 1 !!? the commencement of this,
annual meeting, with the fraternal
^ -a fellowship sacred in its associate
d hallowed by recollections of the
lin a dear, I hasten to avail myself
'■^ortunity to moke you my most sin-
^‘nal and profound acknowledgment of
distingnished honor it was your
10 confer in electing me President of
^***!j,uon at the meeting in the city of
>i*r o ne year ago.
asfia* tjon of your kind consideration
iXf'fp^hanced intensified by the cir-
p^L that the unexpected and totally no-
r 0st»» c ® j BC tion was awarded me ata meet-
EO t the gratification of attending—my
heiM tho result solely of the exacting
Hf** o®e of our most exacting profession.
L-' 511 , a rctn in, gentlemen, beyond heartfelt
rjLudatt^ 1 can 1118116 y° n > for 80
*rY nevidence of unmeasured kindness, is
' B • *to the fcobarge of the duties imposed
.^,3 »..signed mo, an earnest effort to
deliberations; to mete out to all
^“ u :^i (ri Dd justice in theirrights and priv-
unite cordially and heartily with
l *S e . 8 ', trt ieriug tho aims, promoting the pnr-
j.^curing the objects of our organiza-
fyitat, i!» present occasion is one of strong
' - ’ Memory, usurping the privilege of
^eent, is busy with the past and claims
1 Cj-Jpence of a passing notice of events
jtfjJentB in our early history as an incho-
“organized body. Well do I remem-
iitttle gathering of members of the local
% £ ( Macon, held in yonder room, in the
jff February, 1849, for the purpose of
Ling the importance and practicability
rTnng a State Medical Society. The
r*Tiheu, already mooted in some sections
jf+Tjyte—especially in Augusta and Savan-
there canvassed, discussed and pro-
*'o 0 f paramount interest. A majority of
plriicipated in that meeting, having
[ their allotted mission on earth have
Li the river and are resting under the
cf the trees” beyond, but that some por-
* least of the fruits of their usefulness
Jiwicug u? has not perished, but lives af-
is evidenced in this day’s assemblage.
Pww&se 1° an invitation issued by that meet-
% iU' sixty of their confreres of the profes-
lkmesenting most parts of the State, came
\ C “ 0B ,he 20th of March thereafter, in con-
■*15 this central city, and in a two day’s
J’lonued personal acquaintance where it
Aaotalready exist; in some instances, bright-
lists intte chain of olden friendship, that
Jcrowa from long separation; inter.
many subjects of scientific and
jZ^aul interest; effected an organization;
ji code of ethics; resolved on annual
jtid carved out a programme of work
iifemaiag year.
fi* that time to a period during the late
. guggle to achieve independence of sec-
tpoliucal domination, when every interest
3t*d to the demands of patriotism, we
gfulad to assemble in annual meeting; and
,4 the spirit with which we set out
E3 at turn s to languish, and some of our
j- .j were but slimly attended,still I believe I
c;ve expression to a sentiment that is am.
cti among the old membership, when I say
tv never attended a meeting that did not
kins pleasaro, and from which we did not
sa to oar homes and labors, believing it was
Stotts to have been there. The suspension
toed imperative by the exigencies of the
i daring the remaining years of the war was
i to continue but a short while after the
on of hostilities. Scarce, indeed, did the
i of arms snbside and the benign pursuits
[fjnQe begin to engage the thoughts of onr
Lpk and of ourselves, than an effort was made
i.vucitate this association. Of the success
|ddis renewal of effort to confederate and tra
it, the medical men of Georgia in a cause
g in itself and consecrated to the con-
i of the best interests of our fellows,
i luge assemblage of physicians—seme of
’'wing State—the largest known in tho
id the State—bears unmistakable testi-
ture, securing to this society the right of deter
mining, through a board of examiners, com-
posed of its members, who should be allowed the
privilege of practicing medicine in the State.—
Could our Legislature be induced to enact such
a law, the gordian knot would doubtless be thor.
oughly cut, so far as Georgia is concerned, and
all the great local interests involved in the ob
jects of our organization would be achieved in
a brilliant future for the profession of the State,
and inestimable blessincs for the people—in tho
improved talent and skill, in many instances, of
advisers to whom they intrust their health and
their lives. But, as I learn, the committee havo,
thus far, failed in their endeavors to interest
legislators with the subject, and as all the legis
lation of Georgia, touching the profession of
medicine, for the last fifty years, has been of
an unfriendly character, and designed to open
the door of ingress wider and wider, by each
successive legal enactment, until there is scarce
let or hindrance to any individual, however in
nocent of all theoretical or practical medical
knowledge, who may assume the title of doctor
and wish to essay the duties and responsibili
ties of practice; and as every memorial of this
association addressed to the legislature, wheth
er on the subject of legalizing anatomical dis
sections, or the establishment of a State bureau
for the registration of births, marriages and
deaths, or the placing of some wholesome re
straints on the nefarious traffic of those vam
pires of society—patent medicine proprietors—
either has been rejected or totally neglected;
I say, in view of these facts, it does not appear
in the least probable that we can command,
throngh the strong arm of the law, aid in the
consummation of this end, although it addresses
itself alike to the judgment and pride of the
profession and to the true welfare and happi
ness of the people.
As in theology,intelligence seeks the ministry
and guidance of the learned divine, whilst igno
ranee follows the lead of the imposter or is
claimed by the madness of the fanatic; or as in
the law, the better informed, who may be par
ties litigant, avail themselves of the services of
the most profound jurists, whilst the ignorant
are victimized by the pettifogger and the shys
ter; so in onr profession, intelligence exercising
its capability of discrimination, coarts tho aid
of the scientific and well-informed physician,
whilst ignorance is dnped by the charlatan and
tho quack. The nostrum vender who subsidises
the press, and with brazen effrontry fills col
umns of newspapers with the false virtues of his
panacea; the charlatan who claims inodes of
treatment peculiar to himself and the mounte
bank who, without a home, peregrinates the
country hoisting allnring handbills and making
passes over the heads of the afflicted, and then,
with the mimicry of the clown, sacriligiously
bidding the deaf to hoar, the blind to see,and the
paralized to walk, all reap the harvests of ill-
gotten gains from the ranks of ignorance, or if
perchance in any measure from the higher walks
of general intelligence and culture, their vic
tims are totally ignorant of their physical or
ganization, and of its laws, in both health and
disease.
Let, then, the effort bo made to nniooso any re
maining fetters of mysticiam with which scientific
medicine may be shackled, and let the popular mind
be addressed and informed of this pursuit—its prin
ciples, its objects, its methods—all snsceptiblo of
intelligible exposition, and most intimately associa
ted as it is with the well-being of mankind in tho
present, and sharing largely of the solemnity of
the linman destiny beyond the frontiers of sense.
Let the scholastic course of onr literary academies
and colleges be improved and enriched with instruc
tion in the elementary branches—anatomy and
ibysioiogy—and let the masses of onr community
>o enlightened by conversation and dissertations
free from technicalities, by popular lectures suscep
tible of easy comprehension, and by tho publication
of journals and papers for ciicnlation among the
people, devoted to the discussion of the questions
I'm tom, gentlemen, from every region of
' tmd territory—from the mountains and
n UtefMboird; from the Savannah and from
i Clitnitoochee; from the middle counties
lino those bordering the State of Florida ;
"a ety, village and country home—all im-
1 nth the spirit of a sublime professional
•“‘n and solicitous of the success or onr
, noble enterprise ; and among yon it
ime peculiar pleasure to recognize some of
e tho were present—conspicuous workers
h* the Convention and meeting of March,
Founders of the Association! Present at
* Wh with each recurring year when cir-
“■ i beyond your control have not poai-
.. id, yon have come up in the interests
[twiceand humanity to lay on its altar the
^-’-cringe of jour thought, your observation
-J<w experience, and now when the child of
e f“b°n, in the language of onr brethren of
J *Pl profession, has attained its majority
i a wrong, vigorous and saguine, yon still
* uediminished zeal and unabated ar-
Nn tho good work of “advancing med-
£ Coil edge, elevating professional character
Fpaotiag measures adapted to the relief
leering humanity.” May yon all, even the
“untrablo among yon, be spared by a kind
*«a« to participate in many of onr recur-
ftoureruries.
»the medical profession in all ages and
^ n of civilized peoples has commanded
***«hdence and won largely of public ad-
*ss,aad whilst individual members of it
«en«here been conspicuous among the
J* B * r h distinction and influence—fore-
f the learned, the wise, the sagacious
Jji i 'Prited and the philanthropic—it is
L sad troth that persons totally un-
high duties, entirely unworthy of
^ministry and unfortunately too well cal-
I. j t° dishonor and tarnish its fair escutch-
p at e always been able to find their way in-
L brotherhood. Probably at nope-
ia no country have the facilities of
•'^essbetn more abundant or more readi
es than at this time and in this coun-
. "P>«ant of this melancholly fact, the
Mid State Medical Societies—embrac-
I* collective wisdom and parity of the
P*®.profession—have from the first days
|«ir inauguration sought to shut oat from
tot only the morally unworthy, bnt all
f chase every promise does not warrant the
x'* successful and nsefnl career, illnstra-
dignity, utility and glory in the bigb-
^ of its excellence.
i that the want of ability to play this
*3* by many who claim the privilege and
‘1>v» exercise the high functions of pbysi
■ .» attributable in a great measure
[ ^ lot-bed, high pressure features that
* Ktt « medical in common with all
/T*} education, these associations have
.^^Kh of thought and time on schemes
IdiW*”® designed more thoroughly to
t’ v ^° contemplate entering the pro-
rriona! *** location, preliminary and pro-
Pfoptr for young men who aspire to
rheia* ,D( * lhe besl “cans of securing it
BtfMi *t oU times constituted a prom-
r bef *k 0 deliberations of these bod-
FMj cc ‘? i;i t* 10 existing systems of ednea-
f j P^auion have been clearly seen, and
Jr** magnitude resulting from them
- t t , L ly appreciated, bnt to devise ad-
Ito5 ,f correction of the one and of
k^Mt the other has been fonnd
matter. Continually, the subject
1-. ‘? e 'heme of formal addresses, stated
I Jr~ protracted discussion.
■ y Bnd PoraistecUy has it been
fhtiu | 6nnni “ meetings, without ac-
kJ ' 2 ” e «n taken, promising practical re-
results, that many are beginning to
F-atlij 9 an ^ hackneyed, and some are
r-nti , 10 <loH P air of tho attainment of any
to;* R eoona, nendationa in regard to
-nii 113 cf scholarly attainments prior to
j ti ?j *£?» the extension of the term of
I lacrea8e of the number of courses;
on of professional chairs, and
of t * le teaching and licensing
Co *' e 6 ea —the withdrawal of the
4 engaged in the former—all de-
, culated to raise the standard of
-^ts °f those seeking the degree, have
made and urged with great
We*. invariably it has been found
to bo necessarily 60 many par-
t3t *smhl®* n * 0118n y ono thing—in many
ob i ew8 80 discordant—that nothing
6Ven P robabuit y ofsnccees
Dl9obn Ki yonr committee on medi.
b. Was VI (a nvAAnwo
[’** p*i.* as .. dir0Cted to procure, if possi.
w « 8 Se of 0 law by the State Legisla.
' nvolved in the great problem of life, and to tho ex
posure of imposture and empiricism, whether it
shows its hydra bead in the form of the mischievous
practices of the isms, the treacherous pretension or
absutd follies of the Athys—the wily schemes of
the soi-disant specialist, the craft ana canning of
him of peculiar method or the blasphemous proce
dure of feed clairvoyants. Effort expended in these
directions and to these ends will awaken interest,
invite inquiry, afford instruction, allure from quack
ery, and spread the wealth and charm of true med
ical knowledge to the invocations of a purer intel
lectual day, in the light of which we shall behold
the advancement, the usefulness and the gloty of
the profession.
To the profession of the present age,and throngh
it to the civilized world, has been beqneathed by
our long line of predecessors, a rich legacy of suc
cessful labor; victorious science, trinmphant truth
and resplendent glory. Shorn of the myth and fa
ble of its shadowy origin in the mythology of a pe
riod antedating the Christian era twenty or more
centuries, and disrobed of all the mystery with
which custom or mistaken policy have songht to
ensbrond it, scientific medicine looms up the living
embodiment of the aggregated wisdom, accumula
ted knowledge and sublime charities of nearly
four thousand years, grand in its proportions, sub
lime in its relations, consecrated to the great inter
ests of humanity and radiant with the shekina of
Deity’s smile, is wcfrthv of all with which the heart
in its wealth of gratitude, or the mind in its most
superb majesty, can invest it Ever partaking
largely of the individuality and better philosophy
of the fluctuating civilization of its long history,
its modern pathway has been eminently lustrous,
is all along strewn with the trophies of mind over
matter, knowledge over ignorance, troth over error,
and ever anon its record is illuminated by the blazo
of some great transcendant truth or fact, snatched
by the hand of genius from the fields of physiology
and pathology, the domain of Materia Modica and
Therapeutics, or the laboratory of chemistry and
pharmacy, that startles with wondering pleasure,
commands admiration, challenges the homage of
judgment, and takes captive the votive offerings of
the heart.
In the discovery of the circulation of the blood
—throwing a flood of light on vital and mortuary
phenomena of the highest importance; in tho dis
covery of the vaccine virus—rendering the poison of
the variola harmless; and in the discovery and
practical application of anesthetics—annihilating
pain and giving blissful ease to woman in her hour
of supreme suffering, and relieving the torture and
admitting of accuracy and certainty to the knife of
tne surgeon, in operations most extensive and deli
cate, are achievements that glitter and flash in the
sunlight of progressive medicine as great centennial
plants that rival in grandeur, importance and claims
to high consideration, the great benefactions of the
invention of the art of printing, the application of
steam to purposes of travel and commerce, and the
discovery of electric telegraphy.
In its progress, the methods of prevention, relief
and cure of disease have been greatly elaborated,
improved and perfected. Acute inflammations, re
sponsive to sounder pathological and therepentic
views, yield even within the last few years an in
creased per centage of recoveries; the malarial
fevers are readily amenable to the great alkaloid of
cinchona; scurvy, for a long while the scourge of
dense populations armies, and tho maritime adver-
turers of nations, has been well nigh effaced by
hygienic precautions and when encountered is
speedily checked by juidicious medication; the length
of interval between paroxysms of epjlepsy. in many
instances, has been remarkably extended, and
traumatic tetanus is becoming a most hopeful mal
ady.
Many diseases that were formerly fearful in their
ravages have been shorn of their virulence; conta
gions that were of frequent recurrence, wide-spread
and appalling in their deflations, have been neu
tralized or bridled and confined within circumscrib
ed limits; and forma of pestilence whoso havoc
populated whole communities have been entirely
Lenisbed from countries in which they perenniall;
rankled and often ran riot. Small pox has ce&acc
to be a malady of general prevalence, and when
throngh the neglect of parents or the dereliction of
dnty of public authorities it occasionally makes its
appearance, it no longer excites the alarm and con
sternation it was wont to do. Whilst the hope of
that great benefactor of his raco—Jenner—has not
as yet been realized in the extinction of variola, a
degree of success his been achieved that argues
well for the future. Through the protection afford
ed by vaccination and police sanitary regulations—
the dictate of the medical mind of the times—the
annual death-rate per million of population in Eng
land and Wales from small pox has been reduced
from 3,000 to about 200. In Denmark and in Prus
sia and some of the other German States, where
awe have been more effective in seeming thorough
and general vaccination, tho reduction has been
even greater.
The plague, which bo late as two centuries ago,
was rife through all Europe and made charnel
houses of London, Marseilles, Florence and Mos
cow, has been banished from the Christian world.
Holdiog high carnival daring these drear? ages,
When tho world enrobed in midnight darkness
slept
And gloomy vigils superstition kept,”
and in eight years of the centrny in which it at
tained the climax of its malignity and the ultima
tum of its prevalence, sweeping from existence one
half of the then supposed population of the globe-
civilized and uncivilized alike—it now waves its flag
of death only in bubarian and semi-civilized conn-
tries in the far East.
And leprosy, most dreaded of all chronic diseases
and most revolting in its disfigurations and its de
moralizing effects, no longer lifts its horrid front
among any civilized people, bnt has been forced
back to regions shadowed by the throne of the grand
lama and by Moslem faith. The 20,000 lazar bous
es—homes of living death—maintained for lepeis in
Christian Europe during those centuries of which
probably tho fourteenth was the darkest, have gone
to decay, or are now without an inmate, and ple-
bians and those of gentle birth are alike exempt
from the curse of the church and life-long immure
ment, because of being infected with the dreaded
malady.
It is troo that now and then the great tidal wave
of epidemic or contageons disease, having in its
bosom cholera or yellow fever, still surges through
the lanes and alleys, and percbanco eddies about
the palatial homes of the avenues an i .parks of
Christian cities, carrying death to a few hundreds,
or possibly, to a few iliuusand, but these visitations
daring the last hundred years have been compara
tively rare and with a few remarkable exceptions,
the moitality attending them has Htartled as much
byjts suddenness and rapidity as by its extent, and
usually the annual death return of the countries ia
which they have occurred, is but very elighthr affect
ed by them. And just at this time it ia matter of
congratulation that recent experience in the pro
tection afforded by wise and judicious medico-po-
lico measures warrants the hope that the institution
of quarantine may be made available as a break
water in arresting and turning back the tide of
either of these molochs of death with which the
water boundaries or frontiers of countries maybe
threatened.
Bnt, gentleman, whilst your favorite and bet
ter measure, were it possible of attainment, may
be impracticable, the great medical congress of
the whole country—the National Association—
at its recent meeting in the city of New Orleans,
passed a series of resolutions that aim at the
accomplishment of some of the good contem
plated in yonr action, and are entitled to consid
eration, and worthy, I belive. of adoption by
ns. The resolutions requests that the several
State societies take the matter of licensing into
their own hands, independent of any legislation
on the subject, and embody substantially tho
following provisions, viz;
1st. The appointment of a board of five mem
bers for the examination of those who propose
to enter upon the practice, whether graduates
or not, excepting only such as hold a license
from a similar board in some other State.
2d. The pay of the board of examiners is in
no way to depend on the fee charged for issuing
license.
3d. The requirements of the applicant shall
be adeqnte proof of proper general education,
that he is twenty-one years of age, has stndied
medicine three years, one of which in some
regularly organized college whose curriculum
embraces adequate facilites for didactic,demon
strative and hospital clinical instruction: and
4th. That when the societies of two-thirds of
the States shall havo adopted the measure, such
societies as fail to do so shall bo denied repre
sentation in the national body.
Whilst the measure proposed may and does
fall short of what conldhave been wished—short
of what private tntors and public teachers on
the one hand conld have done for the dignity of
the profession—and short of what the legisla
tures, on the other hand, conld have effected in
shielding the people from the misfortunes re
sulting to them fiom incompetent and irregular
practitioners; still, so far as it goes, it is good
and practicable, and if adopted by the State so
cieties, will, it is hoped, constrain both private
preceptors and college professors to exact such
a grade of acquirements by pupils as will bar
the very portals of onr science against the un
worthy and uninformed, and will be the means
of filling the ranks of the profession, through
out the country, with a body of educated and ac
complished young men, who will be capable of
elevating, adorning and defending its character,
snccessfal in promoting its troths and nsefnl in
extending its benefits to those for whom its rioh
blessings are designed. Practitioners, who are
considerate of their own fair fame and solicitous
of the snccess of their proteges, undertaking to
direct the studies of those who seek the privil
eges of office pupils, will dissuade from engag
ing in the 6tudy such young men as, in their
judgment, are disqualified for prospective suc
cess, either by want of natural endowment, or
the intellectual training and discipline of proper
preliminary education. Snch as they encour
age, or permit, to engage in study, under their
tnition, will share more largly of their attention,
and will consequently reach the lecture room
and clinical board better prepared to appreciate
what they may there hear and see. The facul
ties of the colleges, apprised of the degree of
scholarship and scope of scientific knowledge
exacted by the boards, will be stimulated to in
creased zeal in the matter of instruction, and
will exercise greater cantion in awarding their
diplomas to persons of insignificant attainments.
Colleges whose graduates uniformly receive the
endorsement of the boards of examiners, will
grow steadily in tho confidence of the practi
tioners scattered over the land, and have their
halls annually crowded with the studious, the
ambitions; and the gifted; whilst such institu
tions, if any, as pursue the mistaken polioy of
gradnating numbers, without reference to quali
fications, being ignored by preceptors in their
counsel to students, as to the school they shall
attend, will languish and ultimately close their
doors for the want of patronage.
The fear entertained by some that the high
standard of attainments required to pass the
ordeal of the Boards, may have the effect of in
fluencing preceptors to advise patronage of the
inferior schools, or to drive large numbers of
the graduates of these institntions, which may
for a while maintain an equivocal existence, to
enter the field of professional labor without
first seeking their endorsement, is not, I appre
hend, likely to be realized—at most for any
considerable length of time. Intelligent and
ethical practitioners will give no encourage
ment whatever to snch institutions. The fear
may have some foundation temporarily so far
as some of the disqualified and illiterate at
tempting independent practice, bnt it is rea
sonable to presume that after a lapse of a few
years, when it shall have been fonnd that the
learning, intelligence and worth of the profes
sion of the whole country is banded together in
the State Associations, and that the require
ments of these boards are bnt the expression
of its opinion as to what should be required of
those who, in the present advanced state of the
science, propose to take upon themselves the
difficult and grave responsibilities of practi
tioners of medicine. That when this is clearly
understood by candidates for practice and by
those among whom they propose to exercise
their vocation, a license from these Boards will
be generally sought as the only passport to a
successful, legitimate business. In intelligent,
ctiltivated communities this evidence of capac
ity will generally he demanded of aspirants for
popnlar favor and snccess in seeming employ
ment by those not possessed of it, will be the
exception of occasional occurrence amidst many
failures, and then only among the unenlight
ened.
Bnt whilst the true dignity and utility of the
profession can be secured only by a thoroughly
ntellectual, educated and scientific member
ship, its rational and intelligent appreciation
can alone be seenred by the enlightenment of
the popnlar mind in regard to its aims and
methods and on the intrinsically important sub
jects of life, health and disease. The time was
when medicine was pursned as an occult. art,
hedged in with vague rights and enshrouded
with the mysteries of Egyptian Priestcraft, and
ata latter day by cloistered Benedictive reti
cence. Then an unreasoning faith, a blind con
fidence, an unquestioning hope, paid willing
tribute to claims appendant to Divinity. That
day, however, has long since passed, and with
it should have disappeared all the trappings of
pretension and mystery. We now claim for it
the high dignity of science organized under a
luminous philosophy that addresses its claims of
exalted worth and practical value to the inter
rogations of reason, the inquiry of intelligence,
and the sanction of jndgment. Notwithstand
ing this great and radwl change in its status
and its claims to confidAce, bnt little has been
attempted that has been calculated to enlighten
the non-professional mind and .bring it up to a
olane of intelligence capable of appreciating its
,jnst and real merits.
In marked contrast with tho •usage that ob
tains with reference to the other learned profes
sions, the cnrricnlom of onr literary colleges
and universities embraces no instruction in any
of tho branches of medicine, whilst in most of
these institntions tho youthful mind is early in
doctrinated in the theological treasures of the
evidences of Christianity, and in the recondite
subjects of political economy and constitutional
and international law. Information thus early
obtained in regard to subjects fundamental of,
or germain to, these professions, is subsequently
enlarged by expositions from the pnlpit of the
sanctuary, and from the forum of the courts of
justice—advantages continually enjoyed and
improved by tho educated classes in common
more has been accomplished and affords ample
ciuee, for congratulation and just grounds Tor
the love and veneration with which we regard onr
profession, still much, very much, remains to be
done ere it shall truly fill its glorious mission in the
full measure of its benefits to mankind-
infantile mortality yet sweeps away under the age
of six years, one-third of the children born in civili
zed countries. Tho etiology of dyphtheria is un
solved and the medical treatment of pseudo mem
branous croup is almost bare of recoveries. Affeo-
tionsof the nervous centre are bnt imperfectly un
derstood in both their pathology and therapeutics.
Spotted fever, a malady of particular interest to the
physicians and people of Georgia at this time,
mocks our resources, and if swift unto death.
And tubucular consumption, coming down to ns
of this countryjfrom the days of Hipocrates throngh
all the varying phases of man's social and civil his
tory—ancient and modem—and through all the mu
tations and advances of medical science, is now
more prevalent throughout the domain of civiliza
tion and through extensive borders of savage terri
tory than at any former period of the world’s his
tory. Our own land shares largely of its increased
prevalence, unfettered by quarantine measures,
untrammelled by geographical boundiries, unre
strained by the peculiarities of race, uncontrolled by
the conditions of sex, and often disregardful of
age, it pushes its way into all countries and all
climes—invades all races—and claims its victims of
both sexes, of all social conditions—in infancy,
youth, maturity, and sometimes even ia old age—
annually carrying to the grave large numbers of
those who live in equatorial climes, and claiming for
bills of mortality in latitudes beyond the tropics,
one-seventh of the deaths occurring from all causes.
Eminently the disease of modem civilization, it is
more generallyprevalent and more destructive of life
than any other malady known to our times. In its
treatment and management great improvement has
been made during the last four decades of years, as
demonstrated^ in the fact that it is Icsb uni-
formerly fatal than formerly, and that tho term
of the averago duration of "life of those affect
ed with it has been extended from two to
more than eight years. The per centage of
cures, however, is email—truly small, and
the fell destroyer too generally with unerring cer
tainty of ultimately accomplishing its work of death,
continues to lay its cold skeleton hand alike on
youth, beauty and worth. At its corroding touch
female loveliness and manly symmetry and strength
alike wither and perish; the voice of poetry and
song is hushed; the ambition of the scholar, the
aims of tho statesman, and the heart yearnings of
the patriot and philanthropist are paralized.
Sad indeed would be predictive suggestions of the
condition of civilized man a few centuries hence, tn-
der the devastating influence of this increasing enemy
of bis nsroy physical development, his longevity, his
domestic happiness, his intellectual usefulness, allhis
duties and interests of a politico economical nature;
but t or tho hope that dances in the vista ot the near
luture. f undea ia a knowledge of tho triumphs and
glory of our science in its hitherto signal achievement
of victory after long straggles with other destructive
maladies, that what has been effected in the presint
century in diminishing the mortality, mitigating the
sufferings and extending the term of life of its vic
tims, is but a presase of a perfeot snccess that awaits
the advancement of knowledge in the prevention and
cure of the disease.
How this glorious consummation, so fruitfal of good
to the human family, is to be effected, is necessarily
matter of uncertainty, but is reasonably one of spec
ulation. It surely will not bo attained through tho
agency ef the numerous anodyne and expectorant
nostrums of mercury venders, whose newspaper liter
ature tempts the afflicted to purchase treacherous
ease at the expense of disappointed hope and agrra-
vated lesion; nor by the wandering specialist vho,
tike the tyro-horticulturist, mistaking the guumy
excrescence of the body or limb of the tree for
disease existing at the root, attempts to cure acoisti-
road. They agreed to support a charter making the I
eastern terminus at Marshall, Texas, with the right
of other roadB to connect at or west of Marshall.
The connecting roadB shall carry freight and pas
sengers under arrangements mutually beneficial.
The guage of the trunk and connecting lines to be I
GENERAL NEWS.
Bai/iimoke, April 11.—At an explosion of the
Cheaspeake Sugar refinery engine, the killed were
seven. The verdict of the coroner’s jury was, inser-
fficiency of water in the boiler.
Richmond, April 12.—The two Mayors had a con-
feieuce to-day, and agreed, in view of the delay
five feet. The Golf delegations will unanimously before Chief Justice Chase can hear their case, to
support the company most likely to build the road it. with the consent of the J3hief JmUce. to
, .... „ ~ . ... tho Virginia Court of Appeals, which meets to-
from Marshall to San Diego. A committee was np- morrolr f m v " u . “
pointed, composed of Sheldon, Sherrod, Pearce and Scuehectady, April 11—Two three story build-
Clarke, to take charge of the matter. inga in the oourse of erection, fell killing one and
Washington, April 12.—The Argentine minister injuring three, MlWWp
this morning received the following cable tele-| New Yobk, ^April 11.—Edward J. Kurtz died last
ram:
“Paraguayan war is ended. Lopez is killed.
(Signod) John Faib,
Argentine Consul, London.
Senter’s evidence on the whole is regarded as
slightly adverse to Congressional interference with
Tennessee.
A Cincinnati delegation want a quarter of a
million for the Louisville canal.
The Democrats carry Newark, New Jersey, the
negroes voting.
Te negroes are celebrating the fifteenth amend
ment. One of their banners ia inscribed, “In God
we trust, in Grant we believe.
Long has been confirmed Attorney General for
Louisiana.
The Select Committee of the House on Postal
Telegraph, this morning, instructed the Chairman
to report a bill, before introduced, purchasing and
placing the telegraph lines under Government con
trol and connecting them with the Post-office De
partment.
Supervisor Pullarton, having concluded Ms spe
cial California duties, resumes Ms old position over
Maryland and the District of Columbia. ■ /
No Southern nominations to-day.
The Howard Corruption Committee will commence
investigation soon. The Senate passes and the
President approves the bill wMcb passed the House
appropriating money therefor.
The Governor and Legislature of OMo are com
ing to Washington on a visit.
night—aged 43.
St. Louis, April 12.—Dwight Dunker has been
appointed city Treasurer, vice tho defaulter SoziekL
Adolph Kroeger has boennrrested charged with rob
bing the City Treasury of twenty thousand dollars.
The Quartermaster train encamped at Bluff Creek,
lost one hundred and thirty-nine animals on March
Gth. The robbers are supposed to be wMtes dis
guised as Indians.
Cincinnati, April 12.—Tho elections in Mont
gomery county have Bedded the elections against
the Republicans, because the inmates of the sol
diers homo are not dtizens, and yet have been al
lowed to vote.
New York, April 12.—The reading of some let-
ers of McFarland was listened to withbreatMesa at
tention. Some of them are very curious. Several
witnesses swear McFarland was a monomaniac.
Norfolk, April 12.—The steamer City of Port
an Prince, from New York for Port an Prince, pat
in here leaking,
San Francisco, April 12.—The importers of this
city are discussing the question of entering throngh
the New York Custom-house goods from Europe to
San Francisco. A committee was appointed to
investigate the matter.
Richmond, April 12.—CMef Justice Chase con
sents that the Mayoralty case shall bo heard by tho
A Senatorial caucus was held to-day on the Secre- Virginia court of appeals, whero he says it belongs.
tarysMp. • . ,, _• I The court of appeals organized to-day.
The Conference Committee on Usury in the Dis- , . £* rt „ mnnr .. n n ,„ a
*“ i'«'Sp»bncSS
in favor of ousting Sheldon and referring the eleo-1 nt
tion back to the people, were Bingham, Poland, . ° a m l ° n y m tlle ■ Coar “ 0
Cook, Willard and Wilkinson. Aldermen of 7.
So frequent of late have been the irregularities San Francisco. April 13—The steamship America
of the great mails between New York aqd New Or- has arrived here from Hong Kong with 1200 passen-
leans, bothhytheWesternrouteviaLouisville,Ky., I gers, whereof 1100are Chinese. Fullfreight. Also,
and the Southwestern routo Via Knoxville, that {lie J Surgeon Yates, witli 49 survivors from the Oneida.
Post-office Department has commenced inquiries as Buffalo, Apiil 13 Leading Fenian officials hero
to the practicability of procuring better service, by laugh over tho Canadian scire. They say that no
diverting the mails from the WeBtem route at Jack-I movement will be attempted until success is
son, Tennessee, on the Southwestern route at Cor- j assured. No present raid is contemplated by the
inth, Mississippi, and carrying them over the Mobile I Ponians here,
and OMo railroad, as far as Meridian, Mississippi, 1
and thence via Jackson, Mississippi; or by divert
ing them for the 8 oath western route at Cleveland,
Tennessee, and carrying them thence via Atlanta,
Kingston and Rome, Ga., Selma, Ala., and Meridian
and Jackson, Miss., or by dispensing with the South
western routo South of Washington, D. O., and
FOREIGN NEWS.
London, April 11.—The Alabama loan, lately put
on the market, is a success.
Havana, April II De Rodas telegraphs from
Puerto Principe that two columns have returned
without meeting therenemy a forces. They were
tutional malady by addressing vapors, washes and
local expression.
cauteries to its local expression.
From, no such ill indeed, short sighted and inade
quate means can this hope be realized, neither B it
likely to be consummated by those legitimate mem
bers ot tho profession, who, having obtained the pri
vilege of the doctorate, compromise with ease andin-
dolenco and loiter about the portals and lounge in
dolencoand loiter about the portals and lounge in
the vestibule when they should be woisbippingand
ministering at tho altar of tbo inner temple <f the
science- Nor yet by those amateur practi- ners, who,
engaging in other business pursuits, and devoting
their talents—often of a higher order—with assiduity
to trade,traffic and money-making, occasionally ptac
tieo a little medicine as a diversion, or as a means of
adding an additional dollar to their already plethoric
income. From thelaborsofguchrecusanteons.nobril
liant achievements can be anticipated. But it any
bo realized in the elaboration and perfection of the
present improved mode of management, medical and
hygienic, undevhe patient experiment, close obser
vation ami careful deductions of some mister mind
pursuing i's inquiry with impa'sioned earnestness in
the tight of the higher excellencies of a philosophy that
ignores much of personal commit, the pleasures of
society and the rewards of successful business, au<i
sheds its radiant beams on toiling intellect, self-ded
icated to the advancement of science and the promo
tion of the human welfare.
Or, what in the judgment of the sneaker is more
probable. Genius—that highest and mostfertile of the
mind’s endowments—seizing upon the pregnant fact,
recently demonstrated by Willemin. Fox, Marcet and
otbers.tbatthe malady is commnicable by inoculation,
and cleaving its lustrous wey to renown and immor
tality, will, like Jenner. with the magic wand of vac
cination, suddenly amaze, bless and enrich the world
by the announcement c f an agent curative, or a rem
edy prophylactic, “sudden blossomed as the Cereus
at its midnight bridal,or thoalooof a hundred years.”
Whether it shall be the result of presont method
perfected, or the gift of specific, originative thought
ambitious aims can aspire to no nobler end, and for
him who may successfully solve tb e great and impor
tant problem there is bliss, I apprehend, not unlike
that—
"ibe lonely bard enioyed, when forth he walked
Unpurposed; stood, and knew not why; eat down,
And knew not where: arose, and knew not when;
Had e;es, and saw not; ears, and nothing heard;
And sough t—sought neither heaven nor earth—sought
nought;
Nor meant to think; but ran’meantime, throngh vasts
Of visionary things, fairer than aught
That was: and saw the distant tops of thoughts.
Which men of common stature never saw—
He entered into nature’s holy place,
And heard unutterable things.”
running thence via Richmond, Ya., _Weldon and I then provisioned for two months and sent forward.
Wilmington, N. C., Kingsville, S. C., Angn®ta> I q^ro men and ono woman were captured: the men
Atlanta, Kingston and Rome, Ga., and Meridian I wero imug. Much rebel property was destroyed,
and J ackson, Miss. If it shall ne found that the | advance guard of tlio insurgents surrendered,
great through mails can be conveyed with greater Thoy repor t that Enriques, Bitoucourt, Ducgo, An-
regularity by either of these routes, the chaDge will | Q P gro, and an American named Mazart, wero the
be immediately ordered by the Department. I the chief, leaders of tho insurgents, and some had
It is confidently asserted that Gen. Schofield will emb^ed after fighting among themselves. Ces-
aucceed Thomas in tho command of the Pacific Di- I p e j e8 intends leaving the country; ho will ba ao-
I tively,pursued. Anarchy, panic and desertion pre
vail "among the rebels. Some have raised tho
standard of revolt against Agramonte, owing to Ms
Washington, April 11.—In the Senate on motion of I tyrannical behavior. Yesterday the leaders of this
CONGRESSIONAL.
Mr. Sumner, a resolution was adopted instructing
the Agricultural Committee to report a bill providing
proper space and water for cattle in course of trans- [
portation by rail.
McDonald is speaking in favor of a subsidy for |
Oriental lines of steamsMpsfrom Southern ports.
The Vanguard had another trial trip off Ph
and made 14% knots.
Lord Teuterden is dead.
Paris, April 12.—Mr. Ollivier asks an adjourn
ment of the Corps Legislatif until the Plebiscitom
is submitted to the nation, which occurs* between
the first and ninth of May.
Tho iron works at Fortonier have been stopped by
five hundred men from Fourchambault. No vio
lence.
FliiAJSOIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Weeklj Review of the Market.
OFFICE TELEGRAPH AND JfcESSENGEB,!
April 13—Evening, 1876. J
Cotton—Receipts to-day 90 bales; sales 111;
sMpped 217.
Receipts for tho week ending this evening, the
above included, 457 bales; sales 1,141; shipments
1,000—showing a decrease in receipts of last week
from those of the week before of 34 bales, and an
increase of sales of 89 bales.
The market was steady and .firm with a good de
maud from the date of our last weekly review until
Tuesday noon, when a decline was announced in
the New York market, and it immediately affected
prices here; and sinco which time this market has
been qniot and a little weak at 20!£ cents for mid
dlings, and it so closed tMs evening.
MACON COTTON STATEMENT.
Stock on hand Sept. 1,1869—bales.. 179
Received to-day 90
Received previously 76,008—76,098
76,277
SMpped to-day 217
SMpped previously 63,757—63,974
Stock on hand this evening.
12,303
Freight on cotton to Savaqnah, Brunswick, and
points east unchanged.
Financial.—The money market has been tight all
the week on account of the scarcity of money at the
banks, wMch are now discounting to only a very
limited extent.
The stock and bond market is very quiet, bnt
prices stand firm at quotations. We give them:
EXCHANGE ON NEW iOBK.
Buying par.
Selling §-io prem.
UNITED STATES CURRENCY—LOANS.
Per mouth...; 1^@2 percent
GOLD AND SILTED.
Buying rates for Gold
Selling
Buying rates for Silver ;
Selling
RAILROAD STOCKS AND BONDS.
Central Railroad Stock 117
Central Railroad Bonds ...96
Macon & Western Railroad Stock. : .110
Southwestern Railroad Stock 97
Southwestern Railroad Bonds 1. 96
Macon & Brunswick Stock 81
Macon & Brunswick Railroad Endorsed Bonds... 86
Georgia Railroad Stock 108
Georgia Railroad Bonds 96
Muscogee Railroad Ronds f. 92J6
Atlantic <5; Gulf Railroad Stock 38
Augusta & Waynesboro Railroad Stock..... 87
South Carolina RailroadStock ..48(250
Cotton States Life Insurance Stock 100
.*1 10
... 1 U
...1 07
...110
revolt assassinated fourteen of their own men.
This favorablo news, which is justly considered
official, causes great rejoicing.
Paris, noon, April 11.—Up to this hour only
Buffet returned from tho Ministiy. Dam’s resigna
tion is still probable.
The French Ministerial crisis is attributed to op
position of a portion of the Cabinet to continuance
House—Mr. Porter introduced a resolution order- j of plebiscitory power in the hands of tha executive.
a view to improving the James luver. I Dam’s resignation is imminent; should he resign,
■ A resolution passed giving negroes use of the hall others will follow.
for celebrating the fifteenth amendment. . Tho impreesion gains credence that the Emperor
The roles requiring the House to participate to i8 if a “ D e c ^ e ^f 9 Sicst8 have been made since
any object for which tho nso of tho hull is allowed, I suppression of the emeute.
Speaker Blain to putting the question said he j p-U Mall Gazette censures Gladstone, shuf-
aaked instructions as to what manner of participa- fling policy on Irish matters, and prodicls defeat to
tion the House should make to this celebration. ** ^ bill., 0Q h*?™ 1 °* complication
Him mo avuso oaumu o and obectinty of its provision. Tho same pa-
Committoes report nothing. | p@r urges a dispatch steamer to the fisheries to
After Cox and Eldridge were announced on the watch the American war steamer there.
Committee of tho House to make arrangements . Lisbon, April 11.—Later.—Paraguayan advices
whereby tho House might participate to the ar- | I OATS
Tho wholesale and jobbing trade of the city has
been dull all the week under review. Barring a
moderately active retail trade, nothing ia doing in
dry goods worth spedallnention.
The grocery and provision market has been a
little oxcited on several days of tho last week, owing
to the firmness and advance to prices at the West
for those prime articles—Com and Bacon. Cbm ie
very firm at quotations, and an advance may confi
dently be expected in a short whilo. Bacon, though
unchanged, is firm, with a strong advancing tenden
cy. Having said tMs much of the provision market
all has been said. We give only a few quotatins :
BACON—Clear Sides (smoked).... $ 18
Clear Rib Sides (Bmoked)... 17J£<£
Shoulders 14%@
Hams (sugar-cured) 22 a
BULK MEATS—Clear Sides 17J£@
Claar Rib Sides 16%@
Shoulders 1S%@
21
GRAIN AND HAY.
CORN—Yellow, Mixed and WMte. 1 32
MEAL.......* i 35
GRITS l 75
90
whereby tho House mignt parncipaio m urn ar- pureuerg -. he won q Qite a victory. It ia thought , ™
rangements for celebrating the Fifteenth Amend- | atRio Janerio that the victory will prolong the war j fxj^dPEAS bC8bel | 00
HAY—Northern 1 90
ment, some discussion took place concerning the j indefinitely,
right of the House to insist upon such duty from Madrid, April ll.-The trial of Montpensiercom-
these gentlemen, they having declined on the I Uhubu&I precautions is taken be guard against
ground that their official positions did not require threatened disorders yesterday. All quiet,
any such service. Tho Speaker, however, ruled | Erilensburo, \pril 11.—The woodwork and both
that when the House directed a committee to cany I shafts of both, gates of the_ mines were burned.
Tennesae Timothy..
Herds Grass.
Tennessee...
2 66
2 03
@ 1 85
(g 1 40
@ 2 00
@ 1 25
@ 1 60
© 2 25
@ 2 00
2 OO
■ Seven of the miners were suffocated and forty-nine
out any of its orders, a member was as much com- I re *cued.
tho rules to serve on that as | Taledo, April 11—A man calling himself Augus
tus Tallenbrook, a Prussian, hailing from Texas.
LATEST MARKETS HV TELEGRAPM.
Domestic Markets.
BY TELEGKAPH.
and rare opportunities are in any way afforded
for the acquisition of knowledge appertaining
to the science of medicine. Hence, in even the
best cultivated circles of society, outside of the
pale of the profession, there are but few indi-
mentary information touching the human or
ganism, or any other laws governing it in either
normal or abnormal conditions. These circum
stances are probably explanatory of a fact that
is often the subject of remark, viz: that a
smaller proportion of population seem capable
of exercising a wise and prndent discrimination
in the matter of selecting a medical adviser than
in commanding counsel of either of the other
professions. Tho patronage of scientific medi
cine and scientific pbyaicinns, to the exclusion
of quackery in its mnlutndinon3 forms, is and
will be in proportion to the extent of biological
knowledge possessed by the people.
But whilst these great achievements to discovery
have crowned tho labors of toiling genius with im-
persbablo fame; whilst these groat examples of
destructive disease have been thus succtssfnlly
dealt with; whilst tbs improved and more rational
therapeutics of onr day has greatly diminished the
percentage of mortalityfrom mostforms of sporadic
disease—thereby extending tho average term of
life twenty per cent, in the conrso of the last fifty
rears of Engli-h, French and American progress
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, April 11. — Hoar’s resignation is
denied.
Governor Senter, of Tennessee, answering
question tending to impeach General ForreBt’s ve
racity, answered,he is a shooting man, and I reckon
I had better not say much about that.
General Meade has been elected President of the
Army of the Potomac.
The River and Harbor Committee have reduced
the engineers’ estimates nine millions.
The legal tender argument was postponed, after
a little quarrel ou tho bench, until next Monday, by
the Supreme Court.
Coin balance to the Treasury, $119,249,796, of
wMch $37,986,500 are coin certificates. Correucy
balance, $10,746,513; estimated coin receipts du
ring the present month, about $9,000,000, which
will leave a balance, on the 30 th proximo, deducting
coin certificates, of $90,000,000; of thro amount,
$23,000,000 will be required to pay tho semi-annual
nterest on 5-20 bonds falling due on tho 1st of May.
Underwood determines that questions regarding
tho Virginia enabling act shail go over to the May
Court
There was considerable acrimony on the Supreme
Bench this morning over a side question regard
ing the resumption of tbo legal tender question.
No point of law was involved, but the temper of
the Judges attracted much attention and some ex
pressions of sorrow at the bar.
Senator Revels is to Brooklyn—Ms nerves gave
way.
Senator Wilson talks temperance at Baltimore,
to-night.
Thomas’s obsequians have returned.
WA8Iinoton, April 12.—Colfax has a boy baby.—
No resolutions on tho subject have yet been report
ed by tho Ways and Means Committee. One hun
dred guns have been fired at the Navy Yard, and
from Capital HilL Tho Foreign Ministers waited
on Mr. Colfax with their congratulations.
The Reconstruction Committee heard Gov. Senter
finally this morning. His evidence and statements
satisfy neither party. Ho suggests notlyng but
that Federal soldiers be placod under Ms con
trol wherowith ho promises to maintain peace.
Able lawjere havo been retained by either party to
the bureau Howard corruption investigation.
Bontwell has returned.
Revenue to-day, $185,000. For the month to
date, $6,000,000.
Tho President has returned.
Pope will probably succeed Thomas in command
of the Pacific Division.
The Senato was to caucus regarding Gorham this
morning. No action.
A dispatch received by the Spanish Minister here,
New York, April 13, noon.—Stocks firm and
pelled under tho rules to serve on that as 1 Taledo, April 11—A man calling himself Augus- I Money easy at 5(qG. Exchange, long 8%; short 9%.
on any other committee, and neither were excused. I Ju 8 Tallenbrook, a Prussian, hailing from Texas, j Gold 12%. Bonds 11%. Tennessee ex-coupons 69%;
. 1 it,, has been swindling Masons in tMs vicinity. new 63%. Virginia ex-coupons 70%; new 68:
Subsequently, however, the resolution granting the j Toronto, April 11—Daniel Morrison,eaitorof tho Louisianas, old 77: new 72%; levee 6s 76%- 8a 92
use of the Hall was rescinded, and the select Com-1 Daily Telegrarh, died of appolexy. Alabama 8s, 97%; 5s, 82. Georgia 6s 85-’ 7s 93.
mittee wero discharged. , Montreal, April 11.—Troops of volunteers are North Carolinas, old 46%; new 22%. South Car-
held in readiness to repulse the raid of which the j olinas, old 87; new 80.
authorities have had notice. * “
In tho House to-day Gen. Clark, of Texas, totro-
Fiour dull and drooping. Wheat dull and nomi-
Cotton dull; sales
duced a bill providing for the survey of Matagorda i London, April 11—The Memorial Diplomatique I nally lower. Com qnifct and unchanged. Pork
Bay, Texas; also, for the survey of Bed river and has information that tho Council of Ona Hundred unchanged; mess 27 75. Lard dull; barrela's lo%<a
b.y». ***
and Shreveport, Louisiana, with a view to securing p ABI8i 12.—In the Corps Legislatif yester- Cotton dull and nominal; upland middlings 23%;
an appropriation. ■ • day Jules Favre regretted the resignation of Bouf- •“ 0b **£L
Two or thrcd u&r&crr&'DiiB of tlio t&nfT bill, rol&t* I _ _ _ ,• ,, ... . ,. , j r^EW iouk, April IS. 6Y6um&r»'
awo or rnrea parag I » f e t, who showed a disposition to stand by the pre- 1500 bales; uplands 23V.
tog to carpet oil-cloffis and carpeting, were sense- rogative of y, 0 chamber. Segrils replying describ- Money easj| at 6. Sterling verv heavy at 8%.
ed, after which the House adjourned. gd Bouffet as a defender of republicanism, but the GoJ<3 Governments steady and firm. Southerns
State
discussion or roe noriueru Olivier addresBrng the chamber was interrupted to fair extra 5 75. Wheat heavy and 1 lower; winter
Washington, April 12. House Alter a stuo- i ^ jjjes, “you made promises.” During Ms speech I red and amber western 120@122. Corn unchanged,
bom resistance on the part of Schenck, the House he expregsod tha opinion that the nation conld vote J? eef steady. Prime lard heavy: kettle 16%. Whisky
postponed the tariff bill and took up Hunt’s seat | on pIeb ; gdtum . “TseL^lfroup^ns^; 81 ^
The Emperor reviewed the trSops at tho Place du new 9%; 1867a 9%; 1868a 9%; lQ-40s 6%.. Ten-
Carrousel. I nessees, old 59%; new 51%. Virginias, old 69%; new
An unknown man was arrested during the review
hero yesterday for shouting vengeance against tho North Carolinas, old 56%; new 22%. Souih Caroti-
Empercr. I nas old 87; new 81.
LyonB—Mangine, candidate of the party of the I „ Tallow steady at 9%©12.
left is elected.
Several Carliat CMef tains succeeded in entering
postponed
from Louisiana. A spirited debate is progressing.
The Senate hill restoring the Washington relics to
Mrs. Custus Lee, which passed the Houso was re
ferred to the Senato Military Committee,
The Joint Indian Committee’s report is indefinite.
The postponementhas been defeated, and the argu
ment is progressing.
Tho Senato Committee on Commerce agreed to
_ ■ —„ -—„„— Wool quiet: domestic
fleece 41@53; pulled 4t(a4'2; California 15%@15%.
Hides quiet. Freights, cotton per steam %.
_Baltimore. April 13.—Flour, most grades higher,
report in favor of directing tho Secretary of War to j g pa in. Fresh insurrection is anticipated. I Wheat active; choice Maryland 4 50. Com steady;
survey the route for the James River and Kan a- Rome, April 12 Tho Archbishop of Baltimore ,' yb ; ta ??i.7 el i ow 57 V> 0ata an 4r?-°? i '
wba Canal. ... has published a sharp reply to tho recent letter of 6 “ era
The President has signed the bill removing the Bishop of Orleans. Cotton steady; middlings 23; sales 180; net re-
Shober’s disabilities. Ho will now bo seated as a Queenstown, April 12 The steamers City of ceipts 50; coastwise 355; total 405; stock 5036.
member from North Carolina. Brooklyn, Manhattan and Arabia have arrived. I
Tho Georgia bill was taken up by 80 to 20, and London, April 12.—Capt. Meyler, of the Saxonia, coas°wiso stock 16,444. ’ P P°
iscussed by Tipton to favor of Bingham’s amend- 1 1 - — -
, j to-day, asserts that tho Spanish Bank of Havana
with the masses of community—whilst but few 1 has lent the Government $5,000,000, without inter
est.
The President has nominated S. T. Day, of Flori
da, Consul at Picton; Edward Johnson, Arkansas,
at Ghent; A. B. Long, U. 8. Attorney for Louis-
viduals found possessed of even tho most ele- * ana -
The Treasury disbursements for the month to
dato are smaller than any corresponding period
during tho last ten yearn.
The Georgia question drags slowly along. Tho
issue seems as remote as over. Only Blodgett of
the various Georgia delegations remains here,
watching the progress of events. Tho best of
opinion is that tho present executive and legislative
officials will go out at the expiration of tho terms
for wMch they wero elected, and that tho election
for their successors will be conducted under military
auspices. It seems certain to-day that whatever re
sult may bo reached, tho present officials will not he
allowed to hold over except by a voto of tho people,
or by Executive appototmont.
Tbo Louisiana election case of Hunt va. Sheldon
was elaborately argued to empty benches. Tho is
sue is foregone. Sheldon will retain his seat by
nearly a party voto.
The members of Congress from the Gulf States
discussed by Tipton to favor of Bingnam’s amend-1 f rom New Orleans, reports the prevalence of heavy I Savannah, April 13 —Cotton-in moderate demand;
ment and by Howe against the admission of the eaBter i v ca ] eB and unusually high seas until the but prices have declined; middlings 21%; sales 600;
State and to favor of a provisional government. 35tb de „ reo 0 f i a titud 0 was passed. rcc , e ‘P t ® ^ 6; GS ' l; , Bt , ock i0, ¥ 8 -
The latter argued that the State Constitution allow- Many morQ Ministers protest to Gladstone j a good demand at 2l 'ftr middlings! but Mosed weak
edthe Legislature to perpetuate itself indefinitely I jjjq sectarian clauses in the Educational J at 20J& sales 552 bales; receipts 269.
and was not republican to. form, and that where two | b ,n Mobile, April 13.—Cotton dull at 21%: Eales 280
parties to a State hated each otla.r mere than they I Captain Lacon publishes a communication to the J gtockS^OC^' 3 3G1 ’ e a ports t0 Kew ° rleans 237 >
hated injustice and outrage, neither should bo al- Pall Mall Gazett0i wherein he defends tho officers Norfolk, April 13—Cotton easier; low middlings
lowed ascendancy. The Senato adjourn'd without oI t]je steamer Oneida. Ho says. “Since 20%(320%; sales £0 bales; receipts G46; stock 580.
a vote and the question comes upagaii. to-morrow, the order of Council of August 4th, 1869, it is doubt- Bjston, Aprill3.—Cottondullandtenaingdown-
The Hunt contested election caso occupied all fuHf the™ ia any rule of the Road a t sea.”
day. A vote occurs to-morrow. Toronto, April 12.—'The preparations for the ex-
Three thousand dollars havo b»‘'r •'mnq.riated to ped j t £ 0n to the Red River country aro progressing,
the Committee of Investigation *»., ..;:.au Uow - I Tho expedition will depart early in May.
ard s alleged corruptions. | g T . Johns, April 12.—The now pilot boat John
ward; middlings 23%; Bales 200 bales; net receipts
19; coastwise 134; total 179; stock 12,000.
Louisville, April 13—Lard 16%. WMsky heavy
97(q93.
St. Louis. April 13.—Whisky steady at 100. Pork
stiff at 28 £0. Com more active; advanced 1@2; 80
Stevenson made a minority report, snpported by Mw1Im eigh j daya outi it £3 fearedi3 lost with all <2 93 ,orBtad yellow; 93095 for wMte.
four of the Election Committee, in favor of seat
ing Segar as member at largo for Virginia.
House then adjourned.
Washitgton, April 13. — Hotroo—Shober, from
North Carolina, is seated.
The coinage question is up.
The Senate is considering the Joint Indian Com
mittee’s report.
Committees nothing.
A resolution for a Joint Special Committeo on
Indian Affairs was adopted.
The Judiciary Committee made an affirmative re
port upon the validity of the election of Abijah
Gilbert as a Senator from Florida.
Tho Georgia bill was discussed as to the expedi
ency and legality of continuing the present Legis
lature two years longer, as proposed by Williams.
Ferry Norton, of Minnesota, favored^ Bingham’s
amendment to require an election next November-
Abbott and Williams tho reverse.
The former urgtog the suppression, by mili
tary forco, of extensive organizations in the South to
resist the laws and to keep alive the rebel senti
ment. .
No action was taken on the coinage weights and
measures bill.
Tho Hunt vs. Sheldon caso was resumed. A
voto shows that Sheldon was entitled to Hunt's seat
by 121 to 46. »
Tho Pensylvania election was discussed at some
length, when the tariff bill was resumed and several
paragraphs passed without material amendment-
Butler made anpther failure on Ms San Domingo
resolution.
Cincinnati, April 13—Whisky dull at 97. Mess
Pork held at 29 00. Lard held higher; city kettle
15%; steam, little offering.
and culture. Notwithstanding all this and much met to-night to consider the Southern PacificBail-
FKOM NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleansj April 12.—Ex-State Auditor Wyck-
liffe, Saturday night, went to the private residence,
of a broker and sold him $150,000 worth of State
warrants, receiving $7000 cash. Auditor Graham
states that said warrants are fraudulently issued.
Wyckliffo has disappeared, bnt Ms confidential
agent, Muslievay, called on the broker for the bal
ance duo, and was arrested and fifteen thousand
recovered. State Auditor Graham publishes a card
cautioning tho public against trading for warrants
issued by Wycldiffe. ' ' r
onboard.
Rome, April 12.—The last chapter of the first
scheme of the dogma of infallibility is to bo voted
upon to-day. Tho opponents are required to vote
to writiog.
Dublin, April 12—An overseer was killed at Hol
ly Cross.
Madrid, April 12.— Nineteen insurgents were
killed, and ten wounded at tho Barcelona barricades.
Besides these, many wounded were taken home by
their friends. Loss of troops two killed and thirteen
hurt. It i3 officially stated that partisan agitators
and socialists aided the outbreak
Montreal, April 12.—It is believed the contem-
platefiFenian, raid has been prevented by prompt
preparations for defense.
London, April 12—Tho rumore current yesterday
of Lopez’s death, aro comfirmod by the dispatches 111%; Orleans 11%; sales 10,000 bales,
from Lisbon. I Tallow 44.
The annual budget shows iho expenditures of I Later.—Laid easier but not lowen Pork buoyant
Nhw Orleans, April 13.—Cotton quiet and weak;
middlings 22(a22%; sales 2600; net receipts 2987;
coastwise 1252; total 4239: exports to Great Britain
4600; stock 176,776.
Bacon firmer; shoulders 12%; dear sides 16%®
16%; clear rib sides 17%. Sugar cured hams 18% ®
19%. Lard film; tierce 16%; keg 17%, Sugar,
prime 11%<311%. Molasses, city refinery reboiled
75; Others unchanged.
Sterling 28%. New York Sight % premium. Gold
12%.
Galveston. April 13.—Cotton nuiet; good ordina
ry 18%; roceipts 1203 stock 27,895.
Foreign War Sets.
London, April 13, noon—Consols 94%. Bonds
94%. Ex-coupons 88%.
Tallow 45. Rosin quiet.
Liverpool, April 13, noon—Cotton quiet; uplands
and the receipts seventy-three millions. Tho esti
mates for tha current year aro sixty-seven millions
pounds.
Tho underwriters aro settling for the dty of Bos
ton as a total loss.
Parliament adjourned to tho 25th.
Bacon 56. Tallow 44s to 44s3d. Fine rosin
12@13.
Paris, April 13, noon.— Bourse opened dulL
Rentes 7Sf65c.
London, April 13, evening—Consols 94%. Bonds
83%.
Tallow 44s9d®45s. Sugar heavy both on spot
and afloat; on epot34s6d<s35e; afloat 2Ss6d.
Liverpool, April 13, evening—Holliday in cotton
Crops throughout Great Entam aro nourishing. and g enera £ market from to-morrow to Thursday;
Weather fine. I Cotton dosed dull; uplands 11%; Orleans 11%®
The following has been received via Lisbon, from sales 10,000 bales; speculation and export
Rio Janeiro: President Lopez, of Paraguay, is -990-
dead He was surrounded, and, refusing to eur- Lard 63s9d- Bacon 57.
render was killed by Brazilian lancers. The moth- Paris, April 13, evening—Bourse closed quiet
er sis’ter and children of Lopez, together with Rentes 73f62c.
Madame Lynch, have been captured. The com- I Havre, April 13, noon.—Cotton ©paned heavy; an
maniltr of the Brazilian troops who put this finish- spot 18o; afloat 132%. .
ing stroke to Paraguay en war, has been created Havana, April 11.—Exchange on Paris par. Ex-
bv tho Emperor V'scouut Of Paletos. change on London 13(2-13% premium- Currency
"A dispatch received from Pesth asserts that tho exchange on the U. S , lor.g sight 9%'t<il0-a dia-
Hungarian bit-hops who vote for infallibility will bo j count. Gold exchange on toe TJ. s., long 21%' pro-
excluded from the Upper,Chamber of the Diet. j inium; ditto short sight 3%(s4% premium.
Mm
■pa
jjrsi