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[From the Philadelphia lister.}
La.it Hours of Spring w*“ Mur
derer. s
PIUBOXK h’s CEU.. F3AH NUDfcluHT'.
Thursday Nig*t t wvne ft.—AMMupoii*
services, ty toe Rev. Messrs. Street
Spung was asked how lw felt ? He tHpereri,
M never felt letter in iny life. I mv^A.mur
dered any person, and T expect to die a eMsjis- j
dan. I believe in the Lord Jcstto Ohrwt*|fck|
lie nloue can forgive my sins and wash my SOOT]
in his blood, mid that he alone can save me, |
ud I never did believe in any thing else, i I
also believe in the resurrection of the body, and
in judgement to come, and life everlasting af
ter death ; and that every one must give an ac
count of every action of bis life, whether it be
coed or evil, and in a place of misery for the
wicked.”
To u question put to him, (with the open
Bible in his hand) —Do you feel that God. for
Christ’s sake, accepts you and forgives you ?
lie answered, “1 trust lie does, and death does
not trouble me.” To a question put to him—
“Do you, in the fear of God, before whom yon
will appear in a few hours, forgive every ono
who lias in any way or manner injured you 1”
he answered—“l do, and l trust lie w ill for
give me as I forgive them.”
llis last statement was: Although the boy
brought home the money, lie never told me
that he murdered the women ; neither do 1 be
lieve lie bad any hand in it These are to be
considered as my dying words.
He had previously gone into a long detail
(so often told) about bis son’s visit to Mrs.
Shaw and Mis. Lynch after midnight, and
bringing borne the money, lie then, in
positive teuns, declared lie was in bed on the
night of the murder, and though the son
brought home the money and put it in his pock
et-book, yet he declared that lie believod his
son had no hand in the murder of the women,
and that he is entirely clear.
After having got through his statement, he
commenced to joke and laugh, although re
minded 1 of the necessity of being solemn. He
said, “I have got a long journey to take in the
morning, but I don’t think they will get me
off until after dinner, as I want to lay in a good
stock of provisions.” And then lie went on to
relate an aueedote in relation to two men swim
ming a race. That one of them took a week’s
provision on his back, and when the other saw
this be gave up the bet.
The prisoner then laughed heartily until re
minded of his condition. To this lie remarked
that he could not help it, as lie was so • glad to
get off. In answer to a remark that every per
son in the community believed him guilty, and
that we bis spiritual advisers, believed it also,
lie said, “you must think I am a Greek,” and
thus be went on until we left him, about mid
night, to take bis last sleep previous to awaken
ing in eternity.
After the departure of the Rev. Messrs. Street
and Konsil, the chaplain of the prison, the Rev.
Mr. Alexander, took their place, and the pris
. oner, after some conversation with him, slept
for several hours. He awoke about 4 o’clock
and joined in prayer with the Rev. Mr. Alex
ander. The prisoner then pruyed for the wel
fare of bis son, nnd asked Mr. Alexander to
join him in prayer for hi* dear Arthur. The re
ligious services were continued up to 7 o’clock,
with occasional intermissions, during which
Spring asseverated his innocence, and his be
lief that his son was also clear of the guilt of
blood.
The spectators within the prison numbered
at least four hundred. Without the walls there
are about two hundred around, including a
large body of police.
Attorney General Reed received a letter from
Governor Bigler this morning, in reply to a
question as whether there was any hope of a res
pite. The Governor states in the most em
phatic terms, that the condemned must give up
that hope, that he had determined not to ex
ercise any clemency towards him.
The letter from l the Governor was read to him
by Mr. Read, hut it failed to produce the least
effect upon him, and he asserverted his own in
nocence.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE EXECUTION.
The preparations for the proceeding to the
j.iison yard were completed within a tew min
utes of 11 o’clock, and the Various official
bodies formed in line, and w aited the coming of
the prisoner in the court yard, within the north
ern gate. At 11 o’clock tho prisoner enter
ed the yard, and the procession commenced its
solemn march.
THE EXECUTION.
The condemned man was seen to tremble when
he gazed upon the large number assembled,
and on catching the first glimpse of the gal
lows a nervous trembling was apparent, but
still ho walked firmly and ascended the steps
boldly.
The reverend gentleman, and the Sheriff,
and Marshal, ascended with him, and the religi
ous exercises were commenced by singing a
hymn. The prisoner kept his eyes closed most
of the time.
Upon the conclusion of the hymn, the Rev.
Mr. Street, thus addressed him :•
Arthur Spring, you have been convicted and
sentenced to death for the murder of Jlonora
Shaw and Ellen Lynch, and the execution of
that sentence is now about to take place. We I
have not ceased to warn you of your fate and
to induce you to repent and make your peace
with God. I now ask you, iu tho presence of
Almighty God, before whom you will shortly
stand, are you guilty or not guilty cf the mur
der of these women 1
Prisoner—No sir! no sir !
{Mr. Street —The Grand Jury have also by
their presentment, charged you with the mur
der or Mr. Rink. Are you guilty or not guil
ty of that crime 1
Prisoner—No sir. I never saw the man in
my life.
Mr. Street—l have still another and last
question to ask you. Before God,
Arthur Spring, entirely clear of the murder of
M rs. Shaw ar.d Mrs. Lynch.
Prisouer—l believe he is. lledruj no more
to do with it than I had.
At this response there groan
fi'oin the spectators, whicbAtfcs, however, but
momentary.
Mr. Street then said, ‘‘May God lia\ e mer
cy upon your soul.”
All upon the scaflblti ttwft kneeled, and the
[lev. -Mr,- Kensil prrfjvxl iu the most fervent
manner. . imp*
the prisoner spoke a few
words to Mr. Street, and that gentleman was
about to repeat it, when the Sheriff interposed
and told the prisoner to speak himself.
I He then said that he went to bed on the
*gbt of the murder at 7 o’clock, and never
knew anything of it until told by the officers.
Tins question was again asked him, “Is your
c v i*noccnt P and he replied
“Mv son is entirely innocent of blood!”
Mi. Alexander here exclaimed: “Let this
go throughout the land 1”
The reverend gentlemen then left, tlie gal
lows, after shaking hands with the prisoner.
The executioner arranged the knot and drew
the cap over his face, nnd the Sheriff having
left him, the props were removed from beneath
the platform, and a quarter after ll o’clock the
drop fell, and the victim of oflended justice
yfcmrbctween heaven and earth.
aliont two feet and a half, and it was
I thought dislocated his neelp, as with the excep
tion of wfclight contraction'of the extremities,
the body remained pcifectly Motionless.
Thus has elided this bloody tragedy.
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21) f Corner Slone.
WRGIA~
THURSDAY, JUNE 20*. 1853.
■ 1
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this paper.
Insurrection at New Orleans.
The reported insurrection at N,lw Orleans, we
learn from the Picayune, turna#>ut to be incor
rect. ‘
Election for Clerk Superior Court.
Tlie following is the unoißcidftturn of the vote
cast for Clerk of the Superior JMrt of* MuscSgee
county at the election held {jp Saturday last;
Birdsong, wethcne. Barker.
Columbus, 225 ‘jjr 182 319
Glenn’s, fiß \ 60 8
llalloca, 21 46 1
Upatoie, 51 4,3
Harris’s, 28 1 1
379 292 324
Birdsong is undoubtedly elected.
Tlie Democratic Convention.
We have been greatly ’disappointed in the
result of the labors of this body. We had no
doubt that Judge Warner would have receiv
ed the nomination—not that we had any idea
that he was a strong man .before the people,
but that we bad great faith in,,bis management,
and we supposed that he had friends who would
insist upon his nomination at liny and all haz
ards—and that the Convention would be driv
en into bis nomination by the necessity of keep
ing the peace. It seems, however, that he did
not carry into the Convcuticm a strength suffi
ciently great to justify any very strong meas
ures for his success. t*J.
Judge Johnson is a clever man—of a high
order of talents, and MtlS some years ago a
strong Southern Rights man. He acquired a
high reputation oftce as a Coon Killer, and
more recently has, as Judge of the Superior
Court, added considerably to his reputation.—
lu that capacity his bitterest political opponents
give him the credit of capacity and integrity.
The Conservative party had a Convention
yesterday at Milledgeville for the purpose of
nominating a candidate. The result of their
labors have not reached us—jjie general opin
ion, however, so far as we cau. gather it, is, that
Jenkins will be nominated. .
If he should be, we take it he will be very
badly beaten, lie is an amiable man, of great
purity of character, and fine talents, but it will
be impossible to excite the masses in his favor,
for the reason that he has no feelings in com
mon with them.
Party Judges.
A good deal has been said by the press of
both parties on this subject, and the sentiment
of each seems to be opposed to it, but it seems to
us that there is no sort, of difference between
party Judges and party Legislators, Governors
or Presidents. The evil is not that men meet
together and select suitable men for this or
that office—but that menyvho are interested in
having offices well filled, field their judgment
implicitly to the dictates dfcjuch- associations
without reference to the right or wrong of that
action, and without referencejrto the qualifica
tions or character of the persons selected.—
Whenever there are objects, either good or bad,
to be effected, there wiil be organization and
association. In the nature of things it cannot
be avoided. The power thus obtained is liable
to abuse by bad men, and the only remedy is
in the intelligence and honesty ot ™e people.
If men of intelligence and character 1 will not on
ly submit to, but aid in keeping up an organi
zation merely 7 for the purpose of keeping in
power this or that set of men, and if the mass
es will be governed by party machinery, with
out taking interest enough in it to see that it is
worked rightly, there is no remedy. #
That there nre great evils resulting to the
country from the corruptions of party organiza
tions, there can- bttfio doubt, but how they are
to be remedied is another and a very difficult
question. It is a question of great importance
to the country, and to which we shall call at
tention occasionally—not with the hope or de
sire of preventing organizations, but to divest
them, as far as possible, of their bad influences.
Iu relation to Judges, we have for the pres
ent just this to sav. It is very well known to
every body that in these days it requires only
a little bargaining, a good deal of activity,
management and trickery, for a man to get a
party nomination.
If men should be nominated who do not suit
the. Circuit for which they are candidates, and
there are any men in the Circuit who have in
dependence and courage enough to excise
their lights as men, let tbem get together and
call out *"510 man who does suit them, with
out reference to party distinction. If the peo
ple are afraid to do this, or if men thus called
upon nre afraid to run, because they have not
received a party nomination—why the be6t plan
is to submit like clever fellows.
Death oh Gen. Riley.— This gentleman, a dig.
tinguished officor of the United States Army, diod
at Buffalo, A*. Y., on tlie 9th inst. lie served with
distinction in the war of 1812, nnd nlso in the
Mexican war; and wag subsequently appointed
Military Governor of California, by President
Polk.
It is Said.— ln the rumor department of the
l9t Baltimore Clippor, wo find the following :
“Among to-day’s rumors is one that £, Navy
Department designs to institute a Professorship of I
Dancing in the Naval Academy, that accomplish- J
ment being looked upon übroad as essential to the j
interchange of civilities.
There is another rumor that advices have been
received of (filibustering movements nt New York,
which promise rich developments.”
Vs-J have been expecting some exciting (filibus
tering intelligence for five weeks past. Don’t be j
too curious, render—lime discloses all things,
Struck by Lightning.
A telegraphic dispatch from Philadelphia, to
the New York Express, dated on .Saturday 18th
inst., nt 3 P. M., says:
The Steamship State of Georgia, arrived at Phila
delphia this morning, from Savannah, reports that,
when off the Capes of Delaware, she was struck
by lightning, shivering her top nnd mainmast,
whence the fluid passed through the deck into the
cabin, and then through the engine room. No
one was hurt.
The Escape of O’Dotiohoc, the Irish
Exile.
A letter to the Sydney Freeman’s Journal, from
Melbourne, confirms the report of the escape of
Mr. O’Donohoe, from Van Diemnn’s Land, and
adds:
Further particulars (though aware of them) I
cannot yet publish. O’Donohoe, however, is clear
off, nnd, more than that, I don’t think he is yet
missed by the jailors. Would to heaven that the
four who still remain behind were now pacing
the deck with him ! What a pity it is that such
mon as the unflinching O’Brien, the chivalrous
Mitchell, the devoted Martin, the amiable O’Dolier
ty, should still piuo in bondnge. But they
will escape yet. Three of the imprisoned birds
have already broken tlie bars of their cage, and
oh I may they be quickly joined by the four re
maining captive martyrs.
The War New*.
The Augusta Constitutionalist of the I9th inst,
says:
“Quite a number of persons called yesterday nt
our office to seethe tear newt, ns they understood a
despatch had been received at this office announc
ing that a war had been positively determined on
between Mexico and Spain against the United
States. The apprehensions of the staid lovers of
peucc and the hopes of the bellicose were alike
quieted when the real nature of the despatch was
scrutinized. We give it under the telegraphic
head for what it is worth.* We should judge that
some gossiping letters hnvo been written by the
political Paul Pry’s of Havana, in which
have oracularly interpreted the signs of the times
into an alliance betivean the Spanish government
and Santa Anna fur i'ue purpose of makiny r c
with this country. We dismiss the conjecture as
absurd, though it is not impossible some negotia
tion inay be on foot for an alliance for mutual
defence and assistance between Spain and Mexico.
Still, the bare rumor of a war kindled among
our more youthful and adventurous citizens quite
a glow of excitement, and visions of organized
expeditions for the emancipation and annexation
to this country of the fair Queen of the Antellcs
rose up to their imaginations. No appalling shad
ow stood darkly in the background of an Ameri
can President issuing his Proclamation denouncing
the expedition as one of pirucy and robbery.
A war with Spain is so naturally suggestive of
the annexation of Cuba, that the telegraphic de
spatch caused the subject to be fully discussed in
all its bearings yesterday with our sheets, partly in
jest and partly in earnest
• Santa Anna is not particularly admired in the
Southern States, and has but n few friends. But
if his folly and presumption should result in giving
this country its justifiable ground for annexing
Cuba, he will become comparatively popular, and
earn a general vote of thanks from the fillibusters.
From Jamaica. —Intelligence to the Ist instant
from Kingston, Ja., lias been recived at New York.
We copy from the Evening Post:
The difficulty between the Council and the As
sembly is growing more and more serious. Gov
ernor Grey, through his Secretary, has addressed a
communication to John Gordon, Esq., the senior
magistrate of St. Andrew, ending upon the magis
tracy of the parish to adopt measures for the pre
servation of the public peace, which might he dis
turbed if the prisoners are liberated from the peni-
tentiaries, in consequence of the want of means in
tho public chest to support those prisons. 1
The Journal of the 30th says that the Governor’s
purpose was carried out. We quote:
“His Excellency the Governor has issued his fiat,
countersigned by his honor the Attorney General,
for the release of all the female prisoners eouTfned
in the penitentiary and other prisons in the island.
The number is estimated to be thirty-two. His ex
cellency has also directed the release of two men
from the penitentiary.”
The poliec also nre unpaid, but they have signed
a pledge to discharge tlicir duties and “bide their
timo” for compensation.
Unless the Council recede from their position,
there is every probability of a civil war in Jamai
ca in less than three mouths.
Extradition Treaty with Prussia. —Tho Wash
ington Union publishes the extradition treaty,
recently concluded between the United States and
Prussia, anil other States of the Germanic Confed
eration, fer the mutual delivery of criminals and
fugitives from justice in certain cases. The pro
visions of the treaty nre essentially the .same as
those of the present existing treati iof the same
character between the United States and England
and France. Criminals are to be delivered up on
mutual requisitions, made by the contranling pow
ers or their proper representatives, and these re
quisitions can be made for parties charged with
the crime of murder, assault with inteqt to com
mit murder, piracy, arson, robbery, forgery, or ut
terance of forged papers, fabrication or circula
tion of counterfeit money, or the embezzlement of
public moneys ; provided, however, that the de
livery of the criminiil shall only be ihade upon
such evidence of criminality as, according to the
laws of the place where the.fugitive or person so
charged shall be found, would juslify-'his appie
hension and commitment for trial, if the crime or
offence had there been committed. Neither of the
contracting powers is to be bound to deliver up its
own citizens under tho stipulations of the
t reaf.y. —Ba It imvre America n.
[Foil the Corner Stone.]
Letter'lX, Lane vs. Tliornton—ll,
Georgia Reports.
It be thought strange that the above ease
should so often be quoted. There is in it alone
a good year’s work, or more, and in it we have
an object, and that is to show and prove that
your constant efforts are, not to administer the
inw, but to niako us subjects and slaves, when we
nre the sovereigns and you and to
“make them do, umlo, eat, jflpy%&>i‘l, move,
talk, think, and feel exaetl ywMSffipP’et) ooae.—
“And to buy and sell, barter, and hold
them in chains, and when it is ngninst the law.
Pray tell us what you menu by such ifllumption
of power? And what is the object, if it. is not to
corrupt the incorruptible, and to tempt the hon
est, and to give the corrupt and dishonest prece
dents to run to, and say here is the law, the law
of Supreme Judges—they done it, and I must
obey, no matter how unjust, corrupt, biased or
prejudiced they maybe. It is thus the innocent
has to suffer.
Already has it produced a prodigal disposition
in Judges like yourself, to establish, make and un
make laws, and thus denying to parties and per
sons their natfiral, constitutional and lawful
ijjghts. They, like yon, assume a power when
they have it not; and they use it for the penefit
of themselves and favorites, with gross injustice
and oppression to others. It has often been the
case, and it yet continues to be, ns n:i able lawyer
of the Palmetto State said, ‘That the elevation of
men to the bench does not exonerate them from
passions and prejudices—it increases them, be
cause they have a power they can skulk behind.”
They carry with them their personal antipathies,
or personal predictions, and use them on one
side or the other to their utmost extent. If they
do not corrupt they at least mislead, and they
often listen to talcs outside of the sanctuary af
fecting the morel justice of the case that never
before could linvepassed legitimately its threshold,
and oftimes it never existed. Thus the scale of
justice becomes uneven, and her bandage becomes
mesmericnlly luminous, and enables a Judge to
see who will gain and who will lose by his deci
sions, before they have heard the cause, and oft
times they become interested. No honest lawyer
who is not afraid to tell the truth, enn deny that
he has seen favored lawyers and persons who will
exercise undue influence beyond the law and the
facts, or that Judges have set in judgment on the
rights of men who stood a better chance than
absolute indifference should have left him. It is
within the range at least of’ possibility that a
Judge may be so self-confident in his own integ
rity ns to set in judgment when his relations to
the party, or his interest, or prejudices, or pre
judgment would render a man who possessed a
more nervous conscience, to distrust himself—and
in nil such cases a lawyer owes it ns a duty to
warn him, by ceasing to push himself into such
enscs a Judge may at least avoid the appearance
of evil.
It has oftimes been the case that Judges have
been electioneered for, and elected, not because
of their talent and ability, but because they
would decide a question for or against a particular
person in a particular way, or because, ns Chief
Justice Jeffreys said to Chief Justice Wright, “As
you seem, to be unfit for the Bar, or any other
honest calling, I see nowing for it hut that you
{ should become a Judge.” Campbell’s Chief Jus
tices, 1 vob, page 87.
■ And in such cases, where are the rights and
remedies of parties, and what do they amount to ?
They arc tantamount to nothing. It is a humbug
to talk of impeachment. The Legislature meets
once in two years, and even then how would the
case stand 1 Nothing but revenge is left, at most,
without a remedy to the sufferer. Docs executing
the murderer, bring back the murdered ? Would
impeachment of a Judge restore life, liberty or
property? It is adding insult to injury, to tell a
man this when he has lost his all, and knows not
where or how to obtain it, and “when he who in
the suit .vas poorest by his empty coffers, proved
bis cause the worst agninst a Judge, who, by cor- ‘
roptiou, had increased that shining thing, that
fools admired and called a god. And in devout
and bumble plight before it kneeled, and on its
altar sacrificed ease, peace, truth, faith, integrity,
good conscience, friends, love, charity, benevo
lence und all—nnd to signalize their folly, offered
up their souls, and an eternity of bliss to gain
them.” There are no rights, no justice, do law, no
remedies in such a case. s'e need remedy, for as
it is, there is none; they skulk behind the rule of
the common law that they arc not answerable in
the damages for their foul corruption. This rule
was founded in corruption, nnd has outlived its
time. The Judge is but a man, nnd oftimes a bad
one. Let him be liable to be prosecuted, and
tried before and by his peers in the county where
his crime was committed, and let him repent in
damages for the losses his corruption hns caused.
Then and there only will they cease to cor
rupt and be corrupted, to tempt and be tempt
ed, and then only will the peoples’ life, liberty and
prosperty be protected from these men who are
elevated to the bench—because, as the corrupt and
bloody Justice Jeffreys said of Justiee Wright,
j (“after having spent his estate by debauched living,
und who is without honesty, and been guilty oM
wilful perjury.”) “As you seem to be unfit rfR
the l3ar, or any other honest calling, I see notn|
ing for it v but that you should become aJudgfl
yourself.”
When these things are done, honesty will be
more prominent, nnd we shall to some extent then
cease to bo ANTI-JEFFREYS.
[For the Corner Ston c.]
Medical College System.™ Exem
ption of Physicians from IR.oad
and Militia Service.
Mr. Editor; Whatever affects the life and
health of the people, is a matter of intrinsic in
terest to the ns we believe the
present system of looSPmoFals in medical edu
cation, controls to some extent the mortali
ty of the country we beg leave to ask the seri-
ous attention of your readers to the subject.
. The health of a country, to a large extent,
consists of its population, and the health of that
population is an important item in (he produc
tion of farther health, and the developement of
its resources. How essential is it, then, that
every country should demand a high and ele
vated system of medical education to be con
ferred upon its medical men.
The defective system cf medical training now
in vogue, has been for a long time the para
mount point of solicitude in all the medical as
sociations of the couutry of any respectability;
but these bodies are so singularly constituted
in their representation, that the cliques and
self-interested about the colleges control them; j
hence nothing of an effective character lias
been achieved. The evil is of such a magni
tude that it .now demands the interference of
the people, who should, in their primary as
semblies, and at tho ballot box, speak out in a
tone noUre misunderstood. The root of the
evil isimhe medical college system. The rapid
increase of these unwise manufactories, has
an equally rapid decline in the requi
sites for graduation, and the result is, a crowd
ed profession, and hundreds of disappointed
young men in an unprofitable speculation. —
But the evil can never he remedied until our
Legislature passes some stringent regulations for
a pre-requisite to the doctorate. The modern
plan of forming a Mgdicrffeollego is as amu
sing as it is disgusting! A few hungry ex pec t
antafßucceed in getting a charter through our
Legislature, a few jnen dubbed trustees, are ap
pointed, a number of men ranging from 0 to 7
are suddenly transformed into Professors, and
frequently without age or qualification for the
post; ene on them is dispatched to Europo or
New York jbthere ho procures a dozen or two
wax preparUjjSns in anatomy, several wax and
paper maclie models, a few rare surgical and
chemical accoutrements, and this constitutes
the sum total of Idle College. The lec
ture term is announced, the pupil enters, the
halls of the College who has probably never
seen a medical book —he remains sixteen weeks
or four months, rotcning to diffuse lectures up
on various subjects‘is©rrowed from other au
thors without credit > if a second course student
at the end of the term graduates, is thoroughly
indoctrinated, and comes out a full blooded
simon pure—excelsior!—son of Eseulapius.
The lectures are usually of one hour each, and
generally from four to five upon the same sub
ject weekly, which would make some sixty-four
or more upon the same subject in the four
months
Now, we ask in all candor, can the sciences
of Anatomy, Chemistry, Physiology, and Tlier
apentiees, which have involved the life-time
study of the ablest men in the profession, be
taught in the short space of sixty-four or sixty
five hours to each branch ? It strikes us that
common sense woyld say no ; yet strange to
tell, this is the curiculum of a regular Medi
cal education in a great many eases, while
some attend two courses. AVe assume the po
sition, if the standard of medical education was
higher, we would have fewer misguided and
disappointed young men, while it would have
a salutary influence upon the’ profession and
country —it would make physicians more skill
ful, promote the character of the fraternity, and
benefit the land in a sanitary point of view.
The only way to do this, as before said, is to
tbi;o\v proper guards'arouml the Medical Col
lege system. In Georgia, we flow have tivo*
Colleges, and although a Southerner by birth
and education, we are sorry we have any. In
the earlier days of the old school, it took a high
stand, hut it has degenerated, until now, one
of its professors can be seen during any canvass
stumping one of our districts politically, for
which he is doubtless better prepared, than for
a medical lecturer. The days of Paul Eve
and Milton Antony have passed in its halls,
their names ah, no longer found among its
Professors. The latter is numbered with the
dead, while tlj| former stands at the head of
one of the fh-st’schools in America, and the ve
ry best in the South—Nashville University.—
The new school at Savannah is just entering
upon its destiny; what awaits it we know not,
but from the lack of talent among its profes
sors, and the political aspirations of the leader
of the van, we should say it was destined to a
slow race. At least we should dislike to send a
son to a M&dical College to learn politics, al
though we are a red mouthed Democrat. But
we ask all our Colleges to rid themselves of
political Professors —above all things deliver us
from in science and literature. We
have been a close observer of men and things
for some tltee, and we do not now have in memo
ry a excellent physician who devoted
much m his time to politics. Asa general
rule politics is baneful to a medical man, and
if he \tdshes to become popular, scientific and
skillful, he should avoid it. We think the es
tablishment of anew College in Georgia an
unease move, one which will contribute to low
#r the standard of medical education, and
have an injurious ‘endeucy upog our country.
These Colleges spring up a different competi-
I tion from the mechanic arts, or any other oc
cupation. Mechanics invite competition from
the goodness of then work, lawyers from their
Ability, and Doctors i.< practice from their skill,
andfcll from the lowness of their fees, hut Med
ical Colleges invite it from tke ease with which
a maidpasses the ordeal of examination upon
this principle, underbidding these “dcatk man
ufacloriesf electioneer secretly for large classes.
Then thesff little Colleges are odious monopo
lies, a Professor (save the name) will get up
and eject a long harangue upon ethics, under
charging and bidding for practice on the gratis
principle; and he deprecates and condemns it,
when the student’s seat is%earely cold before he
is out with a public invitation'to all indigent
people to come and receive the ochr-tU of his
professional advice gratis. These poompeople,
are the first, too, upon whom the you* aspi
rant is permitted to practice and hi did his
reputation upon, yet the greedy
would deprive him of that and lecture mm
upon ethics in the bargain. We might g
on and pile Pelion upon Ossa, in showiricfi
the abuses of the present Medical College sygji j
tem, hut we forbear for the present, with the! I
remark that we hope the next Georgia Legis
lature will not grant any appropriation to the
present new College, as there is no use for it.
There is now in Georgia one physician to eve
ry 000 people, which is a perishing business in
I a healthy country,jui'less all of them would be’
sick. Then the pEicy is had; we have too’
many loafing, men of no talent, in all
the professions. the Colleges and ele
vate the staiyta*d, and none but the able and
competent will go in, and let ample arrange
ments be ykade for the poor and indigent of ca
pacity. We are no aristocrat, we scorn aris
tocracy; we are Southern bred and Southern:
cdip'cated, we want to see the South educate her
own sons and daughters, and she is doing it
and doing well only in some few departments.
We belong to the Medical profession; we want
to see our uoble State take a high stand with’
her Medical men, and we ask her to throw the
safeguards for it about our College system, and’
if the present are to bo ui’onopolized, we beseech ;
our people to prescribe the nacessary restric
tions.
The Medical Society of Georgia, tie’ &£,- has
ordered a committee to urge the licit legisla
ture to relievo its members of Militia and Road
duty, as long as they remain members.’ This
body is a self-constituted concern, without in-’
fluenee or potency in Georgia. A tenth of this
Physicians of the State do not belong to it, and
I judging from some of its acts in trying to bring
disrepute upon one of its members for an act he
is innocent of, while many of the members are’
guilty, wo would presume its influence in Geor-’
gia will remain impotent. Apart from this,’
the move is anti-republican, and unjfcst, to re-”
lieve one hundred and forty or fifty men of nil-”
litia and road duty, when they have twelve or
fourteen hundred brothers in the State, who*
are as able, talented, add as much entitled to*
the exemption as the Medical Society, or any
of its cohorts. The Medical Society of Georgia
is not entitled to any such undue privileges, and*
we protest against any such extraordinary ex
emptions being granted it. The Doctors of the
country ride over its roads, they receive their
fees and the law protects them, and they are 1
as much under obligation to do what little pal
try road and militia duty we have to do, as any
one else.
Let no man suppose us opposed to Southern
education; we are for it, but we have the ele--
menls for having it right, as well as other peo
ple. We want the standard of Medical Science ’
elevated. That the present system in our State
is lessening it, we verily believe, and we think
the Medical Society of Geoigia, under present
control, is doing the profession in our State a
vast deal of harm, and should be superseded by
another and better.
JUSTICE.
I
[From the Savnnnak Courier.)
NEW YOltK MARKET.
New York, June 17. — The cotton market to-day
was dull, with sules of 1000 bales.
MINISTER TO CHINA.
Washington, June 18.—It, is repwfed* (lint Sena
tor Thompson, of New Jersey, hn been tendered
the mission to China. The President sympathise*
with the rebels, and will not permit any interven
tion to sustain the Government.
MEXICO AND SPAIN.
Washington, June 18.—Letters from Cuba state
positively that Santa Anna and Spain have agreed*
to make war upon the United States, and that
England lias guaranteed CnbatoSpain, upon con
dition that the slaves are to be emancipated.
RAILROAD EXPLOSION.
Charleston, June 18.—An engine on the rail
road near the Susquehanna, yesterday exploded.
Eleven persons were killed, and several wounded.
It is supposed that some four or five persons were
thrown into the river.
RUMORED LOSS OF THE MACEDONIA.
New York, June 17.—1 tis rumored that the
frigate Macedonia lias been lost at the Canary
Islands.
NEW YORK MAjRKET.
New York, June 19, P. M.—On Saturday a
large business was done in the cotton market, but
at lower prices. The sales reached 4,750 bales, at
a decline from 1-4 to 3-8 of a cent from the high
est prices of last week’s quotations,
’ Later from Havana'.
Baltimore, June 16.—The steam ship Black-
Warrior, Capt. Shufeldt. has arrived at New
York from Mobile, via Havana. She left the
latter point on the 12th inst., and consequently
has brought four days later intelligence than i
that received by the Isabel.
The Cholera and Small Pox still continue to--
rage in the interior. The report that 900 *
slaves had been landed on the coast of Cuba by
the sebr. Lady Suffolk, has been confirmed by
this arrival.
Highly Important if True.
Under this head the New Orleans Picayune ’
of the 17th, gives the following despatch. The ‘
Washington papers of a day later than the de
spatch says nothing of it:
New York, June 12.—The New York*
Journal of Commerce publishes an important
rumor that information has been forwarded to ‘
our Government, supported by plausible ev
idence, to the following effect:
Santa Anna, hacked by Spain, lias adopted a
daring policy towards the United States. His
army is being rapidly filled by Spanish officers.
Spain is, in her protectorate character to
wards Mexico, preparing a heavy blow against
this country. In this course she is to be sup
ported by Great Britain, returning the protec
tion of that power by adopting in Cuba the
policy so long urged on her by the English
“Cabinet—to introduce the negro apprentice sys
tem in that Island for an almost unlimited pe
riod, to he followed by the free importation of
negroes from Africa without molestation by
Great Britain.
Baltimore, June 20.—Montevideo dates to
May 1, say that Buenos Ayres was closely block
fejled by Urquiza. Great distress prevailed and
a‘speedy surrender was expected. The New
YoflyEreeman’s Journal says that an agent has
left New-Orieans for Vera Cruz to sell Santa
Anna the by George Law
for Kossuth, and to offer to fnhjjsh war like ma
terials for 100,000 troops. ‘