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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. I [!■■——■ I 11 21) f Corner Slone. WRGIA~ THURSDAY, JUNE 20*. 1853. ■ 1 Mr. T. J. Stephens is our duty authorized Agent to receive subscriptions for this office. or i.c. Browder, of Barbour eounAa Ain., is our authorized Agent to receive subscriptions for 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. ‘