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Dr. Boyd.
V friend of ours remarked to us a few days
that l )r - Boyd was not surpassed in At-
r. u. in keeping a good Hotel. We agree
with our
friend. We sometimes, when too
, v p, walk home, dine at the Trout House,
,1 we have never yet found sorry fare on the
1 i/. \\'e wish Dr. Boyd that success which
j,(. go deservedly merits. V.
Judge Stark mid the Duck Story.
y], ,se who were acquainted with the worthy
: distinguished lawyer and Judge, the Hon.
■ lW _ II. Stark (and few there he, in this sec-
tion of the country, who were not) arc well
..prised of his peculiar talent for telling anec-
0 f which he had an inexhaustible fund.
, L ,;,, IKl ll\ in his practice, he would come in
w ., t with a professional brother, who hav-
; . a i,.pi cause, would attempt to frighten the
:rt and jury with the cry of fraud ! fraud ! !
.,,!!!! In reply to such charges, the Judge
. to tell the following story, as illus-
j.atiw i f iiie absurdity of his adversary’s ar-
, On a certain farm-yard, were to he
•„tiud numerous domestic fowls. On one oc-
a few of noisy “puddle ducks’’ raised
.] diinu around a bunch of weeds, of snake !
:! snake ! !! accompanying the cry with
usual i! i] .ping of wings. A venerable Mns-
, prake. who happened to be near by, dc-
; walked up to the scene of danger,
.,] „iti, a motion of the head peculiar to that
..|,j r ] " iiisK-limt, where! where ! ! where!!!
Ih, .... position press are loud in their vocif-
.r;Lti,.ns of fraud, by virtue of a coalition l>e-
, . <: iv. Brown. John H. Lumpkin, and
lkw. ll I'olib. On the first Monday in Octo-
p r n ,.vi. ti, of Georgia will respond to
. cliaruv. l.v saving at the liallot-box, where !
The Rome Regency.
Ups is a name which for years past, has
n a fricfitful - are-crow to name of the peo-
• of(fiorgia. who were afllictcd with very
ider nei vi s. Well, we would now ask, in
what has the “Rome Regency”
injure the Democratic party in
the interests of the State of Geor-
Wherein has John H. Lump
'll. Spurlock, ever proved disloy-
•r.iocratic party? Echo answers
? It may lie true that certain individu-
. - « :.■ ivv laid hold of the skirts of the so-
i Regency, and been thereby car-
. liiit '.nice, may not he deserving of the
:; i. is . .f the party to which they profess
!«■!' ii The appellation of the “RomeRe-
,v!i v." has been given to certain men, who
.fit harder and stood more firmly to
priii i pies of the Democratic party, than
• v m a in Georgia. Perhaps we have
git much. We will modify our express
ing, they have fought “as hard and
inly” by the Democratic party as
:fi. : We have nothing to ask of the
. ■ . i.. _ m y.” We have never received
■ i in. at their hands, and judging from past
. . ivc need expect nothing. But we
justice be done, though the Heavens
We have no fears that ill the hour of
i any battle is to he fought between
: i' a. .■ racy and its enemies, the (rue “Rome
; . will ever he found in line, doing
1 service in the ranks of the Democratic
all CMlSCk
ever done
prtieulan
gia in gent
tin or Ja:
«I to the
The Coalition.
Ah! V's. the coalition. Something terrible
Las iiiijijiene l. The country is to be ruined ;
tfi.■< "v rnment blown up, and we arc all to
sold to “ttie French.” So says .tome of the
siti' ii press. This terrible cry of danger
i is n. >t very materially disturbed the equa-
r.iiiiity ot the “unshorn, the uncombed, the
- the unwashed, the unterrified and
■ i iri able Democracy of Georgia,” to use
i oiguiige of our enemies. Certain prints
tar. • iimd the alarm, but the hard fisted yeo-
i: i \ of the country—the men who fight our
latth s—work our roads—serve on our juries
•'I pay our taxes, lie down at night and sleep
as s.mid as if no such tocsin had been sound
'd. Joseph E. Brown, the present Governor
' ■<;rgia, and John H. Lumpkin, met a few
f'-vks ago in Dalton, Whitfield County, Geor-
Wliether this meeting was preconcerted
Mental. we know not and we care not.—
fiat tie- fart is, these two distinguished Dem-
in. t at the hospitable mansion of Judge
i r W. Crook. We admit the fact, and
;r:i to the charge of “corruption, bargain
■ i .-ah” These leaders of the Democracy of
■rgia have been for some time alienated in
liiig. on account of a misunderstanding in
. ml to matters personal to them, but met in
i'.ilton, as charged in the hill of indictment;
i. ni a friendly interview ; talked over matters
: ' ! things—came to a friendly understanding^
k.'I agreed that “bygones should he bygones.”
Hurt’s the whole sum and substance of the
\1 nil OM was not present at the meeting, the
itii.ns of certain writers to the contrary,
"aotwitlistanding, nevertheless.” Well, we
' right glad that this meeting took place,
and that these distinguished Democrats made
•fi. nds. We always are fond to see our polit-
; a! iriends, who are alienated the one from
'' r. 1.)' personal differences, come togeth-
have mutual explanations, and become
I 'Rids aaaiii. We therefore assert that we
r : ■ that Joe Brown and John Henry Lump-
are again upon friendly terms. As to all
hiis twaddle about Lumpkin’s being the can.
didate for U. S. .senator ; Howell Cobb to he
h 1 * * * 5 * * mdidate for President, and Toombs, Ste-
I’heii- and Iverson to he ruled off the track,
:t i< all ”fal de raddle and fol de rol,” as Judge
A M. 1). King used to say. Certain interested
parties would be glad to make the impression
that the reconciliation between Gov. Brown
a,| d Judge Lumpkin, involved the sacrifice of
‘•ther distinguished and worthy members of
ti; ' party. We are authorized to say such is
II j t the fact. We call upon those who make
'he charge, to produce the proof. We rejoice
this reconciliation has been effected, and
G irding to our understanding of it, we are
i'f'pared to defend it against the world.
Tut i 'arvass In Virginia—A private letter
■dr. Lcteller addressed tlie citizens of Taze-
••'ll Ye sterday. He is silencing all opposition
^ him w in rever he ■goes, not only satisfying
.he l)em<>cracy, hut gratifying them. There
j' as wide a gap between him and his compe-
11 or . *> far as statesmanship is concerned, as
u would desire to see. No fears of Letch-
f 8 success need be entertaind. ”—[ The
A correspondent of the Atlanta American,
purporting to write from Washington, assails
furiously the Democratic party and Judge
Iverson. In complimenting Gov. Hammond
of South Carolina for his Barnwell speech, he
says “you ought to have seen Gov. Hammond,
when that speech of Iverson’s was being deliv
ered. Amid his expressions of contempt tye.” We
wonder w here this correspondent sat in the
Senate Gallery when Judge Iverson made Ids
great speech ? He saw what was not to he
seen. We have authority for saying that Gov.
Hammond left the Senate Chamber and had
gone home and was not present during the
delivery of Judge Iverson’s speech. We re
gret ourselves, that Mr. Hammond did not
hear from the lips of the speaker the senti
ments of the South in relation to his Barn
well speech. The writer, however, wanted to
make c ipital.—[Columbus Times.
The above being true, the correspondent of
the “American” is a very unguarded writer.
Mr. “American,” you had better get you an
other correspondent, who can tell, when Sen
ator Hammond is in “the Senate Chamber
and when “gone home.”
V.
Minute of points decided liy the Supreme
Court at Atlanta March 1859.
Sherod Sims vs. Macon & Western R. R. & C'o.
Trespass from Pike.
Green, Green, Stewart & Floyd for plffs in
error. Moore & Gibson, Peeples contra.
To make the sayings of a person a part of
the res gestae, time is of the 1st consequence,
anil the words must have been spoken under
the favor created by the accident and in im
mediate connection with it.
If a Railroad uses ordinary care, to prevent
accident, it is not responsible for killing a ne
gro, sitting on the track, if the negro was
guilty of negligence. Judgment affirmed.
A. W. Turner vs. L. H. Thurmond, Trover
from Henry.
Doyal & Floyd for plff in error. Peeples &
Cahaniss. Glenn contra.
Under our registry acts, the party objecting
to a deed, assumes the ones of showing fraud
in the provement of a deed. Judgment af
firmed.
Cloud & Shackleford vs. Julian Hartridge
Admr. Assumpsit from Spaulding.
Green & Martin for plffs in error. Alfred &
Moore contra.
Books of a cotton ware house man better
evidence of the weight of cotton than the
hoi iks of his consignor. If Hartridge as Admr.
acted as executor in his own wrong, he had a
right to show a fair sale and an honest appre
ciation of the money. Judgment affirmed.
Elbridge Barlow Admr. vs..Edmund Stalwart
Assumpset from Henry.
Doyal for plff in error. Nolan & Clark con
tra.
Assumpsit will not lie for the value of prop
erty not converted into money, but trover is
the proper remedy.
Davis T. Richardson et itl vs. Washington
Hartsfield Award from Upson.
Gibson for plff in error. Green contra.
Judgment affirmed.
From the New York Daily Times.
Tlic* Woman who never Eats.
For twelve months past Mrs. Hayes, of the
town of Chester, Warren county, N. Y., has
been made known to the public, through the
medium of the Press, as a very wonderful wo
man. The community was certified that she
hail lived two years without eating. It was
a very great marvel. But one greater could
possibly be imagined, viz: a woman who
could live two years without talking. But in
the absence of the latter phenomenon, all
quid nuncs satisfied themselves with Mrs.
Hayes. She was not only an inexplicable
puzzle, hut an out-and-out miracle. Much of
her time was spent in a trance. She talked
much of God and religion, and set herself up
for a prophetess. Her sustenation she did
not fail to attribute to the direct agency of the
Almighty in attestation of her supernatural
mission. Those about her were awe struck.
Physicians certified to her absolute abstinence
and committees that they had watched her
week in and week out, the result being their
positive certainty that she ate nothing. Thou
sands of people flocked to see her, and went
away with the settled conviction that there
existed neither motive nor possibility of de
ception. The witnesses of her condition were
respectable and trustworthy. Who could dis
believe them ? Who could suppose that the
prophetess would herself deceive ? The idea
was preposterous. What could a woman away
up in Warren county, among the everlasting
Addirondack, gain by cheating the people
about the matter of her bread and butter ?
The thing was out of the question. Did any
sceptic ask how she could live so long without
food he was informed that she did so live and
was not that enough ? At length, howeveri
this impressive dispensation came to an end.
A committee was found of little faith. Mrs.
Hayes had sent many previous committees
from her presence, after long long and patient
watching, filled with astonishment and con-
conviction. Consequently her confidence
waxed strong. She desired never to be with
out a committee to observe her case and testi
fy of her miraculous preservation. The other
day six gentlemen were summoned to her
bedside for that purpose, who were to remain
with her two at a time, day and night, for
twenty-one days, when, as she informed them,
a great and miraculous Jchange would take
place in her condition.
A change, great, but not miraculous, occur
red in less time. Her watchers caught her in
the act of eating.« In fact they saw her rc-
gailing herself on meat and crackers !
It is unnecessary to say what followed. The
explosion of the imposture could not be de
ferred. Certificates, testimonials and facts
all blew up together.
There is a strong likeness to be observed
throughout the whole family of impostures.
Whenever an impossible humbug is proposed
as an excuse of public credulity, any one who
ventures to suggest a doubt is put down by
facts. There are hosts who have seen every
miracle with their own eyes. To question the
phenomenon is to impeach their veracity.
Do you suggest the impossibility, for example
of a table dancing the poker with the chair,
you are put down by a shower of facts. A dozen
respectable individuals tell you they saw it.
The truth is that in all such cases there is
nothing so unreliable as facts. The facts
adduced are not facts at all. Whether those
who assert them believed their own state
ments is a question hardly worth deciding.—
If they do, they are to be pitied. What be
came of all the" facts in the case of Mrs. Hayes ?
Dissipated in an instant by the apparition of
crackers and cold corned beef.
From the Federal Union.
Democratic Meeting In Wilkinson.
Irwinton, April 5, 1859.
A meeting of the Democratic party was
called this day at the Court House, Rev. IV iley
Rogers was called to the Chair, and E. Cum-
ming called to act as Secretary.
On motion of W. D. Newell, Esq., the fol
lowing Committee was appointed to bring
business before the meeting, to wit: W. D.
Newell, R. J. Cochran andG. H. Parker. Af
ter retiring a few minutes they reported the
following named gentlemen as delegates to the
Gubernatorial Convention to he held in Mil-
ledgeville on 3d Wednesday in June next, to
wit: Dr. W. L. Flemister, W. 0. Beall, John
F. Burney, M. M. Bloodworth, B. 0. Bannon,
W. W. Lee, Geo. W. Payne and James Pitt
man, accompanied with the following resolu
tions.
Resolved, That we approve of the measures
and policy which have signalized the admin
istration of Gov. Jos. E. Brown, which we
deem unnecessary to mention, as they have
met with the cordial approbation of almost all
parties throughout the State.
Resolved, That it is the unanimous opinion
of this convention that the delegates be re
quested to cast the vote of this county in the
next Gubernatorial Convention for Gov. Jos.
E. Brown. . _ . ,
On motion of W. 0. Beall, the Federal
Union and Georgia Telegraph be requested to
publish.
On motion the meeting adjourned.
WILEY ROGERS, Chr’n.
E. Cumming, Sec’y.
gy “ I’m down In the mouth, ” as Jonah
said when the whale swallowed him.
STAND by the president.
Why should not every loyal democrat stand
by the President ? What has James Buchan
an done that does not tend to honor his coun
try ? Not one single charge of the numerous
slanders that have been cast upon the politi
cal sea by the efforts of the political demagogues
who have forsaken and turned traitor to the
democratic part}' has been proven true. On
the contrary, after all their wicked malevo
lence has been exhausted our democratic Pres
ident stands erect and unscathed. He is to
day as he was in 185G the acknowledged head
and front of the democratic party, and its
members should stand by him. His policy
will surely result to the advantage of the gov
ernment , and time alone is necessary to vin
dicate its wisdom. Had not traitors to the
the democratic party who were not accom
modated with all the official patronage they
desired, combined to defeat the wise recom
mendations of the President, those recom
mendations would have been followed, and
the whole country would have been imme
diately benefitted, while the democratic par
ty would have stood forth with greater power
and with more unanimity upon all the great
national quesitons than ever before.
But the President of the United States is ev
er surrounded by a cortier of politic aristo
crats as potent tor good or for evil as is the
aristocracy which often enforces obedience
in tho_ most autocratic governments. Each
ambitious senator aud each ambitious mem
ber of the House has his demands, if they are
complied with, the head of the government is
exalted ; if it is impossible to comply with
these demands, the senator or the member
may deem himself a second Warwick, and, at
the sacrifice of both his party’s and his coun
try’s welfare, hurl his vengful blows at the
head of both. James Buchanan dared to do
what his conscience dictated to be right, .and
had he been sustained by the whole democrat
ic party as he should liave been, that party
would now have been proudly triumphant,—
The President’s measures are now beginning
to be properly seen and appreciated ; let us
stand by him a little longer, while the rav
ings of the black republicans combined with
Forney’s traitors hurl at his head their mali
cious lies and slanderous vituperation. This
combined onset will soon fie made with re
doubled effort, whfen it passes over the niche
of the glorious temple of the republic amid
the plaudits of his whole country, will be
filled with the name of James Buchanan.
Democrats stand by the President. The in-
congenial mass which now appears advancing
to the political ascendency are only advancing
to their political oblivion. It will be as im
possible for a Congress composed of such ma
terials to legislate to please each seperate
division of. such an incongruous mass in
1859—’GO as it was in 185G—’7. Remember
this and stand by James Buchanan and the
democratic party. They are one and the
same.
A Surgical Monstroclty.
A Philadelphia correspondent of the New
York Tribune tells the following remarkable
story:
A surgical monstrosity was recently dissect
ed at the Jefferson Medical College, the like
of which is unknown in the annals of human
deformities. A child, seven months old, was
brought to the college Hospital from the Wes
tern part of the State, having appended to its
left cheek a large mass of llesh, somewhat re
sembling a tumor, lliis mass grew more
rapidly than the child itself. At birth it was
no larger than an apple, but when brought
here last month it was nearly a foot long. Its
surface was neither smooth nor regular, but
was divided into several globultr masses,
while pulsation was distinctly perceptible,
regular and uninterrupted, from forty to a
hundred heats per minute. It was traversed
by a large artery, showing that it was largely
supplied with blood. The tumor was connected
to the child’s cheek by a peculiar caul-like
membrane, pierced with holes, and its presence
was a source of constant irritation to the child
though supported by the mother’s hand. How
to remove this huge tumor without destroy-
ing the life of the child was the great surgical
problem. The parents*** arned of the danger,
were yet extremely anxious to liave the fright
ful parasite taken off. Dr. Pancoast, under
whose charge the patient had been placed, de
cided that the use of the knife would result
in a fatal hemorrhage, and determined to di
vide the caul-like membrane by using a French
surgical instrument, the ecraseur, which, by
forcing down the skin, and bruising the ves
sels thoroughly before the chain of the instru
ment cuts through the mass, effectually pre
vents all serious bleeding. The operation was
performed in presence of an immense assem
blage of medical men, students and others.
The child was placed under the influence of
either, when all pulsation in the parasite was
observed to cease. The instrument being ap
plied, the ch.'vin was rapidly worked until the
parts were well compressed and afterwards
very slowly. In fifteen minutes the tumor
came away with the instrument, the chain
having worked through the connecting mem
brane, while scarcely a drop of blood followed
the removal, and hut one small required a li
gature. The surface left on the cheek was
about two inches square, and the tumor
weighed two and a half pounds. The whole
operation was entirely successful, and the child
lives and has fully recovered. But the extra
ordinary part remains to he told. The tumor
thus taken off was found to contain a living
child. Fingers were seen, and a portion of a
rudimentary arm. The intestines were well
developed, and no doubt was entertained of
its being a male child. A body, presumed to
fie'the heart, contained, imperfectly formed,
auricles and ventricles. The mesenteric ar
teries and veins were of large size. The dis
secting knife came repeatedly in contact with
the ossenous matter of a rudimentary skeleton.
Fat was found in large quantities everywhere.
It was in fact a repetition of the Siamese
Twins, only less perfectly developed. These
results’ were received with profound astonish
ment by the crowded audience who witnessed
the operation. The case is said to he unique
in the annals of humarf malinformation.
From the Macon Telegraph.
Democratic Meeting.
Butlrr, Ga., April 5th, 1859.
At a meeting of the Democratic Party held
this day, the following persons were appointed
to represent the county of Taylor in the Gub
ernatorial and Congressional conventions soon
to assemble :
To the Gulxjmatorial Convention—T. J. Ri
ley, Gideon Newsome, Hiram Drane, Elbert
Fagan; Wm. S. Wallace.
To the Congressional Convention—A. J. Col
bert, W. L. Grice, Jas. T. May, Wm. J. Wil
son and Daniel Royal.
The meeting also
Resolved, That the Delegates to Milledge-
ville Convention he instructed to vote in the
Convention for Joseph E. Brown as long as
practicable. JOHN H. WALLACE, Pres.
W. L. Grice, Sec’y.
SI i wart Democracy.
The Democratic party of Stewart county
held a meeting a few days since at Lumpkin,
and passed resolutions endorsing the admin
istration of Gov. Brown, recomending the
Hon. Alferd Iverson for re-election to the
Senate, and the Hon. M. J. Crawford for Con
gress—opposing a protective tariff, a waste of
public lands, and advocating a reduction of
expenditures of the actual necesieties of the
government—that the South desired nothing
but equality in the Union, and will be con
tent with nothing else, that the Democracy
of Stewart would support no man for public
trust who is not a reliable defender of the rights
of ihe South.
Cutbbert was recommended as the place,
and the first Wednesday in July, as the time
for holding the District Congressional Conven-
tion.
The following delegates were appointed, to-
wit: To the Gubernatorial Convention :
E. F. Kirksey, Esq, Col. James M. Clark,
Martin Burke and' Dr. J. C. C'. Blackburn.
To the Congressional Convention : Dr’ I.
W. Stokes, Col. B. K. Hnrrison, Hon. N. R.
Halliday, Thomas Lawson, and John Willi
ford-
What a power there is in innocence, whose
very helplessness is its safeguard, in whose
presence even Passion himself stands abashed,
and stands worshipper at the vesy altar he
came to despoil.
A OEM.
The following from the pen of James G. Per-
cival, is one of the most touching poems in
the English language. It moreover tells the
story of many a breaking heart:
THE DESERTED WIFE.
He comes not—I have watched the moon go down,
And yet he comes not. Once it was not so,
He thinks not how the bitter tears do flow,
The while he holds his riot in the town.
Yet he will come and chide, and I shall weep;
And he will wake my infant from its sleep,
To blend its feeble wailings with my tears.
0! how 1 love a mother’s watch to keep,
Over those sleeping eyes : that smilewhich cheers
My heart, though sunk in sorrow thick and deep.
I had a husband once, who loved me—now
He ever wears a frown upon his brow,
And feeds his passion on a wanton’s lip.
As bees from laurel flowers a poison sip,
But yet I cannot hate. 0 ! there were hours
When I could hang forever on his eye,
And Time, who stole with sileDt witness by,
Strewed, as he hurried on, his path with flowers.
I loved him then—he loved me. too. My heart
Still finds its fondness kindle if he smile :
The memory of our loves will ne’er depart;
And though he often sting me with a dart,
Venomed and barbed, and. waste upon the vile,
Caresses which his babe and mine should share,
Though he should spurn me, I will calmly bear
His madness ; and should sickness come and lay
Its paralyzing hand upon him, then
I would with kindness all my wrongs repay,
Until the penitent should weep and say
How injured and how faithful I had been.
From the Georgia Citizen.
’• For the Public.
Letter from Dr. Green, of the State Lunatic
Asylum, to Rev. J. Blakely Smith, Chair
man of a Committee appointed to take up
Contributions for the Asylum.
State Lunatic Asylum, near Mil-1
ledgeville, March 29th. 1859. j
My Dear Sir and Brother :—Yours cover
ing check for SI 01 has come safely to hand, as
also the box of toys, &c. We would tender
our most sincere "thanks to the benevolent
citizens of Macon, for their kind contributions
in aid of our efforts for the amelioration of
the unhappy condition of our charge. And
our especial thanks are due, and are hereby
gratefully tendered, to yourself and the other
gentlemen of the Committee, for your active
interest and efforts in this good work; and with
earnest prayer that the blessings of a kind
Providence may attend you all, I remain,
Yours very truly,
THOS. F. GREEN, Sup’t &c.
Arrest of u Convicted Murderer.
We understand that James Revel, who was
convicted of murder and sentenced to be hung
at the March Term of Crawford Court, but
who escaped from Clinton jail last year, was
recently arrested in Tennessee, and was car
ried to Milledgeville yesterday, in charge of
Mr. Hancock, the sheriff of Crawford county.
It appears that the prisoner’s brother, Hen
ry Revel, was taken up in Tennessee, on sus
picion of being a free negro, and not being able
to give a satisfactory account of himself, was
searched, and letters and papers were found in
his posses, ion which gave the information as
to the character and whereabouts of his broth
er James, and a party immediately started in
pursuit and succeeded in making the capture.
Revel will remain in jail until the next term
of Crawford Court, when he will be re-sen
tenced.—[Macon Telegraph,
ft
Notice to the Associations.
The Central, the South-western, the Augus
ta & Savannah, the Georgia and the Western
& Atlantic Rail Roads, will pass delegates to
the Young Men’s Christian Convention, to
he convened in Macon April 29th, free, on their
return home, provided each Delegate presents a
Card, signed by a presiding officer of the Con
vention, stating that the bearer had been in
attendance at the Convention as a Delegate,
and passed over that Road and had paid full
Jure going. S. BOYKIN,
Chairman of Committee.
The Young Men’s Christian Association of
Macon, invites her Sister Associations to send
a large number of Delegates. Ample provis
ion will be made for all.
State papers copy. [Geo. Telegraph.
Macon & Brunswick Ra.111 oad Commenced.
In the early part of last week, Mr. McNeill,
with his corps of Engineers and assistants com
menced the location of the Macon & Brunswick
Rail Road. The location is to be completed to
the’point at which the Ocmulgee is to be cros
sed, and on yesterdry the Camp was moved
to the East Bank, and it is expected that the
work will l>e vigorously prosecuted until forty
miles is finished, when the contracts for the
grading, superstructure, &c., will he let out.,
Judge Cochran, the President, left this city
on Saturday last, and we are happy to state in
improved health—[Macon Telegraph.
China.—A great misfortune, and a very se
vere loss, has just occurred to the Catholic
Mission of Tonquin. The Dean of the Vicars
Apostolic of the Annamite Empire, Monsgr.
Retord Bishop of Acantha, has been taken
away from his missionaries and his Christian
flock. This Holy Prelate died of dysentery
in the middle of a frightful desert, where he
had fled with a view of escaping from the per
secution of the Mandarins. The good bishop
was attended in his last moments by the Rev.
Father Charbonier, his pro-vicar. Monsgr.
Retord was a member of the Foreign missions.
He had been evangelizing Western Tonquin
for twenty-eight years, and was raised to the
prelacy in 1838. He was in fact the head of
the Annamite Mission. We may have further
particulars to give of the fife of this Bishop.—
Univers.
The Columbus Sun.
The proprietor of this paper has disposed of
one-third interest to R. J. Yarington, of Bar
bour county, Alabama, who, as soon as he can
arrange his affairs, will he at his post to con
tribute to the editorial department.
Sebastopol.—Accounts from Sebastopol state
that only a few of the old inhabitants have re
turned ; the city appears almost deserted, and
commerce at an end. Formerly, Sebastopol
numbered 45,000 inhabitants ; now it contains
scarcely a sixth of that number. The wood
huts built by the French, serve as residences for
the peasants. The funeral monuments of the
French and English at Sebastopol and Balak-
lava are uninjured.
A Fact Worthy of Note.—By taking up
shrubs or plants at this time, with some of
their own soil about the roots, and placing
them upright in a cellar until October, then
transplanting them into pots, and watering
them -with a solution of half an ounce of salt
ammonia; to a pint of rain water, you will
have summer flowers in winter.
A Useful Hint.—The difference between
rising every morning at 6 and 8 in the course
of 20 years amounts to 29,390 hours, or 3
years, 121 days and 16 hours which are equal
to 8 hours a day for exactly 10 years: so that
rising at 6 will be the same as if 10 years of
fife were added, wherein, we may command
8 hours every day for the cultivation of our
minds and the dispatch of business.
fif* In Cincinnati a few days since a man
fell head-foremost. through a hatchway in a
warehouse, a distance of 15 feet, striking a
barrel of lard and forcing his cranium through
the head of the barrel into the grease, bury
ing him to the depth of two feet, and leaving
his legs sticking up in the air. Before he
could suffocate he was drawn out, looking like
a mammoth candle with a double wick.
Neither believe rashly, nor reject obstin
ately.
Neither look out for troubles, nor be en
tirely unprovided for them.
Never accuse others to excuse thyself.
Disappointed Love.—Try plain whiskey.—
If that fails, the style is to write letters “to
the press” and take poison. Don’t try to
blow your out brains—that can’t be did.
HP An exchange says that the girls in
some parts of Pennsylvania, are so hard up for
husbands that they sometimes take up with
Printers, Lawyers and members to Congress.
FRIDAY, APRIL 15,1859.
CtssYllIt Standard.
The last “Standard” announces the fact that
Col. E. W. Keith has become connected with
the Editorial department of that paper.
Attempts to Frighten.
Some of the Know Nothing wire-pullers and
disaffected Democrats,'have in a very myste
rious, knowing way, been endeavoring to cre
ate the impression that a formidable opposi
tion will be made to Gov. Brown, in the ap
proaching Gubernatorial Convention. We are
very much disposed to laugh at this idea. So
far as meetings have 1 eeu held by the Demo
cratic party, in the several counties of this
State, there appears to be but one voice—all
for Joe Brown. How in the name of common
sense, any man, be he Know Nothing or dis
affected Democrat, can honestly entertain or ex
press an opinion, that Joseph E. Brown will
not be the nominee of the Democratic party in
the next Gubernatorial Convention, we are at
a loss to determine. One will tell you that a
certain County will send anti-Brown delegates.
The next mail brings you intelligence that
the Democracy of that County have spoken,
and Brown delegates have been appointed.—
What the Democracy of the several counties
in Georgia will do, which have not already
spoken, we do not pretend to say, but we ven
ture the assertion that not more than jJi’c coun
ties (if even that number) will send anti-Brown
delegates to the State Convention. So the
friends of Gov. Brown need not be scared,
either as to the result of the nomination or of
the election.
Tlie Medical Party at the AVashington
Hall.
We might write a column, in detailing the
actings and doings at the Washington Hall, on
Wednesday night last. Who is the proprietor
of the Washington Hall ? John J. Thrasher,
better known as “Cousin John.” Well, on
the time above mentioned, “all the world and
the rest of mankind” 'assembled at the above
named celebrated Hotel, in commemoration of
the annual meeting of the Medical Society of
the State of Georgia. A splendid entertain
ment was gotten up by the Medical fraternity
of Atlanta. The Washington Hall was the
scene of operations, and “Cousin John” was
the caterer for the occasion. We will not give
our pen the indulgence to write of this festival
as it deserves ; for our renders would not be
lieve half we might say in reference to it.—
The crowd was numberless—the dance was most
magnificent—the music by the Fulton Band
was first rate—the supper exceeded any thing
of the kind we have ever seen in Atlanta—-tlie
company of ladies especially, was unsurpassed
in point of beauty and loveliness, and every
thing was in superexcellcnl style. We did not
think such an exhibition could be gotten up
in the city of Atlanta. Tlie Doctors were dis
tressingly numerous, hut as they footed the
hill, we have no right to complain. Mr. P. J.
Immel prepared the confectionaries, cake, &c.,
and that is enough of itself to establish the
fact that everything was right. - The festival
is not yet concluded, and we shall speak of it
hereafter.
Medical Convention.
ThuRSDAY Morning, 10 o’clock. City Hall.
Met according to adjournment. Minutes
were read and confirmed. The rules were sus
pended to allow the presentation of the fol
lowing names which were addedt o the list of
new members:
H. S. Davenport, Gordon.
P. M. Tidwell, Campbell.
F. M. Brantley Meriwether.
Hunt, Gordon.
L. H. Gordon, Munroe,
On motion, the following committee was
appointed to ask of Dr. Logan for publication,
a copy of his valuable address. Com. Dr. Bur
ney, Coe, and Dean.
A motion was made to raise a committee of
5 to investigate and report upon Dr. Powell’s
pocket formulary. After some discussion pro
and con, the motion was withdrawn.
Dr. J. P. Logan, Battey, Roach, Joseph
Jones, Boyd, Taylor, Burney, were appointed
to nominate delegates to the Ame rican Medi
cal Association.
On motion it was determined, that this so
ciety shall be known in the future as the
“Medical association of the State of Georgia.”
Dr. Harris of Chatham sent an apology for
not reading an essay according to previous ap
pointment. Dr. Hams will be expected to
present his report at the next session. Dr.
Ford sent an apology for absence—the sub
ject of his essay and that said es«iy was com
pleted. Ordered, that said essay he accepted
by ihe association and printed with the essays
that shall be read.
On motion a com. of 5 was appointed to re
vise the by-laws of the Association. Com.—
Dr. Meire, Oliver, Banks, Battey, H. F. Camp
bell.
The following names were reported and ac
cepted as Delegates to the American Medical
Association :
Drs. West and Sullivan of Savannah.
“ Doughty and Robt. Campbell, Augusta.
“ Nottingham and Broome, of Macon.
“ Means and Alexander of Atlanta.
‘ ‘ Stanford and Flewellen of Columbus.
“ MeClesky andCarleton of Athens.
“ Roach, of Pulaski.
“ Stephens of Albany.
“ Hillyer and Battey of Rome.
“ Daniels of Meriwether.
“ Burney of Forsyth.
“ McAfee of Dalton.
“ Ridley of Troupe.
“ Banks of Pike.
“ Brown of Cumming.
“ Miere of Madison,
A resolution was passed authorizing the
above delegates to fill vacancies.
Dr. Campbell read an interesting essay writ
ten by Dr. Doughty, on the effect of climate
with an effort to show what climate is best
adapted to the wants of the tuberculous inva
lid. or ’consumptive. Dr. Doughty does not
think the West Indies, a good place for the
consumptive. The atmosphere is generally
too moist and dense.
Florida has a very agreeable climate and
presents some attractions to the consumptive
but is too moist and has other objections.
Dr. H. Campbell read a synopsis of a report
upon Quinine, from Robert Campbell, of Au
gusta.
1, Quinine does not act primarily upon the
nervous system.
Adjourned to 2J o’clock. Y.
Bailing Out.—The Mississippi river having
encroached on the row of houses in front of
the wharf-boat, and the water being some
eighteen inches deep on the floor "of a room in
the rear of a building occupied by one of our
German friends, on Sunday last he employed
four men to bail it out with backets. After
four hours diligent and hard work, he be
thought him to measure the water and see
how much they had reduced it—when lo! it
was just half an inch higher than when they
began. He then abandoned the job, saying
was no use to work against the Mississippi
ver.—[Vicksburg- Whig.
ty widow editress of the Ashland ‘Kentuck
ian,’ in reply to a correspondent who asks her
if she wears hoops, exclaims :
“Hoops, indeed ! why, ice don’t wear anything
else !' ’
The italics are her own. We suppose she
tells the naked truth.'?
In these parts, a woman who does not wear
anything else hut hoops, would he a consider
able show. We would give as much to see
such an one, especially if the hoops were held
up by tapes, as we would to see Van Am
bush’s Menagarie. A woman with nothing
else hut hoops on, would certainly he a very
strange looking animal, and in the possession
ofBarnum, might make a fortune in a very
short time, by exhibiting herself as oue of the
wonders of the ninteenth century. Neverthe
less, there is something about a calico dress
that always strikes our fancy, hoops or no hoops.
For tho Intelligencer.
Tbc Language of Flowers.
On this topic so much has been said, written
and sung, that had not the senior Editor of
the “Intelligencer,” in his acknowledgment
of “Miss Kate’s beautiful boquet, placed us
in a position from which we could not safely
retreat, without exposing ourselves to his
cross-fire, we should certainly have declined
the conflict.
The flowers which compose this splendid
boquet. are denominated in the books “the joy
of the shrubs which bear them,” the stars of
the earth,” and the “alphabet of the angels.”
Flowers speak the language of love; they
cluster ’round all the avenues to the heart;
they take strong hold of the affections, and
utter forth from nature’s flowery beds, the
boundless benevolence of Deity. Our earliest
thoughts wander in flowery meads and hang
upon the lilies of the valley. And Thompson
gives us a single glimpse of a fair and
bonnie spot where fairies might hold their
revels.—.
Seek the banks where flowering elders crowd.
Where scattered wide tlie lily of the vale—
Its balmy essence breathes where cowslips hang—
The dewy head, where purple violets lurk—
With all the lovely children of the shade.”
And in tlie earliest days of May, when sun
ny flowers expand themselves and scatter their
perfumes in the air ; see how the very infants
seize with eagerness on every straggling
flower.
They bound about and ramble amidst
flowery fields like young fawns ; they gather
all they come near; they sit among them,
sort them, sing over them and caress them till
they perish in their grasp.
Flowers constitute earth’s poetry ; they are
to us the signs, the symbols, the types and
memorials of our joys, our sorrows, our hopes,
aud our triumphs; and I trow, the “Senior.”
would for a brief space, go and cull these
golden fruits of truth—go and gather these
brilliant flowers—and perhaps—too, in soft
and silent whispers would he saying: we will
rove hand in hand in some earthly Eden, some
flowery Paradise even there, we will let no
flower of spring pass us there we will crown
the lovely Maiden with garlands of roses, ere
they shall he withered and gone. Nay more,
we will roll back the great tide of time and
with “Tasso,” roam again through Syrian
lands, where soft perfumes diffuse from every
flower.
But enough, we were just speaking of
“Kate,” anil her charming boquet, its flow
ers and what were they? Let’s see—the
rose, the tulip, the lily of the vale, the vio
let. the wild honeysuckle, the daisy and the
dandelion : and as these—put up—arranged
by soft and delicate fingers, met the enrap
tured gaze of his “Seniorship,” he could only
exclaim in earth’s inspired poetry.—
Sweet roses and carnations gay,
Have but a summer’s reign ;
I mingle with the buds of May,
And join December’s train.
A simple unassuming flower,
’Mid showers and storms I bloom ;
I'l! decorate thy lady's bower,
Aud blossom on thy tomb.
COL. GAULDING’S CLASSIC FRIEND.
Atlanta, April 14 1859.
Minute of Points Decided by the Su
preme Court at Atlanta—March Ttrm
1859.
Seymoure Puryear, Claimant, vs. Tlios. C.
Nisbet, Claim from Henry.
The acts of 1834, and 1854, requiring the
claim or demand of Mechanics, &c., to be re
corded within three months, in order to con
stitute a lien, or repeal, pro tanto, the acts of
1841 and 1852, relating to enforcing such
liens, and one purchasing the property, be
fore the claim is recorded, if the same is not
recorded within the three months, will be
probated against said claim or lien.—Judg
ment reversed.
Doyal, for plaintiff in error, Alford, con
tra.
James L. Johnson, vs. Martha C. Martin,
Assumpsit from Spaulding.
Alford & Beck, for plaintiff in error. Dan.
iel Dismuske, & Phelps, & Cabaniss, contra.
Cloud. & Shackelford, vs. Charles L. Dupree.
Trustee & Claimant, Claim from Spaulding.
The declaration or sayings of the defendant,
or fi. fa. who is the husband of the cestue que,
tust, and while in possession of the property,
made before Judgment or commencment of
the suit, may be given in evidence for claim
ant.
2 Bona fide creditors under the act of 1847,
requiring marriage settlements, to be recor
ded within three mouths, are (Creditors who
have giveD credit on the faith of the property
contained in the settlement. Judgment af
firmed.
Daniel, Dismuske, & Alford, foi plaintiff in
error. Doyal, Phelps, & Cahaniss, contra.
From the Empire State.
Democratic Meeting in Henry County.
In pursuance of a call published in the “Em
pire State,” a portion of the Democratic party
and friends of Joseph E. Brown, of Henry
County, met at the Court House, on the first
Tuesday in April, to nominate delegates to the
next Gubernatorial Convention, to be held in
Milledgeville on the 3rd Wednesday in June
next. On motion, Jno. A. Smith was called
to the Chair, and E. S. Tomlinson requested
to act as Secretary.
On motion, the following gentlemen, James
M. Hambrick, S. H. McMillen, W. H. Green,
A. A. Lemon and Reuben Kelley, were ap
pointed by the Chair to select names of suita
ble gentle .ien to represent the County of Hen
ry in said Convention. The committee pre
sented the following names, viz: Hendley
Warner, T. H. McMillen and Sydney Smith,
as delegates ; which report was received and
adopted.
The following resolutions were then offered
and adopted;
Resolved, That- each delegate appointed
shall have the power to fill his own vacancy,
in case he cannot attend the Convention.
Resolved, That the integrity of his Excel
lency, Gov. Brown, bis upright and just ad
ministration of the State government, his prac
tical and economical management of the State
Road, his manly and bold protection of the
people’s integrity, not only merit his contin
uance in office, but command the respect and
admiration, and should meet the unqualified
approbation of every true Georgian.
Resolved, That the delegates appointed by
this meeting, are instructed to cast their votes
for Joseph E. Brown, and to stand by him to
the last in the Convention, and to use all hon
orable means to secure his nomination.
Resolved, That we will abide the decision
of the Convention and support its nominee.
Onmotion, the “Empire State” was request
ed to publish the proceedings of this meeting.
The meeting then adjourned.
JOHN A. SMITH, Ch’n.
E. S. Tomlinson, Sec’ry.
Guy Hall, 3 o’clock.
Met according to adjournment—Dr. Logan
in the Chair. Proceeded to ballot for Presi
dent. On counting out the ballots, Dr. Col
ley of Walton was declared elected. Dr. Rid
ley of Troupe was elected 1st Vice President,
and Dr. Coe of Fulton was elected 2nd Vice
President. After a fruitless ballot for Secre
tary and Treasurer, the rules were suspen
ded, and Dr. B. O. Jones of Fulton was re
ceived into the Society. On the 2nd ballot Dr.
Thomas of Fulton was elected Secretary and
Treasurer. Rules were suspended, and Dr.
Paine, of Cobb was admitted to membership.
Dr. Logan made, on retiring from the Chair,
the following excellent address :
Gentlemen of the Medical Society of the
State of Georgia :
In retiring from the honorable position as
signed me, by Ihe partiality of your body, at
its annual session, held in Madison, in April,
1858, I would do great injustice to myself,
and fail to be properly responsible to the ob
ligations imposed, did I not take the brief op
portunity to express the high sense which I
entertain of the honor conferred upon me,
and the humble but earnest zeal, with which
I have sought’ to sustain the trust confided to
me.
At the close therefore of my annual service,
and in accordance with the usage of such as
sociations, I trust I may he indulged in a few
reflections which I regard as not inappropriate
to the present occasion. I congratulate you,
gentlemen, upon the^ull attendance which
marks our present session.
The pi ofession from the various aud wide
extended portions of this great commonwealth
is more largely represented upon this floor
than it lias been upon any similar occasion for
years past, and I would fain hope, from the
unusual interest which you have manifested
by your attendance upon this occasion, that
it is the dawn of a brighter era in the history
of the Medical Society of Georgia. -
Almost from the seaboard to the mountains,
from the hills and the vallies, and from the
borders of surrounding Stales—from the North
and the South, the East and the West,
you have come, gentlemen, to the Railroad
City of the South, where, in a few years, a large
anil busy population, actively engaged in per
forming their partin the great drama of civili
zation, has taken the place of the wilderness
and the savage.
Permit me to hope, gentlemen, that your
organization,—the representative of a science
and an art, fraught with so many of the
blessings of that civilization-may receive a
new impulse from the striking illustration
which is here furnished of the rapid progress
of an age which will constitute an era in the
history of the human race.
The place and the occasion are appropriate,
from which to derive a new impetus which
shall inspire us with new zeal and a more ac
tive and determined purpose to keep pice
with the rapid progress, which is so signally
characteristic ot this age in almost every de
partment of science and art.
We have come up this day from the extreme
Ixirders of this great and sovereign State to
fraternize with each other in a fresh act of
homage to our venerated calling, and to com
mune with and strengthen each other by new
vows of devotion to the claims and an advance
ment of a profession, which has for its end—
the noblest earthly object—the relief of suf
fering humanity.
We have come up to show and acknowledge
our allegiance to the honored organization,
whose wisdom and authority we recognize as
the supreme law to every true medical man
within the broad limits of the noble common
wealth to which we, this day, declare our de
votion, and recognizing no “higher law” in a
political point of view (except so far as power
may have been derived from direct delegation)
than that found in the government of our
sovereign State, so we know no absolute con
trolling power, in a medical point of view,
beyond the limits of their organization. How
ever, we shall ever feel inclined to respect the
moral prestige and influence of all lfigh pro
fessional bodies.
Thg annual meetings, then, of your society,
gentlemen, are occasions of no ordinary or
trivial character; an investigation into our
scientific and ethical position, pressing with
full force upon us, with none the less force
certainly, because we have united for the gen
eral interests and advancement of medical
science, with tlie professions of a vast conti
nent what is called the American Medical As
sociation—an organization confined within
its legitimate sphere, of vast and growing
importance ; perverted, from what should be
its true purposes and objects on entering upon
a crusade for the correction of abuses, wheth
er real or imagined, in the ramifications of
medical affairs within the jurisdiction of State
organization, destined to a speedy dissolution.
But, gentlemen, it is the precise epoch at
which we have arrived in the world’s history
aud in our own history, which imports a pecu
liar interest and importance to medical inves
tigations. The accumulated knowledge of
the past constitutes the lofty elevation from
which a wider panorama opens to succeeding
generations. We hesitate not to affirm, that
this is not the less true in reference to the
science of medicine, than in regard to any
other branch of human knowledge.
Notwithstanding the efforts of those who
adopt a profession or follow in the wake of
some one or another of the protean forms of
modern empiricism and medical folly com
bined with the slanders and detractions of
some in the profession who keep up the stere
otyped cry of the defects of American medical
education and the inferiority of American
Medical men—their own professional charac
ter the result of this system—notwithstanding
I say, the existence of those who either do
not know or forget the direction of the march
and progress of civilization, and are ever look
ing backwards to tho decaying institutions
of Europe, for models worthy of imitation and
praise, and who can see no good in the pres
ent or hope'm the future, it is yet true, that
medical science is progressive and to no small
extent is this true, as the result of the labors
and contributions of your own countrymen—
without multiplying examples (which it would
not be difficult to do, if the time and the occa
sion permitted it) it is only necessary to
refer to the recent brilliant achievements of
Sims and Bozeman, (not only Americans but
from your own South and both from your ad
joining State, Alabama) developed in the case
of the former into that noble institution the
Woman’s Hospital, New York and invtke case
of the latter, into a triumphant tour through
Europe compelling au acknowledgement at
last, that European may learn something from
American medical men. ‘Yes, gentlemen, from
your very homes as it were, from your very
midst have arisen men who will be hailed as
benefactors by every intelligent female, until
the latest generation,* to whom the sad calami
ty shall befall, for the relief of which they
have accomplished so much.
I do net consider it inappropriate to the
present occasion, and I cannot forbear to de
clare, gentlemen, that it is only lately that
the meed of praise and reluctant adoption has
been awarded an American idea in the hospi
tals of Paris. We are informed that S. Shuck-
ley of New York, late assistant Surgeon in the
United States Army, and author of a valua
ble publication on the birds and animals of
Oregon Territory, has carried to Paris and pre
sented to M. Nelaton the distinguished Prof,
of Chemical Surge ry at the Hospital of the
Faculty, an apparatus for fractures now in
common use in the hospitals of the large Ameri
can cities, the successful (and to him aston
ishing) results of which in the New York and
Philadelphia Hospitals he utterly refused to
acknowledge. He however placed a fractured
leg at S. Shuckley’s disposition, who applied
the American apparatus, and the result was
so remarkable as to perfectly convert M. Ne
laton'to the American method. In the mean
time Dr. Suckley obtained from Dr. Guilder
Buck an authenticated copy of the results of
the treatment of fractures in the City Hospi
tal, New York, with this apparatus during a
series of years, and presented the report to
Nelaton, and in view of the extraordinary re
sults'them obtained, the eminent Surgeon of
the Faculty Hospital, whose influence is said
to be more powerful than that of any other
man in the Faculty of Paris—was obliged to
yield precedence to the ‘American system,” sad
since this time has used none other in his hos
pital. And thus, gentlemen, examples might
wv*w uvvvaxuJ W OUOWUU
the position, that, it is far more true now
than it was at a former period, when Caldwell
of Kentucky, and Paine ofNew York, came to
the defence of the American medical profes
sion, and established that American medicine
nothing to fear from a just comparison
with that of the old world.
While I would urge upon yon by every con
sideration amnected with the belief of suffer
ing humanity, connected with the assumption
of the office of physician, the great importance
of using every means in your power to advance
our science, and especially your ownindividu-
al skill in the treatment of disease, I shall
never unite with those in the profession who
vilify and abuse American medical men and
the ‘‘American system of medical education,”
so long, as I have the most reliable authority
for stating and so long as I believe that in
practical knowledge and skill in the treatment
of the diseases belonging to their country,
the regular physicians of the United States
are superior to any medical men upon the
globe. So long as the large and valuable con
tributions to medical science continues in tlie
annual volume of the transactions of the
American medical associations and the ana 1 ler
yet creditable additions made through tlie
transactions of the various state medical so
cieties, and the constant and almost innumer
able contributions to the medical journals of
the country from thousands of colaborators in
the practical walks of medicine, scattered
throughout this vast union, convince me that
at this day our science is making more rapid
advances in America than in any part of the
earth. No, Gentlemen, yours is not a degra
ding calling, as our Psendo “reformers” would
make you believe, and the assaults of trait
or (to their obligations to respect and hon
or their profession) within your ranks, or
of renegades from regular medicine or of the
horde of quacks, are only the buzzings of
insects around the ascending bird of heaven.
Holding these views, and in my judgment
these being a very unnecessary excitement
upon the subject of medical education, and
believing that it is a subject that will take
care of itself, and like other departments of
active life under our free and libeial institu
tions, and under the stimular of competition,
will always furnish an amount of skill equal
to the demand.
Contending, as I do,that in connection with
the Medical College, the societies of each
state are the rightful guardians of their own
local medical affairs, and are the only pro^Ses
sional bodies that have any jurisdiction wl. t-
ever over this subject, which is agitating the
medical mind to a considerable extent at this
particular period, and which has continually
disturbed the harmony of the medical associ
ation from its very commencement, I have
thought it not improper to make an allusion
to it.
Allow me, gentlemen, to admit that these are
unworthy and unqualified men in our ranks,
not to a greater extent however than in any
other calling of your conntry, the entrance of
whom into the profession will not in my judg
ment ever be prevented, but if by any method,
certainly none holds out the remotest prospect
of success, but the (wood’s report) separation of
the teaching and licensing power. Certain it is
that the harmony and welfare of the profes
sion requires a settlement of this truely
“versed question,” and holding tlie views
which I do, I have considered myself at liber
ty to take a passing glance at the subject.
But, gentlemen, I have already stated that
lam not among the croakers either in reference
to the science or the art. I have already inti
mated that in my judgment medicine was
keeping pace with the rapid progress of every
other department of science or art, life; is being
prolonged; the duration of disease is being
shortened; and incurable diseases have regular
ly and steadily diminished—the resources of
our art have continually increased; its sphere
has continually widened and with all its cl gs
and embarrassments, it assumes higher ground
to day than at any former period of the world’s
hisory; and, gentlemen, this is just what ought
to he expected from the spirit of the age;
truth has nothing to fear but coruts free
investigation, and is established by free inqui
ry. Improvement is only made by encoura
ging freedom of thought—making innovations
upon the past, repudiatin'! obsofete and un
reasonable dogmas, however venerable for
years, and yielding to the claims of truth and
the light of experience.
But, then, gentlemen, if the healing aet occu
pies the high position to which I would assign
it, the office of physician is one of serious and
responsible character; it is one of lofty and
imposing claims and influences, and when pro
perly appreciated and its duties faithfully dis
charged, is honorable in itself and a blessing
to the world. But its very importance and
capacity for good makes it also an instrument
for evil, if not properly estimated or if un
faithfully administered. It is hoped that
each one of us will be responsive to the claims
of our high vocation and by a faithful dis
charge of duty, diffuse rich blessings upon our
fellowmen and merit their respect and confi
dence of the world, and ever recollect that in
our most successful effoitswe are merely in
struments in the hands of divinity, and it is
“God who healeth our diseases and redeemeth
our lives from destruction! To enforce res
pect from the world, however, gentlemen, we
must ever respect ourselves and cherish that
spirit of harmony and peace which should
ever belong to gentlemen and members of au
ancient, noble and philanthropic profession.—
Let us ever remember that those who malign
each other, must ever expect the world to de
preciate them, and that those who voluntarily
degrade themselves, deserve nothing less than
degradation. Let this happy “reunion” pro
voke us all to love and good works to each
other, that the world may cease to taunt us
with the slander that selfishness and envy are
the liesetting sins of the medical professson.
Let our lives be guided by lofty principles and
be directed to salutary ends, that whether ap
preciated or not, we may aid, in dispelling the
darkness and gloom, that disease and death
ever hangs over our earth, and that we may
aid in diffusing a grateful warmth and light,
which will at once invigorate and refresh.
And now, gentlemen, as the organ of the
profession of this city, allow me to express the
hope that this meeting may prove a gala day
to the brotherhood who have assenuiled in our
midst—a day of relief and of joy and of good
cheer, to those whose life is one of self-sacri
fice, labor and toil. Allow me in their name to
extend to your entire body specially and indi
vidually a most cordial welcome to our city,
and the hospitality with which lam author
ized to say they desire to greet you, and Which
they earnestly hope you will accept and en
joy.
Gentlemen, it is no ordinary pleasure which
I this day experience, to see many of the
medical men of Georgia assembled in council.
I am most happy to be with you—and now in
retiring from this chair, allow me again to
thank you for the honor conferred upon me,
and to express the earnest hope that all your
deliberations may tend to the good of our
whole profession, and that the results may re
dound to the honor and advancement of med
ical science, and to the prosperity of our call
ing.
And, finally, to my excellent and honored
successor, I cheerfully resign, in accordance
with ancient and approved usage, the chair
with which you hi ve honored me, trusting,
that when in the order of providence we may
next meet, he may exhibit the standard ol our
profession floating higher and broader, before
the gaze of the world.
After the address Dr. Colley took the chair,
and after the appointmentof Delegates to the
“American Medical Convention,” the soci
ety adjourned to 10 o’clock on Thursday.
V.
Georgia Mllltaiy Institute.
We learn from reliable authority that the
first class in this Institute, numbering fourteen
students, were Court-martialed on the 6th
inst,, for disobedience of orders, and all ot
them expelled. Eight of them, however, were
subsequently re-instated, but they refused to
return, believing that they had no more right
to do so than the rest, since all had been ex
pelled for the some offence. We learn from
the same source that the students are highly
incensed against one of the members of the
Faculty.
From the lights before us we are disposed to
side with the boys, and are inclined to believe
that the Faculty have been inefficient and in
judicious in their management.—[State Press.