The New York Herald Newspaper, October 22, 1851, Page 1

WHOLE NO. 6936. “i 8]. MORNING EDITION----WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1851. THE NEW YORK HERALD. PRICE TWO CENTs. Ss UCTION NO Fg 70m Thoreday,. Oto HAIR TIGHT STOVES, chines, 74 in front of the Btoves. two Sm ‘Bortment of Parlor. W. A. CARTER, A 7" oN NO THOMAS BELL, Avi A*grgR wopeR aroun Batts Aig notion Rooms, 1v North Wi itak roses, vom. y at., near Greenwich. from balance stock of a guperior fortes SHIRLEY, AUCTIONEER -——DRUGGISTS Dealers and Crosker; rs Glassware.—Per- ditto TumSlers, Win ‘Gnd 200 lots Crockery and Glass, from Cc. KEMP, AUCTIONEER. HANDSOME FURNI- ‘arpets, Pianofortes, Oi! Paintings, &c.— Wednesday), at 10 o'clock, at the the Sun offise, corner of 29; rosewood parlor Fur- red suite, co parlor Purnitu ite; rosewood library Bo marble top etagere extension Dinivg Table; inted bedroom Furniture, centre and pier y Provch Wodst es on the morning of 1 JAGOB BOGART, AUCTIONERR, STORE NO. 15 troet.—Thursday, Oot. 2 and barroom Fixtures. A’ reet, the Furni*ure. consisting of mahogs Boarding Sou: % OMe No. 8 Hobok. Sofas, Chairs, T ‘Tables, iron and bles, Bureaus Was stands, common Chair: alway; The owner is going to Califor IL PAINTINGS, AT AU a rich silt femmes, oon: enery. marine, figure, and winter scenes, fifty of which are from ths Catalogues ready, and the \e. WILLARD, Auctionser. all handsoms parior subjec pencil of ‘oater. Paintings exhibited on Tuead XECTITOR'S SALE.—HENRY Nl. LEEDS & CO. WILL fell at auction, on Thursday Vet. Sd, at 104g o'cloe s, at No. 211 West rect, between Eight! hold stem to! covered im marocn plush; Sofas in lair cloth tergeres. rosewood Quartettes, pall Ta- Hat Racks, Book Cases, mantel Clocks and Ornamey forte and Stool. Bedro-m—French Bodsteads, dresiiag ¢ ‘A: swith marble tops Lagrain Carpets, P ‘and other bedroom furniture, HENRY il. LEEDS, ASSOCIATION, f te obtained The meetings are public, and befadmitted The entrance fea will be increased after a limit- ber of shares are taken. Shareg will he offered for re- lar meeting, and Wm. W. Beack- CABPER ©. CHILDS, Prosidont. H. Ml. Woorsn, Seoretary, $83 Pearl strect. ILDING AND MUTU ion at the nex? rei XCELSIOR BU! ‘sociation. — ‘the trustees to inerease the entrances fee on the Ist of No- vember. Articles of association and information o: tained at the office, 156 Bowery, witere #ubsori dues are recoived R. 7: P. Lananrr, Secretary. FOR FALM AND DO LiKe, GOOD CHaNcr 7 ANY PERS ON WISHING TO OARDING HOUSE FOR SALE.-THE FURNITURE ished boarding house of a well catabl " Will be & ENUE, BROOKLYN.—POR SALE THE story and attic brick house, with diainj ire on the premises, or of H. Johnsov, at Messrs. Applctons', 20 Broadway. OR SALE—A TWOSTORY DWELLING MOUSE, AND Goop WILL 1 street, opposite OUSE TO LET AND FURNITU about $290. )—An , containing all the modern im- be ow Houston street; near Address A. B COPPER AND COMPOSITION —3).00 POUNDS and clean. in lots to suit, for sale by IT & ROBERTS, 252 South street. IGEONS FOR SALE.—A SPLENDID COLLECTION, including carriers, 6 irs, back office. ‘OR SALE, Lag cu 8, nod blaes, por 4 ruts. Apply a Front street. ap J 33 aY.—TO LET, THE y. near Prinos street, well Fancy Millinar, ° remises. or of BD. TO LET IN BROADW « ». 563 Brom Inquire on the oadway, up stairs, and o BE LARGE AND BRAUTIFU! FITTED UP LEC. dred. in Stuyvesant ¢ week. by calling on A Information of viheos, tor place. f a ‘A SUITS OF APARTMENTS, CONSISTING “ Bedrooms and panteion avae family. The how poly at OS Hous. RNISUED BACK PARLOR “re LET A eit be converted into bed room, if ge BAROR PHRED STORY AND BASE z let rooment-—or if re Is may be soon from er, 2PM. For further information, inquire om the pre- 0. LET OF LRASR—TH| WAY STORE AND house {18 Bowery, for a watchmaker HANDSOME THRER STORY MOUSE, furuished, nowt Possession immediate, or Iss of No- family without small children ‘preferred, For artiovlare sprly to JOHN GREEN, at the Mouse ‘Agency, 08 Broadway. T—A VERY DESIRASLE MODE! tery and basoment brick ingtem piace, in th five m outer walk from immediately, Apply at No H. PAY improvemonts, LL Washiagtsn p 10 LAT—4 VERY HANDSOME FURNISHED PARLOR, endo bedrorin attached to 4 frie in front ond ewttabl: fore , on the first floor the py OT FT. THE ERCOND STORY, F Arply to PK Gahagan, No. 2 PI «PO LRT-NEW MODE A LARGE STore ing on Promkfort ent on Williao yf find grates alos a yerlor om fra’ fi Binele rooms, by the inquire in the ofies of the ism sud Frankfort streets, aan HIRE ANNIHILATOR, HILLIPS' FIRE ANNIHILATOR—MESSRS. BER- P FORD & CO. annctnce that the Pry d the exolusive rizht to sell and use Phillips’ Patent Fire Annihilator, in and for the Btate of C: and they will receive orders to deliver in San Francisco these cortain and infallible ‘ire excapes and fire extinguish ers, with the t expedition. Books for subscribers’ pames will 25th of October, and their orders will be eesston, according to the date of subseril ¢ advantages of this, ter, for extinguishing fire, are:—Ist, The vapor shes nearly a9 instantaneously after coming ith it as the damp in a 4 001 3 ene dle. 2d. Tho vay can be inhaled and respired i ith ‘comfort and ‘seourity nah The annihilator is directly at hand, and can be pptied at once, without giving aa alarm ith, present tardy ment, an i is perf « or furniture, that may be in the room. known that water it out a8 injuris as fire. ion books will be opened in San Francisco and in C: it the 20th day of December next. nat infringing upon the patent Every machine, of * Phillips’ lifornia will be stamped, the introduction of maobii ke into California, will be ly to Berford & Co., 2 Vesey atrool he Baltimore Sun, Sept 85} jr was had in this city on T co of a number of Ki tu’ shot-tower. ‘The machine is one of several ‘been imported by Messrs. Edwards, Ssudford & & Co.'s Foreign Express, and is of what i or the smallest manufactured; it umber of charges, being £3. Th ho superintendence of Mr. Samuel M. hs Peters. and Mr. Goorge A. Raw lings, and were witnessed by @ number of gentlemen wh> had been invited to be present. Several barrels of shavi ings and chips, saturated with turpentine, and fully ignited, a 18 into ths were casily extinguished by the gas thrown f barrel. A nt urated, and filled with shavings, whole well soaked with turpsn ‘a iron frame to admit of fre» Was act Up on en draft from below, and ignited; in aa instant the coutent were enveloped ia flame, wi ich rose with violence goma eight or ten fvot above the edge of the barrel. Ata time when the combustion was most ia the hoat had fairly taken hold of the boar of the b: the = ‘A ntream of the gaseous finid, iy dizeoted upon the flaming oot was astonishing. Although probably, un- ¢ disadvantage of an small proportion of the gas evol' ally discharged. upon the din twenty. Ave seconds, plication in tha open ais, bat a by the instrument was 9, the whole was extin- d’ nothing remaised bat ck. charred and moist- Not & spark was to be ae t of, the insteument wi the reobing barrel and ite bi ened contents. ( Perfectly innoxisus to life or comfort, without injury to property, and at the same time instantaneously destructive to laine. If thisinvention be thus highly apprecisted in Europe, whiers. owing to the na ture of th isis used in buildi»g—brick and stone—fire is com an untrequent desolating scourge, is very com! ways orderly, how tit to be considered in the Unita many parts of the country, eur bnildings are con- dof highly combustibie materials, and where in our in too many inatances, our fire compante: thing rather than a raferuard and preetection. Weare afraid thattco often the destruction and disorders of the latter, even in a pecuniary point of view, oceasion mors loss than f fireiteelf, Altogether it must be obviousthat fire ond ite accom) ve Where the organization of fire compani and efficient, and their operations ai timatle ought it where, Fi of the ratl- road. Fireat treet mills, i Mencheeter, April 2. 1851. Si adding our testimony to the great vi the Fire Annihilator. Owiny of your inveati to the great hest required in the corse quoae liability ‘nce Ofliees have alw as he ‘paid f: poeracas, we ha 2 all parts of the t will be adle tr ‘Oni fast took, perfectly ani oth steam and wi co in yas threo charges (although it epzead with the rapidity of gua- powder, 16 fect,) and she wen were enabled t> resume work our afterwards. ‘Two other crea nibilater pe the reom wi wit Kk." We aro. vir, yours resp: be luperia} Patont Waddle Company. °( Baten, Jr, Manager. W. H. “oiiifpe Meets tnadvn, From the Morping Express, August 9, 1851 — Phillips’ Pire Annihi- Intor.— We reviously poticed 2 me a Fengements now under way are c tion cf the inostithalle value of the Ase proof of the morits of the invention we m f the shrow dest ea} sin the eo ount in from what we know of tre ith the company, ry sor will supply been felt in sued cite Jer connec that the Fire Anni went of which bas lo: INDIA RUBBER GOUDB, [°DIA_ RUBBER, ovER soEs, Boor subscriber would respectful ladies and Overshoes, misees’ Shoes, boys’ Shoes, & peticet assortment of every fo. in o1 ‘y low as any other part of the city. kin mmentin the city. Prices as all pee arronted. SINPIA RUBDRR SHOR. —OUR an on situa et iu July, ‘ Re with sheatt argo him’ a ‘own names; and that be doet ‘4 in the manufsctare te do ‘stents. We think {i ‘slid patent, socuted, acknow- ‘agrood in Mi ignetares, with in the manufacture of to the public; and we give notice thet ha, are concerned with him im porohssiag or vond- en made in violaton of sald Paseus Micha, wil Preeecutit AND iy - rus raw Zac i RUMMY BEET" etohinec: FORD & Co. a Now York, July 12,1801, HAYWARD NDIA RUBBRR CILIVALRY—L. CANDER. India Ri v William A. Bockinghea, bber O . by Hiram aon. Pres gt & Co. The parties avovenamed, * el . w a pateat owne by them and thelr confederatee, called -Gosdyes “ werit my special vile calumny, t tention at ‘this tim the past, year’s pater ex ing this ig etsen broush ie dale at law for 83,000 4 thie suit involved the ti 4 to try it; the combination backed ont. 1 of suit, which I have often obtained “The plaintiffs brovgh? in am part owner, William Judson, Yet these chivalrous geatiomen tice if thy it T hope to euj ply my orders im fi . with my increased fectiition patent japan Rbdbor Shoes, 75 cents: O14 conte, All others in proportion. Car Springs, Weente per pound. Bteam Packing, facturcr, Inventor, ani or India Robber Patents, 23 Corti __... BXPRMSS AGENCIES, é&o. RIS AND AMERICAN S&T! SHIP COMPANY. ‘The office tor the eraanization of this o ry beom changed from No. 40 Wall street, to No. 157 ay. P. J. SMYTH, Secretary. Brerorp CO'S CALIFORNIAN EXPRES ia, 22d, and stow el of our special messenger, cr nt only 40 ee to delivor all ont goode with he waterproof, ant not er before 11 0° No to a charges for custom house of cons Astor House, EFFORD'S CALIFORNIA EXPRESS’ —A CARD TO hippos to Callfcrnin —On the 12th day of July tast, f red to Messrs. Berford, nt their office, No.2 Voeey stecet, Astor Hones, a cert instru tions to collect the money due on 3 remit the esme to New York; and, on the ith day of ve: ar idorer to me the amount whi t e— hating tent the mor the amount due on i ck, Satardey, ular fees. No 2 Vesey stroct, id mortgace, in nd mada, re tome by the firet steamer which left San Francisco after the arrival cf the mortuase deed. RALPH GLOVER, M.D, 12 Ann atroes, NY. if RIGORY'S GREAT CALIFORNIA PACKAGE AND Pi — We will d ing dite ctivns for comply in: No charge for Cust 2o'gherh on tee all aa ‘ M." THOMPEON & TAT CGCOCK iH ' “Managers bad Agente, Li Peagl egees, con. of Wed NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. Very Interesting from Washington. THE NEW CONSUL AT HAVANA—THE MEXICAN IN- DEMNITY—ANTICI:ATED REMOVALS FROM OFFICE, ETC., ETC. Wasnincton, Oct. 21, 1851. ‘The President has appointed Judge Sharkey, of Mis’ sissippi, Consul at Havana. The Judge wae President of the Nashville Union Convention, He bas accepted the appointment, It is rumored that there will shortly be some important changes at Philadelphia, including probably the Collec- tor, Surveyor, and other prominent officers. The Mexican government has asked permission ef Con- mg to anticipate $700,000 more of the American indem- ity. ys letter from Mazatlan says that a foree of more than one thousand Americans had invaded Sonora from Cali- fornia, demanding permission to work the mines. Doring a fight ‘ween John L. Cantwell and James W. Morrison, two gee masters, at Aquia creek, the former etabbed the lat and made his escape, Morri- ron was suppored to be dying when the Potomac best leit. ‘The Republic, of this morning, takes ground that the ional proposition for a German nat loan is a second Cuban bond speculation, Later from Northern Mexico. ADVANCE OF COL. CARAVAJAL WITH TEN THOUSAND TROOPS TOWARDS MATAMORAS — WILD CAT opP- POSED TO THE REVOLUTIONISTS, ETC. New Oarrans, Oct, 20, 1361. We are in receipt,of later dates from Northern Mexico, which are of a very exciting eharacter. On the 16th instant, Caravajal was within ten miles of Matamoras, with a very large force, numbering, it is said, not less than ten thousand men, including about four hundred Texan rangers, It was fully expected that he would attack the city on tho following morning, the 17th nstant. Amongst the rapgera ts one company who were dircharged from the United Btates Army. The excitement in Northern Mexico is intense, and daily increasing. New Ontrans, Oct. 21, 1851, By the steamer Mexico from Galveston, we have re- ports that Wild Cat and his followers are much disatis- fied at their recent treatment, and are moving towards Matamoras—it is suppoeed, to act against the revolution- ists under (1 jal. ‘The steamehip Empire City, from New York via Havana, {8 coming up. nee Destructive Gale on Lake Erte. VESSELS WRECKED AND ASHORE—LIVES LOST, ETC. Burraro, Oot. 21, 1861. Lake Erie has been visited by another very severe gale, and many vessels, together with their crews, have bo lost. The echooners F. @. Merrick and Iilinols, leaded with lumber and staves, are both ashore, one on the Canadian tide, and the other on the American side of Lake Erie. The echooner Cambria, with a cargo of coal, has suuk at Ashtabula. ‘The schooner Wm. Penn, capsized cn Lake Ontario, and the erew all suppored to be lost. ‘The Canadian schooner Christiana, loaded with timber, also capsized on Lake Ontario, and her crew, consisting of nine perscns, were drowned ‘The wenther at Buifalo is still stormy. A heavy gale prevails, and bate are wind bound in our barbor. ‘The lion. W. H. Seward arrived here last. night, and left to day for Obatauque. ‘The new and magnificent church of St. Pauls is to be consecrated to-morrow by Bishop De Lancey. From the East. DANIEL WEBSTER AND THE GREAT INDIA RUBBER CASE—FRIGHTPUL CASE OF STADBING—THK EDI- TORIAL FRACASANOTHER QUICK PASSAGE—MISS CATHERINE HAYES, ETC. Boston, October 21, 1861. Mr. Webster was in the United States Court, this fore- noon, apparently in execllent health. Tn the U.8. Circuit Court this afternoon, the plaintiffin the great India rubber case of Goodyear voreus Day, moved to assign the case for trial on the 26th day of De ccmber next, stating, as a reason. that Hon Daniel Web ster bad been retsined for the plaintiff, and the 28th day of December would be convenient for Mr. Webster to b> prerent. ‘The counsel for the defendant then moved tha the prececdings be stayed in the cause until the decision of anctber couse favelving the same subject matter, that is, the validity of the Goodyear patents, betweea the sam ae pendirg in the dietrict of jersey, jad been pretponed at great expense z both parties and which was put off by the plaintiff at the last Septembe> term of the Circuit Vourt of that State, when defendan: was ready and sought a trial upon the merits of the con troversy. The detendant’s affidavit was read in suppor of the motion, in which he ciaimed that there was an at tempt on the part of the plaintiff to take bum unprepared ard compel him to try the case in Massachusetts, after having procured the case in New Jersey to be continu when it was ready for trial. The defendant asked for jew Ji | time to answer the plaintiff's aMdavit, which wasgraated, and the hearing adjourned till Monday next at 9 o'elock A During a quarrel, last night, between John MeKenny. aged sixteen, and John Shaughnessy, aged fourteen, the latter stabbed MeKenny in the stomach, with « knite, letting out his entrails. Bhaughnessy fled, and Melen- Geutiemen, who witnessed the squabble yesterday be- tween Mr. Alfred Turner, of the wiles. and Me Way as- tert that it was the latter who came off second best. ‘There was, however, little damage done on either side The clipper ship John Bertram, from San Francisco July Sth, arrived here this morning Her railing time has been ninety-five days, 9¢ she was belew on Saturday evening. but the gale compelled her to put to rea. she spoke October 10, lat 21 27, lon. 63 15, ship Massachusetts from Manilla for Boston Catherine Hayer's concert is completely crowded, to- night. The Hon, Daniel Webster and lady are present. On bia entrance, the male portion of t dience rove end greeted bim with three c neers, t their andbverchiefs, and the orchestra bia.” r | ny ia not expected to live General Foote’s Resignation as U. 8. Senator. Lovisviuie, Oot 21, 1451 The Vicksburg papers state that General Foote’s re- rigvation of his seat in the Senate is te take effect from the Sth January next South Carolina Election, netow, Oot, 20, 1851. Out of 40,340 votes co-operation majority in 7 S62. 1% ly four or five counties to hear ority thus far is 8.070. The seces- sion mejority in the seventh Congressional district ia 786, with four email po nting. Khett and Duncan are certainly the only secessionists elected, ition at Iowan. « Lovra, Oct 1. A strong delegation from this city, consisting of the Mayor. the Council, and 100 delr gates, with tw from the Chi of Commerce, will leave thie after- neon for Purlirgton, Low: vention, which takes place on the 23d Inst. From the West. FIRE AT GALBNA—LOSS OF A STEAMER, ETC. Oct 21, 1861. the 16th inst. Lownarnn A fire occurred at Galena, Tilinois, on koe twelve miles above Louisville, at Utica, Indians, and sunk The boat and cargo will prove a total loss, bu the clerk bos managed to save the books and papers All the bands and passengers were saved. The boat was ins ured for $4 000, ‘The weather at Louisville is cold end cloudy, and we bad heavy rains last nig ht Newton Gay convicted of Rape. He N. ¥., Gow 21, 1861. ‘The Court of Oyer and Terminer, in Columbia county. ha wen engeged for some days in the trial of Newton Gay, of Cc Peibom, of Stockport. crime was committed in the neighborhood of Hudson ; and on the following day, the yourg WemAD endeavored to commit suicide, in order to extinguirh her deep mortification. Both parties are cenrected with families of the most reepectable standing. ond the victim has always borne the bighest charact for virtue and morality; but the prisoner has, witht the Inet year. rendered himself rather obnoxious dissolute bebits. The Jury in the case to day townd the risoner guilty of the disgusting crime, but recommended him to merey, Judge Ruter sentenced Gay to ten years’ confinement in the State Prieon, shat being the shortert tezin the law allows for such a crime, Fatal Rativend Acgident to & Justios of the ae Nevonamt, Maaa., Oot, 21, 1851 Mr Desir Ware, a Justios of the Pesce, and highly esteemed citizen of this place, was run ovr by the ox pres traia from New York, yesterday afternoon, newt the Weed Needhem Depot, and was instantly killed The deceased hae filled veriogs public offices with distinction He was fifiy-four yeoxs of age, and leaves a wife and (hres ohildren, re Heavy Deanag f A cetuction cae commenced t Court, in which the damages are ta! wintiff te Jorase Hoover, whore daughter was aud the def eokerlop. who fart of gay y rendered a ver 96.000 dawer ge The Obto Niver, &e Cyvorsnats, Oot. M1. 1851 ‘Tho rivet measures three feet in Uw chaonel. Louw: en hero and Le aloe d inst night, and there axe Prarpects ci Pr », Oot 21,185), aud i rising = The ‘The river mesures four 1 weathor is cook, Bids for the New York Canal Loan. A.nany, October 21, 1851. ‘The entire bids for the Canal loan amount to $550,000, ata premium ranging from one to ten dollars. John Thompson wae awarded $100,000 at nine fifty. five, and $95.000 at nine thirty; and L. @. Tayler, $5,000 at ten dollars premium. This loan is for the enlargement of the Oswego canal. Important, tf True, from Havana. ~~ New Onieans, Oct. 20, 1861. Aletter from Havana says that the Spanish officers who captured Lopez have been assassinated. Later from Honduras, Boston, Oct. 21, 1851. ‘The brig Helen Jane, from Truxillo, Honduras, Sept. 2%, arrived here this morning. The country remained quiet, though the general feeling was that the difference of opinion as to the future policy of Central America would soon cause hostilities to break out. A severe shock of an earthquake was felt at Truxillo, on the 18th of August, and extended throughout Honduras without, however, doing much damage. save a severe shaking to the bouses, causing the inhabitants to leave them immediately. ‘The Murders in Rhode Island, Provivence, Oct. 21, 1851. Almira Beazely has been arraigned upon an indict- ment for the murder of her infant Srother John Edwin, | poison, The defendant is but fourteen years of ofa mild and composed manner, and listened to reading of the indictment without emotion. The prin- cipal witness is her step- mother.’ It is supposed the trou- ble consequent upon the care of the child, was the cause of the deed. The case excites great interest Inthe Supreme Court, the application for the writ of habeas corpus in the case of Pratt, who recently shot his neighbor, st Pawtucket. was heard and granted. Bail ‘was fixed at $10,000 for his appearance in March, mon the Mississippi. Bteaynboat Coll Orerwatt, Oot 21, 1851. ‘The eteamers Shelby and John Quincy Adams came in collision, a few days rince, below Bt. Louis, by which the Bhelby lost both boilers and was set on fire. The flames, however, were quickly subdued without serious damage. The Alabama at Savannah. BSavanwan. Oct. 21, 1851. ‘The steamship Alabama. Captain Ludlow, has arrived here in 65 hours from New York. re Medical Department of the University. INTRODUCTORY LECTURE OF PROFESSOR DRAPER To THE Course or 1851 aNnp *52. The new and beautiful Medical College, in Fourteenth street, was opened, last evening, with an introductory lecture by Professor John William Draper, President of the Faculty, The lange and spacious lecture room was crowded, at sn early hour, by a brilliant assemblage of ladies and gentlemen At helé past seven, the Professors took their seats, when Professor Draper delivered the address, which was listened to with attention, and was received throughout with demonstrations cf delight by the audience. We Sppex a full report of the lecture THE INTRODUCTORY LECTURE, Gxxtivaex—Permit me, for my colleagues and my- relf, to congratulate you on the commencement of your college duties, and to wish you all a pleasant and profit. able session, I am glad to see 60 many cheerful faces of old friends, alumni of the Univerrity, and to welcome you to this n and commodious buildt Your thoughts naturally run back to our old home, where we have spent 60 many happy days. There your medical career began, and there our college ran a course of pros- perity. You are half willing to believe that after all it was not 60 very gloomy, and that the drowsiness you ex. perienced at lecture arore not so much from any im- Perfection in ventilation as from your own iudulgences stdipner. You have a very critical recollection of the rocms in which you were examined for a degree, and do not expect to see others that will ever interest you half as much. My melancholy triende! let me try to recon- cile you to what your former preceptors have been doing: New York You krow it is almost a law of nature—birds change their feathers, lobsters cast their shells, cattle shed their conts, some insects do the thing so cleverly that they perform the miracle of creeping bodily out of their own tkins. On May day ell the people in this city swap houses with each oth nd they are persuaded that they all gain by the change. It is one of the most un- mistakable signs, that a man is doing well in the world when you see him pull down his barns and build greater nes. ‘The trees im the forest as they increase in size burst cpen their bark, and it is continually dropping on the ground. Why then should we be any exception to the rule. We bad gradually #o increased that there was & necestity for the change. We have been prosperous, and so we followed the universal instinct. We thought we ought to have the most convenient and best arranged college edifice that could be built, Not that we pretend- ed to compete with the external eplendors of the great national edificer, or municipal structures of this me- tropelis, for we looked upen @ college as a machine to work in @ certain way, and tedo a certain duty. And 80, contemplating great changes in our system of in- struction, we have spared no pains to adapt our edifice for tbose purpores. We have, ou see, resorted to the most improved means ‘for facilitating anatomt cal studies, both practical and deseriptive, the general and private dissecting rooms, ‘and the theatre, In the ma partment, our Are as complete us am be found anywhere. en taken to make such provision for the various eliniques, with a view to the comfort of the pa- tent, that we shall be able to introduce a great many enees inadiwiseible heretofore In the large mureuma, now rapidly increasing. you will find abundant means of insti uctio nd, more than ali. a close atteution has been given to the internal arrupgement of the building. 60 as to make it at once a stud: ula home for our students. For after wil. it is impcrsible towpply one’s self properly to mental exercice unless physical conditions are favorable The Komen ge speaks of @ person who could write peema whilet he was standing on one foot— pretty poems they must have been! We bavethe authority of one of the best writers of our times, that a man cannot compose a good novel except he haven good study, and above all @ very eaxyarmecbair To give a full chance for its ope rations, the mind must. 60 to speak, be isolated from the bedy—a cramped position—numbed muscles—or a bodily ache, ix fatel toanythiog like contemplation. Do you euppore that a man Isboring gunder colic could write a goed sonnet? of can you expect any great intellectual bievement if the mind is ineersantly withdrawn from tha steady train of thought in which it isengaged? It is ‘& commen observation that comporltions arr pow thrown troadenst trom the press, without making mach sensa- tion hich, twenty years ago, would have given infinite reputation to thelr suthors, 1 am persuaded that this sudden and gereral advance of literature is not to be attributed tony sudden and general expansion of the mind ef man. but to the introduction of metallic pens, which prevent the necessity of distracting the mind in ite highest fight, with whittling anda penknife. Even hapios! act of penmanship is unfavorable to Li! cellence. Paradise Lost would never have been mt nt of this century, would have been « phyrical impossibility had not its author dictated to secretaries And so with uw—« lecturer will give « drowsy dissourse, and his ai ence Wil all go to sleep, im an iil ¥ There ia a physical mec it, when we come to study th pie buildings streeted in these respect tied in this instance to make provision for your comfort. both in our lecture rooms and in the apartments devoted to your uee. We h tried, as L raid before, to make home for you. Lhave w bt that the amount of information » etucert obtaina, the progress he makes, depends, to no in- conriderable extent, om the comforts and conveniences cf the college building. One who had been unfortunate in bis exeminations said to me some years after, “Sir, L been rejected if it had not been for the narrow f th tomfeal theatre. A student, sir, ought to by college building to fit him just ae much ks be cught to have 9 pair of boots to fit him, or he can. not get vie mi end if 1 bad to do it over again, I would pay particular attention to that matter. and be deter- mined * bere to go, as much by the horse aud its appur. tenances as by the advertisements,” I hope, my friends, yeu wil prebt by hie experience. In thus welooming ycu bere, it fe to mean agreeable duty to introduce you to your new teachers, who now, for the first tiae, come emeng 08. 1 sok for them what [ know you freel; accord—a hearty rece tion. The siceess of a public ti siructor depends as trach upon his audience as upon bimeelf— there is noth ing more cheering thanto find one's wif tet helf way. Pecfesors Dost and Clymor devote hemrelves to yout hmprovement and they are entitled to & cr rdial reception. In charge of (wo of the most im portent branches tat ean erage your atten wii} aeridius never should bat ) labor for your benefit; and it ts for you © lore PO eppe ity of profiting by their instructions, ond meking them feel tha’ their exertions are appre elated by you. With all utages, 1 trust gon- kmiep, Ubet those of you who are now beginning yout te Will not rest Katlefled with acquiring only that mcunt cf knowledge which is jodispensably necessary Sete tnd With eredit, but aiming bigher thea towik ep to cullive te a phiiosoptiinal taste Tt trough fir ga accomplished phys Fhute a the dstection of disease, * a ren bis mental putvaite bo dillerent from * of other mon, am r hi bonis ef reiaxation giten to pleasures akin to his p hb. We see the werld from a special p ord our /tadies cannot fai to give a peew our charsctert, The world of or which we deal. All onimated nature pt Us As the spljeot of our philoeopaiont moditatione, We ion, they | do not, as our pre ‘xpect to obtain a knowled, of the structure and functions of our own race from the study of man alone. The lowlest organism can shed a it on the structure ef the wat, and all the tribes of life are indiseolubly in structure and io ae few years ago it was thought enough for the student to attain a fair knowledge of the struc- ture and functions of the organs of man; but with the elevation of our profession our field of view has atly F ccapany Ryd enn = were then thi it ex- Taneous to our its bave not only become legitimate objects of our study, but nt themselves to us as the main sources from which our science is to ex) im- provement. What is there more worthy of tthe [atettoct pi iret the ay A. grade lek ments, progress of organs whic! reach their perfection in him '—to see how the mfluence of external parelenl. agente leads to their ex ion, or contrariwise to t) disease | started, and to watch bow under His plastic hand, in directions that di- ‘verge from one ancther, the numberless types of animal life have been unfolded! hatever direction we turn, how amazing are the instances of fertility of resource, | and ‘powers of mechanical contrivance! Look at the verious inhabitants of the air—one flies by its finger an- other By itshand, another by its arm, another by its ribs. another by ite skin, another by its lungs. The ana- temical conditions remain! acrial transit is solved in a thousand difforent ways. Look at the various modifications which the organs of respiration, the organs of ion, or, most of all, those of the nervous syrtem expose in the various tribes, each presenting # peculiar mechanism, aud illustrating to us what the action of such a mechanism is, Nor does the physicion, from this extended range of studiss alone, ex- pect to gather information of the structure and working of the organs of man. He studies honors that he may be able to combat disease. The di of brutes will one day form the clearest illustration of the diseases of man. ‘Already one of the most brilliant eontri- butions to the practice of medicine has been de- rived from this souree. In the hands of Jeuner, a dis- ease of the cow has served to mitigate the most loath. seme malady to which the human race is subject. I would therefore urge it upon the young physician whilst his labor may be given to purely professional pursuits, to devote bis time of relaxation to the study of nature, for there is nothing that can purify the thought or exelt the intellect more. It stands in strong contrast with the pleasures of the world, which are not only tran- sitery im the epjoyment, but in the result unsatisfactory. Bow little truth—absolutely certain truth—is known; ond of that little, how lerge @ portion has been contri buted by natural science. Then, whether we be induced by the nope that there things may aid in our professional advancement. or by that thirst for knowledge and innate love of truth that Providence hus given to us all. it ought to be our pleasure, as it is our duty, to extend our exour- sicns into every branch of physi exertion of all cur powers, It need cial redlection to satisfy you how exter study. knowledge is power—so applicable as in ours. It is not by porreesing @ few precepts gathered in the lecture room that we become profound physiciens, but by « lepg continued avd assiduous labor, with man: arelf denialand many @ weary task. Pursuits whic to other men are revolting, and which are held by the public and by the law as de necessery duty, Our path to distinction is throagh the disrecting room. No one of uscan reach to eminence except he be anaratomist. Early in the morning, and late at night, your proper place is in that chambor of dead Notin the giddy pleasures of the great and dissipated city, but there among the young and the old— these who bave been cut off on a suddei who have lingered away—your time should be spent. In thet melancholy scene, where the strong ean no lon- get frown, and the beautiful cannot blush. it is for you to become acquainted with all the marvellous secrets of this mystericus frame. How can you expect to be able to relieve its flictions—repair its acct fents, or diseases, except yeu have een, with your own innermost covstruction? With a diligentattendance on your courses cf lecturer, you should lose no opportunity of clinical study, whether it be in the public hospitals of the mS or ip Our own cliniques. The advantages that you will gain frem the latter, are greater—far greater— ‘than I can express by words. In .he surgical and medi- cul you will see the very cases you are most likely to meet when you first enter on practice, and in the ob- stetrical you will gather a fund of information nowhere ele te obtained The etudents of this Univer. theuld take no common pride in this eli. pique. It was first establirhed by Professor Bed. ford. under every discouragement, generaliy regardirg it as cbimerical. sity it, and made it one of the chi-f props of this insuitution You see Tam endeavering to impress dens of the sphere of duty of a wediosl ing you to look uy you are to disregard Gintasteful auorg the the instruction of Profersor Pattison. ursuits. I cannot avoid enumerating, aystem he adopts. now matured by the experience of any years, sigeally conducive to perfection in your surgical purvuite, and profound without being transcen- den’al In this establishment you will meet with every thing that can facilitate your progress, and make your time pass egreeably. We feel that it is for us to pro- vide for you every privilege within our reach, and that # medical college is imperfect, except it represent, in every particular, the science of the times, What, then is the duty of @ medical college? That question is an- swered differently from aiflerent points of view. The dector, who is struggling among rivals, rep! premptly that it chould be to throw difficulties { Of others graduating. He looks with dismay at th: catalogues of the various medical schools, but he fo to look at the b inst. ‘gets t national census The young geatle- ho bas recently returned from France thinks | 1m that a period of from feven to ten years devoted to the purrult of professional knowledge is what is de | manded. snd that the colleges ought to be made to)give it. Many of the clergy, and some Indies (alas! how hard it is to deny them anything), insist that these institutions ‘will always be goed for nothing, unless they establish » chair of bemeopathy—they would aud also the water eure, The people of the Biate of New York bave by law erdered vs to give thorough instruction in anatomical Gineeetions, At the same time they dirces their to put us Ip jail if they can cated vs with a subject. Even In our own profession,what a diversity of sentiment prevails, All men are weatber wise by nature—all are statermen by nature—allthing that by nature they could wenege @ medical college; they little dream what a com- plicated and delicate isstroment it is One thinks that the course cf lectures should be extended to six months. ‘The rostrum of another ts that microscopical demons'ra tions should be given to the class, (crgettang that that no- bh d much misunderstood justrament ean no more be used by & begin than cae « pianoforte; that in ite very pature it ie for the private stady, and not for th public leetare rec How is it possible, with such @ diversity of cpiaion. that the colleges ean satisfy all par- ties? They would bave a tesk like that of the old man ing constant, the problem of krowledge and gather information from whatever source we may. We ate at once the students and the ministers of organization; the duty to which we have devoted oursclves demands the but a very superfi- | ive is our field of In no profession is the maxim of Lord Bacon table, are, with us, ® | the profession Bat the ability with «hich it has been conducted has firimly established ou with enlarged student, teach. n ail the world of orgavization as | your province and all physical roienoe ws your aid ; that | the gay enjoyments so congenial to your yearr, and, without hesitation, engage in the most | vanish of the abdominal ribs of sankes. vantages you are to erjoy. the privilege of son.” You Pill deni the | forth; that the course of ereetion bes the way | fileers | cus‘omary emong medical students, the Faculty will give | certificates of honor to those ho atterd this course, this, I doubt not, will be one of your most valued in future life. I have said that we ehall make no tempt at coercion, or increasing the requirements graduation but letting that remain where it is, shall what can be done by inducement. Nor should you culge the thought that a student can have too much prevented to him. What we are here offering falls vastly short of what might be regarded as the ideal of a com- plete medicinal education. It is true that your more im- | mediate concern is the study of man, his health, and his | diseases; but how intimately this is connected with the history of all organic things’ You surely would not restrict yourselves to the immediate object before you, but Would examine its relations to those around it, and find how they illustrate or affect it. A man who buys an | estate would scarcely rest satisfied with once walking | straigbt through the middle of it; he goes all round its boundaries, looks where his neighbor's fences come ia upon it.and observes with satisfaction where his fences mak upon them, I the public roads cross him, and finds a gratification im ob- i: SIRE serving what rights of way he has across the adjacent fields. And lo, in your profession, you ought to feel am intererest in whatever is connec! with living things. physicians and physiologists to regard our species as though it was above the common law of the universe, = something wholly distinet from other crea ‘ed forms, © You capnot reason from the brutes to us.” has been almost ansphorivm, The great advances that have been made in soology, comparative anatomy, and embryology, wit! ip the last few years, have abundantly shown tl true path of physiological study lies through that very channel. The vege’ world owes its existence to the light of the sun, No matter what the temperature may be, no plant can develope itself in the darkness Thas claes of forms can th only exist where the solar | beems have access. But not so with animals. | If plants are the daughters of light, animals are | the ebildren of heat, so closely dependent on tbat prin- ple for their well being. that each tribe can only exist at @ particular temperature. Standing in this | range of categtnloal to each other, they are mutually | the ministers of each other. All organized matter is made by plants, under the influence of the of the sup, ond is returned back to the dead jon from which iteame, by the systems of animals; and so that great central orb is, in fact, the mainepring of the world of life. The sun, at once the the noblest, and most glorious cf all ereated things—the vicegereat, and a fitting ———— of the Most High—who shone vpon this globe when there was not a vestige of life upom it, bare, bieak recks, anda sullen sea; whose fingers—the many: colored rays of light—have placed here every ani- mal and every plant, and made the earth and the waters teem with life. Nor must you think because many races belonging to beth kingdoms of organizatioa have, in the grey old geological times, disappeared, that there is any imperfection in the universal plan, or a want of power or of uniform action in the agent. What, even if it be true, as we know, that for every tribe now existing, « thousand bave become extinct, does that not rather pre claim the march of developement that bas been going oa How is it with every particle of which our own bodies are compored? Wher it bas done its duty and become effete, it dies out and is cast away. There is life and death for each particle: there is life and death for «ach individual; there is lite and death for the race too. Nor do these revolutions, avy more than the revolutions of empires, ever go backwards. Man diea, and he never returns—a epecies, a tribe, a genus dies; it rever returns, Of the crowds of. plants and snimale which are utterly extinet, there is no solitary instaace of are-appearance, As in the mechanism of our own bodies a dying particle ix forthwith replaced by a new and vigorous one, or asin the social circle the son suc- cords to the place of his fatber. so in the mechanism of the world a dying race has another one put in its stead. The dead come back nomore. Kach living betng bears on it the impress of the phyalcal circumstances which have surrounded it; it is,as it were on embodiment, « refleo- tion of the physical agents te which ithas been exposed; and like the bubbles on the sea which linger for @ mo- ment to reflect the forms and colors of adjacent viduals apd races, But as one particle resembles ano ther—as there isa family likeners between parent and offspring—so in these re nts going forward on the Teat scale, it is not a strange novelty that is intreduced, fut a clase of biings having sMnities and relationships with all others around. And 59 it comes to pase thet man hes relationships with other created forms, both those who are Lis contemporaries. and these who have been before him. The laws under which he has beea developed have ret their rtamp upon him, and his eorpo- real frame ie full of reminiscences of the course through which his tribe has run. Lhavesiready said he is no | sclitery snd alone; bis pride msy be mortified to lescm that he has affinities with the beast, the fish the reptile, The developement from separate centres of his cranial bones is a representative of the permsuent construction cf the skull ofa fieh; the white bands that crora bis straight abécminal muselrs are the rudimeate about to Ia the remarks | here making, I do not design to convey the ides, which of late years bas been so prominently and popularly been from the te the more perfect. Geological observations do not | Warrant thet There is no reason to suppose that the beginnings of life, either in the animal or vegetable world, were imperf-ct or obecure; and that gradually | improved conrtructions arose, and « high complexity War ot lest resched On the contrary, it ap; that | the progress bas been from the general to the «pecial ‘The primitive beings containing in themselves. as it were, | the rudiments, in an impertect way, of their eurcessora, | and these rudiments have, one after another, goas iate developement; and so the various types of construction Lave ariseu. Nor dol here intend to inquire how far external physical agents have had an inflaence on these preeerses For my object. it is immaterial whether you impute the appearances of there various forms to the | direct creative interves tion of the Almighty, or whetbor yeu admit thet be bas been pleared to commit the charge to eccondary and physical agents. The point om Which I ain insisting is the relationship of man to elf | the other orders of peture,and the absolute impos. sibility of clearly onderstanding bis structure and functions, except by the study of their Then, gentler it is not enough that you go into the | disvecting recm to tuepect skeleton, oF expose the muselee. the blood ve he nerves, Does a man take | a wateh to pieces for U rpoee of studying mechanies, and getting at the first principles of action of the levee or the wheel’ Lruman anatomy, and human physiology, tre only to be learnt through e-mparative anatomy and | ecmparative ph; For the elear understandi | of the nature and office of any organ, you must wat | it from ite first begioning in some low order of animal | life, thromgh ail ite ramifying and increasing complexi- ties, Beme person mey here remark, ali this is too far- ched and finerpun. A student has not time to uble himself with these refinements It is as mach ts be can do to scquaint himself with the practical | branches. The practical branehes! I am sick of the | very phrase. Ifthe mere mechanics of the profession is | all you reek, the sooner you abandon it the better. I that your idea of complished physiciaa—to do am } emp ” skeleton, and ride about on a saddle- ond bisson in the fable, who alternately rode on their | bege stuffed with calomel and jalap' I have said that beast, ond let it ride cm them: or, as the Iibernion translation bas it. ail rede simultyneouly on ene ano- ther, and yet could please nobod: Whi © the profession at large. appreciating there difflcultirs, has done them justice, ard given them a cordial support. regarding them +e the main props of medical science, a few individuals have clamored for their destraction. Perhaps it war in pheey. that colapias @# eurrcunded with hissing snakes t in th niform system is not possible for the coil of the United Btates, Local cirewmstances, Peullarities of conditios, place them upon eo dilferent a fcoting that what is advisable for one, may be greatly prejedicial for another. For example. here we can dis teet for nearly eix months in the year, but not so with the Soutbern'schccls, In one place xn institution may be affected by the movemecte of balfa doren others in | tre vieinity, eleeebere there may not be a rival withi fre hupdtd miles, The continued taterventions o of trostees with one may never be ex; and so it may be the poliey of one to Keep its juet as they are, on the maxim “to let wel apd another, with: hesitation, may ed wre on # career of progress and ex For the University I can ray, with trath, that it has ever bed Lefere it the necessily of keeping up with the Geman de of the Umes, but not by cugeeing to detusive Cr impracticable schemes. It has ruch fallacies os exchanging a four mouths’ course of tix lectures s day. forasix months’ course of four b. ng before there things were publicly discussed, it bad ecogbized the necessity of great aud important obanger » the couree of inet ; and im the last ten years ‘be Faoulty bas paid tothe governing authorities of the University wore than twenty theusand dollars, under a written stipaistion that they should have the power to create Dew chairs, and otherwice exteod their course of instruction whenevor they thought the time had come. ‘The right they have thus purchased they are exercising now, ard [am directed to explain to you how they are gcing te carry out their There are two dit jente in our col d—by ocercion ard by e Fyftem may be attew inducement. To @ certain extent al colleges prac. tiee the fermer, compelling a student to etady for certain time. to atten certain lectures, t 4% ey jut at i ¢ they will give him a degree. vuch compvlion oan culy be carried toe Limited extent, beyond which it muri neceserily fall ‘There is no central authority which oan direct ap ani fe ‘i nia. and as soon Tmity ip ell (he collegiate ® thon its orighbers, © its eupport. We do not propese in any © control We pornens over the studs nt, be f do we prop: oineressoit. We do n to «xtend the requirements for obtainin ree, but to leave them heretofore. Phe winter course, which we commen cy iLL oon- for fcur months, as wsual, te thiniseticcs and commencerent; and a student who wiles to do 60 can graduate under the same ernditions, ard in the reme menner as fermerly. It ts rather cn the secord principle that we rely for carrying omt our jmprovements; end this we propose to do in me tm plete wo, but to make a cweeping and redioal ohenge at ence Heren ter, im this institw ton, instruction will be provided fer thore who ehoose to avail themselves of it ibronghout the entire year, and ¢ Athout any oxtra | frecrebarge of any bind, Twet foawta will give fngtruetion from the middie of March to the middie of tober, end the uruel foe here paid will euticte any of yeu to thir priviege. To mark out ina suitable meg ber thore Who Deve token advantage of these oppor sant ole ‘ tics, and thos exiended their studies farther chan y ald thie consists in suppost be ancient Greeks depketed the | never lent iteelf to | the aratomy of man car oply be perfectly understood the h the or atemy of inferior animals, and that the | same bolds goed for bie physiology; but now I take a stronger position, and assert. chat diseases of man can caly be thercughly understood vie compare thol fe perfect. Comparative ony | . | te coke only now beginning to exist. Bat perhape sme one of you, reflecting 8 these things, may see that | the opportunity ie nd fora physician toachieve a reputation, such a hitherto bas only been possible | for great soldiers aod the founders of religious systems, | sud emulating the Carthagenian captain of old. may | swearto devote hie life toit. So rapid isthe advance of the great sciences anatomy, chemistry, physiology, thet most arturediy, in leas than twenty years, the greag | physician wil have come ‘The man is how bora whe Will reine the grand prise Kren thore of us who have mst upheld cur old professional theories and have tried | to keep im reverence the cid opinions and the olf times, find that under the advaror of the exact sciences, our | porition is becoming untenable ‘The ground t# slipping way from beneath © We are on the break of @ | gtest revolution. Go where you wii mg iateligeme yricians, you find a dewp, though it may bean indie wet perception that a great ebance ts imminent. Im politics ard in religion. every crisis finds ite representa | Hve and embodiment in come man. | Is it 4 --F-4 ‘that ip this pation of practical mea. | on who will stand forth the teacher amd master of | physicians.the greatest of all the benefactors of owe | race, who will do for medicine what Newton did for as | trontmy, end oh! what s glory if he should doit im these | walle 1 gentlemen, you have the motive that has guided us in botiding the house, and throwing opem {te deere to you all the year round, Whatever there it facilitate your studies we will provide. vision we have y In the ve & career =the erdina medical coll with the mort eminent » We have abounded im studenta, pre perity bas dowed in wpon us, a thousand of our gre- duster are purruirg their profession all over the coun- try. Ip the midet of this we pause; henoeforth we nave done with ail rivalries; it ia immaterial whether we have five bupdr dcr a th ovsend students; we are content te leave that matter to teke care of iteelf To the duty \ 1 retotcre discharged, of trying te form ane. we LOW add another not lest foous for medical relenee divecvery, To the physiciens of this city—s body of mem of no core MCN Sbility= we say “ Come and help us" At ancapenre «f more than one hundred thousand dollars, | we have brought thie cuilege to repk with the first in out ecuntry We found New York, aa rerpe ote medical eda coticn, ded We bave made it what you ere: and here We meno that the science of our county eel find ite bead quarters, Whatever there is worthy and new in oor profearien, will he bntredueed bere; ard, as. f Cur eae will pertait, the opportuwity wi! gtude varree Whee inneipetions ip any epeoial Lranch nero, we thal ® best exertions ta furns vition; Lut new we edvonee m step forw tnd five the tarave of tbebling the young pliyricing te isrpreve ard elotieguich bimeelf | The duty a medieal to Ube profeesion ia not diechareed: by mere gt eduating cf students that that is one pert r ‘and a very itn but sti over phyrt te (here inet fe ott of all Chat apaiet: am hee ee Tictere tori tnereaerd req J ores © liminary examinations befor, cotconng th Cnsaot atudy ‘The errors bine Uhataclegecan tages yout,