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L & tmit,b, Ilr ANTTACITSEItof TIARNTSS.sA rft.t..E.Nawrtt:s ES IL 'Mar Itirankbaaquelganua County. Pa- Milford, January O. WA.ZI.3 - - William& IL Grover. T.TONStT AT LAIC,f , e tone. Utsootal. rrartlero only lu Urn (* . iris(* . iris . Moroltis. and eletrte• I.4nrelt rineeTT To oultercut. 131Tpinem from atomd ri 111 receive prompt at. to OFlCVNo.Hrebestout :greet, • _ ri LOU* Decelober ---- Panels B. Davison, L b., _____4lll:.; IT! , trre of C. 11{". Yea, Esq. u litF-UDENCE. o.T.er Fit tloorh. mgore, Pa, November 17,16:41, • C. Winkler, • . ITIAILOIL !Cyr ktumien, Sum. en., Fm.. Dl•peAlte E. 4,3, 0. 11.. Pratt's alb:, - New MUfonl. IC 0, 4 24, INZ.-6m • • E. IL Rogers, TlLL.eeatlth.4 the MANCFArTir RE of atl ,leveril.Core of 1.7 CARRIAGES, WAGONS. SLEIGHS. 4,- thebeie . : b aSeet Wortersonshipancleftbr bea material...at the well trash a t rod,. rut of Sestie's hotel, 10-Nootroee. o here he will be UM' to racer* the ealht ,del rho cant ohllhlor In hi` 'Hoe. I Slatame, IMaelaber y H. D. Bennett BK MINTER. Sad Soveluehardu rormF. Pd. Iv Worms Setup ie el Spout. harm and neighl44 tat be wd to !And Palo.aP. and Wets. and Nepal. 001 Pools.. E. W. Fiat= sill receive Periodical.. tor H. 1 , . Berd.O. , Mem.. Sept. S. IS tf B. Simpson, Arti RlCrAutta. haring worked for the ma nine years IT ledh - tOr Inogiottfleud workmen, he :tett eentllcet that be can the tort nu 4101 ware. AU lerftlit warranted to s.e . t.taett. rd relue:gtr neatly and on rtie..aahle term., SeVes Hotel:Dim ra. °(-11 4 "."4 Tn"" - IL Strw bat worked forme tot Walt War-, 144 I can ref Latelld him at a carefuS and vntrkanat6 competent 10 do as I,;et watt. AS MO be door In the couttry, and worltly otnedldener. Towanda, .Ihtte in. W. Wag. A. o.:a a:annuls . ttaem Ito Vila, t.lwt; th ird. X. D. If onlaeete; 0. (I , ottrlth.ll.liir.rtSere. Intel:Ma : It. P.Dentley, L. Searle, V. 1.. Lottoop. J. Ititteraera. Mo:grot. Itectstee, 1.5!,.-It Sinith & Co.," Wit1.... , 411/NETAND CIL% In mAxrF.ic. turn. Keep ronomnikr Itand norrr Fur.strrxr.. nr furniflard .ort notice. Sbop Ind Ware tonazt luut Moan Stmt. Moatrnre., PL. May %.:44:k.-tf Hayden Brothers, • -BoLs.ALEDFALEas In TA NSF:F. NOTIOgS, IY Jeln - el7. sc.';%e. Si !Volt IS Ma reds:mislead y.Li edlars, 4,.-r ilptied Nelr orkloblang ?s e.. 111.1 . 414. .7r tu CM= . Boyd & Webster, - rirALERSIn Stare& Store nix, Ti,,. Copper. sa.d Sheet Iron Wsre: 4104. Wind.. , :: , 0 0 6. rand Doors. tu d Blialls,Lath. I..nyr.tet sad 1.11 kinds of Botidiu MsterLals. Iln t•Ilop Ssent. Nesrieo Hotel. and Carpenter Seep zaca Iletbodlet Mormon& Pr.., Apil 1 4, 1A:6,-tf Dr- Z Dimock. PiirsirtAN AND SURGEON. I. &ant:vier:Stet! himself • at Mantra.. Samarium= mauls - . (*TICE over Mlbsm entilontarn. Lodzinns at Susie'. Itotel. Itcatroge. stareb Dr. Wm. L. Richardson NtrOrLD resprerolli:lookr 1.14 pm:v.4mA kr. In the lo h.bttnat. 31notroor and 11% 'ITI(E Over Mul f Rpm..LAWGIN, >1 the lelrys , thor Sjontrcor, Ort. thro--I FP Dr. E. F. Wilmot. G RATUATE or the Alloyed& a+.l Homeopathic (*.liege* et le new permAttLtiv for 11si ir. 44tral P 4,4. It. 41- comer otlilalne and Elsel•etli twody ell to the M. E. l'hoech. . - - ." Dr. U. Smith, SVIIIGEON IorICTIST. :sr.! •sfiler. .. 1 186,.. 141, , ,,1%e tL^ Dvisll. claavi.,CSurth roor: - Faith,lar attention 1,11 be giver to inobil Ing !Wig on Cktin and Sn.x-r. 'gate, :snd to gillng sb,mying teeth. Montrooe. Jotioary _ • C. D. Vito", 1 . R.V.IDECT DENTIIer. 31417STROSE. F.l. Of , • ..114.4 • *west tiw Franklin Rae!, Room N 0.,!. ismertlortreth on Gold or Meer pleSe dooe Sn the 1:1 ]I ret style ogh warrelded. Dr: - A. Gifford, L'RGEON DENTIST. Other with Dr. Dtwock. over Wll•toris t' Som. Pardo: au attention will tor even to inserting Teal, uo 4*,".1 or Sttrzr plate—also Ast • nest Ana. Ail operations warrantra. Mantra*. S*Pt. & trge—tr FL. Thayer. - PIITSICIAff AID St&GiEON. 31arzacar., Pa. Dflea. la the .Farmeesstare.. vDII A. 'Mahn ell, - TTORAT COX7NSF:II.OR AT LAW. Mee ever S. IL Wesia Dry Stirc.SvgimumA Tozr.L.INIASTI Keeler & Stoddard TIEA.LIERE I DOOM a KIII/ES. Londher and flmlinr. oo II Malan 4- Lit door belinr Searles Minn( manure. 6nrosi a.m..c 111.0.01MKT, - William H. Jessup, TTORNEY AT LAW it NOTABT ITI UC. 06c.• oa rot At Scpure..34poninis. ra. Bentley & Etch, A .,, t 4 T m or : VTS AL . L c .AW. t t 72 4.. 1; . 0 1 47r" JAND AGENT:, Chsiztrlin.• n. 7Tnr.NET AT LAST. /MT OF TILE matt otter o I. L Pll4 k CO.'S lAttlft. Mem - rarer. P. "Wm. IL Temp, TTORNET AT LAW AN'D CO3IXL.-1410YEB OF PET-DS. fot the State at Yrw Tort. will itlead to all tordwr-r etartorrd tr tan; arab prmaptneta aad arkettj".. Ono' an Pubte Square. orM Ott try lion. WU= Jessup. - Abel Terrell, DEALER EC DRI - 015. MEDIer.CIEq. CHEMICALP. raw.. Mt. Llyewtrdi,Urocelies. Tiff tionek, Itardwaye.. Stows bWeewww. cloak Watebew Jewelry. ri:rerSpante,.!eeetwele.i. r. 52.1 lwdrunsenis. Trewiertiwereca /Iketreowewts. I.brant. reef= XL.rors. natleckery. Boole% Apa. 'Yankee NtAwnw..ti. F. B. Chandler, DEALF.II IN DRY GOOM licadT 31nde rir , ax.rf Book. and Strainer'. etc:, Palk An-mm.)l.lmm ra. Post Brothers. nEALEts Es G O n B. Crater,. hard* are Lerber. Flow. ate, soma of Turnpike street and Put.2le .il. vs zwltsart4st, I'l4 J. LyOns Son., riEALESS DRY GOODS. Grocertec Hard, Croarry. Tlawarr. Books. Sielultarna and Shret u4c. . Se Soot liunasa lazdoes...—ratdk"Arenue, dlcraraues, Pa. 3. '4IIM T. S. LIONS. Read & Co., nIALERS I DRY GOOD& Drop, 3lrdlClorr. Sirtr. OIL A/ Gracellr. Hardware, (.'rocker. Iron. Wort... 40. .L . T. IC Sll , et=tik Fertlxicery, Lc. Erick or. _ I'. . with c. r. WAD. --..• - sr 1 . ___ William & William tp, A TTORMIS d 2 I.LF. Xosnoiv. A. Pr. .flu in 'Ammo ...7k Loam. luagrard Wave. Wsmalasant Lunn couctlce. Roclrirelt - dc Winton- VA InTALTMEES end Dealers la Steam Gam* Ma& Cap& Fun, Umbel& Parols Ibboas. Jkc.. No- il 4 :oeramml r usr.opist) - W. V. Vl2loi. Baldsria & Allen. VOLEFALE sad sew. Dealer. In Flour, Bait, Pert. /Lb. Ford. Candka,ekner and Tnnothr O.XLEItc..cl. num.. Kamm Scrag" Ica, Cneee. /ac. Lae cCrublic Ewen.% one dont Wow J. Etiwkly.". MUM. Oct.* 1541.-tt Cobb It Zogers, • DEALER.' OZOCERUMAIie..*.tbe stametarilly octopi A I . 4 :lZ4Ltdi stritilMiur elm bstement VC Be Webreeg unir Mart caper CMS* and! Tcruplice Stmt. ] tos - ruer Nov. , - AN AANWSTIO. C3ICE bp me, XT Oft/CS tagnuut and Antlill , READS:MSG Italcs.oll.mpne.ibd met alt come Ls: /JA. ALL 4azdsb RsatinDalesithscustrA ß, lIP T 4 "ry Recsmorbeeepals *Zeit LOCATION srmssanaglaowi.474 Turn Influx swias imos i Dgftserialasp ft Cl. x... lakremwd et Anarieto ROW, its Turni;llt Street w " ...Tows. August / 4194a.4e. ' • blab* NKER;RORSCOIPOItt ;Men e" HENRY DRI t WX , .HtIiTTLISG-COOPEIL, s m . em b er 1 jroATROSE 20465. ISAAC L. rIDST. DRAFTIi on Sem York City and Thiladelptda.— Collections promptly made and remitted, Clem boors from -10 A. z. to 8. 14 }lleum Allen k Paxton, IC. York. :FEAMICY., Samuel C. Xortaa, Egg...VW& Wm. William Jessup, Iteattom. Nevis Office! lOW TOES CJTT atzsrßow xzwitrA• 11201. J[JG ES,Re,formeat losit. ne So* boa by LiF; -••••.••":„.' • . „ • .• .•. ~•.. • .-• a • • VOL. :5.- might be able to achieve the greatest amount i of benefit to the patient. The oiganization, -, of this society, for such objects and from - I such motives, evinces - on the part of its orig.- ( inators an honorable determination to make themselves of the greatest possible benefit to the community, not only by perfecting, their I knowledge and skill in the divine' art of healing, but also by promulgating, establish ! ing, and elucidating correct medical and hy ' gienie principles and practices among the ! people. it manifests a devotion to that pro fession from high and philanthropic' motives. ~ In this early. tnovement of our physicians, ' they recognized and reduced to practice these I important principles: let. That. the hist , interests of the patieQt require an honorable ! slid friendly, conduct -slid feeling between neighboring physicians. f2l. That thekniowl ' edge and usefulness of the physician are in '''creased by a reciprocal interchange of vieiks . and opinions with- his fellow practitioners.—; 'IL That the improvement of the various • branches of the medical science is hotter tic: oomplished by associated, than by individual action. These principles are now the life and spirit of the National Medical Associa ' (inn, :mil lire the - source of its immen s e use fulness. They are also the life and vigor of I the State Medical Society-. It is not sup : posed that these principles originated with 1 this society ; but it is claimed that they were , practically nppreid years before the National and State organizations hail existence. In- I deed, so well satisfied was the society with the practical workings of those - principles, af ter a ten years' experience, that it sent a : delegate to a State. Medical Convention held 'in Lancaster in "ISIS, for the purpose of ..-- forming a State 11felical Society upon the' same principles ; and it seas honored by hay , ing its youthful delegate elected Secretary of the Convention. -The early formation of this . : siieiety is therefore a credit to the physicians of the county, end the names of those who took part in its organization should not, be forgotten. They should he again placed up on the reeorils,pf the society and saved to those who come after us. - , Who were the six physicians who pilaved i themselves so much in. advance of the pro fession in large:l towns and more populists I districts? As'a class, (and it is a Pleasure ( to speak of them as a class) they were Bee. Is complying with the appointment with LAI% PRACTITIONERS Or IMEIIIC - INE. They whickl am hoeored, Mr. President, I shall 1 ! • . 0 i belonged to that ancient and honorable school endeavor to bring to your recollection some w Ineh was founded more than two thousand thing - of the early history of the Society over I years are by Ilip ocrateethe venerated Fa which you are called this day to preside, : iher of - Mediml Science, P find which has come Is needless to remind you that its record i s t down toms through the lapse of ages with were burned four years.hgo in the office t ' fi its fundamental principles- unchanged and en changeable. Secretary, and that the . date of its forme- ! tion, the names of its :Originators, and the a u ' eable - 10 e ver ' a " of its I°l ' 4 e ' l4- ce'it has witnessed - the' rise and as . well the tributes of its proceedings were thus lost.— and . rival systems, while itself To remedy this loss, as far as possible, I re- 1 e fi n d i ' ' 'f ne w , sorted to a file of the county newspaper, and, I progressed and i mproved in every chan g in g turning it over, leaf by leaf, found -a notice of I period. "The theories which ruled the the first medical meeting held in the county, i wm 4l ., i s'ee s-1 " 1 ' 1° ("rnwr years have 'Us red. onteafte - r eirother, like the succeed- With data . thus obtained,• I refreihed. the I Memories of the older numbers, and, from ; it iio Pe fi n isbions in 'dress and ' equipage, while recorded more than two centuries their recollections have gathered facts enough 1 tart • , . . • I a •, be to save the early hi story of this s m i ey fi.„, 1 fore the Christian Er . a, recur in t I , e al y entire forgetfulness. , walks of our pinfession Jest as the bather of M - aicine recorded them on his tahlete. Sys •On the 19th day of November, in the year I tents of medicine which were popular and 1838, six physicians, residents of Susquelian- I world renowned in their day, are now ; less na County, met in the office of Dr. Asa Park, I I honored than the memories of their itivett in.the villnge of Montrose, and formed them- 1 ors. No other destiny awaits the hypllthe, selves into an asviciation -under "the name 1 , e ,i which hay, more recently and denomination of the Susquehanna Coen- I s arisen and n '. led The theories of Brown, and i ourts i . ty 4ediezlSociety.'%. I Thompson. and llahnimann, and Priessnitz, In reading this notice we .are surprised at I and all other Truits of a luxuriant fancy, must the age of this Society—more than twenty 4 - descend the inevitable slope to oblivion : but verus old! Twenty - years ago there was no t the cast collection of truths established by National' Medical Association, sending its I the observation of nature, are as immutable able discussions and erudite monographs into( as herself." Theories and systems shift and -every part of the country , stimulating theTetiange with the veering wind of popular fa- physicians to reading and study, and infusing i von, while the regular practice goes steadily new energy into the entire profession.— lon through every age, growing aid - huprov- Tweety years ago Pennsylvania had no State i ing with the march of time, and adding new Medical Society to, which the local organize- 1 lustre to its glories,ln every succeeding year lions could send an annual delegate to report • I ts perpetuity and renown are the results of 'ate health statistics of the county; and to i inevitable necessity ; for its practices are not bring back-the history and treatment of -arty : sustained by theories but by facts. They epidemic or any. new disease occurring 1 " • arc not formed on mutable dsetrincis but on other parts%f the &ate.. Ilad it, been to-day ; the immutable laws of 'nature. It must eon this Society was fortinsl, it would have been ' - 'tinue to. withstand, in all time to came, as-it simply to carry out the suggestions - of the !has in all times oast. the assaults of every , National Association, or merely to 4 com I 1' wind and wave of doctrine; for its deep and with the urgent requts of the State Sucie: strong foundation is built upon a rock of i ty, or only to follow the . example of physi. I medical trulhs. i clans in every county: around us. But it I . Dledical truths -do not force themselves up- ! was formed-years before the idea of a Na- on the understanding, - like the truths of sill titnia! Medical Association was conceived, ,axiom, nor arc they demonstrable like the , years before the State Society was proposed, !propositions of tnathemati . They are 1 .and whektiterh were no outside influences-of I - e4sild only by slow, careful, std patient in- i any kind to aid and encourage the undertak-yestigation. Every fact in ti slicine is _nut 1 I .in g . Whatevet credit there is-in the forma- regarded as a medical truth 11,:tfore a fact' teen of this Sit4iety, is due entirely to the lean attain to that high dignity it is necessary six physicians Who gave it existence. • , that it ho observed_ in. numerous eases by The place of . its formation is noticeable. t competent observers; and not observed only, . Montrose was then a small obscure village, 1 but it is fundamental and essential thit those situated somewhere .among the - bleak and 1 cases be recorded fully, minutely, and hon. rugged hilts of Northern Pennsylvania.— '1 estly, and with all the accompanying etretim- There were no navigable waters, no- canals I . stances carefully written out. A filet that then, no railroads, and no telegraphs, as now, l will stand "the test of numerous recorded ob. to put it in communication with the rest . of 1 nervations, ail - sins - the --dignity and import the world. It was off in the'" Beech Wooils" I once of a medical- truth, and becomes the ba by itself far fiom the business marts of the I sis of regular medical practice.. And it country-Ind far from any of its great thor- 1 makes no difference from what source the oughfares. Susquehanna County Was yet' fact comes. It matters not if it be a Domce half wilderness. It; hillsides were, every- 1 opatiiic, Ily-dropathic, Eclectic, or Botanic where dotted with ,tow' chopping... New 1 fact ; if it will bukstand the test of carefully . _ _ . A CHILISTIVAS 1111r:IIN. h was the calm and allot night: 'Seven hundred years and fifty-three Had Rome been growing up to might, And now was queen of land and sea. No sound was heard of clashing wars— :, Peseh brooded o'er the.bush'd domain : e Apollo, Pallas, Jove, and Mars; Meld undisturbed their ancient reign, In the solemn midnight, Centuries ago. 'Taw In the calm and - .silent night, The senator of haughty Rome Inpatient urged his chariot's flight,. From lordly revel rolling home: Triuttplial arches gleaming swell Ills breast with thoughts of boundless stray ; What recite the Rosman whit befell A palorrworince far away, - fn the solemn- midnight, Centuries ago ? • . . 'Within that province far away,. Went plodding hottte a weary boor; ' A streakier lighrbefotie him lay. Fallenlihrough a half-tut stahle•door Acres his path. lie passed—for naught 'told what was going on :within ; now leen the State, his only thought— The air, how calm, and cold, and • ' Id the solemn midnight, Centuries ago: Oh; strange indifference! low and high Pmwsed orer common joys and CI ; 0 The mirth was t —b t knew not why The world was listening muwares• flow taint a moment may precede • One that shall thrill the worldlorecer To that atilt moment, none would heed, Mates doom was linked no morello sever, • In the solemn midnight; ' Centuries ago: It i. the calm and solemn night! A thousand bells ting out, and throw Theis.. joyous peals abroad, and smite The darkness-- - ehartned and holy non The night that nisi no shame had worn, To it a happy nhtne is given; For in that stablelay, new-born, ThC peaceful Prince of earth and heaven, In the solemn midnight, • Centuries ago! A NNUAT.... ADDRESS, Read Wore ibe Medical Society of &ague lanna County. January, 1859, by - =I clearings were being made on many of its oldest roads. Comfortable and commodious framed houses were just beginning to dis place-the log buts of the first pioneers. On ly-here and there the large and, elegant resi dence and well cleared -lands or some able fanner exhibited an air of Wealth and inde pendence. ' Such was the condition or the county when her physicians, isolated.physically and professionally from the great seats of enter prise end learning,, united themselves togeth er for the noble purposes set forth in the fol lowing resolution which organized them into an association "The objects of this Soci ety are, and ever shall be, the improvement of the various branches_ of the medical sci ence; and.the development of honorable and friendircooduct- and feeling among our selves." The two set' fifth in that resolution are indeed noble,, from whatever point we view . them; bct the philanthropic m and .imph motives winch incited the movement are best seen in the preamble, to wit: " Whereas: lice greeted . auloonf of era . efif to ear Wields cauxiot be achieved with out a unity of feeling, a reciprocal inter change of views, and a unanimous dr:tett:kits *Lion to lead our aid towirds slecidating, tatdiabing l and primilgating those principles and prfetsces of the profeasin . a *hick science hay pointed out,' 4r.c. Nothing of self or of wroidinterat is mutilate!. It exhibits-an Watt dada fa an locales of Mona laceaelitir*OiliefidiO4lll*ft digielot Hp2[EtEporin AHD anADIAOT @LAWERY amp KRoma," IML G. Z. .DISIOCK, -- D MONTROSE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17 - , 1859. and minutely recorded observation, it isgath ered in and plaosd among the choice collec tion of ir.ediutl truths. It was well said by an eminent 'teacher that "our system, bum ble in its origin, has grown and improved by the,:eontributiotts-of vulgar ignorance, by fortuitous discoveries, by empirical ever'. _merits, and sometimes by well iegulateit in quiries."' And so it will continue to grow and improve not only_ by its own scientific investigations, but also by gathering in eve rything valuableand.true from every possi ble source. Whatever there may be valua ble and true in . Homeopathy, Ifydropathy,, or any other path", the ,regular system is sure to find and abseil; and leave the false system with its volumes of false theories and fitlse facts to slide down the" inevitable slope to oblivion."' " I A high regard for the great truths which, I science has developed, and a disregard for theories and systems, is the characteristic I which in all ages has distinguished the regu.- i tar practitioner from the quack mid empiric. When he goes forth to combat disease in ail its Protean forme be wants fads, celd, stub born, • unyielding, uncompromising - , unmis. takable facto, to guide. him in his But the quack comes out diumtiogly with some new system, by which all manner of diseases shall he certainly healed. One makes his practice conk= to the well-estab lished truths bf his profession; the other bat ee bra ere , the knead and etteetieht efeleitt 100 41 1 -4 11 1 tift''f)0. 100010 114 certain guide to rational treattitent ; the oth- ; he established. After Thompsonianism; and er follows an ignis Mune whose bright and : growing out of its fossil remains. came 'the truthful appearance raises false- hopes, and Botanic Practice, formed upon two lucid ; luresto disappointment. .- ; principles—" Metals and Minerals are hi the The qualification which ablate the', midi- I Earth, and, being extcted from the •eart, date to membership in this ancient school. 1 have a tendency to dra ra w all men down into is a thorough medical education. Not that ' the earth who use them. That vegetables I lie shall be versed in-theories end doctrines, ! spring up from the earth, and their tendency I but that he shall be thoroughly learned in ,is to uphold all men from the earth." Bo ; medicaltruths. His mind must be stored tanic Doctors talk largely and knowingly with the fruits of dose and unremitted study, I about the deleterious and poisonous effects Year after rear must he pore over the pages ; of all mineral and metallic substances upon of medical books; and month After month , the human system - , but they do not hesitate `must he site') chi d e attention to medical lec- ; to take Soda, Cream Of Tartar, and Sateen ; turos, before he may -present himself for- an 1 , tus in half their food,itnr to devour Salt in 1 admission into that learned body. Medical ! everything they eat. The ignorant creatures education is the qualification, and this is the ; do not know that these are all metallic nom. disqualt)feation- 1 ' Any physician who pro- 1 pounds. They do not men know that there cores a patent fee a remedy or instrument of i are at least a dozen Mineral substances enter. I ...surgery, is disqualified for membership in ine, into the composition of their own bodies, I this body." -The, regular physician holds I all of which are necessary -.to perfect health, that any remedy or instrument of surgery i l and some of them essential to life. Next i that can benefit the siek nr the injured, be. ; came the Eelectic.Doctor, a species of the longs not to the discoverer ha- to suffering !-Botanic, only ti little better educated. They humanity. He will not keep secret' for his I have not sufficient medical knowledge to en:' i own persetuff interest it remedy which can 'ter the regular ranks. or Ip - Se• Clot honor be of general benefit-to the sick. • If he dis- 1 enough to conform to its rules of profession.' 1 covers a remedy or instrument of' surgery, :al etiquette. ' he publishes the discovery in the medical : The Magnetic Doctors, who promised to J ournals, for the benefit of the whole profess. scure all manner of diseases by Electra:Mag. 1 ion. -Ile places his remedy in the hands of i incase, and the Mesmerising Doctors, who I -educated men, to be used with skill andwere to cure every speeiteeof disease by a i•judgment. But if a quack discovers a rem. I simple effort of their own will, hare strutted eily, he gets it-patented, and places it in the across - the stage end disappeared. Along hands of the ignorant. to cure hundreds and kwith this ignoble crowd, travelling to the same 1 destroy thousands. The one-gent rich, sure- I:destination, came Homeopathy, another new . . -ly ; the other gets thanks,—perhaps. I system, and like all ties systems has a new To a school se ancient • and learned and ; theory for its foundation. "The efficacy of ; honorable, belonged the six physicians who ; medicines depends 'upon the minuteness of -I formed the Susquehanna Co. Medical Society. ; the dose." ThiS, the most absurd and ri ; They were all Regular Practitioners of Med. diculous of all theories, has been the most wine : and it is with no small degree of pride I popular. Its followers were numbered by that I -record the fact. It is a high honor to i thousands and tens of thou - sands. It-s very all ; them, and lAM glad that their long profess. ; surdity commended it to the faith of the ce&l. ' ional lives have never been sullied with any - I-eleus. Every- body went crazy alter " little 1 species of quackery. - ----; Sugar pills." But the Homseopathic Doctors Of the six physicians who were present at ! 'are abandening " the sugar pills," and are the first meeting, twenty years ago, five are ; resorting. to " Tinctures." They have lost still living. One only has ceased from his confidence in their "Insinitesimals," and are . professional labors and gone to. that happy 1" exhibiting,- mellieineesin sensible and appre -Irealm where pain and sickness and death, the S ciabte doses." In other words, they have subjects of his life-tong study, are : Unknown. ; taken the first step down that "inevitable 1 1 Dr. Asa Park, the Chairman of the first I slope." ' ! meeting, is that one. Death found him a 1 So much, and more, have the originators weak, palsied old man—preniaturely old and 1 of this Society witnessed; and - as they sit , ' weak frnmsexcessive toils end privations.— ibid.° to-day, noting the progress - of the regu- i,Before the measure of his daps was full, and, lar practice on one hand, and the decline of while lie yet retained the confidence of the ! rival systems on the other, and perhaps eon- I ; community, ho was obliged to retire from an "radioing themselves upon the success of 1 extensive practice, and drag out the remain- ! the Society they organized, it will be well der of his days in weakness end ittfirmity.— 1 for them to pause and inquire, has the Socie. i Sdch is too often the brief history of the life ty done any good iu all the twenty years of ; '-of the country physician. Long rides. Ire- its exietence I Has it been-able to accom- I (emit fastings, night-watehinee, and intense 1 push even one iff the - objects contemplated in lanxieties, soon undermine the strongest.con-; its,feemation i i stitution. Not wealth and honor; but in. , Twenty yeareeigo the phyeiciatis of Sus . firmities nod premature old ago are the- re- quelianne Courts stood each ,with his elbows ward of his labors. , -' '' °weedy to thrust the side of his profession ( Two of the original sip have lost ill , .tir .al neighbor. When they met, to disagree membership in the Society by removal front ; was. the rule, to quarrel was not an excep t the county. Pr.. E. S. Pork. the youngest ; ;ion. Each endeavored to build himself up ; 1 of the number, recently left the - county and by destroying his neighbor. If . called its ; located in lowa. Dr. John L. Kite,- of Cho-`; council, the life and health of the patient was &mit, the one who suggested the call for the quite forgotten in the anxiety to jejure the first meeting, and to whom the Society prob. reputation of the physician in attendance.— ably owes its existence, is now a resident of It they met, as two once did, in this village, 1 Piiijadelphia. Three, just one-half the orig. lon a plank over a mud-hole, they ,fought for ; final number, still retain their membership, 1 the right of way. When they met on their and manifest as much zeal. to-day, in carry- professional. rounds, they' often Stopped - to ing out the objects of the Society as they quarrel, and on one oceasion, -- at least, did not I did twenty years ago. Dr. B. Richardson, part until they knocked off bats and bestow ' of Brooklyn, the first President, Dr. Josiah ed other "amiable attentions" 'upon each i Blackman, of Montrose, the first Secretary, , other. To this there were honorable excep- I and Dr. L. W. Bingham, of New Milford, 1 tions, There were physicians in , the county ; tine Chairman of the Committee to draft a 1 who would not violate their honor to injure ' Cnstitution. are present at this meeting ; • a rival. But among them all wait a feeling 1 and I doubt not they will find the reminis- l of jealousy and distrust which was a shame cences of to-day pleasurable. _ Their - minds ; to them and an injury to the profession.— will naturally revert to the condition of the! Now, through the kindly influence of this So-' county and of the profession when they first 1 defy, the physicians of the counteuneet each started in life. • Each one Will recall the 1 other es brothers. They council and advise 1 changes and iniprovemente which have taken 1 with each other without an effort or a desire ; place in his paeteularloctilitk ; mid will, per- I to take unclip advantage. The patient can 1 hill - is, be able to point out the precise spot on get the honest opinions. of consulting physi- I I some well cultivated farm where be once di- - cisme, and -have the benefit of their united-1 verged from the obseure bridle path and he- ! judgment and skill. By adopting a codh of came lost in the wide forests, or will point ; Medical Ethics, and a uniform Fee Bill, 1 to some fine residenee erected upon the Site the Society .has removed the two most of a log cabin where he has lain all night up- I frequent causes of jealousy and ill.feeling:— on the floor with nothing to cover him but I It has accomplished its primary object, and his overcoat. Many such hard- and_ trying 1" developed an honorable and friendly con ; scenes, dimmed and softened in the distance ;•duct and feeling among its enembere' of tithe, will come crowding in upon their ; The semi-annual meetings of - the Society memories, find will add, like rugged tnount-; have been profitable. The members have air scenery in the background of a landscape, I not failed to benefit each Other by a reciprie beauty and pleasure - to the retrospective ; eal interchange of v iews and opinions. The view. One of them will think of the time conversations and discussions have called out lie lost his way in the wilderness, and lay ; ilk results of observation and experienees, and all night in a laurel thicket, while a pack 'of medical facts of a local character have been hungry wolves howled ,and gnashed their i s establielied. The SOriety has most assured teeth within a few feet of - him, kept from a , ly Ledo a success. It has accomplished two , luscious repast of human flesh by the threat- 1 of its prineipabohjecte. It is true that it has ening growl of a faitnfol - mastiff. We ear, i not done much toward the improvement of all remember when the steam car first went • the various branches of the medical sciences, whistling through our valleys, and when the - nor is itexpected that, it should. But, by quick- lightning, submissive. to- the guidance ; increasing their own knowledge and skill, of man,etirst sped through the country, car- 1 they have contributed to the elevation of the rying intelligence with the speed of thought entire profession. Little more !...ttn be ex to distant cities. ' But on an occasion like peeled of the country physician. They have this, their minds will dwell-with more pleas- also endeavered to protect the health and ure upon the changes and improvements 1 lives ot their patients, by promulgating-sound, which have'taken place in the medical scienc- . 1 medical end hygienic principles. They have es. As their thoughts run -backs-over their 1 nut failed, on all proper occasions; to teach the profession during the brief period of their laws of health and to warn against thaeauses recollections, they will see progress and im- 1 of disease. . provement written everywhere and all over I As I am about to close, do I hear any one. ever; page of its history. They will see . ask, what good it does to teach the principles improvement in-their instruments, -in their I and practices by which health is preserved . books, and in their remedies. ,They will see I 'and life prolonged I 'Does any one doubt . it in the Asylums, in the Hospitals, and in ' whether humanity is a whit the better for all the Colleges ; an d . more especially will they the progress and - improvement he the media • see it in Surgety, in Midwifery, and- in the Yal sciences of which we have been boasting Zs ' Practice of Medicine:. Every -brimeh of the Deis anyone point to the thousands of lova - medical science is on the march - toward per- - lids who go greening through life, or to the feetion. - Research - and investigation is the thickly ,peopled graveyards whose marble characteristic of the age ; but in tau depart. l slabs may be seen from every hill-top, and : , inent of human knowledge have - they ' pro- sneeringly ,ask, where now, is , your boasted 1 diked results more splendid or brought out I skint To all atiehlet me say, . we do not . ; truths more brilliant and intportant than - in I profess tO, cure every diseases but let me as. the sciences &inflected with our profession .—l : sure yon, l the list - of incurable'Aliseases ,is The three original Members bete, present are ' growing less every day. We do not profess., living witnesses to thelact Before mentioned, to save from death: The hat liar:gone forth, that the regular practice of Medicine is pro: " Thou shalt surely die." ' Fron . that decree greasing and improvingwithWvery succeed. we melte no appeal. -Ali that we can do is log year. . They can als o witness to that QUI. to put oft! the ,day of. death : and that we , er feet mentioned, that rival systems. appear I bare - Anne ; ten and twenty .Ye j irs.. • iy stale- ' and disappear like - succeeding - changes in tics, carefully - prepared, hits demonstrated dresisand equipage. They - remouther when -beyond a 'doubt, thit the average duraticin of: Thompson panne oat with bli absurd theory . human lifeless more than doub ted iithe !eat —"The - human .body is composed of four two hundred yeam, in which the regular prac elenients - ;and these . elements - are Earth, tics - has triumphed over emery species of Air, Fire, "and Water." Notwithstanding .eftipirielstn. Previous to the sizteenth.cen this theory betrayed the grossest ignorance tury, the medical world was ruled by a sue., ,of the human system, it took nmatiogly with cession of theories and'. systems , while the . the Credulous: , in. 1 8 10 no - ess than Wirt . regular practice had only bare and there a eft hltwelpursoni pntithnted' the ' ' ;4 4 Yffill.'Of Illslierolitth'fivit'Ojho sp -.doiliikutiiiltiv7thillyicell**4.wtiow { -NO. 7. and all the productions of a too fertile imag ination;and, returning to the principles of llippocrates, based his practice upon facts established by the observation of nature.= He fiat down by the bedside of his patient and watched the progress of digease and not." ed the ;effect of medicines, and • in all cases followed the suggestions of nature. By his great talent and influence the regular prac tice was revived, and it became the popular and principal school of medicine. From that day, the average duration of life has eteadily increased, as may be seen from the following summing up of a Ladle .of Vital Statistics: "In the latter part of the sixteenth centu ry nee half of all who were born died under five.y ears of age ; the average longevity of the whole population wail but eighteen years. In the seventeenth century one : balf of the whole population died under twelve 'years of age. But in the first sixty years of the eigh teenth centnry one half of the population lived over twenty-seven years. In dui latter forty years one-half exceeded' thirty-four years of age. At the be g inniug of the present centu ry one-half excee ded over forty years; and from 1638 to 18.15 otrt-hall exceeded forty three years. The aver age longevity at these successive periods has been increased. from 18 years in the sixteenth century, up.. to 143 7-10 by the last reports." • The achievements of the Regular Practice will not end here. Before the close or an other century the average duration, of human life will be brought up to the Bible standard of three score years and ten. It is a great thing, worthy the study and labor of life, to relieve the sufferings of fallen humanity, but it is greater and tar nobler to lengthen the days of man upon this earth.— That is the business of tter profession, and. that is its greatest achievement. It is well j tint our profession i 3 callecl the "divine art of healing ;" for its necornistishments are al most superhuman. God breathed the breath of life into Man; and then so surrounded him with the causes of disease did death that he could survive upon the earth upon an aver age of only;eighteen years. ' Our profe s sion came in and sought out those causes of early death, and by remming them ,one after an ' other, has lengthened his days from eighteen tn twenty-seven, to thirty-four, to forty-three years. And tae promise stiff more: If•men will continue to place thernseivea in our care land follOw our directions, we promise them that their days shall go on increasing from fiwty-three to forty-five, to fifty, to sixty, and 'on up-to that standard fixed by divine will at three score years and ten. More than' that we dare not promise. Be it' our - effort.. and nue ambition to hasten the time when loan shall live out the full measure of his days. To the three original members let me say, you have done well. Your efforts have been • successful. You have benefitted. the COMMII , , ' nit‘ and the profession. ;Allow me to ion ;• - . • gratulate you upon this desirable reult, ! and no Pic4l o to Y 4 42 -......,-, the tvropilnitinti rof the• younger members of the Society, -in I any eflbrt to improve or elevate our glorious i . , profession. _ _ For the indepenerryst R•puLliean. A' 'VALENTINE. To A. G. VERT soft and sweet should the low strain be, That 1 weave for one who's so dear to me ; Andjittle of melody though it impart, 'Twould waft the worm breathings oflove to thy heart. Thou mayst, prize lightly the lay that I sing, But I know thoti wilt cherishthe ofrring I in Ing= No. costly jewel, no enfrald I bear, 0, mine is a boon more precious, morerare— An Angel went forth from elysian bowers, In kindess she passed through this world of ours ; 4514 saw all its anguish, its sorrow, its woe, ' In pity she wept, and bowed her head low. And as she bowed, there fell to the ground, A brilliant gem from her hear'nly crown—. 0, this is the gift that I bring to-thee, . The p.m Iv' lore, in its purity! Feb. I.lth, 1859. t. A. D. D. A Great Newspaper Enterprise. Tus linflidn Republic hits off the puffing of the New York papers in the following, which purports to be called "The IsMkt Way,"—a very good name, thou gh , the Milk and Watery Way would be better. But hear the prospectus; It will be issued on a sheet twelve times as large as the Constellation„ each sheet' of paper covering riti area of 30,000 sqUare feet which being reduced to acres, is.one acre and five rods, so that every subscriber will obtain at every issue of the 4fifkr/. ll'uy nearly n "•quarter'section"—or, at least, a homestead, of reading matter. • Thus each subscriber •will get at least a 'furlong of good substantial lit. endure for bne cent. ' work this immense edition, Hoe & Co., Taylor Co.„ and.half a dozen other cum. - panics, have been engaged for- the last two„ years in building us an eighty eylinder.press, "throwing off eighty of our s acre and-a.halt sheets in one-tenth of a second, fulding,•mail hie, and receiving pay fur them at ono .and the same operation., The types used up at each edition of this, mammoth behemoth is sixty-three tons: keening two foundries in Philadelphia, five in New York, and one in' Buffalo,. running constantly to supply us. Our eighty cylinder press of course could not be placed in any known edifice, awl no engine can be built sufficiently powerful Co run it: Consequently we have arranged- to have it Placed at the foot of the-. horse-shoo call, at Niagara Falls, and hive it worked by water. To get our type from this city to that point in time, we shall be necessitated to - build a lgilroad to the Falls.. (Books of subscription to this road are now opeuat tbis office, where all who wish can take stock at once.) • - The following gentlemen are mentioned as contributors to " The Milki - Way JaMes Gordon. Bennett, Wm. Cullen Dry-. ant,JAMAS Geo. Bryan, Brooks. Seaver,. Cooper,, Batts Clapp, Jewett,Andrews; Pope, Sydney Smith, Griswold, rairfield,_ Halleek, Green,- of the Bustori.Post; Sherviood. Char lotte Bronte, Bremer ' :Brougham; "runoff, Longfellow,'BUlwer, Mrs. . Grimdt, - . (author of " What will they any 1") Dr. Squills, Wendell Holmes, Ritchie, Kendall, Gray end Brown, of theylaindealer, Doestieks,. sticks, Old Dow, Jr., Dayton, H. W. Begr.,h, er, Sargent, Sentinel, Set ,Lovengond, lota v On dit, inspeter, OCessitintd, Leveln, Weed, Anonymous; and, chroming, - Cheever, Pier. pont, Saxe, Chapin . , .Litut..Msurey, De San. ty (telegraph shetehesS-Hucher',Jones, Tar. ranee, Smith, (not John but Elbert Herring,)' Park Henistnin George -Roberts, Dana .01 the Triheue,l4moA eed:ooe or two oth, ' R.J►ltti I. LORLLL. .. : U, moonlight, deep and fiteder, A Yes?.•tind more scone. ' ~ :Your inlet of golden 'plea* Itotutd my b4.01W shiett I 0, elm leaves dart ii24,#13157, • The very MOO* teen, - The low wind - bumbles thrones ye, Ye murmur la my dream. 0, river, dim with distance:, Flow thew forever by, A- part of my existence Within your heart cloth lie ! O, mom, ye saw our meeting, Two beings and one soul, • Two hearts so madly beating To mingle and be whale! 0, happy night, deliver' . Her kisses back to tne, . Or keen them all and 1.04 her A blissful dream of me! • Migration of Birds. Tilt study of the migration of birds is Par; titularly interesting. Many of our .land • birds probably are guided instinctively in their journeys by the course of our, great rivers and, mountain ranges, arid our water birds by the trending of our coast line. But ,it is difficult to conceive of the instinct that ,directs.some of our birds, which do not ap pear to heel the directions supposed to be apparent on the face of the country, but care lessly pass along, intent only in feeding as they slowly progress in their journey, taking no landmarks, and heedless little " creatures, as-they not even so much as take -a frird's eye view of the, country over which they - pass. For instance, there is the little ruby . , . crowned wren, that little Moth of ornitholo- - gy, not larger than one's thumb, which pask es from Hudson's Bay, where in summer it breeds, to Florida in winter, and back again to its northern home in spring. In its mi gration in autumn, it passes through Massa chusetts in . October, gleaning its food, princi pally consisting of the Jayvee of insects. This little timid bird does not for a moment, ap pear to, lute its way. or, as, we say, get its head turnisi round, but 'uniformly entep an - orchard oi garden on its northern side, and passing thiough it from tree to tree, leaves it from its , southern border, and thus pursues its journey, silently and quietly along, for .months, until it at last reaches the most southern portion'of the Union. In Februa ry, it leaves Florida in its journey north, and arrives around Hudson's Bay by the - first' of June, and after-rearing its young, leaves . these northern regions for the south about " the middle or last of August. Although most ofOur small birds - migrate to the south in winter,' the swallow tribe, un der peculiar eircumstances;do not always conform to the great migratory law of their nature, but pmvifla themselves with veinier quarters in hollow trees,..ssnd banks and the bottoms of ponds. The parts visited by our birds in autumn and tauter are Mexico and • the southern portions of 'the Union. Mr. Nuttall, who has given considerable attention to the migration of our bit , ds, remarks that th-r. g?eater number of birds travel in' the night; some species, however,. proceed only by day, as the diurnal birds of prey—crews, (' pies,,wrens,creepers, cross-bills, larks, blue birds, swallows and some others. Those -which, travel whelly in the night, are oils, butcher-birds, kingfishers, thrushes, fly-catch ers. night-hawks, whip-poor-wills, and also a great number of aquatic birds,whose motions are often principally nocturnal,.except in the cold and desolate northern regions, where they usually retire to breed; Other birds ' are so powerfully. iifipelled by'this . governing , motive-to migration, that they stop neither day nor night; such as the herons, provers, e erenca. wild-geese, storks, etc. When untoward circumstances render haste neces sary, certain kinds of birds, which'ordinarily travel only in the night, continue their route during the day, and scarcelY allow them- . selves time to eat ; yet the singing _ birds, properly so called, never migrate by day, whatever-flty happen to them. And it may be `here inquired with .astonipment, how these feeble but enthusiastic animals are able to pass the time, , thus engaged, without the aid of recruiting Sleep? .«r-.-_ Harlequin and the Stammerer: In the course of a genial article in defence of laughing, from the pen of "Sigma," in the Boston Transcript,' we find . this good story„ as related by Dr. John Moore, in :his "Views of Society- and Manners in kali:" I acccniOnnied the Duke of Hamilton to the stage...box of one of the play houses the very day of their arrival at Venice. Tbe piece was a comedy, and the most entertain ing character in it was that of a man who stuttered. Disgusted at such a pitiful sub stitution for wit and humor, I expressed con. tempt tor an audience which could be enter tained with such buffoonery, and 'who could take pleasure in tbc_exhibition..of such an in firmity. \Vbile tie inwardly indulged sentiments of selrripprobation, on•account of t 124, refinement and superiority of our taste, and supported the dignity of those sentiments lir a disdain ful gravitrof countenance, the stutterer was giYing a piece of information to the harlequin which greatly interested him, and to which he listened with every mark of eagerness.— This unfortunate speaker bad just arrived at the most important part of his narrative, which was to acquaint the impatient listener where his mistress was concealed, when , he immediately stumbled upon a word of six or seven syllables, which completely obstructed, The - progress of his narrative. Re attempted it again;but always without maxis. You may-have observed that, though many other words would have explained.: the meaning equally Well, you may as well mike a saint change his religion as prevail on a stutterer to accept another ward in' place of that at which he has stumbled. Be - adheres to his first word, And will sooner expire with it in his throat than give it up for any you may offer. Harlequin on the present occasion, present• ed his friend with a dozen, but be rejected them nil with disdain. At length, making a desperate effort., when all tbespeetatom were gaping, in expectation of hien& delivery, the cruel word come up with its broad side fore most, anty / stock directly across the unhappy man's windpipe. Ho gaped, and panted, and croaked ; hit face flushed, soni ;his eyes seem ed ready start from his : bead. Harlequin : unbuttoned the stutterer's waistcoat mud the neck of his shirt ; be fanned his &we with his • nail, and held _a bottle of hartehori to , his nose. At length, fearing his patient" would expire beforeihe could give the &aired Intel ligence,,in aSt of despair be pitched his bead full in the dying man's stomach, and the word bolted out of his mouth, •to the most Oietint parts of the house. • . This was performed in a manner so per fectly,droll, and-the humorous absurdity of the expedient came So unespectedll. upon Me, that I host into a most. emessiae .of laughter, in which I was accompanied by the . Duke, and our laughter eentinned in such loud; violent,- and repeated fits Abet the at tention of the audience being tamed from the stage to our boxocoasioned a renewal of the mirth allover the play house with great ! er vociferation than at first. 14••• A philosopher being asked what wag; the hut thing oeceseaq to mt , ht. theirs Of weep, sostnllo444P)M** Il