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THE LECTURE SEASON, that we arc aware of. There was not one of those present last evening who ever saw pure darkey but could from his own experience refute Mr. Phillips, and yet all listened with cquiuisiity to him while he claimed for his representative darkey a place above him whose mcmoryfl is honor in America as no man's ever was. With admirable adroitness Mr. Phillips barely alluded to atrocities of the insurrection of San Domingo, hero sacrificed twelve hundred white men on thegrave of his wife.but Mr.Phllllps dwells with as much complacency upon tnefnet, asthoughhc had enjoyed the benefits of living under the benign sway of the King of Dahomey.

Mr. Phillips failed to tell his audience that when L'Overture attained control, his first act was to appoint a council of nine members, of whom eight were white men, and one mulatto, clearly giving the world to understand that whatever may be the opinion of fanatical white men of uegroc wis ranco of anatomy. What a reflection is this! May it never be yours. War Is Moloch that purposely consumes. Our science is notto destroy but to save.

And ho who fhrongh.profcBsional ignorance reverses bis mission and brings suffering and death where alleviation and life are possible, if ho feel it not, and make no attempt to amend, is a brigand to his race. "The motions of his spirit are dull as night and his affections dark as Erebus." But the student who has a hoart within him, and who feels the responsibility of Ids mission, surely if he thinks of entering the army, will bo arxlous to become a good anatomist, Even in the peaceful walks of life we daily see instances that illustrate the value of anatomical knowledge. A tumor perhaps has formed and presses on some vital part, and its removal becomes necessary to save the life of tho patient. lie onlycan attomptthis in aafoty who knows the parts that would be involvod in the operation. Having Hub knowledge the surgeon removes the tumor, abates the suffering of tho patient and saveB his life.

Take another instance, an artery becomes involved by dlseaso or accident, the coats yield, a large pulBating tumor is formed, which ovory hour threat enB to burst and deluge the patient in his blood, causing therby instant death. He who knows the precise locution and surroundings of the main artery leading to it can secure the vessel, arrest the current, and avert the danger. Just as the harper puts his open paliu Upon his harp and deadens Us vibrations" 8o the ligating hand of the surgeon touches the artery theancurismal thrill is hushed, the threatened torrent of blood is Btayed, ann the patient Bnatched from the jaws of death and restored to health, to his home, to society, and to the State. Let me urge you then, gentlemen of the class, in conclusion, to become thorough anatomists. In your pupilage and during your subsequent career, have frequent reference to the Ca'hiver, that you may keep alive this knowledge which is vital to a professional existence worthy of the name for anatomy is the Koek on which the medical Church is built.

He who builds on any other foundation builds on the sand, and his house will fall bnt the structure that is carefully reared on this rock, anatomy being the chief corner stone and whose Corinthian capitol ahull be set with shouts ofhealing when the winds and the waves of disease shall come, as come they will, and beat upon that house it shall stand and abide the tempest. East to West by day and gliding along tho edge of the horizon to their original stations during tho niuht. Or still more fancifully the Paurariicas of India, say thai it' is a vast plain, encircled by seven oceans of milk, ncotor and other delicious liquids that It is studded with seven mountains and ornamented In the centro by a mqun tainous rock of burnished gold and that a great dragon occasionally swallows up the moon which accounts for the phenomena of lunor "eclipses" (Sir W. Jones, Ir vlng's. N.

From such theories as these and from the simple maplng out of the beavens by the Chaldeon Shepherds, what a progress has been made in astronomy that raoBt ancient, as it is the most sublime of sciences. What a stride to the great discoveries of Copernicus. Tycho Brohe, ofKepTor, of Newton and LaPlace, and to the solution of the mighty problems and the fulfillment of the marvellouB prophecies of Lcverier and others. The great hook of geology remained closed for ages, when gradually one by one its stratified pages were lurned.and read and understood but even yet, not fully. How different, indeed, is the proscnt theory of the earth from that of the famous Masouda who wroto the history of the world from the creation down to the 88Gth of the Hegira or flight of the Prophet.

He Informs us that the earth is a huge bird, Mecca and Medina constituting the head, l'ersia and India tho right wing, the land of Oog the left wing, and Africa the tad. And moreover that tho earth is renovated every 848,000 years. Botany, mineralogy chemistry, and indeed all the natural sciences have thus had a gradual development and growth. It is no marvel, then, that the science of anatomy which lies at the foundation of medicine should have a similar history. Though intimately connectod with the best eartblv interests of man, it was not really studied for ages.

'The same causes of mental inertia and servitude, the same obsequious bowing down to the authority ofgreatnames operated against the advancement of anatomical knowledge as againBt that of all the other sciences. It moreover encountered another obstacle, the prejudices of the human mind. The body was invested witli a sacredness that forbade a careful examination and sludyaftcr death. And this, too, in times when human life was not regarded, when men were sacrificed in the gladiatorial arena or torn asunder bo wild beasts to the great amusement and delight of thousands of spectators and yet forsooth when the immortal spirit was fled, and all vitality gone, the body was too sacred to be anatomically studied. It need occasion no surprise, therefore, that science of anatomy, like all other sciences, has had a gradual development and growth.

Wc propose oh this occasion merely to glance at the history and progress of anatomical knowledge, from the earliest ages to the commencement of the present century. We naturally rlrst turn our eyes to the Kasl for light, where the aurora of science, as well as of the morning, begins to dispel the darkness. In the shadowy distance of antiquity, how ver. but little is distinctly seen. Supposed forms are phantom and alleged facts are fables.

M. Iloudart says that six of the forty two volumes of the Hermetic collection related to medicine. In these the Savaasof ancient Egypt treated, first of anatomy, secondly of diseases, thirdly of instruments, fourthly of remedies, fifthly of diseases of the eye, and sixthly i if diseases of women. An arrangement certainly more methodic and complete than that of Ilippocrates at 1000 years later. But the whole Hermetic Encyclopedia waBlost.

and no writer who speaks of itsavs be has seen mnnmakeo tm opening everywhere, and they named him L'Ouverture, tho opening. Mr. I'liillipBthon took up Macauley's comparison of Cromwell and Napoleon, and applied it to Toussaint, Idacauley says Cromwell showed greator military genius than Napoleon, because ho never saw an army until ho was 40 years of ago, while Napoleon was educated a soldier from Ids youth, and commanded an urmy at 19. Toussaint never Baw a soldier until ho was (50. Cromwell manufactured hit army out of what 1 Englishmen, the best blood in Europe; and out of the middle class, the best blood In England.

Toussaint manufactured his army, out of what? Out of whatyou call tho despicable race of negroes, demoralized by 200 years of Blavery. Now if Cromwell was a goneral, at least this man was a soldier. The lecturer continued tho comparison to show that the black man was the superior in statesmanship. Ho issued a proclamation In 1793 calling all the sons of St. Domingo, of whatever race, back to their homes, restoring them their' landB and possessions if they came.

Ho turned to his armies poor, ill clad, half starved and said to them Go back and work on these eaiatos you bav conquered; for an empire can be founded only on industry, and you can learn it only there. And thoy went. The French Admiral, who witnessed the scene, said that in a week his army melted back into peasants. Xr. Phillips then diverged into a comparison betweon his hero and Napoleon and traced many points of resemblance, though the balance was always in favor of the negro.

In 1801 Napoleon, who had already by a stroke of his pen, reduced Martinique and Gyadaloupe to chains, resolved to crush Toussaint. He had 80,000 soldiers which must be em loyod abroad or they might endanger his designs on tho throne Holland lent him 60 ships, England promised by special message to be neutral, and you know neutrality means sneering at freedom and sending arras to tyrants. Loud and long continued applause. England promised neutrality, and the black man looked out on the whole civilized world marshaled against him. America, full of slaves, of course was hostile.

Only the Yankees sold him poor muskets at a very high price. Laughter. Toussaint saw the French troops land at Samana, and he then recognized the only mistake he made in his life his confidence in Bonaparte, which had led him to disband his army. Returning, he issued the only proclamation that bears his name and breathes venge'ance: uMy children, Francecomes to make us slaves. God gave us liberty France has no right to, take it away.

Burn the ci lies, destroy the harvests, tear up the roads with cannon, poison the wells, show tho white man the hell he comes to make and he was obeyed. (Applause.) Samana was reduced to ashes, a battle was fought in its streets, and the FreDch were beaten back to their boats. Wherever they went they were met with lire and sword. Beaten in the field, the French then took to lies. They issued proclamations: they said: "We do not come to make you slaves; this man, Toussaint, tells you lies.

Join us. and you shall have the rights you claim They cheated every one of his officers, except Christophe and Dcssalines, and his own brother Pierre, and finally they, too, deserted him, and he was left alone. lie then sent word to Lcclerc. "1 will submit I will come in." He came iu with 5,000 troopB. lie took the oath, and on the same crucifix Leclere swore that he should be faithfully protected.

Wendell Phillips at the Academy "lOUSSAINT The Academy of Music was crowded last evening to listen to Wendell Phillips' delivery of his oration on Toussaint L'Ouveiture, the leader of the negro revolution of St. Domingo. Mr.Phil lips was introduced by Mr. 0. Vincent Collin, President of the Young Men's Christian Association.

Mr. Phillips said this sketch was at once a biography and an argument a biography, of courao, very briufand which I offer lo you as an argument in behalf of the race from which he sprang. You perceive from the very announcement of my subject that 1 urn about to compare and eigh races; indeed, I am engaged to night in what you will ihink Uie absurd effort lo convince you that the negro race, insteud of bjing that object of pity or contempt which we usually consider it, Is entitled, judged by the mots of history, to a place close by the side of the Saxon. Now races love to bejudged in two ways by the great men they produce and by the average merit of the mass of the race. We Saxons are proud of the Ha con, the Shakespeare, the Humpden, the Hancock, tho Washington, the stars we have lent to the galaxy of history; aud then wc turn with equal pride to the average merit of Saxou blood, si ace it streamed forth from its German home.

So, again, there are three testsby which races love to be tried. The llrst, the basis of all, is courage the element which says, "This continent is mine, from the Lakes to the Gulf; let him beware that seeks to divide it. (Cheers.) And the second is the recognition of the forco doubled by purpose; liberty regulated by law is Ihe secret of Saxon progress. And the third ele" ment is persistency, endurance; first a purpose, then death or success. Now, out of those three elements is made that Saxon pluck which has placed our race in the van of modern civilization.

In the hour yoii loud me to night I am 10 attempt the Quixotic offort toconvinco you that the negio blood, instead of standing ul the bottom of the catalogue, judged either by its great men or lis masses, either by its courage, its purpose, or its en dui ance takes its place as near to ours as aoy other blood known lo history. And lor the purpose ol'niy argument 1 lake an island, St. Domingo, about the size of South Carolina, the third spot in America upon which Columbus placed his loot. by the magnificence of its scenery' and fertility of ils soil, he gave it the fondest of all naaics, His paniola, Little Spain. His successor, more pious, rebap lized it from St.

Domiuie, St. Domingo, and when the blacks, iu 1S01. drove our while blood from its surface, they drove our names with us, and gave it the old name, Ilayti, the laud of mountains. It was originally tenanted by the lillibusters, French and Spanish, of the early commercial epoch, the pirates of that day as of ours. The Spanish took the two thirds, the French the Western third of the Island, and they gradually settled into colonies.

The French, to whom my story belongs, became the pet colony of the mother land. Guarded toy peculiar privileges, enriched by the scions of its wealthy houses, aided by the unmatched fertility of its soil, it soon was the richest gem in tho Bourbon crown, and at the period to which I call your attention, about the era of our Constitution, 17S9, its wealth was almost incredible. The effeminacy of the white race rivaled that of the Sybarite of antiquity, while the splendor of their privatelife outshone Versailles, and their lavish luxury found no mate but in the mad prodigality of the Ciezars. At this time tho Island held about whites. 20,000 or 0,000 mulattoes and slaves.

The mulattoes, as with us, were the children of tho slaveholders, but unlike us, the French slaveholder never forgot his child by a bondwoman. He gave him everything but his name wealth, rich plantations, gangs of slaves: sent him to Paris for his education, summoned the best culture or France for tho instruction of his daughters, so that in 1790 the mulatto held one third of the real estate, and one quarter of the personal estate of the island. But thougli educated and bowed under the same yoke as with us. His son might not sit on the same seat at school with a white boy; he might not enter a church where a white man was worshiping; he must, if he entered a town on horseback, dismount and lead his horse by the bridle, and when he died, even his dust could not rest in the same soil with white body. Such was the condition of the Island when the French devolution of 1790 burst forth.

The first words that reached the island were the motto of the. facobin Club Liberty, Equality. The white man heard them aghast. He had read of tiie streets of Paris running Wood. The slave heard them ilh indifference: it was a quarrel betwixt upper sections which did not concern him.

The mulatto heard them with a welcome which no dread of other sections could quell. Hastily summoned into Conventions, they sent to Paris a joint Committee of the whole body, laid kuu icci ui luu iiuuuuai voil eilllou me ITCli gill OI 6,000,000 of francs, mortgaged their estates to one fifth of their rental toward thepayment of the national debt, and and all they asked in return was that they should be freed from the yoke of social contempt. Mirabeau and Robespierre received this munificent gift, and in answer to the petition issued a decree which reads tuus: AH ireenorn renchtnen are equal before the law." They selected Ogc the Intimate friend of Lafayette, a lieutenant iu the Dutch service, the sou of a wealthy mulatto woman, educated in Paris, the comrade of all the leading French Itepublicaus to carry tho decree and the message of French Democracy to the Islands. He landed. The decree of the National Convention was laid on the table of the Constituent Assembly of Ihe Island.

One old planter seized it, tore it in fragments, trampled it under his foot, swearing by all the saints in the calendar that the Island might sink before they would share their rights with bastards. They took an old mulatto, worth a million, who had simply asked for his rights under that decree, and hung him. A white lawyer of 70, who drafted the petition, ibey hung at his side. They took Oge, broke him on the wheel, ordered him to be drawn and quartered, and one quarter ofhisbodyto be hung up in eacli of the four principal cities ol the Island; and then they adjourned. The news of this treatment of the decree aroused the French Directory.

The decree was re aflirmed and seat out a second time. But before this second decree arrived great changes had taken place on the Island, 'ihe Spaniards on the Eastern division seeing the dissensions of their neighbors, had invaded their territory and, taken several of their cities. One half of the slaveholders were Iiepubll cans plotting to be annexed as a State to this Republic; the other half were loyalists, anxious to ally themselves with George III, and they sent to Jamaica to entreat the Governor to assist them. He sent Gen. Maiiland afterward the Admiral who conveyed Nanoleon tu St.

Helena, with 5,000 men. The mullatoes were in mountains awaiting events. The Governor Blanchland, deserted by all left llic capital and took refuge in a neighboring city. In this state of events the second decree found the island. The whites forgot their quarrel sought out Ulanchlaud, and asked him to promise that lie never would publish the decree.

Affrigted, the Governor consented to that course, and they left him. He then began to reflect that in reality he was deposed, that the Bourbons had lost the sceptre "of the island. lie remembered that he had appealed to the mulattoes five cars before to put down an insurrection. Deserted by the whites, deserted by the mullatoes, no force wu left him iu the island none but the blacks. To the blacks he appealed.

He sent a deputation lo the slaves. He was aided by Count IVArtois, afterward Charles who was seeking do in St. Domingo what Charles II did in irginia, institute a reaction against the rebellion at home. The two joined forces, and sent first to Toussaint. Nature made him a Meltornieh.

a diplomatist, lie said to the Knvoys, "vhertjare your credentials''1 "W'ehave none." "I will have nothing to do with you," They then sought Francois and Biasson, two other slaves of strong passions, anil considerable intellect, and great in llucnci. over their fellow slaves, and they said: arin, assist llic Government, put down the Knglish'on the one hand, anil ttie span isn on mc oiner, and on the yist of August, 1701, 10,000 blacks led by Francois and Biasson, supplied with arms from the arsenal of the Government, appeared in the centre of the colony. This is what ICdward Kverctt calls ihe Insurrection of St. Domingo. It bore for Its niotlo on one side of its banner.

Long live the King:" aud on the other, "We claim the Old Government." Singular mottoes for a rebellion. In fact, it was Ihe posse commltatus; it was the only French army on the island; it wus the only force that had a rightto hear arms; and what it undertook, it achieved. It put Blanchlnadin his seat; it put the Island beneath him. When it was done, the blacks said to the Governor they had created, "Now. grant us one day in seven; give us one day's labor; we will buy another, and with two by a third" Ihe favorite method of emancipation of that era.

Like the blanchland of five vears before, lie refused. He said "Disarm, disperse;" and Ihe blacks right hand thai has saved you the right hand that has saved the island for the Bourbons may perchance pave our own and they stood still. This is the first germ of the insurrection, if any such there be in St. IJouiingc Ihe llrst uetermineu purpose on the pan of the negro having saved the Government, to save himself. At lids moment, then, the island stands thus: The Spaniard is on the cast triumphat the Knglishroan is on the north went intrenched; the mulattoes are in the mountains waiting; the blacks are in tiie vallcvs victorious one half the French Hlaveholding clement is republican, the other half royalist: the white race against the mulatto and the black; tho black against both; the Frenchman against the English and Spaniard the Spaniard against both.

It is a war of races and a war of nations. At such a moment Toussaint l'Guvcrture appeared. He had been born aslavc.as 1 Irm. aid an urunixud black, his father stolen from A iru mi a plantation in the south of the Island, lie was Juj years old at this time. A kind priest had taught him to read.

His favorite books were the 'Life of the French wars of the Middle Ages, and Plutarch. In the woods he learned some of the qualities or herb, and was village doctor. On the estate the highest place he ever readied was that of coachman. At titty he Joined the army as physician. Before he went, he placed his master and mistress on shipboard, freighted the vessel with a cargo of sugar aud coffee, and scnl them to lialti morc.

and never afiewarda did he forget to semi them, year by year, lavish means of support. And I might add, that 'of all the leading negro generals, each one saved Ihe man under whose roofhc was born, aiJ protected his liuuilv. The lecturer then related many Htories told Toussaint, lending to show his generous audhercMc eharacter, remarking thai all the materials of this negro's biogra phy bad been gleaned from the reluctant testimony his enemies, men who hatcu and despised him. ue on one occasion saved the lives of 1:200 jlsoncr whom his army had condemned to death to avenxe an insult to their general. Proceeding, the lecturer said, ibis was In 179:1.

Leap with me over five years; come to 17U what has he achieved? He IjasiIriYcnthe Spaniard back into bis ow State, conquered him there, ami put the Bourbon banner over every Spanish town; ami for the llrBt time and 1 lie laHt the Island obeys one law. He has put the mulatto under his feet. lie has attacked Malt land, defeated him in three pitched battles and permit ted bim to retreat to Jamaica; and when the Kreuoh ar my rose upon Leveaux, their General, and put him orison, Toussaint defeated them, took lAveaux out of tirlum mid nut htm at the bead or Ids owu troous: and the grateful Frenchmen in turn named him General in Chief. Crthtnnnit 'til I'onofrtiir urtuut, suj.l he, thii FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 13. This Paper has the Largest Circulation of any Evening Paper published in the United States.

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The Prosecution of the War The Meeting on Monday Evening. A meeting will be held on Monday evening at the Academy of Music to re affirm, as we under. Btniid it, the determination of the people of this city to stand by the Constitution of the country and to pledge themselves in this dark hour tha they are now, as they have been from the first, opposed to agreeing under ay circumstances to the disintegration of the Union. The Democratic party have been taunted by men who desire to divide its councils, with pursuing a vacillating policy. The needle is not truer to the p.de than the Democratic party to the Virion.

They are willing to try any means to attain the one object Which they have steadily kept in ACerihe election in November last, and up to a few weeks ago, the leaders of the party seemed to faver a peaceful settlement of the difficulties, because they believed that the object of their labors could be secured in this way. The leaders of the rebellion are not uninformed that the conservative people of the North were willing to put an end to this fratricidal war, if they could be assured hat peace could be had upon honorable and erpu able terms within the Union. To shown their strength here they suffered their motives to be impugned, their character as citizens to be maligned, and braved cheerfully the terrors with which they were threatened by the inconsiderate faction, who claimed to speak for the people and for the government. Under these difficulties the conservative party conducted the last campaign, in which they proved that the people were with them, and they had it in their power to shape the policy of the government, and to redress any grievances which the South could show it had endured, or if they feared any infringement upon their rights to guarantee them against them. For all this, the conservatives are assailed by the organs of public opinion most directly under the control of the Davis government in terms more malignant than the heated and discomfited fanatics of the North had dared to use.

From the conservatives, nothing less will be accepted by the rebel leaders than a plan for disintegration or their country. They are asked to take upon themselves the odium of that act, and thev are to be rewarded by the contempt of the men, that it is assumed to benefit. Everv tradition of the Conservative Union party is to be abandoned, every hope that inspired it is to be given ry principle it adhered to is to be repudiated, to the dissolution of the Union and the contempt of the men who desire it. If the South desires peace on honorable terms the conservative party is strong enough to secHre it for them; if they seek only to divide the Union it is useless to seek co operation from a party whose hopes, whose attachments are inseparably associated with the Union. Continued disasters to our anas, the intervention of other nations, the folly of men entrusted with power in pursuing a cour60 which by making the Government disreputable may weaken the attachment of the people for it, any or all of these causes may, as Mr.

Ivisraeli predicts in his place in the English Parliament, transfer to this continent rival governments, standing armies, frequent wars, but for all this the Democratic party never will be directly or indirectly responsible. It would no doubt gratify men at the North who never loved the Union, who never understood the spirit in which it was formed, who could compute its value in dollars, to make, the conservative party the scapegoat of their schemes. But they decline to be used forany such purpose, (j The meeting on Monday night is designed to Secure unity of feeling. We trust those who tike part in it will remenber that to secure harmony it is necessary to have concessions on both sides. There arc men who loudly declaim against a divided North, who will not sacrifice a tittle to secure harmony.

They are for union but they insist that the unity shall be upon their peculiar opinions. All other doxies save theirs is hetredosy. If the radicals arc represented at the Academy of Music on Monday next, we trust that they will find a spokesman who will let the meeting know how much they are willing to sacrifice for harmony. We hope that they will reaffirm that their sole object is union, and that if this or that proclamation stand in the way of it, then perish the proclamation. Let them tell the meeting that ttiey desire the success of the national arms, and let them prove it by demanding the restoration of the man to command whose presence at the head of the army will give it heart and hope.

A meeting designed, not to conciliate but to intimidate will be prolific only oi'injiiry Leagues, admission into which, can only be secured by acquiescence to the peculiar political principles of the men who establish them, instead of conciliating, only more sharply defines opposition. The meeting, on Monday evening, will be taken part iu by men of all parties. We can answer for the Democratic party; they will stand by the Constitution in letter and iu spirit. If those who differ from them are content with that, then the North is a unit. But if the Union is to be divided, the radicals at the North, and the se.

cestionists at the South may as well understand first as last, that if the country is to die, the Democratic party will not serve in the capacity of executioners. They will never consent to consummate a bad work which was undertaken by had men. They took no part in Us inception they will have no hand in its consummation. Wendell Phillips on the Darkey The influence of commanding ability was uc ver more siDgnally exemplified, perhaps, than by Mr. Phillips at the Academy of Music last even, ing.

When Mr. Phillips iu the opening of his address declared that his purpose to show that in all the qualities which irive ascendancy to race, the African Blood next'to that which Mr Phillips claimed to be the foremost, he advanced a proposition which every man and wo. man in the audience knew not only to he untrue but ridiculously false. Despite the fact that the commonest experience of everyday life was falsified by ever sentence uttered in eulogy of the heroic qualities of the African, UChisMr. Phillips' ability as a public speaker, that he was listened to, with great attention, for hour and a half, by a large and intelligent audience.

It is within the knowledge of every per. present last evening, that though the African race has been settled on the continent nearly three bundrea years, vnougii negroes, in some of the States, have had the advantages of free. dom for three generations, though there have been men like Mr. Phillips who were anxious to help promising darkeys if they were desirous of struggling to show that their race suffered unmerited contempt, there never has been a painter, a sculptor, a musician, a poet, a philosopher of that race to stand forth as a living attestation of the claims of the negro for any of those qualities which distinguish men from brutes, and connect them with the beings above them. The leading darkey of unmixed blood in the free States is one George Downing, an honest oystermun of New York city.

The quality of his bivalves haB never been impeached, While the sublimity of his Intellect even Mr. Phillips has never eulogized ed the lis has the in in dom, it was not shared iu by the shrewd old insur gent ot St. Domingo. The purpose Mr. Phillips in view is easily understood.

His louowers have evidently lost laith in white man, and they are anxious to ive the darkeys a chance. As a pre. limiuarv to this, Mr. Phillips thinks it neces sary for white people to roll themselves in the dust. Mr.

Phillips mav think he is helping to put down the rebellion, but in dwelling so sati factorily upon the fact that half a million black men defied the power of the French Government, when the greatest captain the world ever sa was at its head, he gives us poor encouragement our endeavors to settle with an insurrection which ten times the number of white men are engaged. Haud the Chhistians. The Jews have ared bad in the Western military department the odium of all the contract speculators and army swindlers was thrown upon them by General Grant, but for the credit of the remnant of the twelve tribes hereabouts, the Tribune states they had nothing to do with the gold speculations which have so enhanced the price of tiie precious material and everything else. We are left to infer that it was a strictly christian movement, that only who read the new testament could have been capable of. The MoMTOits.

The attack of the iron clad Monitors upon Fort McAllister on the Ogeechee river, was, it appears, undertaken not for the purpose of capturing it, so much as to test the capacity of the vessels when assailed with heavy shot and to train the gunners to actual service in battle. The fort is on the main land and would be of no use to us unless we left a large force there to garrison it. The Moutauk was struck seventy times without injury, and a torpedo was impelled under the hull and elevated her one foot, without doing the least particle of hurt. The Passaic, Patapsco and Nahant were also engaged and proved themselves as good as the Montauk. When they make a combined attack on Charleston something will give way.

The Coscekt or the 7th Regiment Band. Wc are pleased to learn that arrangements are being made for a repitition of the Concert of the 7th Regiment Band, in this city. On the last occasion there were many disadvantages to contend against, and some misunderstanding on the part of the public, as to the nature of the entertainment, many supposing it was to be a promenade concert, and the attendance was not what it should have been. The committee haviug the matter in charge determined to give a repitition of the concert with increased attractions. The date will be announced in a few days.

OUR ALBANY CORRESPONDENCE. The Charges against Callicot Albvsy, March 12. The session in the Assembly last cvening'was emu of utiuBuul iirtoroct imcl excitement." The question of appointing a committee to investigate the charge against Speaker Callicot, came up a the special order. It will be remembered that the first resolution adopted by the Souse looking to the appointment of such a committee, stated that whenever specific charges were presented, over the signature of any member of the House, that a committee would then be ordered. At the time these charges were presented, Mr.

Van Buren, of Orange, ottered a resolution naming as theproposed committee, Messrs. Dean of New York, P. JE. Havens of Essex, N. W.

Davis of Troy, Mr. Johnson of Kings, and Mr. May ham of Schoharie. At the opening of the session last evening Mr. Dean withdrew his name, and substituted that of Suxton Smitii of Putnam, which amendment was accepted by the mover of the resolution.

Mr. D. stated that he had never desired to appear as a prosecutor in this matter, and lest any unfair inferences be drawn respecting his action, he desired to be relieved from acting on the committee. After the House had been organized, and so lonsr as the Speaker acted impartially, as such he (Mr. had been willing to let by gones be by gones, ana to lorget ttiat a loul treason had been perpetrated.

But now tliat it bad been determined by others that the charges should be prosecKted, he wished, and he demanded, that the Spcfkc should not only have a fair and impartial trial, but by a committee that could neither be bought by the lobby for thirty pieces, nor for twelve hundred pieces of silver. He pledged himself to vote for the adoption of any report made by a committee of which so able and honorable a man as Saxton Smith was chairman. Mr. Sherwood of Steuben, acting under a caucus decision, offered a substitute for the resolution, naming Messrs. Prindle of Chenango, Sax ton Smith of Putnam, P.

E. Havens of Essex, Tallman of Westchester, and Lake of Chautauqua, as the committee of three Republicans and two Democrats. Mr. T. C.

Fields denounced this proposed action on the part of the Republicans as a deliberate attempt either to suppress the report of the committee, or to reject such evidence as would be most damaging to the character of the Speaker ji the House. He cited abundant parliamentary authority to show that always, in cases of this kind, the party moving the charges were entitled to the majority on the committee. He thoaght it enough already that by a vote of the Republican majority the scope of the proposed investigation had been so limited as to make it difficult to bring the charges within the prescribed limits. 1 fit was feared that the committee would do an iujustieeto Mr. Callicot, he begged to correct such an impression; the committee, however constituted, could inflict no punishment, nor had it any authority to pronounce the Speaker guilty of the charges.

It could only take the evidence presented and report to the House for such action as the House saw fit thereafter to take. Therefore it was proper that the committee should be so constructed that no testimony bearing upon the case should be rejected. After further discussion, a motion was made by Mr. Bernis (Rep. to postpone the matter till another evening.

This motion brought Mr. Hughes of Kings to his feet, who denounced the proposed postponement in terms so earnest and emphatic, that a different course was adopted. He said time enough had already been occupied in the preliminary discussion, and he thought it was due to the House, and to the party implicated, to proceed at once to the main subject. He wished it nnuerstoou mat ne was not a sycophant of the Speaker, nor was he the Speaker's enemy; hut the evident design of the mover of postponement was to avoid investigation. This lie would not submit to, and he.appealed to the House to appoint a committee now, and let the inutterbe.

got under way. This speech decided the whole question, so far as the postponement was concerned. A vote was taken and the substitute offered by Mr. Sherwood wus adopted thus reversing all parliamentary law and practice, by giving the accused a committee of his own interested friends uud associates. The only hope now for sin impartial investigation is in Mr.

P. E. Havens, who, though a Republican, has shown by his course on the floor this winter, that he is not likely to act as a partisan in this matter. He is a fair minded, intelligent, dispassionate man. Messrs.

Prindle and Lake, the other Republicans on the committee, though able men, an: extreme partisans and are, therefore, more likely to be biased In their action 1 no not oeucve there is a man on the tloor 01 the uouse who does not desire that every fairness should be shown Mr. ('allicot, and that the dignity of the House should be vindicated but there are many who believe that the committee has been deliberately framed, for the pun use of avoiding the pointed issues to bo presented This morning Mr. Tallman, on his own motion was excused from scrvincr on the committee and the name of Mr. Weaver '(Dcm.) of Oneida, FROM NEWBERNj N. C.

HOW THE BROOKLYN BOYS ARE LIVING THERE Correspondence to the Brooklyn Eagle. Newukiin, N. Feb. 2S, 1SG3. Since our arrival here our troops have been busily and actively engagod in erecting new fortifications, strengthening the former entrenchments and performing various labors calculated to prepare this station fully for any attacks which may or might menace us.

A glance at the map will suffice to convince you of the importance and necessity of holding this city; situated at the junction of the Trent and Neuse rivers, (the latter a largo river navigable for the largest vessels,) in close and direct communication with the North, per Norfolk and Baltimore, as also with the stations further South, Port Royal and nilton Head, one can readily perceive the advantages which naturally accrue to make Newbern a convenient rendezvous for naval and military forces, and consequently, well adapted for a Government station. The enmp of the first Brigade of our division, commanded by Gen. Spinola, is located on the South side, while the camp of the 2d Brigade, commanded by lien. Jourdan.is located nearly oppositoon the North side of the Trent river. The camp of the Spinola Hrigade is one of the most tastily ami hundsomely ornamented camps I have ever witnessed: the tents beautifully decorated witli evergreens, (of which the surrounding forests afford an endless variety and abundance,) and the company streets spanned witli arclies of holly and pine, form an ensemble at once pleasing to tiie eye, and indicative of the cleanliness and order which always characterizes the good soldier.

The camp of Gen. Jourdau's command, with its orderly and well regulated streets, its features' of neatness anil care, with that fine work, Tort Totlen in the rear, all combine to make a bcautif sight. Since our arrival here the du'y of fortifying the approaches on the South was assigned lo Spinola. Immediately he set lo work. Day after day.

from morn to night, our General might directing and personally superintending the erection of a new fori, the throwing up of long lines of earthworks, Ihe felling of timber and everything appertaining In war's necessities and changes received his immediate care and' close attention. In a few days the whole aspcel of lie peninsula opposite the city was changed, a longlinc of entrenchments spanned from the west brink of the Neuse nearly to the the south bank of the Trent, a brrad forest had disappeared, the spot where the tall majestic pines and other mighty monarchs of the forests had reared in proud triumph, their towering heads e'en amid the clouds, all now but a wide open plain where thousands of soldiers daily perform their evolu ions; while on the banks of the Neuse loomed up the sides of the new Fort. Our Fort is of an octagon shape and is to mount two S4 pounder8 rifled, two 82 pounders rilled, two.82 pound ers and two 24 pounders, smooth bore, its location commanding the approaches to Newborn by land and water; its strength and armament will render it a valuable acquisition to the defences of Newbern. The anniversary of the birth day of Washington was selected as a fitting oecusion on which to christen our Fort, which, by direction of Gen. Foster, commanding this department, was named Fort Spinola.

This day hallowed in its memories, and more endeared, perhaps, than all others to the hearts of all true Ame icaa patriots, was deemed a suitable opportanity for the dedicatory exerciBes. Accordingly, Gen. Prince, commanding our division, issued a "Goneral Order" for a review of the whole division, which order I quote, viz HEAUyl artf.i.b, 5tii DrvisioN. I Im Akmy Coiii Feb. 22, 1S00 General Orders No.

6 I. The Division will parade in lines for review, at 12 on Ihe plain in front of Spinola's Brigade. II. KaisiDg the National Flag on a new Fort, built for its defence, is pleasingly appropriate to the birth day of the Father of our Country. At 12 o'clock to day il flies, for he fin time over Fort Spinola, which is thus named to signalize the cool, patient, persevering application of the men of Spinola's Brigade in erecting it and the adjacent works.

May the same quality distinguish them throughout their varied duties, as soldiers, in the routine of camp and march, when "the reason why" canntt al wayB be apparent, and also, in the day of battle, when the end is always to exalt and defend our human nature and its rights. A National Salute of thirty four guns will greet the flag. Such waB the testimonial of the gallant vyteran. Gen. Prince, the hero of Mexico and Florida, commanding our Division, as a tribute to the energy, industry, and application of Spinola's Brigade and its commander.

"All for the honor of olu Brooklyn." The Twenty second day of February, 1S63, broke upon us gloomily. Great black, lowering clouds hungtlircat cningly over our heads, while sonic, surcharged, anon discharged theirlreavy contents upon the earth, lndeod it seemed as if the elements had selected this day as a peculiarly appropriate time to express their indignation at the unholy strife and dissension now devastating our fair country. Notwithstanding the heavy storm and Ihe pelting rain, the brave soldiers of Gen. Prince's division marched into the plain adjoining Fort Spinola aud were formed in line, under the supervision of Capt. Hanlcy, Asst.

Adjt. Gen. and the Stair Officers ofGens. Spinola and dan. Mid day approaches, when Justus Ihe baud of the time piece points to i2 o'clock, the signal is given, and simultaneously with Ihe word of command the 82 pouu der belches forth its thunder, the Flag of the Free floats proudly over Fort Spinola to the admiring gaze all around.

'Tis the darkest hour before so riuis Lhc adage and so it seemed on this occasion, for a few minutes just before the hoisting of the (lag the dark, murky clouds Beemed to increase in density, a deep black pall appeared to rest immediately over the Fort, but scarce hud the proud emblem readied, the top when the clouds broke, tiie breeze unfurled Ihe folds and right gallantly spread them Heavenward A salvo of 34 guns in honor of the "Union as it was," and a review ot the whole Division ound up the day's oxercises. After the review. Generals Prince, Sninola and Jour dan, with their respective Staffs, as also the field officers of the regiments of the division, were furnished with a little entertainment "for the inner the headquarters of our Brigade Commissary, Lieut. C'ornwell, your old and estimable friend, "llic Judge," who, I am nappy to assure you, by his activity and good, liiirunr, exhibited in the discharge of his duties, has rendered himself a universally commended favorite. Nor were the soldiers iorgotten, lor Gen.

Prince (believing in the homeopathic axiom nimilia cttraiitur tiritiliOu,) ordered an extra ration of whisky for each. man iu the division that lUe moisten ng.ol the "internals" might counteract the deleterious effects of the wetting externally received in the heavy sDorm which prevailed during the day's exercises. Much dissatisfaction. is felt in this department inconsequence of the injurious policy adopted by the administration in their treatment of Major Gen. That an officer, so eminently successful in his milltarv operations, energetic and prompt In the discharge ar all duties imposed upon bim, whose patriotism laithful industry, if infused throughout our army commanders, would insure a speedy und successful termination of this rebellion, that this officer, the gallant and honored Major Genorul Foster, sliould be set aside to give precedence to an officer whose most successful exploit has been Iho uiisuccossful raising of.

an "ebony itued brigade," and whose verbose proclamations, about a year ago made him the laughing stock of the wliole nation, in fast the putting uside of well known military excellence, ability and patriotism, and substituting instead Ethiopian idolatry, and proverbial inefllcifincy, all this is to be ascrihed to the same influences which resulted in the removal of McOlellnn, the samo Influences which brought about the issue of a "Bull against a comet" for the benefit of "American citizens or African descent," the same Influences which for a year or more, have been steadily but effectually itrlft'ng us on tho Scylla and Charybdis ofour country's destiny Can It be wondered that to day we stand as far from the conquest which was promised to our people, us far from tho subjugation of traitors as wc did a year ago? It is because of mismanagement. Our armies" are paralyzed, ur officers and soldiers aro disheartened, and new llfegireD to our enemies energies and hopeB. There is much which dally transpires liore ofintorest to the folks at home, but for tho present allow me to subscribe myself. Yourfor Old Buooklvn. HOOFING.

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It is presumed that this system of medicine said to have been taught by Ugyptia'n priests, was the MUiAUi owuiu nmvi ui niu JVU AUMuriUIl SCUOOl, 10r niS tory does not seem to show that anatomical researches were prosecuted before the foundation of that city. It has been supposed that the Egyptian priests were "made Bomewbat acquainted with anatomy, by the process of embalming, which extendsback to great antiquity But Sprengel says that accordtug to Herodotus, the people had a horror of these proceedings, that they pursued and threw stones at the man who made the incision, through which tho embalming material was injected into the body. This minor operator had to flee as soon as ttie incision was made, to cscapo from the odium excited against him. The process of embalming, however, was too rude to be available for science. Pt was not until the reign of the I'tolcmies, tliat the kings of Egypt per mittod tho opening of human bodies to discover the causes of disease (Pliny.) It was in their reign that considerable advancement was made in anatomy.

"The writings of Moses" (9ays lienouard) "constitute a precious monument for the history of medicine, for they embrace liygenle rules of the highest oigacity." The priest however at that time exercised the functions of the physician, and there is no evidence of the existence of acknowledge of anatomy. In the third century before Christ, the author of the Book of Ecclesiastics speaks distinctly of the physician. "Honor the physician because lie is indispensable for the Most High has created him. llehas created the medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them." In India the Brahmins are physicians, as well as priests. They alone learn the Sanscrit, in which all their books are written.

Their medical knowledge is contained in one book, an extract from which will illustrate their knowledge of anatomy. "There are in the human body 100,000 parts, of which 17.000 arc vessels; each of these is composed ot seven tubes, giving passage to ten speeiesofgasses, which by theirconfiictsengendcr a crowd of diseases. The origin of the pulse isa reservoir situated beneath the umbel icus. This reservoir is four fingers wide by two long, and divided into 72,0110 canals, which are distributed to all pa rls of the body." If this is a fair specimen of thei an aiomical knowledge, it is not strange that before giving a prognosis, they were wont to consult the stars and the flight of birds. The Chinese doctors say the heart is analagous to lire, to the planet Mars, to summer, to spring and to Southern climes.

It comeB from the liTer, begets the spleen and stomach, is antipathic with the kidney, and is not injured by contact with the lungs. They think the spirits and blood have a diurnal circulation, commencing in the lungs at 8 o'clock A. and ceasing next day at the same time precisely. They count six canals through which this circulation goes on from above downwards, and six from below upwards; eight run transversely and fifteen ooliquely. The Chinese, from time immemorial have not been allowed to make researches on dead bodies of men or animals.

This explains their profound ignorance of anatomy. Hence surgery with them has not past its infancy. No one dare attempt an important operation, reduce a hernia or operate lor a cataract. Hippocrates, who born 400 years before Christ, was a man of great natural endowments and of remarkable professional attainments. Yet neither he nor any of his descendants ever dissected the human body.

The religion of Greece prevented it. Hence they speak fn general terms of the form, size and location of the principal viscera. Osteology was better understood, for ihe Osclepeadae in their school of medicine at Cos, kept a human skeleton for the instruction of pupils. Their knowledge of tho internal organs was learned by examining the entrails of victims wounded in the abdomen, and in dissecting animals. Hence physiology as it is taught and demonstrated in this institution, was unknown.

They spoke of the glands as spongv viscer destined to secrete humidity from the surrounding parts, ond that the brain, tne largest of the glands, attracts the vapors from all the interior of tli body. The muscles ihey supposed were merely to cover the bones and not at all concerned in locomotion. This they thought was accomplished by nerves, tendons, ligaments and membranes, which they, strange as it may seem to us. regarded as analagous organs. Arteries and veins were supposed to be the same, except that the veins con tained mood and tne arienesair.

The speaker then gave a graphic and interesting sketch of the history of anatomy, trom the time of Aristotle to the present, and concluded as follows To those of you who are just catering upon thestudv i anatomy, it may seem a task almost insurmountable to obtain a thorough knowledge of the subject. It is arduous, it is difficult; but the difficulties, doubtless, seem greater by the distant point from which you view them. The traveller, standing upon Ihe hills ofl'ivoli, eighteen miles from Borne, beliolds nothing of the Eternal City hut the stupendous dome of St. l'eier's looming above the western liorizon. As the mind instinotlvcly computes the distance, it is amazed and overwhelmed at the conception of its magnitude.

But when you approach the city and cuter its colonades, composed" of four rows of lofty columns, surmounted by colossal statues, the apparent magnitude of the whole church is less. You enter a mere pigmy one of its capacious doors and tread upon its curiously inlaid marble floor; you pass along its aisles, whose sides arc ornamented witli vastly enlarged mosaic figures of sninls, enormous statues of heroes, and statues of infants of Herculean size arriving, finally, at the centre of ihe Basilica, you stand beside the towering Buldai'chiiio and beneath the dome itself. You.look ui and around, surprised that it seems no astonished that yuu do not realize its magnitude. You can hardly persuade yourself that it is the same capacious structure that impressed you in the distance. Its grandeur overwhelms thee not And why? It is not lessened but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot.

Has grown colossal." So itli the medical student, when he first obtains a distant view of the great study of anatomy, when lie sees, in dim and shadowy but prodigious perspective, the bones, with all their processes and depressions, their foramina and sutures, their articulations and ligaments, tne vast nuiuoer oi uiuscics wun wuicu mcy are cioiueu nd moved, the multitudinous arteries und veins, and lymphatics with which those muscles are everywhere intertwined and permeated, every one having a local i abitution and a name" to be studied and remembered, the task seems so appalling that he is ready to exclaim, No human being can ever accomplish it! But when, with scalpel in hand, he enters this earthly tabernacle ond pasBcs through its "long drawn aisles" and "beneath ils fretted vault," and over a diversified epitheleal pavement more beautiful than cathedral floor or wall, one by one the obstacles are overcome, and the difficulties are less and less apparent. The mind is interested anil expanded by beholding the beauty and symmetry aud adaptation of every part, and by the incomprehensible wisdom and power which the great architect lias everywhere displayed in the construction of the whole. The mind thus delighted and enlarging takes in knowledge as the expanding lungs do the vital air. It becomes a part of Its necessary means of growfh, the desired. pabulum of its life.

Be not then discouraged at the magnitude of the subject, but be diligent and you will be interested, and success will be yours. Unto us have been given the keyB of thiB sanctuary we shall unlock aud bid you enter witli pleasure. Wo "shall go round about her, tell tho towers thereof, mark well her bulwarks, and cousider her palaces." It will be ours to examine this building with minuteness andcare, to take It down stone by stune, to describe each one clearly, its conformation itB intimato structure, Its topographical relations, and to point out its uses in the economy. It will be yours with diligence and assiduity to mark them well, and Btore them away in your memory, that you may at any time hereafter mentally reconstruct this edifice, in order to be prepared to wardoff accident and disease, or to repair as much as possible the damage which these already may have accomplished. I urgo you not to neglect any branch of our profession, ovory one is important; as important, indeed, as are the lives and the health and the happiness of the individuals you may be called uponto treat.

But my colleagues willjustify me when I say it isof prirao importance that you master anatomy for it lies confessedly at the foundation of ourscionoe. The phynIcionnecdKit and the surgeon ennnot do without it Especially la thorough nnatumical knowledge demanded at this time when so many surgeons are Called upon lo follow in the wako of large armies, to heal anfhr as may be, the wounds of war. We believe, alasl then: Is too' much evidences of it, that many a valuable lifo lmslicen lost which a well instructed surgeon could have saved. Many a noble soul, lo use the phraseology of lloinor, naBcouiO issuing out oi wouuiis" wnoso ratal bleeding the hand of an accomplished surgeon could have Btiumehed. I trrfst that none who have gone forth from this institution (and we have been nndure comparatively largely represented in the Hold) as they retire to tcRt at night, have this burden upon their conscience, ml some human being lias been sacrificed (ri their ffino He was deemed too dangerous a man to be at Lcclerc determined to remove him.

Toussaint was sum moned to attend a council. He went, and was there seized, put on board a ship and sent to France. In Paris lie was flung into a Jail, and Napoleon sent hisSecrc: tary Caffereili to him supposing he had buried treasures. He'listened to him and replied It is true I have lost treasures, but they are not such as you come to seek." Then be sent him to the castle of St. Joux, and confined him in a dungeon 12 feet by 20, in the a narrow wiudow, high up on the side, looking out on the snows of Switzerland.

In winter ice covers the floor, in summer it is covered with water. In this living tomb, Tous saintwaslert todie. F.om this dungeon bc wrote two letters to Napoleon. One ran thus "Sire, 1 am a French citizen. I never broke a law.

By the grace of Goi 1 have saved for you the first island in your'dominions. Sire, of your mercy grant me justice." Napoleon never answered the letter. The commandant allowed him five francs a day for food aud fuel. Napoleon heard of it and reduced the sum to three. The luxurious usurper, who complained that the English Government was stingy because it allowed him only $0,000 a month, stooped from his throne to cut down a dollar to a half, and still it was too much.

This dungeon was a tomb. The story told of it is that in Josephine's time, a young French marquis was placed in it and the girl to whom he was bcthrothed went to the Queen aud prayed for his release. Said Josephine to her, have a model of it made and bring it to me. Josephine placed it near Napoleon, lie said take it away. It is horrible.

She put it on his footstool and be kicked it from him. She held it to him Ihe third time and said: "Sire, in this horrible dungeon you have put a mjn to die." "Take him out," said Napoleon, and ihe girl saved her lover. In this tomb Toussaint was placed, but he did not die fast enough. Finally the commandant was told to go into Switzerland, to carry the keys of the dungeon with him, and to stay four days; when he returned Toussaint was starved to death. That imperial assassin was taken twelve years after to his tomb at St.

Helena by that same Mait'land whom Tonssaint had conquered, aud there tic wasted tns dying hours in complaining ol curtains, anil tassals. of dishes and rides. God graat that when some future Plutarch shall weigh the great men of our epoch, he do not put that whining child at St. Helena, into one scale, and into the other the black meeting death without a murmnr in the solitude of his icy dungeon. At the news of Toussainfs death the negroes on the Island rushed to arms The rest is a story of blood and horror.

The French were flnallv driven from theisland; ef 00,000 men but 8,000 left it alive. In conclusion, Mr. Phillips said: Some doubt the courage of the negro. Go to 50,000 graves of the best oldiers France ever had, aud ask them what they think of the negro's sword, And if that does not satisfy you, go to France to the splendid mausoleum of the Courts of Hocbambcau, and to the 8,000 graves of the Frenchman who skulked home under the English flag, and ask theru. And if that does not satisfy you come home, and if it had been Dec, 1S59.

you might have come by way of quaking" irginla, and ask her what she thought of negro courage. And you may remember this, that we Saxons were slaves 400 years, Bold with the land, and our fathers never raised a linger to end that slavery. They waited till Christianity and civilization, till commerce' and the discovery of America melted away their chains. Spartacus in Italy led the 6laves of Borne against the Empress of the world. She crucified him and crushed them.

There never was a slave rebellion successful but once, and that was in St. Domingo. There never was a race that unaided tore off its own fetters and forged them into swords and won their own liberty on the battle field but one, and that was the black race of St. Domingo. So much for the courage of the negro.

Now look at his endurance. In 1S03, he said to the white men This island is oure; not a white foot shall touch it. Side by side with him stood the South American Republics, planted by Ihe best blood of the country of Lope da Vega and Cervantes. They topple over so often that you could no more daguerreotype their crumb ling fragments than the waves of the ocean. Aud yet, at their side, the negro has kept his Island sacredly to himself Burn over New York to night, fill up her canals, sink every ship, destroy her railroads, blot out every remnant of education from her sons, lot her he pennlleBs, with nothing but her hands to begin tho world over again.

How much could she do In sixty years? And Europe, too, would lend her money, but she will not lend Ilayti a dollar. Ilayti, from the ruins of her colonial dependence, is become a civilized state, the seventh nation in the catalogue of commcrco with this country, inferior in morals and education to none of the West India isles. Toussaint made her what she is. Courage, purpose, endurance they are the tests. He did plant a Stale so deep thai all France lias not been able to root it up.

LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL ()FEMiG IXERCISES OF THE INSTITUTION, Its Origia and Importance Interesting Discourse on Anatomy. The opening exercises of the Long Island Col. lege Hospital, for the Season of 18(i'd, took place last evening, in the lectnrc room of the Hospital, in Henry, near Pacific street, in the pres ence of a numerons auditory. The affairs of the College are represented to he in a most flourish. ing condition, and the coming season is expected to oc a very useful one.

During the past year, addition to the regular business of the Hospital, wounded soldiers were treated, with the most satisfactory results. The Faculty of the College consist of Drs. Gilfillan, Burgc, and Dodge, Professors Chapman and Hallett. The Hospital physicians are Drs. Colton and Tenuey.

About eight o'clock, after the audience had been comfortably seated, by Drs. S. F. Shackerly and Lester who acted as ushers, and performed the duties admirably the Chair was taken by the Hon. Samuel Sloan, President of the Institution, and the Rev.

Dr. West opened the proceedings with an eloquent prayer on behalf of the College aud its objects. Dr. Mason, president of the faculty of the college, was then introduced by Mr. Sloan, and delivered an extraordinary address, in which he endeavored to defend the institution from the charges which had been made against it iu the with reference to the contributions for sick and wounded soldiers, some time since.

ADDRESS BY 1 ltOP. ENOS. Prof. Knos was then introduced and spoke as follows StuiiKN'IB or Mkmcisk ami I.aiiiks axu Gkntu: hkn Human knowledge, like tho human body, has a gradual development and growth. science springs at once into full and mature existence.

It has its period or conception, of infancy, of youth and of manhood. Science has a growth which is commensurate with the expansion of tho mind and tin varied properties and phenomena of material things. Whatever l'lato may say of innate ideas, it is apparent to all, tnat wc obtain no knowledge of natural sciences but by elivsu application und Btudy of nature itself. Minerva may springat once mil formed and complete Irom the. head of love, but no Hclence Hiub springs from the heud of any tumuin lieing.

The factB of all science have existed since man was first placed upon the earth, and yet how slow baa bcou the ac guiBltion of the knowledge of those facts. What nguc conceptions and absurd notions, enshrouded for ages the very phenomena of nature, they wore Intended to illustrate and explain. The Itrahuiint, for instance assert that Ihe heavens rest upon the earth and the sun and moon swim therein like fishes in tho wator, moving from I.