The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-03-09


think the latter has, therefore, sailed for Engand.
II is our firm opinion STILL that the Caledonia put
back TO England, or into some port in the Western
Islands. We shall continue Of this opinion till the
Acadia arrives, or till We have intelligence from
Fayal 10 the same date, thence that the Acadia will
bring from England, namely, to the 4h inst This
opinion we have formed after careful examination
into the facts relative the loss of the President, to
the recent gale and to the several logs Of the Liver
pool.
The state OF the COuntry-Csngress-T
state observation-disclosures Council.
II is really painful to every lover of his country to
see the conduct of the members OF Congress- the
State Legislatures, and our City Council, during the
past winter.
With an empty treasury, the nation bankrupt,
severaStates and almost every city in debt,
they seem one and all determined to do nothing to
benefit the country large, without respect to party
They appear be all alike; there really seems to be
very little difference between the wings and loco
focos; they are all quareng, and fighting like chill
dren, calling each other all sorts of Names crimna.
ting and terminating, passing law 10 day, repeal
ing it to morrow, and apparently doing all they can
derange and destroy the business of every honest
man.
Congress has been in session three months. What
has it done for the benefit of the merchant or me-
chan;c! What has the Pennsylvania Legislature
done Made law one day and unmade it the next.
What has our Legislature done Gone on a junket-
ing party Boston, congratulate the people there
for having taken away the trade from New York.
What has our Common Council done? Quareling
like school boys, and leaving their seats passion
and the board without quorum, and so stopping all
public business
Now, We ask all sensible and independent men,
whether it is not time for them to pause-cut loose
from all partes-turn over a new leaf, and select for
city, state. and national Legislators, pure, honest,
sensible men, who will legisate solely for the COM
mon welfare of a-he greatest good Of the greatest
number-wi,hout respect to any party whatever.
DIR. Nelson ana the stuyvesant Institute
Medical School-''Take Care Of Number
One"
The most fashionable maxim of the present en-
lghtened day is-"Take care OF number one ="
This must be good principle or else it would not
be go universally adopted a rule of human action.
Rotten banks stake care Of number one," regard
less Of the interests Of their Inflated victims-politi.
cal quack-doctors stake care Of MURDER one," and
care not how many thousands they roll up in bloody
can also stake care of number one" The learned
Faculty which the illustrous TRAVELLERS before
whom Lemuel CULVER and Thomas Thumb, make
themselves scarce and vanish, presldes with such
urbane dignity, have considerable reverence for this
profound and philosophical principle. We wish 20
givd every his due, and We therefore do not he g.
late 70 cay that the venerable Professors Of the Stuy
vesant School Of Medicine, have very decent re.
slect for the important duty Of selfpreservation
in iact, we begin TO entertain considerable respect
for the sagacity Of DR.. Mott and his coadjutors-
They're not silly. No! They are not, and we can
satisfactorily prove our confident assertion. How
do let US hear? Well, some months since one DR.
NELsoS-a name somewhat known in the annals OF
the Canadian struegles-arived in this city He
had tor many years attended to very extensive
practice in Montreal, and his humanity, skill, and
benevolence had gained for him the veneration and
love of all classes But with many o Their excellent
men DR.. Nelson was driven from his country. and
obliged to seek shelter here. The reception with
which he met from his professional brethren, was
marked by all that warm affection and dsinter.
ested kindness which remarkably character.
ize the enlightened physicians of New York. A
number Of DR.. Nelson's friends requested him 10
deliver a series Of lectures on physiolcgy-a most
interesting and important science, which the dry
nurses OF the Stuyvesant establishment very consde.
rately deal out in homeopathic doses to their stu
dents. DR.. Nelson applied to Dr. Mott & Co. for
the use of a room, in which to deliver his lectures,
aud was politely refused. Why, The learned Fa
Guilty "didn't wish TO create any dissatisfaction
amongst their studentsw Kind and sagacious Fa-
Guilty ordinary men-weak morials, igHorant of the
value Of that glorious maxim, stake care Of number
one" would have granted Dr.. Nelson's request
Blu, the gentlemen Of the new school have arrived
at the years Of discreuon-in the expressive lam
guage of the vugate, "they have cut their
eyctee,h." They knew that comparisons are
odious," and with pa,ernal regard for the mental
pose oil their pupils, they exclaimed in tones Of
heartfelt emotion, "We guess as how we won't let
rival lecturers come here!"
Are not the members of this Faculty wise in their
generation Have not they the use of their facul
ties 7 But after ALL we would like to have DIR Mel.
sons lectures. The attention OF the public il nj las,
beginning to be directed to medical science the in.
terest of which comes home to the bosom aud bu.
siness' of every individual physiology is most
important branch Of that science it ought TO form
a part Of the education Of all young masters and
misses and a more competent expounder of it,
than DR.. Nelson, cannot be found Come, Doctor,
we're glad to find that the Stuyvesani Swans are
all alive to their Interests, and that althsugh
age has come what dimmed their physical vision,
they have yet clear apprehension of " number
:" but we want your lectures, and there is the
editor Of the Lancet ready TO report them and give
them to every one Of his three thousand subscribers
PRKsIprxrrAL MovEMESrs.-Ex President Van
Buren, was TO leave Charleston, on Thursday last,
for the interior.