The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-03-16

remarkable emanation. And, at this time, when
the subject Of Trinity Church Is daily matter OF
conversation, it is well worth the the perusal oil
every one seeking lntornallon.
Medical Commencement and Medical Con-
l attended the exercises of the Medical College,
Thursday evening" in the chapel of the University,
where the degree OF doctor IN medicine was con-
ferred on a good many Intelligent looking young
men, The professor who delivered the address is
a stranger to me- Part of his discourse was good,
but the most OF it was inappropriate. He gave the
noviciates some good counsel, but occupied great
er part of the time in speaking OF medical conven
ton about to be convoked in this city He rdculed
the protector of it, who, II seems, Is yoHng man
who resides in Binghampton, and who proposes the
adoption of some new and better plans OF eiemen-
tary and medical education. The public care very
little about these family quarrel. Ii the professor
not opposed to the convention, and should ION
with Binghampton, and others, to carry IT through,
could any thing be accomplished
The whole system of education, IN this country,
is hurried and superfcisl-the medical, perhaps,
less so than many other kinds, as students are re-
CURED 10 run" over the same track twice. The
evils will be corrected, In great measure, by time
nss s nOs empty md @
The interests OF learning, and the welfare or the
community, require that the medical school should
be well sustained in this clyi apd 1t has been, SO
Gus men, and they have had large, respectable and
intelligent class this last season. Lot them mind
their business, and think OF their professional du-
ties, and of the city Of New York, and not Of Bng-
hampton and medical conventions, and family d1s-
putes about trf1es. ''t N"a. ti4| es.e QUE!
The pilot Boat N ary Eleanor. a's.'a'
The undersigned would take this mode OF
conveying to the inhabitants of the town OF
Shrewsbury, his. unfelgned thanks tor. the ma
ny acts OF kindness shown him while his
pilot boat lay ashore on the beach; and
would say to the citizens in general, that acts
charged the residents south OF that town, will OF
extend TO the inhabitants OF the town OF Shrewsbu-
ry, from the fact that they have saved all the proper
ty belonging to.the boat and preserved it for me.
JOSIAH JOHNSON, Captain,
a maa Pilot Boat Mary Eleanor.
| The DISCRETION CAsE-DEArH OF THE VIcTM-
A HEART-RENDING AFPAIR.-The victim OF the case
of deserton mentioned last week died yesterday morn
street The circumstances attending death, and the
deserton by the fsnd who had vowed to protect her,
ceased was Hannah Elizabeth Williams, and she had
been married to George Patterson two years the first
Boston, having met him At the house whore they both
boarded he following his business Of carpenter and
joiner, and she that OF mner and dressmaker Their
acquaintance ripened into affection on her part
Last July they moved to this CITY, and since their
than to heap abuses her the most dsgraceu refus
ing even when she was in very delicate health
have aieviated her many suffsrings The night pre-
vious to his leaving the city, which he did in the eastern
1
and she stated previous to her DEATH supplied her
means OF paregorc or audanum when, az 10 supposed
he packed up every thing he had taking from her
during the night She had been quite unwell for
raj days. and had been confined to her bed since
she ascerained that he had deserted her. declaring that
! it utterly impossible for her to The
last perHdy seemed rend the hearstrings
| der. Having suspected that in the laudunum which
| he gave her, there had been administered q slow
| poison, she made request just previous to her
death, that post morte examination should be made,
in order to ascertain whether such was the fact The
examination accordingly made Yesterday afternoon
by Dr. Moore in the presence of Drs Ely, Avery, and
Rhodes There evidence of poison; but the ply
scians satisfied that her disease that Of nfam
nation Of the lungs her DEATH doubt being hurried
by the accumulated weight Of grief and suffering
with which she had been obliged to contend. Pater-
sons parents reside in 81. johns New Brunswick !;
those of his wife in Peppere Mass In addition to her
request that post mo'fem examination might be made
Of her body she desired that the attending crcum-
stances might be made public and wished that the east
papers might copy, as extensively possible, in
order that her friends might know the fate Of the ran
ger in strange land" The parting scene with her
little child, girl about nine months old, was truly af
/ for II as her Patterson 10 q about i've feet
inches high; Of very genteel address, is carpenter
by trade and will undoubtedly make his way to the east
in search of work. II he had the heart Of human being
should not envy him his feelings, learning that
his innocent victim has been hurried to the grave BY his
own brutal treskn ,nt.-Rochesfer Advertiser.
| An ELoPEMENT AND ATTEMPTED SKDUcTIoN-In
consequence of fair promises of marriage a younQ