Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-05-25
Cincinnati Correspondence.
Great Contention Of Doctors Presbyterian (O.S.
General Assembiy-Cdss Of KidnaPping-E'
cape Of Slares.

cape Of Siarss.
CrNcrNSArr, May is, 1850.
To The Editor Of The Bugle
Our Queen City has become quite favor
itc place for the meetings of Conventions, Ma
tional Assemblies, &C., Of all kinds, religious,
political and rcformatory. The Methodist Gem
eral Conference led the way in 1885, which was
considered a great step Westward, and since
that time scarcely year has passed without one
or more important asscmblagcs of the philan-
thropic, the pious or the learned for tho promo
ton of some of the great ideas Of our age.
As something new among us, may be men,
toned the late meeting of the National Associ-
alton of Physicians CRcgulars) which met on
Monday of last week, and adjourned on Friday
the 10th inst, This body meets annually, and
this was its first meeting in the West. Though
some were kept away by unfounded rumors Of
the expected appearance of tho Cholera among
us, there was avery good attendancc-thcreb be-
ing between two and three hundred present. OF
these, ls6 wcrc regularly appointed delegates
from Medical Societies, representing "a States.
The personal appearance of the members was
remarkably good; as a whole they presented
combination of fine physical proportions, intel
ligencc and intellectual vigor The opening ad-
dress by DIR. Warren, Of Boston, though desti-
tute of eloquencc, was characterized by great
deal of common sense. He dwclt upon the great
reforms which had taken place in medical sci
ence in the last half century in respect to the
decreased use Of calomcl, the use of cold water,
SC. Several valuable reports were made
on various topics, showing much previous
research and thought in those who prepared
them among which may be mentioned one by
DIR. Musscy on practical Surgery, one on eleva-
ting the standard required in comforting degrees ;
one on Medical Literature lin which DIR. brakes
new work on the Diseases of the Western part
of North America was highly commcndcd) I;
and one on the adultcration of Medicines, (vcry
ablc,) by Dr. Houston, of Philadelphia. There
was much ability manifested in the discussions,
and the entire proceedings (Which are published,
and, including the Reports, make an annual
volume of about 1000 pages cannot fail to have
beneficial effect in clovating the standard of
Medical Literature and the practice of Physic in
its various branches.
Among the distinguished men in attendance
was the venerable DR.. Caldwell, of Louisville
formerly of Philadelphia, and afterwards of Lex
ington. lie is now in his cighty-scventh year,
and appears still moro patriarchal from wearing
long white beard, (for the protection Of the
respiratory organs,) his grey hair and marked
features adding to his venerable appearance
DIR. Musscy, of this place, was chosen Prosi-
dent of tho Association.
On the evening before the adjournment tho
members partook of a sumptuous supper in Ma
sonic Hall, given by the faculty of this City,
Including the invited guests, nearly six hun
dred sat down to the tables, and did ample JUS
ticc to the good things set before them, having
no desire for homeopathic doses. A number of
good speeches, and toasts drunk tOithom spirit
uous liquors, enlivened the feast.
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church (Old SchooD met on Thursday last,
10th inst, in the Central Church. About l7O
delegates are present, the number not being as
large as usual, especially from the South. DIR.
Leland, of South Carolina, was chosen Modcra-
tor, having the highest number of votes, but not
by any means majority of the whole. Tho
opening sermon by DIR. N. Murray, of New Jer.
sey, who has gained some celebrity by his let
ters with the signature of Kiraran," on Po-
perry, addressed to Bishop Hughes, was listened
to by crowded audience, and is said to have
been marked by great ability. At yesterday af-
ternoon's session resolution on Slavery and
the preservation of the Union was indefinitely
postponed. Several speakers expressed their
hopes that the agitating subject should be kept
out of the Assembly entirely as the Church was
now united, presenting to the world the only
great Ecclesiastical body in our land which had
not been rent by it. 1t is hardly necessary for
me to say that this body is mcorrigi6ly pro-sla-
very. Nothing can be expected from it favora-
bic to human rights. A large part of the Pres
byterics connected with it are in the South, and
there are no more staunch upholders of the 'pa-
triarchal institution" than many of its ministers
have proved themselves to be.
You will have seen in the papers notices of
one of the most iagrant outrages ever commit
ted here-the kidnapping of colored man by
four Kentuckians, who took him through ono of
our most public streets to the river, fourishing
pistols and knives and defying opposidon.-'
None was made, however, though the man call
cd for help, the crowd only throwing few
stones at the Ketnuckians. None of the police
nor any disposed to attempt a rescue were near
This was done in broad day light, between and
2 o'clock. The colored man has been living
here about three years as a free man. He has
now, it is stated, been sent further South than
Kentucky. Most of our papers here have no.
ticed the affair, and in strong terms of indigna-
ton.
On the next night, white boy drove eight
colored people, belonging to widow in Boone
County, Ky7 in her own wagon to Covington,
and on Saturday morning crossed to this city at
Fifth-st. Ferry. The wagon was covered up
u a