Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-10-24
rhe neroes ofNorfoIk and Portsmonthl

The Heroes ofNorfoik and Portsmouth
The Rev. W. H. Milburn, formerly
Chaplain to Congress. madesan eloquent
address to the meeting in New Nork on
Saturday evening to adopt m easures to
relieve, the orphans at Norfolk and Ports
mouth. He thus spoke of the medical
profession and clergy: 49,
Need allude, upon q occasion like this,
to gelr-devotioD, to the heroic self>forget-
fulness of that profession which claims a t
our hands and at the hands of the worl d
such unmixed praise and homage.
mean the medical profession. Applause
They may .tell7us of their heroes in the
Crimea. They may tell us of heroes
with their laural dipped in blood from all
the battle fields ofthe earth but I tell
YOU. sir, there have been scenes transpir-
ing-there haye been characters devel-
oped-there has been conduct displayed
yonder at Norfolk and Portsmouth, and in
all the cities Of the smitten South, that
when justly and rightly viewed, should
Overwhelm and distance and darken all
your heroes of battle fields and all your,
conquerers in their ttiumphs. Applause.
Let it be remembered that in those two
smitten cities twenty-six members of that
profession have fallen martyrs to hu
manity. Renewed Applause. But
let me allude to another class. It is very
much in vogue just at this time, to speak
with sort of patronizing contempt
of the clergy-to allude to them as a
set of people whose characteristic is,
AS Sydney Smith express ed it, decent
disability Laug liter. They are to
be looked upon as a very we'll mean
ing and innocent set of men, who, if
they are not doing much good, are GER
taialy not doing much harm. Let those
men, if they want to know what the cler-
gy of the country or, so to those cities
of the pestilence, and see them in the HOY
els of starvation and squadron the
graveyards from sunrise till sunset,S and
sometimes from midnight till midnight
seeking to give the obseques of religion
to the dead, and comfort and consolation
to the mourners, Catholic and Protestant
side by side in that awful hour of extrem'
ty, and tell me whether "dcccnt disabili-
ty" is their characteristic" Loud ap>
plause.)
The Rev. Samuel Osgood also address
ed the meeting and alluded to class OF
persons very efficient in this pesri!ence-
the public officers Of the government. The
United States service. he said has nobly
been represented in Norfolk. The navy
yard in Portsmouth, is in the charge Of
OLE. who unitcs all the virtues of man
with all the herosm OF a sailor. APP
rIausc. Tn, chief Of the navy yard has
been distinguished by many eminent SER
vices iii his life. He had once gone on a
hostile island unarmcd, with nothing but
:he flag of his country to protect HIM ;
but he had attained q greater victory by
governing his men b. love, not by tn"
lash. EAppiause. And now he had
tj.suHiized his manhood in the time OF
Ica.iIcuCe.
/ ATE AND INrourANT FROM MExtco-
Nv Tie arrival of the steamship Orizaba,
rom Vcin Cruz, dates frcm the CITY of
* XcO to Tie 5th inst. have been rcccI
we'd.
Alvarez has been elected President Of
ur H. puJ;;; by The E!cctorinl College III
>,>>:Un at Curvacca, but military powers
ii the capital will deny his entrance, SO
th.t hard lighting may tie anticipated be-
lore he can have the opportunity OF as
Stunning IT," reins Of government.
G,.u. VEGA has Withdrawn from the CT
ii! power, AMI refused 10 obey The orders
" Alvarez for the arrest Of the fugitive
minister under Santa Anna, and to arm
the national Guard, which was superae-
Acl 10y Vega.
1t is reported that Alvarez designs to
assume the civil supremacy.
I;umors were received at the capital
that the American minister had furnished
money and arms to Alvarez. This IS,
however, denied by Alvarez and also by
Mir. Gadsdrn.