The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-04-04
ICorrespondsnes of the Ashland Union.l
FROM NEW YORK.
New YoRk. March 80. 1855.

FROM NEW YORK.
New York, March 80, 1856.
"Sol" has got over the line and feels
better for it. IT'S a painful thing for
the warm-hearted old fellow to wheel
himself out of his bright circuit in the
Southern skies, where for half a year
now he has been holding soft dalliance
with the gentler seasons, and like a bor-
der pioneer, &c blaze" himself new north
ern paths through the bleak heavens
where his enemy winter has been lord
ing it so long. And so with his face
muf1ed for grief and retinued by SYM
pathising troops of sable chords which
weep rain-tears as they go, he takes up
his march like a warrior whose braced
sinews have softened in the halls of ease
until his Knightly harness cumbers and
wearies him, when he would seek new
stripes, the stout monarch seems obliged
to begin the fight with moderation, bat
Ting twelve hours with the hostile pow
ers of the upper air, and resting an
equal number in the caves of the under
world. But he is sure to come off con-
queror. The March winds, those later
malion rear ranks of winter, who dart
their frosty lances at his face until all
the air tingles with very cold do but
fret him into better action until strip
ing off his mourning weeds, while the
frightening days gain upon the nights,
he guides still higher his flaming char
lot reaches out and consumes the Turk
ing remnant of his foes and smiles vic
toriously over sea and land. All this
he has achieved very hansomely, within
the last few days, and we in the corpo-
rate capacity of a city, gloryfy him ex-
ceedingly in our " daily walk and con
versation."
While our goodly city is rapidly grow
ing to an excellence over all the cities
of the country, and perhaps of the world,
in the varied and many qualities which
constitute the acknowledged worth of a
metropolis, it is not surprising that it
should become such a seat Of profession
al learning, as to do honor to, and be
the pride of the Western Continent. 1
am thinking more particularly of the
profession of medicine. Our sister city
of the worthy Quakers and right angled
brotherly love, has for a long time claim
ed her superiority in the advantages
which she offers for the study of this de
partment of science and art flor though
a modest sister she often naiUely says
that she is beautiful and meritorious)
but at the present day we can scarcely
yield the palm even in this to any city
in the world-Paris not excepted. The
schools here conducted on principles of
education the broadcast and most COM
p~rehensive known to the age-provided
with teachers who are among the ablest
and most learned In the scientific world
located IN the midst of and in eonnec-
tiOn with our numerous inequalities, Of
fer advantages to the student of mcdi-
cine unsurpassed if not anequaled any
where. Their general prosperity and
the rapid growth of the younger ones to
popularity attest their real excellence.
Notwithstandin g the high standard of
scholarship adopted as a test of prof.
cheney, about two hundred young ply
~sicians are graduated here annually,
nearly all of whom carry their learning
and skill away to the country towns, and
lesser cities of the Union. The Oldest
school in the city, that of the UniYersi,
ty of the State of N. s., now located in
Crosby St, near Spring, is soon to be
removed to a new and splendid edifce in
course of erection in the upper part of
town,
A new way of advertising, rather
costly, but certainly calculated to tell
we'll has been discovered and adopted
by Mr.. Bonner, the proprietor of The
Merchants Ledger. Mr.. B. keeps up
a constant succession of new and contin-
nous stories, and in order to call atten-
ton to them, he adUertises the first
parts, word for word, in the daily pa
pers, with the line +" To be continued in
our next" under them, as if they were
written for those journals; but on the
second or third day, when the reader
gets to the bottom of the installments
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of these stories, and becomes thorough
ly interested in them, he learns that
the rest can be obtained in the Ledger.
This system has largely increased the
circulation of the Ledger. Mr.. B. is a
shrewd, enterprising publisher and al
though men of other aspirations night
think this would ruiA him, it pays him
we'll, /