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/" 20 ths Hon Maj. Gensvas G,eens: - + sss !,
SIR;i;-We, the Mayor, Aldermen and Common
Councll 81 the town of Petersburg beg leave to tes
in having ~ opportunity Of expressing grateful
sense Of the signal services you have rendered to
America in general and to this State, in particular
Your military character and honorable perseverance
during long war, merit the highest applause from
people to whose Independence you have SO ably
inhabitants were relieved from the caamities Of a
cruel war, and the enemy, who had ravaged in all
quarters, were with small force confined within
the limits Of . town. While we look back to this
happy period of the war, we contemplate with admi-
ration the events that led to it. the difficulties YOU
surmounted, and the resources you created Sensi.
BILE as we are of the great talents that form your
character as soldier, we are no less pleased with
your social virtues and agreeable manners than with
your moderation and jnstice to all parties.
10 your abilities and eminent services we trust
the aectonate gratitude of your fellow citizens will
be ever mindful, and that the faithful historian will
transmit them with honor to all posterity. Finally,
we implore the Supreme Being, who has conducted
you through SO many dangers, to hold you in his
protection during long and happy life"
To which he was pleased to return the following
"To tho Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen and Common
Council Of the to,on Of Petersburg.
GEkTLEMBN:-This instance of your politeness is
the more pleasing, as it was unexpected The war
being at an end and my command extinct, this ad-
dress not to be matter Of form, but mark of
esteem The flattering terms in which you express
yourselves of my public conduct displays both your
justice and your generosity. In reviewing the ca
lamites that past, and contemplating the pleas
ures to come, l feel happiness in distress. For
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public necessity, and though have too much reason
to think they will cloud if not embitter my future life
yet they have contributed to public happiness, it
serves to soften private misfortune
The compliment you pay to my social character
and the socitude you express for my future proee.
ton, merit every Acknowledgement which generous
nature can feel, or grateful temper return, and
such l wish to offer.
I am, gentlemen, with the highest esteem, your
obedient servant.
NATHANIEL GREENE
Petersburgh, Oct. %, 1884,"
After presenting the foregoing address, the Gene
ral with the officers and gentlemen in town, were
invited to public dinner, at the house of Mr.. Will
liam Durell, Old street, where the afternoon was
spent in the greatest harmony and sociabilty-
Historical Magazine.
LARGE CHOLERA PRIzE-The Paris Academy of
Sciences has again advertised its prize amounting TO
ABOUT discovery Oh the cause ana the
effectual cure of cholera This prize remarks the
Scientific American, is bequest left some years
since by NJ Briant, and competition has already
taken place for it without No less than one
hundred and fftythree essays were presented the
subject, but only two of them within the scope
Of the conditions. One was the chief physician of
Smoleusko. Russia; the other DR.. Aver ofLondon
The first maintained the identity of the virus Of
cholera with that of small pox and typhus, and he
proposed the incubation of persons with the small
pox virus while the cholera was raging. 1t was as
serted that by doing six out of every chole
ra patients would be cured.
The London physician maintained that eight out
of ten persons could be cured by administering doses
of calomel the rate of grain for adults every
minutes, for the space Of hour. Neither of these
proposed systems for curing cholera we're accepted
by the academy of Sciences. The ground was ia
ken by its members that person. to be entitled
to the prize, must discover specific and GER
tain for the OF cholera quinine is for inter
mittent fever also, that the remedy should be as
efficient for causing the disappearance of this dis
ease as vaccination has been for yrulent small pox