Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-01-15
For the Patriot.
HIIflk.Sfck Sevannee,, and the ssUniver'
siiy of the South.o

The result of the deliberations of the Episcopal
Convention, which met at Montgomery on the
18th of Nov. last, has been go unfortunate as to
utterly preclude the possibility of meeting the ed.
vocational wants of the South in the establishment
of great Institution of learning. Those who had
embraced with enthusiasm the idea of such an in.
stitution, and who had been ready to contribute o.
their means toits establishment, have DOW lost cou
fdence in the cspabty of those who are intrusted
with its management and they prefer to encour
age and sustain their own home institutions rather
than trust their means in the hands of visionary
men whose plans better calculated to answer
the objects of fashionable watering place ouch al
Beersheba Springs, than great Institution of learn
ing. Let Us look first at the point they have se,
lected. An isolsted mountain-top whose only rec
concentrations are beautiful scenery, and an abun
dance Of water. To counterfeit this it is only &C
cessible by dangerous road, it has no soil for til
lage, and it is surrounded by that most deadly poi
soD,-"Nilk sick" The writer of this article has
been informed by the Attorney General of thai
district most reliable gentleman, that such is the
absolute dread of the people, that they are con
stanty applying to him for indictments agains
persons leaving down fences in the infected coves
| and pacards posted at intervals on posts anc
trees begging persons not to leave down the fences
and warning them of the dangers of so doing. The
| writer has also been informed by citizen of Win
chester that the "Milk-sck" poison exists in Cap
erton's cove 81 miles south Of the junction OF the
| Sewanee Coal Road with the N. and Chattanooga
| Railroad. On the opposite side OF the N. & U. r.
| R., following the line of the mountain and at NO
great distance from it, is section of miles, fenc
ed in and there other infected portions still ly-
| ing without any enclosure. Such is the precau-
ton necessary in this particular region that when
farmer intends killing beef, he is obliged to
run down the animal before doing soft it is in
fected the heat and fatigue occasion jerking or
ouiyering which is an evidence of the presence of
the poison. But Whdt is "Miik-sick'? many may
be disposed to inquire. Hear DR.. GRAFT in the
"America,. Journal of the Medical Sciences" He
says
eve will first speak of tic symptoms manifested
in cattle affected Nth it. as 1T as only through them
that IRE hGye net fond tie disease communicated to
man. THEY (catte) may be affected to such dgree
as their flesh and milk wiH produce tile disease, and
vet Mey Themselves manifest no u'Aealtny Symp-
toms UhateUer.
'Butter and cheese, manufactured from the nlilh
of an infected con, supposed to be tie most con-
eentrated forms Of this poison. They possess no
distinguishing appearance, odor, or taste from the
healthy article. A very minute quantity of either
will suffice to develope the disease in man. THE
cream ordinarily Sufficient to be added to the coffee
drank at a single meal, is said to have induced an
attack. The butter or cheese eaten at one repast,
has frequently been known TO prove effective The
property is not contained in any Of the elements OF
tie milk exclusively, but distributed throughout tile
phole of them, being possessed by tile 6"tter-maIE
as weH as by the whey"
And again, DR.. GRAFT relates the case of the
Frazier family. He says:
'The entire family of Mr.. Frazier, moving west
ward, purchased quantity offresh beef in Indiana,
OF which every member OF the family partook
heartily, daily, until the evening OF the fourth day,
when they arrived in the Doctors neighborhood
On this evening they all retired apparently in their
usual health, but during the night he was summon
moned to attend female with an attack OF milk
sickness Upon a careful examination he discover
ed the peculiar smell present NTH every member
Of the family, and enguiTin5, GScertdIned about
tile beef and the locality IN Which it purchased
which the DR.. continues, satisfied ham that they
uere doomed. Before morning every member Of the
company, sic, uers violently attacked and only one
recovered"
Another serious objection to this point, Sewan-
nee, is the entire absence of appreciative COM
munity. The smear neighbors" of this great Uni
versity and its inmates, will be the coa-miners, the
oh-scouring probably, of our foreign population,
and to any one who knows their character it is but
a reasonable suppostion that between them and the
students a continual feud will exist. In this des-
perate class, out upon an isolated mountain, with
no fear of law, and municipal police to enforce
order the incendiary and the assassin will ever be
found. This then is the point selected for the
establishment of the "Universty of the South |"
In the second place let US look little into the
details, what are their plans of operation? They
are quite on par with the location. Let us quote
a paragraph from &C." a correspondent of the
Nashville NeoOs. lie Soars-
''On this favored spot we shall plant our Univer-
sity. After selecting sufficient number of sites
for the several Colleges, it is our purpose to lay OFF
a town, and Invite our friends to build, paying a
mere nominal ground rent for each lot, but binding
themselves to introduce nothing into the communi-
ty that will, in any wise, tend to defeat the high
and holy purposes which we have in view II re
the wealthy planters of the South may find a cafe
retreat for their families during the heat OF SUMMER
and here We hope also to tahe by the hand many
of our Northern friends, who tired of Saratoga and
the coast, may wish to try the iuvigoratng at
mosphere and majestic scenery of our southern
mountains. Ii is contemplated TO make prn-
cpal recess vacation in the winter se8son-say
from the middle of December to the middle of
March. TINS VIII enable each pupil TO eat his
Christmas dinner at home, and to spend the joyous
season of witter under the paternal roof. While
the parent, in return, visit his son in the Sea-
con of summer, and give him the benefit of his
personal oversight"
Now this is simpy-humJug. The "wealthy
planters of the South, aud our shrewG Northern
friends who tired of Saratoga" will scarcely go
to the expense of building themselves residenc es
where provisions scarce, and so dear, where
there Is no soil TO grow their vegetables and where
they are liable to be poisoned by every pound of
beef, butter and cheese, and every pint of milk
which is brought from the valley. If they wish to
have delightful summer, mountain retreat they
will go to Beersheba Springs, where they can enjoy
life, without facing death at every meal, aud where
the wear and tear" of providing for il will fall up
on other shoulders than their own. Iu antagonism
TO that tcisely arranged three months vacation in
winter, let us quote some pertinent remarks from
an able article in the Montgomery Mail Of the 20 h
ult.:
II they can convince US, that the University can
be established on mountain-top, in a territory al
most uninhabted for some ten or twelve miles on
every side Of the proposed site and where, conse-
uuenty nearly or quite all the builiings-not only
those required for the Of the University after
its establishment, but those also which will be need
ed blythe workmen, and all others, who NAV have
to resort thither 10 prepare for and to aid in esta
fishing Unjust be furnished either directly or in
directly out OF the funds of the University; IL we
saw. they can show u.s. that this can be done with
out an outlay too far exceeding that by which the