Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-04-06
The city Press.


The Bonner-The appearance of the NASH
vile Journal Of Medicine and Surgery, an event
that transpires regularly at the beginning of
each month throughout the year, ct the low
price of three dollars per annum in advance,
suggests to the Banner the idea of writing an
article complimentary to the University of
Nashville, and the two Medical Schools of
the city. of which there are couple. The
Banner receives the suggestion thus thrown
out in spirit of christian kindness, and goes
in half column deep. We haven't the room
here to spread out what our neighbor says of
the institutions in question:; but we presume
we may knock up space enough to assure the
though We don't suppose it is, that every
word he says on the subject is strictly true.
Our medical schools are as good as anybody's
medical schools, and much better than some
peoples; but we have passed many sleepless
night in attempting to smother the conric-
ton that all medical schools manufacture
doctors out of good deal of very inferior
material-materiai that would take rank be-
low that which, if manufac iured into bug
gies or omnibuses, would break down the
business of the best coach factory in the
| country; in short, that all our medical schools
annually invest with diploma and turn ont
| to PALACE the country many young man
whose parents had much better invest him
| with sledge-bammer and turn him into
| blacksmith s-shop, where he might preserve
his own health without possibility of en-
| dangering other peoples. We OF course have
no reference to the young doctors who read
the PATRIOT, for no one who studies these col
umns from day to day can fail to become a
| good physician in the end Nor do we mean
to censure blame, condemn, nor come down
| upon the medical schools of this or any other
city. We simply mean to say that many
| young men study physic who have never
studied anything else, and are therefore unfit
to hold in their hands the lives of innocent
| women and children whom a single blunder in
materia medica might send to the grave with
dose of ''pizen' in their veins--a dose of
''piZen" more fatal even than California beer,
| which is now SO rapidly depopulating Madi-
son county, Alabama, including several of
the wards of this city. And now, under a
suspension of the rule, we leave this subject
! IN the bands of the sanitary committee, with
instructions not to report, and take up
The Netcs Which finds in "a Brace of
Resolutions" printed in parallel columns,
text for its Leading article-an article going
to show that there is precious little difference
on the slavery question between the Dtmo-
cratic and Republican parties of Ohio. At
| least, we suppose such to be the object of the
! article. To one travelling in great hurry.
! as we are now, Gor we can't afford to remain
! coopcd up long at time such pleasant
weather a. this). objects are not always as
| distinctly seen as they might be, and some
| times have TO be guessed at. The Nescs again
| complains of the irregula rities of the mails.
1t winds up its complaint with this war-Iike
sentence:
I'VE have tried throwing tufts of grass
about long enough, and if the evil complain
| ed of is not remedied we shall, however re-
| lrctantly, be compelled to test the virtue of
some substance a little harder"
| We shall take our stand on the corner of
! Church and Cherry streets next Monday
morning. with the assurance that sometime
| during the week we shall see the Post-Officc
| bombarded and battered down with brick
| bats.
| The Union-One of the editors of the Union
! is at present on a visit to the City of Magnifi-
cent Distances, and has written a letter TO
his paper, in which he discusses the chances
| of Messrs DOUGLAS, HUNTER aud JOHNSON for
| the nomination at Charleston. Also the
| - GrTHRIEf
and LANE for the same national misfortune.
| From what the writer says, we can't perceive
/ that any of them have much chance. The
Union styles the Opposition the Grand Con-
servalive Party. 1t says: since the meet
ing of the Opposition in Tennessee, and the
illumination of Mr.. JORDAN STOKES address.
we have been watching with no small degree
| of interest the progress of the Grand Con-
servative party, which these were TO inaugu-
rate" If the Union will prevail upon the
! Democracy to swatch the progress of the
| Grand Conservative party" aud to emulate
the virtues and conservatism of that party, ii
will accomplish more good for the country
than it can possibly achieve in any other
way.
| The Grzeae-The Gdzene yields the whsle of
its editorial space to a second article on Cali
| fornia Beer, from the pen OF Prof. HENRI
! ERxI Two or three of us used 10 drink
good deal of the beer. not because we were
| particularly fond Of it, but because it was MT
water; but after reading the Gazette and
john Harry on the subject, We have oil
emptied our yeast into the gutter, and have
fallen back upon the hydrant.
The ECI.ECrIc MAGAZINE, APRIL, 1860