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s@. In our remarkably fortunate and
reconstructed State of Tennessee men
are disfranchised for the sin of hdcing
whits skins. If not, for what are they
DISTINGUISHED Certainly not for the
fact of having been rebels. That cannot
be-for the majority of whites, who do
vote, have been rebels, and many of
them of the most ferocious sort, and
very large part of the blacks too mere
good and true rebels through the whole
war, without any compulsion whaterer
land many one of them has killed his
man, of which we can show the instances.
If all rebels were disfranchised, we
might suppose rebellion was the cause of
Acknowledgement. But, as only part
arc so, and all blacks are permitted to
vote, we conclude the olfense is having
white skins, which nothing but being
guilty of some extraordinary meanness
can atone
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BaS- The Cleveland (0hio) Plain
dealer is a very plain dealing mort hern
paper. 1t suggests the inquiry whether
the Radical party will not be compelled
to give up the idea of military negro
reconstruction, or push the scheme to
the extent recommended by the Dragging
autocrat, General Pope, and hang, shoot,
imprison and exile the mass Of Southern
white people. 1t asks whether, when
then this is done, and the leaders are all
exiled or drawn and quartered, new
leaders will not spring up in their places,
and present as brilliant examples Of re-
sistahce 10 tyrsnnous oppression as
Poland has done And it suggests the
further inquiry whether TO do all this it
will not be necessary to increase ten
fold the military force at present in the
South and still, the further question
whether the peopls Of the North are 90
in love with the idea Of having some ten
States Of the Union given up to the
negroes" and so lightly taxed already,
that they viii quietly and even joyfully
submit to a levy of several hundred
millions more per AMMAN, IN order 70
bring about the glorious negre millennium.
As surely as there is reason aud sanity
in d.s people Of The NOrihera States,
the whole taiical programme viii be
crushed out 50 soOa . ley can speak q
the polls.
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Iay~ Why is II that the Radicals howl
80 hercely over the fact that some Con-
seryatives are unwilling to support the
negroes who are set up to rule them
II is because they see that the blacks
must be fed here or emigrate, and the
Radicals do not intend TO feed them. IL
is because they know they can control
the negro vote for their own purposes
and do not wish to lose it-not that they
care for the negro, whom they would
willingly starve, if they could make hall
as much by ii ms they hope to make by
his vote. Let the Conservatives persist
in their true policy Of Diminishing negro
labor as fast as white can be brought in
TO take its place, and the time is near
when the Radicals will lose control by
negro votes. Hence they howl. l.ft
The negroes can have friends among
the Conservatives, a plenty of friends,
far more permanent and reliable friends
than the radicals, (who only pretend to
be friends, if they only choose TO do so.
But IL they choose to take the advice OF
a few camp following and specializing
radicals, who have come here after the
Federal army, and not with 1t, and who
came to deceive them and get Offices and
money by controlling them, and If they
intend to follow that advice against their
former masters, and their sons and
friends, and do them all the harm they
can, and shut them out from voting and
governing, and make wilderness of the
country they know not how to govern,
then we tell them that Conservatives will
not pay them wages, or favor them, or
be their friends, and that they had better
leave a'country which God has given to
the white man and not to the blacks.
Nearly all the abolitionists live in
the north and they had better
90 and live with those who love
them so we'll, than to stay here with
Conservatives, who are determined, as
fast as possible, to give the wages Of
labor to white men who will come and
take their places.
The Yankees will never deny the right
of Southern men to turn off whom they
please, and to hire whom they please.
1t is what every farmer and storekeeper
and manufacturer of all the North are
doing every day, and always have done.
The cotton manufacturers who employ |
laborers by the hundred always turn
them off if they do not vote to suit them.
It ia human nature to patronize ones
friends. Is anybody, white or black,
fool enough to believe southern white |
men are going to patronize their enemies
instead of their friends Z? The blacks
individually pretend to be friends to the
southern whites. Let them be really so
and they will find nothing but kindness.
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SAvASSAH. August SILT is rumOfed
here that petition has been sent TO Gen.
fops, requesting the removal Of the pre-
sent Mayor Aai Board Of Alderman. A
counter petition. sigueS b. az the inau-
entail citizens and merchants 10 the cliy,
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R6S- The white and black Radicals are
reported as making many incendiary
addresses to the colored people in the
parishes of Attakapas and 0pelousas,
La One negro man, in speech at the
town of Pattersonville, was be.iigerent,
aud advised his friends not to work for
the rebels next year, and to "let the
land grow up in bushes so as to get their
lands, mules, plantation implements"
etc. He went for con6scation. He
said he never saw white man riding
in four.wheeled buggy that he did not
want two Of the wheels, that be never
ssw q man with two mules that he did
not wantvNe of them, or with two coats.
He wanted the white women to come to
the wnshtub and the white men to the
milk pail, pillow and hoe, aud to build up
the black man and pull down thewbite
man"
At negro barbecue in St. Landry the
speakers, white and black, sought to ex.
cite the jealousy of black men against
the white, who were not Radicals, and
advised to "treat them rudely and claim
social equality at once" One Vidal,
Frenchman, who edits q Radical paper
at ST. Landry, denounced the former
officers and Shareholders of the parish as
"vipers and enemies to the black race,
and said he who is worthy Of freedom
must strike the blow-now is the time
the battle belongs to numbers" Keany,
a colored man, was for con6scation and
division of lands, said it was sure to
come, that "the black men must be
linked together as one man to put down
the white man, that he wished every
id rebel in hell and would lead them
to battle These Radical speakers have
so excited the negroes that the most re-
spectacle gentlemen of that parish say
massaores would be inevitable if these
mischief makers were no. held in check
BY the presence of United States troopss
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BY TELEGRAPH.
Latest to Noon To-day.


The Mill Between Jones and Me-
Coole = The Parties on the
Qround-Fair Weather ana an
Immense Crowd of Spectators
The Fight Won by McCoole
After Thirty-four Rounds in
Twenty Eve Minutes.
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- The articles Of J. c" are inter
estisE % oar readers, and welcome 70 The
LKBGEE Es Ehan be glad 10 hear far
Their from him
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SAVANNAH.

Gen. Pope Petitioned by Radicals
to Remove the City Counoil-A
Counter Petition by the conser-
NATIVES and Influential Citizens
of the Place.
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Gents, clothing Must be Sold!

Linen Paou. 81 Is per pair.
Linen Volis, IS ciE 10 each.
Linen Coat. 81 . 70 Y ~ each.
Gents shirs, Dom 81 70 y p each.
Gent Neck Tieg, - 70 81 cts each.
Cent? fne Calf Boots, s. 50 20 - 80 per pair
Our Terms during this Great Sacrifice sale
arc CASH, AND CASH ONLY.
Hlearhod Domestic. NJ cts per yard.
dne ware wide. IS 10 Is cts.
Brown Domestic. izll ets per yard. oor
Do not neglect tbs opportunity 70 SCI uVVV
"OVD' % 'i''''' FLEOE BROS.
% ~ Main steeet.
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90 retain the prsssn, Board, has been
gotten up
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Wednesday, 18th Day of september, 1857.
GAINESVILLE, Tennessee,
FLOUR STORE!


LAFAYETTE GOLD DUST. choice xxx,
GAINESVILLE CITY MILLS" choice
xxx. ab d.
"cLARKsvILLE ANDREW JACKSON"
choice xxx.
"CLARKsv1LLE SOUTHERN MILLS"
choice XXX. T
POTOMAC MILL" " Family Flour, extra.
Besides above ClarksviIlo hOurs, we have
several Of the leading ST. Louis brands always
on hand-cHEAP TO THE TRADE.
Also complete assortment of PLANTATION
SUPPLIES.
Ten casks Choice Country CLEAR SIDES
received to-day. ...
SIMPSON, MADDEN & CO.,
202 Front street.
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RICHMOND.
Seizure for Violation of the Rev.
enue Laws.

RICHMOND, VA, August 3l.-Rapp 4
Co.'S tobacco mandatory was seized
yesterday for violetion of the Govern
ment Revenue laws. ~ 13fte
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SCHOOLS.
Re-Opening.
OITY sCHOOLS
WILL REOPEN ON THE
First Monday in September (2d),
VIA tho following COrps Of Toachers:

Mr.; E; A. RENNER, Principal. on Adams It..
Nj. q. 4. BRAUN, Teacher. on ADAMS street.
@. McWILLIAMS, "
Miss JULIETTE CAIRNS" . "
Mr.. CHAS. j. HUNTER, " cor. Washing
ton and High streets.
Miss ANNIE c, RUEDLEHUBER. Teacher,
cor. Washington and High streets.
ington md High streets.
Mrs JENNIE TEAGER. Principal. Alabama
Miss ISM @SilATTIEMcANINoH, Teacher, Ala. st.
MARY d. CAIRNS, :"
I" I ESMaH Ma PTETrTIIIBBn c
:. CARRIE ENNIS,
=" GE0RGTE SHARPE {" -"
LOUISA BOOK. g
t" IM0GEN LATHAM.
{" MAGGIE .FEALY, Teacher. "a Second
street, North Memphis.
Miss ELLEN FLAHERTY. Teacher. "a See
ond street. North Memphis.
Miss FANNIE CAIN, Teacher. "a Second ST..
Mrs. II. HAMPTON. Teacher. "a 'Second st..
North Memphis.
Miss JENNIE HIGBEE, Principal, Female
Miss EMMA CARROLL. Teacher. Court St.
Mr.. NJ. Y. B; SHAITUCK g Linden st.
Miss ELLA WHITE. :"
Miss MoLIiE JohNsToN. I. /"
Mrs. @. A. SHATTUCK, !"
Mrs. +. w. SMITH. " -
Miss ROSE A. WEBB, '
Mr.. r. N. THWEATT, " "
Miss SAVENIA VONDRAN, Engine House
t VIZ. MITCHELL, supt.
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On and After Thursday Evening,

commencing at three o'clock. Pupils attend
ing school last term will attend the same
schools and will not need tickets. Parents are
requested to enter their children on the first
day, that classification and organization may
be completed as soon as possible. Honorable
mention will be made of those pupils that COM
mcnce and continue without losing day du-
The teachers elect on Saturday evening, at half
past five o'clock. w. q. MITCHELL,
Sup't City Schools.
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TO THE PUBLIC:

TO 1Hh Div
Ample arrangements win be made to accom-
modate all. sIi aethlfW rff
A FREE BARBECUE.
Exercises to commence precisely at 10 o'clock
am. Those wishing to enter as contestants
will make application to the Secretary at Mrs.
]. W. Wards, or TO Jacob Voorhies, ESQ.,. No.
IFS Main street, Memphis. The lists close on
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NRs. OGDEN HOFFMAN'S
RRoLIsH AEp FRENCH
boarding and Dag hchOOi

FOR YOUNG LADIES,
No. II West Thiry.kighih street. n ,.g lg ~,
drols. nnfl sopt. ltth, Lennor, Mas or o.
a1cgt.
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our New whoiesaie stock.

Our New Wholesale stock.
Remember "a Dollar Saved is two Earned"
and here is chance, not only to save one dol
lar. but many.
Look at the prices Of some few Of the articles
for sale, and rest assured everything in our
ttoro will be offered At the same low prices.
All Goods Warranted as REPRESENTED!
English Berege, only 81 cts per yard. IfIi
Checked Poplns, only - cts per yard.
Black Silks, all prices.
para.ols, from 81 upwards.
Hooks and Eyes. SIX cards for - cts
ladies' Linen Haudk's, 81 % per dog.
Ccttonade for Boys' and Mems Clothing, from
% ~ 20 cg per yard.
Linen Towels d 70 80 ctP each.
bifea Table Cloths. 81 10 each. 10
Ladies Hose, from IS cts per pair.
Bugle Trimmings, Buttons, Laces, etc., AT al
plces-icss h0H cost.
Cape Collar. p cts each.
Mourning Goods n half price.
Iadies' Shoes At half price.
Children's Sh0es at half price.
Baby Shoe. l2I cts per pair. so-s
Whalebobo CorEcts, 81 > per pair-worth y 20.
l0if sheeting. 50 cts per yard
Remember, Our Stock MUST BE SOLD and
We Shall Not Hesitate az any Sac
rihce 70 Make q SPECIFY sale.
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NUMBER %.

the man and the party which speaks Of
marching across your now unhappy land
once again with the sword to kill, and the
torch to burn, and the Surveyors chain 10
divide cut the desert which shall remain.
He who votes to sustain the party in vour
midst which invites the rapacious and
cruel faction in the North to take posses
sion of your estates and confscate'the same
without the least regard to your lawful
rights and in violation of the plighted faith
OF the nation. And. fellow citizens. if
this scheme of confscation, so much de-
sired by those who think the late war end
ed too soon, should be put in force, We
can tell you now whose property will be
taken. 1t will be the property of those
who have it. This faction cares not for
loyalty or disloyalty. The man who has
whereof to take spoil, will be to them dis
loyal. You can badly escape by timid
subserviency to their arbitrary will. The
man who votes The Radical ticket at the
coming election, votes in favor of, or 10
give satisfaction and countenance to, these
acts Of tyranny and oppression. unequaled
IN the annals of civilization.
In reference to the appointment of Jude-
es of election, the address says: awe
advise moderation and obedience to the
mandate OF the oppressOr, that he may be
left without excuse before the nation when
he finds himself beaten on his own ground
by the indignant voice of people deter
mined to be rid of him. IF the disfran.
chised and oppressed masses will arouse
to the effort, though only the colored men
of the State were enfranchised, they will
not vote for him or his party. In counties
where the Courts have appointed Judges,
and where the commissioners have done
the same, let the eppointees of the latter
hold the election, but let the lawfully ap-
pointed Judges attend to watch the man
ner of its hOding. Let these, or if they
will not serve in that capacity, let others,
appointed for the purpose, sit by and see
that the ballot boxes are not stuffed, and
that the returns are made correctly. Let
the ballot-boz be everywhere protected
from unlawful violence and fraud. Com.
NIT no frauds yourselves, and permit none
to be committed by them. Brownlow
hopes to be kept in power only by the aid
of the General Government, through it's
Congressional majority. Give him no pre-
text to ask Congressional interference"
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LOOking.elass of Brownlowism.


In September, 1853, was engaged ia q
debate upon the slavery question, IN Phila-
belPhis, with Rev. Abrsm Pryne, of New
York, in which defended the institution
of slavery as it exists in the South. The
debate was published in Philadelphia, aud
exhibits my sentiments upon that great
qvestiOn, which have undergone no change
since then.
Brownlow, 1864, was only for emanci-
pating the slaves for two reasons. One
Was that it would be the means of extin.
gushing the negro race. In his paper.
the Knoxville Wing, Of May 9Bth, 1864,
he said
"We have never differed with the South
upon the abstract question Of slavery, and
do not now differ, and we are free to say
that the condition of the slaves, when lib
Grated, if left in the South, will be wor .
than it is ever during their servitude, and
we are for emsncipating every negro in the
South, notwithstanding all this. For tax
ing this ground we have two controlling
reasons First it will be the severest pun
ishment of the Southern rebels that can be
inflicted, and next, twill be the very meanR
of extinguishing the negro race, as the re-
moval and civilization of the Indian tribe
have tended to extinguish them.
Brownlow's dislike, if not hatred, for
the negro oreeps out at stilI later period.
In his message of April 6, 1885. to the
Legislature, he said
1t is certainly proper and right for the
Legislature of Tennessee 70 determine to
what extent this State shall be oVerrup
with the emsucipated slaves Of the other
States. am, myself
the advocate of providing for them sepa-
rate and appropriate amount Of territory,
and settle them down perman emily as a aa-
tion Of freedmen.
Again in his message Of the Sd Of octo'
ber, 1865, be says:
A long and intimate acquaintance with
affairs in the South, has convinced me that
the white and oolored people cannot live
together, politically or socially, as equals.
and therefore all our Legislation should
look to a Peaceable separation Of the two
races on Southern soil.
He was bent on ridding the State Of
them. In the same message he advocated
settling them in Texas, and then be says:
If this scheme should not strike the Ma
tional Government as plausible, then let
Mexico be cleaned out and turned over to
the emaneipated slaves Of the South.
TAXATION WITHOUT EXPERIMENTATION.
Brownlow IS now for taxing bur exclad-
ing the Southern States from representation.
How beautiful his consistency, we win sae.
On the 23d Of March, 1861, BrowBlow de-
clared himself candidate for Governor
Continued on Fossrt6 Ptge.
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- CoAT o. FApFp eRAY.
BY eEoBsE W. HARRIS.


a low nut rests in 7 ookout's shade.
As rots its moss-grown roof az ay,
w hile sundOwn's glories softly fade,
Closing another weary day
The battle's din is heard no more
No more the hunted stand at bay
The breezes through the lowly door
Swing mute coat of faded grey,
tatteTed relic of the fray
A threadbare coat of faded grey.
IT'S hanging on the rough log wall
Near TO the foot OF the Widows bed,
By . white plume and weIl-worn shawl
His gift the happy morn he we'd,
BY the wee ship their dead child wore
The one they gave the name Of May, -
By her rag doll and pinafore-
BY right its there, that coat of grey,
A red-heck's relic of the fray -.-=
An aTInless coat of faded grey.
Herall of life nov drapes that wall,
Poor and patient still she waits
On Gods good time to gently call
Her, too, within the jeWel'd rates
And all She Graves is here to die
To part from these, and pass away
To Join her loves eternally
That wore the slip-the coat Of grey,
The shell-torn relic of the fray
Her soldiers coat of faded grey.
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We commend the following from the
Radical paper, the Springfield Mass Re
publican, to our Radical neighbors:
at would Of course be pleasant TO have
a Republican delegation from Kentucky IN
Congress, but such delegation would not
represent the people of the State. and it
would be of no advantage to the Republi-
can party to accomplish this object by IL
legal and unfair means. Indeed, the soon
er the idea is exploded that the party can
be maintained by brute force the better for
the party and the country. The politicians
Who make this their reliance are too weak
and short-sighted to have influence with
any party"
This applies to Tennessee fully as well
as to Kentucky.
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#See McCaulay's Massacre of Glencoe
Read and tremble for the spirit is here.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-07-19

The Executive Committee of this divis-
sion of the State, has prepared an address
to the people from which we make the fol-
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-07-19

open at your side, pronoance "Loyal."-
With your hands and fingers downward in
the chest the thumb thrust into the vest
or waistband, across the body, pronounce
It ,,,,,s,.ss
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We were next initiated into the signs
and passwords. DC. Let one suffice but
if you wish you can have them all To
pass yourself as a Lacquer, when question
ed, give the "Fou- L.'s''-as follows, right
hand raised to Heaven, thumb and third
finger touching their ends over the palm,
and pronounce Liberty" Bringing the
h.4d down on line with the shoulder,
pronounce Lincoln" Dropping the hand
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,ls- ..Is
AUC1I ON S, ALL LES:

OVENS, SPIDERS; POTS. KETThEs and general
assorment Of Hulewware barrels Washing Bods, Btove
and Pipe Weights Trucks; 20 dozen Brooms; assorted
Lot Gassware; bottles Liquor, Fancy Show Case &C.
Conditions cash. Goods TO be removed
after sale. Eoot9A[y =.
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/. SPREAD THE TRIJTH.z

Some medical men ingst that it is undgnifed to I'D
vertise remedy however valuable 1t may be. Queer
reasoning this It is like saying that article which
the world needs should be hid in cornerthat benefits
and blessings may be too widely dfused-that the
Of protecting and restoring health should be a close
monopoly, and not accessible to all. Tho argument is
bad It is worse than that; 1t III inhuman Suppose
HosTETTER's STOMACH BITTERs-a absolute spe.
chc for dyspepsia, biousness and nervous debility
had never been known beyond the repertoire of the
faculty. what would have been the consequence In.
stead OF curing and invgoratng millions tho good effects
of the preparation would have been confined to com.
paraive few. There tho highest authority for Saying
that light should not be hid under bushel; that Whist
ovor Is excellent should be placed city on hill
whore ell en aka cognizanco Of it. It ia upon this
principles that the BITTERs have been advertised and
continue be advertised in every newspaper of any
prominence in the western hemisphere. and that tho
spontaneous testimonials in it's favor have been trans.
lated into Nil written languages Thousands enjoy
feet health to-day who would be hnguising beds Of
ackness II the newspapers had not spread tho trah with
regard this unequaed Invgorant and corrective far
Lad widc Suppose profit Inns been reaped from this pub
ucity Is that any argument against it? II the public
health has been protected lives have been saved;
the feeble have been strengthened and the sick restored
great good has been accomplished; and who as
to grudgs to o1srons thus directed thnr fair reward
February
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DoWIE & NOISE, Agents.
GOODRICH, WINEMAN &; CO., Agents.

DALE has removed his stock of ready-mado CLOTH
ing from the store formerly occupied by him, to
No. 314 King, corner Of King and Society streets,
directly opposite the Merchants Hotel.
The goods will be sold at great sacrifice, re-
gardless Of cost, and persons wishing to treat
themselves to q nice new suit of clothing viii find
it to their advantage to give him an ear1y call.
This is no hulnbug, as he rented the store for
ten days only, to close out the remainder Of his
goods previous to leaving the city.
ciety streets. 81
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ANNrvERsARY CELEBRAr1oN.-The VigilanS Fire
Company, one Of the oldest and most popular in
tho Fire Department. celebrated their 4sth Ami
versary yesterday. In the afternoon the Company
paraded through our principal stroets and attract
cd great attention, both BY their neat and tasty
uniforms and by tho showy appearances OF their
machine. They numbered seventy men, and tho
parade VAS followed by > large crowd of enthusl-
astic admirers, while the windows along the route
werc filed with the fairest Of the fair, who had as
sombled to do the firemen honor.
After the parade they adjourned to the South
Carolina Hall, and the usual business of the even-
ing was transacted, which resulted in the choice
Of the following officers:
sS Y TUPPER. President
l.. D. MOWRY, Vice President
tJ. F. TORRENT, First Director.
j. P. BROWNE, Second Director
IF. L. O'NEU, Third Director.
B. F. McCABE Fourth Director
J.. T. HUMPHREYS, Secretary.
sS. ". FISHER, JR Treasurer.
c, a. s1MONTON, Solicitor.
A. FITCH, NJ D. Surgeon.