Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-01

! The severity of Wendell Phillips notice OF
Greeley and his last folly will be appreciated
from brief extract that we have copied. Its
force is in the ratio of Phillips admitted pow;
ers OF discrimination of character.
Few men have his clearness of vision in this
direction, and few are capable of using language
more wltheringly. This seems to be the un-
kindest cut ofall 1t runs thus:
"Of Mr.. Greeley's part in this melan-
choly farce we want words to express
our opinion. Sorrow masters indigna-
tion. lie has done many things to try
the. patience of his friends; but we think
nothing has ever proved SO conclusively
his entire lack ofjudgment and common
sense, his utter inability to comprehend
the epoch, the struggle through which
the nation has passed, or the state in
which it stands. Generally obtuse in his
moral sense, we confess we are obliged to
believe him more lacking in the power to
discriminate between the right and wrong
than We had fancied, in order to pre-
serve our faith in his honesty and iuten-
tlon. If his friends can make out his
claim to average intelligence in political
matters, then he is responsible for an a
mount of guilt in this effort-vain, we
trust, to mislead and confuse the nation
which all his well-meant efforts in times
past can hardly outweigh.
The Boston Congregationalist and the
Recorder are to be united, Rev., DR. Mar
vim of the latter remaining editor-in-chief
of the consolidated paper. We presume
that Rev. Mr.. Dexter, who has lately
surrendered his parish for the editor-ship
of the Congregationalist, will also be re-
tained as associate editor. This is good
movement. One orthodox Congregation
al paper is sufficient for Massachusetts,,
even for New England, and it is better to
concentrate the ability and money of the
denomination upon the one than to divide
it. The idea was for time entertained
of removing the Recorder to New York.
That field is now clear for a Congrega-
tional paper, the Independent voluntarily
disavowing what slight claim it had to
that character and devoting itself hence
! forth to the gospel of progress, as reveal
ed by and through, Theodore Tilton.-
The denominational papers have much
improved within few years, and
many Of them now compete ably with
the secular weeklies in general news and
literature. We may expect tie consolda-
ted Boston paper TO take conspicuous
position with the best of the class.
Surgical OperatIo m.
On the first age will be found a report of an
interesting surgical operation performed on a
citizen of Painesvile for the cure of consump-
tion, taken from the Telegraph of that place.
We have copied it for the benefit of that nu
merous class of persons in this and other local
itics, whose course towards the other world
is being quickened by this insidious but in
satiable malady. We believe the oper alton of
tapping the chest for the purpose of drawing of
collections of aUdter or 1)Ms from the cavities
outside of the pleurs, are not new but an open
ing into the lung itself for such purpose,
would indeed be new to the practice. If such
were the fact in Mr.. Paines case, as represent
ed by our observent and accurate contemporary,
! it is fact that will command the attention OF
the Medical profession. A medical friend in
forms u.s. that the operation oftapping the chest
:. has been performed in numerous instances by
! Dr. Bowditch, of Boston, within the last few
years, and not without frequent and COM
plete success, when the collections were of a
watery character; but when assesses had FORM
ed and pus collected, the relief apt to be but
temporary Though incsions into the lungs has
been of rare occurrence, and operations like that
of DR.. Wolcot's almost, ifnot indeed absolutely
without precedent, it is not from any preva-
alencc of opinion that such incessiOns are nee
essarily fatal Hundreds of instances, perhaps
are on record, ofinjuries by accident, gun-shot
wound, &C., to the lungs where the patient has
recovered and attained to full and robust health
The case of Gen. Shields may be mentioned as
strongly attesting this position, in which silk
handkerchief was driven through the lung-in-
deed, through the body, from the front, and
drawn out from the pack, without, it is believ-
ed, affecting very unfavorably the functions Of
life. Discharges from abcesses by means oi
openings into the cavities of the chest, are, then
in no wise critical or uncommon, and the relie
of the pleura by the same means of discharge
from tubercles and abcesses upon the lungs, is
treated of more or less commonly in the books
but incisions into the lungs and the drawing Of
matter directly from the breathing organs, as
represented in the case of Mr.. Paine, is indeed
an achievement in surgery, ,.perhaps never be-
fore ventured upon, and places DR.. Wolcott il
advance ofthe profession, and entities him ir
an especial manner to the distinction of being
benefactor of poor human nature.
1t is not often that SO desirable place
as Governor of a state like Ohio, SAYS
: the Pittsburg Gazette, goes a begging
But no gentleman whom people of sense
think of in connection with that dignity
inclines to accept it. A dozen promin
ent Republican names have been sug
gested as suitable to be put on the ticket
but the owners promptly refused to lei
that use be made of them. Are the pub
lie men Of Ohio becoming modest ? o.
do their ambitions all look at higher
game than Governorships.