The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-06-25
COLONEL GILBERT C. WALKER will speak
at Louisa Courthouse on tomorrow.

ELECTION OF PROFESSORS AT THE MEDI-
CAL CoLLEGE.-A quorum of the Board of
Visitors having assembled on Wednesday,
the vacant profcssorship of Practice of
Medicine was filled by the appointment of
DR.. James B. McCaw, late Professor of
Chemistry. The high qualifications of this
gentleman for the position to which he has
been promoted (if the expression may be
allowed) are unquestionable. His effective
ness rs .r teacher has been universally re-
cognized by the classes which have attended
his lectures on chemistry, and the large
practice which he has for many years en-
joyed has given him that familiarity with
disease, in it's multitudiuous forms, which
will enable him to achieve still greater sue
cess as q teacher of Practical Medicine.
DR.. J. S. Dorsey Cullen was elected Pro-
fessor of Diseases of Women and Children
o department of instruction which his ac-
quaintance with the subjects it embraces,
and his aptitude for imparting knowledge to
others, will render alike profitable and at
tractire to his classes. Those who are ac-
uuaintcd with DR.. Cullcn's devotion to his
profession, and his yivacity of mind and of
manner, will need no other assurance of
his future success as lecturer.
The vacancy in the Chair of Chemistry,
created by the transfer of DR.. McCaw, was
filled by the election of DR.. R. S. j. PEBBLES,
whose qualifications for the position are
strongly attested by competent judges. He
has already given evidence as lecturer in
the summer school connected with the col
lege, of his personal adaptation for the busi-
ness Of instruction, and his many friends
anticipate for him IN enviable reputation
in the higher position to which he is now
called.
We congratulate the college upon these ac-
cessious to its corps of teachers, and trust
that with the returning prosperity of the
country from which it derives its chief pa
tronage its success may amply reward the
efforts which have been made to enlarge
and improve the facilities which it offers
for sound and thorough medical instruction.
"U.L. A."-THE UNION LEAGUE.-The
above letters are familiar to the thousands
of colored men who have thoughtlessly been
led to join the so-called ' Union Leagues -
of this State The handful of designing
white men usually found in the Leagues are
as complete masters of the negro members
as if they had been bought and PAID Tor
and in no place this species of slavery ex-
lists to greater extent than in Rich
mond. This condition of things has only
IN exception in the cases of Lewis Lindsey,
Joseph Cox, Landon Johnson, and Richard
Carter, who, as League graduates of elocu-
ton, have by sheer torrent Of words and
indomitable assurance managed to secure a
little personal independence and some posi-
ton to themselves. Of the four Leagues
in this city all are presided over by white
men-to wit J. NJ. Humphreys, L. j.
Gale, Richard Sale, and Samuel A. Eaton
three out of the four holding Offices of some
kind. These Leagues at one time welded
an immense influence, and controlled, to a
great extent, the movements of the coioEed
population. One observation now leads us
to believe that this organization has seen
its best day, and the interest in them to a
great extent abated. We hail with pleasure
this second emancipation of the colored
race, and hope in the future they will not
permit themselves to be led into an organi-
zation which is capable ofiinficting so much
injury to the native white population of
Virginia. ~ r.r~;I 7T"~a- d. -