66 Greek, yet it is an ill wind that blows nobody any good," and amid all the sufferings and horrors of war, the field of medical science is being opened and expanded, thus benefitting future generations. Yet I question very much, whether the returned surgeon from the field of quick and, too often, careless amputations, is as fit as the regular home practitioner, to attend the duties of private practice (for the time being.) To-day we learn, the surgeons are to be released unconditionally. This is a move in the right direction. Although a deprivation to us, 'twill be but a sheer act of justice to them. In walking along the street, how frequently one becomes lost to the external world of sense and materiality, and feeds upon his own thoughts, how often in stepping on a pebble, you have felt an irresistible desire to kick it ahead of you, and if it should fall towards the curbing, a feeling of anxiety springs up, to keep it in its place on the pave, and you will follow it up, kicking at it until an unlucky kick sends it into the gutter, then you feel an indiscribable relief, and your ideas become more alive to passing events. Have you not, in promenading, musingly began to count your steps, guessing how many it would take to reach a certain point, and on nearing the goal, seeing you have improperly guessed the distance, rushed eagerly forward, lengthening the steps, or if you to near, shortening them, with as much interest as if a kingdom was at stake? The illustration is simple, but is given to show the perfect simplicity of that mind, so much boasted of by the "lords of creation, its imperfections, and oneideaism. · We are all weak by nature, and the boasted individual strength is not the result of acquisition, but a constitutional virtue, and much to be pitied, are the unfortunate, who have suffered from poverty and pernicious example. The Cyprian on the one hand, and the Roue on the other, are objects of commiseration. Much of the opprobrium and epithetical denunciations hurled upon the erring, by those who circumstances have placed them above the want of vice, will, like most curses, (chicken-like,) come home to roost. We should pity and reclaim, not decry, and give up; should sympathize with and protect, not "turn the cold shoulder" to the weak and guilty, but take them by the hand, in the bonds of friendship, love and truth, knowing the mutability of man, and his many frailties. In ruminating on our promenades, with the great volume of the "genus homo" open before us, we are forcibly impressed, with the spirit of the musings,spoken of, and are not disposed to "crowd." Now there passes a soldier from a certain village until he left it, it supplied his conceptions of all that is beautiful; he goes to a larger place, and finds, alone by comparison, the insignificance of his former home, and feels that he has reached the Mecca of his hopes; thence to a metropolis, again his ideas change, and he conforms to the tastes and habits of others proving himself an inconsistent creature of change, not realizing, "that pigmies are pigmies, tho' perched on Alps, and pyramids are pyramides in vales." Such a man is the creation of the hour, was my enemy of yesterday, perhaps my friend to-day, and possibly my reviler to-morrow. He became a soldier because Jim and John joined, is burning for distinction, but when in close quarters, thinks it judicious to retreat; when captured, gets intimate with the enemy, will soon take the oath, go home, and in a week afterwards, would desire to be in the field again, from habit, to which all common minds bear slavish allegiance; he is not to be blamed, but he with others such iu prison, are weak brothers. The Catholic church comprehends this weakness of man, and startles the imagination with its pomp and pageantry. The Methodist church follows, with the enthusiasm of its revival. France understands the susceptibility of man, and touches with its military wand, the pride and circumstance of war; and a magnificient army, with its splendid paraphernalia, strikes with wonder, the imagination of the gazing multitude. Since time immemorial, the world has studied to impress the imagination of man, as 'tis one of his weakest points. Columbus broke his egg for effect, so did Alexander cut the "gordian knot," as he also rode "Bucephalus. The "tub" of Diogones was also of similar device, as were the Delphic oracles. The Persian poet, Sadi, went barefooted to accomplished the same end, and like our chief custodian, wears a white cravat, to impress with his sanctity, while he maltreats prisoners, 'tis all a species of quackery, reminding us of the anecdote of the quack, who, while riding in his carriage, was accosted by an eminent surgeon of the old school: "How is it you succeed by imposture, while we of the regular profession, well nigh starve ?” 66 Easy enough, forsooth; do you see that crowd of a hundred persons? In it there are ninety fools, and ten wise men, the former are my patients, the latter yours, and as a rule, the fools have the most money." Placards and the teeming columns of the press, attract the attention, and the bumps of the marvelous and imaginative are tapped, and success follows. Barnum is a practical illustration of what use can be made of man's imagination, as he has humbuged them from "mermaids" to "gorillas." In church and state, social and political life, it is all the same, all action seems predicated on the weakness of humanity. The true secret of happiness is to accept these truths, but not to abuse the knowledge they impart. Don't force your weaker brother into forbidden paths, be kind to him, and if he wont conform to you, do like Mahomet, "if the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the mountain." Let us emulate that part of his wisdom, even if we cannot accept the romance of the Koran. "Kick not against the pricks," but be susceptible, be "taken in" once and a while, you will feel better, have eonfidence and faith, and as you pass your erring brother or sister, have compassion, let mercy linger 'round your heart. Flee bigotry, that most abominable of sins, that seems to be enthroned in the very soul of Abolitionism, so graphically described by Charles Phillips, "The Abolition preacher or bigot:" "He has no head, he cannot think, No heart, he cannot feel; When he moves, it is in wrath, When he pauses, 'tis amidst ruin. His prayers are curses, his communion death; His decalouge is written in the blood of his murdered victims; It is to whet his fangs upon some kindred rock, To prepare for some more sanguinary desolation." How much happier is that condition, where the people are influenced by teachings of "peace and good-will to all mankind," who evince a superiority of soul in bending to the necessities of man's defects; that feels that as the man allows his attention to be engrossed by the pebble on the pave, so will he be sensitively alive, to the externals of kindness, charity and affection, he will be a child, acting and thinking like one; make him so, and you prepare him for Heaven, for such is the kingdom, and thus win a Heavenly crown for yourself. We call some thirty-five or forty, (it may be fifty,) prisoners, a batch; one or two hundred would be an arrival, a squad we hardly notice. The prisoners alluded to, of North Carolina and Georgia volunteers, was quite an event, and we compliment them with the title of an "arrival." They came in, attracting much attention, by their fine bearing, handsome uniforms, and general martial appearance, and as a whole, are the best looking "crowd" that have honored us with their presence. Among them we notice some of the best blood of the Carolinas, and brightest intellects of Georgia, whose gallantry on the field-if we had space for incidentswould cause a glow of pride to rise to the cheek of every lover of the South, and heroic deeds. As in all wars, where renown is to be gained by acts of chivalry, so in this, the Celtic element is found, one of whose brightest. ornaments stands before us, six feet, two inches in height, standing as firm as Roderick Dhu, is Lieutenant Christopher Hussey, of the Montgomery Guards, of Savannah, Georgia. He was born in Ireland, in 1820, arrived in Georgia, 1841, became thoroughly Southern, and entered the service of the Confederate States, to aid in |