sophic wisdom of the scheme. The youth and gallant lads from our University Hill, fighting on either side as nature ordered, demonstrated to the assembled wisdom of West-point, that useful military knowledge can be acquired while pursuing the civilian's studies. When all the brilliant deeds which during a four years struggle illustrated a thousand miles of battle-field are duly gathered and treasured up in the annals of our nation of a hundred millions the names of the thousand or more elèves of the Nashville Military College, boys though most of them were, will shine conspicuously bright. As an educational idea or projet so successful did it prove, that to-day the leaders of the national armies are calling upon Congress to make the idea one of general application, by engrafting the military feature upon one leading College in each State.

During the years 1862, 63, 64 and 65 the spacious grounds and buildings of the Literary Department were occupied as two immense army hospitals. The anticipation and presence of Asiatic Cholera deterred the Board from taking any steps towards re-organizing said Department in 1866. In the Autumn of 1867 the Montgomery Bell Academy was opened as the Preparatory Department of the University. This institution is based upon a handsome bequest from a Christian gentleman for a limited charity school. Its successful workings during the two years of its existence demonstrates the feasibility of pay and free scholars attending the same lessons; and proves that the city has no more need of a Boys' High School separate and distinct from this than has, to use a famous Tennessee figure of speech, a toad with side pockets.

At the present time men active in educational schemes have brought before the Trustees of the University plans for a Department of Law, and also for a Department of Science, Literature and the Arts. It is designed that the professors in these important branches of the University shall, as in the Medical, receive no fixed salaries from the Board, but depend for remuneration upon the fees paid by students attracted hither by the fame of the University, the reputation of the city and the zeal of the teachers. These two departments will add much to the

efficiency of the University; directly by the number of new students, law and literary, brought here, and indirectly by the numbers added to the great medical and preparatory schools in consequence of the completeness thus given the whole institution. Here however we are in danger of making a halt ruinous in every way to the interests of Nashville for want of some four or five thousand dollars. The buildings as left by the hospital authorities are not fit for lecture rooms. The Board of Trustees have no means to refit the buildings except by sale of valuable property at a very low rate. As a Board they have made the fortune of the University by the far sighted tenacity with which they have for fifty years held on to real estate, and by the fidelity of their official agents watching over and caring for the property of the institution during the civil war. This policy and fidelity persevered in for another fifty years will place the future of their trust beyond contingency. No wise minded citizen of Nashville would wish the Board to depart from this mode of administering a trust in which every one rich or poor has so much at stake. The Board have a right at this juncture to stand still until aid is offered from outside quarters. The city of Louisville as a municipality created its University with Law, Medicine and Literature taught in handsome buildings, with good libraries and complete apparatus. For more than thirty years. this action of the city government has met with universal approbation from the inhabitants of Louisville. Within the last ten years more than half a dozen cities in France with a population of from twenty to thirty thousand souls have obtained. from imperial government the privilege of founding a College or a Faculty at the expense of the municipalities. Here in Nashville our city rulers have not brains enough to give their University a cup of cold water; and hence it need not excite surprise that for want of brains they have squandered since 1865 more thousands than would have sufficed to build in everlasting stone our whole brilliant and heaven-descended palace for the soul with all its noble aspirations for the future and refining communions with the past. Nashville as a city must hereafter foster its great Universities and Academies, or else Lexington cr

Louisville, or Atlanta, or Lebanon, or Memphis, or Knoxville, or all, will tear from its laggard and niggard brows the laurels it is no longer worthy to wear.

The Trustees of the University have a right to expect much from private liberality and munificence in building upon the foundations so carefully laid and preserved by their foresight and faithfulness. As already mentioned the Christian faith and zeal of our predecessors twenty, thirty, forty-five years since, mainly contributed to place the University in a condition for successful working and indeed bestowed the present magnificent and valuable University Square and a large portion of the vast buildings which now need repairing and furnishing It cannot be that the present generation of Nashvillians have no soul for the intellectual, and that while zealous for factories, fair grounds and railroads they will prove indifferent to the very interests. which have given their city a great name in all the land. A citizen of Chicago who had given a hundred thousand dollars to one school of religion in his own city and many thousands to different seats of learning in his native State of Virginia, but the other day sent a check for five thousand dollars to Washington College. We have men of equal wealth in Nashville. Have we none of equal spirit? The truth must be told, our people love fine houses, fine horses, fine parties and fine clothes too much and the public weal too little. In the North and East the millionaires give by the hundreds of thousands, the rich by the tens of thousands, and the poor by the tens and hundreds. And so the North-East has made all the land its tributary and vassal, because it had brains and developed brains. If we do not wish to be hewers of wood and drawers of water we must go and do likewise.

WASHINGTON'S STETHOSCOPIC PROBE.

NEAR AUGUSTA, June 24, 1869.

DEAR DOCTOR :-An article in a late medical journal, mentioning the difficulty of deciding upon the character of an obstruction met with by the probe, and the use of a microscope to aid in deciding, recalled to my mind an invention of my own, made during the late war, by which the character of an obstruction could be determined with absolute certainty and ease; a desideratum sought for from the first use of gunpowder in war

WASHINGTON'S STETHOSCOPIC PROBE.

fare to the present time. My invention was exceedingly simple and effective; it was to attach the flexible tube of a stethoscope to the end of a probe, by means of a set-screw, and then in an hour's practice the surgeon would be ready for any emergency he would be likely to meet with.

The operator having procured a suitable piece of beef, should insert in incisions therein, a leaden ball, fragment of same; pieces of bone, denuded of, and covered with periosteum; fragment of shell; metallic button, splinter, or anything else he may deem likely to be found in a wound, and he will, with very little practice, be astonished at the ease and precision by which the character of an obstruction can be decided upon.

When it is desired to probe wounds of cavities by a gum bougie instead of the ordinary silver probe, one shod with metal at the end, particularly if there is a flexible wite running through it, will give a distinct perception of the character of the obstacle, and enable the operator to decide upon his course with a full knowledge of the case.

I sent one to a medical director in our army, but unfortunately, it arrived at its destination just in time to be destroyed by Gen. Sherman's advance, and since that time other matters have engaged my attention, so that it has not been brought to public notice. Yours truly, B. H. WASHINGTON.

CARBOLIC ACID IN GLEET.

By T. J. WILLIAMSON, M.D., Cincinnati, O.

There is no complaint perhaps to which the human family is heir, which prostrates the mental and physical energies so effectually as that most formidable of all diseases of the urinary apparatus termed gleet. Hundreds of the best pathologists on the two continents have written exhaustive papers upon the treatment of gleet to little or no effect, until the introduction of that sovereign remedy Carbolic Acid into the treatment of this complaint. I have been called upon to prescribe for hundreds of cases, and must confess that I have never found any remedy half so efficacious as the carbolic acid. Case 1st. H. J. aged twenty-seven years. Pale, sallow, anæmic, forgetful and despondent; applied to me on May 25th. As a constitutional remedy I prescribed: