DICKSON, SAMUEL H. 



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On June 13th a Scandinavian Industry and 

 Arts Exhibition was opened at Copenhagen, 

 with great solemnity, in the presence of the 

 King, the Crown Prince, and the Crown Prin- 

 cess. After a cantata by Niels Gade, the open- 

 ing speech was delivered by the premier, 

 Count Holstein. There were 4,000 exhibitors, 

 and the exhibition was a decided success. 



On July 4th a congress of Scandinavian 

 statesmen and scientific celebrities was opened 

 at Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen, to dis- 

 cuss certain prominent questions of political 

 economy. The King and Crown Prince were 

 present. The abolition of the existing mint 

 system, and a transition to the English or the 

 German gold coinage system, were specially 

 discussed. 



DICKSON, SAMUEL HENKY, M.D., LL.D., 

 an eminent physician, professor, and medical 

 writer, born in Charleston, S. C., September 

 20, 1798 ; died in Philadelphia, March 31, 1872. 

 He prepared for college in the schools of his 

 native city, and entered Yale College at the 

 early age of twelve years, graduating thence 

 hi 1814. On his return to Charleston, he im- 

 mediately commenced the study of medicine 

 with Dr. P. G. Prioleau, and, during the terri- 

 ble epidemic of yellow fever there in 1817, 

 though but nineteen years of age, he was ac- 

 tively engaged in practice. He subsequently 

 attended a course of lectures at the University 

 of Pennsylvania, and received the degree of 

 M. D. in 1818. He returned to Charleston, 

 and opened an office in July of the same year. 

 Through his instrumentality a medical college 

 was established in Charleston in 1824, and he 

 was called to the chair of the Institutes and 

 Practice of Medicine, which he filled until 

 1832. He then withdrew, but, on the reorgan- 

 ization of the institution in 1833, as the Medi- 

 cal College of the State, resumed his position. 

 From 1847 to 1850 he occupied the correspond- 

 ing chair in the University of the City of New 

 York, but his health obliged him to return to 

 his former post in Charleston. In 1858 he was 

 called to the chair of Practice of Medicine in 

 Jefferson College, Philadelphia, where he con- 

 tinued till his death. He received the degree 

 of LL. D. from the University of the City of 

 New York in 1853. Though devoted to his 

 profession during the whole of his long public 

 life, Dr. Dickson was a man of wide and gen- 

 eral literary culture; a poet, a philosopher, 

 and a remarkably brilliant conversationalist. 

 He wrote much for magazines, reviews, and 

 other periodicals, for many years, and, though 

 most of his published works are professional, 

 yet not one volume was devoted to his ora- 

 tions, essays, etc., outside of his profession. 

 His medical works are remarkable, not only 

 for their acuteness of observation, their pro- 

 fessional exactness and orthodoxy, and their 

 logical ability, but for a rare finish and elegance 

 of style, of which there are fewer examples 

 than there should be among the members of 

 that profession. Dr. Dickson's published 



works were : " Dengue : its History, Patholo- 

 gy, and Treatment," 1826 ; " Essays on Pathol- 

 ogy and Therapeutics," 2 vols., 8vo., 1845 ; 

 "Manual of Pathology and Practice of Medi- 

 cine," 1848 ; "Essays on Slavery, and Sundry 

 Orations and Addresses," 1845; "Essays on 

 Life, Sleep, Pain," etc., 1852; "Elements of 

 Medicine," 1855. It is a fact worthy of 

 notice that he delivered the first temperance 

 lecture or oration ever heard in the Southern 

 States. 



DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE AND 

 FOREIGN RELATIONS. Such of the corre- 

 spondence, for the year 1872, of the Secretary 

 of State with foreign governments as it has 

 been considered desirable to publish, is con- 

 tained in the volumes relating to foreign rela- 

 tions, which accompany the annual message 

 of the President to Congress. 



The most important diplomatic event of the 

 year has been the happy conclusion of the la- 

 bors of the Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva. 

 The award of the tribunal in favor of the 

 United States, and the record of the proceed- 

 ings which led to this acceptable result, are in- 

 teresting and highly- valuable additions to the 

 literature of international law. 



With the conclusion of the sessions of the 

 tribunal at Geneva, and the publication of its 

 award, there was removed, in a manner satis- 

 factory to the United States Government, a 

 difficult and perplexing question, which, until 

 it was finally answered, suspended the possi- 

 bility of cordial good feeling between the two 

 countries interested. 



The spectacle of two of the most powerful 

 and highly-civilized nations of the earth sub- 

 mitting their grievances to a common arbiter, 

 for examination and determination, is some- 

 thing so unusual in the history of the world, 

 and reflects such high honor upon the wisdom 

 of the distinguished persons who were instru- 

 mental in conceiving and giving effect to this 

 great principle of peace, which many are san- 

 guine to hope will usurp the functions of war, 

 that here are inserted, without abridgment, 

 some of the principal papers relating to the 

 progress and termination of the arbitration. 



Under the date of September 21, 1872, Mr. 

 J. C. Bancroft Davis, the agent of the United 

 States, writes from Paris to Mr. Hamilton 

 Fish, the Secretary of State, as follows : 



PARIS, September 21, 1872. 



SIR : I transmit herewith, in a separate enclosure, 

 the original award of the Tribunal of Arbitration, 

 and, in another separate enclosure, the original pro- 

 tocols of the conferences. 



Having now conducted to a successful termination 

 the interests intrusted to me by the President, I re- 

 spectfully ask permission to make a statement re- 

 specting them. 



At the conference of the joint high commissioners 

 at Washington, in which the subject of the Alabama 

 claims was first considered, the American commis- 

 sioners, in their opening statement, defined the de- 

 mands of the United States against Great Britain, 

 growing out of the acts of the Alabama and the other 

 cruisers, which were to be the subject of the negoti- 

 ations, in the following language, namely : 



