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[page 802] and not ours. Mr. Goss: I move that we call Mr. Butler as a witness in this case. The motion was put and carried. Testimony of Dr. Nathaniel Butler, sworn. Mr. Pettangall: You have been in and about the hospital for quite a number of years, and perhaps you had better go on and state what you know about it generally, and its officers, its abuses, if any, and any thing you can think of? Witness: Well, I will try and make it as short as I can; and I beg counsel on either side to restrain me if I am making it too long. I should be glad, if proper, that the name of the one I speak of shall be used only as a lady member of my family. If I knew where lives the friend of the woman whose name was mentioned here I would make the profoundest apology to him if it was her husband, that I allowed her name to be mentioned here. I am the last living man who ought to awaken unkind feelings. Now I only ask that the one I name shall be