Pleasant Social Event. Reception And Presentation To Prof. Maclean Of The University

Last Monday thera was a pleasant gatberiog of sorne thitty-five or forty gentlemen at the residenco of Dr. Rynd, the occasion boing of the uaturo of a reception to Prof. Donald Maclean, of the University, who had spent Sunday and Monday in the city. There was also A PRESEMATION. After thecompany hadassembled, and aome singing by Dr. Allen, and Messrs. Johnson and Barnes, T. S. Applegato presented to the Professor a very handsome bronze statuetta "Bianca," accompauying the presentation with the following remarks: Pküï. Maclean : The pleasant task has been assigned ine to express to you, in this somewhat formal inanner, the respect and esteem in which you are held in this community. We respect and esteeni you as a man ; your talents have conipelled our warmest admiration. You catne to Michigan a strauger, but during your residence here, many a citizon of our commonwoalth, who ia now a useful meuaber of society, has been, by you, snatched froin the vory jaws of death. Araong the many you have ministered to are a nuuiber of residents of this county, people whoin we love. - Yourcareer as a Professor in our beloved University has added new luster to her fame, that faino so dear to us, and we honor and respect men who, like yourself, labor to inaintain her high standard of excellence. Our hope and prayer is that you may long be spared to follow your distinguishea career. But it is not because you stand at the bead of your honored profession in this state that we moet and greefc you this evening. We shall neverforget acertain faal day, not long ugo, when pleasuro was turned into pain, and when, almost in a moment, a large number of our citiïong, who -wero, in a manner, our guests, were thrown maimed and helpless upon our care and charity. In that hour of our agony wo turned to you for help, and we shall never cease to member how nobly you responded.- This slight token of our affection for you, thougü of enduring bronze, shall not be more lasting than our remembrance of your prompt and efficiënt aid in our liour of trial. Take it, my friend, to your home, and as you look upon it, think of us as men who are not entirely unmindful of the helping hand, so plentifully endowed with skill, that was so manfully extended to us when we needed ita aid. THE RESPONSE. The Professor was takpn completely by surprise, and exhibited much feeling in his remarka aeeepting the gilt. He spoke of his coming to the state a comparativo stranger, of his early career at the University, and paid warm tribute to the many tokens of regard and esteeni he had received at the hands of Regent Rynd. He spoke of the pleasant acquaintances he had made among the citizens of Adrián, and among his professional brethren here, and of thedeep regard he bore them. He spoke also in torms of much feeling of his wife, now absent in England, and seriously 111, as one to whom he was dkeply indebtedfor aid in his career. Whatever of success he had achieved was due largely to her counsel and encouragoment, and the only regret he feit this evening was that she was uuable to be with hitn, and enjoy the tokens of regard he so cherished. He accepted the gift, and should cherish it while life lasted, and as for the honors, the words of the bard of his native land could best expresa his feelings toward them : . " The bridearoom may forget the bride Was m;ide nis wedded wlfö yestreen, The monarch may forget the crown, That on his head iin hour had been, The mother may forget the babe, That smilcs sae sweetly on her knee, Bwt l'll remember thee tjlencairn. And a' that thou hnnt done for me." GOV. CROSWELL, who was present, was called on for a few remarles, and responded in a very Uihyy hpueCii. ie uua ïU'Xfis juubU tertained feelings of antipathy toward hoth clergy and physicians. The former he saw with long faces, and the latter bied bim, and presoribedpills that were both large and decidedly bitter and nauseating. Butas he grew oíd, he had changed his mind. The faces of the clergy had seemed to grow shorter, and the pills of the doctors to beoome smaller and less bitter, and now he had come to look with feelmgs of the highest respeot and esteem on the membeis of both professions. For the recipiënt of the testimonial of the evening he said that he had learned to admiro his skill, of which he had convincing proof in his own peraon, for greatly aided by his vioe and counsel he had been brought up froin a bed of suffering to the enjoyment of health. He referred also to Mr. Jesse H. Warren, who was present, as another proof of the Professor's skill. SUBSEQITENT ntOCEEDINGS. After the speaking came more music, and then the guests of the evening sat down to a fine repast, wbichhaving been done ampie justice to, a session of pleasant social chat ensued, after which the company dispersed, having enjoyed a truly agreeable evening. The testimonial wassimplya personal matter from friends of the doctor, and was designed as a memento of the great service he had rendered the city at the time of the grand stand disaster - services, it is not iniproper to state, for which he has declined all pecuniary compensation.