The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1848-07-01

Churches OIL Deaulllul mOucl ana prOpOT-
ton, and above them the State House, a
building on the taultIcss model of the
Parthenon at Athens, of which the Gus
tom House in Philadelphia is a beautiful
imitation. But unfortunately through
parsimonious economy. the beauty ofthe
design has been completely spoiled by
the cheapness Of the material, and al
though new building, it is already
crumbing to decay. BY moonlight
however when Imagination transforms
the Wondering stucco, into Parian mar
BILE, it is beautiful building. New Ha-
Ven has population of some is, 900, and
is largely engaged in the manufacture of
carriages, clocks, and light iron articles,
such as door latches, hooks, sc.
But its great object of attraction to
travellers, is its numerous schools for
every age, and sex, and profession, and
we would think we had seen but little
did we not enter some fthe most prom
inent Of these, and get what impression
we may Of the educational apparatus
which has made Connecticut so long the
boast of the Union for intelligence and
learning. The first 'school" that claims
our attention is of course the College, as
it is humbly called, though possessing all
the branches of the most perfect univer.
sity, while many loud sounding Uni
versity has not even the first requisite Of
an academy-thc living material to work
upon. Yale College, the Old Yale of
her fond alumni, wherever they are found
stands near the centre Of the city, filing
with her ten or twelve large buildings,
an entire block, facing on the public
square. The Colleges are built of brick
and look time Worn, and NOISY through
age But their nakcdness is we'll hid
den behind rows of Fins, whose topmost
branches tower above their roofs, and
cast a beautiful and grateful shade upon
the green grass and gravel walks below.
Behind the colleges, and almost shut out
from view, stands the Library Building,
containing some forty thousand volumes,
more than half of which belong to the
different societies of students, and are
accessible, by a courtesy as rare as it is
becoming, to all the members of Col
lego, of whatever society they may be.
The building itself is of red sandstone
and is one of the handsomest in the
country. Just IN front OF the Library is
the "Cabinet" containing the most cost
ly and rare collection OF minerals to be
found in our country, collected IN great
measure by the interchangeable industry OF
Prof. Sillman and his SOMA son every
way worthy OF the Father whose name he
bears. In the first story OF the "cab-
net is the lecture room of Prof. Silliman
and that of Professor Olmstead, names
widely known in our own country for
their deep devotion to practical science,
and hardly less lavorably known abroad.
1t IS the summer term and we will step
INTO the Geological room where Protes
sor Slllman is lecturing to the senior
class upon Geology, Though Chemis.
try is his iavorite science, the Ncstor OF
American Geologists and Chemists is
scarcely less at home in the bowels Of
the earth, than amid the resorts and cru
ciblcs of the Chemical Laboratory. The
hale old man ofscicncc is still, although
the lrosts of more than seventy winters
have passed over his head in the prime
Of his vigor, and treads with step al
most as elastic as when, more than half
century ago, he trod these hall an I'M
der-graduate No one can listen to him
for an hour, as with even youthful vrhe-
mence he pours forth a torrent oGwords
and ideas too, yet with grace of diction
and easy beauty of description rarely
equallcd, without feeling that he is in
the presence of no ordinary man. But l
will not attempt to describe the man.
That has seen often done, and by far
ADLER pens. We must not forget to pay
a visit to TrumbuIl gallery, where the
Prince of American Historical Painters
has laid his bones to rest beneath mon
ument whose walls are deckcd with some
of the greatest productions ofhis pencil.
We shall find here two large rooms, the
one filled exclusively with Trumbull's
own paintings, and sacred to his memory,
the other obtaining many valuable por-
traits ofthe distinguished living and dead,
by the pencils of our most distinguished
artists There hangs the portrait of the
illustricu- Dwight with his broadly beam
ing countenance, full OF intellect and be-
nevolence, and here is his successor the
venerable Day, and his predecessor Ez
IA Stiles, with WoolSev, and Silinan.
and Olmstead, and host OF others re-
nowned in the history Of the College and
the State. know not where day might
be spent to a better purpose than here a.
mid the images of the illustrIous dead, in
admirng the efforts of art that gives to
canvass an Immortality and tongue.
Yale is old, but she is poor, at least
in money. Liberal, and free to great
extent from sectarian interest, she has
not been favored with those large dona-
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