Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1852-08-27

cr We are happy to learn that arrange
- mcnts arc in progress for supplying til
University, Immediately, with select an
extensive Cabinet of Geological, Mincra
logical, Botanical, and Geological spcci
mems, from france. 1t will he one 0
the best aud most useful collections in th
C.itcd States, at cost Of 500, whiel
has been met by donation of that amour
frcm the President of the Faculty. Othcl
friends in and near Philadelphia have
agreed to furnish suitable room at thcil
own expense; while Prof Anderson la.
started to make the selection, gratuitously
during the coming vacation. We wish
him happy voyage, a successful effort,
and safe and timely return
Over one thousand specimens of gcolo-
gy, &c, have already been presented to
the University. The Library has been
increased 1000 volumes, altogether by do
nations.
The amount received on Tuition Bills
tie past year, is about 81, 500, and there
arc $3.50 now due-S3,35G in al. The
salaries of the seven Teachers have been
S5,i5o. The extra charges, for rent, fuel,
library, &c, have, it is believed, covered
all incidental expenses.
Liberal friends Of the Institution have
Jccn visited the past year by the Financial
Agent Of the Board Of Trustees, with a
view TO the permanent endowment of The
Presidency Of the University, and of the
Greek rroftssorsLip. The former is un-
dertakcn to be flied in Pennsylvania, and
the latter in New Jersey. We hope soon
to hear Of the accomplishment Of both
efforts
1t will be especially gratifying for us to
announce, from time to time, such plans
as may be devised to reduce tLc.expenscs
of obtaining a literary and scientific cdu-
cation 'rihi suitable moral culture, for
those not favored by friends or fortune
Public all is not demanded for the richer,
but for the more INDECENT. We also re-
joicc that facilities are offered for choice
of studies TO those whose inclinations or
opportunities do not permit them to take
the full course. 1T the same time, we
urge al vli0 can with proprioty, to master
every study taught in the Institution, that
they may become strong and useful in
wha.eyer honorable department of human
enterprise they may engage.
1t affords us much pleasure to notice
the movements which promise to give the
University at Lcwisburg all the adsan-
tagcs of Railway connection with the
more populous and favored portions of the
State. Two Companies es-cach sustained
by a powerful city, and hy strong local
intcrcsts-oifcr 10 give the West Branch
Valley, i'll one or two years, cordial
greeting ny the Locomotives whistle
One is the great Central Railway North
and South, running directly north from
Washington, Baltimore, York, Harrisburg
Sunbury, Lerislay, Williamsport, to
Elmira, thence northerly, westerly, and
castcrly. The other is the Grand East
and West roate, lcng contemplated by the
more enlightened portion of the Philadcl-
phisns, designed to construct, ultimately,
a chain Of Railway from that Emporium,
by Sunbury, along the West Branch just
opposite Lcwisburg, through Williamsport,
to the noted harbor of Erie, on that Lake
the shortest route between the
scaboard cities and the Lakcs-opcning
onc-ffth of the State to the enterprise
Of the Lumbcrman. the Manufacturer, the |
Merchant, and the Farmer-and making
one of the most important of the iron
chains that shall indissolubly bind the
East with the West. Both these great c
works are now pushed by energetic and
farsighted men; and although collisions
have occurred in the struggle to obtain
the choice Of position in those portions I
OF the up-river routes where they run U
although few narrow C
minded and Interested individuals, with v
neither truth nor consistency to actuatc a
them, arc endeavoring to obstruct the car 4
OF progress by pandcring to all the igno- a
rance and prejudice they can discover or
manuiacturc-still, VIC will hope that the c
great State want will ere long be supplied ?
that the Schoolmaster and the Railway t
Engine will 10th be "abroad" in all the T
romantic and fertile Susquchanna valley T
and that thus our University may be ap- c
at al times, from North, East, 7
South, Or West, by one or both these me I
diums, far more economically and comfcr- t
tah'y than at present I