Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-10-04
For the Standard.

Bnrnsville High School and which is now just clos
( ing its fourth session. It is fact well known
most North Carolinians that Yancy has been furthe
behind in point of Education and general improve
ment than any County in the State, owing main
to its being isolated and shut out from the balanc
of the State In 1861 the first efforts were made t
raise funds to erect suitable buildings, and notwith
standing the many surmises that itwould and mus
fail, the means were raised, the buildings complet
ed, and went into successful operation and during
the four sessions passed, several hundred students
have been in attendance Its prospec like the rs
ing sun 6rightens every hour, and keit at noontid
its viyifying rays shedding benign influence
over region of country. heretofore unfortunately
destitute of such opportunities. It's onward pro
gress for while retarded by the death the la
mented Adams its former President to whom and it.
efficient Trustees tits indebted for unparalleled
cess; but like a noble vessel whose commander has
fallen in the hour of victory, another is chosen an6
present energetic President, Rev. Thadeus p. Thorn
as, A. NJ gentleman and a scholar of the first at
tainmenIs all that is necessary for its becoming
of the best Colleges of the South is that it become
! extensively known among the many bright and elias.
steal minds that adorn the North State from the
| mountains to the cost
/ Here amid the blue mountains whose craggy sum-
mits are elevated far above the infectious diseases
of all kinds and where chrysta fountains pour forth
| their limpd streams to noursh and invigorate the
bodies of such may have felt the chilling breezes
of disease in climates less propitious, is asylum
where such may resort with perfect safety-a place
where they accomplish two-fold object, the
restoration of their health and the obtanment of a
classical education, either of which is worth the la
Dor of life. Here is place where the fertility of
the soil and the industry of the Inhabitants enable
the Stewards to board at prices the very mention of
which will make the heart of the poor young man
leap for joy, and aid in creating within the minds of
such laudable ambition that may yet wake into
ton slumbering universe. Here where the noun
tain breezes put into action all the facuteAof the
human mind, and where the health and vigor ofre-
bust systems cause corresponding alacrity in the
intellectual department. is the place above all others
for young men who are constitutionally weak and
delicate to come and spend their Academic years,
where they will invariably accomplish all that can
be performed at the best Colleges of our country.
The mountain scenery is grand beyond descrip-
tion and being nterlaid with large deposits of iron,
"copper" silver copperas, sulp hur and alum, affords
ample material for such desire to become adopts
in the natural sciences. Here, too the Student of
Botany, Ga science too much neglected by many for
the good of certain profession) amid the luxurant
foliage OF our mountain gorgeS regale himself to
his hearts content and here the Student of Astron-
omy may climb to the summit some lofty peak and
view the myrods of worlds rolling in immensely with
as much as if he were in the carpeted observa-
tories of the old world. Our Trustees have in course
of erection number of dormitories, suitable for
such desire to be more secluded and if any should
prefer'so to do form clubs and employ cook
by which board per year would become a trife
They design purchasing soon as practicable first
rate Chemical and Philosophical apparatus and to
this will be added in process of time good and suit
u
Colleges where the prices are within the reach of
any but the rich. This will emphatically be the
Peoples College, where the of the mechanic or
the farmer, though he may be in moderate crcum-
Stances can be prepared to take his stand side by
side with those of wealth and afluence and even to
surpass such as have depended upon wealth to make
them respectable.
Here, young men who are in INDECENT circumstan-
may prepare themselves at costs almost nominal
compared with some, to finish and graduate at our
University-a thing which our Trustees will invari-
ably recommend. Here, in the great Western re-
serve of the Old North State where every thing is
inviting and congenial to such enterprise, let us
invoke the god of learning to give in this
audabe undertaking. and let the friends ofeducation
open and extend their phanthropic feelings and
success must and will attend US. know of no place
in the Union where there any more substantial
reasons for endeavorng to build up College that
will compare favorably with the best, than right
here and now as we have at considerable expense
erected buildings (the best in Western Caroina) and
have procured teachers who will 90 honor to them
selves and those who placed under their care it
is to be hoped that all those young who design
giving themselves liberal education. where their
health will improve every day. and where although
some expenses are inevitable, the purse will very
gradually decrease, will examine well before they
pass Yancy College by and go to some other of older
standing but perhaps of less merit very beauti-
full idea connected with this College is that Sectari-
ansm is not permitted to raise its hydra head the
premises but in selecting Professors moral and intel
lectual worth the things sought Then may pa |
here without any fear of them being particularly
trained in religious opinions to their own but
in all students will be left free to think for
themselves Looking at every thing connected with |
the future prospects of this College and weighing |
the many arguments that can be brought in its favor
cannot but conclude that here is College, that will
dfuse life and energy among large number of per-
sons who have heretofore been sunk in deep leth-
argy the subject of Classical education and that
its good effects physical and intellectual will be felt
and acknowledged by society long after its present
friends and supporters will have gone down to the
chambers of the tomb. The Agents of Colleges when
nomcal farmer mechanic on the ground that it is
20 very expensive to send young man to College /
hat they cannot think of trying the project further
This is quite true of some but it be urged
against this Tuition from SIS to SO per session
If five months and board 81 % per week everything
ncIude3 and when say every thing included mean
sufciency of all things, to render the boarder 0ery
comfortable. It's situation is small country village
If the most picturesque character, and little in
ested by vice and immortality as any place of the
anne size in the State. This of itselfis great in
lucement to parents to send their sons here where
hey will be free from many of those vices contract
ID by young men during their stay at some of the
arge Colleges in the cities MILFORD.
Burnsyille, N. @.
Who MADE Your" One of the ladies connec-
ed with the :" Methodist Five Points Mission, who
las under her charge some thirty little boys, called
hem together on the morning of Thanksgiving day,
o perfect them in their answers to questions she
Intended to put to them before the visitors in the
fternoon. After arranging them properly, the first
oy on the right in answer to the question Who
nade your" was to say 'sGod. /" The next .sof