The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-08-25
wIrIYAM AVID MARY COLLEGE.

We have received pamphlets copy Of the
course Of studies in William md Mary Col
leee. 4 venerable ins,itnticn. which We re-
ioice to see is renewing it's youth. and which,
under the guidance Of its present accomplish
ed and energetic Faculty, must recommend
itself powerfully to public favor. Under the
Presidency of the wise. practical and bene-
violent EwELL, and with such Professors rs
Totem, Smead, Washington. Scarburg. and
Gatewood. bright and shining lights in their
various departments, the halls of old William
and Mary ought to be crowded with the pa
triotic youth of Virginia
The pamphlet before us contains highly
interesting sketch of the history of this an
cient college, from which we make the fol-
lowing extract:
This College 10 the oldest insitution Of learning In
the State Of Virginia, and with single exception
chartered in 1899 by King William Ill. and Queen
MARY who gave out Of their private means nearly
e 5, ID
Colony and q gift of $500 from the House OF Bur
gesses and 20 600 of land granted by the King,
Subsequently the King granted to the College one
p-nny per pound alf the tobacco exported from
Virginia and Maryland
The House Of kurgesses also laid duty al turs
and skins exported from the Colony to be applied to
ito current expenses
the foundation for the building laid shortly Of
wards. The building still In an unfni he'd state
in $780, but from that time the House of Burgesses
held its sessions In it till f7n5, when, together tn
the library and philosophical apparatus it YVES de-
| stroyed BY FIRE. Measures were immediately taken
rebuild II but owing to the want Of available
building was not completes till 17ZS.
But Fttle is known of the history Of the College
Of the proceedings of tn. Faculty still extanr.
extending from I729 l755 and from 1890 to the pre-
measre, relating mostly to pecuniary transactions
There are no records of the names Of students ma
O. ony 5 the
names of students attending College between lIo2
add 1890 be collected from the records and other
tho most disting ushed names in American history
John Page, Thomas Jefferson, jones Madison, Jas
M11sos John Marshall, Spencer R9fne and Asehl-
College
The number of students in 17G3 was about thirty.
in the College at any previous time. There were
more than seventy at the nssinnnf OF Inc ksypiu
iessors and more than thirty Of the students Joined
the army. Among the latter was James Monroe, Of.
terwards President Of the United States.
In 1871 the exercises of the College were suspend
ed and the buildings were alternately occupied by
the British and American troops tbs summer before
College was closed, doe. not spear from the records
but find it open again in 1890, with respectable
number Of students: From that time to the present
about two thousand students have been connected
with the College, many of whom have risen to dis
! tnction in political and professional life.
RIVALRY OF CITIEs.-The two great cities
of New York and Philadelphia ought to set
better example to the small fry than their
gigantic quarrels. As the Wheeling Intel
ligencer justly remarks, ''the more they
grow in wealth, trade and population, the
more embittered the feud becomes" The
Providence Journal thus speaks of it: "The
annual dispute between the New Workers
and Philadelphians did not commence this
year as early as usual; indeed, the papers
did not getto calling each other infamous till
well into August. But as the fall trade
comes on, the Philadelphia editors, without
any wish to disparage New York, but only
from the kindest motives, mention, tor the
benefit of their Western friends, that the
cholera is raging fearfully in the latter city;
while their New York brethren, from the
same benevolent impulse, publish statistics
to show that the average mortality of Phila-
delphia is twice as great as that of the other
great cities-in fact that pretty much all the
strangers die there. As soon as this dispute
gets pretty well under way, we shall have
renewal of the discussion as to the relative
population of the two Cities "Look," say
the Philadelphians, sat the superior comfort,
the substantial prosperity of Philadelphia,
see how much greater the number of houses
in proportion to the population. A moderate
house, which shelters five or six of our peo-
pie, would overrun with as many families in
New York. see, too, our gardens and am
pie space for light and air. "Yes,'' reply
the New Workers, ''land is cheap in Phila.
delphia." And SO the wordy contest RACES,
till the fall elections or the returning tide of
business and population affords other occu-
patton for the columns of the newspapers
The great metropolitan papers could be-
better occupied. Nothing is gained by
newspaper war of city upon city. 1t is q
Kilkenny cat fight, in which each swallows
the other
PHILADELPHIA OCEAN STEAMERs.--Phila.
delphia is beginning to exhibit considerable
lie and enterprise in ocean steam naviga.
ton She has now three large transatlantic
steamers, the City of Manchester, now being
overhauled in Liverpool; the City of Phila.
delphia, new steamship, which was adver.
tised to leave Liverpool for Philadelphia ON
the 10th, and which, the Philadelphia Bulle.
tin states is an iron built vessel of 2, ls9 TONS
containing all the latest improvements in
screw steamers and built in the best style by
the famous builders of the Clyde; and the
City of Baltimore, another steamer of the
same line, measuring 2,54s tons, which is
now building on the Clyde, and win proba..
bly, be running before the winter sets in.
Besides these, Philadelphia has now in ope-s
ton, lines of steamships to Savannah,
Charleston, Richmond and Norfolk, New
York and Boston, all of which have been
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