The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-16
NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE le 1856.

NEW YORK HERALD, 81
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would be dcus 70 s.y -bAt purpose In the economy
Of sect life this appearance can possibly The
body large red eyes. They are in the wosds yet
but eOn,derabls raysses among the fruit trees may
There il much harm from various destructive insects
this spoke with farmer OF Dickson county,
.Ssisd by the .cut worm An insect ca led the Army
voIm' In 6istipR ushns hinssf in the sans service.
,hought row % be ont Of danger Much Of t:
quite yellow. There win probably - great deal OF
wheat and raised this year, owing 70 the
psve failure Of the last season. every has put In
tobseco; the plants not yet set out The 'Goooa
ress nors iAvoraby known TO the dwsIers in cities -
trenton sc sS Of handsome dwellings. and very
little business. About thirteen miles below Trenton IL
nesr n hat i'm. The .tory contains forty looms
(made At hatteawap New York each capabls Of turn
s ont ss ss 81
Known IS Ospaburgs Lowells When It IS consiered
that this coth is AL sole Tor consumption in ths
the factory viii DO looked upon quite
ar institution There are $4,000 invested in 1t, It
present paying tw'Dty five per cent At this rate -
comparatively new thing bsresbouts Msny women
q III sp n their cotton and weave their own e1nh
wss The SeseenSant Of an Old Cossns err Her father
sitting besHs her. had never seen locomotive. He was
. strong Know Nothing. IT, d.
Our North Carolina Correspondence.
CHAPEL HILL IN. CD June 7, 1885.
The State Unicersiy-Hs Location and First Graduates
Northern and Southern Iateress-C0mmencsmeM Er-
e,cises-TAe Sermon, Decl1matons and Diasectic Adj
dress.
The Universy Of North Carolina located IN the small
yet beautiful village OF Chapel Hill, il the instisu-
ton of the State and perhaps should do other COL
ges injustice by saying it is the ntituton Of the
South. Organized in the year 1885, the old poplar tree
10 still stsp6ing the Campus under which the trus
tees held their frat deliberations. The college grounds
con- prize about twelve acres OF high lands filed with
shade trees native to the foil The regularity OF an
artificial grove is thus lost but the fall beauty Of bvth
10 retained.
The first graduates were in 179S Taking thu table Of
natriculants the basis Of opinion, the college
seemed to steadily en- Increasing in strength AM
influence from its organization to 1924 For the mott
twenty four years to have passed through
variety OF adverse fortunes and the year 1913 gave
less mat,culants than 1924. But ths fostering OF
the State wise councils, and full and highly compe-
tent corps Of professors and tutors, with very full
and rigid OF studies, placed the University 10
q position to command the patronage Of those who
would have their educated in instttation Of
the highest order. Since 1s48 the number u matri-
cuants has than doubled and last year the cata
loguc gives Seniors g. juniors 56 scphomores o.
freshman, 06; partial courte, 49, law students, H.
Total 324 But there is another why this col
ge and mos. OF those in the South nov prospecting
well-a reason which should mako the fsnatical aeol
ZIONIST Of the paure in his mad rawlings against
an Institution OF which he knows little nothing
few years since large proportion Of those who resolved
collegiate education obtained at NortherA in
stitution; now the number il very small Sslfrespee
self preservation, have driven them to patronse home
colleges. those Who pirate much about slavery, and
deal out such snathemas upon every stakeholder who
comes within the hearing OF their voices would have
half the se-respect would ascertain what slavery
IT, not from abolition books made to prejudice the pub
JIG sentiment, but by actual observation and minging
with the Shareholders and the slaves they would
to be hostile against the Soutn account Of domestic
institution recognized and prote ,ted by
stituticp. Northern also demands OF
these hoethtee But this point at some futurs
time
The commencement exercises were opened ON Monday
night june A. by before the graduating clsss,
by the Rev Benjamin NJ Palmer, D. D., Of Columbia,
c. Text, John 8; 6s, CO. "Then simon Peter answered
him, LORD to whom shall go9 thou hast the words Of
eternahfs And believe and SURF that thou art
that Christ, tho Son Of the living God" This sermon
Of the very best in every respect that it has
been my good fortune to lstsn to- (and have listened
many those who rank among the fret thsoJosians
q % asos
| reader must be content with this passing notice.
TUESDAY night declarations from the frsshman compe
| titoIs.
On Wednesday at 10 O'Clock, A. NJ, the Diaectio and
Phsnthrop'c Societies mat listen to address from
George Davis Esq, OF Wilmington, N. @. Mr. Davis 10
man Of rather small stature modest and retiring in
the mind Of the stranger But these defects, such
they are are more than made mp by wen stored and
%as liz
o. such good and DoSle SON His theme upoa this
Cape Fear After orss apslxy that one SO ~ young
one needing be called upon to teach,
he proceeded to say that the historian OF the United
States (BancroD has complained Of the carelessness
with which the history Of North Carolina been writ
ten The reprosch is but too just As colony and State
early progress sealed book to thu many and TO the
curious few 10 more mperfsctly known than that o.
,go And this is trus the State at large it emil
| nsnty 10 Of that section In which I've The Cape
Fear country never has hsd historian Its public r.
records rich and fruitful Of history nave
become much mutilatsd and impsired by the lapse Of
Tune It's traditions perishing and buried daily
thought therefore, thar instead Of ssrmonizng upon
you sks,ch imperfect may Be, the early times
and men of the lower Cape Fear shall not aspire to
pous duty Of connecting recorded facts-of psrpetuat
Ing traditions, and of pluckiDg away tbs NOSES which
have gathered the tombs OF Of ilustrious
dead. (Cheers He then went to speak Of the early
settlement OF Old Town Creek zine miles below Wilmag
ton, by the young mother Of colonies, Massachusetts
Disasters and distress upon them, but the
mother heard the cries Of her children mnsered
their wants. One hundred and ten years afterwards
when the Boston port bill had spread pail OF gloom
and distress that city the people OF Cape
memb.red the generous succor OF Massach usets With
voice they declared 'the cause Of Boston Was the
cause Of all" Their safety committees determined that
all goods imported contrary to the resolve Of the CONT
mental Congress- sho2d be seized and sold and the pro
ceed after deductins the cost should be sent 10
the poor OF Boston They did more. They chartered o
vessel loaded her with provisions at cost OF fsOO aud
sent her to the relief OF the sufferers by the port
bill. 1t were well II the people Of New England would