Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-12-22

Biggs.
The Society also tender their thanks to the rest of
WIN. R. LYMAN. Secretary.
From the Newborn News.
BEAUFORT IIARBOR.
The following letter of Capt. Plumer of the Brig
James Gray, now lying at Beaufort, addressed to
E. r. Stanly, Esq, of this place speaks well for the
future prospects of Rail Road. 1t will be seen
that, the depth of water at the terminus of the
Road adapted to the ngress and egress oflarge
class vessels, the Atlantic and North Carolina Rail
Road must be the only line upon which the great
bulk of transportation of the products of the West
will be carried. When this line OF road is compile
ted, there cannot be doubt but that the West will
look to the Eastern Extension their best and only
advantageous source by which to reach market :;
as every nduccment to the advancement of it's in
tercsts will be thrown out both in Newborn and on
the Harbor With the great depth Of water at Beau
fort Harbor, and the short distance to market at
Newborn, in COMPARISON with any other seaport
within the reach of the line, the benefits to be
ceived from the improvement, when completed, by
those of citizens who disposed evail them
selves of them, will, we predict, be inca culable
BEAUFORT, 9th Dec. 1866.
NJ. Z. r. Stonly,
SIR:-l do not think was much disap-
pointed as was in the Harbour of Beaufort In
chartering in England for this Ilace | " ould not
take the cargo unless the parties would guarantee
16 1-2 feet to in with to my SURPRISE
crossing the bar found % feet OF water after
strong Westerly wind (which has tendency to blow
the of the river. The wind hauling n.
Westward the Pilot was compelled to beat the Brig
up to the anchOrge We are large carrying vessel,
and it is difficult to beat in all channels and had
this been narrow it could not have been accomplish
ed The harbour is very convenient, tn channel
deep aud there is n difficulty in loading 20 feet
lie certain. The vessel l h We has Oil board $50
tons of Railway Iron and her draft is 10 feet in
ches. Had supposed the depth Of 20 feet
IS should have loaded to 16 feet inches
NV vessel = the market and if parteS
be found to load her from this port to Europe will
fill her full load II feet, and know there will
be on difficulty in once move getting her on the Pond
am, dear Sir, yours respect,
CiiAS. Ii. PLUMER,
Master of the James Gray, of Newburryport Mass.
DISTURBANCE AT BETHANY COLLEGE, VA.-There
has been disturbance, it seems, at Bethany Col
lege in the absence OF the distinguished President of
that institution, who has engaged for weeks
past in preaching in different counties of Eastern
Virginia, and who is announced to lecture at the
Richmond Athenieum this (Tuesday) evening The
affair grew out of an attempt of student deliver
IN antl-Slavery address, sermon, in the College
Chapel on Sunday evening, and the consequence
was, as might have been expected, that the young
gent! eman was compelled to leave the College some
what hastily, for fear of personal violence. 1t is
stated, indeed, that the Southern students in body
desired Veiy much to give the speaker suit of tar
and feathers and that he was only saved from this
dSaSreeable treatment by the eXertions of some of
his friends, who contriyed to get him off by back
door. The next day, all the Northern students met
together and determined TO dissolve their connection
with the College, and afterwards left accordingly for
their homes. Our information is erp1rte in its char
acter having been derived from the Portage Demo-
crat, to which 1t was communicated by one of the
seceders who stopped in Portage on his way back to
4ankeeand If ii be true, the conduct of the South
ern students is to be regretted exhibiting
necessary degree of violence under the crcumstan-
ces. 1t would have been far bette 1--WE think, to
have permitted the speaker to finish his remarks
without mOlestatiOn and subsequently to have or
dered him off. But great allowances must be made
for the excited state OF feeling which sure be
aroused by so great an outrage of propriety, and
the mpu,ient fellow, who Canadian, it seems
ought TO congratulate himself that he got off so
well.
We no counsellors of disorder or of resort to
extreme measures at any time, but do most scri-
ousl y declare that manifestation of anti-Slavery
ought for one moment to be permitted in our South
ern Colleges. Let New England, if it peases, teach |
fanaticsm at her Yales and her Towards, let her |
carefully eject from her corps of instructors all men
suspected of regard for the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, of friendly feeling for the Southern
people, and We shall not complain. We can keep
clear of such seminaries of lcarnng-but in the
name Of decency, let not suffer the fanaticsm of
fremont Temple to invade literary and
scholastic establishments, and whenever we see it
breaking out, let put on foot at once and stamp it.
We would send back to his New England home any
Professor daring to instl abolition sentiments into
he minds of his class, if he learned POr-
on famous Sir John Herschel We must
vgilant in this matter, oo for Connecticut sends
large body of pedagogues yearly to the South,
many of whom imbued with the most dangerous
principles, regards the question which underlies
he perpetuity Of this Union and the continued hap
ness of the Southern States. Let alone, gentle
nen, that is all we ask, but firmly resolved
lot TO ask this in vain Whoever thinks proper to
interfere, must abide the consequences of his rash
less and folly, Though they come in the shape of a
alter, in the mder form of the tar-bucket and
ne fence-rail. Petersburg Express
Very lately the Hon. HORACE MANN deliver ed
ecture at Buffalo. on the common nature of man
nd BRUTE" of which the Buffalo Commercial gives
ne following pthy synopsis: |
" He treated man alphabetically, making him I'D
Y piecemea First man with the mouth and hands,
he gornandizer and grasper, was considered. In
mis- fractional condition he was shown to be very
luch below the brute, and the speaker took occa-
ion at this point to give tempe' ance lecture say
lg more in ten minutes than most speakers on the
nbject could do in as many hours Next was
onsdered with covering in which good deal was |
and egotism, with their exhibitions of human
eakness. Next, the considered, and here
[r. Mann was ironical and eloquent in the highest ,
egree Subsequently added the love Of &C :
then combativness and destructveness.
ere the Audience had great sermon on the horrors
nd wickedness of war, second only in roundness 9
periods and musical and sublime flow of language I
Robert Halls. To man was next added the idea +
selfish God, in which part of the lecture, bigot.
?, intolerance and all wars and prosecutions in the