Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1858-02-03

PROFESSOR IN THE UNvERsIrY.--A writer from Ra-
leigh to the Petersburg Express INDUCES in
piece of irony, in a congratulaon of Virginia on
the late appointment by the Board of Trustees very
few we suppose being presently of one of her sons
to the Professorship of Chemistry in the University
of North Carolina, over a native of this State, an
Alumnus of our own University, lover and prof.
cient in that branch of Science, and graduate of
the Medical University of Pennsylvania. The writer
fecitates the Express upon the fact that Unver-
sty has not turned out man fit for the Professor
ship during 60 70 years of its existence, whilst
the Virginia University supply us, though it
has been in operation only 90 or 80 years.
Virginia influence has long been potent in our
State Councils ' French influence" was once sup
posed to be in the National Councils. We certain.
ly did hope that this vacant chair would have been
filled by an Alnmnus of this University, if not by
citizen of this State But it is the habit of peo
pin look any where else (even in Virgnia than at
home, for Teachers, Professors, &c. We recently
heard of remarkable case of this kind in an Acad
emy in a neghboring county. which we would be
inclined to relate If we could do so without indulg
ing in personalities. How different from all this
are proud to say, is the course Of this community.
Look at the Fayetteville Female High School, where
we find among the Faculty seven natives of our own
town and county, one native of Chatham and one
only from abroad.
1t may not have occurred to some of the friends
OF tn!S cQe?lSned State the University OF
North Carolina, that in thus looking abroad for Pro-
fessors, they in deprecatc its character
not by putting incompetent men in; by means
but by asserting in effect that the Institution itself
is incapable of qualifying gentlemen to ill such sta
tions-an assertion the truth of which we are by
no means willing to admit. There time
admit, when it both necessary and proper to
look beyond the bounds of our own State and be-
yond the list of the Alumni of institutions,
for Professors; but it might have been supposed
that that time passed away with the induction into
Office of the present distinguished and most
frl Head of the Institution, and bv the acquisition
of such corps of Professors as the present who
have so thoroughly gained the public confidence as
to swell the number of students to nearly 500.
Fayetteville Observer.
For the Standard.
MEssRs EDITORS Nv attention has been called to
an editorial article in the Fayetteville Observer of the
18th inst, in relation to the recent appointment Of
Professor Of Chemistry in the University Of North
Carolina. With the Senior Editor Of the Observer
have been familiarity acquainted during period of
nearly thirtv-sx years. The Junior Editor gradua-
ted at the University in 1S49. My personal inter.
with both has been without exception respect
full and kind and to them feei at liberty TO make
statement and explanation, to which anonymous
| accuser could not with propriety lay claim.
The appointment of Professor Martin was made
on the night Of the 5th inst The Trustees present
were. His Excellency Gov. Bragg, Hon. Daniel NJ.
Barringer Judge Battle Hon. John II. Bryan, Treas
urer Courts William Eaton, jr., Esq, Gov. Graham,
Gov. Manly, Bartholomew F. Moore, Esq. Judge
Ruffn, d. L. Swain and Patrick II. Winston. ESQ.
The letter. writer of the Petersburg Erpress the
authority referred to by the Obssrrer gives the fol
lowing account of the circumstances connected with
the election:
$50 great is the reputation and influence of the
University of Virginia, and it has such strong hold
upon the admiration and affection of the Faculty of
the University of N. c. that the President express
ed himself before the late election, decidedly pre-
ferring graduate of the University of Virginia. 9TH
stitutop, to fill the Chair Of Chemistry, &c, made
vacant by the death Of the lamented Mitchell, and
as have informed you above, the Trustees have en-
dorsed this opinion of the President by electing Mr.
| Martin to that Chair"
At the close of a minute and pains-taking exam
nation of the testimonials Of the several candidates
for the Office which occupied the attention of the
Board. during the sessions of the 4h and 9Th insts
Immediately before proceeding to ballot stated in
| substance If not in words:
"That in the election Of successor to DR.. Mitch
ell could not expect to secure the services of
gentleman of equal abilities and attainments who
was not in the decline of life, and that / had no
hopes of finding any one, who at present would be
able to supply our loss. That it had been my OBJ
ect in a careful scrutiny of the pre:ensons of the
| gentlemen to whom my attention had been directed,
to find among the graduates of this University, a
young man of decided ability, of attanments equal
to his years. who had given satisfactory evidence Of
capacity to impart instruction, and who had a well
established character accomplished Christian
gentleman. That, as the University a State in
stitGtion. had always entertained the opinion that
all parties in the State, political and religious should
be represented, in the government Of and that
no member of the Faculty Baptist, other
things being equal, would prefer member Of that
denomination, and next to that, Methodist. That
if no suitable person among our graduates presented
himself, other things being equal would prefer a
Southern to Northern man :; and that while had
no disposition to change the pan upon which onrs
in common with the great majority Of the colleges
in the country organized. to that known the
University SYSTEM was disposed to conform to the
wishes of those who differed with he so far as to
desire that their views and opinions might be repre-
sented; and that as all the members of Faculty
were educated on the old plan other things being
equal would give the preference to a candidate
who had undergone the peculiar system of training
and instruction which prevailed al the University of
Virginia"
have simply to say, in conclusion that neither
in the Faculty, nor the Board, in public in pri-
| va,e have | expressed any other opinions on the
subject than are set forth in the foregoing state
| ment d. L. SWAIN.
Chapel Hill, Jan. 25, 1858. -
GONE PrincipIe'' Candidates Repudia.ed.
T The Elizabeth City Sentinel has idea Of sup.
porting Mr.. Leak, any else like Mr.. Leak, %,
Governor. The Editor wants candidate not will
Zone principle" but with several principles H
COMP aims thus of the "lukewarmness' among hi
friends, and calls on the K. N Executive Committe
70 take steps for holding K. N. State Convention