Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-16
Correspondence of the Litchfield Enouirer.

1 OBERLIN. Ohio, Sept. 6, 1S58
 of late years have been springing up all over the
 western land, are cheering signs of real progress Our older eastern institutions have long offered ex- cellent advantages to those who have sufficient means to meet the expenses attending a course of study through them. Yet there are thousand young men among our reading, thinking masses, with active minds and earnest desires for knowledge and intellectual improvement. whose empty hands seem to preclude their obtaining collegiate education The farmer's mechanics, or day laberers son. often becomes fired with the purpose of making for him self higher. wider sphere in life, but the surplus products of the farm or workshop are too small to afford that college training which, in most c,ses he knows not how otherwise to obtain nor how to lose While from this class to look for many of our countrys truest, and most earnest if not most dis tngushed men. it is gratifying to know that to the young man with stout heart and willing hands it is now comparatively easy to obtain the advantages of collegiate education.
 Oberlin, though an early pioneer is now but one of many colleges. where a young manor woman ei- ther-may do this thoroughly and cheaply It may not give them all the advantages of older insttu- tions but those lacking arc. to great extent, coun terbalanced by others of different kinds
 Scores of graduates have already gone out from her walls, who sustained themselves while obtain the bar, the pulpit, and other professions. The young man who works his own way thro' college has made good beginning for working it through life.
 Commencement week-Me week of college life has passed by here, and though the class of 58 gone, more than double their number fill up the ranks as Freshmen, and all things move on again as quietly as The class graduating from the fou1 years Ladies course numbered seventeen; that from college twenty two, one of them being also a as whole, more interesting than usual. Several interesting addresses were delivered during the week, one of which before the Alumni, on Air Cas- ties, by H. L. Hammond, Editor of the Congrega- tional Herald, Chicago as full of wit and wis dom as any to which ever listened.
 noticeable feature at the graduating exercises of the Ladies department on Tuesday was the attend ance in a body of the three hundred lady members of the Institution, all dressed in white vast crowd were at these e&CrCSCS, put on W ed- nesday Oberlin's large church, seating three thou sand people, was crammed to overflowng Hardly square foot of room in aiscs vestibule left unoccupied The various orations were we'll deliv- cred and attentvely received while excellent music gave variety to the enter ainment. After the close of the regular exercises, Gov. Chase of Ohio. and Gov Bingham of Michigan, both of whom had been present throughout the day. addressed the audience in brief but appropriate speeches.
 Gov. Chase looks like a MAN-as he is-'tall over' Of medium height, solid and well formed, with maisve head and finely wrought features, his whole and appearance, as well as his pdblic life, bespeak one not lacking that essential quality backbone The Gubernatorial chair honors him not more than he honors that
 And so Giddings is to leave the Representatives Hall We'll has the old war horse of Liberty fought The Republicans of Astabula do not underrate him, but will send younger man, stanch and we'll tried, to take his place.
 And the Atlantic Cable is laid' We'll may the world rejoice. It was not a bad comment of Chi cago fnancer in regard to it, who remarked, on hearing of the accomplishment of such dreamy project, that he shoudnt be surprised if some one would yet find out how to make railroad companies pay dividends" M.