Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-01-17

i other. ms uHnsgeE tnd not seem to
have been bong done. Is IS
South h.ilding was next examined.
Dr. Mitchc1fs bid room was found
locked. The doors and windows, how
ever, We're generally open, with glass
broken. and in mary cases with sash
and panels broken or altogether mis-
sing. Here, too, also, the floors of the
passages and rooms were covered with
fallen flastering.I Upon the walls was
to be found writing of the most vulgar
! and obscene character. In u corner of
room No. /, South Building, there
was Il pile of hair, doubtless put there
to conceal the theft of the animal from
which it was taken.
In room Oh third passage" adj
joining the recitation room used by
Professor Charles Phillips, both of
which were open, stands a cabinet of
minerals containing one hundred
drawers of specimens; each specimen
having its printed number pasted on
it. All Of these drawers were open or
| unlocked, so far as I examined. Upon
| table IN the same room, laid manu-
script book, marked on one side
Catalogue of Minerals" and on the
other marked University of North
Carolina. Some of the drawers also
were lying upon the table with
specimens scattered around. The
book was evidently the catalogue of
the minerals in the cabinet, and was i'm
duplicate, being in German as we'll as
in English
If this catalogue shall be lost or
destroyed, it will doubtless be very
difficult, if not impossible, to replace
| it. There are probably very few men
III America, or in the world, who can
| take that collection of minerals and
| give to each mineral its proper
" local habitation and name"
! According to this catalogue, the Cabi-
net contained two thousand two hun
bred and twenty-five specimens of min
erals, collected literally from all quarters
| of the known world. Upon one page
of the catalogue the: happened to ex-
anime, there were 10 be found the caG
met numbers and the names of speci-
,:ens found i'll Saxony, Italy, Iceland,
Stromboli Island, Hungary, Lipari
Isles, Bohemia and Siberia. Upon ar
other page it appeared that Tyrol,
Syria, Greenland, Brazil, Moravia, Nor
way, The P.yrenees and Kamtschatks
had also made their contributions to
| enrich cabinet of minerals that the
President of the University of North
Carolina does not deem worthy even of
a lock and key of the commonest kind
This cabinet of minerals is doubtless
the very valuable one purchased in
Europe many years ago by President
Caldwell, for the use of the University
How many things have changed since
that day, President Caldwell could
undertake a long, and then tedious
journey, to purchase at heavy expense,
a cabinet of minerals: now his successor,
President Pool. cannot even take the
trouble toput them under lock and kew
Sickened and Disguised left South
Building and went to Girard Hall, or
1.-THE Chapel" Here, also, we found
the doors open and the windows with
thirty-one panes of broken glass in the
north and forty-two on the south side.
Here. too. the plastcring had begun
to fall, and the portico columns were
bruised and battered, and abused gen
orally.
The old West Building WAS next cx-
amincd, and revealed the same dis
graceful condition. 1t would he only
TO tell the same old story, were 1 to
speak of open doors with broken
panels of windows with broken glass
beyond count almost, and broken and
missing sash, and floors covered with
fallen plastering. We tarried not long
here. The sight had become disgust
ingly monotonous.
The new west building WAS next
approached. 1t proved, however. to
be shut up. Here, too, was broken
glass. This is the building our much
loved Yankee friends picketed their
horses i'll when they occupied this
place. The windows in the Dialectic
Library which is in this building,
were. l am glad to say, closed.
Next and last, Person Hall, or the
" old Chapel" was examined Three |
of the four recitation rooms it contains !
We're open. The steps are rotting !
down. and are in a very rickety condi-
ton. Here, too, is the same old story
about open doors, broken glass, &c,
&c, al na"seom. This is the building
which, according to the presentment of
the Grand Jury of this county, and
according to current rnmOr in the vii
lage, was used AS Il common assignation
house Such is the University of
which Reverend Solomon Pool boasts
to he the President, irremoya-
BILE, save by the hand of death
What is the effect of all this A
single word will tell. In the party
with us was lad who is now losing
the golden hours that ought to be
devoted TO acquiring a collegiate edn-
cation. His father, who has not the
means to send him abroad, graduated
here. His fathers father graduated
here, and SO ought he, and SO doubtless
he and hundreds of others in like posi-
lion would do, but for the course of
Solomon Pool and the men who sustain
md support him.
1t would, indeed, be strong language
hat characterized the course of these !
men in truthful terms. So far as in {,
heir power lies they are depriving the
coming men of North Carolina of the I
benefits of 4 thorough and liberal edu- {
.atiOn So far nc in their nouor l;o,