The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-13

gious methods. It has to be admitted that In
spite OF All the effort at picturesqueneeas o.
worship the Sawanee chapel service, with It's
| marchings and counter marchings, LIS cas-
socked little boys, the antiphonal responses
and supererogatory prostratiOns, does not no
excite the usual antagOnsm, even IA the
breast Of dissenter. This is 9 small Utopia,
following no precedent and violating old ones
The university, but for complaisance and the
Theological department, is still college, but
one richly endowed in it's noble corps of pro-
fessors, albeit the financial Golfers are bare
Prof Macrady, the fayorite pupil Of the
oreat Arassiz. fills, with almost superfuOus
ability, the chair of Physics and Biology, and
would give dignified character to an institu-
ton Of which he was the sole brilliant orna
ment. AS lecturer he Is most delightful,
profoundly learned, yet clearly com prehen-
sible. Why he remains at SeWanee, except
for the reason the others stay on, that they
are held BY the charm Of the pace, their
friendly attachments to each other, and the
consciousness OF the highest duty worthily
performed-the planting on q hill beacon
light, which shall illumine farther than physi-
caI rays could penetrate cannot conceive.
DR.. Elliott, the acting chancellor and pro-
fessor OF geology and chemistry, ls savant
on whom our medical school Of New Orleans
makes yearly requisition for course OF lee
lures.
scholar Id the broad sense, having his NJ. A.
from old Oxford. He ID also we'll known as a
translator of Horace By the way, / was
amused with a little aDropos incident, exhib-
iting the isolated insularity of this air-sur,
rounded island. The cultivated and well
posted mamma Of one Of the students wrote
him that the Nation was very much down on
Prof. Harrison's Horace The literal youth,
to whom the word had but one Specification,
replied that he could not understand why the
whole people Of the United States should be
90 much agitated on mere literary produce
tion. Prof. Harrison, beside being On author,
is the wit OF the faculty, q man who may be
expected to assist further In the populariza-
ton 81 the ancient classics. In graceful PEN
dant to the professor, Mrs Harrison inter-
prets for her friends classic music In man
ner 50 delightful % to charm the most critical
from urban Salons.
The Rev. Telfair Hodgson, whose novel
name would suggest fiction were, we not In
Sewanee, has charge Of the theological de-
partment, teaches for love and dispenses bis
own money In support Of the institution, He
little village In the clouds, by erecting q
handsome hotel on site commanding the
most beautiful view from the mountains.
Gen. Kirby Smith, who needs no presentation
to the school Of mathematics. He is the
brightest, jolliest OF them all, ever planning
some junketlng expedition and with his own
full CULVER, and numerous delegation Of town
aud holding perpetual ,plcnics out IT Ct
the stern exposition and inqnsitor. OF loga-
rithms. The univerity is fortunate Id calling
It's own the services OF pr. Wilmer, professor
OF metaphysics and political science. He is
q most learned man, but possesses that flavor
OF quaint humor which, like lightning flashes,
suddenly illumines to distlnctness some be-
fore dark, underlined object OF puzzling con
temptation.
snowy head the coming event ia progress TO-
ward us all casts no shadow, but beautiful
radiance, further purifies and sweetens the
social life Of Sewanee by his permanent pres
ence. He is, for reason OF his age, the m
active chancellor Of the University. Bishop
Gregg, of Texas makes annual summer pill
grirnages to this episcopal Mecca The I'M
official residents number many distinguished
people in church history, past and present.
Elliott, who, like Mary Somerville, still plays
Beethoven's sonatas, living quietly with her
talented daughter, M iss Safda, who has just
been Introduced by the Appletons to the pub.
Lie 10 philosophico. religious novel, which Is
publishers. Bishop Quntard, " Tennessee,
who Is so well known to the people Of the
South, also has his summer home here
10 the empyrean. home most char
complex Of bay windows and oriel, vlne-
covered balconies and gables, with the symbol
OF our redemption at every apex, all sur
rounded with flowers and tree-embowered.
The interior Is the fulfilment Of the outside
promise, every nook exhibiting some object
Of interest," CLEANED In foreign or home travel,
making an esthetic ensemble In which every
smallest detail shows some variation on the
ordinary peculiar. TO this sns 0enerss resi-,
hospitality, else had not dared invite your
readers over the generous threshold. One Of
the university bellies has just dropped 10 for
morning chat, and she at one excited my
ment that Capt Will Blancs Company = had
won the prize in the competitive drill. While
I should have rpjoiced personally had the
decision been in favor Of Company a, for It's
charming captains sake. still, when the
honor Of ones native city is to be enhanced,
Individual sympathies are as nothing.
NY lovely young friend was also commune |
cattve about the university policy, and cor
reefs he impression received through auri- |
GUAR observation at two rods distance, as to
the high-churchism inculcated at st. Luke's.
1t seems DR.. TelfAfr HOdgson's views are, |
an contraire almost low church, and certainly
brodd church-that extension which Is, OF all,
dearest to my own heart.
altar removed from the oratory of the Divin-
ity students, and exhibits altogether q ten
drncy toward simplitication. st. Lnke's
Hall and the Chapel are different places OF
views on the minutin Of the adjuncts to reli-
gion. In any mention or discussion of Epis-
copal worship modes, ! am oppressed with
the uncertainty OF my angle OF vision, which
ID 1FOu Gub OubStlb Dl UlEG AuBlkCfbL
description Of Sewanee would be incom-
plete without some mention Of that omnipres--
ent class which delivers eggs, melons and
chickens, yclept "covites, by reason Of their
dwelling In little sheltered coves on the Cum
berland plateau. They seem q docile race,
yet the manufacturers Of wildcat whisky
are of this element, and on occa-
sions they fight desperately and fiercely
enough. Contact with the fiery fluid
may have transforming effect. Ger
tainly these particular mountaiueers have
always been Ia combative attitude to law.
During the Confederacy they chung obsti-
nately to the Union, and on its re-establish-
ment they were again In rebelion-a for-all- |
time opposition to order as manifested In the
enforcement Of the excise law. The women
who are mainly the wandering green grocers,
carry their wares and their numerous barns
about with them. Yesterday one came with
OF five months, which she laid On the grass
while she engaged in a proffered JOB Of