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From the Baltimore Transcript.
Tilt: TIMK3.
By Cockney Bob.
Oh? time? are werry 'ard indeed,
They can't not be no 'arder.
My pocket- I can't hiuierlard.
And empty bis my larder.
The Hanks vont discount, no they vont,
Its wery bad behaving
They've ail turn'd into barber shop?,
And fictct a cove by shaving
And flour is rti and so is beef
They say it can't be riser;
Oh! vot a dreadful pressure 'tis,
I hope it vont be titer.
All trades U struck for Mgher pay,
And panic's struck the nation:
My baker's struck and vont the dust,
And I'm struck with vexation.
let. I will try to bra e it bout,
'Cause I haint no flinchei ;
The times is pinching to be sure,
They can't be not no pinchcr;
The merchant valks about the streets,
As if 'is dander's risen;
He vonts to make 'is bussom friend
Security of 'i'n.
But friends is shy Rnd rather rare,
Suramin like winter roses,
I've tried the game o five or six,
And knowses vot I knotcscs;
And if you live hin 'is bowu 'ouse,
He's got to pay 'is taxes
And money's three per cent, a day,
That's vot the broker axes.
Men fails for millions, vot can pay
Hut one cent in the dollar;
And speculators vol's got rich.
Are pineb'd and screw'd all holler;
My hies! I'm blow'd, since faces long
Is such a bad precursor,
I'll make myself contented quite
The times ctn't bu no worserf
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH
CAROLINA.
Raleigh 1S37.
Sir: The Executive Commit
tee of the Trustees of the Univer
sity of North Carolina, consider
it alike due to the community and
the Institution, that correct infor
mation with respect to its present
condition and future prospects,
should be generally disseminated
throughout the State. They
have determined, therefore, to ad
dress a copy of this communica
tion to such gentlemen as may be
supposed most likely to take an
interest in the subject to which it
relates, with the hope that more
attention may be attracted to the
College. They entertain the opi
nion, that upon every principle by
which enlightened patriotism can
be supposed to be influenced,
they have a right to ask this much
of the intelligence of the State;
and they wish to be considered as
asking no more. If the claims of
the University to public patronage
cannot be sustained, on a fair exa
mination of the comparative ad
vantages afforded by the most re
spectable Colleges in the country,
they do not desire to be regarded
as its advocates.
Whether the maintenance of at
least cne Literary Institution of
high character, whatever may be
the expense required to sustain.it,
is not essential to the interest and
reputation of the State, is a consi
deration which may be properly
addressed to the Legislature, but
is entitled to little weight with a
Parent anxious to secure the best
opportunities of instruction for a
son. With him the enquiry will
be, not what the University should
be, bm what it is. To give a full
and fair answer to this question, is
the only object of this communica
tion. The local situation of the vil
lage of Chapel Hill, is too well
known to render description ne
cessary. The salubrity of the
climate has been most satisfactori
ly ascertained by the experience
of more than forty years; and it is
very certain that it is not surpass
ed in this respect, by the most fa
vored villages among the moun
tains. The College edifices are
well arranged, and sufficiently ex
tensive for the accommodation of
any number of Students that can
be reasonably expected or per
haps desired, to resort to the In
stitution. The three main build
ings are now undergoing exten
sive and thorough repairs. The
new Chapel will be completed in
season for the Commencement
Exercises in June. A Hall of the
same dimensions will be speedily
erected near the opposite end of
the South Building, which is de
signed to perpetuate the name of
the late venerable President of
the University, and to afford the
requisite space for the Laborato
ry, Philosophical Chamber, and
Library, upon a scale correspon
ding with the character, and a
dapled to the wants of the Institu
tion. In the mean time, arrange
ments will be made for the proper
improvement in the Philosophical
and Chemical Apparatus, and
gradual increase of the Library.
The attention of the Executive
Committee has not been confined,
however, to the mere improvement
of the College edifices, 'and the in
crease of the Library and Appa
ratus. These things are not un
important in themselves, but are
entitled to little consideration in
comparison with the advantages
to be derived from able, diligent
and faithful instruction in the sev
eral departments of learning, and
an impartial and enlightened ad
ministration of the laws of the
College. They entertain the opi
nion. tiat the gentlemen who are
at present charged with the per
formance of these arduous and
important duties, will disappoint
no reasonable expectations which
may be entertained of them in all
these respects. The Faculty con
sists of a President who is Pro
fessor of National and Constitu
tional Law, a Professor of An
cient Languages, a Professor of
Mathematics and Natural Philo
sophy, a Professor of Modern
Languages and two Tutors.
The system of studies which is
extensive and believed to be well
arranged, extends through a peri
od of four years, on the comple
tion of which, the Student who
sustains an approved examination
receives the degree of Bachelor
of Arts. The studies of the seve
ral classes are prosecuted in the
following order, viz:
FRESHMAN CLASS First
Session (commencing six weeks
after the fourth Thursday of June)
Liry (Folsom's edition,) Alge
bra, English Grammar, Gracca
Majora (Cyropaedia, Anabasis,
and Polyaenaus.)
Second Session (commencing
four weeks after the 15th of De
cember) Virgil's Georgies, Cice
ro's Oration, Graeca Majora (He
rodotas, Thucidides, JElian and
Memorabilia of Socrates,) Geom
etry. SOPHOMORE CLASS
FIRST Session Graeca Majora
(the Orators,) Horace, Gould's
edition, (Odes and first book of
Satires,) Exercises in making La-
tin, Analytical trigonometry,
with practical examples, Loga
rithms and Mensuration.
Second Session. Horace
completed except the at of Poet
ry, Homer's Iliad, Cicero continu
ed, Navigation and Surveying,
Conic Sections and Analytical
Geometry, Modern Geography revised.
JUNIOR CLASS First Ses
sion. Analytical Geometry, Me
chanical Philosophy, Cicero's
Philosophical Works and Quinc
tilian, Graeca Majra, (vol. 2,
Homer's Odissey,) Rhetoric, Ex
ercises in Latin construction,
French throughout the session.
Second Session. Differential
and Integral Calculus, Mechanical
Philosophy completed, Chronolo
gy, Greek Tragedy, Cicero's Phi
losophical Works and Epistles,
Rhetoric completed, Exercises in
Latin Construction Elements of
History, French throughout the
session.
SENIOR CLASS First Ses
sion. Chemistry and Mineralo
gy, Technology, Mental Philoso
phy, Political Economy, Grocca
Majora, (the Tragedians) Hor
ace's Art of Poetry, Exercises in
Latin Construction, Astronomy,
French.
Second Session. Chemistry,
Geology and Natural History,
Moral Philosophy, Political E
conomy, National and Constitu
tional Law, Astronomy, Tacitus,
Grtcca Majora contiuued, (the
xrageuians; exercises in Latin
and Greek Construction, French.
Composition and Declamation
are attended to, throughout the
whole collegiate course. Instruc
tion in the Spanish Language
will be given to those who desire
it. All the ('lasses are required
to attend Divine Worship in the
Chapel on Sunday, at 1 1 A. M.
and in the evening, to recite on
the evidences of Natural and Re
vealed Religion, and on the His
torical parts of the Old and New
Testaments.
Applicants for admission into
the Freshman Class, are required
to sustain a satisfactory examina
lion on the Grammar of the Eng
lish, Latin and Greek languages,
including Latin Prosody, Mair's
Introduction, Caesar's Commenta-
j ries, (5 Books) Ovid's Metamor
phoses, Gold s edition, (extracts
from the first six books) Virgil's
i Bucolits and six books of the iE-jhis
neid, Sallust, Greek Testament,
(St. John's Gospel and the Acts of
the ApostUs) Gtaeca Minora orjaccount without any charge for
'Greek Reader, Arithmetic, (Em-1 Ids services, is rendered to his pa
jerson'b 3d pari) and Worcester's ! rent or guardian, at the end of the
1 Elements of' Ancient and Modern session. By an Ordinance of the
I Geography. j Executive Committee adopted in
j The Executive Committee begjJuly last, any student who shall
leave lo urge upon Parents and i contract a debt without the con
Instructors, the importance of an! sent of the Bursar, will be dismis-
earnest and thorough compliance j sed, and the same penalty is at
;wiih these requisitions. It is ajtached to the pment by the
fact which ought not to be disgui-! guardian of a debt so contracted,
'sed, that those colleges at the I An Act of Assembly passed in
; North which have received the i 1828, declared that all contracts
! largest share of Southern patron-; niade with a student of the Uni-
age, have within a few years past j versity, by any person should be
so far relaxed in their terms of ad-j void. No one therefore, is under
mission, as in effect to offer a pre-1 any obligation either legal or mo
! mium of the most seductive cha-j ral, to pay a debt of this charac
, racier to many of our youth, for ; ter, and a more valuable or accep
' the desertion of their domestic In-j table service can scarcely be ren
jstitutions. This system, as our dered to the Institution, than an
most faithful Instructors of the ; invariable refusal to do so under
preparatory schools will testify, j any circumstances,
produces the most pernicious re-j In addition to these salutary re
sults. The Pupil becomes impa-1 gulalions, the Faculty are author
tient of the restraints of school ized in all cases, when the appli-
and of the gradual steps, absolute-
ly necessary to fit him for receiv-; tains a lair moral cuaracier, ano
ing a Collegiate Education with upon examination is believed to
advantage, slights and despises possess the requisite mental en
the efforts of his Teacher to se-jdovvments, natural and acquired,
cure accurate and solid scholar- and is unable to pay the Tuition
ship, and panis for a premature
enjoyment of the freedom of col
lege life. The consequence is
soon perceived. He is sent to a
distance from his natural guar
dians and becomes his own mas
ter, when he most needs the con
trol and supervision of the Gram
mar school. His slovenly and
half finished preparation, prevents
him from ever being able to pros
ecute a course of College studies
with comfort lo himself, or to rank
with his better prepared Class
mates, and after a brief struggle,
dissatisfied with a standing below
mediocrity, he becomes almost in
variably careless and idle and dis-
sipared. Unless this course of
policy is promptly and vigorously
checked by the combined efforts
of Parents and teachers, colleges
and grammar schools will become
alike degraded and worthless. Ill
the foundation of education be ra
dically defective, it is idle to ex
pect that the superstructure can
be perfect. He who supposes
that the appropriate functions of
the preparatory teacher, either
will or can be faithfully discharg
ed at college, should desire the
immediate demolition of all the
academies in the country.
The requisite measures have
been adopted to confine the expen
ses of education within the most
reasonable limits. The Steward's
Hall has been thoroughly repair
ed, and though no student is re
quired to board there, it will be
so managed as to compel the
boarding house keepers to charge!
no more than reasonable prices.
Upon this subject, the Executive',
Committee can give parents and'
guardians, the most confident as-i
surauces, that the necessary ex
j pences of a student do not exceed
two Hundred and tilly dollars per
annum, including clothes and
pocket money. Some spend less:
the expenditures of a majority ex
ceed this amount, but a larger
sum, is not essential either to the
comfort or reputation of any one.
Under the existing laws of the
Institution, it is utterly impossible,
that a prodigal expenditure of
money can be made by a student,
without the culpable connivance
of his parent or guardian. If it
should ever occur, therefore, no
blame can be attached to the In
stilulion, and the sufferer will be
entitled to no commiseration.
By the Revised laws of the
State, it has been made an indicta
ble offence to sell wines or spirit
ous liquors to a student, or to sell
him goods upon credit, without the
written permission of a member of
the Faculty. A student on his
j arrival is required to deposite all
funds in the hands of the Bur-
i sar. No expenditure is permitted
but under his direction, and an
j cant is a native of the State, sus-
! ees, to admit lnm into any class,
for which he may be prepared,
without charge either for tuition
or room rent.
The Executive Committee have
the pleasure to state, that aliho'
the patronage extended to the U
niversity, is in uo degree commen
surate with the resources and in
telligence of the State, ihere is
gratifyiug evidence, that the In
stitution is growing in the confi
dence and affection of the commu
nity. The aggregate number of
students at present is but eighty
five. Of this number however,
more than forty are members of
the Freshman Class. No instance
is known since the foundation of
the College of so large a number
of admissions into either of the
classes. It will be readily percei
ved, that a like number of appli
cants for admission at the ap
proaching Commencement, would
make a very favorable change in
the aspect of our affairs.
In conclusion, the Committee
beg leave to remark, that in ihe
respects in w hich the citizens of
North Carolina can be regarded
at least true to themselves, the
most striking is the almost univer
sal disposition to undervalue our
own institutions and our own citi
zens. An examination of the ca
talogues of the colleges of other
States, will show that quite as
large a number of young men
From this State are acquiring col
legiate education abroad, as at
home. If by so doing, the)' were
enjoying decidedly superior ad
vantages, their course would be
entitled to marked commenda
tion. How far this is the case,
two statements of w ell ascertained
authenticity may enable ihe pub
lic to decide.
There is no instance known du
ring a series of years, where a
young man of regirlar standing in
this Institution, has not been ad
mitted into ihe same class of any
other college, to which he may
have applied. A more remarka
ble fact is, that three young gen
tlemen who commenced their col
legiate course with ihe present Se
nior Class in the University, and
prosecuted their studies through
the most dificult part of the sys
tem, are, it is understood, lo gra
duate in the course of the present
year, one at a Western, a second
at a Southern, and a third at a
Northern institution, of well esta
blished reputation each one re
ceiving the highest distinction in
his class.
It ie clear to demonstrate, there
fore, that our young men are not
compelled to go abroad, to ob
tain an education in all respects
equal to that given in the best in
stitutions in the United Slates; and
that it is not necessary to make
any sacrifice upon the altar of
State pride, in order to remain at
home. That many advantages,
aside from the learning acquired
at college, would result from the
formation of lasting friendships
and associations which would
grow up among ihose who are to
co nstitute no small portion of our
fut.ure rulers, by the patronage of
a State Institution, no one can
doubt. It is not less clear, that
many evils, the nature of which it
is not necessary lo explain, might
be avoided by the adoption of that
course, upon the part of parents
arrd guardians, upon this subject,
which seems lo be demanded, no
kiss by interest than by patriotism.
E. B. DUDLEY, Ch'n.
T. D. BENEHAN,
D. CAMERON,
C. L. HINTON,
CHAS. MANLY,
R. M. SAUNDERS,
Ex. Committee.
Hail Storm. One of the most
tremendous hail storms ever wit
nessed in this climate, passed thro'
a small section of Franklin coun
ty, a few miles below Louisburg,
on Friday last. The hail in the
road where it had been a little
drifted, was three feet deep; and
some fields were so washed by the
rain, that it could not be discover
ed what had been planted in them.
Scarcely any of ihe sou that had
been loosened by the plough was
left on the declevities.
Raleigh Star.
Our Superior Court. John
Hainey, who stood charged with
ihe offence of negro stealing, was
tried before his Hon. Judge Pear
son, on Tuesday last, and convict
ed. The time appointed for his
execution is the 23d day of June
xt. ' He has appealed to the
Supreme Court. The two re
maining individuals who were ar
raigned upon ihe same charge,
have been removed tr Bmke
county, where they will be tried
next week. Hainey was convict
ed principally upou ihe evidence
f - Robins, one of his ac-
omplices, who will also appear as
witness for the State againsl the
wo remaining offenders.
Ruthtrford Spec.
CJames Moran, quite a youth,
convicted of the murder upon the
high seas of Capt. Smith, of the
schr. William Wirt, was executed
at Philadelphia on Friday last, in
the presence of an immense crowd,
(many of them women,) who were
disorder!)', and at ihe close of ihe
awful scene, fought for pieces of
the rope, and peltf d the men who
were conveying the body of the
culprit to the lomb. A portion
of the mob also assailed with
brick-bats and stones, the marines
who guarded the executioner; but
when orders were given to load
the muskeis, the assault ceased.
Disgusting scenes of drunkenness
and gambling closed ihe day.
This event shows how utterly use
less public executions are as exam
ples lo deter from vicious actions.
Raleigh Reg.
CCTCov. White has absolutely
refused to call an extra session of
the Louisiana Legislature.
American Bible Society. The
21st anniversary of ihe American
Bible Society was celebrated re
cently in the city of New York.
The receipts of ihe year from all
sources amount to $90,578 89,
being 14,320 56, less than ihose
of ihe previous year. The pecu
niary condition of the Society is
very different from what it was at
the last anniversary. Then there
was a surplus in the Treasury
now the funds are gone. The
Board, therefore, for their year's
operations, must look wholly to
the auxiliary societies and bene
volent individuals.
American Tract Society. The
anniversary of ihe American Tract
Society, was recently held also in
New York. The receipts for the
last five years, though amounting
to $130,991, that is, $25,000
over last year, have all been ex
pended, leaving in fact a deficit of
some thousands. There are 116
auxiliary sociiies, 25 since last an
nual meeting. There are employ
ed in connexion with the society
079 missionaries.
Methodist Missionary Society,
The report of the eighteenth
anniversary of the Missionary So
ciety of ihe Methodist Episcopal
Church, recently held in New
York, states that the receipts of
the past year, including the bal
ance of the previous year, were
$G2.76S 01, and the payments,
$06,536 85, leaving ihe Society
in debt $3,868 84.
Maria Monk. ll appears from
the English papers that arrange
ments had been made at Exeter
Hall, in London, for the public
exhibition at thai place of Maria
Monk, who was expected in Eng
land, where it was advertised that
she would repeat her "awful dis
closures." Logical. "What do you think
of single IhssidnessV1 said a gen
tleman to his friend. "Why
said he, "as to single blessedness ;
it will do; but certainly can only
be regarded as half so blessed as
double bltsstdncss."
fjJA liitle girl observing a
goose with a yoke on, exclaimed,
"why, taaa, there is a goose got
corsets on. It walks like sis
ter Sally."