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1 ll?A id l M I ' I fl I.I ' )l III 111 Ml II 1 E I " IE5 : IN ' 51 1 I ' mm tf t i. 1 ( r'-i't .') . U NIO NV T II K C ONSTIT r 10 N . AN D T II E LAWS T. HE GUARDIANS - T " . r,. ,'JTT.. . ..lU'y i.,,. ;rZ"Zw T rrz OF OUR LIBERTIES; Vol: XLVII. HILLSBOROUGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1868. - For thi II ill .boron Recorder TUB SEVENTY-FIRST COMMENCEMENT AT CHAPE!. HILL. Hurrah! for We, lnileil States! ! So said Senior Pearson. , " Hurr-lil, fur North Carolina! 1" So ' said Senior Morehead. Hurrah ! for Orange County ! !" So said Senior Strathorn. Hurrah ! for Chapel Hill ! ! " So anoth f r Senior t-ught to have said. Hurrah !! for the Ladies of Hillsbo rough !!!"' So laid all the bo at Chapel Hilt; and they say besides, that all these young ladies'shall nut always belong to HdIborough. Th circular of the Law School at Hillsborough ought ti be circa bled Irecly among those who lonr, to have, by the license nf;F.. Freeman, 8. C, C, the lay ttovrri t other, and, by the li cense .f U. Ltws, C. U. C, the la laid by other. Their father . tell the Senior that it is hard tiroes. But the Se niors tell their lathers that the intend to nuke them easy as Adam did, by a help meet. No llien, Mr. Editor, because of Xht many smart lhmjs dial have been said at Chapel Hill, which have gien chance lor the many sweet things that are f wing t e said in Hillsborough, I say Hurrah f r Cii.pel Hi 1. in Orange Countyv in Nrth Caru.itu, in the United States, in America. Same of the oldet attendants at Com meiitiiarnt were inclined hi say i. this lt, Man? daughters have dne virtuous tni eicellet them all." The ile. laiunui8'f the Freshmen and Snrhomore snv more than usually acceptable. ii that (I t. Seymour frequently declared that hehi.l never heard httter. Mr. llrit , Gib-on and Patterson f the Freshman Cla, jnd Mrsr. Uoclunan, Lcry, Mc Knv il Winston ul the J5aplnnnie Clas. wt-re ery rominent amuog eijh eeo good Hit you mat print the names of the ju-.ikT4 and uf thepechea among the S- Lat.ii .alutatori W. H. S. Rjrgn,of Norti amptun Cumity. Aim! -e Jacknm V. Clarence Janes, if U'lU-i.t County, All. TtH.wfits, not .(!, rule the world C Krtter.i.f Chapel Hill. I'r.i patria U. E, L- MreheaJ, ol (rfr'jiough. IVtir the Great A. W. litahun, i.f HilUiurough. E'J'ect of the Reform tionW. D. Ilor tier, ni GranviHe County. tlrange Cunt)--L U. Sirayhorn, of ,llilbnrwugh.. Die macht dirmusikJ. U. Harper, of Lcnair County. P. I nd V. 11. Means, of Uabarru Cimuty. The Constitution and the Union Y.S. Peartn, of .Mursanton. Valedictory Oration F. H. Hubee, of lUleigh. These were speeches nme rf which rank ed below Mgood.H Tin re was n flumme ry ahut them ; no fus about The inrtu enie of the Sf seen n Literature" byVme fellow who did nt know a Saracen from a ee-wiw. And they were delivered with very gud tate. Perhaps no two men w oold aree to which, in manner and in matter, wi re the best, But an Orange county man nnv be permitted to say that Mr. Stray hirn u-l.t to let yo publish his speech ; and a North Carolinian tocuofess that he hearti ly vr.jotrd the untiual applaud that fol lowed Mr. Morehead's p;eal for North Ca rolina. One young lady wants to learn La tin, that dic may see for hrelf that Mr. Ilutgwyn rymtcd Cicero arlht in his com pliment to the vtrginti. mntronx, 4-c. J it sounilrd so sweetly and was ottered so Krvcrlully. And then, as for the Valedic tory, some said it could not hive been bet ter. When the right to vote conies to the ?iil oppressed portion of mankind, the part f that portion that was in the Chapel on Thursday afternoon intends tn vote fr Mr. Husbee, and to mike the beaux of all but ne vote for hitn too. They iiy this cm has voted already. . Meters; Hurgwyn, Rusbeeand Morehead Jed their class in the matter of tchelirihip. No. 2443- TwmrktutMuM KM Because Mr. Busbee had been uniformly " a first mite man" he was permitted' to choose Grst among the houorary speeches, and to .Mr. Burgwyn was assigned the se cond choice. Messr. Harper, Pearson and A. (Jialtain were declared second in the order of their names. The. third Itonur was awarded tf Messrs. Fetter, Hofter, Jones and Strayhorn. , , : One sign of the trouble's of times in which this class has passed through college may be seen in the lact that it'containeil at Iat representatives ot seven difluret.t Fieshmen classes, ranginz from 1353 to 18GL Anoth er, in that only Mr. Vits.i4 of Chapel Hill, was permuttd to attend the eight re gular examination of his class, The trials of June, 18C5, were two severe for the lurves of the rest of the class of 1801. One sign or the excellence in scholarship a..d in deportment of this class, is een iu the fact that while their rule is to distinguish abjut one third of each class, the Faculty of the University felt obliged to give honors to more tlua half of these Seniors. Another is in the declaration made in the Annual Ue,-ort to the Tru-tees, that in years, ma turity of intellect and extent of attain ments, thi class was of mure than average exteil.Mice. North Carolina needs now more than ever a succ ssioit of such classes at its Uiumsity. We hope that she will tue it. 'I he firt mte mm among the Juniors were M:is. Porter of Trtjrou-h, ml J. M, We'jb of Ataaunce county. Amuag the Sophomore, they were Me$is. Uatue ol Etlgr combe county, H. H. Lewis of Tai bo rough, and U. H. Urave Jr., of Williams boiougu. Aujiig the Frcshiuen, the first honour ws given to ,jr. litiuun ot Nosth ainj ton couu'y. Tiie I'ruiteesptesent were. G iv. Worth, tlov. ttraluaj, tiot.Hnaiu, Judg Ila!!iu, Juilgr mule, lVt'48arr U-ttle, ll. n. D. M. Urnnjer,,P. C. Ca'oeron, E-q., ani;Liv )r I'jiter, P'lillip and Siioucr. It was i lie inlenliou ol tt.e Trailers to remodel die lnierity tn rnoy impoitaut particulars al '.l)i UJiUiuenceineuu in auie people ol Norm Caroliua have transieired the pow er to lo ' t wther hand, the Trustee ii resent, ot of debjrer.ee to their tucces- ir, ou'ieiy raoieu iuusn me ricunjr m continue their ia;ructio.i tor anotuet scs siuii, and that the next ttioii shall bfin a usual on Friday, Julv I'lh. Whoever take charge ol a university planned 0) such men as Judge Johnston, Jude Irrdcil. I)r, McCotkle, Um. Uavte, Ci. Polk, and their worthy associates, watched over by uch men at Judge Cameron, Jude (ias ton, Dr. McP:ietter, Ur. Hak, Juitge liatlcr, (tov. Morehead, Uov, Ural am and Jud't! Uullin, and taught by nuch men as Dr. Ualdwcll, Piol. llarrit, Pioi. Olmsttd, Dr. Mitchell. Dr. Phillips Dr. Hoopvr, Bishop Urecn, not to nu titiou the present teacuers, must be meuI more than ordina ry skill in planning, vigilei.ee in watching, od LtUiliiii.ess iu teach. One act in the drama at Chapvl Hill is closed. Thoe ul.o tiguicU in iu scenes ate uo. ashamed of their record. The weather for this most delightful week at CUi pel Hilt was most piopttious; so that i very oac who m in the Chapel and else wheie were at all times no-t comfortabh , and ready to be pW-a-ed with all they saw and heard. Curiosity w;a wide awake m ee the Orator of the Philanthropic Society, the Hon. T. H. Seymour, formerly minis ter at the Couitof St. Petersburg, and hie ly Oovernor of Connecticut. Gov. Sey mour' voice was weak, sotthat many could not hear what they will read with delight, a timely, patriotic and thorough discussion of Government its origin, form, aims and dangers. The preacher before the Senior Class was the Rev. Mr. Moran, of the North Carolina Coiiferei.ce, wha sustained his re putation lor eloquence and metaphysical peculations by an exhaustive exhibition ot the unity of the plan of Redemption, of the llistoricat fact that God has made and it makfng all things work together to mani fest the excellence of His glory as it shines in the face of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Tie Senattts Acsderoicui conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on B. F. Moore, Esq ,of Raleigh and on Gov. Sey mour of Conn, ; and that of Doctor of Di vinity on the Rev. ;Mr. Watson, of Wil mington, the Rev. Mr. '"Pritchanl of 'Ra leigh, and- the Rev. Mr. Phillips of the University. ''... THE CASE OF AIR. DAVIS. t The farce of calling up the case of JeflTer sn Davis in the. United States Court in Richmond, and then postponing' it, is per formed as regularly' as the spring and fall 8:;si('ns"of (lie court occur.' It is becomin" bj, this time somewhat monotonous, and the public begin to look upon it as a bore, to say the least , of itV),The case is said to have been entirely ready at the late session of the court in Richmond, tfie'venire summon ed, the Chief Justice present, when it is postponed for five months. Mr. Davis has nb been in the hands of the government three years, a considerable part of that time a pi isoiier. He is poor and in feeble health, Willi a dependent family, and is becoming old. h it proper to subject this man for the rest of his natural life to such practical dental of his 'right to a trial ? If, as seems probable, the trial wdl never occur, it would be both just and magnanimous to give him his discharge. But whether tried or nut, no rational being now wants Mr. Daiss life ; and as to the nonsense of mak ing treason odious, which some indulge, had the rebellion in which he took part succeeded we would hive heard nothing of treas n, and failure, of itself, constitutes the most impressive and salutary punish ment which can befall in such caes. To uridrr'ake at tne end of sogigantac a strug gle ,i struggle in which the most earnest conviction in regard to great fundunental principles were involved to seize upon an isolated individual and make him a vic'Im, simply because he happened to be chosen by thmanv as their representative in the c.iuv, is unworthy of the nineteenth century, and especially of the great Ameri can nation. W e have" too hii an estimate of the people of the country to believe that any considerable portion of them hate ympithy with it. Is there nl courage timewherc anion those who have the po-v-er, to give Mr. Davis hi discharge? As did. for t'te time, the projiosed impeach niet of the President, the case of Mr. Davis hangs threateningly and forbidding in the ghf of the people, an I they would a gladly be tid of it a they were of th impeachmrnt business. Calm wisdom and fortitude breasted the temporary pasion rf the hour in the one cie ; cannot they do it in the other, and pass u to that point in regard to the present "great criminal'' wlifii it will be universally said that" all's well," jot as it was aid"in regard to the other" great criminal" whose trial so re cently ended in acquittal? The probabili ties aic that if Mr. Davis should ever come t trial, under anything like fair and pro per circumstance, he alo will be acquit ted of the technical charge brought against hint. Boys! Taku Warxing. A clergyman says " I one day passed by a blacksmith's shop, in which 1 saw the son of a lady of my acquaintance making a pipe. I went to'hU m-uher and told her what I hal seen, and hc very indignantly told mci I siustbe mts'aken, l stio", l know your son as well a I know yon, and if I hail not been certain that it wa lie, I should imt have called on you. She stdl persisted that I was mistaken, and was evidently an noyed at my interference. Some two years afterwards she called at mi, and bezged that 1 would try and do something for her san, aviny, He smokes and drink, and does everything else that is bad, and my heart is almost broken." "Sotrtc two years agi I said, " I tcld you what 1 feared, ami then something might hae been done : but these habits are now confirmed. I will, however, do any thing in my power. But 1 found it was in vain. In the course of a few years he blew out his brains, and left his widowed mo ther tnconsolaMe at hi destruction of both body 'and lo'al." rW nf t'ope Rittew. ; ' HUMAN . SKELETON'S IX POMPEII. Some of the details of these discoveries, contained injthe journal of the excavations, are extremely curious' and interesting. Thiii, we retd that on the 30th of August, 1787, a human; skeleton was fountf in the corridor of a house which the volcanic mat ter had not penetrated, but had so complete ly closed up by obstructing the d-ors that escape. was impossible.' ' Mere the wretch ed man lived in utter darkness we know not how long. It is a significant circumstance, that his bones, instead of lying in one place, were scattered; about the spartment, knti siuAved marks of having been . gnawed. Near them lay. the.utidisturbed skeleton of a dog.. It is evident therefore, jlhat , the brute had not only survived his master, but had also eaten him. In a shop connected wiih the public baths, not far from the fo rum, were also found two skeletons of per eons- wjjo had died in each other's embtace1. They were both in the freshness of youth, and of different sex. The affecting specta cle excited an unwonted effusion of serti nient in the antiquarian bosom, and the bo ny twain were chrisiianed The Lovers." On the 14th of June, of the same year, eight skeletons were found under the ruins ol a wall, and in May 1818, another skele ton was discovered near the Temple of Ju piter, crushed by a marble column ; thus proving conclusively that the eruption was accompanied by an earthquake. In the Temple of Lis also were discovered there mains of several priests, with chicken bones, egg shells, wine goblets and other indications of a banquet, on a table near them. One of them had seized a sacrifi cial axe with which to effect his escape, but sank down exhausted, or probably suffocat ed by the mephitic vapor before accomplish ing this purpose. The statement made by several writers, and reiterated by M. Mou nier and Dr. Dyer, that the said priest ac tually cut his way through" two walls, is entirely erroneous; the walls do not exhi bit any traces of such operation;. Tradi tion tells of another priest who lay iu tha centre of the adjacent fontm triungulare. This man, whom Bulwer calls C.lenus, was said to have been carrying off some of the rich siKer furniture of the temple when death overtook him. As the journal makes; no mention of the circumstances, the rea Uer will receive the account cum grano talis. Xjrth AiUikun Rivuw, THE BUD WORM. O.ir friend Dr. Biie lias been investiga ting the natural history and habits of this destructive little insect, with complete sue cess. In April last he found a stalk of corn with the heart cutout by a bud worm, and the insect itself was buried about t inches in the ground bes'ulejthe stalk. The Dr. took the worm and placed it in a glass jar, one-lourth hlled with moist caith. loung stalks or corn, cabbage leaves tral turnip tops were placed in this jar.- Il. j worm ate of each. After every eating tha worm changed its appearance. It changed first to the "cut worm," which has been general! regarded as a different insect. Us nex; form was that ot the " collanl worm," its color, from black turaioz tn geen, and its bead disappearing. After eating the beg would return and remain in the earth. After this last change he wen; into the heart of the stalk of com, until it was entirely destroyed, when becoming very unwieldy, it wollered, rather thai burrowed, in the ground. It remained it this state for five day, and on the sixth it had entirely shed its) covering and was a fully developed moth, having four mings, the outer ones dark and the under unes light. Its appearance tons, as we saw it yesterday, is the same as the ordinary candle moth," and is, beyond doubt, the same species ot insect. Dr. Buie will continue his investigations, and when completed will give the benefit of liia discoveries to the public. Other in sect! which inteslour gardens ara also re ceiviog his attention. Late Lieut. M. F. Maury will soon come back to take hi professorship in the Vir ginia Military Institute.
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