The Greensboro patriot [April 1, 1869]

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COTTON CULTURE IN EGYPT.
Egyptian Competition with American
Cotton.
Tlio competitiou of Egyptian with
American cotton, under normal con-ilitions,
never can bo anything very se-rious,
for the following reasons:
Firxtly. The area of land adapted
for cotton culture in Egypt is limited,
and doling the late war its full capacity
was developed. We know precisely
now the bouuds and limits of its pro-duction,
under the greatest stimulus,
and that production cannot bo made
to exceed 650,000 bales.
Secondly. Under ordinary circum-stances
and at ordinary prices, it pays
better in Egypt to cultivate grain; of
which from two to three crops cau be
raised on the same land annually to
one crop of cotton, which is, besides,
more exhausting to the soil.
Thin'.hj. The labor in men is limited
;!i comparison with that which the
:.::i soon will command, both black
audwhite; and the labor of Egypt is
unskilled in cotton culture. Besides
which, the Egyptian lands cannot con-tinue
so good a yield for consecutive
years, lascause they use no fertilizers
.ii- modern improvements.
Fourthly. Labor-saving contrivances,
in which machinery and steam supply
human muscles, are available to us,bttt
are not to the Egyptians. More than
once during the last few years, the
cattle plague lias almost swept away
their beasts of burden-a loss which
as yet has but partially been supplied.
Fifthly. The superiority of the Amer-ican
cotton to all other kinds for the
manufactures of England and of the
world, according to the testimony of
the best authorities, including the
Knglish experts themselves.
The India Surat* have long since
lieen withdrawn from the competition;
but lately an effort has been made to
set up the Egyptian " Makov as a sue
ccssful rival to the cotton of our South-ern
States.
A few years ago, Mr. J. B. Smith,
member of Parliament from Stock|H>rt,
alter thorough practical examination
of the whole matter, nindo a most ex-haustive
report on the different quali-ties
of cotton required for English
manufacturing purposes, in which he
arrived at the conclusion that " our
(British) great consumption and de
niand arc for the soft, white, silky,
niodeiateh long cotton of America,
the quality usually called 'Uplands,'
' Bowed Georgia,' and ' New-Orleans.'
It can lie consumed in any quantity,
for it is available not only for weft, but
warp, except for the finer numlier*
We need and consume nine bags of this
cotton for one bag of all other qualities
put together." And the reasons he
gives for this are conclusive. The long
staple is used for making the warp, as
it is technically called—that is, the
longitudinal threads of the woven tis
sue. Those threads of the finer sort-say
above StTs—mnst be made of long
staple cotton, such as our Sea Island
and the Egyptian. For numbers be
low 5(1, liest medium staple will do.
The medium staple cotton, on the
contrary, is used partly for the lower
numbers of ••wnrp* (and enters largely
into the production of the vast quauti
ties of cotton yarn and sewing-thread
exported.) but mainly for the " weft,"
or transverse threads of the woven
tissue. It is softer and silkier than
the long staple, makes a fuller and
rounder, and fills up the fabric better.
The long staple cannot be tued for this-|
purpose to advantage: It is ordina-rily
too harsh. For the warp, strength
and fibre are required; for the weft,
softness and fullness. Now, as the
lower numbers of yarn require a far
larger amount of raw cotton for their
production than the higher, and consti-tute
the chief portion (in weight,) both
for export and consumption in Great
Britain, and as every yard of calico
or cotton-cloth is composed of from
two to five timesas much weft as warp,
it is manifest that the cotton of medi-um
staple is the kind for which the de-mand
mnst be most constant and great-est,
in the proportion of one to five.
The short staple cotton (Sarats) is
used almost exclusively for weft (ex-cept
a little for candle-wicks,) or for
the very lowest number of warp—say
10's and under; but it is different in
character from the second description
as well as shorter in fibre. It is drier,
fuzzier, more like rough wool, and it
cannot be substituted for it, without
impoverishing the nature of the cloth,
making it thinner after washing, and
can only be blended with it with much
caution, and in very moderate pro-portions.
This species of cotton is
found in Upper-Egypt, as weil as in
India. After thus classifying the cotton
and going fully into the peculiar char-auteristics
of each, this great British
authority goes on to say : " It will be
seen, therefore whi|e we require for our
manufactures a limited quantity of the
first and third qualities of raw cotton,
we need and can consume an almost
unlimited supply of the .second quality.
Ill this fact lies our chief difficulty;
For the Patriot.
TOBACCO.
"Mankind would be bettor off
frost or worms should destrov every I
American cotton a losing game ou the
part of the former.
Sixthly. The labor and expense of
irrigation in Egypt mnst be taken in-to
account. A cotton-plantation there
is as troublesome as a rice field with
us, and therefore it will not pay to
grow cotton there at a pri»* which
would be remunerative to our Southern
States. It did pay very handsomely
at the prices which ruled during the
stoppage of the American supply, but
the question is now to be solved wheth-er
the grain-crops will not pay better
hereafter, as they did formerly,
A tabular statement will show more
strikingly than words the great and I somo hot;il.lucv j, , : :
rapid development of cotton culture in | tilllat(.^^ ,„• tL
Egypt, verifying the promise made
by Said Pacha, in 1801, to the then
American Consul-tieneral, ou his tak-ing
leave of him: " If your people will
stop the cotton supply for Europe, my
people must go to work and make it
for her."
rOL'NDS OF COTTON EXPORTED.
Great Britain Franco To all ConntrtM
1853 86,439,900 10,726,500 43,SS5.»I0
. 1854 25,000,000 7,000,000 43,646,500
1855 33,980,000 9,500,000 56,874,300
j in her great laboratory,where the food
j is converted into chyle and blood.
1 And now, gentlemen, unless these
tobacco plant that sprouts this spring.- i il,t''"^«o"es can be answered in such
CiitEKLV. I * W:,-v :ls to exculpate the tobacco plant
Messrs. Editors:—1 would like to from the implied charges agaiast it—
have a brief confab with the readers why then we shall hold you bound to
of yonr paper, ou the use. or rathei on , set your face as a Hint against it, as
the habit of chewing and sinokiug lo- \ a" enemy to the eud and object ofyour
144,400,000
4f,103,1100
I. lhs.
Total three yearn
Average
Bales. lb
In 1858 Egypt exported to
England 100,000 of450 45,000,000
In 1868 Egypt exported to
England 141,000 of450 64,800,0110
In 1865 Egypt exported to
England 650,000of450 998^00,000
In IHfio, England received
front America llll5,890,6Ue
Thus Egypt's best year fell short of
the American average contribution be-fore
the war nearly three fourths, which
will show the character of the compe-tition.
Commencing with the year 1863, the
exportations of Egypt, chicllv owing
to her cotton, have actually doubled,
thus making onr loss her gain, and
for while several quarters of Hie world ! making an annual difference to her of
supply the first sort (long staple.) and ; at least J50,00U,(MH> increase lrom thai
India could supply enormous quanti-1 source alone. The year which has
ties of the third (short staple.) the just expired will test whether the de-
United States have hitherto alone pro-duced
the second and most necessary
kind, (medium staple."')
Although the stoppage of the great
bulk of this cotton for three or four
years eoHtpelled the manufacturers to
adopt substitutes for it, yet it must re-sume
i»s previous position now. since
none of the substitutes have proved
equal to the original article. Both
Australia and Egypt produce fine long-staple
cotton, though Mr. Smith de-clares
our Sea-Island cotton to be the
finest long cotton in the world,'1 and
in classifying the Egyptian, thus de-scribes
it: '• Another species, long,
strong, fine, yellowish, is grown iu
Egypt and imported in considerable
quantities." And he sums up thus:
" The point we have to bear in mind
then, is this: Our desideratum is not
simply more cotton, but more cotton
of the same character and price as that
now imported from the States." That
problem British ingenuity has never
yet been able to solve; and, although
American cotton has more competition
now than before the war, when Mr.
Smith's summing up was made, it still
must bear away the palm, and the
Egyptian neither in quality nor in quan-tity,
much less the Indian, can never
dispute it.
With regard, also, to the gathering
in and preparation of the cotton for
market, the American article has the
advantage. The cotton-gin was not
found suitable to the Egyptian cotton-in
any of the experiments I have wit
■cased : it cut the fibre of the cotton-
'• nmko," and much of the cotton was
lost in the cleaning, under the primi-tive
Egyptian process.
The experiments I saw made were
with the American saw-giu, and ex-perts
from the United Slates, who
were trying to introduce the article in-to
that market made the essay. The
cotton is cleaned by roller-gins, manu-factured
in the country, and consist of
two rollers—one of iron, the other of
wood—placed obliquely and moved by
the foot. The yield of libre was only
estimated at sixty-six per cent, by this
process.
The Cotton is packed in round bags,
in the country, and pressed by rough-ly-
made screw-presses, on the model of
our old-time Southern ones. In Alex-andria
it is prepared for exportation
by being pressed into square bales by
hydranlic pressure. It cannot be
doubted that the impulsion given to
cotton culture, its improvement, and
the immense profits realized from it
during the past six years, have elevat-ed
Egypt in the scale of competition.
But natural as well as artificial causes,
and the character, both of its labor
and of its government, are ever at
work to render competition with
maud for cotton can keep pace with
the supply, and demonstrate whether
our dethroned " King " w ill •• enjoy his
own again."
THE DRIXKARi'S DAUGHTER.
nv o. w. BiMiiv.
Out ou the ntreet wiih nai.cd feet
I aaw the drunkard's little daughter;
Her tattered ahawl was thin and Mnall;
She little knew, for no one taught her.
Her akin wan fair, her auburn hair
Was blown about her pretty forehead :
Her nail, white facu wore sorrow's trace.
And want and woe that were not borrowed.
Heart-broken child, she Kcldmn aniil.-d,
Hope promised her no bright to-tnorro'v :
Or, if its light Hanlicd on her night.
Then up came darker c.hinda of sorrow.
She noftly .-.mi. " We have no bread.
No wood to keep the tire n burning;"
The ehild waa ill. the winds so chill.
Her thin, cold blood to ice was turning.
But nun well fed and warmly clad.
And ladien robed in richest fashion,
Panned on the side where no one cried
To them for pity or compannion.
That lone night tied, and then the lijrht
Of rosy day in beauty shining.
Set dome, ami apire, aud roof on tire,
And nhono on ouo boyoud repining.
Anlcep—nlono—aa cold an ntone,
Where no dear parettt ever sought her,
In winding nheel of suow aud sleel,
Wan found the drunkard's lifeless daughter.
bacco. Especially, do I wish to elicit
from your medical readers some res-ponse
to the interrogatories that may
be put, or some expression of opinion
on the several propositions that may
be suggested in the course of this
brief article. But 1 confess there is
the ill-matter,
to the
award of the medical tribe at large,—
for many ot them may be daily set u
walking the streets with a cigar or a
pipe hung in their jaws, or befogging
their rooms, if not their brains, with
the smoke anil stench of this mm e-ous
weed ; I fear, therefore, that these
may already have prejudged the case
in their own favor. 1 shall, therefore,
depeud very much on the common sense
of your common readers: especially
(in the judgment of those who had
once been enslaved by the habit, and
have wrought out their reformation ill
spite of the pernicious example around
I them. Bpeoffio answers must, how-i
ever, be expected to come mostly from
I scientific physicians; happy shall I he
i if any considerable number of the---
i shall come from those whosejudgments
i are not warped by an unfortunate
indulgence in the use of this loiil
narcotic.
First, then : Does the use of to
bacon, hi any form, quicken the men
tal perceptions, or does it not lor the
time produce a sort of pleasing intox-ication
of the brain, prejudicial to men-tal
activity f
How does its effect on the patient, or
i the victim, differ, except in degree.
I from opium, which has made the
Turk the stupid slave oi his Ins; and
| revenge, for which the tobacco chew
ing Christian has anathematized him
through long centuries:
Is it a poison whose active virus
can only be overcome by slow and
gradual approaches to its /a.-himui'i-use*
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healing art, so useful to our race.
And let me say to the Rev. Clergy—
if it shall turn out on a full investiga-tion.
that it blunts the moral preceptions
obscures the distinctions between right
and wrong.ignorcs the smaller morals,
decency, good manners &c, while it in-jures
all the functions of our mortal
bodies, of which it is our duty to take
care to preserve them in health and
purity, then you should impure, if it
lie not the legitimate fruit of original
tin, and commence forthwith your
pious labor for its extirpation. One or
two of your eclesitistical bodies, have
already entered their Christian piotest
against it: by solemn prohibition of
any one exercising Ministerial gifts,
who has no more rmfratniMjrorttcethBii
to chew tobacco or smoke cigars.
Will not the statesmen also look
into this, perhaps have a committee
appointed to enquire if a tax amount-ing
to prohibition would not be of
more value to the nation than all the
revenue, enormous as it is, that we de-live
from this filthy source. Itmight.it
is hoped, reclaim the president, who
seems unfortunately to be as fond of
tobacco smoke as of the smoko of gun-powder.
And lastly,whenever it shall be set-tled,
as I trust it will be that, tobacco
and its slaves are obnoxious to the in-eipieiii
charges which my questions in
dieate, then ladies I shall make a last
appeal to yon as the last hope ofbefogged
humanity. In the meantime I prayyoo
consider well if you have not long suf-
1'ered thefoul«*t trespass ou ''woman's
rights"'anil 1 hat henceforth on detect-ing
a beau with a quid or a cigar in
his mouth.—or on circumstantial evi-dence
that he has offended in the prem-ises:,
yon will immediately, without
favor, all'.:-:ion. or mixture of mercy,
forthwith give him the mitten.
CENSOR.
insult to onr prejudices, our feelings,
onr pride. If he was doing a good
work among the negroes, so much the
better. lie was to be respected there;
and having made his debut in the
State iu that connection, he should
have been satisfied with his chosen field
for awhile at any rate. But being a
tkifty man, of course he is for getting
higher. I say again, it was an insult
to the State that he should have been
set in a Professor's chair at Chapel
Hill. Of Prof. Patrick little is known.
He has just taken the benefit of the
Bankrupt net—has been teaching an
ordinary country school in one of our
upper counties with no extraordinary
reputation, and takes his place as Uni-versity
Professor with commendable
coolness at least. Of Mart ling no one
seems to know anything. He was said
in the announcement of the elections
to be '• from Missouri." He has not
arrived upon the scene of action, j
have heard that he is a Baptist preach
ex.
The University of North Carolina
cannot be galvauixed into life l>\ such
means. As a graduate of this Institu-tion.
I, for one, hope to see her halls
empty and her groves silent and forlorn
as long as the present regime exist*—
I trust that North Carolina will con
tuiue to show by a silent and yet elo-quent
contempt that she had nothing
as a State to do w ith this degradation
of her brightest jewel, and that Wake
Forest, Davidson and Trinity will now
lengthen their cords and strengthen
their stakes, and keep your young men
at home for their education, if possible.
Poor Chapel IJill—ruined, deserted
aud helpless. A lictter daj will yet
dawn on her. A place so blessed in
the past, with so many hallowed mem-ories—
a place so dear to the hearts of
the best people of the State -it will
yet revive and blossom again and still
bring forth fruit in its old age Let
her people he patient. J L'DKX.
llarnett, March 10.
An Act to Amend Chapter?, Title 10, of
the Code of Ciril Procedure.
Sec. 1. The General Assembly of
North Carolina do enact: That so
much of Chap. 2, Title l'J, of the Code
of Civil Procedure, as requires that
deeds, conveying lands and powers of
attorney and other instruments con-cerning'the
same, shall lie. offered for
l'robate and proved before the Clerk
of the Superior Court of the county in
which the land or some part of it is
situated, lie altered and amended, so
that it shall be lawful to offer any such
deed, power of attorney or instrument,
for Probate, and acknowledge or prove
tee same, before the Clerk of the Su-perior
Court of any county in the Stal e.
who shall have full power to take the
private examination of married women
as provided by law.
Sec. -. That any Clerk before whom
sneh deeds, power, or instrument is ac-knowledged
or proved, or the private
examination of married women taken
in relation thereto, shall certify the
fact upon said deed, power of attorney
or instrument, and the Clerk of the
Superior Court of the county, wherein
the land lies, upon the exhibition of
such certificate to him shall adjudge
the said deed or other instrument to
be duly acknowledged and proved in
the same manner, as if made or taken
before him.
Sec. 3. That all laws or clauses ot
laws conflicting with the provisions of
this act. are hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. That this act shall be in
force from and after the date of its
ratification.
A $5,000 monument is to be erected
over Sam Houston's grave, at Houston
Texas.
Could arsenic or strychnine In |
inken in the same gradual way. till a j
man might swallow enough at one:
dose to kill half a dozen oxen .'
Has there evi [• been. •<> the eritii id j
eve of observation the least Quickening
of the perceptive powers of the mind.
or the finer feelings and sentiments nf
our common nature, in any man, alter
being fumed in the smoke or Steeped
in the juice oi tobacco *
That a man may retain his mulish
obstinacy, his dogged ambition. &C.,
is not to bo doubted: bul thai all
the liner feelings anil mine ctherial
attributes ofhis nature are blunted and
deteriorated must yet be an open ques-lioil.
Tobacco ehewers have often told me
that they throw «fi from a pint to B
quart of saliva each day. Now can
the glands and secretory vessels bear
or stand such an unnatural action with
impunity' Is not their vital func-tions
impaired and the way made easy
for the approach ofnumerous diseaws!
Is not the entire nervous system
often ruined and turned topsytnrvj by
the excessive habit ol chewing and
smoking tobacco?
Is it ever useful as a medicine? If ;o.
let me appeal to every sou of Galen
if he Knows of nothing in bis whole
.•.Iatcria.Medica.lli.it will answer the
same purpose without invading the
sanctity of the parlor, the steam ■«>'■ t.
or therail-car with thai dreadful *•■• • eh,
which is known to kill the honey be*
instantly, and from which i very j«i id-raped
recoils in dLsgu i.
1 am aware thai i: is at tempti «i to
draw-an argumetil in its favor fiom
the fact of its almost universal u-prove
that it comes iu opportune
supply some lateut want or di
of our nature.
This hypothesis cannot bo allowed,
without further, and better pi oof: the
bare conjecture of the existence of
such a want caunoi be allow© I in this
discussion.
.Nature's wants daring tlio progress
of our bodies in maturity aie limited
to such nutriment as can beeufcliorated
into bone and muscle: after th o sys-tem
is matured, she only de uands
nourishment, and such p.-ibttiu in as
will replenish or indemnify the vital
powers for the wastage, throng! the
numerous secretions ol tin- both. Nor
From the Payetteruie 1'ivahyieriau.
Till". STATE I'NIYERSITY.
The State University at Chapel Hill
opened as per advertisement on the
.'Id instant without a single student
from abroad. After a few days a Mr.
Wilder from Wake county arrived, but
HI finding exactly how matters stand
hoic, he remained only three days.
The people aud press of North Caro-lina
iiave exhibited a singular forliear-ance
and reticence on the subject of
their University and its treatment at
the hands of the State authorities. So
much ho hcarauccaud so much reticence
that iu the opinion of some, it ceased
to be a virtue on her part, partaking
rather of her constitutional supineness
and slowness and phlegm.
Perhaps, however, it was well to say
nothing—but mail and »«e. At any
rate il cannot be charged that enemies
to the Government prevented the suc-cess
of its measures by violence aud
cvil-spenking beforehand.
As a general rule it ought to be un-derstood
that a man's poliiics should
have nothing whatever to do with his
eligibility to place in a Literary insti-tution.
If the nian lie able,—a good
scholar and a good teacher, likely to
reflect honor, to attract pat i image, and
to do good, let him IK- elected by all
means. A literary man should haw
sense and tact enough to prevent his
peculiar political prejudices from being
offensive to his colleagues and asso-ciates.
That done, he may vote as he
pleases,—keeping clear of newspaper
articles meanwhile.
That the Executive Committee of the
Board of Trustees of our University
chose to select the new Faculty from a
strict!v "Radical" point of view.--
though provoking enough of course to
-Conservatives"—would not have Men
iu itself, strictly speaking', a ettaM
belli. The point is that they positively
ottered an affront to every intelligent
and educated man in the Slate, to
every man who, having been educated
id Chapel Hill himself, naturally felt
: to
to
as if he had a right to have his sons
educated there, by putting at the head
of so venerable and respeotoMa an In
stitul .ou a bodj ot men so far below
par iu their attainments, antecedents
aud associations.
Prof. Mclvcr. late of Davidson Col
i ge. is the only man in the new Facnl
v i.i bcexcepted from this estimate—
SOUTHERN LAND PROSPECTS.
There isa renewed and sharp inquiry
respecting Southern lands. And it is
not without reason. The cotton crop
has In-en gum I. and. in particular local--
ities. and under use of judicious fcr-tilli/
ei>. enormous.
Sugar is offering promise—under the
present tariff, and the Cuban dillicul-ties,
which must surely end in Cuban
emancipation—of a golden harvest.
Good tobiicco was never in livelier
demand; the wheat of the high regions
of the Caroliuas and Georgia never
more appreciated; the fruit crops neve*
more ready for sa'e: ami the lumber
and turpentine of Southern pine lands
are moving Northward as fast sis ves-scls
can lake cargo.
Beat of all. those who sin-most nearly
interested in the result are mating
themselves in heabiilul earliest with
the short-lived difficulties of the new
avsteni of freed la.ior. ami are begin
IlingtO see behind those difficulties the
promise ofa surerwealth and of greatly
diminished anxieties.
Never was discussion iu the South
more urgent and pointed iu respect to
to new fertilizers and new methods of
culture, and never l.sis thai discussion .
borne larger fruit ill agricultural prac-tice.
\\p find wiioie pages iu Ihe
Southern agricultural journals lilted
with detailed accounts of successful
experiments with the various concett
trated fertilisers. Ni wand labor-saving
implements are supplanting old and
cumbrous ones.
Only the rice culture lags behind.—
This by reason of the neglected stsito
of rice-fields at the close of the war.
and by the necessity for greater money
ed capital to pie dykes,and gates, aud
held in proper trim, sis well as, in
some degree, by leasoii of the dread
ol" the exposures demanded for its
culture. But the same ihoughlful at-tention
which is increasing so hugely
the yield of coiiou upon ;i given area
will soon determine methods of doing
away the exposures that have been
thought incident to the cultivation Of
lit*. Anil we Iiave a strong faith that
the alluvial lands of the Caroliuas and
of Georgia, which are capable of pro
dueing the best rice in the world, will,
within a few years, reach more than
their old values, and produce even
more than their old average oferops.
Even now, there arc planters along
the coast who. by dint ol persistent
personal attention, and a resolute ac
ceptauce ot the new order of labor,
have realized more under the new iya
tent than ever under the old. Kveqr
sane man " ill rejoice iu such result as
the harbinger oi the better days which
must soon dawn.
Northern capitalists hsive through
the winter mouths been prospecting
in the high lands of the South, with a
view to the establishment of large
manufactories | and we learn thai some
ol mammoth dimensions are even uon-under
contract. There is unoccupied
water-power iu this most healthful dis
trict of the world, which invites such
enterprise.
The upper country of Georgia and
the Caroliuas will grow such pettchea
as cau be grown nowhere else. <iur
| half hardy grapes of the North thrive
i like natives iu Tennessee and South
em Alabama : and coming Northward,
there are wheat lards along the .lames
and the Sl.ciiandoah which more than
rival the garden of tin. Genesee.
American energy will never allow
such opportunities to lie legleeled.—
>o prejudice, no bitter remembrsuiosa.
no miasmatic phantasm, no inaptitude
of present working force, can stand
lung in tin- way of Buch development
of every fertile region of the South as
shall ensure agricultural successes
more brilliant than the Smith has ever
vet known.— Hearth und Home.
lit only one whose appointment is even
a decent one. Of Air. Pool, the new
lVcsidont. it is not ms-esssiry to say a
w nil. A man. as Gov. Swain used tc
say. «'f" exceeding small Isire." One Unitmrity of I'irglni-i.—1 here are
look s»t this dull stud solemn little per- 4">- students at the Iniv. I.-.IV of V ir-s.
ui would be enough to satisfy thelgiuia: I.aw students, 110; medical.—
most incredulous and sanguineoptimist I The States represented are: Virginia,
that his appointment was more than a 1175; Maryland, 43; Alabama, 38;
,;ime, it was a blunder. As to l'rof. \ North Carolina. "7 ; Georgia,34; Miss-
Brewer, no matter what his attainments | issippi. 30; Tennessee, l»j Texas, 1..;
might be. the fact that be had been for i South < 'arolina, 13 ; Kentucky, 11!;
I si year or two st teacher iu the Raleigh
negro
I !>'
school and an habitual associate
jf his pupils then-, that fact alone made
will it mend the argument to say- that; i,;s election to the Greek Professorship
nature metis the aid of juch ft itiau ib's' at Chapel Hill an insult to the State,— j aquil. 1, Ecuador, I.
Louisiana,?; West Virginia, 7; Mis
sonri, ">: Florida. I: Arkansas. 1:
District of Columbia. 3; New Ynrk..fc
Illiuois, 'df Californiai li v»hio. liGuay-