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neighboring cottages. The Music Band was playing
during the dinner, and in the intervals between the
speeches which followed in the afternoon. When the
dinner was finished, the guests still retaining their seats,
Bishop Otey arose and said:--

"I feel peculiar pleasure in introducing to you a dis-
tinguished fellow-citizen, whose labors in the cause of
science have crowned his name with honor throughout
the world, and made him, in a measure, the property of
nations. The winds of Heaven and the waves of the sea,
have, by his researches, been made tributary to increase
the facilities of trade to every land and on every sea
where Commerce spreads her sails. I announce to you
the name of Commander Mathew Fontaine Maury."

Lieut. Maury addressed the audience briefly but elo-
quently, and was greeted with applause as he continued.
Speeches were also made by Rev. F. A. P. Barnard,
President of the University of Mississippi, who has con-
secrated his talents and devoted the earnest labors of
his whole life to the development of true principles
of Education, and by Bishop Smith, of Kentucky, and
the Hon. John M. Bright, of Fayetteville.

AT NIGHT.

The visitors and guests were all taken care of by the
attentive Committee of Arrangements, and rooms and
comfortable couches were assigned to all. And thus
passed off the day, harmoniously and delightfully, and
to the entire satisfaction of all interested. The arrange-
ments altogether were admirable, and lasting credit is
due to the efficient management for the agreeable man-
ner with which they prepared for, and received, the vis-
itors. The Executive Committee spared neither pains
nor expense in furnishing supplies for the occasion, and,
we are happy to be enabled to state that their efforts
were crowned with success. Most of the visitors re-
turned to their homes the next morning--delighted with
their excursion, and with the beginning of an under-
taking, the most important ever inaugurated in the

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South, and from which incalculable advantages may be
derived by the Southern people.

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[From the Church Intelligencer.]

A writer in the Nashville Union and American, after
giving an excellent account of the ceremonies which is
in substance the same as the above, gives the following
remarks well worthy of our perusal:

"Thus the 10th of October marks an important epoch
in the educational interests of the South. The laying of
the corner-stone of the building for the proposed Uni-
versity of the south was an event that has been looked
forward to for months with no ordinary interest. The
work has been commenced, and the friends of this great
institution have an earnest in the proceedings of this
day, that it will be prosecuted with all the energy which
those having it in charge can command to its final com-
pletion.

I was agreeably surprised in the appearance of the
summit of the mountain. I had anticipated something
of the rugged appearance that our ideas naturally assoc-
ciate with mountains, instead of which I found "a wide
table land," as an address issued by the Trustees some
two years ago said, "having upon its summit a level
area of from two to twenty miles in width, upon which
a railroad is now running for fifteen miles, and might be
extended for a hundred; upon which stage roads are
made as smooth and easy of grade as any in the middle
counties of South Carolina or Georgia; upon which
farms, county towns and watering places are located,
and which is as well timbered as any part of the coun-
try except the heavy river swamps." Upon this summit
"there spreads out before the eye an area with just
enough undulating to make it picturesque, covered with
large timber, with a rich underbrush of grass, and with
springs of freestone water, yielding four hundred, five
hundred, and in one case one thousand gallons of water
per hour. From this summit the visitor is delighted
with scenes of unsurpassed beauty; with points of the
mountain running in fantastic shapes into the valley,

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