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Bishop Green.
Cor. of the NEWS AND OBSERVER.

CHAPEL HILL, N. C., March 26.

I have not seen enough said in our
North Carolina papers concerning the
life and death of this excellent gen-
tleman. Bishop Green was a true
North Carolinian, a thorough-bred
gentleman and churchman of the old
school, and though it is nearly forty
years since he accepted the bishopric
of Mississippi, still he never lost a
jot of his love for and pride in his
native state; and he was well loved here
in return. Those who were young
when he went awat and whose heads
are whitening now, recall him fondly
in those days, and tell their children
it was a privilege to have know him.

He was a professor of Belles-Lettres
at the University a number of years,
occupying till 1850 the stately old
mansion which afterwards was the Gov.
Swain's residence till his death, in
1867. HIs second wife, Mrs. Char-
lotte Fleming Green, was one of the
excellent of the earth, a woman of
rare and exquisite delicacy and refine-
ment of mind and person and man-
ner, but with a strength and dignity
under that feminine softness which
made her one to be revered, even in
the bloom of her youth. They car-
ried with them from Chapel Hill a
large and interesting family.

It is given to some people to be inter-
esting themselves not only, but to have
always around them interesting peo-
ple. A romance or two might be
written about some of the members
of that family whom I knew in
Chapel Hill. Excellent neighbors,