For the North Carolina Standard
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For the North Carolina Standard.
Mr.. HOLDEN: We avail ourself of the columns
of your extensively circulated paper 10 inform the
public that article which appeared in your last
under the signature of "Oxygen' was intended not
as burlesque on, but as faithful mirror of that
great era n our literary Republic-the approach
ing commencement. The approximation OF which
eventfu epoch awakened such ecstatic feelings in
the bosom Of your former correspondent, that i'm
aenaton was distanced, he leaped into the
bouDdless plain of perspective enjoyment. 1t is
universally thought here that some Senior affected
by the glorious thought of speedy emancipation
has been guilty of mounting Pegasas as unruly
as GIlpin's 6Ily, and


ss In his wild career,


Scant reason g wig


Was worn threadbare.'


He has certainly converted this classic spot into the
garden Of the world. His pen has flushed nature
with vegetation, and filled the woods with feather
ed tribes warbling their joyous carols


When Mr.. Editor, individual wishes TO Gre
ate sensation about commencement, ii should not
be done at the expense Of truth. One who would
convert our winiry skies into an Italian canopy,
and these deserted haunts into an universal avl-
ary" oug hit 10 be re-refreshed in the porr of COM
mon sense. When that communications was read
to gaping crowd, a MiLish who priees himself on
being great naturalist, declaimed with vehemence
against that libel upon the sacred groves; the