Alpheus Felch, LL. D.

-Kditob of the Akqus- í notioe in your last issue that Bowdoin College, Minne, at lts reeent Commeucement conferred upon our distiuguished townsman, Hon. Alpheus Felch, the degree oï LL. D., an honor most worthily bestowed as every Citizen of his ndopted State will ailmit. Gov. Felch graduated in the olass of 1827, ülty years sinse. Among his classmates and cotemporary with him in college we fiud a singular array of nainus which will forever, to a greater or less extent, adorn the amials of American history. Conspicuous among them, as men of letters and culture, and whose fame is world-wide, are the names ot Henry W. Longfelluw and Nuthaniel Hawthorne. In the same class, 1825, are also tbe names of Frauklin Pierce and Bev. George B. Cheever, D. D. In the class of 1823 we fiud the name of William F. Fessendeu. A year or two later the clebrated authors, Jacob and John S. C. Abbot, graduated. In the class of 1S26 is the name of Sargent S. Pientiss, the celebratedMississippi orator aud lawyer. ExSenator James W. Bradbury, of Maine, who was in the Senate six years with Gov. Felch' was also in college with him ; John F. Hale, also in the Senate with him, was his classmate. Prof. Caivin Stowe was also a classmate; Johu Cleveland, soiaewhat less knowu but for many years a distinguished lawyer in the city of New York aud author of law works ou real estáte, was also in college with him. I doubt if any American college ever bad within its walls at one time the same uumber ot men who achieved anytbing like the reputation in after Itfe as those above meutioued. All were New England men, and with three or four exceptions were natives of Maine. Qot. Feleh was in the Senate from 1847 to 1853, and while a member of that body there were eighfe or uiue Senators wlio with himself received their academical education at the same school, - Philips Aeademy, Exeter, New Hampshire. Among thera were Daniel Vebster_ Lewis Cass (who was a native oí Exeter), John A. Dix, John P. Hale, and J. W. Bradbury. trov. Felch is a native of Maine, emigrated to Michigan ' in 1833, was one of its early Governors, and the State that has houored him has been equally honored by hun.