many theories vanish, so many evil-doers themselves he set forth

the character and consequences of their conduct in their true light. Yet in inflicting punishment he oftenest recommended that which appealed to the gratitude and better feelings of the culprit, if he had any. Repentance and reformation was what he sought, not merely the getting rid of the offender, nor the striking terror into the hearts of all who should hear of him.

prophecies never become history, that he wisely became cautious respecting alledged discoveries, and slow of belief concerning new announcements. In such cases he was calm while others were excited, and patiently waited for the developments of the future, while others were crazy with the prognostications of the present. So then when others prophecied coal enough to melt the solid earth, or copper enough to "copper and copper fasten" all creation, or gold enough to buy out Australia and California, or announced Aluminium as about to revolutionize our domestic economies, or promised to displace the Newtonian explanation of the Solar System, Dr. Mitchell taught his pupils that they must at times turn a deaf ear to the charmer, charm he ever so sweetly. The science that he thus disseminated through the country was remarkably free from dross, and the principles he inculcated such as are conservative while they are truly and permanently progressive. As a disciplinarian Dr. Mitchell acted according to the old maxim "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." But when his constant and selfdenying vigilance failed in its aim, he always leant to the side of mer-ergy and vigilance as a College cy even while most decided and firm. He was naturally of a quick temper and lively imagination, and so would often express himself to the subjects of college censure in very strong language. To the

That Dr. Mitchell showed faults as well as great virtues, in all the relations he fulfilled to his fellowmen, no one should deny. They were patent to all who associated with him. To those who did not associate with him it is not worth while to introduce them, for they should not be imitated. To those who knew, as well as to those who did not know Dr. Mitchell, we would present only the excellencies of his character and work while on this earth. To all men every where we would most earnestly recommend his constant recognition of the power and Godhead of JEHOVAI, and his immediate submission to God's authority in all matters of conscience, his immense acquisitions and great caution as a man of Science, his patience and forbearance as a teacher, his en

officer, his cheerful obedience and ready cooperation as a citizen, his abounding charity and unostentatious liberality as a neighbor, his faithfulness and promptness as a friend, his affectionate carefulness

and untiring industry as the head full exposition of God's holy lawof a family, his unfeigned faith as as an ambassador from the Most a Christian, and his fearless and High.

P.

THE EAST AND THE WEST.

but we are sorry to see these powerful engines for good or for evil, too often lending their aid to prejudice still more the people of the East and the West against each other. While every one must sce that this non-community of feeling between the different members of our State has kept one vein of her life blood constantly flowing into Virginia, and another into South Carolina.

Our Eastern legislators are often more ready to vote for works of

Among the many works of improvement, either undertaken or completed, which are steadily developing the resources and advaneing the prosperity of our State, there is one great work which neither private enterprise nor public legislation has even attempted, I mean the establishment of a proper community of feeling between the Eastern and Western sections of our State. In fact our legislators, so far from attempting to heal this non-community of feeling, have from time to time, improvement that will tend to inbeen instrumental in widening the breach and strengthening the existing prejudices. Various railroads have been projected, some completed, but these have failed to wipe out this line of difference between the East and West. The fable of the members of the human body strikingly illustrates the sad effects of a want of unity among the different members, and clearly proves that without unity of feeling and unity of interest whether in the human body or the body politic, there can be no prosperity. We might naturally look to the power and influence of the Press to harmonize and unite the discordant members of our State;

jure the West, than for those calculated to benefit her; while our Western legislators are too ready to lend their aid to works that tend to impoverish the East. If our Western friends can build a rail road that will in some degree benefit themselves-enable them to run their productions to the ports of South Carolina and Virginia, you find them eager to engage in the enterprise; although at the same time they are well aware that there is an abundance of vessels in our Eastern ports rotting for the want of employment and that their Eastern neighbors will be compelled to send "North" for those very articles which they are

running off through the ports of empire of human interests, and other States. And if our Eastern qualify them to dignify and elefriends can construct any work vate whatever trust may be comthat will enable them the more mitted their care. He holds in easily to import Northern hay, his hands as it were the distaff flour, onions, cabbage, butter, &c., and spins out for rising generations and which work will at the same the thread of their moral and intime prevent their Western neigh- tellectual being. Their guardianbors from finding a home market ship both for the present and the for these very articles of a superior future is his; and while a just apkind and that too of their own pro-preciation of the responsibilities of duction, you find them singing a his station and a proper exercise of jubilee over their so called triumph. his power and influence over the Now it is not our purpose to reflect upon any Eastern or Western work of improvement, either completed or in progress of completion; but we do desire to look to some influence that will root up sectional prejudice and unite the interests of our whole State. In looking around for such an influence, it was uppermost in our mind, that our State Association of Teachers, if properly conducted and attended by the friends of education from all parts of the State, has more power to promote unity and good feeling throughout the whole State, than legislators or the Press, or in fact than all other influences combined. The teacher has it in his power to mould and discipline the minds of the young almost at pleasure. It is no less a part of his power than a part of his duty, to preserve and cultivate that inborn sense of true honor and dignity, truth and modesty, to implant in them principles of true religion and pure morality, to send them forth from school in a fitstate to act well their part in the great

youthful mind will surely lead to results the most desirable and the most beneficial; ignorance or an absence of the proper feeling will as surely lead to injury which no lapse of time, no healing power can wholly repair. By exerting upon the pliable minds of the young a proper influence he may educate them to live up to the true dignity of man's nature and become the pillars of intelligence and true greatness; or from an abuse of his privileges and a disregard or an ignorance of his cares and his duties, he may give a wrong impulse to their actions in subsequent life. Although the young, while moved by the headstrong and impulsive feelings of youth, may reject or lightly esteem the teachings of their instructors, yet manhood will almost surely bring back, strengthen and perpetuate those teachings, and that too of whatever kind they may be. The wisdom and expericnce of age, the evidence of their own eyes, may often show them that they have been improperly instructed in youth, yet, even

then, these indelible impressions | era in our State's history will beof youth exercise a kind of secret gin. and magic influence over their actions, clouding their judgment and blinding their eye.

Some may ask, what good will come of boys free from Eastern or Western prejudices? But one How important then that our moment's reflection must teach any teachers should freely mingle to- one that these very boys will, in a gether, know each other well, and few years, be the law-makers and make themselves thoroughly ac- rulers of our State. An ignorance quainted with every part and par- of our people of particular localicel of their State; but still more ties, of the character and resources important that they should divest of the State as a whole, is the great themselves of everything like sec- barrier to a perfect community of tional prejudices. In this point of feeling and interest. Our Western view they should know no Eastern friends grow up too much with the Carolina, no Western Carolina, but notion that the East is a nation North Carolina as a whole State u- composed of niggers,' half-starved, nited in feeling and interest. Good half-clad and worked to death, of instructors by no means confine pale, pine-smoked, white born pautheir teachings to recitations from pers, living on fish and "huckletext-books, nor even to the priciples berries," and of rich, pround, oplaid down in text-books, but are pressive Nabobs, whose only god fond of instructing by public lec- is money and whose only pleasure tures on general subjects, or by is the wine cup. While our Eastprivate conversations well calculat-ern friends are much of the notion ed to amuse, instruct and impress that the West is a nation of semithe minds of their pupils. Now if our Eastern and Western teachers, by conversation or otherwise, will so mould and discipline the minds of their pupils as to bring them up free from sectional bias, to bring them up but true North Carolinians, (not Eastern men or Western men), they will effect a great good which the wisdom of our legislators and the influence of a free press, for the last seventy-five years, have been unable to accomplish, or more properly speaking, they will destroy what these other influences have rather served to perpetuate and strengthen; and a new

barbarians, destitute of good breeding, politeness and everything else like refinement, living in the woods and subsisting on roots and berries.

S. H. W.

(To be continued.)

When the Roman poet was told by a phlegmatic friend to mind his own business, and not to meddle in other men's affairs, he made the immortal reply-"I am a man and whatever relates to my fellowcreatures also touches me."

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NORTH-CAROLINA

THE BIBLE AS A SCHOOL BOOK.

It seems to the writer that the inspired volume is commended as a School Book by more numerous and weighty arguments than can be brought forward in favor of any other.

udice, and the curtain of darkness have been drawn! But this is digressing. Now the writer affirms that such a mind can be interested, and consequently instructed by the inspired volume when the 1. Every good teacher knows ordinary Common School Readers that one of the first conditions of have failed to do it. Whilst it is a good School Book, is that it be true that strength of intellect and interesting, for mental application human learning are valuable auxof the simplest and most transient iliaries in its conprehension, yet it kind is naturally distasteful and is among its excellencies and dedifficult to a young person who monstrations of divine power that has not as yet been, decidedly it compels attention, stimulates brought under the influence of examination, enforces respect and instruction and the laws of moral imparts knowledge consciously inmind. In such a mind there is a long and painful conflict between the internal effort to become interested and instructed and the external distractions of the senses of sight, and hearing, and the thoughts thereby engendered. Such a poor, helpless untutored mind is insensible to the beauties of style, appeals of reasoning, eloquence of passion and fascinations of fiction, as a blind man is to the transit of the successive scenes of a beautiful landscape athwart the pupil of his eye. The eye and the object were there but there was no impression-the Solar ray pass-Testament, especially that unequaled through the daguerrean tube but the plate was not receptive. Inconsistent human sympathies! There are many who weep for the blind of an eye, who have no tear to shed for those who are blind of mind, over which the film of prej

dependently of the will, inclination and seasons of convenience. The stories, many of the historical narratives and descriptions, the moral lessons of proverbs and the parables of Scripture have generally been acknowledged by qualified judges to be of unequalled excellence in arresting and fixing the attention of the young. To particularize, the first chapters of Genesis, the story of Joseph, the Exodus, the stories of Samuel, Elijah and Elasha, David, Daniel, Esther, the three Hebrew children, Jonah, the parables of the New

led one of the prodigal son, and the last chapter of Revelation have a charm, an interest and impressive power independent of the accidents of age, education and mental inequality; but they exercise the greatest influence and fascina