North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-08-02

effort and doznot censure the dulness. teacher
might as we'll scold child for being near-sighted,
as ior being naturally dull. Some children have a
great verbal memory, others quite the reverse.
some minds develop early, others late. Some have
appeared SIT pd. because the true spring of character
mas never oeen touched The Ounce of school may
'uIn OUT In me end the living, progressive, wonder
working genius of the age. In order to exert the
best spiritual influence, must understand the spir-
! upon winch we wish to exert that influence For
with the human mind we must work with nature and
not against it, Like the leaf of the nettle if touch
ed one way, it sngs like wasp; if the other it is
softer than satin. five then would do Justice to the
human mnd' we must find its peculiar characte ris-
tics, and adapt ourselves individual wants. In
Versaon on this point with friend who is the prn-
clpai In one of our best grammar schools, and 10
whose instruction | look back with delight, g Your
REMARKS, said he, are qnite true; let me tell YOU
little incident which bears upon this point Las,
summer, had little girl who was exceedingly be-
hind in all her studies She was at the foot of the d.
VISION and seemed to care but little about her books
1t SO happened that as relaxation, let them times
during school hours unite in singing. noticed that
the girl had remarkably clear, sweet voice, and l
said to her, Jane you have good voice, and you
may lead in the singing She Frightened up and
from that time her mind seemed more active. Her
lessons Were attended to; and she gained high
rank. One day, as l was going home, l overlook
her with school companion. Well, Jane,' said l.
you are getting along very well; how happens it
that you do much better than at the beginning
of the quarter!'
| do not know why it Isl she replied.
know what she told me the other day. said her
companion.
And what was that 2 asked
why she told me she was encouraged.
Yes, here we have it-she was encouraged! She
te she was not dull in everything. She had earned
self-respect, and thus she was encouraged.
Some twelve or thirteen years ago, there was in
the franklin School excessive dull boy One day
the teacher, wishing to look out word, took up the
lads dictionary, and opening it found the blank
leaves covered with drawings. He called the boy
to him.
Did yon draw these 2 said the teacher.
Yes, sir said the boy, with downcast look.
do not think it is well for boys to draw in their
books said the teacher, and would rub these out
if were you; but they are we'll done. Did you ever
take lessons 2
The boy felt he understood. He began to love
his teacher. He became animated and fond of his
books He took delight in gratifying his teacher by
his fahuness to his studies while the teacher took
every opportunity TO encourage him in his natural de-
sIres. The boy became of the first scholars and
gained the medal before he left school. After this
he became an engraver, laid up money enough TO go
to Europe, studied the works of masters sent home
productions from his own pencil, which found place
in some of the best collections of paintings, and he
is now one of the most promising artists of his years
IN the country After the boy gained the medal, he
sent the teacher beautiful picture token of res
pect; and doubt not this day, he feels that teacher
by the udicous encouragement he gave the natural
turn of his mind, has had great moral and spiritual
effect on his character.
MISCELLANEOUS READING BENEFICIAL BOYS.
IelueHlUeI well tndt waiter ScOL, III one Ol HIS
best novels,-Wavery, think it is, is very eloquent
and very emphatic this precise point on the eff
feet, or as he will have it, the grevous mischief, of
letting boy loose, to run riot in library. The lit
tie fellow acquires, he is pleased to tell u.s. all kinds
of wild and desultory habits. He must be expected
AFTER to be impatient of discipline, and enamored,
wilfully and fowardy amored of his random read
ing In general, there is no better judge of men and
motives than this author; he is the familiar genius
the very confessor, of nature, But here, as it
to me he has chosen take his views peIvese
Ely. assert from my own observation, that nothing
is likely to qualify boy for sober reading, and
even for the severer studies, free indulgence of
his Appetite while it is yet rank and undisciplined
in things of fancy. He should be stated with sweets,
like grocers raw apprentice, till he has lost all
yearningness for them. In the intellectual as in the
natural world, heat, at least WARMTH is the very
soul of producveness. This warmth is latent in the
chld's mind, but it may be developed by the aPpli-
cation of such substances it readily catch and
fasten on. Such substances plays, romanceS, and
many other things, all of them mere fripPery to the
man whereas, if you set boy down tc grave, Sc
rous book, put him upon train of abstract reason
ing, sure as he rises, it will be with no other
impression his mind than that of leaden weight.
wearisomeness, and stupidity. If the good people
who were about the author of Waverley in his child
hood had cramped him with the same restraints as he
by the process but fool to plague them for their
pains while the world would have lost-O, what
would it have lost "a spirit warmer, more pene-
trating, and quickening, than any, with one
Self Formation.
TEA IN SOUTH CAROLINA. The Charleston Courier
notices the arrival in that city of Francis Bonynge,
gentleman who has spent fourteen years in the East,
actively engaged in the cultivation and manufacture
of indigo Sugar, Satpetre, Tea and Coffee, and
whose present object is introduce into the South
ern States, the culture of the Tea Plant the Mangoe
Tree, Date Tree, Coffee Plants &c., and the M elons
and vegetables of the East Indies, and TO carry out
the manufacture Of the Tea Leaf and also of the In
digo Plant and to give full and fair trial to both
Tea and Indigo.
Mr.. Bonynae says that the sill and climate Of the
Southern States are suited 10 the cultivation of
Tea than those in China, and that indigo which
was, by-the-bye, formerly produced in the Southern
States can be grown 10 any extent, and that the Coz
fee Plant in all probability would flourish there TO
great advantage, inasmuch the soil and unduating
nature the land would be in its favor, and the cold
of the latitude of Charleston is not intense by thr
teen as that of the of China In fact, Mr. Bonynge
has seen this plant growing wild in NJ latitude 27o
height where, too, there abundance OF frost,
snow, and hail.
PRoGREss OF A Pound COTTON. The foil ow
ing is an account of the travels of pound of manu.
featured American cotton:
The cotton was sent from the United States to
London thence &c Manchester, where it was spun
into warn thence to Paisley, where it woven
next TO Ayrshire, to be tamoured and then to Dunn
barton, where it hand-sewed. 1t then
again sent to Paisley whence it was conveyed to
distant part of Renfrew to be bleached, and then
turned to Paisley. 1t was afterwards sent Glas-
gov and finished; and from Glasgow it taken
to London. From its shipment in America till its
h,uro