of the carolina watchman j t sv o dollars in advanced two dollars and fifty cents . end of tha year . , ' " . ascription received for a less time than one year ' , .. paid for in advance \ , ub.-nption discontinued but at the option of the . .- itor _) until all arrearages are paid terms of advertising , | „-. dollar per square for the first insertion and twenty . fcr each continuance ... notices and court orders will be charged io per „. higher than the above rates faction of 33 1-3 per cent will be made to those , advertise by the year \ a ivertisements will be continued until forbid and j 1 f„r accordingly unless ordered for a certain num j . of times letters addressed to the editors must comedos f]?urc attention from the new york mirror flip following is hy a very distinguished .,, , f genius now in his grave we believe • ras never before published _. rs from the note book op a trav r.ope in the year 1805 visit to iffadame de stael iter a ride of some hours wc turned up a - ist at the entrance of copet and ; i two tore were l iho teat of the great ' . r wc alighted at the gate and mr t sent up a note to madam de stael cx sing our desire to see her in the mean valkod over the grounds the bouse is il situated high with ( lopet and the hike ■ it and in the background mont diane behind after a little court and arbor came a • circular lawn surrounded with trees and j ncd by a small stream which turns a mill some lime we returned to the house and while looking at the pictures in the antc-cham r 1 heard some one say in a lively tone — ah comment vous portez vous monsieur k ." i turned round and saw a lad who k mr k by the hand lie introduced •. and we entered t lie saloon she was a lit plump woman rather short dressed en dis | tbille in a gown with a kind of jacket made ot , nankeen lier face was rough and coarse her hair black eyes and eyebrows of the same col ; or her nose inclining to what we would call | a pug a mouth not gracefully formed hut four teeth and those projecting she was there ! re no beauty ; but her face full of expression j her eyes full of fire and animated countenance ere infinitely more pleasing than mere regu larity of feature we sat down and the con ; vcrsatioii began by a question as to my inten ■ tion of travelling further in switzerland find j ing i was going to paris she asked me to iron ' ble myself with a letter to which i of course : assented we then discussed the news eng lish and french fleets c she observed she j saw thev took our vessels on all sides ac i r nuts have lately appeared of american cap i we now began to talk english which mr k made her speak she did so reluctant iv saying lhat the embarrassment of not speak in"-the language well was one of her objec i us lo visiting england mr k said it fas like i horse in a mill — one had a certain l utinc a certain circle out of which we would not stir she observed lhat we always said what we could and not what we would mr j k asked if she had gibbon's posthumous i doles in the house she answered no he isked whether she thought they contained more inglicisms in his french or gallicisms in his english it appearing to him that his french was hotter than his english she said she had ' ' seen them lately but her impressions was ; lhe french wanted *' cotdeiir and that in efforts to be correct he had been correct on ! it without obtaining ease or grace mr k mentioned a book of travels a | fill . ,: ago written in french by an englishman she expressed g:veat curiosity to : he promised to send it to her mr t — then remembered there was a question fhicli he wished her to put to monsieur cha '.. who hadjusl left geneva it was • at particular virtue christianity had added to ihose already known she said that she would bswcr thut it bad added mildness — cjiarify ; '•'■' : ad made woman's condition better i n 1 1 thought it had offered more induce ents to virtue the rewards being greater lhan in the heathen system she replied that it had required more to be effected lhan those of chris lianity which were wholly spiritual than of pa f-in which were material we then talked f the condition of religion in america site ught i'u ■ american government perfect in its conduct toward religion aud approved of the ' e which 1 mentioned existed in some states if requiring of their officers a belief in god md in a future state of rewards and punish seats these being great cardinal points and :: •■' rest mere matters of opinion "»\ ith regard to the influence of christiauity she said she had iven her sentiments in one of her books to ii she referred us she said they were 4ere before monsieur chateaubriand had pub kbed his ue expressed them better than she kddone but he had borrowed the ideas f.om ; - : j 1 asked lhe name of her work she be t'nto tell me iu english but not going on flu * '■•■}■ ihe laughed at the idea of not knowing of her own book ; and gave me the wjch title » influence do la literature c v ->" has very c irrect idea about america and ' 5a groat admirer of our government and more y of mr jefferson we talked of her - jun g s»n jj_o\v in paris whom she wishes to nd to e inbuigh i asked her how she came prefer an english education for him she swered that she thought it best that for wo j*n there were certain graces peculiar to but to mak men emphasising the 0r d she thoueht tbe english superior and ■ u,s;r , she added confirm me in my opinion , r ' k ba id that america was a young en and - madam de stael laughed and replied 7 england thought so and called herself — jd england she bad just finished ros '! life of lee x with which she was much the carolin a watchman bruner & james ) > " keep a check upon all yccr editors fy proprietors v l3 safe - . new series b ™~ szssit . number 44 of volume i salisbury n c march 1 1845 pleased he was quite aufctk in italtan liter ature we spoke of lier going to paris from which she is exiled she docs not like gene va the house in which she lives where her family have resided " die amie daulonreusc ' ment after further conversation we rose to lake our leave wc had been speaking of chateaubriand then at lyons she said she was writing to him and if i wished would add a line of introduction she followed us to the antechamber and af i ter many oolite expressions ended with acom plim .; i french ah said she mr k it a young frenchman had made the sa te observations to me that mr biddle has i should have embraced him and made him my best friend on our return i read marmontel's account of necker's family in which he calls mdlle de stacl " une aim able clour die mr iv had seen a good deal of xecker who died last year he had a high opinion of amer ica and was sorry we had bought louisiana though he considered any thing belter than french neighbors he thought we were too large with il and that the natural course of things would be as heretofore — we would quar rel divide and at length end in a despotism in speaking of mdle de stael k men tioned that she is not much liked in geneva be in ven unpopular among women whom she takes no pains to please regarding only men to whom in society she addresses all her conver sation society for the encourage ment of medicine this is a small but very select society composed of physicians surgeons and ge neral practitioners its object is the mu tual comparison so to speak it of notes for general edification it meets once a week at the house of each member in ro tation at the last meeting — the chair was taken by dr ilookie at the head of his own tea-table the wor thy chairman with a cup of hyson in his hand begged to propose as a toast suc cess to practice drunk unanimously the secretary mr jones then stated that i\ir baggs would with permission of the society relate an interesting case — tilt patient was an elderly lady eeleitis 05 her complaint was a sinking at the stomach accompanied by a singing in the ears together with a nervous affection described by herself as " alloverishness he mr baggs had the disorder debili tas and tinnitus aurium — ordered phil mica panis crums of bread box one three pills to be taken every night and a sixteen ounce mixture composed of tine cardamoms comp drachms ten syrup : simp : ounce : two and the rest aqua water three table spoonfuls three times a dav tiie patient had been two months under treatment — expresses her self to have been done a world of good — but should like to go on with the medi cine he mr baggs considered that he had been very lucky in his patient and only hoped he might have many such a member here suggested the proprie ty of drinking her health no no laugh ter anothermemberthought that mr baggs had made a good thing of it mr baggs rather flattered himself that he had he had charged " iter each vi sit f-s besides medicine and he had seen the case daily the same member wished if it was a fair question to know what might have been the prime cost ol the drugs .' mr baggs said that the tincture in each bottle he should think was about three pence-halfpenny and the syrup perhaps three farthings the aqua was an insig nificant traction of the rate on that fluid as was the panis ofthe baker's bill oiie member considered that a few pow ders now and then might have been sent in another would have applied an em plastrum picis to the epigastrium it would have been 3s mr baggs thought that a little moder ation was sometimes as well the society generally agreed with him dr dunham brown then recounted an instructive case of gout occurring in an alderman he had been in attendance on him for a twelve-month and had taken on an average three fees a week the chairman next read a valuable pa per f)n professional appearance in which he strongly recommended black gaiters a discussion ensued respecting lhe ad vantages of spectacles in procuring the confidence of patients at its conclusion the chairman inquired who was for a game of whist ? several members an swering for themselves in the affirmative cards were introduced the society se parated at a respectable hour — punch to prevent woolen goods from shrinking after washing them in hot water immerse them in cold water then wring and hang them to dry by eli harris at richf ork davidson c'ty tf c on the great stage road from north to south and south west — fight miles north of lexington , and 27 s w of greensboro i common school system of massachusetts extracts irom the first annual report of the hon horace mann secretary of the massachusetts board of education competency of teachers — another com ponent element in ihe prosperity of schools is the competency of teachers teaching is the most difficult of ail arts and the profound oat of all sciences in its abso lute perfection it would involve a com plete knowledge ofthe whole being to be taught and ofthe precise manner in which every possible application would affect it that is a complete know-ledge of all ers and capacities oflhe individual with their exact proportions and relations to each oiher and a knowledge how at any hour or moment to select and apply from a universe of means the one then exactly , apposite to its ever-changing condition — hut in a far more limited and practical sense it involves a knowledge ofthe prin cipal laws of physical mental and moral growth and of ihe tendency of means not more to immediate than to remote results hence to value schools by length instead of quality is a matchless absurdity arith metic grammar and the other rudiments : as they are called comprise but a small part of the teachings in a school the rudiments of feeling are taught not less than the rudiments of thinking the sen timents and passions get more lessons than the intellect though their open recita ! lions may be less their secret rehearsals are more and even in training the in tellect much of its chance of arriving in after life at what we call sound judgment lor common sense much of its power of perceiving ideas as distinctly as though , ' they were colored diagrams depends up j '. on the fact and philosophic sagacity of the teacher he has a far deeper duty to j ! perform than to correct the erroneous re ] ' suits of intellectual process the error j ; in the individual case is of little conse j quence it is the false projecting power j : in the mind — the power which sends out j | the error — that is to be discovered and i i rectified otherwise the error will be re : '• peated as often as opportunities recur it j j i.s no part ofa teacher's vocation to spend day after day in removing the hands on j the dialplate backwards and forwards in order to adjust the machinery and the re gulator so that they may indicate the ; ; true time ; so that they may be a standard \ and measure for other things instead of i needing other things as a standard and measure for them yet how can a teach , erdo this if lie be alike ignorant of the : ; mechanism and the propelling power of the machinery he superintends '. the law lays its weighty injunctions upon teachers in the following solemn and impressive language it shall be the duty of all instructors of youth to exert their best endeavors to impress on the ! minds of children and youth committed i to their care and instruction the princi \ j pies of piety justice and a regard to truth : love to their country humanity and uni \ versal benevolence sobriety industry and frugality chastity moderation and tcm | perance and those other virtues which ; i are the ornament of human society and ; the basis upon which a republican consti '. tulion is founded and it shall be the duty of such instructors to endeavor to had i their pupils as their ages and capacities | will admit into a clear understanding of the tendency ofthe above mentioned vir tues to preserve and perfect a republican constitution and secure the blessings of liberty as well as to promote their future happiness and also to point out to them the evil tendency ofthe opposite vices mora instruction — among the pagan greeks the men most venerated for their wisdom their platos and socrates were the educators of their youth our teach ers address themselves to the culture of the intellect mainly the fact that chil dren have moral natures anc social affec tions then in the most rapid state of de velopment is scarcely recognised one page of the daily manual teaches the com mas ; another the spelling of words an other the rules of cadence and emphasis ; but the pages are missing which teach the laws of forbearance under injury of sym pathy with misfortune of impartiality in our judgments of men of love and fidelity to truth : of the cver-during relations of men in the domestic circle in the organ ized government and of stranger to stran ger how can it be expected that such cultivation will scatter seeds so that in the language of scripture instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree and in stead oflhe brier shall come up the myr tle tree v if such be the general condi tion of the schools is it a matter of sur prise that we see lads and young men thickly springing up in the midst of us who startle at the mispronunciation of a word as though they were personally in jured but can hear vollies of praianity unmoved ; who put on arrogant airs of superior breeding or sneer with contempt at a case of false spelling or grammar but can witness spectacles of drunkenness in the streets with entire composure such elevation of the subordinate such casting down of the supreme in the education of ! children is incompatible with all that is worthy to be called the prosperity of their manhood the moral universe is con \ structed upon principles not admissive of ' welfare under such an administration of its laws in such early habits theie is a j gravitation and proclivity to ultimate downfall and ruin if persevered in the consummation of a people's destiny may still be a question of time but it ceases to be one of certainty to avert the catas trophe we must look to a change in our own measures not to any repeal or sus pension of the ordinances of nature tl:ese as they were originally framed need i:o amendment whoever wishes forachange in effects without a corresponding change in causes wishes for a vic::_._g of nature's laws he proposes as a remedy for the fully of men a abrogation cf the wi5dom of providence svdxky rigdox one of the mormon el ders who has separated from the saints and commenced the publication of a magazine at pittsburg makes some terrible disclosures in the january number of his periodical the brotherhood cf fanatics have according to his account of the matter been even more steeped in guilt of the most loathsome character than thev have heretofore been charged with the elder says their domestic arrangements were upon a scale of almost unbounded licen tiousness polygamy of more than turkish liberality bas obtained not only among the deni zens of the holy city itself but the " spiritual wife " system has extended to all the branches of the brotherhood the saints in this city philadelphia boston c have all been called upon to practice its rules to immense extent — and whenever any reluctance has manifested it self — any scruples of remonstrances urged a gainst the tbnl and revolting system — they have been silenced by the thunders of authority and the disgusting practices enforced without mercy everyone says elder rigdon who was known to be opposed to this system if he or she could not be won over or made to succumb by threats was excluded and their characters as saiied in a most outrageous manner in order to destroy their influence that iheir testimony might not be believed such disclosures as this will have no effect we suppose in break ing up these nests of pollution ; but they will go on people will still run alter these creatures and it will still be considered " persecution " to speak of them as they deserve ; nay alto gether inconsistent with lhe " spirit of the nine teenth century to punish them for their abomi nations ; though we think as it seems to us c\e:iy high-minded man and woman in the coun try will think that these atrocious sinners should at once be made to answer before the legal tri bunals for their transgressions if this sidney rigdon knoics what be charges upon the mor mons he ought to be made at once to give evi dence against them and the delinquents be promptly made to suffer for their crimes — a 1 . courier and enquirer tarbokough fkbkcaky 15 the disease — since our notice two weeks since of the fatal disease which raged in the family of mr james ellinor in this county his negro woman cain hammonds a free negro man living with him and the wife of benjamin anderson have died with the same disease — making seven deaths in all — eli parker james ellinor and wile their cook and hammonds five at mr eliinor's house — edward g thomp son in this place who attended mr parker and caught the disease from him — and mrs ander son living near there who visited the family the others that were attacked have recovered or are convalescent the disease is slill vari ously designated as st anthony's fire black tongue a:c we are informed by our physi cians that there is now no case of it in the coun ly.—press sickness in arkansas — an ex.ract of a letter dated 21st ult from a gentleman in the neighborhood of mount vernon st francis county arkansas published in the little rock banner says '• since my return home our part of the country has been visited by oneof the most awful mortalities that i have ever experi enced at least one-seventh of our popu lation have been swept off in a few weeks i cannot attempt to describe the disease it i.s ofthe most fatal kind — more dreadful even than the cholera ! our physicians know nothing of it and do not pretend lo give it a name but i have reason to he thankful that in the midst of disease and death a kind providence has so far pre served me and mine in good heahh we'll never drink again air — " nevek fart again tis rood dear friends to sign the pledge that sets the drunkard free — come join the happy happy band wherever they may be chorus we're marching to the field of etrile to irive the dyin drunkard life ; let temp ranee the , triumphant reign and never let us uraik again one voice what never drink again 7 au — no never dri again — one voice what never drink again ? all — no never drink again : let temp'iance then triumphant reign and never let us drink again ! weep not dear chiitren weep no more weep not thou loving wife ; the father and the husband lost is now restored to life we're marching te behold the bright array of men united in the cause that thousands of the human race around its standard draws we're marching tc the temperance banner and the pledge by us shall be unfiiri'd and it shall be our pride and boast to wave it to the world ! : we're marching fcc cm i estmnttemee of tie new york express washixctox feb 13 thursday evening president polk's reception — well — polk has come " mr polk " james k polk james knox polk president polk and " polk the president l at half past six the roaring of cannon from capi tol hill fold lhe citizens of washington and neighborhood that it was even so — the intelligc nee was brought bv telegraph that the jus now great si lion of the coun try was on his tray having landed at the relay house some thirty miles from the city this telegraphic despati h was soon told lo the people by some of the big guns of ■■ uncle sam nn 1 since then vou can hear nothing but " polk " polk '" polk *' polk i the event has been expected through the day the most prominent signal has been the floating of the - polk and dallas flag from the great slave-pen of the city and from the same misnomer of a liberty pole from whence it floated through the whole of the presidential campaign the city presents a busy and interesting spectacles pennsylvania avenue is lined with new faces tiie hotels are full and overrunning each of them ailing almost a long page of names a day and parlors and attic stories being turned into bed rooms the boarding houses which have been unusually vacant during the session are beginning to lili up and will be full by the fourth of march mr polk will find friends here that he never dreamed of some who are already upon the ground look as lean as cassias others with ■ spec tacle on nose and pouch on side look like some judases who having betrayed their friends now cany the bag to get the re ward of betrayal now and then you see one like " the fat boy " of maine " with fair round belly and capon lined looking as though he had been well fed from the public crib but had a stomach capacious enough to hold more more however re semble in appearance the sixth of the seven ages of man and would pass for the justice " wit eye severe an i ',• mrd of formal cur full of wise saws an a_oden instances ;" '• lean and slippered pantaloons the picture has some life in it and the loco foeos are as merry and frolicksome as school boys going to play and expect ing they hardly know what the scene here for the next two three or four weeks will be amusing enough there will be obsequious bows and fervent ; grasps of the hand mr polk will be told that he is the greatest man that ever lived ■ in the tide of li_::e and what is more he will believe it ii he is the man he was when in congress all sorts of people will crowd around him and all as troops of friends some for a high place and some for a low one — some few for others and very many for themselves — some to go abroad and some to remain at home — i a few will condescend to take a place in the cabinet and a few more will sacrifice their personal inclinations and interests so far as to lake foreign missions but ma ny officers as there are there are already more applicants than officers patriots will be as plenty as blackberries in sum mer but patriotism i fear as rare as vir tue in a bouse of correction half-pas 7 — the cars are in a young creationof young hickories " are crowd ed around the depot and cider beads are looking on at both ends ofthe city can nons are firing and mr pol has received a noisy if not a cordial welcome to his four years home a national fiag is hung out from coleman's hotel and the president's suite of rooms is there very neatly fitted up to receive him a great many persons have accompanied mr polk to the city but of the many who came how many belong to the travelling suite il is not ea sy to sav the vice president came with mr polk and mr gilpin robert tyler : and others were in ihe cars the scene at the depot when mr polk arrived was rich and racy a committee took charge of mr polk and with music and banners marched to coleman's hotel where a fitint attempt was made at cheer ing mr polk came to the window of his room bowed once twice and thrice and then returned and the crowd left several executive nominations were sent to the senate to-day and it is said that the nomination ol prosper m wet more is p.mong th^m he has had the promise or his friends for him of mr say dam's place the house will probably enter upon the consideration of the general appropria tion bills to-morrow in the senate the texas debate will probably continue ten days at least p s m -. a v brown of tenn bad charge of mr polk and conducted bim amidst the crowd to the hotel mr dal las the vice president was in the charge of some other member of congress the procession was amusing and the whole scene farcial enough from beginning to end the attempt at cheering was no mere than '• two cheers and a boy to three cheers and mr hammett of miss acted as spokesman for the president at the hotel conspicuous among those who have taken charge of the president be sides a self-constituted committee were dodge of iowa brown of tenn parmen ter of mass sevmour of conn hammett of miss jones of tenn a stray fellow from the empire club occ but enough and enough mr polk ac j ted wisely in arriving here at night had j there been the light oi day shed upon his ! friends he might have been ashamed of ! some among those who claimed the hon i or of being par excellence the representa tives of his friends or perhaps he might have been compelled lo cry aloud save me from my friends i forbear to sketch some of the scenes connected with mr polk's reception — there was neither lack of vulgarity of manners or lowness cl language among 1 some of those who claimed to be the pe culiar friends of lhe president elect e b important from washington our correspondent benezctte says the journal of commerce writes us as fol lows under date of w_isni_tct0je feb is i have this day learned from an un ■ questionable source thai at the time of santa anna's fall a treaty was in progress and nearly consummated for lhe entire cession of california or new mexico to great britain it only being defeated by ihe fall of santa anna it seems iliat pa pers and documents were found on his person when captured confirmatory ofthe fact information ot which has reached our government it tuns appears lhat while england was indirectly opposing the annexation of texas she was at the same time negotiating for the acquisition ofa country still more extensive and val uable san francisco is said to be one ofthe finest bays and safest harbors on the coast of the pacific with the pos session ofthis fine harbor england could control the commerce oi the wh ile coast of the pacific ocean reaching from cali fornia to the possessions of russia it is said that oar government save sus pected some design of this character on the part of great britain for some time past : but never could et holdof any thing tangible on the subject until now this news will necessarily create surprise and attract attention dmong our people i send this off in gnat haste hoping yon will : lose no time in giving it to your readers tiie cabinet the philadelphia ledger's washington correspondent under date of the 1mb in stant says : " i have no doubt in my own mind that the cabinet is now fully determined upon but will not be revealed for reasons of state and other important considerations until near the 4th of march if the infor mation of the new government was now proclaimed every cabinet minister would be inundated with applications and beset with the most annoying importunity every hour till the period of his instalment — ■ from a very credible source i learn that mr buchanan was tendered the depart ment of state on saturday which was confirmed at a special interview and ac cepted this morning there are also some indications that mr walker will bo invi , ted to the treasury if the first appoint ' meul is made the other seems more thatj probable correspondence of the bait american washixgtox feb 20 1845 the president gave out about 1,500 in : vi tat ions ior yesterday evening to a fire well ball at which more than 2000 per sons were present : among them howev er but very few \\ big members of con gress the members of the other party were generally present dancing was kept up until two or three hours pasl mid night and the oldest of the government ■ officials took part in the dance the for eign ministers were present nnd officers ofthe army and navy in uniform tho assembly was one ofthe gayest and mer . riest of the season the whigs of new york — the new york correspondent of the national intel ligencer says — the whigs of this city have resolved to rally in their strength at the coming municipal election and re jecting all projects of a coalitii ti to vote for their own men without regard to con sequences no candidates are to be nom inated for their suffrages u ho will not pro mise to withstand all attempts to induce them todccline a perfectly independent course will lie pursued in regard to nomi nations : and if any third parly wishes to influence them it must seek lor it will not be sought jzr l f appears by a statement rccent iv made by m r cave johnson tn the ilou^e of representatives that in a few years past congress has voted aw ay 8687 50 for books to be distributed among the members of lhat body in addition to this sum mr johnson stated that a resolution of the lasl session of this locofoco ( o:i gress be it recollected and let it be under stood that mr c johnson is himself a lea der of that party appropriated 8100,000 more to purchase books including the congressional globe a large proporitoo of these book he declared to be utterly useless why then were they purchas ed ? mr jobnson gives the answer — k the purchase of them seems designed he said to benefit thi printers as much as to inform the members of the house no wonder the editors ofthe globe have within the few years that they have been in washington whither they went the one pennyless and the other a bankrupt become nabobs and millionaires aud that the senior is able to enjoy his country residence as well as his * town hous and to give entertainments so magnificent and costly as to rival in splendor magni ficence and expense those of the europe an nobility ! — lynch virginian