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The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1838-01-12

The Charleston Courier states thai thr
Bank OF Charleston has made an arranpe
ment with one Of The FIRST banking Ins,,,u.
tons IN England, 10 keep direct accoun,
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aud Foreign Exchange from purchasers II
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to importers of Foreign Gnods. TIM, %
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s'defed highly important step towards o
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DREAMS.

The subject of dreams is one Of the prob
lens which continually battle human investi-
CATION. Every one dreams, yet no man solves
the phenomena. Every man is conscious
that the strangest imaginable deviations from
the common things and thoughts of life pass
before him in sleep, yet the most philosophi-
cal are still totally at a loss to discover the
cause, the instrument, or the law of those
most singular, exciting and perpetually recur-
ring motions of the mind All attempts TO
count for them by peculiar actions of the brain
are idle Who can see or know the actual
state of the organ! All attempts to account
for them by association OF ideas are equally
idle. What does any man knoW even of the
nature of that association ! Every theory
which hopes to determine them by external
impulses has equally failed That external
impulses will often influence the dream is no.
torious but this seems to occur only in an i'm
perfect condition of slumber, when the senses
are partly awake. That bodily pain willinnu-
ence them also there is no doubt. Still this Is
an imperfect condition, and on the verge of
waking No theory hitherto accounts for the
SIMPLEST state of the dream--that in which the
mind, mdisturbed by either bodily pain.or ex-
ternal impulse, follows its own free course of
enioyment flies all around the world lives
in the moon, the sun, the stars punges into
the depths of ocean; gives serenades under the
wall OF China, or sits under the perfumed
groves of Ceylon. No theory accounts for
the existence of images to the full as vivid as
those of the waking senses, and much more
vivid than those Of memory, when the senses
are wholly closed, and the body represents
but a mass of helpless inaction. If memory
is the sole agent, why is it that the images of
dreams have such superior cearnessl If in
vention be the sole agent why is it that null
titudes who, in their waking hours, have not
the power of combining half dozen ideas to-
eether in the shape of story, and who would
no more think of fabricating an adventure, than
they would of fabricating palace, yet follow
idea after idea in all the windings of story
every night of their lives, and wander in the
widest and most curious adventure through
every region of the globe.
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=, SATURDAY. morning was very important in relation
10 the mercantile interests of the nation me r d
in the price of Cotton Of one penny p9nHa sserted
serving consideration. 1t is confidently aSse I'm
that the Cotton Crop of 1887, VIII amount - b3Ie
teen hundred thousand baleswe believe Una, oaS
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pounds of Coon-upon which the rise u nai IAN,
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The PERIODICAL MORTALITY OF THE HUMAN RACE
Our limits are insufficient to enable us TO give the
entire table of mortality furnished by the official
authorities; we have yet thought il necessary TO note
the first seven periods separately among the infant
maleScompared with females. The average of the
quinquennial periods Except in the cases annexed)
will in general furnish the annual sum Of mortality
AT the termination Of the first IL years, about one
third of those born are with the departed, the pro-
portion being against males in the ratio of 1886 to
1732 females (yearly) After this term (l2 years. TO
the age of H-the middle period of life, and by far
the more hazardous 10 women-the comparative
mortality shows different result, being as 46 females
to Al males At the termination ofthiS period, when
procreation ceases female life is comparatively the
most secure, the mortality from the ages of As 10 G5
being about as 63 males to 60 females. The com
paratve security of life subsequent TO this is slightly
in favor of females; but il should be remarked, that
the excess of female population after this period Of
life is nearly IL per cent over the males (see table
of ages) and the ratio of mortality is hence BY so
much greater, without indicating any comparative
insecurity of life In collating this table from the
official documents before us, we cannot but remark
the extraordinary mortality il evinceS at the term-
nation of each decade of mans life from the age of
so years. In every instance, from 80 years and up
wards the mortality in the year which terminates
the decade very greatyexceeds that in the preceding
and succeeding years; and, as matter somewhat
curious we shall show these instances
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-01-16

JuNIus.-In the library OF the late Sir Phi
lip Francis is regular series Of the Public
Advertiser, during the period when Junius s
letters were published in that journal, in which
nearly every letter is corrected, and the regu-
lar stops inserted, by Sir p. Francis, in his
clear and very distinct autograph
The recent death of Mr. Philip Francis,
only son of Sir Philip Francis, may possibly
elicit some new facts relating to the author
Of the Letters of Junius. Sir Philip Francis
bequeathed his house in ST. James square,
his fine political and classical library, also
his manuscripts, to Lady Francis, and to his
son. His collection of political pamphlets,
published about the same time when Jnnius's
Letters appeared in the Public Advertiser,
are illustrated with manuscript notes relating
to the persons who figured in those memora-
BILE epistles. II is possible that some infor-
nation may be found respecting the copy of
these memorable epistles, bound in vellum, by
Henry Sampson Woodfall and sent to the atl-
thor Sir Philip Francis left sealed up in his
library, in manuscript, a history of the period
in which he lived, containing biographical
sketches of the eminent statesmen, his con-
temporaries.-En paper.
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There is a peculiar fitness and beauty In
the following sentiments from the pen OF
Charles Lamb Here we have a man, de-
voted TO the most abstruse studies and addict
ed to the closest thinking, looking back on
the days of his childhood, and recalling the
feelings Of youth with ferver and warmth
truly admirable. If in the waywardness OF
our younger days we could only know the
regrets that in after life await derellctlon OF
flial duty, the heart of many fond parent
would be saved pang, and many child
would store up for himself the soothing re-
membrance of having made proper return
for the kindness of those who have watched
over his helpless infancy:
A heart IN the rigM place. am welded,
Coleridge, TO the fortunes of my sister and
my poor old father. Oh, my friend, think
sometimes, could recall the days that are
past, which among them should | choose
Not those 'merrier days not the pleasant
days of hope not those wanderIngs with
fair hard maid which | have so often and
so feelingly regretted, but the days, Coleridge,
of mothers fondness for her school-boy.
What would give TO call her back to earth
for one day, on my knees to ask her pardon
for all those little asperities Of temper, which,
from time to time, have given her gentle spirit
pain; and the day, my friend, trust VIII
come; there will be time enough Tor KIND
offices of love, if Heavens eternal year be
ours. Hereafter, her meek spirit shall not
reproach me. O, my friend, cultivate the
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I IL L MADISONIAN N.
THOMAS ALLEN.
AsHrNoToN Cry, D, C. July, 1897.
FOR THE COUNTRY


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flial feelings And let no man think him
self released from the kind charities Of re-
lationship. These shall give him peace at
the last. These are the best foundation for
every species Of enevolence.--C haS. Lambs
Letters
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From lhe Albany Daily Advertiser.
THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR.

The everlasting 10 be which hath been,
Hath taught US nought or liule.-Odeto Vcnic
From the deep and stirring tone,
Ever on the midnight breaking,
Came whisper thrill and lone
Der my silent vigil waking
Come TO mel the dreamy hour
Fades before the spoilers power;
Come the passing tide is strong
As il bears thy life along;
Soon another seal for thee
Stamps the stern futurity.
Bow ihee-bend thee 10 the light
Stealing on thy spirit sight,
From the by-gone's faded bloom,
From the shadow and the gloom,
From each strange and ehangeful scene
Which, amid, thy path has been
And oh let II wake for thee,
Beacon OF the days to be-"
Son before my sight was spreading
Many sweet and sunny flower;
Pleasure bright, her promise shedding,
Gilded DER each fairy bower
Oh, il was laughing glee,
Hanging DER futurity--
Blisses mid young beauties blooming,
Hopes, no sullen grieis entombing,
Loves that vowed to link forever,
Cold or ghted-never-neyer--
Not shadow on the doom
Fancy reared for days TO come,
Not dream Of sleeping i'll
There her hushing tide TO chill:
Gaily lay each glittering morrow
And turn me half in sorrow,
As that phantom beckoned back,
To retrace life's fading track.
Sinking in the broad dim ocean,
Shadows bending DER its bier,
Slow from beings wild commolion,
Saw |, pass, another year.
There was but misty cloud
Bending DER silent shroud,
Hope, fame, rapture-loyed and gay
Tell oh tell me, where were theyl
Idols once in sunlight glancing,
Ave that claimed each startling sigh,
With the green leefed promise dancing
Round the heart SO merrily-
Where was now the waking blossom
Should be wreathing round the bosoml
Only lay mist far spreading,
Dim and DINNER twilight shedding
Like to feyer's itful CLEAN,
Like to sleeper's troubled dream,
In the cold and persisted past
Lay the mighty strife at last
on that dim and visoned treading,
Where the frail and fair decay,
Comes upon my BOSOM shedding
Light through many a rising day.
PhantomS now in beauty ranging.
Dreaming ne'er of chill or changing,
Bright and gay are flashing all,
How their voiceless shadows fall
Goethe weepers heart is weary
Goethe widows wall is dreary-
Thousand-toned the agony
On each night breeze sweeping by.
Go--and for each little flower,
Wreathed about the blighted bower.
Bright, when suns and stars have set,
win foweret blossom yet NORMA.
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To give clear and satisfactory rules for the
use of shall and wiH, has always been STUN
bling block to grammarians, whose theories
are for the most part as confused, in explain
ing why the one or the other should be used,
as is the practice Of Scotsmen in the use Of
them. Good writers too are often inaccurate
in applying these ever recurring auxiliaries,
upon the right use Of which nevertheless pre-
csion in the expression of thoughts often de-
pends An excellent little work, published a
year or two since in England, on the Princi-
pies Of English Composition, by David Booth,
devotes a chapter to them, wherein is given
the clearest directions for the use of them,
that we have ever met with. Booth quotes as
follows Mr. Brighland's Rule (from the Latin
of Dr. Wallis) which he says, though having
the advantage of being early retained in the
memory, is not sufficiently comprehensive.
"In the First Person, simply, shall foretels;
In tciH, threat or else promise dwells
Shall, in the second and third does threat;
VIII, simply, then foretels the future feat"
Booth himself gives the following Rule,
which, he says, embraces the whole subject,
and is Of easy application.
9" If the speaker is the nominative of the
VERB, and also determines its accomplish
ment or if he is neither the nominatiye to
the VERB nor determines its accomplishment,
the proper auxiliary is wILL,-in every
other case il is SHALL"
We have tried this rule in variety Of con-
nections, and have not found it ever to mis-
lead To any one who SHALL find and WILL
furnish us with, an example of the correct use
Of those two twins so much alike that many
mistake the one for the other) which SHALL
show the rule TO be unsafe, we SHALL Of course
be indebted to him, and WILL acknowledge
the obligation.
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German VoterS-Preyious to the late cleo
ton in Michigan, the Germans in Detroit
held large meeting, at which Gen. Schwartz
presided They resolved to support the de-
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party in future, q inasmuch as it is in princi-
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doctrines Of the Wings, who would deny the
right of suffrage to all adopted citizens"
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What's in Name.--A new ship of 800
tons has been launched from Portsmouth,
N. H., receiving the sponsorial aPpellation Of
Nicholas Biddlc.
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Great efforts are making in France to in
troduce the cultivation of the Tea shrub. 1t
has been found to grow well in the open air
in the neighborhood Of Marseilles.-Engltsh
papGr.
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The New Orleans Picayune says there arc
1000 drays in that city, which, according to
a calculation made by the Chamber of Com.
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Ohio and Mississippi RiUers.-There are
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