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Last Notice.

IA Notes and Accounts in the hands of J. P
l SMITH, for collection, with instructions to give
them all over to officer if not paid by July Court
June Is. 47tc JOHN WELLS.
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n Card

OSCAR M. LIEBER, consu ting Chemist and MinIn
" Geo'ogst, is prepared to make assays. mining
veys, &c. Office Charlotte, N. c., above Hendrix Is
Grain store.
Juy 7, '54 SOFA
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$3.50 Feward.
A PROCLAMATION,

By lis E1ccLfncu, Dcrvid S. Reid, Governor Of
the State Of North CurOltnG.
W HEREAS, it has been made TO appear 20 that
w one JAMES WILSON stands charged with the
murder of Nathan C.. Clayand, in the county of Meek
leuburg and whereas has been made appear that
the said JAMES WILSON has fed beyond the limits
of this State
Now, therefore, to the end that the said James Will
may be brought to justice. do hereby issue this
my Proclamation offering reward of Three hundred
and Fifty Dollars for the apprehension and delivery of
said James Wilson to the Sheriff of Mecklenburg.
Desc ripIiOn.
JAMES WILSON is out II or is years of age !;
about feet in height; auburn hair, and of youthful
appearance has some scratches his :;
wide mouth, and rather broad quick and bold
in speaking, and inclined to G-ink.- r.s..
s<aAc>ac>s Given under my hand and the Great Seal
49, 4 of the State of North Carolina, the city
~ of Raleigh, this the 18th day of Septem-
TSsSSe<S Der, A ID. 1851.
By the Governor DAVID S. REID.
SAMUEL F. ADAMS, Jr., Private Secretary.
Sept a. 1854. Gov
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I'OR SALE.-The subscriber has for sale at his Mill
j. McMichaels creek. large quantity OF good lurn-
Der of various kinds cked dried and ready for dcv
cry. JAMES KERR.
June 23d. 1854. 4S.tf
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Notice.

LAYING been appointed trustee of VIM. Whealan,
all his accounts in my hands for settlement, and
pt rsons warned not to settle the with any
other person but
Sept l5 1854 WIN. HARTY, Trustee.
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First Class Restaurant.

.DJ1lllL3R q PH[3[LAN]g
SUCCESSORS TO H. BECKMAN,)
HAVE just received and opened fresh supply of
4 / pure and genuine
BRANDY,
WINE,
WHlSKEY,
CORDIALS,
PORTER
ALE, &c,
selsc ted by Judge, and warranted unaduterated.
100 kSexes OF SpaniS SegarS
the best and approved brands comprising Prin
cipes Regala Rio HGndos, and various Others known
to be aromatic and fragrant as any imported
Gentlemen who wish to enjoy something that is very
fne will always find with the articles hand and
ready and willing to serve them.
MILLER & PHELAN,
Sept IS, 1874 stf
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VIM. J. WristOn. '..-.- -.--..
T appearing TO the satisfaction of the Court that
VIM. j. Wriston, the defendant in this cause resides
beyond the limits of this State 1t is therefore ordered
by the Court, that advertisements be made in the
Western Democrat for three months notifying the SAID
defendant of the filling Of this petition, and that unless
he appears the next Term of this Court be held
for the county of Meeklenburg, the Courthouse in
Charlotte the 18th Monday after the 4th Monday in
September ne Nt, and said petition the same will
be taken pro confesso and heard exparte him.
Witness Jennings B. Kerr, Clerk OF said Court,
Office, the 7th Monday after 4th Monday in March,
A. D. 1854.
O. ,..-.. J. B. KERR, c. 3. c.
Printers fee $40. 3-3m
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~N0TT1St0ra, Penn. 81
THE Subscribers manufacture Mining Maehinery. as
follows, Wig THE CORNISH PUMPIKe Eka,sE high
and low pressure Pumping. Stamping and Hoisting
S TEAM ENGINES CoRxfsH Prmrs SrAaPs, CRr-sHzRs
WINcHEs Iron Blocks, PULIEYsof all sizes and every
variety Of Machinery for Mining purposes.
THOMAS. CORSON e. WEST.
june 2, 1854 45-1V
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Starch Starch.

T'RESH DIAMOND STARCH-the choicest article
i Of the kind offered 20 the public, imparting
beautiful gloss to linen, and economical in use. No
laundry should be without it. For sole at
FISHER & HEINITSH E..
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NOTICE..

THE members of Mecklenburg Division, No. 4S, S.
| of T., requested to meet al the Division Hall
Wednesday evening next, at half past O'Clock,
business of Importance will be transacted.
j. G. WILKINSON, r. S. Pro. tenn.
Sept a., 1854 9-lw
o. Wing copy once.
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On MONDAY, the 25th instant We will sell on a
credit of Eight months at the residence of Simon
Rhyme, miles south east of Dallas, CASTOR county, n C
t35 Likely Slaves,
consisting-of men, women and children. .-..- =
: III. SETTER, I -
G. RHODES, Admr's,
with the will annexed OF Peter Rhyme, deed.
sept g, 1854 7-3w
~ Wing copy times.
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Female School.

rINHE Fall Session Miss Sarah F. Dlvidson's School
| will commence the FIRST MONDAY OF Octo-
Der next.
Those of her patrons who in for Tuition
will please call W. +. David on and settle their
e.
Charlotte, September 81, 1854. 9-3t
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abroad HOT
CHESTER, s. G.
BY ]. r. NICHOLSON.

3a1lro@ AoTe1,
CHESTER, S. G.
BY J. r. NICHOLSON.
- THE subscriber respectfully informs his friends
|i:;m and the public generally thathis house, kno IN
the "RaIIroad Hotel" opposite tn. Chester
Depot is still open tor the reception of regular and
transient boa rders and the travelling public and that
he is making every txcrtion to deserve and secure
continuance of the kind and liberal patronage which
has hitherto been extended to him. lie atters himself
that every needed arrangement has been made to
mote the comfort of alt no stop with him :he
airy and well Furnished his attentive
and obcdent, and his table constantly supplied with the
best of the season, that his friends will any
attention necessary ma Ike their soourn pleasant and
agreeable His stables furnished with good host
crs and abundance o provender, and he s prepared
at moments notice to supply his customers HIh pri.
eonveyances of every Sort to any part Of the
rounding country.
He desires to return his &c acknowledgements to the
public for past avors, and cits for the future
equally liberal share of patronage.
Aug 90, 1854. 5tf JOHN r NICHOLSON.
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TTAVING sold INV entire stock to Miller & Phelan,
4 1-have placed all my Notes and accounts in the
hands orr. N Sterling for collection Those indebted
to me requested to make immediate payment
H. BECKMAN.
September ], '54. e-tf
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. For Sale.

f. - -
THE subscriber offers for sale his plantation. contain
i ing about 100 Acres, lying within a half mile
south of Davidson College, adjoining the lands OF
Professor Gland, James Johnston, Esq, Joseph Pat
terson, Robert Potts, and others On the premises
there two comfortable dwellings, with abundance
of spring water; also excellent well of water, Gin
House and Screw, and all other requisite buildings.
If sold privately prior to the 25th of November
next the above lands will be sold at public sale at
James p HendersoRs store, Davidson College, on the
25th of November, 1854.
For further information apply to the subscriber,
miles southeast of Davidson ollege.
plat of said land will be exhibited to any one wish
ing to view the land
A. MONROE GILLESPIE
EIysian Grove, Sept. %, 1854 e-3"
IL Whig copy twice.
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GINGER POP.

SxUPERIoR GINGER PoP. and sARsAPARfLLA
BEER at Our House. for salc vsoIesaIc and ~.
tail Also LEMON SYRCP at whof sale and retoii Ly
II. SEWERS e. CO..
Mayo Rf Opposite ,i,c Cyost hour, e
- - -, 1919 W.
S1l-ga,SrX i~f{t9fyJSt.
er.be most ,n51frcScci; -. 1sc..is-s. ,..na
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ALI KINDS OF PLAIN. FANCY AND OR
NAMENTAL JOB. PRINTING, rOafssn =
Al TIVE DEMOCRAT OFFICE"
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Di9Solution.

D1SSo SOLUTION.
THE Copartnershp of J. c. HAND 4 Co, is this day
| disso we'd by mutual consent. The notes and ac
due the firm with j. C. Hand for colection
and all persons indebted expected to forward
and make immediate payment.
]. G. BAND,
E. LONERGAN, SR.
August rs, '5l. saw -
NJ B-The undersigned will continue the bus ness at
the old stand. ]. {. HAND.
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Wanted Immediately.

zoo OAK OR SASSAFRAS POSTS, feet long,
)tDJ inches small end, for hich liberal prices
viii be paid. IRWIN, HIGGINS Il co.
September %, 1854. eff
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HAVE you A DISEASED LIVER THE question,
though startling, is sufficiently Suggestive, when
the fac, is taken into consideration that diseases
Of the Liver have become most alarmIngfy frequent
in the United States, Indeed, there are few for
mdable to a deranged state of that important Or
gan. Many of the complaints usually classed un
der the head of Consumption, have their origin in
the Liver. ANY remedy thai would insure
gulary and heahful action in the Liver, would
be a blessing TO mankind - has been the exca.
nation of thousands. Tha; remedy has been
found it is Ssfe and sure. When a fair trial
has been afforded it, ii has never been known to
fail
Reader have you any disease OF the Liver, or
disease which you believe proceeds from hepa-
tic arrangement? Lose not a moment, but
purchase a box of DR.. NJ Lanes Pills, and they
will restore you to health Il Is the only remedy
yet discovered, i'll which implicit confidence may
be- placed.
Ig' Purchasers will be careful to ask for DR..
Nc Lanes CcLs6r0ttd LirPr Pills, and take none
else There arc other Pills, purporting 10 be
Liver Pills. now before be public. DR.. McLane's
Liver Pills, also hi celebrated Vermiluge, can now
be had at all respectable Drug Stores in TIE United
States and Canada. 2w.
WHAr DO THE PHYSICIANS SAY ?-Listen to
the testimony Of eminent physician in favor OF
M'Iane's Vrrmiuge, which Is now universally
bers OF the m dica faculty (sho are SO often up.
posed 10 The use Of pattn mt medicines.) cannot
withhold their approval of this invaluable re-
NEEDY:
LIND, Stark Co. Ohio, Jan 8, 1e49
| have us,d DR.. Nj Lanes Worm Specific in
my private practice, and am prepared to say Tint
The unparalleled success with which have pre-.
~crbed its use, both for children and adults ndu.
ME to say the most in Its favor Of any specific
or patent medicine before brought TO my
The mode of administration, The small
Of The dose, and the certainty of its effica-
cous effects, give it, in my opinion, a decided
advantage over any other medicine OF The kind be-
fore ;he public.
o. Purchasers will be careful TO ask for DR..
WLane'S Csiebratrd FcrmYuge, and take none
else. All other Vermiluges, in comparison, are
worthless. DIR. NJ Lanes genuine Vermifuge, also
his Celebrated Liver Pills, now be had AT all
respectable Drug Stores in the United States and
Canada. 2w
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DR.. CHAMPIONS VEGETABLE AeuE PILLS

Vegetable Anti- Bilious g. Amti- Dysfeptic Pills.
THESE medicines have been used by the proprietor
number of years in extensive practice. during which
with the greatest success.
They fail to- the Chills and Fever the first
day. FISHER Il HElNIISH.
Sept /, 1854 6-3m Sole Agents for Charlotte.
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Settle Up!

'HHE Notes and Accounts of Edwards & Williamson
| have been placed in my hands for collection. All
persons indebted to tIem requested to settle up
ncdiately. JOAB L. SMITH.
Sep. - 1854 9tf
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Notice.
ON and after the 2Sth instant the following schedule
\ will be daily Sunday excepted) by the mail
train upon the Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad
LEEvE ARRIVE AT
Charlotte 4.40 a. m. Columbia Ills a. m.
Columbia 400 p. m. Charlotte - p.
Passengers will be taken and from the jun ton
with the South Carolina Railroad accommodate the
trains with which run in connection. =
By order of the Board:
F. MINIS, General Superintendent
aug n est Charlotte and S. c. Railroad.
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4 PORTION Of the Notes and Accounts due the late
n firm of n B. & l. S. Williams having been ira rs
ferred to L. S. Williams, the have placed in
the hands OF V. c. Barrnger, attorney law COL
lection. The undersigned, having engaged in other
business, is compelled to have money and has left in
stTuctions for the speedy collection of his Notes Per-
interested must forward and pa Immediately
or: they will be sued. Mr. Barrnger's Office is at
Rays Hotel. ~-<-.l---
$685. . L. 8. WILLIAMS.
Jaiy FL, 80. 5-2am
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500 PIECES RIBBON.
o the largest and most beautiful style Of RIB
Il BON brought to this market you must call on
NJ. BAUM by doing 70, you will find it greatly to
interest he offers to sell better bargains than
before. -
M. BAUM,
sept TIFF / door west of A llison & Daniel
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NJ Office is hereby given that application will be
Y made at the next session Of the Legislature for
d charter Mutual Fire Insurance Company to be
located in Charlotte, N c. Aug. IL
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NOTICE is hereby given that application will BE-
~ made the next session Of the Legislature for a
charter for Mutual Life Insurance Company to be
located in Charlotte, N. e. Aug. IL
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Browns Ess. Jamaica Ginger,

7 UST received large and fresh suppIy-admirably
y adapted to meet and control the prevailing intes
final Disorders-at the Granite Drug Store.
june PRlTCHARD q CALDWELL.
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5000 Yds. Calico,
JUST received and is offered for sale from CT to l23
y cents per yard ..
NJ. BAUM,
sept 8 7tf 9 doors from the courthouse.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-11-09
nlistelIuucous.
SICK BODY, SICK BRAIN.


Occasional illustrations of the superstition of
the middle ages led us to remark some time ago,
on the great pacvalenco of insanity caused in the
good old times by the mixture of horrible
thoughts and Jumps Of diseased fancy with the
ideas common among the people. Of the
wretched position of unhappy lunatics, persc-
cuted, MANNED, tortured, and burnt by neigh
bors and magistrates, who accepted as facts all
their delusions and convicted them by tho tes-
tnlony of their own wild words, some illustra-
ton have been given The region of sur pers,i-
ton that remains yet to BE- sketchad is very
rich in produce of this kind, do not mean to
pass into that region now, because it was not
by superstition only, or only by that and the
oppressive forms of debascd church syseem,
that the minds of men were broken down, power
full agencies as they both were. These moral
pestilences acted upon brains that had been first
weakened by the physical plaques to which bodies
were subject.
We are not free from such affections yet We
are at this hoar shrinking from the breath of
cholera. 1t comes home to the poor 1t comes
home to the minister Of state lie may sacri-
rifce sanitary legislation to the first conner who
attempts to snoer it down, and journey home
to find the grateful plague sitting in his own
hall ready with the only thanks that it can
offer. A this we sincerely grieve, and perhaps
tremble; but we know nothing of the terror of
plague as it was terrible in the old times Of
famine among the poor, wrong living and bad
housing among the rich, off township altogether
drainiess, OF filth, ignorance and horribly neg
lect. The rayages made formerly in Europe
by the smallpox or measles, the dreadful spread
of leprosy, the devastation on the path of black
death and the sweating sickness, have no paral-
lei in our day. Extreme as are the suferings ol
our poor in the hungry winter season, wo un-
derstand but family the intensity and extent oI
the distress which the old poet had often seer
who wrote
Short days, sharp days, long nights on apace
All, who shah hide us from the winters face?
C,ld doth increase, and sickness will not cease
And here we lie, God knows, with l!tt, case,
From winter pelg an pcsti,nce good Lori deliver us
particularly wish to show how in the good
old times mems bodies were wasted, and hov
there was produced out of such wasting
Weakening and wasting of their minds. Th
treaties of learned German. Doctor Hccker
on the Epidemics of the Middle Ages (whic
has been translated for our Sydenham Societ
e by DR.. Babngton) will provide an ample fun
y on which to draw for information We canno
j. study rightly sickness of the mind withou
d bringing sickness of the body into question
= 1t is necessary to bogip with that.
o There was one disease called the black deatl
: he black plague, or the great mctality. II
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-11-09
D.p. THOMPSON, EDITOR & PROPRIETOR

fathers farmed it, or as most of his neighbor,
continue to farm it, regardless of the fact that
scientific agriculture will enable him to cultivate
it far better. A mechanic is called in to do a
oit oil work, in four cases out of FIVE, he hur-
res over, caring only to make it good enough to
pass, but having no ambition that it should be
the best that he can do We might extend our
Illustrations through every walk of life. Few
men say to themselves, "I'll do it we'll" Haste
is preferred to thoroughness, the reputation
of quick workman to that of a good one.
Lawyers. ministers and other public speakers,
even make pride of oxtemporaneous oratory /;
as if any truly sensible man could be ambitious
of the impromptu speech, when with careful
thought he might make his address incalcula-
bly, better. The few, however, who adopt for
their motto am do it well, )" always succeed
10 life. The lad at school who follows this rule.
rises to the head of his class The lawyer who
makes thorough work, gets the best and most
lucrative practice. for people know that his
opinion can be depended on, and that he makes
no mistakes The hard student in medicine has
the most practice, as soon as his proficiency is
which inevitably happens sooner or
later The mechanic, who turns out first rate
work. obtains first rate prices and first rate
run of business Whoever would 60 through
life we'll, let him adopt for his motto at his out
set, g Whatever do, Ill do it we'll"
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NOV EN- BER 8, 1854.

ilgno suffered himself, in bravado, to be bitten.
by a tarantula but to the shame of his episcopal
IgIavity, he could obtain cure only by dancing
When bodies are ill-housed OF ill-nourished or
ny late sickness or other cause depressed las most
mems bodies were in the middle ages, minds are
apt to receive morbid Impressions. The examples
just given show how rapidly across such tinder
the lire of a lunatic fancy spreads. People
abounded who were even glad to persuade them
selves that they were changed into wolves every
night that they were witches, or that they were
possessed by demons.
About fifty years ago, young woman of
strong frame, visited friend in ono of the Ber-
lin hospitals On entering ward, she fell
down IN strong convnlsion. Six female patients
whosaw her became at once convulsed in the
same way, and, by degrees, eight Others passed
into the same condition for four months during
which time two of the nurses followed their ex-
ample. They were oil between sixteen and
twenty-five years DID,
In Methodist chapel at Redruth man cried
suddenly, "What shall / do 10 be saved!" and
made contortions expressive of severe distress.
Other members Of the congregation very shortly
afterwards uttered the same words, and seemed to
suffer excruciating pain. The occurrence having
excited curiosity, the new complaint spread
through all the adjacent towns of Camborne.
Penzance, Truro, Hestone, Falmouth, and the
intervening villages twas an epidemic confined
to Methodist chapels, and people of the lowest
class it consisted always in the utterance of the
same words, followed by convulsions. Within no
very long time four thousand people had become
affected by the malady. A somewhat similar
disorder has prevailed for long time in the
Shetland Islands.
Other madnesses of this kind, will occur to the
minds of many readers There is not necessarily
deceit or hypocrisy in such outbreaks they are
contemporary illustrations, each on sna scse
of kind of mental disorder which was one of the
most universal of the sorrows of the middle ages
Men were liable in masses to delusions so absurd
and so sincere, that it is impossible to exclude
frem fair study of the social life of our forefath
ers cons ant reference to such unsound condl
tons Of their minds -HoushoM Words