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;i . i : -I l . ' . " ! '( . j". . ',' ' ; ' j ' 4 .i - - r 1 I it- ! V - Si TVrni ill o( tlite Wntcliiiiau ikriotioii r-eryesrTwo Dollars payable in P!'if nil Wd in advance, Two doll.!. .mlfr.cw. -y'H be charged. ,1 ; ,T it'. ,.ur .i,nn tllese rates. A HWrai ukw 1 " JL iW ho nAvm by the year. U,Thf 5t ROMANCKidF TIIK OCEAN. The following facta relating to a youuig A 'Lric'kn tfiH. I iltit'ikHttnnut bul mterestjyour Lj.'.M, especially a hey arc too we tic' TjOLM WtWMMA W ATUkiLM AW . : r . i . i . i . i - - - ! i BRUNER & JAMES, " Editors A' Proprietors, authen- ia io aiJinit of a d- ubl f their having taken j.,jiilthrtnaniier irJ he mentioned. hici;arriVed here on 5EP A CHECK UPOX ALL YOtCR RcLEES. I Do this, and Liberty is safe." Gen'l Harrison. NEW SERIES. A'OLUME VI NUMBERj 38. 'nsb'wgton, jbe wjialeahfpChrU''' Ltw j0 fT.tlr .cr;,isin- 'v ilit i'.,'- .. 1 1.- (rond or third niffht out. the 13rh inata"'. reports Iher Mitchell m 1'ai.aun. i . 'I'ka f h-irt jjer III. f.JVWff Circumstances. icoiuJ i ...11. in r;iillp(l. 'nnp of the crew was jjcm! o h a youkg giinttead pi a fair jreel I" J' which created no little, excitement .tir.d. and' caused (he Captain to put back .?.( I'aita to Und s female sailor, to. seek- mcnorij- f ongenial . -' jiihan Usinsr a tar - i" t ' Her sforv be aLJaUs'Wlowa: if ii name oni SALISBURY, N. C;, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1850. wav of (earning a 1 veli. bucket and a marling "dre the American iCon. thc?ter, New Yorki, was bf others, from herriome . ii ; - i,; - j. I! $ .'rfu(il.li thousand v lijiian who promised to make her his; law. (t wilVi hut who abatJJotied her in a short) time nd iiiic'hded tb' ar(s untTnown. Returning o parental .roof, she was met w1th)itter ..AfhiTatid drive ii fronJ her home.- Too iirotid L ia8siiance frojii stiangers, and s& farl ii u ti Virtuft as to thi k of sulisUtins by the L ieani JV. which might now seem left to ,1 lifr, fV0 P''1 ',n ma,? r ')'r?' ant or tvvo months ! virci'.her' lining by driving a horse on the ca- ' -iil triretfVf this, she determined to go to j first cWg:ed ad. a cabin boy at 84 per I mQnth-rhitt vyas (old by the shmptng master that I he cdiflJ make more by a whaling voyage, and ! hiweh 4f JV proccedld to Nantucket to look ! .fori tMj. - .It 'was- with some difficulty that she j cMaTiifd a;birth, her jonith and delicate appear- ince Iwing iiuch aga uit her. One of the ship I flirarrii at a1 olaco where she annlied. (nh old V ----- I . r "I I . : qjakei,)alast , become so much pleased with, deadly element. It is unfitted to fulfil its healthy condition of the liver the blood OII1C6, Alcohol IS not mefplv nn intrnilpr. v iri the way, but is deleterious. What lease thev had so mtirh ilisnnnpnrpd that -lii.'.u i , . f . . k . ' "i ; rr auuuiu nounsn ana reiresn me exhausted the blood had not circulated throueh the energies oi ine system, is; rendereU inca- ijver for a long time. Die 01 tniS enU. t W r. tnl.l ibnf tU mnrKM anrxao j ; I,-! v iiiu . savi wax a ' 1 It S O aIca nAinMMiin. A. t ft I t h . 1 ' . a ! i ia oi3u puisuuuuiu lue siornacn, anu nance seen alter ueatu, occasioned by Al t 'v Vp?"e83ed, the good face of the boy, intl liu K-rsviiaui'u iuc .tiiaui ui iiic iu lane er!oii)oard. She f Grfarmed her duty faith fully for scveii monlli! previoos to her discovery j -fleVer shrbikiris frokn coins aloftr even in the 'I urtrat wcaiher, of the darkest night. , She also pulled her oar twice in pursuit of whales, but ill e boat in which she hHons? d had never been ll . tan. io one :ci me monsters, or peinaps ner i (nurage ruiii nave ii iieu ner. 1 .BhoJ'Waf q general favorite on board, never jnllinjj with ! the crC any more than was ah. lolu'ely necessary. Iler quiet, inoflensive be. j . ItHMi had. alio veryj much prepossessed the i Catkin and bis oflideis in her favor. When - lummined into the Cjapiain's presence, immc diatel;j. after the dirc very, she niade a full and t tolunlpiry roivfefssion, whereupon she was taken l iiilo tbt! cabin, a stalpi room set apart for her ) ' uieVil.'very altentinshown her that could I n euHiJedtO a female on board ship. When tanhd at Paila. the excitement and fatigue 1 bad'sinowhat overpvvered her, but in one orj j lu'niVic'a ik una n tilt a tvnll a nrl miiob olalort 1 1"" t$ ptojpect of sjofin reaching home in the r Ttiscnuooin ut sail. vnw iircnnis fi nr m i ii i i - . , firWH4roTry, did shp run anynsk of beiig ex poredfijut on me ocoasion aiiuuea 10, oy sua Jenly -workjng in a more bungling manner, she ritapeM defection, The cause of attention be Ins drawn; towards tier on the above occa. aion, yrai the quickness with which she plied her needier heinf nbre than a match for lhf i i othet liiiloifs, in that respect. The fact of her hcuigpn board and noiuff her duty well cannot bedniulitedi Her name is Miss. Ann Johnston, ii" ? . wt t 't t anq net ag nineieen years. rotynesian Jiug. '20.4 For the Watchman. ALCOHOL ISA POISON. Before adducing facts and argument in support of this position, we will define what a poison is. Webster defines it tj be " any substance, which when tken in to the stomach, mixed with the blood, o"r applied to the skin or iiesh, prove! fata), or deleterious ; venom. Anything infec tious, malignant, or noxious to health. That ybich taints or destroys morl purl ty or health. I . One eminent physician says that po son is any substance which when taken into the system has the effect of disorder ing some of the actions that makefup the sum of life." 1 ! Another says, M What is a poison ? It is that substance in whatever form; it may be, which when applied fq a livifig suh face.discpncerts and distutbs life's ealthy movements." Now, how shall w deter mine whether any substance comej under these definitions ? If we take andiiandle it, perhaps we should not be; able to tell. The appearance might not reveal its trtie character; many things that areffair (o view, are destructive. So the forbidden fruit looked desirable ; but as it proved in that case, so it is often, that whatftempls the eye most, is most to be avoided. lis use is destruction : its touch is death. ah old writer says " The stomach bears an adequate analogy toftbe root of a tree, afid may properly enough be called the root of a man ; for as the root of a tree is the beginning of it; riceives,.or draws the juice of the Earth to prepare or convert it into food for the trunk, and all the branches, and being vell digested, trans mits it to all the parts : in like! manner when the tree is observed not to be thriv- Cohol exactly azree with those which re ult from poisoning." That we have ir refragable proof that Alcohol is a poi. son of the very same nature as Prussic Acid, producing the same effects, killing by the same means ; that on every or- of the powers of life, without any violent symptoms; an indefinable feeling of ill ness, failure of strength, feverishness, want of sleep, an aversion to food, drink, and other enjoyments of life, dropsy gen erally closing the scene, with black mil liary eruptions and convulsions, or colli quative perspiration and purging. Now this was invented on purpose to tajee life by gradually undermining and sapping the fortress of health. But do not the drinkers of ardent spirits and " those who tarry long at the wine," carry on their murderous designs with just as much cer tainty as those Italian proficients in the art of slow poisoning ? Their very breath is tainted : any one who has been much in the vicinity of such persons, knows that their breath smells as if it came from pu trid animal matter, or had passed over it. And the fetid breath is one of the most marked signs of the existence of this poi son in the system. We know it will be said (hat it is a slow poison indeed because Mr. A. and Mr. B. have used it all their lives, and are now old men. But this proves nothing to the contrary of our position. It proves only that they had strong constitutions that FROM THE REGISTER. i' But shall we, therefore, conclude that it is harmless? Is that a sufficient reason to infer that it may with safety arid pro fit be taken into the stomach ? 1 Alas! would that now for the first time we were to prove the noxious quality of this pdi soner of mankind : would that we had not known too much of the evil effects of Alcohol, so that there might be a doubt - gan they touch spirits operate as a poi son." But thev touch on every or nan : for unchanged, and undigested, they are taken up from the stomach bv the absorb ing, or the branches to be decayinz and cnts,and go everywhere that the blood soes. changing color; withering or dyiqg, where Dr, Gordon says most of the bodies of dp they look for the cause, but at the root moderate drinkers which when in Edin- of the tree T Even so it is with the nour- purgh I opened, were found diseased in ishing of the parts of the bodyj and the the liver." Another says " Alcohol de dlseases they are subject to, in relation to stroys the gastric hepatic system produc- uc Muuiauu. uiu a vnneiv oi liver aiseases. What then is the effect of Alcohol upon i Nor can we suppose the heart to es it? Its functions are deranged, and its cape the delerious effects of this poison- organic structure is attected. The gas- ous agent. In one case of a man who tHc secretions by which food is digested. Jell suddenly dead after taking a glass of are vitiated. The coats of the; stomach raw whiskey, on dissection, the heart was are indurated, thickened, and ulcerated, free from blood, hard and firmly contract- The mucus membrane is atlehErth des ed as if affected bv snasm. And Dr. Sea- tfoyed. Food is vomited, and appetite I well remarks that " no doubt the use of fails. The stomachtis unfitted for nutri- ardent spirits promotes the ossification of And how many during the time that they tjpn and sometimes the mucus membrane the valves of the heart, as well as the de- have continued to hold out, have gone to k so thickened as to fill almost ihf ntirp Velonment of other organic affpp.tinns " the srave in the morninc of life or in thp - ! 'i . m I A . .la 4 .a c-avity ; and no nourishment ;can pass A hard and stony heart, then is not alto- vigor ot their days f And perhaps kept through it to support the system. Indi- igether a figure of speech ; no wonder that in countenance by their example, and urunkarks are hard hearted and cruel ! hoping that they could stand it too ? But When the literal heart, if not turned to they could not. Every physician knows stone, is yet so hard as to make resistance that sometimes the stomach will digest to the scalpel. poisons; and there have been men that The lungs too, are subject to great dis- could digest almost any substances that gested. These are small mucus glands, orders by the use of Alcohol. Respiration they could get into the stomach, even to is difficult : especially in certain circum- jack-knives and flints ; but it is not safe stances; attended with copious expecto- forevery one totry theexpenment : where ration, which at length ends in consump- one could successfully perform such feats, tion. 1 his. is accounted for by medical a million probably would kill themselves. writers nv4wo ways. A man in Constantinople is said to have 1. By the immediate action of the spi- practised swallowing corrosive sublimate rits on the membrane that lines the air for thirty years, increasing the quantity cells ot tne lungs.; 2. By the sympathy of action between the lungs and other organs (hat are dis- Fori Defiance, Jan'y. 3, 1950. 1 i i i Mr. G alks : In my communication written at the Warm Springs, on the 8ih of NoT.Hatt,' I adranced some reasons whya Rail Road should be constructed, connecting our Central IRail Road with the Tennessee and Virginia Rail Road, by a line running from Salisbury, through or near to Statesrille, Taylorsville, Lenoir, and through the John's River Cap ofihe Blue Ridge and valley of Watauga river.lo the Tenoesieo Rail Road, al or near Jonesboro', Tennessee. I shall now conclude with some further tie vr in connection with that ubject. M Fayetteville," in the communication j refer red to, was a miprint, and should have been Taylorsrille, X. C. My design was, to pre sent this Road from Salisbury to the West, at an extension of our Central Road ; as the main stem of a general system, worihy oflbe ooblest efforts of a great State leaving all the oeces sary branches to le constructed by individual or private enterprise. "This extension, In Con nection with other Roads already chartered, would serve directly all the great interest! in the State, and to some extent, every portion of her citizens. It would also open much the nearest connection with Kentucky aodj tire North-western1 States, and as near also with . Knoxville and the far West," for Charleston, Norfolk, and the Ports of our State, as 'any practicable route connecting with our Central Rail Road at Salisbury. Should ibis connec tion be made with the Central Rail Road at Major Rufus Reid's near Davidson College, j the system would be still more perfect, j The travelling intercourse between our Slate i and the West and North-west,1 would be united upon our own Roads to which may be added the immense travel between our Federal City and the South-west, especially so long as Vir. ginia refuses a connection through the Valley, with Winchester. In regard to Freight, this route would ;ros sess equal or superior advantages to any in the Southern Stales, especially if extended to Isl ington, Kentucky, where it would form a ifen- eral connection with the North-west, and a con- gestion and complete emaciation follow, dnd this is succeeded by death, i There is first an unnatural irritation of the surface of the stomach ; the follicles from which the gastric juice is secreted become con- ii.l. a a so small inai over a minion are louna in a cubic inch. When excited bv proper food they send out a fluid that digests it. n. i .11., .' But wnen excueo ny ?Alconoi they are filled with black blood; and greatly en- When pure,' Alcohol may be clear as chrys- larged ; and hence trie membrane in which fal; when mixed with other substances it they are situated is so much increased in may give a templing color in the curi : thickness. They are now incapable of furnishing the digestive nuid in proper quantity, or quality ; and then at length the functions, if not the very substance of eased, particularly the liver and stomach. i - i i i-v liT!-: : i Li. . i .... i tne mucus memorane is aesiroyeu. ur. . jiroveu uy iue iaci mat in many Levvall remarks that he has never dis until he took a drachm daily, with impu nity. And suppose the country, or the world' could produce many such cases. would it prove that corrosive sublimate was not a poison, but could be used with I ChiHera in Ike Eal Indies. According to til! Uit accounts, t lie cholera has proved fear fully fatal jin Siam. , A correspondent of the StraitiTlrpes writes . I J reer to say thi.tj the J cholera, that awful viiitatn ;of" (iod, lias in its onward march reacitAj Uarrgkok, aid made most fearful rava fe aiibng its thongl t less multitudes. On Sun dajr.'thfe 7th of Jutiet a few cases occurred witbinltbq city walls , and near the palace; by fb!s Tuesday lollowjn, it had so increased that eijbiy'ibodies were aken to a single ' vvat" for Wnitj.!i On Tuesday, .Friday, and Saturday, itrtjred ao that its horror's are beyond descrip- tioh-. Vii could nct,walk out even for a short ditiance,'wilhoul witnessing the dead bodies rritij In all directions, and seeing persons at tacked while walking from one place to anoth- ef. wrjo norhaps oft Mltimes never reached their ' BOitjesi. ' . , So creM was the number of deaths, that they y. .found It ifnpracticabto to burn them all and ma nyiwre "juried, and multitudes more thrown iatblttye -river just at ibey had died. You may ;'' forrt) sme conception of the numbers, by know. ( ing tltyt, in many v ats, four hundred, or near Ij tha), Vi-erc burii'd in a day. They were Irougit a,nd laid in iles,and fuel applied, when !. they vfcre consumed ike heaps of hogsj No pa-ude-4no funeral no other object; but to has ten them' away to ttio wat, where thley often were ii'l, to be bun led by those who would at tend t it or left lo nitrify on the ground. Fer- " baps in the three diVs last mentioned, not less Ibati fcotri two thousand to three thousand died ; "ii ;l and at tuenu oi iweive aays, it was knowdthat more than twenty thousand had fa) dfn vitttms to its fiarful ravages. Since that mi. It as to whether it deserves to be branded as a disturber of life's healthy: move ments." It is the glory of the present age Ho pursue the path of wisdom and science, by observation and experiment. Afljd what has Alcohol proved itself to be, but a most destructive poison ? Not by ah ijsolated case occurring now and then, but by ten thousand observations'ancT experiments ? It cannot be saidL as it is a 0W . 1 a sected the stomach ot the drunkard in which the organ did not manifest some remarkable deviation from its healthy con' dition." These effects are such as might.be sup posed beforehand to follow. The inner boat of the stomach is exceedingly sensi tive ; and we may judge of the effects of ardent spirits on it, by what we find to be the case when it is held in the mouth for a short time. It excites the nervous agen cases the cough and difficult respiration safety ? were relieved as soon as the patient ceas- One medical writer sajs he has known ed to irritate the stomach with ardent a person who accustomed himself to take spirits. The lungs of drunkards are often arsenic till he could take ten grains daily i v i . t , ii ' i. , t;iL ; ; . . iounu alter ueam aanenng to tne walls oi witn impunity, nui is arsenic not a poi the chest and affected with tubercles. sometimes in Natural Philosophy, that the known in stances of its operation are too few to in fer from them a general principle and to lay it down as an undoubted truth. 'Too many persons have turned maniacs : too many have cut short their days; (while they knew not drinking death) under the r w . ' --' wi i. i j - dominion of Alcohol ; and haveilnflicted above detailed sh6w the presence of poi son then ? Will you make it an article of But let us go to the upper story " and diet, and give it to your children for food ? A lady was known to swallow 12 ounces of laudanum in 24 hours, and enjoyed ap parent good health ; but can every one do the same ? It is unsafe to reason from such extreme cases: thev are contrarvto C OUUl v kllllVt i a s rfajw.a vvmvww-'i - ---- - - - - - - - j cy in an unnatural manner ; increases the dram, " it flies to his head.n As soon as it the general current of facts : where one tone, and contracts the blood vessels. ;1 acts on the stomach, the ettect on the has escapea injury irom tne use ot aico But this is of short continuance. The vi tal energy so excited is soon exhausted ; a reaction follow, then inflammation. Wei know how it is with the eye, if we con tinue to apply ardent spirits to that deli cate organ for any; length of time, and keep the eye-ball j wet with it, we shall lose, our sight. But the stomach is scarce ly less sensible than the eye. This then shows that Alcohol is poisonous to the stomach at the centre of the human sys tern. hi And why do we say that the effects see what we find there; for the brain must be affected I by what injures other parts of this " house we live in ;" we all know what is commonly said, when any one not accustomed to liquor has taken a .1 11 1 y-v brain is apparent. It causes an influx ot hoi, ten tnousanu nave oieo. une emi blood to that organ ; a concentration of vi- nent physician says, 44 We have irrefrag tal power there : an unnatural excite- able proof that spirit is a poison of the ment, at an expense to other parts of the very same nature as prussic acid, produc system ; and an inflammation of the brain ing the same effects by the same means: is the consequence. By this means, many paralyzing the muscles of respiration, and 1 are afflicted with permanent madness: so preventing the necessary change of I manv become idiots : and eoilensv. nalsv. black into Vermillion blood." Mr. Brodie on themselves and others, too many other e vi.ls.to leave any room for such a charge as that. , Nor can it be said that reported facts, are not facts; that the observers w0re not men competent to note and record their ooservaiion : or mat iney were spot men of. such a character for honesty and in tegrity as to be relied on. For jvho are they that thus stand forth as thejehanipi ons of the best interests of society ? That would oppose the progress of this moral And physical evil ? That would say to the swelling tide of misery and deiath 4thus fa!, but no farther" Are; they not the best men 'that the country can pro duce ? They are Divines. Judges, States men, Physicians. They know what they speak, and whereof they affirm, jf Are hot they worthy of credit who have had opti cal demonstration ? Whose business jt is to judge of the nature and effects of boi- crtnu ? VVKn a r hnrw!lmr n rifl minis. as very ihtich abated, but has byf no . m tQ iheW palients every day ? Are they not worthy of credit on this sub ject, Who would be on any other ? And who are they on the other side! Vby, the very, men who are blinded fby their appetites; who are pleading, not in be halff the honest convictions of their Con sciences and better judgment :vho are not seeking the truth, but to escape its force: who love darkness rather than light; ' i ! i with whom sense, and supposed self in- few days ago, Foote, of Mississippi, terest are superior to reason 'and con " i. ' 7 ' a. I a Mi . - - I vvunmencet a speflcn in the Senate ty saying science. Animal sensations have more :! IfcMl U'-i--.. It, l . t ' Z : no rote tosneaK wiin great reluctance. If. . I i i y i 11 Rtsl reluctance to soeak were hlf aa rrreni iui .i.,7 . . : : rib ui-riluetaiice th& senate-lee la to hour urn h at muro as a mouse throufrhout the re. t It d i I O - inloiof his Seaaiorial rarfer. Whnvr rtneani ceased t'v i a . i-. i . i i . ib iBonaiuy is sata io nave oeen not, so jjwaiiamong the inhabitants. It is thotJL'ht that tvithin a radiha of twenty or thirty miles. Rot lesHhan eight i- thousand have been swept tctrbvilbls latal scourge within the last two or ! three Weeks. Tbr B ingapore authorities have directed all vessel! from Siam to be examined. n4 tlosff with a fduj bill of health lo be placed Quaraniine. : 'i I . ' .1 f.r.l son ? Because they are precisely the same as follow from the action of other poisons on that organ. Arsenic, or any other ac rid poison, when swallowed, is attended with the same cdhseauences. as is Droved' . 4 r , B , by dissection of the body when death had taken place in the course oi a lew days. And if two substances or classes of sub stances, produce jlhe same effects, in the same, circumstances, and you call one of them a poison, what can you call the oth-i er but a poison too:? But the evil only; begins, it does not stop in this vital organ,' which is connected with all the rest of the body just as the water wheel of a fac tory is with all the machinery in it ; and? . !.-.: 1-1 1 I II when its movements; are disordered, a i li the.' machinery rnust be affected. And we next enquire as t0 the liver. Dr. Pai ris, an eminent European writer, says that spirits induce with other disease! ' an obstructed and hardened liver." An other physician says, it produces al chronic inflammation of the stomach and liver" ; the immediate consequences of which are mania a. pqtu, indigestion, he-j patic dysenteries apd. dropsies." Anothei says the stomach, liver and brain are! those organs that more immediately eif hibit the deleteriousness of its unnatural 'effects." ' I j l , . ' When used internally (savs another) in eVery form and proportion; it has long been known to exert a strong! and speed? influence on thisjorgn, the liver." And this in two way 11 By sympathy with the coats of the stomach. 2. By means and delirium tremens follow in the train of " Prince Alcohol." Sometimes the whole substance of the brain is complete ly saturated with ardent spirits. A fluid has been found in the ventricles of the brain as strong as one third gin and two thirds water. Alcohol hardens the brain in the skulll, or out of it: it is frequently put into spirits, to harden it preparatory to dissection. If these poisonous effects are undenia bly produced on the stomach, liver, lungs, heart and brain by the use of ardent spi rits; who can' say that Alcohol is not a poison ? The American Temperance So ciety in their eighth annual report say, " not a blood vessel however minute, not a thread of the smallest nerve in the whole animal machinery escapes its in fluence." It has taken the lives of thou sands. "It has been the water of death to myriads of the human race," says one. " In aU its forms (says another) it is to be regarded as the most virulent poison. Its use, as an article of diet, isthedirectcause proved by experiment on animals that alcohol and prussic acid were similar in their effects. Five hundred eminent me dical men testified to a similar statemen before a committee of the British Parlia ment. Forty-five of the same profession in Ohio say 44 It is equally poisonous with arsenic, operating sometimes more slowly, but with equal certainty." MEDICUS. Gen. Shields on the IVifmot Proviso. The Vicksburg (Miss.) Whig announces, upon the authority of Gen. Quitman, Go vernor, elect of Mississippi, that General Shields is not a Free Soilcr, or in favor of the Wilmot Proviso. In a letter lo Gen. Quitman the Illinois Senator says, to charge him with proviso views " i'j a vile slander of his enemies. What say the members irf the Illinois Legislature to this We hope General Shields has not been playing the Brown Game over again and to a successful is- r a . i .i sue. I5ut it mere ne any truth in tne a- of an appaling :amount of disease and j bove he certainly has put a northern face death." All the; best writers on Chemis try : all the eminent medical writers as sign it a place with the most destructive poisons. And when it is diffused through out a man, how; slight an attack of dis ease becomes incurable : because the vi tality of the system has been destroyed. That on which the physician must depend for success is wanting, and there is no way to restore it The blood is unfit to stimulate the heart, and this mortal frame must go to ruin, while its immortal inhab itant flies, not released by old age, nor by the Providence of God ; not by a messen ger from the Eternal One saying, 44 come weight with-them than heaven-born truth, of the Alcohol mingled with the blood, Ugh cthe for tlU Mill chairman sees the little Mississippian mak- miclt erect, dnd.says 44 Mr. roote, every wi in inc oenaie. mai naa any rexraru Comfort of uhe man it supports, nroceeds y 'toward theldoor and makas its exit. IjOiasx ule Journal. !ftVhf establishment of cjtiiens of Florida .are holding meetings favora- comnion schools in that Slate. And do we need any other evidence than this, that Alcohol is a poison " tainting and destroying moral purity ?" That when men areimost injured by it. theyfare least able to see, and least willing to acknow ledge the evil? II And where shall we begin to show; the truth of our proposition ? We if ill begin at the fountain of life itself: Alcohol is mingled there in the golden bowl : arid the purple stream, as it courses the arte ries and veins, carries along with it a acting on the liven directly, iri a way simi- ilar to that in which it acts on the stomach. The action of tho liver is increased botjli ways. It alters the secretions of that or gan in color andj codsistencyJ It greatly enlarges and changes the organic struc ture of the liver : but sometimes dimin ishes it. One case is given in the books in which on dissection after death, the liv er was found not larger than usual 44 but astonishingly hard" ; 44 so as to make con siderable resistance to the knife.1 In the poison themselves to death in a shorter, while others do the work in a longer time. If it is slow, it is generally sure. In for mer times in Italy there was often admin istered a slow poison called Aqua Toffa na : it was the dread of almost every dis tinguished family in that country. It was a solution of arsenious acid in aqua cym balarue. It produced a gradual sinking have resisted the effects of the poison so long: but they might have lived longer, tinuous and tolerably direct line, passing through and have enjoyed better health without it. every variety of climate and production in the united states. A highly commercial inter change of commodities would thus be created, and new life and energy infused on thejvery day that the contracts shall be let. Passing too, through a large section of country posses sing superior advantages in climate and water power for some manufacturing purposes a bounding in stone coal, plaster and salt, also in inexhaustible supplies of iron ore, pronounced by men of science equal lo any yet discovered, and superior to any other on the American Continent. All these elements of wealth would serve to swell the tide of commercial and gen eral prosperity. j By referring lo a good map, it will be seen bat this plan will carry out. in effect, the cher- ished plan of our own distinguished and lament ed Dr. Joseph Caldwell ; also, the original de sign of the Charleston and Cincinnati Rail toad, with greater advaalages to our State ; also, the design of the General Government, in 1631, in ordering the survey of a Road from Portsmouth, on the Ohio river, to the South western extremity of Linville Mountain, in N. Carolina, for the construction of which the House of Representatives, in 1440, instructed a Committee to enquire into the expediency of making an appropriation. The failure of these projects was manifestly attributable lo difficulties which do not exist in the plan proposed, and which have unfortunate- ly discouraged further efforts. I he line from Portsmouth lo Linville, surveyed by Lieul. CL S. II. Long, Tooonroohical Engineer, in 1836- was perhaps the most impracticable that could have been selected, for uniting the interests of the Southern and North-western Slates, passing as it did through the roughest portion of Ken tucky and North Carolina, and almost directly across the mountain ranges of Virginia and Tennessee, the passes through which Col. Long describes as 44 not prcgenlinrr any lolrra- hie coincidence tcith tficdine of the contemplated Road." His description of almost the whole route is unfavorable, excepting his allusions to the fertile valleys in the mountains uf North Carolina and Tennessee, and a flattering no tice of Clinch and HoUtein Rivers which be says, 44 are to be regarded as channels of in calculable importance, whether viewed io con nection with our present project, or in refer ence to their future high destination which en sures to one of their vallies, at least, the dis tinction of becoming hereafter a portion of the great thoroughfare, connecting by the most di rect, easy, safe and practicable route between the Cities of New York and New Orleans. Although the difficulties and expense of render ing these streams navigable or even hopeless, yet no doubts are entertained, thai the facilities afforded by their valleys for the construction of Rail Roads, are such as lo ensure, in all hu man probability, the eventful accomplishment of the latter." Precisely through these 44 fertile valleys" of North Carolina and Tennessee, the Road now proposed is designed to run ; and the passes through the mountain do present a remarkable coincidence with the direction of ibis route. Passing smoothly between the South and Brushy mountain ranges, at some point in the valley of the Catawba, and through the Stone and Iron mountain ranges almi the banks of Watauga river, toils junction, with tho Tennessee and Virginia Rail Road, I believe there is oo very serious ohstable in the way, except the Blue Rid;e, at-the John's Rrrer gap ; and there is much reason to believe that this can io more easily passed than any other gap of the Bine RiJge in the State. By ihe junction alluded lo, the connection whh Knoxville will be com pleted, leaving ihe Virginia and Teanessee Rail Road at some point above Knoxville, and following the survey of the Charlotte and Cin cinnati Rail Road, (or possibly a nearer route) the connection with Lexington may .be also completed. I ll does appear clear to my mind, that this plan would be one of the greatest importance to the welfare of ihe States of North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky one of ial conse. qence to the Rail Road interests of each and a strong bond of union! a bond which mihl prove io le tlie true 44 Kryxtonc" in ihe arch of this grearRrpublic, and citable ibes three States to say with united voice to ultras. North and South : 44 thus far snail ye go and no fuither!" ' As this project truly national in its char acter, and a similar one (f far less importance) has been recognised as tucb, by the General Government; we might wiih justire, and pro- to his constituents, and a southern one to his southern friends. AT. Y. Ej press Mrs. Miller. The Case Settled. The fate of this lady, which excited so much attention, and awakened so much symathy, and been surrounded with so many suspicions, is at length lo be disrobed of its mystery, and the facts are to be brought to light. W'e have sat. isfactory reasons for saying that the foaming waters of the Niagara never rolled over ihe form of the missing Mrs. Miller. Happy would it have been for her. if accident had plunged her beneath that giant flood then her memory would have been fragrant and grateful in the hearts of her friends ; but the more dreadful up hither," but by the man's own suicidal i gulf into which she has fallen, will shroud her act. He has taken in an unclean spirit ; name with infamy and her friend with grief, to rob him ol health, reputation, property ! Mrs. Miller has eloped with Mr. Baker, of Win. and life: The degree in which a man is ; cbester, and the fact has cen known here for poisoned, is in the combined ratio of the j quantity, the strength and the time. Some some five weeks, but withheld from motives of delicacy to ihe friends. It is no longer neces sary to keepback the information, as the proot is gathering too thick lo be longer doubted. Baltimore Argus. priety appeal to her for aid : But shall it bo A late English paper says: 44 It is a re iauj tnai these three great Slates are unequal markable and scientific fact that all the u (be task, with their own best interest latter improvements in cotton weaving 1 State pride and a lofty pauiotism to 'stimulate machinprv have come from the United . them ! Shall ii be said that eilhcr.of them' States. could sh' pay a few million of debt w Lea jdl ...!.!; .