Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-06-22

to discontinue it. or should do it in the most ca1
| uous and gradual manner The truth is, that
the effects, whether immediate or remote, of al
coho, whenever they are 50 distinct as to be est-
mated, are always those of an unna ural. unheal-
tby or poisonous agent; and soon after the daily
| poison IS Withdrawn, the vital powers, relieved
fro III their oppression, rally, the organs act with
more freedom and regularity. and the whole ma
chinery Of life exhibits something like renoya-
| ton.
Spirit has been enormously supposed to af-
ford protective influence against the effects of
| severe cold. A sea captain of Boston, Massa-
chusetts, informed me that in memorable cold
Friday in the year 1916, he was on a homeward
passage off our coast not far from the latitude of
Boston. Much ice made upon the ship, and
every person on board was more or less frozen,
excepting two individuals, and they were the
only two who drank no spirit.
'ln 1919, the crew of Danish ship of SIXTY
men, wol supplied with provisions and ardent
spirit, attempted to pass the winter in Hudson's
Bay: but fifty eight of them died before spring.
An English crew of tlCe7uy ttco men, however,
destitute Of ardent spirit and obliged to be al
! most constantly exposed to the cold, wintered in
the same bay, and only two of them died. Eight
Englishmen did the same in ike circumstances,
and ali returned TO England. And four Rus
slams, left without spirit provisions in SptZ-
bergen, lived there six years and afterwards re-
| turned home. Facts of this nature might be
multiplied to any extent.
So far, also, from guarding the animal fabric
against the depressing md irritating effects of
heat, spirit tends to produce iniammatory dsea-
SEES. A distinguished madital off icer, Marshall,
who was subjected to great exertion and expos
ure in tropical climate, observes, 4 have always
found that the strongest liquors were the most
enerVating; and this in whatever quantity they
were consumed: for the daily use spirits is an
evil which retains its pernicious character
through all its gradations; indulged in at all, it
can produce nothing better than diluted or nit
igated kind ofmischef.'
ThosS ships crews who now visit hot and
sickly climates without spirit have an average
ofsickness and mortality strikingly less than those
who continue the use oft as formerly THE
brig Globe, Captain Moore says the anniversa-
ry Report of the PENNSYLVANIA Temperance So
ciety for 1881, has lately returned from yoy-
age to the Pacific Ocean. She had on board u
crew of ten persons, and was absent nearly
eighteen months. She was, during the voyage,
in almost all the climates ofthe word; and had not
one sick person on board, and brought the crew
all back orderly and ohedent. All these advan-
| tages Captain Moore attributes, in a great meas
ure to the absences of spirituous liquors There
was not drop used in all that time; indeed there
was none cn board the vessel
| To a place among preventions of disease, spi-
| rltuous drinks can present but the most feeble
claims. If, under occasional drinking the period
| of alcoholic excitement, temporary resistance
may be given TO those morbid influences which
bring accute disease be it casicna or epidemic,
| that excitement, by the immutablc laws of vital
action, Is ncce ssariiy followed by state of re-
| taxation, DEPRESSION or collapse, in which the
power of resistance is weakened, and this too in
proportion to the previous excitement. In order
! therefore TO obtain from alco Ole stimulus any
thing ike protective inf ence against the eX-
| citing causes Of disease, the exposure to these
causes must be periodical, precs sly cOrrespon-
ding with the stage of artificial excitaion. If,
however, such accuracy of adjustment between
the powers of vital resistance artiiiciay excited
and the unhealthy agencies which tend to pro-
duce disease be wholly impracticable, then the
danger must be increased by resorting under
any circumstances to spirit as preservatiye; and
if not, other articles would DO as well.
! The best protection against disease is derived
! from a ma tural, healthy and unfuctuating state
of vital action, sustained by pain articles of nu-
| triment taken at regular int ryas, unnfuenced
by any innutr tious Stimulus hich operates upon
! the whole nervous power. The habitual drink
! ing Of ardent spirit creates 4 multitude Of chronic
or subacute organic irctati2ns and arrangements
often necessarily ingrahei; hence tipplers and
drumkards, exposed to the exciting causes of in
flammatory, epidemic, AMI contagious diseases,
are liable to ar attack, and when attacked having
the vital powers unnecessarily wasted, they die
| in large numbers. These results are Witnessed
in epidemic pleurisies, lung teycrs, the severe
forms Of Influenza peztendal fevers and cho-
lera.
| WATER is the natural and proper drink of
man. Indeed it is the grand beverage OF organ
| lied nature. 1t enters largely IN the composition
of the blood, and juices of animals and plants;
forms an important ingredient in their organized
structures, and bears a fixed and unalterable re-
lation to their whole vital economy 1t was the
only bev rage Of the human family in their pri-
meval state.
In that garden where grew every tree pleas
ant to the sight and good for food, producing all
the richness and variety of fruit and flower,
which an omnpotcnt and al-boundful Creator
could adapt to the relish Of his senses, and the
eXgencies of his entire organization, it cannot fot
4 moment be doubted that man was in a c6nti-
ton the best suited to secure to him the uninter@
rupted, as well Us the highest and best exercise
and enjoyment, OF his physical, mental, and mo-
raj powers. His drink was water. A river
! flowed from Paradise. From the moment that
river began to water the garden,' till the present.
beverage; and all the attempts to improve it by
the admixture Of other substances, whether al
cohoic, narcotic or aromatic, have not only failed
but have served 10 ettrCratc or poison IT, and
render it less heaIthful and safe.
Water is as we'll adapted to mans natural ap-
petite, as to the physical wants of his organs A
natural thirst, and the pleasure derived from It's
qualification, were given US to secure to the vital
machinery the supply Of liquid necessary to its
healthy movements When this natural thirst
occurs, no drink tastes so good, andin truth none
is as good as water; none possesses adaptations SO
exact to the vital necessities Of the organs. 80
long as fresh supply of liquid is not needed, SO
long there is not the least relish for water; it Of
fers no temptation, while its addition to the cir
culating fluids would be useless, or huTttul.
ICoScLUDED IN OUR NEXT
THE GOLD CURRENT FROM CALIFORNIA.
The arrival of the Crescent City at New
Orleans with 100000 in gold, settles
the fact that California is 10 pour stream
or cyoIden treasure into mr. eountrv such