Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-09-27
Mrs. pIlIIcrLThe Niagara Mystery.

A letter from Detroit to the Vermont Family Ga
eee gives the following particulars OF the return OF
Mrs Miller, and her account of her absence, which
will doubtless lead to full explanation of the mys-
terry:
Mrs Miller has returned to her friends i'll this
CITY She states that it her intention when
she left the hotel at Niagara, to have thrown her.
self off the bridge which over to Goat Island
lust above the cataract but, arriving at the
place. she had not the courage to do it she was Il
coward on instinct She had, previous to leaving
the house, put her children to sleep written letters
to her parents and one to the landlord, stating her
intention and requesting them to be kind her babes
she had also cut off her curls, and left them with the
letters, in a conspicuous place on the table.
% From that time to the present, nothing positive
has been heard from her. Her father, however,
spent several months in fruitless search. Return
ing in June or july he died of a broken heart. Not
long since, a brother of hers died at Saratoga His
DEATH too was undoubtedly accelerated by the same
cause. Learning the condition of her family, be-
leve she intmated to them by letter where she could
be found. and her willingness to return
Ace0rding friend of the f"nAy wont aftpr hor
last week, and brough her home to mourn with her
widowed mother over the ruin she has caused. Her
children with their father Major Miller, some
where at the South. She states, and believe 1T Is
generally understood here, that domestic difficulties
drove her to the rash of leaving her children and
destroying herself and that after ahuddering the
brink of that awful gulf she changed her plan, and
buried herself in a convent nunnery near Balti-
aaOrc. She positively denies having been in compa-
my with any gentleman, but found her way to the
monastery alone, and which she left pure she
entered. At any rate she is now with her mother
who has received her with open arms"
LARGE GOLD Co1Ns.--An important to
commerce. in connection with the gold of California
has lust been brought forward in the Senate by MIR
Gwin Senator from that new State 1t proposes
virtually that gold coins of the value of from one
hundred ten thousand dollars each shall be struck
at the Mint
The circular form hitherto universally followed
for small coins, which had its origin in the rude
ancient contrivances of dropping the melted meta
from a lade, to be then struck with punch anc
hammer, adapts them to our purses, but would no
be appropriate for these gigantic coins, designed fo
heavy transactions at home and exchanges abroad
For these purposes they should be rectangular, tina
they may be convenient for packing in boxes.
These huge rectangular coins are but a valuable
and ingenious improvement upon the limited anf
already existing system of European bankers They
are to be struck of refined gold, of uniform hneness
and with appropriate legends and devices, similar tt
those upon our smaller coins with their values con
spicuously marked, and the inscriptions Liberty
and g United States of America" Counterfeitins
and mutilation are provided against by suitable con
trivance and enactments.- Union, Friday
The cars running the Charlotte anC
South Carolina Railroad within fifteen miles o
Winnsboroush, and are daily adv ancing.