Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-08-15
FOR the spirTJof the Age.
Cur Trip the Liquor Law, &c.
NEW York Orr

NEW YORK CITY.
BY reference to the heading of this Depart
ment, it will be perceived that we have been
changing our situation for a short time at
least. We took passage in the swift and
commodious Steamship Roanoke, Capt. Skin
ner, Saturday the 28th ult., and arrived safe
ly iafter a pleasant passage1 in this city, on
the night of the 29th ; and while speaking
on this subject, it is no more than Justice to
make reference to the superiority of this
line,-and to advise all who are travelling
North, to take passage in either the James
town or Roanoke. Gentlemen with their
families will find this the most convenient
route, as they are saved the ~vexation and ex-
'pense of transferring their baggage from Steam
boat to Cars. Besides the polite attic ntions
and pleasantness Of Miss Marg. Crane, the
model Stewardess, will be found particularly
agreeable.
AS we passed by Staten Island, on all
sides of us was scenery the most magnificent.
In the distance, bathed in all the glory Of a
beautiful moonlight, was the great city. of
New York. The brilliant rays of thousand
lamps. were flashing in the stiffness of mid
night. Governors Island interviewed, and
Castle Garden soon presented itself to our
view. Truly, it is magnificent to approach
the great metropolis Of the New World, at
midnight, when the lamps of Heaven CLEAN
brightly, and pale Luna smiles her sweetest,
most radiant beams.
Pm sorry to find that the Liquor Law, is
not enforced as l think it might be. But
from what | am enabled to find out, it has
done some little good in this city, in the way
of stopping the low ~groggeries and dens of
iniquity. But then, the law that is needed;
should strike at the very ground work of the
evil, and close the doors of the magnificent
, saloons, where the poor drunkard first learns
: to take a social glass around the festive
r board. The new law works better in the
! villages and towns throughout the State than
/ it does in this city.
The Plea for a Prohibitory law, is daily
0 getting stronger. A relation of mine, a
/ Physician in the town of Portsmouth, a few
e days before we left that place, speaking Of
the epidemic prevailing in that part of Ports
mouthfcalled Gosport, and oftlIe povertyAat
n degradation existing said, : Go see what
.e have seen4asbehoH the misery, want, and
V s~tarsRtion that 7 have Witnessed. Person:
i, lying with the fever, without medicine, nour
ishment or attention.. In one house alone
1t a creature bearing. the semblance of a man
has the fever, and the delirium tremenI
le down stairs, and ap- stairs a woman is lyin!
D. at the pointrof death with the epidemic, an
her brute Of a husband is drunk beside b er.
" And is not this sufficient in itself to oonvinc
t. the greatest unbeliever of the necessity o
such a-law. Oil humanity ! how long viii
IT. thou continue to be thus outraged! Forever
No ! no God forbid that man made in-hi
ae own most precious image, should continu
r. always blind to the great doctrine of sci
IN presertation. A day, I trust, of awakenin
Il is at hand, and the time will soon com'
!, when every State IN this glorious Confeders
ut cy, Will be a Maine Law" State.