TEMPERANCE ITEMS.
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Intemperance, Insanity, Idioey, Death.


In an appeal in the New York Tribune to
the people Of that State, awakening them 10
the dreadful evils of intemperance, we find the
following:


From the bills Of mortality which have been
kept in several places, il appears that in sin
gle year twenty deaths were occasioned in
Portsmouth, NJ H., by the use of intoxicating
liquors; twenty-one in Salem, thirty-one in
New Haven, CT. !; thirty in New Brunswick.
N. j., and seven hundred in Philadelphia. Pa. !:
(and more than one thousand in New York.


By examinations made il has been shown
that of eight hundred and eighty maniacs in
our asyiums, four hundred owe the less Of
their reason to the use Of intoxicating liquors ;
that seventeen hundred out Of nineteen hun
dred paupers in our poor-houses owe their de
gradauon to the same cause that forty out Of
forty -four murders were committed under the
influence Of alcoholic stimulants that sixty
seven out Of seventy seven found dead, died o.
drunkenness and that four hundred out Of
six hundred and ninety juvenile delinquents
either drank themselves or belonged to families
that drank.


"I have shown" says the indefatigable
agent. Samuel Chipman, Esq, who visited
ali the prisons and poor-houses Of our State
I" have shown beyond the powers Of contra
dclion, that more than thres-fourlhs Of all the