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conduS halt mile IN length, railroads, hop
peIs, steam engines, sc. enough TO confuse
one. One hundred and eighty,seye horses,
ZACH worth three hundred dollars, are constant
ly employed. One copper boiler will contain
i,2OO barrels of beer. Thirty tons Of coal are
consumed daily. The malt bins will contain
900, 900 bushels, worth S2,50O,O00. Fltteen,
hundred barrels Of ale made every day, and
sixty cats are kept TO destroy mice.--ThlS es-
Enlistment does vastly more 10 deprive the IN,
habitants Of Great Britain and Ireland Of food
than short crops yet we heas saucA lesS
complaint about it,"


c,- Those who have for years, been offend
ing against pubic morals, against heaven
against Impoverished families, and against
mothers and children's tears, selling their
deadly poison to the corruption of the ccrnmu-
nifty, are very sensitve-A-they say we tread up
on their business. Rather their unholy traffic!
We make no war against them personally, but
their pursuit, their calling; and while we be-
eve ourselves justified by good conscience,
we will Dare to do righy aud leave the rest
to God"


For The Columbian Fountain


"When wac scosfer at Temperance Societies, /"
said friend Of mine, who has been for many years
an able advocate and ptactiser Of total abstinence,
II thought had discovered knock down. argu.
ment against them in verse fiom scripture, which
often quoted with great gee-in my cups It was
this


It il not for Princes 10 a,nA wine, nor rulers strong


drink,


Lest they drink thereof and forget the law,


But give wine unto him that is poor and needy and


lowly Of spirit,


That lie may drink .harssGof and forget his sorrow


~ used to argue, " said he, athat this was d.
vine sanction of the principle and practice Of drink
ing to drown troubles and sriefs. But without re-
aecting that in early times the wins was drank
whan just expressed from, the grape and before fer
nentation Is proved BY ancient pictures--s
turai and mythological--as well az by the words Of
the Bible in relation to new wine when became
Teetotaer, fperceiesa that in this country, where
the peorN themselves are their own princes, rulers,
sovereigas, law makers, and law gvers the first part
Of the divine injunction applies to every citizen from
Maine to Mstal4cras, and from Cape Cod to Van
coussrs Island and that if our legislative, admins
trative. and executive agents. who receive their agen
ces to rule and govern, only because it is inconve-
nient for the multitude in their individual capacities
to assemble and act together--if those in Office
would strictly obey the first part Of tho injunction,
and the people bear in mind that they themselves
are tho actual bona de rulers, and, consequently,
refrain from drinking lest they forget the law,
there would be none among them poor or needy or
lowly OF spirit. There would be little poverty ne
cessity, lowness of spirit and few sorrows to for
get. "Believe me, said my friend, g when the
liquor is entirely out Of the system, we view things
in different light altogether" Il.