THE PENITENTIARY.
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We perceive by recent report. that there there
were 10 the peni,eniiary. on the 3lst of Aug.
fifty three persons, and that there were receiv-
ed in September. thirty one; making. in all, "a
Twenty eight were discharged. three eloped,
and one died, so that, in September, on the
3Olh, there were fifty-two. .Ese


We do not know how it is in this District;
but we believe the criminal calendar elsewhere
shows that more than one half Of penitentiary
cases occur directly or indirectly in conse-
quence oil rum.


Drinking produces idleness, and idleness
want; and hence il is not surprising that the
bounds Of honesty are sometimes overstePped.
We are far from saying that all who drink.
and idle, are dishonest; but we have no hesita-
tation in asserting that the sober and induslri
Gus are placed more distant from temptation
than the other class OF character. sfas