No Rest for the WashingtOnians.
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The beautiful town of Bath, in Maine, had
some years ago become quite temperate. But
two or three groggeries remained, with few
customers, and while the reformers were off
guard, new race Of drinkers arose, and the
day and evening sessions of laborng men on
their way 10 destruction became frequent and
cowded. At length the philanthropists began
new movement, which excited attention, and
at one of the grog shops became the topic OF
morning conversation. The rum seller, with
an air suited to the announcement, said 81
care not for all they can do; my profits are safe,
for" (pointing to the hardest drinker,) 81 am
certain of making fifty dollars out of you, and
forty out of you, and thirty out of you;" so
pointing round the circle, until he had assessed
the whole group. The head drunkard at this
arose in wrath, and pulling his old hat from
mis- head, cast it violently on the floor. "No,"
said he, "J--, you shall never make ano-
lber cent out Of me, nor shall any other grog
seller" The whole company were reused by
the occasion, and instantly the pledge went
round. They sailed out in mass to the other
groggeries, procaiming the rebellion on all
hands, and getting recruits rapidly.


On bench were sitting couple OF men,
whose conversation had just prepared them
for the rising. One Of the grog sellers had gone
by in an elegant sleigh, with his leopard skin
floating around him. g There !" said one Of
the men. "there goes --, dashing his fine
horse and Sleigh and fine clothes. See, Tom,
you and pay for all that fnery, and see what
rags and dirt we get by it," So they were dis
coursng when the protesers came up.


Before night sixty hard bruisers had vowed
allegiance 10 cold water, and at the close of
the next day almost every Incorporate man in
the place had joined the standard of Tempe
rance The whole town was excited by the
news. The men who had been so long en-
riching the rum-sellers now turned round up
on them and entered complaints before the
magistrates for their violation of the laws.
What the magistrates had been unable to
prove before, could now be proved abundantly,
and pains and penalties were loaded upon the
unhappy retailers. The grog g-shops were all
closed, doois and windows, within a week,
and as desolste as they had before been popu-
lous. The shop of the man with the pretty
sleigh, after being closed some days, took fire
one night, and although the fire was speedily