Correspondence of the Columbian Fountain.

ALEXANDRIA, Feb. 27, 1876
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ALEXANDRIA, Feb. 27, 1916.


Mr. EDITOR The extent 10 which the lear
full vice of intemperance is carried here is.
am inclined 10 believe, unknown to many OF
our cilzens. Al least it would seem SO from
the apathy they exhibit in relation TO the lem
perance cause, no meeting having been held
bv anv of the old societies for nine months
past. HE4.rEHF &EGe EEGG .


It's ia contemplation 10 take the rum census
OF Alexandria and send it TO you for publca-
ton Such census was taken by commit
tee from Harmony Division last spring, and |
am informed that the result was to show that
including the "big fish, and all, we have about
200 rum-sellers. Presuming that at least five
nected with each Of the drunkard manufacto-
ries, we have the large number of 1000 per
sons, or one ninth of our whole population en-
gagged by their interests in support ofthis traffic,
10 say nothing Of the drunkards and moderate
drinkers, whose inclinatons lead them TO side
with the army under tbs sable banners OF
King Alcohol. To resist This mighty array, we
have about 5000 pledged friends Of tempe
rance, the large majority Of whom, however,
seem to take little or no interest in the success
Of the work, and the Sons and United Btolhers
of Temperance. The former constituting Har-
mony Division No. 2, was organized on the
24th Of November, l843, and numbers abou,
l4O members.


The members Of this Division are real tee
totallers, asking no favor and fearing no frowns,
but acting as behooves them upon the great
principles they profess ds


The latter was Instituted on the 22d Of Sep
1ember, l845, under the title ofAssocation
No. 4, and is as yet in state Of comparative
weakness.


This Association, animated by the success
of their last public meeting, have determined
to hold another on the 5th Of April, and hope
that, as SOM as the weather will permit, they
with the Sons OF Temperance, will resume the
holding of street meetings which last year
were productive of much benefit.


notice in your Congressional report, an an
nouncement of the fact that the bill repeating
the act Of last session, requiring one Of the U
S. Circuit Judges 10 reside in Alexandra, has
passed the House Of Representatives. Wha,
comment upon the judicious and liberarleg
isalon for this section of the, District, upon
which so much has been said by the opponents
ofretrocession. That the personal convenience
OF one man, and the opinion of one small class
of the community in the metropolis, should
outweigh all the arguments advanced, and all
the claims presented by the unanimous con-
currence of an entire county, cannot but create
feeling of,n,bounded indignation in the breast
Of every man who processes 10 cherish the
principles Of republicanism. But thus it ever
has been, and ever will be, while the county
of Alexandra remains subject to the presen,
irresponsible power which now exercises au-
thority over it. l..