For the Columbian Fountain
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Messrs .Editorsy-As the merry season of
Christmas and New Year is approaching,
thought it would be an appropriate time to
call the attention of a portion Of our fellow
citizens TO practice which has been re-
Gently introduced here, in imitation, sup
pose, of the Gothamitcs, mean Christmas
and New Year calls. For the information
Of this portion Of our fellow-citizens, and
with all respect, would inform them that
large portion Of the most fashionable and
genteeI Of the New Workers have dispensed
with the use of all Intoxicating drinks on
those occasions. They consider that it is
not becoming, in Christian and enlight-
ened community, to turn their parlors into
grog-shops, and their wiues and daughters
into mixers and dispensers of the drmakard's
drink; or, in other words, into bar-tenders.
We temperance people think that if our
friends who act differently from us were to
view the practice as we do, much evil
would be prevented. But some will ask,