RUM RATIONS.
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II is a well established fact, that most OF
the scenes of crime, insubordination, and mis-
fortune that occur in our navy, arise from the
barbarous and disgraceful practice of distribu-
ting the burning poison that destroys, along
with the wholesome bread that sustains the
gallant sailor Inebriety has long prevailed,
to an alarming extent, in our national and
merchant ships.-Erchange


On this subject, the Philadelphia Saturday
American remarks: "How often this vice OF
intoxication among officers leads them Oh ;
the perpetration of other crimes, for which
they are tried, broken, and disgraced, we have
not at present considered That belongs more
properly to subject which we reserve for fu-
ture discussion; yet we cannot avoid the re-
mark in this place, that we know of cases in
which officers have been guilty OF purloining
spirits to make them intoxicated, and then,
while under the influence of the mad potation,
purloining the money of their comrades, or
fellow middies-and when these latter crimes
have been committed the code of honor not
applying to them, they have been brought up
under a court martial, tried, convicted, and
dismissed, in disgrace from the service. Yet
these crimes would not have been committed,
but for that parent of most crimes, drunken
ness"