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MEssRs. EDIToRs: Permit me through the med;
nm Of your valuable paper TO call the attention of
the public to subject hitherto but little noticed in
Your paper. 1t is that of grog shops, with which
our city is so much infested. Those shops are
generally kept by foreigners, who seduce from the
paths OF virtue, the youth Of our city, by learning
them to become rum-trinkcrs. The conduct Of
the owners of these establishments is criminal
in the first degree. ! had occasion few days
since to visit one Of those establishments on 7th
street, and saw within its accursed walls, num-
Der OF boys whose ages, apparently varied from I2
to Is years, drinking with all the eagerncss Of
confirmed drunkards, the intoxicating drafts, and
setting off their revelry with the most wanon ours
ing and swearing. On the Sabbath DAYS the pave
ment in front is scene of disorder, and it is often
with difficulty that respectable people can procure
passage through the crowd selling to those youth
on the Sabbath is not uncommon, and if this is 10
continue, ere long we may expect to see the youth
of this country guilty of the same crimes that have
caused their vile tutors to leave their own Forbid
it heaven! Let the proper authorities investigate
the conduct Of those dealers in liquid poison and
profanity. 1t is due to Society, and especially
TO the rising generation. Is not this enough to
alarm the apprehension Of every parent, and bid
him rest not until these rcccptaclcs Of vice, and
generators OF crime, misery, and shame, be swept
away from our community.


If this state Of things be not remedcd, love Of
country, respect for the Deity, and every virtuous
principle will continue to give way to the bad ex-
amples of which we have so much cause for an
prchenson and for rcpudating the foreigner.