Litchfield enquirer., 1841-07-15
WHIsKEY AND THE MONKEY.

During a recent series OI meettlSS LII NeW York city, one of the delegates of the Baiti- more Temperance Society, related the fol- lowing :- tVeekty Messenger.
 MT. Pollard concluded inc meeting. He said he wiis kind of old Butcher to bring up the rear. So much had been sad, ne scarce knew what to talk about. But there was one thing he would talk about and al- ways intended to. For fifteen years he was in the gutter, the watchhouse, and if he had had justice done him, had once been in the penitcntiary. He had seen as much of the miseries of drunkenness as perhaps any man, and he was HOW determined if possible to put down and drive it out of the country. Men bOaSted that they were not drunkardS, but only moderate drinkers. He did once, but he believed that if six glasses made man drunkard, he who drank one glass is one-sixth of a drunkard. Men would get drunk once or twice and not call themselves drunkards, and then they would get drunk again. They had not the abhorrence of the thing, and they had not the selt-control ot the beast. In his drinking days he was the compan.on of d man down in Anne Arundel county, who had monkey which he valued at SlOOO. We always took him out on our chesnut parties. He shook all our chesnuts for us, and when he could not shake them off, he would go to the very end of the limb and knock them off with his fist. This was great spor: for us. One day we stopped at tavern and drank freely. About half z ass of whiskey was left, and Jack took the glass and drank it all up. Soon he was merry, skipped, hopped, danced, and set us all in a roar of laughter. Jack was drunk.
 We all agreed, six of us, that we would come to the tavern next day and get Jack drunk again, and have sport all day. lcall- ed in the morning at my friends house. We went out for Jack. Instead of being as usual on his box, he was not to be seen. we looked inside, and he was crouched up m heap. Come out here, said his master- Jack came out on three legs, his fore paw was on his head. Jack had the headache I knew what was the matter with him. He felt just as had felt many morning. Jack was sick and couldn't go. So we put ! it off three days. We then met, and while drinking, a glass was provided for Jack But where was he? Skulking behind the chairs. Come here, Jack, said his master, and drink, holding out the glass to him. Jack retreated, and as tho door opened he slipt out, and in n moment he was on inc top of the house. lis master went out and cali ed him down. He would not come. He got a COW skin and shook it ut him. Jack sat on the ridgcpole and would not come.- His muster got gun and pointed II at nm. A monkey is much afraid ot gun. Jack slipped over the back side of the roof Ills master then got two guns and pointed one on each side of the house, when the monkey seeing his bad pfedicument, at once whipped up on the chimney and down in one of the flues, holding on by his fore paws. That man kept that monkey twelve years, and could never get him to taste one drop oi "his- key. The beast had more sense than man who has an immortal soul and thinks himself thc first, and ought to think himself the best of all creation. MT. Pollard addressed him. self to the youth, and in the view ot his ex- ample urged them all to sign the total absli- hence pledge while they were young.
 Such was the dense crowd that none could come up to sign the pledge. A few papers were circulated, and lCO names were oo- tained.
 | Yankee Energy-A few days since gen. tleman ofths city was standing near the ca 1 nal, at Coeymans, when he saw small yawl boat approaching him, propelled by lad about l7 years of age. The boat con- tuined also the boys mother, six sisters, and u small brothcr. Our friend asked him where he was from and where bound, and was answered in substance as follows: "We are from Ohio; my father died there, and as we were nearly destitute, mother thought we had better go back 10 Saybrook, Conn.,, where we used to live so we raised money enough to get this boat, and started from Ohio last faIs. We came through Lake Erie and got into the Canal, where we were stop ped by tho ice; and during the winter we hauled our boat up by the side the Canal, where we remained till the ice broke up.- Sometimes we were considerably cold, and at ,unes we were sick a little, but on the whole we all got along right smart. We shall 20 down the North River and up the Sound to Saybrook" During this conver- sa,ion our friend was walking along the mar gin of the CaEal our noble Yankee boy be- ing unwilling to lose any time, kept con. stantly propelling his boat forward, tue younger brother, a lad only about seven or eight years of age, steering the craft. It was Sunday morning, and the mother and daughters were clad in their Sabbath suits, and engaged in reading. A small furnace was standing on the deck of the boat, and a sail snugly slowed, was lying fore and aft The few cooking utensils. bedding, and clothing belonging to this poor family, were securely placed under the deck. Here Is an instance of industry and perseverance, which comments itself 10 the notice ot the rising generation-ayc, and the present one too.- No doubt if this boy lives, he will yet make q stir in the world and if we knew hIs name we would publish it.-N. Y. Tribune.
 An Editor Drifting Co,cs-1'he editor of IIjll's New Hampshire Patriot-no less Il personase than ex. United States Senator, ex. Governor of State, ex-Sub- Treasurer of the United States for New.England, sc. &c, gives the following account of his morning s |