The Columbian fountain., 1846-08-03
THE RUMsELLERs' WORK.


The following description Of a tavern was
written in the year ll20. ~ afft
A tavern is the fountain of sin, the school OF
the devh, il works wonders, flung the place.
II is the manner Of God 10 show his power in
the church; and TO work miracles, that is to
say, to give sight to the blind, to make The
lame 60, the dumb TO speak. the deaf 10 hear
but the devil doth quite contrary to all this IN
atavern, for when drunkard goeth TO Ia
vern, he goelh uprighIly, bul when he come'h
forth, he cannot go at all, and he hath lost his
sight, his hearing, and his speech. The lee
lures that are read in this school OF the devil
are, glptlonies, oaths, perjuries, lyings. and
blasphenlies, and divers other vilianies; for in
tavern are quarrels, ISLANDERS, contentious,
murders.
Io there any similarity between our Taverns
and those depicted above. Let US see. Take
a few extracts from the latest papers. The
Wilmington Delaware) Chicken has the fol
lowing: a@
"RUM AND BRUrALIrT.--We regret to learn
that iarmar on one of the farms OF John r.
Laumer. esq, nesr Wilmington, Del, who
has an excellent and very industriour wife and
two children, has lately become so drunken
and worthless, that he rides about at night with
few suckers like himself--wastes his money,
abuses his wife, and does all such things lha, a
poor drunken creature might be expected 10 do.
On Sunday last, his mother-in law went 10 see
his wife on Sunday evening-found her face
bleeding, him 6ddling, and drunken wretch
with him assisting. What out TO be done
with such brute2 This man when sober is
very industrious orderly mamie ought to
hang himself or join temperance society.
His poor wife and children deserve our sym
pathy."
All this is the natural fruit of the rumsellers'
work, in our own day. But lake another in
stance. The Albany, N. Y. Knickerbocker
says:
A drunken fellow named Ryan, residing on
the corner of Church and Herkimer streets, on
Tuesday night last, threatened to kill his wife.
and armed with knife, he chased her. To
escape the brute, she jumped out Of the second
story window and injured herself very much.
Ryan is very industrious fellow.when sober,
and an excellent husband, but when he has the
devil, alcohol, in him, he acts like the devil,
Belzebub.
nd another from the Philadelphia Ledger
DEATH ON THE L. |. RAILRoAD.-A man by
the name OF John Bedle, while under the tear.
full influence of the intoxicating cup, on Tues
day, as the train of cars were in motion upon
this road, about half mile this side OF Hemp
stead Branch, staggered against them, receiv-
ing severe injury in the head, from the ef.
fecls Of which he expired in about twenty mi
nutes.
And another from Western paper:
James Ryan. while drunk, at Cleveland O.,
in attempting to shoot companion, killed his
son, aged about three years.
The truth is, we might give columns of
items going TO show that our modern taverns
are the hot beds Of wee, and the most fruitful
sources of the misery and degradatio of
those OF our citizens who are so unfortunate
as to be entrapped in them. Yet men keep
these Gppng shops! Oh, shame where is
thy blush2 Men making a business of killing
men