Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1852-06-17
OUR MINNESOTA CORRESPONDENCE.
ST. Paul, Min. Ter, }
June Sd, 1852.

ny don't you enforce your liquor
law q Is question We hear from strang-
ers, and very often from some of our citi-
zens who are afraid we will Possibly
some Of your readers have walked thro'
St Paul, and, after seeing our many tips
/ ping shops. have asked the same question.
! l viii therefore answer:
FIrSt-The question implies what Is
/ false-that there has no change taken
4 place since the law went INFO force. There
has been very manifest change. Before
/ the first Of MAY drinking WIS done very
boldly. since if at all, very slyly. Several
! houses In the trade have abandoned it,
and several more have changed hands. If
you will stand onEour Iegee till your legs
are tired, you viii .'fail to see'' liquor dis
/ charged from our Boats, while last sum
mer, when the writer was a stranger here,
( he thought the people up here surely lived
/ on whiskey, for apparently more of that
/ article was landed here than pork or -four
! 1t was a matter of astonishrnent to all
/ strangers last fall to see the quantity Ian
/ ded here. Now it is not so. There is a
/ wonderful change in this respect. But
/ 1t IS brought here secretly" says a rum
/ my. Well, if it Is so unpopular as to be
| kept out Of sight through either fear or
/ policy, there Is something accomplished.
/ L know some have a most distressing fear
/ that this law viii result II .the smuggling
/ In, and drinking double as much as was
| formerly used Now Sirs, [ can sleep
very quietly for all such fears as that
! dc not suffer lest my countrv be ruined
4 by the secret sale aud use of liquors or
! hyr =. J, "a
( drunkenness / have so often witnessed
that has disguised me very few like to
/ get drunk all alone.
/ Scc0udLy-We admit that our Town is
/ yet cursed with many tipping shops,
/ where billiard tables. cards SC are used.
and from which sometimes one is seen en-
terlng the street "reeling like a drunken
man" But 1t must be remembered :;
/ first-that licenses were granted to a mum
( Der last fall for one year :-secOndly-tha
/ after the bill was introduced into the Leg
4 Islature, and before the law took effect.
some more licenses for one year were is
sued and thirdly-after the election
/ under the law, but before the first Of Nav.
contrary to an express prov sion Of the
I law, the county Commissioners granted
about fifteen licenses for one wear. the va
/ lIdlty Of which has not yet been. but soon
/ Will be tested. Again.-we thought to
| have check upon this traffic, in our cor
/ Dorate limits, by electing suitable city
Council on the 9TH of last month. but the
dummies, headed by the Democrat, were
/ too hard for US, and a majority Of the
/ Council elect, are personally opposed to
( the law. So that we have it sold among
US, and can't help ourselves az present
/ But we viii look alongand see
I IhIrdIy-A week ago to-day. the Nom
/ inee landed at Babcock's Warehouse. on
/ the Slough at the upper landing. between
/ f0ur and five thousand dollars worth of
I liquors. belonging to Mr. -- Gatzler.
/ Of Chicago, who had it stored Said IL
! quOr was seized on Tuesday. and yester-
1 day was consumed in the trial The de-
PENDANT proved that he had sail all the
4 time that he did not know the law was in
force here, and was going to ship it back,
/ but 1t was proved also that he tried at sew
/ eral places to sell tt, and always concluded
with the declaration that he would re-ship
it Edmund Rice, Esq, of the law firm
/ Of Rice, Hollinshead and Becker, having
/ said IN public speech on the eve of the
/ election. that he would defend any one un-
/ der the law. gratis. undertook to clear this
! poor old man, but did not do it. Squire
/ Simons fined him twenty dollars and costs.
and ordered the four or FIVE thousand dol
| lars worth Of liquor to be DESTROYED. |
understand he has taken an appeal but
this Will not mend the matter
1t is the opinion Of some that this whole
/ affair is something like boarding the lion
\ In his den-that certain persons were dis
posed to crush the law and for that pur-
/ pose, have this large lot of superior liquors
! shipped here to be the subject of trial, and
after being condemned getting an appeal.
! necessarily delaying the final issue. until
/ they can make up sufficient sympathy to
/ insure the repeal Of the law We shall
see what we shall see. There are some
. men on the other side.
/ The Steamer Nominee. had many very
warm friends here, who have rather cool
ed off a little They do not like the Jokes
Of some others, who point to her as the
+ temperance boat, Sa55ulh-keeUiHg boat. &C.
and yet the only boat which has brought
large lot of liquors, and landed them a
mong us But Captain Smith was not
aboard the last trip. The Boat is owned
T ~ q CDiu pdLY sumo OI whom zeal III IL
guOrs-and some of the owners live at the
Upper landing in this place, where the Ii
! quor was landed all these things consid-
cred, we cannot say that Capt Smith is so
much to blame in this instance, but are
+ sorry some other boat, since it must be
/ brought, did not bring it
/ The weather for some two weeks, has
been very warm. Vegetation grows as if
| by magic. The River has been within
two feet of high water mark, but has fallen
again. Business Is quite brisk, especially
such as Is connected with building. Lum-
Der has been very scarce, but is now be-
ginning to be supplied from St. Anthony
4 We need more Saws here, and hope soon
I to have them
We have no certainty of the ratification
/ Of the Sioux Treaties yet This IS great
I ly against US, inasmuch as many are IN
decided what to do till they know whether
they will be ratified or not, Some have
rr-Da over and ,-,-s