The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-07-15
ANOTHER QUIET SUNDAY. PHILADELPHIA was

| ANOTHER QUIET SUNDAY. Philadelphia wa.
favored yesterday with another quiet Sabbath
the streets were orderly, the people were sober
taverns were closed, and throughout the length
and breadth of the great consolidated CITY
scarcely solitary drunken man was to he seen
No uprOa~ nor confusion prevailed. and gen.
uine, Sabbath stiffness was general. Some OF
the topcrs, rendered desperate by the general
drought. repaired to Gloucester and Red Bank
where the " tire-water;' was to be had but the
mischief done in this way was very tri1ng in
comparison to floods of crime and misery which,
upon the Sabbath particularly, has heretofore
flowed unchecked from the thousands Of bars
scattered throughout the city.
The most marked effect of the new order of
things is In police matters. On Monday morn
ing the dock at the mayors office has usually
been filled with miserable inebriatcs, who have
been arrested for ntOXication, while the police
reports have generally presented long array
of drunken and disorderly cases. This morning
there were very few charged with those Offences,
and in some districts, which used to contribute
the largest share of drunkards to the lcyees of
the magistrate, there was not single arrest
This fact sustains our Oft-rcpcated opinion, that
if prohibition was in practical operation, the
offices OF the police magistrates would become
sinccure. We have heard of several incidents
which grew out Of the execution of the Sunday
law, some of which are quite amusing. In some
places the publcans, who were prevented from
selling rum, removed the handles from the
pumps in their vicinity, and thus srove to force
measures by depriving the wayfarer of the Op-
portunity to procure draught of cold water
One of the fashionable drug stores which was
opened during the day. had Il very heavy de-
mand for mineral water. Several attendants
were kept busy drawing the innocent beverage,
and hundreds drank wholesome temperance
drink who would have INDUCED in something
stronger could the latter have been obtained.
In the State of Vermont, the liquor traffic has
been almost entirely suspended. The traffic is
contraband. and for citizen to be seen assOc-
ating with persons who are suspected of secret
traffic, is highly injurious to his character. -
Within the ensuing two years, the business of
rum selling will entirely cease in the State. -
None. executing few Nebraska democrats ia
Yor free rum trade.
In Maine the contest has been prolonged and
severe but the prohbitory principle has been
nobly sustained, and is now working out its true
character.
There is now but one State in New-Ens land
that is without prohibitory liquor law, and
that is, as might be expected, New-IIampshire,
commonly called the Granite State y pOlti-
cally signifying that it is a hard place.
PRIMITIVE LEGIsLArION.-Haywood's Massa-
chusetts Gazetteer gives the following, as cop
led from the ancient Town Records OF South
Reading, Mass:
"lGG7.-This year the town contained SO
dwelling houses. 1t was ordered that every
dog that comes into the meetinghouse in time
of service shall pay sx-pcnce for every time
he comes"
gss- The population of Harrisburgh, Penn,
is 12,O22.
We are Informed that William Rogers, resi-
dence four miles East of Clcv Gland. has sold
his grape crop, consisting oftvc acres. for $500
per acre, the purchaser to gather the CROP
This is growing fruit to some purposc.--Coiun,-