The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-11-14
Mi5rRllanRull5.
From the Southern Organ.
" Last Appeal"

There is an easy and correct method, by
which any person who understands the " single
Rule of Three" can calculate the amount
spent annually for the support of coffee. houses
in the city of NeweGrleans, and independent of
statistics which often err All the data re-
CURED is the number of coffee houses, and in
passing along Tehoupitoulas street, about. al
year ago, noticed one numbered over 1000,
1 think $500, indicating that at that time, that
number had applied for license.
We will, then, suppose that there are about
1000 coffee houses and cabarets, selling liquors,
and that on an average each brings in annu-
ally, for the support of its keeper and family,
$780,
Two thousand multiplied by 500, equals
Sl,0o0,000. Bat this is only the profits of
the traffic The consumer pays for the value
of the article drank as we'll as the "polite at
tentions of mine host"
;, To exemplify, suppose the city supported
1900 butchers, at cost of $500 each. Their
customers wou!dnot only pay them profit of
$l,OO0,000 on their meats, but they would al
so pay for and consume all the beef sold in the
city. Now if the profits in trade be 81 ,OOO0 00O
the capital invested must be proportionally
greater, and 80 per cent. profit, in any legiti
mate business, is about as high as the purcha
ser is willing to go. Therefore, upon the data
assumed, and allowing the dealers 80 per cent
profit, the equation would stand thus: 81 ,OO0,-
600 multiplied by 100 and the sum divided by
30, equals 81 ,333, 333 l.3-trst cost of the
stock in trade. Then add s., 900, 600, the prof:
its; and we have the whole sum paid by the
dram drinkers, s5 ,333 1888 l-3. For which
they have nothing to show but debiIitated con-
stitutions, corruded stomachs, irritable tempers,
mock honors, kind Of daredevil politeness,
aud families on the road to ruin.
This estimate, by some, may be considered
too high. TO accommodate such, we will put
it at S2,000,000 instead of s., ,333, ,333 3;
which am sure is too low; and continue the
calculations for the United States.
The whole United States may be consider.
ed equal to 100 times New Orleans, then 100
times 100000 makes S20o0OO 0OO
Oh We, who. would generously aid in benefit
ting yonr race-ye whose souls are overflow
ing with philanthrophy behold the mighty
power arrayed against your benevolent and
worlhiest efforts Can you longer hesitate or
doubt about the course you should pursue 3
Is any thing gained by eupineness or procrasti.
nation? Now is the auSpicious moment for
action, and for united, concentrated action on
the part of all public benekctors, to overpuwer
the ene.nies of mans happiness, and to de.
stroy that power whose business seems to be
solely, to spread nfamy and misery on the face
of fair nature
This 200 millions, then, is the doube.headed
slung shot which stunts, stul,6eS, and debases
our nation. Where can be found so great
sum expended in raising man from the drgra
dation and dissipation in which he is sinking
sWhat an enormous sum expended in doing
eril2 Ye millionaires, who, we think, could
give tone and aspiration to the communities in
which you live, have you not an awful respon-
sibility resting upon you9 Will you any
longer say that fanaticism and coercion will
injure the causes Can you look -npon the
awful condition of the civilized world, and not
determine to come 10 its rescue, with the
means that God has kindly placed in your
power2 What can penniless penny.a liner,
Or all such that ever lived, do in comparison
with eight or ten milonaires who might form
society for the reformation of the customs of
the wopld? Remember, this enormous sum
is annually distracted from the bone aud sinew
of the nation--,hose with whom every patriot
should sympathse. 1t is deposited not at
mock auctions, bnt at mock coffee houses
This sum devoted to beggaring wives and
chilaren-exposing misery, in its worst forms,
and bringing 10 premature graves, the beauty
,nd uroti,ise Of the Land But the evils de not
end in poverty alone. The follies which are
tho result Of tho effects Of the exhilaratpg
3-ourht loncuare rs inadeotate to derfct-