New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-10-03

| seen moro than a hundred az .hs tables q; once,
whom sixth part perhsps were Americans Brea
snd cheese, bread and butter, ssrdInec, and lago
beer are the staple articles Of trade here. Very It'll
of other drink is called for One attraction OF thos,
places is their cool and retired character. BE
ing generally in large easements OF cellars.
and in some instances in the adjoining
vaults quite under the street, they are Oh, OF The
heat aud on; Of the crowd. This applies particularly
70 the downtown saloons. Uptown. where rents ars
lower the frs; floor il the usual location. few years
sro German beer house was sort Of sleepy volca-
no in appearance, because Of the enormous amount
of smoke s4n, up fion pipes. But COW the case Is
different Ppe-smoksg getting rsFe' and the com
mon low piifsd cigars are too YIialooussy bsi Tor
any human consumption so that one may veo:ure
into slmost any eeer shop without frmedste dagger
Of suffice alton That man Who has once uscu good
tobacco and is not entirely cured ot 5ny disposition
to smoke after burning hun6-oi 81 me Our-;ont
cigars of these days, ray consider his cas-, hopeless
He is past medication. We opino thu, the 7nality Of
the tobacco and no, cLsuge Of tsite, has thus ma
terially broken down the C srmsn smoking customs.
\ well paironized beer.house will sell from eight
to ten kegs per day. One large establishment in
Broadway sells fifteen 10 seventeen. kcg is seven
and half gallons, or quarter of barrel. SO
have for this Broadway establishment four barrels
per day, l,46o in year, berg a., 800 gallons
about SIS 500 glasses, a; 81 cents each making sJs
$50 year for beer alone. Beside this, other drinks
are sold 10 some extent and great quantity OF bread
and butter, bread and cheese sarlnes, SC, is dis
posed Of The annual receipts cannot ial below si5,
OoO But this is a favorte place, frecuenied by the
best class of Germans and very large number Of
Americans. embracing gentlemen of distinguished lit
erary and social position
Considering the enormcus amount OF drinking done
in them. the German beer houses sins alarl! free
from rowiyism and noisy disturbances. Lager beer
is not strong enough for the class of porserhoese ru
fans who make night hiieoss in other place.. They
take the worst sort of American brandy, poisonous
infusion of alcoholic and fiery drugs, the free use Of
which almost arsby results in delirium tremens
unless the victim reaches the state prison or the
gallows at a very early period. The German people,
teo are generally submissive to ac laws. Since tho
tailor riots there las been considerable breach VI
the peace by this class of citizens any serious
disturbance in which they have been the agrossors.
Except to the law forbiddng tho sale of liquor on
Sunday. they yield reader obedience to the powers
that rule over them thsn Americans. We should
Ike 10 be able to say much for another largo
class of alien and adopted citizens.
Political questions American as well a. foreign, arc
a leading topic of conversation in tho beer houses.
The Germans are naturally inclined to political in
vestigaton, and as class they are by no means 50
ignorant of such matters as has been widely thought
In this country they wers for q long time deceived
by that huge falsehood, the self-stylod Democracy
Of Tammany Hall; and up to the period
of the Revolution II 1913, they wen, in
solid phalanx for the " Democratic party, regular
nominations and ALL Any one who dared 10 acknowl.
edge himself a Wing was looked upon aud oven
treated as an aristocrat and renegade Like large
proportion of their kindred in Pennsyl' ania who
have hardly done voting for Gen. Jackson, they went
il blind 81 far "a parties in this country were con
cerned, and Tammany used them to do tho dirty work
which she is now relying upon lrishmen to perform.
But since the Revolution and the advent OF hossuth
and large number of educated and talented exues OF
their own people, the Germans have become enlight-
ened, and now their votes are divided. Tammany
holding scarcely roiety, and those only because
she constantly impresses the Germans with the ides
that the wings all Maine Law men, and will at
the 6r.t good opportunity break up The lager beer
traffic. Without his beer and his joke the German
would be denatonazed indeed.
II, is but lust to remark that there are great many
vile holes in the lower part of the City with Haunting
German signs, where thieves and prostitutes hsr
bored, and the ylest of sour beer and adultcratod
liquors ore sold only by chance that respectable
people get into these dens and they not likely 10
20 there a second time. Respectable Gsrmens hoop
car of them and the only regular frequon,ers are of
the worst class of oilers thieves, runners, rowdies
and vsgabonds Of the rising generation. Most Of
these places are intoeraby filthy and scarcely week
passes without the shutting up Of one or moro on ac
count Of t dangerous moral and physical character
They are no more like decent German beer house.
than a ye-Point rum rookery - Lko tho As;or
House.
BEER IN ST. LoUIs.-The 81. linus Republicans
SAYS there are "a Breweres in that city every Of
which stored nearly twice the quantity Of Ale for
the past summer that has been made any preceding
one. The manufacture reached siTfy h0usand bar
reh-iO coo of Lager and 1000 Of ordinary Beer
ON an average count, one barrel Of thirty gallons
gives about three huHdred glassesi thus We nave
about tlreire millions Of glasses OF Lager beer am
about sir millions of common Beer; in all eighteen
million glasses Of Beer drank in st. Louis, rom tis
,t of March last up 10 the 18th OF september, tne
time the Lager Beer gave out. Common Beer u -0ld
AZ five dolers per barrel and Lager Beer at seven
dollars; that Is at Wholesale; this WIZ nehe ths
amount received by the Brewers Tor Lager Beer
s9aO coo and for common sl0O, OO0-together, say.
5000 OCO The retailers ut FIVE cents glass took IN
aSo0 OoO for LAGER Beer and $500 900 for the com
rn"n srticIe Just think of il. Nearly million d
doIars 5000 OOOD spent in St. Louis, during sum
ner for Beer And that chiefly among the Gernans
Themselves.