Smyrna times., 1854-08-30
Communications.
Correspondence Of The Smyrna Times.
Philadelphia Letter.
The NeW Liquor La,9-The City Of Glasgow
Board of Health-Ancient Bricks, dc.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2J, 1854


PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 25, 1854.
At the last session of the PENNSYLVANIA I.eg4
islature, very stringent law furnishing any
one selling liquor to a drunkard was enactedI
The first conviction under this law took place
last Monday in the Court of Quarter Sessions
The evidence of the poor inebrates wife ID
saGdenin5 to read-'' upon several occasions
when her children were in want of bread, she
went to defendants tavern, and there saw her
husband in a drunken condition-he would have
plenty of money with han, and althou III aske.
for little to buy bread would refuse" The
defendant, great Overgrown Dutchman, wa8
convicted and fined $40 and cost, with so days
Imprisonment, besides being ordered to pay III,
injured wife S10-this beng the SUN allowed
under the law for those who BRING such rascal
to Justice. A most righteous Judgment.
Sad, sad memories have been awakened in
our midst by the vague report of a vessel lately
arrived at Boston, to the effect that on the 18th
of August green painted chest, marked City
| of GIasgow-G. b." was passed at sea-
Countless are the vagaries built on this incl
dent, much fear the City of Glasgow, with
her noble freight of human beings will never
be heard of this side of eternity Peace be
with the bones now bleaching deep-deep il
the vast ocean.
In my last letter Ispoke of the needed change
in our Board of Health, passing note may no
be improper. One of the lowest streets of oul
city has had cholera in its boundaries for some
weeks past; at last, the nuRber of death
caused alarm, and number of police were de
tached to st. Mary street, to explore. Th
sights were fearful-rvaling the famous Blac
, Hole of Calcutta-bodies far advanced in de
composition-the dead ard dying huddled togo
ther, and the thermometer standing at 80 an
95 degrees
The Board of Health was notifed--is no'
2 notifed--but, thus far, nothing has been done
r and the pest is still within our borders, and ye
, in the very face of this the Board ask and re
ceiye from councils Sl4,613 to defray expense
: for removing nuisances, &c! do not lear
t whether the removal of the Board itself wa
included in the above caption or not
The workmen employed in removing brio
: partition, in the upper part of the State Hous
IS came on a very old brick stamped " N. Robli
: son--1731 ''-some 40 years before the Revolt
o ton. This famous brick, along with Oth'
relics, now ornaments the room wherein ii
=" Declaration was signed.
The ship Tonawanda, from Liverpool, arrive
e here on Thursday last bringing some 3 or AZ
u Irish emigrants. The "finest pisantry in Il
a world looked remarkably quaint in their she
1t coats high collars, breeches yarn stockings al
ID thick petticoats, not forgetting the shoes
more bulk than beauty. The Sun, with ;
the sarcasm of the Know Nothings, chronicl
So this arrival as "More Irish Voters" and
es we go!
We have had another Of those .delectat
~ fights that has so long disgraced this, the VI
- unteer-freman city. Two rival engine comp
. nies got into quarrel out at Fairmount Ii
a Tuesday evening-the result was, one man 81
III dead, several dangerously wounded, some TIVE
ty Irish arrested, and general lament at
want of proper law and order in our midst.
ke But, am intruding on more valuable spa
n am ever yours, B. S. NJ.