The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-08-28

aependsnf up0 ths -. ,nAky Of The ,DAAAs nfA
Il the hand.
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Impulse 10 ~ DApe. &nco Mavca~a
There is a pros y ct that the short orr ors)
of Thu se, son will give anew and powerful Ni-
pulse 10 the t.mp'ran-e Cause throJg leus The
United States.
Witkiu the lsfS twelve months she tempe
rance movement, Cd the general basis 81 the
Maine Liquor tf~. has Teen Eskiag soSae re-
marbah)e advsDces in various paris of the
U0ioB. These advances have heen oh fly in the
New Ed gland s,a es and New York; bus ia the
great West tho2 have also been shaping out al
extensive political crgapization on the subject.
InOhio and Kentucky the temperance p,rsy is
regularly il the field. Nor does the movement
s~p there. We have lately received the so NJ
what surprising news that the temperance party
have carried she day among the back~oods and
prairie men OF toe frontier State of Texas; but
what is most surprising of ALL the people Of the
city of Washington, in recent municipal cleo
tion and in the very teeth Of Congress have
declaJ ed substantially in favor Of 6 prohibltory
liquor law.
The people Of Washington, city In which,
ia proportion to its population, there is more
liquor Consumed Than in any other city In the
world, excepting perhaps the thriving city Of
San Francisco, or Sydney, in Australia-the
people Of Washington, We say, b wing declared
in favor Of stopping the supplies of grog, in
the face OF Congress, and in the condemnation
OF the practice of a large proportion Of the as
semb'ed wisdom of the nation, we are prepared
for any thing anywhere, in the way Of temperance
reform. Otherwise we might be somewhat taken
aback at the bold ground which the Temperance
Alliance of Pennsy lyania have assumed on this
question, making the test of prohib tory law
the paramount issue in their forthcoming Octo-
Der election. Surely this is a great revolution
in Penney lvana; for, be it remembered that close
upon the heels Of the war of independence they
were the PenLsylvanians who rose up in an
armed insurreetion against the administration
of George Washington, upon the platform OF free
whlskey. And snch whiskey! Made from the
ruaest machinery, and retaled at the cros+rcad
veSns hot from the still But, again: tue tenn
perance party have already exercised the ba-
lance Of power in several elections in Delaware;
and though they hsve scarcely yet shown any
signs Of political vitality in Marylan the move
ment ID beginning TO develope itself ia old Vir.
GINA. Mint julaps, peach brandy and honey,
and old rye, must leok to their iaure,s In the
Ancient Dominion" or the " good old hospi-
,alities' of the Cavaliers will yet be utterly
abolished. In the Ola North State" they have
a peculiar alcoholic distillation from spples,
known as black jack, black strap, Old Nash, aud
by various other endearing applications. 1t is |
dark, hot and acrid, consuming the Innings Of |
the stomach like vitriol. and making short work |
of it's devotees but stili among these "pine |
barrens" of the turpentine country, 1t has
been long q favorite stimulant. Let Old
Nash wake up, for the Temperance Alliance
and short corn crop threaten to invade even
the apple orchards and pine barrens Of North
Carolina
But the general alcoholic drink Of the .'sturdy
yeomanry' of the United States is yhiskey--
bald faced whiskey formerly manufactured
chiefly from rye, but sometimes of wheat, in
districts with no access to better market than
the still house. Now, h,wever, the article is
generally manufactured from lgdian corn,
Canals and railroads, immigration and exporta- !
tion have so enlarged the facilities to good
markets, and the demands of consumption In
bread, that wheat and rye are probably sold
witbeu ut transfer to the dissillery. But Indian
corn Icing bulkier and cheaper article, and
being produced by hundreds of millions Of
bushels beyond the current demand for the sub
sistence of men and animals, has become the
great staple for the whskey distilleries Of the
whole Union, and the fruitful source Of crime
restitution, disease aud death, not alone from the
raw whiskey, but from the swill fed beef, the
swill fed pork, and particularly the swill milk,
dispensed so largely among the population OF
our principal towns and cities.
A short corn crop falling one-third short Of
the avaIage annual product VI the country, must
increase the price Of The raw material, the price
Of bread, and the price of whiskey Qately 2s.
now 40 cents gallon oil Of which advances, We
repeat, ore especially adapted to give great |
and powerful impulse TO the temperance move |
ment throughout the Union. We have been
consulting the pages Of that proiigious aud in !
congruous book bearing the title of The !
Seventh Census Of the United States," (lS50) !
for some statistics on the dstilleries Of the |
country, and the amount of breadstnffs which |
they consume: but the book in question has |
next TO no information to give US upon the |
subject. We are informed that there are 500 /
men who are distllers in the State Of New |
York, and that throughout the Union there are |
1888 men engaged in the distillery business,
whose annual income exceeds each five hundred |
dollars a-year With such rubbish We can do |
nothing. We are left to conjecture; aud guess
ing that only one-tenth Of the corn crop Of tn
Union is consumed in whskey, we have the |
lasis Of ten per cent Of the cash price Of the
raw material. With crop one-third short, the