The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-05-27

DOwN on BAD LIQUOR.-The Ohio Legislature
has passed a "Liquor Law which by many
is considered great Improvement upon the
"Mainc Law or any other plan yet devised to
forward the cause of Temperance. One of its
chief provisions is its hostility to all kinds and
species of adulterated liquors. The Cleveland
Leader gives the following brief synopsis of the
act:
1st. The act provides that the Probate
Judge shall appoint competent Chemist for
the county, whose duty it shall be to inspcct
and analysc all liquors offered for sale at whole
sale or retail, and pronounce upon their purity
or adultcraton.
I'd. That no liquor shall be sold unless it
has been inspected, and pronounced unadulter-
atcd by the County Chemist, whose seal is the
evidence of inspection; or the ingredients and
properties used to make adulterated liquors
must be exposed by the inspector. so AS TO pre-
vent fraud and imposition on the customer.
Sd. Any liquors offered for sale, which are
not inspected, are liable to seizure and dcstruc-
ton, and the owner to fine and Imprisonment.
4th. Ifadultcratcd liquor is placed in YES
sci which bears the inspectors seal of having
once contained a pure article, the owner or
persons committing the frand is liable to fine
and imprisonment, and the second oliense in
the States prison.
The inspector is entitled to 50 per day for
his services, besides mileage, to be paid by the
persons whose liquors are inspected.
These, says the L"ader, arc the lealing fca-
lures of the law. "Thc provisions arc backed
up by severe penalties. The law is very
important one. The community suffer eror-
mously from the horrid concoctions of delete
rious and poisonous drugs which compose the
major part of alcoholic liquors kept for sale in
the State. Very little brandy or wine is una
dultcratcd. Very few have any idea of the ex-
tent to which drugging liquors is carried. or
the amount OF injury inflicted on the health of
the silly fool who swallows the miserable COM
pound. The effect of the law, if reinforced, will
be to raise the price of liquors, and consequent
ly reduce its consumption
The Cincinnati Enquirer, rcmarking upon
the effect of the law, after stating that it will
be generally enforced, says:
'.Ths law every one will admit is a yery
stringent and searching one. 1t is more eff
cient one, by far, than what is called the Tenn
perance law; vii be more generally executed,
and will do more good. 1t will strike heavy
blow at poison making, pOison-vendng and
poisOn-drinking, and must thereby necessarily
effect a great deal of good in Ohio. One of our
most learned and experienced physicians and
professors remarked to us few weeks since
that the diseases called mania a potu and de-
Hrium tremenS, now so common and so fatal to
Incorporate persons, were modern diseases.
which were not known in the practice until
after the adulteration of liquors and the
manufacture Cfstimulant roisons were engaged
in this country. They are the effects of excuses
in drinking bad ,chiskey; for most of our COM
mon brandics and Irish liquors are but corn or
braley whisky mixed with drugs The cxis-
te1ce Of this law will be unwelcomc news in
some quarters, while its execution will be JOY
full intelligence to the community"
zS- The editor of the Newark Herald is evil
IDENTIFY short of 'phunds,' and is stirring up his
patrons, he says -
"We cannot help thinking how much easier
an editors life might he made, if his generous
patrons could only hear his "bctter half"
scraping the bottom ofthe -four barrel! A man
that can write editorials with such music sound
ing in his ears, can easily walk the telegraph
wires and turn somersets in the branches of a
thorn bush.'
ARKANSAS LYRICs-Some Arkansas man, in
whom the Promethean burns as brightly as a
prairie on fire, addresses song to candidate
for Congress. The following chorus will give
some idea of the writer's talent -
Go it, Evans, with squeeze,
Or go it with looseness;
Or 60 the figure as You please,
But don't betray your gooseness.
New York, May 12
The calor;c ship Ericsson has been raised and
moved into shallow water. Two thirds of the
diameter of her wheels are out OF the water and
Sh1, Aoat h. tcrL L.