New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-18

OF tbies A1o mere sootoer mug which we have
noticed In our town: That Our drunkxds not more
than thirty or forty yssrs old look res. deal soss
than old druDkaIds in our boy hood dill at sixty and
seventy years. Those sppie.whisky topes ofea
lived to be old, and, while Glowing enough Of mis-
chief in their red faces end core eyes, we're quite
bright; but our drunk ards have . dssdly .pAle
lock, and WI en- in liquor their eye. ofen look CLASSY
and exp csioness There is often an id tic, vscan.
stare lii that Of q corpse whose eyes have been
left unclosed. Our physicians attribute this change
to The adulkrsilon Of liquors with active po'sens;
ard, for this reason, we must have "a end to Vie
traffic, because it IT, more rapidly than formerly,
dessoy hog manhood among US.
But 90 were telling about the poor man Who was
s'ct, from exposure brought on by Drunkenness.
Well, be died, Of course; and it that caused
bic death. Sensible men thought, a. they heard the
facts, how carefully our worthy Legislatures protect
little birds end big birds, deer and rabbit, oysters
and tenspiDs, that sportsmen shall not kill them
at certain teasops, under certain penad-s; and Jet
they put men ct . lower estimate, and grant them
lees protection than they do rabbits, and qusls and
terspins. These are protected at least from April
10 October; but as for men, winter aud summer, in
wet weather ana dry, day and night, Legislators
allow and legalize one steady fire upon them, one IN.
ibisrnited destruction, without let or hinlersocs.
In fact, whsn We heard that the Hon. Mr.. - had
brought bill into the egils ure for the bet er pro-
lection Of ieirapins,' while he was opposing, By
every means In his pc yer, the bill for prohibiting
and sbnbilstiDg tie liquorrsfho, We could not but
repeat the words Of Hin who spshe as never man
tpase: ." Hon much, then, is MAN better than
sHEIr" The Hon. Mr. - would be quite ndg-
m ~ fha haa nj rnnfN -
even dogs 10 xiii the sheep; and were he on jury
trying some poor wretch for siealnx and killing
sheep, being moved thereto by his hunger ard love
Of mutton, be would say guilty" and advise the
Court to punish him to the extent Of the lsE; sod
yet teD, fifteen, twenty deaths from up among our
haid-wokipg men, do not excite bis conmisera.on
70 much as the gradual extincto on Of terrspins
riuly some very decent men, nova days, strain 8.
al Dat, and swallow camel"
We have just come from looking at a horrible
sight; and the particulars we will st.te in their
naked simplicity. few days since, a man, xho
usualiy does not drink much-s capital workmsn-s
very active man at his business lett homo to visit
Deighboirg town. 1t is said the truth of this we
do not know tba. his wife, seeipg he had been
drinl ing, followed him some distance, and tried in
vsin to prevail on him to return. He went to our
Acquaintance. He a fine open he arted fello y,
-" bis heart in his hand" and it is admitted on al
hsncs that he drank at both the cen.ed tsverns in
"our town" About the time the train was ex-
pected, which he wss to take, he was seen cOnlag,
sfm-in.srm to the depot with friend He stopped
at fbe licensed tavern near BY and drank at least
oDce-tbe last time be drank at any tavern place
tho last time be ever paid anything for liquor.
People were unwilling TO soy the man was in oxi-
csted and yet the tcket-master told us hns IF that
be ftls it necessary to him safe in the car aud
old 80. Meanwhile the train was taking ia freight;
and, VIXEN the signal was given to start this mau
was seen to have Left the car and to be staodipg
the platform Of the depot. The conductor and ticket.
matter both, seeing that be intended to jump on,
screamed to him TO stop; but, although naturally
very active mnD, he made sort Of weak move to
grasp the handle of of the freight il passed
him. and dropped down between the cars the rail,
and eur cars passed over him before this train could
be chopped He was dead when they took him up.
Where he was crushed we saw the marks of blood;
and where fboy laid HIM in the depot sxw two
more large spots Of blood, and, near by, the blood
sosktd Globes they bad taken from him. Here are
the nal ed facts they were told us by those who
knew them.
A Jury of inquest was summoned; and the justice
Of the peace who acted coroner, is admitted by oil
who have said anything about it to us, to have con-
Quoted the investigation fairly and thoroushly-the
only regret we have heard expressed being that he
did not at any cost of labor and money, trace the
victim Of this cad accident every step Of the ~sy,
from bic own house until be was klled-whom he met,
what taveips he called at how many times he drank,
who cold the liquor, who drank With him. 50 that If
r,Sio WAS the cause of his death the fact might be
stated under the authority of The finding Of an in.
quest; or II rum was rot the cause Of it-rum sold
in strict act ordnance with statute laws-that the fact
might be made to appear, in order to remove the
deep impression made in our community that this
man was victim Of the liquor.traffc.
There il one fact which may be stated for what il Is
is worth The bar at which this got his last dra
was close on Christmas night, I'VE think that was the
tme for the that the keeper found that there
was 60 much roting that he could not control 1t.
The ,ign board swinging in front Of the house was
covered, in part. to indicate that opsn house was
longer Aepts since which the place has been entirely
quiet. The keeper o. this place IL a sober, indus
tfious, kind hearted man, but it would seem, with
conscience asleep as TO the danger. Of his business
and, as be had small stock of iquors on hand he
concluded to open his bar lorg enough to cell what
wss left. He opened his bar the very day Tor the
dsy before, rome say on which the victim Of this
terrible accident on the railroad bought his lat glass
there. We do not wonder at his sharp expressions
Of regret when be beard what bad taken place within
q few rods Of bis decanters.
We have spoken Of these new de developments in the
rquor.hsfic with az much oalmness ss possible, in
order to have readers look at the facts a. they
are, unrelated to localities and unassociated with