New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-15
THE MAINE LAW Nv CoyyEcrYcrr

We are row enabled % give some additional pr
,culas with regard to the working of the Liquor Law
IL this State D; freely asserted beyond the State
by those who would ike 10 have their sssertoas
,.re tha. there Is a. mach liquor drank In Con
reciicu. 81 ever But hcrovci ;fciG nty ;as may
he sa-d AL Who kuoa ANY hug about IT, kuo /, il
Tot 80 and most Of those who assert i know hoy
sre uit,rips bit fasebood TIE fou asseriea
goes OF their polluted lrs. miscresnt from Nst~ieh
recently uttered tbs vie defamation 81 his own place
in tie s;ree's OF New.Yolk. Those who know any
thing shout Norwich. know {; Is ID, Take a few
/ yroof, @. the contrary.
/ The commitments c, The jail in Norwich have
fSueu Of nesfy percent Thsre arc now only sercs-
tea person, n that Z son. whore generally there as
/ h,cn rirce or four times that number. The keeper
Of the jail likes The Maine Law very much. lie gets
fal psv for doing shout half work he had to 10
last yesr.
The Keepers of the Aims -lIouse in Ncrsich report;
Thev have kept the establishments for ten years.
Nrrr i1f So ftv rH7o'rs as s0r Last year from is'
AUGUST 70 Ssh Dec,mbcr, there were thirty-niao
comm tuerts TAis year only eleven IN the same
tine.
/ In he autumn Joe Pcn,lssls Circus vas exhibited
IN Norwich on what Is ca led Jail Hi. After the ex-
hb'ion Of he evening was closed. som. frleais OF
Temperance remained upcu the ground 70 see il the
appearances o. dissp stion sud rowdyism common va
such occasions, would be manifested AZ this time.
How charged IL bali an hour all wore gone. hua-
trtds o person bad quietly sought their sn homes.
Uufer the I'D ssstem there would have beea loud
tslbirg, traelip swearing, lighting al ng ut long,
and T.. n DAY the Police Curts would have been died.
DO ibc.e IL rigs show that there is rs much drinking
Ia Norwich as ever Ire icea Is pycp's;crcus The
nan ia iussne or very wicked who can sssert It.
| lske another fact
Hu1or,ds cf respectable men may nov be found in
! Norwich who have rot icwsolVci co : case of
| drurke mes. since the lsi OF August But hardly
n an could have been found before, who did not
acre or lees OF drunkenness every week yea on,oss
I every DAY. Gr,en.,llie is portion of Norwich.
contauEg about coo inhabitants. with large manu-
factories The road between Norwich City and
Green liio, which is about mile long. WAS famous
/ Mace for seeing drunkenness. before the new law
broke M the scores Of groggeries in the city IL
was Do uncommon thns 20 several persons reolinS
along hat street or Gown in the gutter, ia the samo
/ hslf.tour. And especially on Saturday afternoon and
evening the road was sometimes, as we may almost
/ say ttronged with mebrsies, returning from their
deep rotations and walking both sides Of the way At
fhe same time. They had been 80 the city 70 spend
good portion of their weeks earnings, and were re-
mrnpg 10 spend drunken sabbah in their families.
But since the let of August tle.e has not been one
lutdledh palt Of the drunkenness this road that
there was before Scores of pen who sre passing
and repassiIg every day, have not seen case.
laborltg mad who lives in conspicuous position,
right upon the road, was asked few days sgo how
many persons he had seen drunk since the LIST Of
August lie answered, only enc But" it was
suepesi.d "vou saw them every week did you not,
before thst time" "Oh, ye-," said he, "evecy
"da,: and sometimes a dozen in day Here IS q
competent wines intelligent, honest and with the
beet opportunity in the world to know the facts For
tbs Grtenese road is of the best places perhaps
We may say in the whole State, in which 10 test the
efficiency OF the Liquor Law. Ii Drunkenness has
fosaken hi. street know there cannotbe as much
liquor drsuk in Norwich US formerly.
Take another fact. Thee IS not an open groggery
IN the whole town Whatever liquor Is sold, "a 4
beyersrc f. sold ur Deg tho greatest secrecy and but
bree or four places even suspected Of So Niola1ng
he law And Yet, are we TO be told that there is ~
rucb liquor drank in Nurwich rs ever We should
Ike 70 see the nan that daye assert IT, His erontery
would make him greater curiosity than the groa'
.hun,bug' Of Iron sian ever exhibited, Joyce lieth
rot except,d The fact IL, scores Of those who did
l,,le Csc bur drink before tie lst Of August last
Low at work sober industrious citizens. TIis is
kneua this may be seen every day-and this alone
proves that tic cor-unp ion of intoxicating drink
hos immersely diminished; the chief consumers have
gone about better business by thousands.
We viii Gully add, in coToboraton Of what No
have ssid that in Neg.LoDdon, during tho three
months piev.ou. 10 ut August, thoro were 80 CON.
uiimorts to The jail during the fge months since
tie law went INTO operation, there have been only 20,
and pow he all in that city Is without pr"oar--
he jad 10 LEI. II is but few years since il was ne
cossary 10 enlarge the jails both in Norwich and
New.Londcn in order TO accommodate the Increasing
number Of prisoners.
We have a store Of facts besides those DOW given,
showing thar the Maine Law works well in Con-
neeti, u; the lay is everywhere enorced there Is not
On oIea grog siop IN ne Suite Sixteen hundred OF
th,m were shut up the last day Of Julyi not ono
Of Them has ,ince oJcniy yesHmed bus're" That
liquors ere obtsiDed and drank 70 some extent in
Connecticut nobody doubt. But that the amount
now cor sumod is TO be compared to what it was
Wien all tb.se grog-shops were in fall bl~', It u
.or.e than IDLE it il Infamous 10 Assert.
Tug ARKAssas " yoLcASo."-- The Ark1Hsa' Her
old recently publishcd an asrmin; account Of sup
rostd volcano, in Scott County, in that State. cor
respor dent Of the same paper writes a. foiio"s
ro'Iee'ing IT.