Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-04-09
PHILADELPHIA, April 9Th, 1856.

The Wings of Philadelphia held Convention this week.
great difference Of opinion prevailed among the members
nominate Wing ticket for City officers number of leading
and influential men withdrew expressing lima %
the Democratic ticket and wish every
success The nomination off Wing ticket is generally
of Wing votes who friends Of civil and religious liberty
dcspse The secret too much support their ticket
and would most likely be found in the Democratic ranks But
the trick being through already defeated The
tiona party will in the ensuing contest be powerfully sup
most respectable and intelligent members Of the
late Wing organization.
After long and arduous contest the Legislature have al
unanimously passed bill regulating the liquor traffic,
which, having received the Governors assent from hence
forth the law The ultra temperance and the equally
ultra opponents both dissatisfied with it, from which fact
impartial inclined to think the bill good Its
leading principles charging license fee in proportion to
the value Of the tenement the lowest fee the City being
hundred taxable The penalty for any violation of
its fine and imprisonment increasing in
upon each subsequent conviction after the first On
the whole. is in the right direction, free from
the yranncal nquison demanded by the temperance IA
nas the d And ne BY I
other But will its penalties be enforced upon the voators
Of its Many think indeed the rcmissness
of the City officials in other matters Of almost much i'm
oance to the welfare of the citizens ominous of the fate
of the against what must be termed the most
the ma;ocs the pos and without the active supernten
dence Of their superors the police force will be equally
The penalties, enforced must be by of voluntary
nomers system always odious and unpopular ITSELF and
considered personally dgracefu to those who practice It
Out of thousands who would cheerly peril life and limb in
support of what they consider good how few
there who will have sufficient face the snecrng
tempt which, regardless Of the motives which actsae
him, always follows the volunteer public nformcr? The bill
will close up than half of the present licensed
houses, but whether will not double the number Of uni
ccnsed alone tell. The impartial and ntclli
gent of all parties willing give fair trial. and
also may be successful But fear the reor
nation of entire people from the practice Of vice which
existed long before the establishment of Christianity must
from than the secret clubrooms Of
weak headed enthusiasts the halls of political legislation
At the last Court of Quarter Sessions eight policemen
tried and convicted of various offences from
saus and battery false Imprisonment throug malicious
motives. In accordance with the lax administration of the
law which distinguishes Philadelphia they were al
lowed after conviction, large upon bail When called
for judgment it found that three had vamoosed
Sentence deferred upon the others until the abscondcrs
should be aken which likely to happen the
warrants in the hands of brother Know Nothings As
their dismissal from the police force yet announced,
may be presumed that Mayor Conrad waiting for the
meeting Of the Distrct Council until their opinion
the subject Sans friends must be handled tender
w. they been Completed of ouages upon the laws
which they were sworn to uphold. We the
musty, black letter records Of the middle ages find
tefcl parallel for the proceedings secret tribunal
| the nineteenth century. OBSERVER