New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-23
CONyVyIAL CHATTRLs.

The humanity of the black biped so long and 80
unsatisfactory the subject of chronological investlga-
ton and of biblical exegesis has been oddly enough
established In New Orleans. Man only drinks rum;
the Zambo drinks rum; ergo, the Zambo is man.
A melancholy article in The Pieayuns bewais tho
baccbanalian lapses Of the man-merchandlse, and
demands sharply the correction Of those who, for
the sake Of filthy fps, suffer so much private prop
erty to fiddle itself upon their premises. "Com-
plants" saws The Piedyune," "Of masters are
almost unanimous of the ruin of their servants by
this unholy business" The supreme judicial
tribunals of Louisiana, as We are informed with
that tenderness for constitutional oddy which many
other Courts have displayed, have decided tina
the law Of the last Legislature prohibiting the sale
:" of LIQUOR to sayes' is altogether unconstitutional
After this. of course, toddy sticks struck up tri
umphant tattoo, and in spite of certain municips
regulations, the animals were rum-and-watered to
dreadful extent. Blinds" Gays The Picayunt,
/" before the doors, blind passways leading into ad
I" Joining houses, windows opening from bar-rooms
&" into neighboring negro barber-shops, and other
devices are resorted to in order to escape the
vigilance of officers or masters" Many OF the
finest and most expensive chattels are "ruined by
I" the unholy business One unhappy Abraham,
with flock Of sheep numbering eighty, finds that
forty-two of his tender charges have betaken them
selves TO the flowing BOWL and the same patriarch,
sitting down to review his pastorate, reckons " that
d" of the whole of the male servants be has owned
during the past twenty years, more than one-half
have died from detrium remens." 1t must be ad-
mtted that this does not bespeak very vigilant
crook, and we can but commiserate the poor crea.
lures 80 carelessly at least so unsklfuy tended
The pastors of Louisiana are much to blame.
| Suppose that horses should suddenly manifest an
inevitable passion for grOg Would that Oster be
| deemed bamCess who allowed his equine ward to
pass his time and destroy hs usefulness and ruin
his health in bar-rooms7 Suppose dog to be SO
mad as TO pant for styrchna. Would il not be the
duty of his owner to keep him from wandering into
drug-shopsl And are the bipedal herds of New.Or-
leans to be left to drunken destiny? Cannot the
gentleman who mourns the conviyalites of "forty-
"twO" dissipated parcels of property, make moral
appeal at least to the keepers of these secret SYM
posiac cells! May he not represent with perfect
Justice to these profigate pOsoners that they are
making altogether too free with the apparatus of
bis business! that certain brains are bis own aud
| must not be muddled? that certain nerves are his
and must not be unstrungi that certain stomachs
are bis and must not be ruinedl that certain body
is his and must not be sent to "the drunkards
"grsye"-a place Of sepulture pathetically men
toned by The Pieayne7 Asserting his right to put
into this machine of his whatever he may consider 10
be wholesome-to feed its furnace and TO eli its
boiler he may think best, may he not reasonably
deprecate intermeddling! May be not plead hisin.
vestment lost, bis affairs deranged, his contracts
unfnlflled' May he not say, after the debauchery
of one of his instruments: "Sr, for sixpence you
made my bOot-brushes, my saws, my spades, my
'mortar-hods, or my curry combs as drunk as the
"porker Of David. You have been selling whisky to
my tables and they not spread to my floors and
"they are not swept, to my dinner and it ia not
cooked, to my letters and they arc not delivered.
'Sr, will not endure it !" Of course, he will not
Should the dispenser Of illicit toddes still maintain
his Helicon of helbroth will it not be the duty Of
the injured proprietor Immediately to enact and to
enforce private Maine Lsw-to tap tho barrels, TO
SILVER the decanters TO smash the tuInbers, TO con-
fiscate the spoons? Deserted By the law, may he