New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-07

Slave.COde flag the party; and if so, there can
be no serious contest in Pennsylvania But the
Republicans are prepared for the battle IN any and
every shape it may come, whether their opponents
present their true colors or attempt to repeat tho
fraud Of 1914. They expect to earn their victory
by uDninching devotion to their cause, and Pennsyl-
yania will, under any circumstances, declare IN
thunder tones for the interests of Free Labor and
Freedom in the Territories. SPECTATOR.
MIR. Stewards sPEEcH-ATTACK ON THE RUM
sHoPs-RAnROAD NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
NImBo-THE WATER GAs--MRs. GURNEY--
THE TRADE SALE.
From Our Own Correspondent.
PHILADELPHIA, March 5, 1860.
There has been a wild demand here for Mr.. Sew
ards great effort of Wednesday last All the papers
con aiming it in full were s3on disposed Of We are
not little surprised at the cautious and measured
structure of his sentences, the calculating phraseol
ogy, yet all 80 clearly and definitely conveying the
great meanings with which bis comprehensive mind
was charged and which he never yet shrunk from
uttering. In contrast with the rampant Juror of
those Southern Senators who have frequently spoken
on kindred topics with suchintemperate vehemence
Mr.. Seward may be said to be cold and impressive,
on this occasion at least. But his speech never
tbeless regarded here mastery and overwhelming.
If your suggestion could be carried out, and half
million copies be distributed in the proper neighbOr-
hoods in PENNSYLVANIA and New Jersey, they would
90 ar to settle the great controversy OF the day.
While such as he is willing to be standard bear
or, what can people mean by even for moment
thinking of what they call the claims OF third-rate
men
One of our Temperance Societies has engaged DR..
Hiram Cox the Cincinnati Inspector OF Liquors, to
deliver course of lectures showing up the horrors
of the trade in strychnine whisky. This gentleman
was appointed by the authorities OF Cincinnati to
dive into the grog shops and liquor stores there and
apply chemical tests to the liquor they had on sale.
Though hampered and opposed at every turn yet he
was not to be thwarted. The revelations which fol-
lowed his investigations were perfectly astounding
They carried CONSERVATION even among the drunk
ards, and 80 diminished the sale of liquor by prov
ing that nineteentwentieths of twas deadly poison
that numerous distileries were closed for
want of business, and the liquor dealers be-
sought him to quit, declaring that he had
cut down their sales $l,000000 per an
mum. He showed that most of the liquor sold In
Cincinnati was so highly charged with deadly acids
that it Immediately attacked and corroded knife
blade and in some cases left it coating of cop
per, as if deposited by battery. In nearly 1000
stores and erOg shops where he applied the test, he
found the liquors aduerated with poisonous ingred-
ents HementiOnsa score young men whohaye been
sent to their graves by less than three months drink
ing of this poison. Older men have been KILLED of
by dozens in the same way. Two-thirds of all the
insane cases in Cincinnati proceed from the same
cause, many of them being boys under IS
wears of age. One of them became incurably In
sane by single debauch on this adulterated stuff.
Much of the liquor inspected contained only IL per
cent of alcohol, when it should have contained 40;
the rest being represented by suphuric acid, nitric
and prussic acid nitric ether, fusil oil, nux
vomica, Guinea pepper, and other pungent poisOns,
TO give it strength. These compounds DR.. Cox
pronounced so deadly that single pint was suf6-
Gent to cause speedy death. The vendors were
accordingly prosecuted, punished, and their dog
geries closed. The very few who were found to be
selling pure liquor were allowed TO continue. But
the effect of these wholesale exposures on the traffic
was most salutary. Thousands Immediately quit
drinking on learning that nothing but poison was
dealt out to them. They will now be repeated here
by DR.. Cox himself Our city needs publication
as much as Cincinnati, as we have thousands of
dOggeries in which the same rOt-gut compounds are
sold. Our temperance men intend applying for
law authorizing the appointment of a Chemical In
spector, on the Cincinnati plan so that if strong
drink must be sold among us, it shall at least be
the genuine, unadulterated article.
among US, the Courts have been pestered with in
functions and disputes in relation to them. Three
of them now refuse to pay the annual tax of $50
on each car run by them, though it was shown that
il costs the city one third more to clean the streets
since they have been occupied by tracks. More
ever, the draymen, carriers, and all other teamsters
engaged in hauling goods through the city, swear
as loudly as did our army in Flanders at the railway
nuisance, while the owners OF private carriages
e Iwolr hal and 9TH
DoyaDces. A great number of our streets are occu-
pied by these roads, enough in reality to accommo.
date the public eAectualy. Yet in the face of the
most energetic remonstrances of our Councils, the
Legislature is crowding througha number of bills
for roads, so that if they go into effect, there
will scarcely be one street left unoccupied by rails
Such legislation cannot be had except by somebody
teing paid for it, The fee for even undertaking the
most trihing bill at Harrisburg is $500, but the
bigger the job the bigger the fee Now, it is curl
Gus 10 see Low zeaously the country members go
in for charterng street roads that we protest against
having. Formerly, these country members voted
very reluctantly for any Philadelphia measure But
now the tables must be turned. Voting for meas
ures, even such as we protest against, must pay
better than it did few years ago. The true ques-
ton seems TO be- what benefit will the law be to the
members voting for it, not how much it will be to US.
The repudiating Commissioners of Allegheny
County have been attached by the Supreme Court,
and their bodies must be forthcoming on the 9th,
tomorrow. So much fer not paying their debts.
Next comes the Select and Common Council of
Pittsburgh, against whom an attachment has been
applied for, the writ returnable on the 26th INST.
This wholesale action will probably bring our neigh
bors Of the Iron City to their senses but will take
them years to remove from their character the stain
which this persistent effort at reputation has left
upon it.
The building season opens already, under the In