Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-01-25

WHisKEY DIsTILLERIEs.-The rapid increase OF
whskey distillerieS in the State, causes much unea-
sincSs in regard to the increase of whiskey and the
decrease of bread. correspondent of the Peters,
burg Express from Granville, says:
1t is truly notifying for to add that, from
the large number of whiskey distIeries now in OPP
Grafton in this county, Q7) the prospect for bread,
for the poorer classes, is becoming gloomy indeed
and unless Convention, which will meet in few
days. shall do something TO rid us Of these soul and
body destroying Institutions the people should and
will rise up in self defence and exterminate them
Corn, which sold readily in our market and through
the county generally two months ago. at from 50
to So 80 per barrel can't be bought to-day at So rs,
and the only papable cause or reason for it is the
high price offered and being given by the dstillers
A correspondent to the same paper from Whining
ton, says:
1.-The great difficulty is to procure corn. ] am
told that there is not buShel in town, and meal is
almost as scarce. This is owing to the fact that the
distercS Whose naDc is legion) are buying mp all
the at - barrel and turning it into poison
Gus liquor. There is great indignation at this state
Of things, and these dsteries will have to he dealt
with, our men starve for bread"
If the fears thus expressed not groundless, it
becomes matter of the most serious consideration.
Corn and meal are becoming scarce in this market
We understand, and We have heard it ntinated that
between 90 and so whiskey disileries are in oper-
alton or will he soon in this County Let the facts
as they really exist be made known, ard let just
and proper remedy be applied
The Wilmington Journal concludes an article on
this subject as follows:
Corn is getting scarce and dear everywhere
The deficit is not felt here alone
A. all tbo sc Ia e
the press throughout North Carolina to the actual
state of the case Look at the Immense feet in the
sounds and at HatteraS-one hundred and twenty
five sail We are not alarInists and We are not
alarmed, but We cannot shut our eyes to the fact
that this blow is aimed at our food supplying regions
and may be, to certain extent successful, thus
narrowing our resources. We must attend to saw
lug our food 1t is bad enough now. 1t will be ten
times hereafter, unless the wholesale destruc-
ton of grain Is arrested. H0U that is to be done,
we leave to the wisdom OF the State Convention to
devise, but ask Of contemporaries throughout the
State to take position on this matter. Every body
that knowns us, knows that we have no puritancai
notions on this or any other subject Few doubt
that drinking whiskey dses more or less harm, but
that, like other imprudences must be left to the
individual and public opinion to correct. 1t is
enough to say of all probationary laws that they
have uniformly failed to effect the purpose for which
they were ostenSiby enacted and therefore any such
laws at this time would be only relics of the explod-
ed errors of past years. But. for beselsed coin
munity to take measures against scarcity of food,
is no mere moral abstraction, but actual, present
necessity.
The desire for some action is very general with
all with whom We convcrsed here We think that
four out of every five in favor of something be-
ing done. We have heard public meeting pro-
posed but perhaps in tho present state of the public
mind full meeting could not be got even on this
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if any thing would-not to denounce distIllers or
dIstaton in the abstract but absorbing the sup
ply of absolutely necessary for the support Of
man and beast"