Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-16

The revised census returns show total of 25, 52O, 5S2 males and 24 ,632, 2s4 females in this country, an excess of sss,29s males over State has 2, 5O6, 2S3 males and 2,577, ,527 fe- males. All the States along the Atlantic coast, except Delaware and Florida, contain more females than males. Alabama, Louisi- ana and Tennessee also show an excess of females. All the other States have an excess of males. But Maine is very nearly equally divided, it having 324 ,OS4 males and 324, 861 females. The most marked cases of the ex- cess of males are in the Territories and the newer States of the West.
 The Italian correspondent of the Repab- Hque Fr0ncaise gives an interesting account of the present condition of Democratic opin- ion in Italy. The influence of Mazzin is on the wane, but it is still strongly felt. There are many hundreds of republican clubs throughout the land, and these owe their ex- istence and organization mainly to him. A short time ago, however, Garibaldi estab- lished democratic league which succeeded in embracing all these clubs, and thus gave an impetus to republicanisln which it had never before possessed. For some time the Mazzinians, who, like their master, are un- compromising opponents of the existing state of things, struggled hard to gain the upper hand in the league; but victory did not de- clare on their side the Garibaldian oppor- tunists being1 numerically the strongest A new party is now therefore at work which has for it's object to secure the rights of the people and to establish pure democracy but it is contented for the present to work by constitutional forms, and to wait for bet ter days. The Mazzinians, however, and the Socialists are very strong, and will constant ly be urging their less ardent brethren to more emphatic modes of action For the present the league will content itself with the demand for universal suffrage.
 Mr. R. Graham, General Secretary of the Church of England Temperance Society, gave on Monday in New York very interesting account of the experience of the society in organizing coffee taverns in order to stop the trade of the so-called victualing houses which swarm on every thoroughfare in Eng lish cities. The society selected the city of Liverpool as one of the best points at which to test the question whether coffee taverns could be conducted successfully. Along the Liverpool docks thousands of men are en- ployed who have to be on hand early in the morning, stay till late at night, and get their meals as they can. They are unskilled work men whose wages are low and hours irregu- lar. In the public houses where these men got their meals, food was not served to customer unless he took beer. He was not allowed to eat and pay for it, and drink or not as he pleased. The first thing the society did after investigating these facts was to open attractive coffee tayerns, where these poor men could get good cup of coffee or tea for 8 penny, and other articles at corresponding pri- oes. The enterprise was conducted on purely business principles, without any reference to philanthropy. The result of that expert ment was that there are now four coffee tav- erns in Liverpool, and every one of them is paying it's dividend of ten per centum. The soup is good, the bread is good, the coffee and tea are excellent, and the men who work along the docks are not obliged to drink beer with their meals whether they wish to or not.