The Illinois Free Trader And Lasalle County Commercial Advertiser

Increase of Temperance. Letter from a traveller published in the Cincinnati Morning Star, makes the following statement as to the present decrease of ardent spirits by the travelling public.

This shows a very great reduction in the quantity of spirits consumed, and a corresponding improvement in the moral condition of the country:

In my late journey from Tazewell, Tennessee, to Baltimore and Philadelphia, I was greatly pleased to see the good effects of Temperance. From Tazewell to Lexington, Ky., we travelled in the stage. Liquor was offered to the passengers only once or twice in the whole distance, one hundred and fifty-five miles. From Lexington to Maysville, a distance of sixty-four miles, not a drop of spirits was seen or offered. From Maysville to Wheeling, three hundred and thirty miles on the Swiftsure, with upwards of one hundred ladies and gentlemen, cabin passengers, I did not see a drop of spirits drank by any of them. A bar was on the boat, well supplied with all kinds of drink, and a few of the deck passengers and hands drank a little; but it was done "behind the door," as if they were ashamed of it. From Wheeling to Cumberland, one hundred and thirty-one miles, in stage over the fine National Road, no spirits were used or offered. The same was the case on the railroad, one hundred and eighty miles, to Baltimore, although a large number were in the cars. What a pleasure thus to travel!