Temperance

Lot thoso cronkcrs in Michigan who think public opinio will not sustain the anti- li- ccncc law, rcad the follovving from Gerrit Smitli's correspondent in Tonnesse?, who has travelled extcnsively in that and the adjoinintj States. Are wa behind the people of i thut State? We are behind in one respect. A proliibitory law passod the legislature of that State, and has been in successfnl ope- ration sometime, while in our own legislature that man has not yct been found, who haa dared to declare himself in favor of such a me;i8ure! Ia it not tiine for our ternpuranco friends to think of 3ending ut least onc man there who will represent thcir views] Or do thoy prefor to vote for rum-Tfcenciög legislatura? The tornperance rcformatkm was most triuinphant in Tennessee, so much so ihat 1 do not recollect fttiirig acqnainted with a public house aboveKnnxville whort: yi.ïaèa or liquors ure sold. There ure two hotels in Kno.wülo where thny ntiempied to keep t. The keeper of om; of thein was fiued $100. I beheve both of "thern were fi.ñetf. The friends of the cause heve tunde no .special efiurts of late. In the exciting polilical contest last ycar it süflered sotne, i think. The W higs, I beliove, iVif'iilsHód only hun! cidcr, and but iittle of Ui;it - somotiincs it wás a label only on the he;u! ufan einply ca.sk. The public soiv.in-.ent will sustuin tho present luw, which prohibiïs the iic (,( u lens quamity O.v.in one quart, and that ñót to tVé drank in the house where auld, (ifl reeollcot co:icc:!y.) Public suntiment nmkes it úrifashiónablé and dinhunorable. The lViemls f the cuuso spo'alt of muking special ctTorta very Boon.