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 AN AMERICAN CALCULATION.

In the New York Observer of the 4th of June, appears a report of the Annual Meeting of the New York Temperance Society, at which the following facts were stated :—There are in America about 3,000 Temperance Societies, eighteen of which are State Societies. More than 1,000 distilleries have been stopped by their means : and at least 3,000 merchants have discontinued the sale of spirituous liquors, in consequence of the diminished demand. There are upwards of 300,000 members enrolled in the Temperance Societies, and as great a number of persons are supposed to have altogether given up the use of ardent spirits, who have not yet enrolled themselves. Not less than one hundred taverns have given up selling ardent spirits by retail, and it is calculated, about 3,000 drunkards have been reclaimed through the instrumentality of these institutions. In one town, populated by 2,000 persons, not one new drunkard has been made in four years. In a town where the quantity of ardent spirits drank had been reduced nine-tenths, in consequence of the inhabitants, generally, having enrolled themselves as members of Temperance Societies, the deaths, announced in the bill of mortality, have been diminished one-fourth.

The influence of ardent spirits on the mind is similar to that which is exerted upon the body. Strong drink generates, perhaps, as many men-