my present restricted legal power over this subject, still there shall be no change in my efforts to maintain intact the present cessation of liquor-selling and other employments on that day, (Sunday,) and in this the liquor dealers themselves should continue to coöperate. It is their duty as well as their interest to comply. Even those who defend the occupation as an abstract, inherent right to deal in any article of merchandise, can not but admit that none but the evilminded, who are not creditable members of any profession or society, can maintain a position so antagonistic to public sentiment and morals. I look upon liquor-selling upon the Sabbath day as a degrading occupation, from which any man, as he values his reputation, should fly as from a contagion.

Let me urge, therefore, upon all to show that the citizens. of New-York have within their own breasts a higher law which governs their appetites without penal punishments, and that having tasted the sweets of quiet Sabbath-of one day's rest and repose from the toils, strifes, and wickedness of the weekly contests incident to city life, we will not again relax into what is little better than bestial indulgence on a day devoted, throughout the Christian world, to the worship of the "only true and ever-living God."

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FERNANDO WOOD.

RESISTANCE TO THE LAW.

Liquor Dealers' Association.

"An adjourned meeting of the Kings County Liquor Dealers' Association, was held on Wednesday evening (April) at Montague Hall, Brooklyn. Thomas Toynbee, President, occupied the chair. The transactions of this meeting consisted mostly of signing names to the constitution and paying into the treasury ten dollars each; the treasurer having given the necessary security. Harmony and good humor prevailed on this occasion, and all present, liquor dealers and reporters, appeared to be in [good] spirits. A Vigilance Committee of three in each ward, on motion of Mr. LONGSTAFF, was agreed upon. The duties are to invite all liquor dealers to join the Association, and to report the names of those who refuse, to the Society. About seventy-five persons were present."

We clip the following from the New-York Herald of May 5:

THE PROHIBITORY LAWS.

THE KINGS COUNTY LIQUOR DEALERS.

A business meeting of this association was held at Messrs. Toynbee & Hopkins' hotel, in Montague place, Brooklyn, yesterday afternoon. A number of those interested in the liquor business came forward and signed the constitution and by-laws. The society is rapidly increasing, and in order to give all who wish an opportunity to join, meetings are to be held every afternoon next week. A resolution was adopted authorizing the officers to employ counsel. Tavern licenses in Brooklyn expire on Tuesday next, after which date Mayor Hall intends to proceed under the old law, and arrest all who may be caught in the act of selling liquor.

LIQUOR LAW MOVEMENTS IN NEW-YORK.

The Mansion House, at Buffalo, has closed its bar, and other houses are to do "likewise."

Mayor Cook, of Buffalo, in a proclamation to the citizens, calls their attention to the fact that the city ordinance against selling liquors on Sunday is not repealed, and directs the captains of police to report such sales to the City Attorney for prosecution.

A meeting was held in Oswego, by the prohibitionists, at which, among others, the following resolution was adopted:

"Resolved, That it is the duty not only of public officers, but the right and privilege, and the duty of all law-abiding citizens, to see that the prohibitory liquor law, like all other laws upon our statute-books, be enforced, and we pledge ourselves to prosecute its violation and violators with the same zeal and energy that we would prosecute any other crime or criminal."

Also, at Oswego Centre, Oswego county, the following: That a vigilance committee, consisting of three in each school district, be appointed by the chair, whose duty it shall be to enforce the penalties as far as possible against all who violate the present license law, and, after the Fourth. of July, to enforce and sustain the Maine law.

In Utica, it appears to be the general opinion among

liquor dealers that no prosecution will be ordered by the Common Council until the Fourth of July; but the report of the committee on excise, and the City Attorney, Mr. Butler, will perhaps settle the question.

In Rochester, at a meeting, measures were taken to organize Maine law leagues for each town, to be auxiliary with a county league. It was also resolved that the clergy of the county be requested to present the claims and the execution of the prohibitory law to their respective congregations.

The keepers of the public houses in Cherry Valley have determined to discontinue the sale of ardent spirits on and after Tuesday next, the 8th inst., that being the day on which their license for selling, under the old law, expires. The City Attorney of Troy has published an opinion. His conclusions are:

1. That the Common Council has now no right to grant licenses.

2. That, on the expiration of the licenses, the selling of liquor in less quantities than five gallons renders the parties so selling liable to the penalty of the old law-$25 fine for each offense.

3. That under the prohibitory law, imported liquors may be sold at wholesale or retail by any one.

The Utica Herald estimates that a quarter of a million of dollars of property in the city of Utica will be affected by the Maine law, should it be enforced. The Herald further says that the Gulf Brewery, a corporate establishment of $50,000, is made worthless by the gentle effect of this law. One gentleman connected with this establishment has half the earnings of a long and industrious life swept out of his pocket by this benevolent attempt to reform the world. The same remark is true of the Oneida Brewery.

THE MAINE LAW IN MAINE.

If we can judge from the proclamations of the mayors in the cities in Maine, the new liquor law recently enacted by the Legislature of that State will at least have a fair trial, so far as they are concerned. The Mayor of Bath, following the example of the Mayor of Augusta, has issued directions to the City Marshal to show no partiality or favor in its execution, to one class of offenders above another,

but to let its severity be felt alike by all-the places of fashionable resort, as well as humble shanties where cheap poison is dispensed from barrel-head counters. Abate not its force, but let it have a literal execution. The City Marshal pledges himself to obey the instructions.*

HISTORY OF THE MAINE LAW

IN THE SEVERAL STATES.

MAINE.

In the year 1846, the Hon. Neal Dow, Mayor of the city of Portland, in the State of Maine, was the means of introducing into the Legislature of that State, a bill for the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating drinks, "which, besides compelling all places for the sale of intoxicating liquors to be closed, gave to the widows and orphans of persons dying from drunkenness, a claim to all the money spent by them, as far as it could be traced, for intoxicating drinks, from the parties who had supplied them. This was, as might have been expected, violently op posed by interested parties, and a modified law succeeded this in 1849; but this did not receive the sanction of the Governor of the State, though passed by both Houses of the Legislature, and could not, therefore, be enforced. In 1851, however, a final triumph was obtained by the passing a more perfect law of the same nature, which was carried by a majority of eighteen to ten in the Senate, and of eightysix to forty in the House of Representatives; and this, receiving the sanction of the Governor, became a legal enactment, and is now popularly known