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are opposed to the use of the soul and body destroying whiskey. He was entering E upon a crusade against the eight thousand Igrog-shops in the district. And Drs. Evans K and Taylor, though dissenting, agreed to work wich him. Dr. Crosby says he has investigated the matter thoroughly, and while he don't believe in lager-beer or wine drinking, he is satisfied that the harm that results from it, is next to nothing-at t all events it is so much less than that of whiskey drinking that temperance reformers are foolish for including it in the list of beverages to be prohibited. Join the lager beer drinkers to the temperance influence and whiskey can be driven out. Undertake to prohibit beer, and that influence joins whiskey and nothing can be accomplished. Dr. Crosby's views are received with favor by the temperance party, and it is probable that his programme will be adopted. BEECHER'S BOOKS. The papers that hate Beecher are laying great stress upon the fact that at the last book-trade sale, Beecher's books sold for six cents per copy, arguing therefrom that the great scandal had destroyed his popularity. I don't see it in that light. All the books offered were old ones, that, in the course of nature had become valueless. There is no sale for a book that has once passed its popularity, no matter who is the author. Doubtless, the great scandal would deter many from buying a book from Mr. Beecher's pen, but were he to write a fresh one the curiosity to see what it was would give it a larger sale than ever. Certain it is that Mr. Beecher's lectures are better attended than ever, and there is no diminuition in the attendance at his church. He is very far from dead. TO A NEW SAVINGS' BANK SWINDLE. The Claremont Savings' Bank has gone the way of all flesh. It is the old, old story. The directors permitted two men to run it, and shut their eyes to irregularities so long as they were permitted to borrow money on worthless securities or TO : no securities at all. The two managing men speculated with the moneys of their depositors, they lost, real estate gained, and up it went. Thousands of poor men S have lost the little savings they depended upon to carry them through the winter, and an examination is being made, which will result as all such examinations do, in censuring the directors. But not a cent will ever be got out of it. The reciever < will eat up the assets and in time the afIl t fair will be forgotten. There are a thousand better men in Sing Sing than these t swindlers, but they will continue to move c in the best society all the same. o BUSINESS is still improving, and New York is feeln t ing good. The merchants are here and tl are buying freely, for the farmers behind them are selling and paying. The lookn out is encouraging.