The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Drunkenness.

--This evil is not specially on the increase in Richmond, yet very many of those who do occasionally get overcome would be great gainers by either leaving off the practice entirely, or drinking good liquor. There are some men who love the ardent so well that they soon play themselves completely out, and break loose from all the restraints of decency and propriety. Such, sooner or later, find their appropriate end in the jail or alms-house. Then, again, there are others, who bravely withstand temptation for months. When they do go under they manage to accomplish the feat with much celerity. After getting temporarily on the drunkard's platform, they will go the whole scale with infinite abandon and zest, and keep on swallowing noxious condiments till brought up against the lamp-post of reflection, when their feelings are ‘ "more easily imagined than described."’ Such people can never drink ‘ "spirits"’ with safety, and they had better not taste it at all. We are led to these reflections from hearing the name of Henry Page called in the Recorder's court yesterday. The response to the call was an answer to the effect that Page was in the lockup, crazy from the effects of drink. His case was continued.