Intoxication in New York.
The New York correspondent of the Boston Journal writes to that paper some rather extraordinary facts relating to the drinking customs of respectable people in that city: “I met the other day in the street quite a well-known minister, who was so drunk that two friends could hardly hold him up, and his language was neither chaste, reverent nor decent. Quite an excitement was produced in one of the Brooklyn ferry boat cabins, when most crowded, by a party too drunk to navigate, who insisted in announcing repeatedly his connection with the religious press, which he really held. It is no uncommon thing to see in the cars and on Broadway, women, some of them quite young, and some very fashionably dressed, so intoxicated as to attract attention. The drinking customs of New York are fearful. One of its banks, at its annual election, provides a general carouse. Brandy, whisky wines, punch ad libitum, are furnished, and old directors and stockholders, and young clerks get gloriously fuddled; nor is this custom singular with the bank.”