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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 525, 3 July 1869, Page 2

We have the highest respect for the opinions of our Charleston contemporary, either on very remote and magnificently grand subjects, or on those which may be local and microscopically minute. We are sorry, however, to see him so prominently sympathising with the " sly grog-seller" as he has lone. The " unsuspecting Jacobsen," who was fined £SO at the Charleston Court the other day, may be an " unfortunate defendant," but he and others can place themselves beyond suspicion and misfortune by doiugwhat many better men and women hove to do—pay for their licenses. It may not be agreeable either to the public or the police to find the latter becoming common informers, but, with the revenue which the Government receives from, licenses, and with such a tax upon "well-regulated" houses, it would not be too much to expect that something, in the shape of an Inland Eevenue Detective Force should exist on the one hand, or a Trade Protection Society on the other. The systematic "sly grog-seller" is an assistance or a friend to nobody but himself, and let it be done to him as he generally does to others iu regard to the quality of the drink he retails—let him " have it hot."