The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1831-12-07
WINES.


The English prize themselves in their
nicely in wines-yet there is no nation in
the world more perpetually duped in this
very point. Three fourths of the Bordeaux
clarets are made up of The rough hot wines
OF Italy, mixed with the meagre French
vlntages. Half the white wines on the
English tables are made up Of Cape which
the London palate pretends to abhor.
Give me-" said French merchant,
Six hours notice of what wines you like,
and you shall have it out of those two bar
rels." There ara forty thousand PiPoo OF
Madeira sold annually in Europe, while the
Island produces about ten thousand There
are thirty thousand casks of Frontignan
sent every year from the French cellars,
while the vineyards of Frontignan produce,
in the best seasons, two thousand Con-
stantia is 70 be found in the hands of every
dealer in Europe, vet it is produced in but
one vineyard, and that vineyard produces
bu: few pipes. But we have the same
dexterity in almost every thing connected
with the public subsistence. The utmost
importation of tea at the India House, is
thirty millions of pounds; a couple of mil
lions more may be allowed for smuggling,
and this is scarcely more than but pound
and half each for the consumption Of the
twenty millions of British and Irish, in a
year. all of whom, with scarcely an ex-
ceptlon, drink tea, morning and evening.
The art OF supplying the deficiencies of
nature has descended even to mushrooms.
L remember a Partisan maker of catsup
saying, on being asked how he managed
his manufacture in peculiarly bad mush-
room season, " Sir, l should know little OF
nv profession if could not make catsup
'''thout mushrooms. "-London popr.
A week or two ago saw a we'll built
wagon standing near the mall. 1t was well
slowed with bales neatly bounI with cords.
had the curiosity to inquire of the wagon
er as he was batting his horses, what he
had In his wagon? Cottons, said he, from
Ipswich. How much have you got in your
wagon? Twenty thousand yards, he an
swered. How often do you go to Boston
with such ioad2 Once fortnight, said he.
What 10 the cotton worth a yard? About
" cents, as it is made for printing. VERY
wen, said |, 10000 yards at 20 cents, makes
your load worth about $4,000, worth about
rs much as vessel and cargo in the West
ihdia trade; and yet your wagon makes
put little show, and seems hardly to attract
the notice of our free trade folks. But for
my part. i thought that this trade was
worth looking at and worthy of considcra-
lion. Twenty thousand yards fortnight,
Is 100000 yards a year; and at four yards
TO the pound Of cotton, would require about
100000 pounds Of raw cotton or about 800
bales. This raw cotton must be imported,
carted 10 Ipswich, spun and wovs into
cloth. csrted to Boston, printed into cali
Goes, baled up anil sent of in our ships to
the south, to pay for the sugar, rice, cotton,
tobacco, corn, -four, anthracite ccal. &c.
And now, ~ not the amount of labor and
the payment OF wages, and the benefits TO
the poor and laboring" men and women
too, as great as ifa New York packet, own
ed by an English agent from Manchester,
had imported these goods? Let the " poor
and fdboring" men decide let the farmers
aud grocers. and hattcrs, and shoemukers
Register.
The National Intelligencer has published an en- |
lire copy OF The first petition to Congress to pro-
lect Manufactures, adopted at Baltimore in 1859. |
u goes the ct0Ie, and among the signers to il was
zen. SAMUEL SMITH. one of the present " Free
Trade" Senators in Congress! Editor Richie, Of
he Richmond Enquirer, now a strenuous advocate
II Free Trade" signed 40 address in 1903 in IA
'or OF the encourageInentof domestic nanufac lures
a winch The principle Of Government protection,
y higli dutos, was expressly advocated! And
bout the aame time, certain Governor Of Vir.
mia, afterwards furious Nuliferl al colebra.
ION o. the 4th OF July in Richmond, exposed him.
si without coat, that the people might see and
ejoise In the beantifal suiny ~, e go "r
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