The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-05-16
Adulteration of Liquors.
NO. III.

SoSho W HS b'oaS5h w lShSio' 'NS'SS y ~'~'y
man who has any claim to philanthropy. In
a previous number of our paper We gave some
extracts from the writing of various chemists
on this subject, and promised to continue to
do so as often as occasion might offer. We
revert again to Dr. Warren, who says:
GA friend of mine ordered some wine from
Madeira with the positive injunction that no
ardent spirits should be put in the wine. The
wine came, but as strong as ever-the question
was asked Of the shipper did you comply
with my order9 The answer came We com.
piled with the letter but not with the spirit of
your order: we put no ardent spirits in the
wine, but We put the wine into the ardent spr.
its; had we not made the addition, the wine
would have spoiled before reaching you."-
And again: GA friend purchased, in New York,
a bottle of what was called genuine champagne
of the importers, and found it to contain one
quarter Of an ounce Of sugar Of lead."
Horatio Greenough our distinguished coun-
tryman and eminent sculptor, writing from
Florence, Italy, to Rev. Dr.. Baird says,
"Though the pure juice of the grape can be
furnished for one cent bottle, you who have
studied the matter know very we'll that the re-
taers choose to gain fraction of profit by
the admission CT water or drugs" And he re-
marks " How far the destructive influence Of
wine as here used is to be ascribed to the grape,
and how far it is augmented and aggravated by
poisonous aduterations it would be difficult to
say" "In 1912, Dr.. Henderson shows from
the Custom House books of Oporto, (whence
the term Port,) that while 25l2 pipes and 1872
hogsheads of Port Wine were received in Lon
don from the Island of Guernsey, only l35
pipes and 20 hogsheads were shipped from
Oporto to that island. Again during the years
ls26-27 and %, 2lOpipes were exported to the
Channel Islands; during the same period 469
pipes were exported from these Islands to Lon.
don as Port Wine. In the five following years,
from 1929 to 1888, not ONE pipe was export
ed to the Channel Islands from Oporto, yet
some ingenious (D merchants managed not
withst.ndiug, to export to London fifteen hu,s.
dred and fifteen pipes Of Port Vine" But
how could this be accomplished? "The
Wine Guide" published for the convenience of
wine brewers and wine doctors tell U.s." Vide
recipe in our issue of the Goth ult.
Aninstance of Port Wine making was brought
to light in Birmingham, England, on the 24th
August 1912, where one Adolphus Bumen-
thall, wine and spirit merchant, was summoned
before the Magistrate for pretending to sell to
W. H. Bond pipe Of Port Wine, and OBJ
tanned from the same w. H. Bond EST ster.
ling, (about S250,) when in truth and in fact
he did not sell to w. H. B., any Port Wine
at all, but certain deleterious mixture of CT.
der and other ingredients, not consisting Of
Port Wine, with intent to cheat and defraud
the said ". H. B. of his money. In the in
voice sent with the wine it was stated 4 pipe
of fine Port Wine." And in note accompa-
nyng it, that it was of good quatity," and
hope will insure your further orders"
"The said Adolphus Blumenthall was con-
victed of this case, and numerous other in
stances of the like fraud. With all these facts
staring them in the face, the wine and spirit
biDbers of America continue to consume these
deleterious and poisonous compounds which
nfame their passions, consume their vitals and
reduce them to the "level of the brutes that
perish"---yet like the horse leech, their cry is
give, give" The following which we clip from
the Southern Organ," sterling temperance
paper published at New Orleans, is so peril.
nent to our present purpose, that we append it
in conclusion of this number:
WHICH Is THE WoRsr "A liquor seller in
heated discussion about the Maine Law, ex.
claimed
"Tbe Temperance men carry the matter too
far. We never compsl men to buy or use Ii.
quor, but if they are fools enough to do it, it is
their look out. not ours"
"Sir" said bystander, "do you say man
is fool who buys and drinks liquor to excess.
''Yes, any man is a fool to do it. [ do not
care who he is" said the liquor dealer.
"WelI, SIR" replied the bystander, 81 will
not dispute you; but if The man who drinks is
fool enough to spend his time and money in
way that is running his property, character,
happiness, health, family, soul and body, what
must be the character of the man who will
take advantage of his folly, because he can
make money by it. If the one is fool, is not
the other knavea"
We have few more left and will bring them