Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-11-15


greater part must be adulterated. Brandy is
very expensive, is most readily adulterated.
and It's habitual use congests the liver Gin
has fewer objections, but it is often, too, fiery
and exciting. Rhine wine and London porter
arc frequently imported pure, but arc very
expensive. Scotch ale or porter, at twenty
shlllings dozen, is no more available to the
large number of persons who require an ar
ticle of this kind, than gold pills would be.
With regard to our malt liquors, they are
often prepared with view of making them
at as low price per barrel as possible, and
are frequently unfit for medical prescriptions
Native wine is not yet obtainable, except at
large price. In years when there has been
plentiful supply of Harrison and Garfield
apples, New jersey has furnished cider un-
equalel in the world for purity and excellence l
this article supplies the required want in
large number of cases; but for several years
the market has afforded no cider fit for
physician to prescribe.
There has recently sprung upa new kind
OF manufacture, which has seemed TO sup |
ply, to agood degree, this want. 1t "Lar-
ger Beer" or the wine of malt and hops, and
is much esteemed in European countries
where the soil is not favorable 10 the pro-
been in the habit of prescribing this article.
1t can only be preserved during the summer,
in deep cellars, twenty-fi feet under ground,
every avenue to which is carefully closed
IL is sent out in small casks, lined with resin,
SO as to be as impervious glass bottle
Ii is very weak in alcohol; the winter beer
containing two and one half per cent, aud the
summer four and one half about half rs
much as many Of the light wines Of Europe.
Other malt liquors and cider contain, FREE
quently, ten per cent, while Port and Ma
deira contains twenty-five per cent. Lager
Beer" is so called from its being laid away in
cellars, the fermentation being arrested. The
} name signifies stored, or stock beer.
1t is often useful in dyspcptic and hysteric
cases, during convalescene from disease, for
nursing mothers, and in conditions Of feeble
ness when ordinary tonics would not be borne;
, il acts gently without producing excitement
"A does not cause headache, does not over slim
ulatc when taken in moderate quantities,
does not produce acidity of the stomach, and
! acts freely upon the kindneys. In many of
these respects it differs remarkably from all
: other malt liquors; beside, its manufacture
: requires cleanliness and purity.
a An able writer on the subject of "Ameri-
e can Wines" in former number of our mag
! azine, illustrates the possibility that, before
!, long, the world may be obliged to rely Who'll
ly upon this country for its supply of wine.
/ The geographical limits of the United States
. are almost precisely the same as those IN
y which are produced the finest grapes of Eu-
n rope. By the patent office report of 1853, il
$ appears that the value Of the wines produced
n in the United States amounted to t,co maiilions
u of dollars: ten thousand dollars more than The
/ value of the tobacco crop.
q There is not an Indigenous grape in Eu-
: rope; the stock is of Asiatic origin,
, and was originally introduced amongst
il the islands of the Archipelago by the Pheni.
1t clans. The wild grape of Persia, having
l. been propagated through many centuries by
means Of cuttings, method of reproduction
Le opposed to nature-has at length been attack.
u ed by one common, fatal disorder, called the
"oidium," which threatens to annihilate it.
2. unless recourse can again be had to some ma
10 tive source. n
r In view of the apparently hopeless failure
" of the wine crop in Madeira and Portugal in
in Italy, and other parts of the continent, and
the adaptedncss for the grape culture which
- is said to exist in every part of our Union
!, this subject assumes considerable importance
re 1t is said that there are not less than hun
ro dred sorts of grapes in this country, and that
m the indigenous varieties in our own state arc
rs rs fine, and, in many respects, more desira-
We BILE than are produced in any other part Of
L. the world.
Climate, soil, species, and modes of cul
: ture vary. 1t is, therefore, highly probabl,
~ that this universal disease arises from the
y method of propagation. Europe, accordingly
= will have to return to the wild grapes of tn,
rs steppes Of Asia, or resort to those of Amer
lea. The potatoe, propagated by cuttings
re also seems destined 10 fatal decay at the en-,
n of 300 years, while the grape has survived
=, for 5000 ycars, this mode of propagation.
- Should the original tuber from its Soutl
he American source be reintroduced, it woult
require years before it would become tn,
lie mealy, delightful petatoe now common will
d. us. So our native grape has tough skin
es ard lacks the flavor which is attained by
ne few years of cultivation. France produce
"a annually 924, 100000 Of gallons of wine, es
We timated to be worth nearly 100000 o
dollars, and other parts of the continen
&c, scarcely less in proportion, STILL as says on
er writer, 81 have passed three years in France
where never saw drunken Frenchman.-
Eighteen months in Italy, and in that tim,
20 not an Italian intoxicated. Nearly two year
in Switzerland, of which l cannot say tn,
!. the same, bat can safely aver that, durin;
N. that period, | did not see twenty druRkel
g. men; and, whenever my feelings were pain
L. ell at behoding a prostration so sad, over bet
s. ter principles, it was invariably on an. occa
if sion of extraordinary festivity.r In non
Sc vinegrowing countries, where extravagant du
t. ties interdict the of wine, it would appea
70 that the consumption of spirits has increased
IN to an alarming degree England, with
u population of "a, 100000, consumes $4,000
600 gallons of spirits exclusive of porter, ale
Is and beer); while France, with population
to of 100000, consumes but Is 600 900 Of
IS her own brandes, and of these a large pro.
E. portion is used in manufactures, in fortifyins
" wines for shipment, and in the preparation O
,e fruits and confections." The manufacture o.
m whisky, spirits, and ale, for home consump
r ton, in the United States Exclusive of ex-
IF ports), amounts to 100000 of gallons.
'e 1t is notorious that proofs of incompetence
IS are less often seen in those countries where a
J. mildly stimulant drink is habitually en-
ployed. On the evening of new year, in
e Glasgow, in Scotland, a traveller will see more
IS drunken people than could be found in
l. whole year on the Continent. We have Wis.
lie tied German cities, where fairs had called to-
i gethel large assemblages, and seen those peo-
e pie, who are habituated TO the light beer oil
e, that country, under circumstances that would
{ have required, in Great Britain or the United
o States, a large police force to preserve order
I, without the slightest evidence of disorder OF
d tumult The 700 students Of the Univer
l. sity of Heidelberg present a remarkable ex.
r ample of FOSTERING, rollicking, and fun, and
., drinking, too, without drunkenness or quar-.
re reling. In France, the twin ordinaire'' fire.
, quently furnishes substitute for tea and cot.
% fee. The peasant of Tuscany, Naples, OF
i Sicily will live and labor upon wine, oil, and
fe maccaroni, with a few beans, perhaps; but
is deny him his wine, and he will think thai
y starvation must he the inevitable result. Like
y the Bavarian peasant with regard to his beer