Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-12-11
TO SOUTHERN MERCHANTS
CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.

Cork and Label. ~ - g,
For sale by oil the respectable Grocers and
Druggists. -
Read the opinions OF the New York Press.
UD0LPH0 WOLFE, =
% Beaver Street, New. York..
From the New York Mercury.
FRAUDULENT INVITATIONS OF aurERIon COMMODITIES.
Among the many dishonesties of trade which
the moral sense of the community is called upon
to suppress, we would particularly. notice o most
pernicous and infamous practice adopted by un-
scrupulous dealers Of initiating and counterfeiting
the exterior appearance ard precautionary labels
of popular drugs, med cameuta, and other articles
of personal consumption, and thus, by seizing mp
OH thc well acquired reputation of an enterprs:Dg
trader palming off most destructive and worthless
compcuads, to the sore detriment not only Of the
consumer, but to tie character of the man who
has expended thousands Of dollars in bringing the
genuine article into estccm and demand. = These
petty larceny thieves arc the best of all honorable
dealers and traders md the trade is as much high
way robbery as the violent appropriation Of their
neigh5or's purse; in fact, they are beneath the
burglar and highwayman in dignity--for these
latter felons exhibit bravery or recklessness OF
character in nowiso Distinguishing the mercantile
assassin who stabs in the dark. And ought they
not be rewarded with punishment commensurate
with the cowardice Of their crime? We.woreied
to these remarks by accidentally observing n spa-
rious counterfeit of Ulolpho Wofe's Schiedam
Schnapps. The labels were initiated perfectly,
with the slight addition of few letters to plead
technical avoidance Of the law against oouaterfei.
ting; the battles were very similar, hnd every
thing carefully prepared tuimpose enpor.G careless
purchaser Now is not the mon who perprtrated
this fraud, fclon, robbers Assarediy heis;
for, rs Mr. Wolfe has expended large sums to bring
4 gcoI,ra
mand, that dcmrnd may be Justly considered
part of his capital in trade, and fellow stealing
part of his reputation is as much Of thief as Il
he had stolen barrel of his schnnpps In bulk
And to this crime he adds further QUE of deffau-
ding the community by giving them ranons ar
ticle for the money they intended to expend for
commodity in WHICH they had confidence. And,
further, every man who participates indipectly ii
the fraud, by selling spurious articles Ii asmnoh
of an offender as the principal who. planned the
imposition The remedy of Mr.. W.tc Should lie
in his holding all concerned up to tho cout.1nptof
the continuity thus swindlsl by lIieir operations,
AMI uuconsciously imposed upon by theirna1isus
composition. We trust that Mr.. Wolfe WiiIlob.
tain names, not only Of the concsctoEs of these
countcrfcits, bIt o: every man Offering them for
sale, ard then publish them to the world FOR his
own reputation end the hcalt, Of the community
demand that al! parties should be nailed to tGo
p;llory of popular exccration. ~
From the New York Dispatch. - 80.
An INFAMOUS BusIyBss.-WLen an enterprisinr
man strikes out new business, to the establish
ment of which he gives his industry, time, talents
and pecuniery means, can anything be more ct,a-
temp;!b!e than 10 have another s,eal in, and qnicr
spccious pretcxts, hold out TO the pnbe an tnfcd.
or article and end, ayor to obtain their patronage!
Pray, what difference is there, 80 far MS the hon-
esty Of Tie thing IS concerned, between purloin-
ing the ln~iaess by whcha citzeut hopes 10 make
his bread and stealing the bread itself? "A COM
mon thief, if ic takes without leave however hun-
gry, y loaf Of hreal from q bakers shop is gppre-
hsndci and SnGliealGed peDitentiary fardar.
ing in su.rcpt:tious manner 10 apense ,is appo.
titc; but put n respectable looking coat on bis
back aEti few dollars in his pocket, aand he may,
with impunty, nay, even with the applause Of his
fellows, by knaycry, forgery or other infamous
means, take tie business of au honest man from
him, and gounscatle,l OF justice; All thsis wrong,
Some years since gentleman Of this ety. UdoI-
Pho Wo.ce) introduced to the Hnted Stairs taeii-
Gated article OF gin, which was highly approved
by professional gentlemen as q superior tonic and
deobstruent, and the knowledge Of which he,
by advertisement and otherwise, disseminated
throughout the country. So soon as hicksters,
who pass in the business community rs honest
men, saw that Mr. Welfe wes likely to have hand
some returns for the time and money which he
had expended, they set about forging his labels
and palming off upon the people detestable and
poisonous compounds which tb y have the bardi-
hood to call "Schiedam schnapps." In some in
stances they have gone so far as 10 put Wo,fe's
uame to their villainous liquids.S AS StlfisAIorde
are growing bold in their ra<caites, il is time the
public in town and country were Iut upon their
guard Consumers should be sure that they pur,
chase the genuine article, else thpir health hlay
be irrcparably injured by using the horritte stuff
that unscrupuous men, bccausefthcy can bny it
cheap, will cffcr as ths. genuine article. Pure
Scliela,n Schuapps can only be sootainefat the
stores of respectable merchants and druggists, in
| town and country, md Mt the establishment of
UdoIpho Wolfe Nos 1S, 90 and % Beaver Street,
in this city, where it is gotten up exclusively We
think IT Il duty which Mr.. Wolfe owes to himself
and Tie community to publish, by name, the ras
Gals who are thus attempting to d6sroud both him
and those who would be his customers. Heshoald
no. parmit his modesty to hold him back from
making so righteous an expose.
AGENTS IN Hayiland, .Harrall& &
Co., Klinck s Wickenberg, Follin & Fourgcaud,
A. Won Dohlcn Henry Gerdts, b. Bollman, OPP
prnhcim Brothers, Paul & Brown, John F.s0 .Neill,
4. BischCfF, D. A. Arlmc, G.. F. Metiau, Bailey &
Douglas, H. Jessen, S. S. Farrar & Brothers,
Werheim & Fiejen. ~
Dec. 49 3m