Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1859-06-17
Translated for the North American & U. s. Gazette.

Translated for the North American q U. S. Gazette
The WINE TREASURES OF BREMEN.-No city in the
world can boast OF possessing greater costly
treasure IN the form of Wne than Bremen The Bremen
Town Hall cellar is famous all over the world were it
only by the light that Haufs imagination has thrown
over the subterranean premises The traveller whose
route leads to Bremen will seldom fail to visit it, for it
contains the oldest Rhenish wines extant and here the
Twelve Apostles, with Judas scariot strangely placed
at their head have for more than two centuries dealt
out the choicest of Hook and Johannisberg The pa
rarch among the contents of the capacous cellar where
III former days the East India captains used lay their
accounts before their shp-owners is the Rose Wine
AS sign OF It's value and superior dignity it is kept
apart in separate cabinet surmounted by rose and
the door of the nclosure be opened only by official
authority.
In the year 1924, six pipes of Johannisberg and an
equal quantity of Hook, placed here by the mags
rates, with directions that the Burgomaster should
yearly distribute small quantity either in presents or
for the use of the sck by order Of physician 1.-The sup
ply being grauous to the poor and at the cost of five
thaers of cents seVentyeght bottle to those able to
pay To the citizen of Bremen alone is reserved the
privilege of introducing distinguished stranger into
this sanctum, and after special permission, personally
granted he may lat the proper cost entertain his guest
with bottle Of the precious beverage. What is thus
lost by annual consumption, replaced from casks of
the vintage next in date.
The value of the wine consists chiefly in its age. A
pipe OF it in l624 cost 300 halers; estimating the in
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current expenses at additional per cent? the capital
at compound interest would double itself in years.
and thus in the year 1853 each pipe of the Rose wine
represented value of 714980 millions AL Al thaers
and allowing ,320 bottles to pipe, each bottle is
worth 1899 millions 227,607 thalers bottle contains
glasses each of which costs 1872 4O345 thalers
and the drop which is spilled or left in the glass; COM
putting it to hold thousand, costs 1624O3 thalers.
The people of Bremen fond OF their treasure and
it high mark of their esteem when the magistrates
at the suggestion of their counsellor, DIR. Meyer pre-
sented Goethe with several bottles on his birthday in
1923, after his recovery from severe Illness Goethe
knew how to appreciate the honor and the value of the
gt he delayed the enjoyment Of it. postponing it until
October when the Diet met at Frankfort on-the-Man
and his old friend Count Reinhard the French ambas-
sador, helped him to empty the first bottle.
The Empress Regent Eugenies first decree proroguing
the Legislative body finishes thus -
Done at the Council of Minister'S the Palace of the Tu
leres Aay H. 1852 for the Emperor and in virtue of the
powers which he has confded to US. EUGENE.
By the Empress Regent
ACHnLE FoULD, Minister of State
The paper was rose color, her initials, e. B." in
German text was stamped the corner and the whole
fragrant with the perfume manufactured by Guerlan
and called Zephyre de la Regente"
ENGLAND AND THE WAR-Ihe British government
state that: Foreign ships in British ports will be
held in the penalties for breach of the neutrality
law of the country as British ships This is an impor-