Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-14
[coNTINUED.


CONTINUED.
We do not conceive it necessary 20 extend
our remarks to much greater length. in dis
proving the position hat the free and gene
raj use of light wines in France and other
European countries, has tended to the prevail
ence OF temperate, sober habits among the
people. The extracts we have already pub-
lshed from the writings Of American and
other travellers who have seen for themselves.
not only utterly disprove the statement.
but in the strongest and plainest terms show
the reverse to be the truth in regard TO the
matter.
We might continue to multiply evidence
of this character, but it certainly is unneces-
sary, after what we have given. But it is
said ace might manufacture a light and harm
less beverage here in America, whose gene
raj use would supplant the strong and iniu-
rious drinks so common to Americans. This
might, perhaps, be done, if those drinkers Of
strong beverages could be induced to exchange
: them for their brandies, whiskey, um, &c
r Or, if there was any likelihood of these sim
t pie, beverages being continued as
= SUCH We all remember with what a -four
e ish of trumpets it was announced that pure
Catawba wines and brandies were to be made
in Ohio by Longworth and others. But a
e very few years have passed, and what is the
testimony we now hear concerning them p
The Cincinnati Gazette, mot a Temperance
paper by any means) says:
v An article called Catawba Brandy is said.
by Pharmaceutists, to be utterly unfit for
medicinal and pharmaceutical use. Genuine
III brandy is made by distillation from wine
ne In France there are grades of brandy, viz
&C, - m nau DC vie ne mare, ana Eau de
ne Lie. The first is made by distiIlation from
!. wine, the second by fermentation of the
marc, with sugar, and the third from the
a lees OF the wine. Marc is the mass of Crane
We SKINS, pulps, etc, remaining after the wine
has been pressed out.
All the Catawba Brandy, that can Law any
VIC claim to the name of brandy, is made from
lst the marc" and it is so full of fusel oil that
a chemist, writing in the Druggist, saws
Ihat the addition of water will cause a milky
precipltate In nearly all the specimens he has
to seen.
las A good deal that is known as Cat.wh,
Ied Brandy is nothing more than whiskey doc
leu tered. ' "N
And so of the wines. also.
y, After reading the facts we have given. can
iou any one be deceived so much as to believe
. that the introduction of wine into free and
general use, will be productive of temperate
w. habits among our people?
ne, And tbo
ain tor cou,u ID. INV"
ae ly told here:
A gentleman of our acquaintance wished Ia
purchase some brandy to be used in sickness
'er, and called on an old German liquor dealer in
and the city of Philadelphia, when the following
&c dialogue ensued:
5 of stuff?'
5 of Every good prandy. Comes and trink som,
hat ciaret punch dat ish goot, too, ven der we'd
der ish hot"
No, | thank you, l want a little brandy
the for a sick man."
ibi- "Come and try the punch. One vricnd
ur- from Germany been here. see him not be
70. fore for many years. We peen Thinking d
re- punch"
rue Come and tell me about the brandy.
hat want a little OF the best in the market"
k is Inc old gentleman was a little mellow
just enough to make him laxative and tn
49, hs VI hho hioHu ildu so warmed MS Sympd
Tern thies as to make him communicative
tept "Now, mine yriend, you wants goot pran
fter dy, and sells you goot prandy. Dere IS
some prandy | makes myself, and dat ish GOO
lust Dare ish some | bought in New York. an
Tery dat ish sheap prandy. Dare ish some / i'm
rty. ported from Vrance, and dat ish very goo
~ too" e"O
: Did you say you made that lot yourself?
not Dat makes myself, and | uarrant dat
tick 1t lsh made of de very best whiskey."
"Whiskey! don't want any of your il
- fernal concoctions made of whiskey and CALI
the brandy"
rty, .(Old gentleman, solemnIy,) "It ish all mao
is OF whiskey, my vriend, and dat ish de reaso
han why de Wrench prandy ish not so goot
=, goot American prandy. No prandy ish no
with distilled from wine any more it ish not DO
he is slble to make it sheap enough for dis mark
,rdi- from wine. and de American people do NJ
n 70 like de real prandy because dey are not USE
u 10 to it."
ause DC you say that French brandy is not
kill, good as our own manufacture? We impo
of some brandy from France, do we not %
-, We import blenty of prandy to plea
e' de rich people, but it ish not goot. In Vranc
y IN de prandy ish made of. potato whiskey, al
What dat lsh not so goot as de corn whiskey VIII
ecta- we make into prandy here!"