Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-06-04

'olied mp, actively engaged, with their bottles and
asks around them in the actual manufacture QsI
foreign liquors 1! No secret is. made OF it; the fraud
is committed in open daylight. Whiskey and al
cobol form the basis of numerous, indescribable
compounds which are bottled and sold under the
of foreign wines. Indeed there are we'll
known receipts for making these different liquors
by which an sdcUit mixer can produce an arti
Gle which will sometimes dect i've even a good
Judge. Whatever chemical or mineral substances
viii stimulate the color and taste Of wines are ur-
hesitatingly employed in the fabrication Of an ar
ticle whose genuincss few men will stop to ques-
ton. When real foreign wines have been impor-
ted, the casks, after they are emptied and while
they have still upon them the custom-house marks,
are sold at a high price to DO again filled with
some villainous manufacture made in this city.
and offered in the market rs direct from Portugal
or France Nor is this all; countcrfeits of foreign
casks are made, which are studiously Jlackened,
made to appear dingy with age and the effects
Of a sea voyage; while knowing spiders spin old
webs over new bottles in dark cellars under the
street, Many a cask of wine is guiltless of the
blood of a single grape; and many a man who
drinks from its %brimmi?g glass. swallows only n
pleasantly disguised poison which he might have
made for himself at less cost, by blending together
the contents of half Il dozen small vials Of oils and
~tinctures, purchased for q triie at an epothecary's
shopl
Step next into a stationer's to buy an account
book. You will find il marked on the back with a
figure in gilt, 49," ~" or IS" indicating the
number Of quires which it is said to contain.
Now, a quire of paper is popularity supposed to
number twenty-four sheets; but a quire with covers
on contains only sixteen, or possibly eighteen.
Even the common article Of straw paper has Of late
been packed in fraudulent quires Of twenty-five
and twen,y-three sheets, instead Of twenty-tour
while, il you have the misfortune to publish a
weekly journal, you must look sharp in buying
your paper, to see il there is not a pound Of clay
in every ream, which stifens the sheets and appar-
rently improves their quality SO long as they are
dry, but which, as soon as they are wet for the
press, is washed out and entirely disappears!
Is it necessary to point out more instances ?
Take off your hat and you will see under the crown
the gilded lie that il came from "Paris;'-where-
as, it will never have been in Paris until you wear
it there yourself. Also, you may buy and smoke
genuine Havana Cigars" which, after careful in
quiry, you will find to have been manufactured in
Chatham street by a Jew! And did you ever pur-
chase a box of raisins, or a drum Of figs. in which
the larges: raisins and the largest figs were not
always at the top.
1t is sometimes even ludicrous to witness the in
genuity which men expend in devising a new fraud
and in carrying it into successful operation. For
example, a bake so closely resembles a Goldfish,
that to most persons the only difference is the fact
that a hake has two long, slender smellers projec-
ting from the head, while q Goldfish has note.
Now, to cut of the smellers of a bake, and to sell
the head, body, ard tail for a Goldfish is a trick
which las been played q thousand times! Indeed,
we know Of o man in Boston who has carried q
comfortable living by thus turning a sort of barber
!; in q fish market, trimming the beards of hake
aud selling the fish when thus shaved, for genuin'
Gods, .l..f.s ul
1t is an old proverb that there is cheating il
all trades but ours !" but when a man now quote
it. he would do we'll to add for the sake of truth
t land cheating in ours too.
Such facts as these could be given, not only b.
scores or hundreds, but by thousands ;-deceit
t which are practiced without the slightest apparen
e recognition Of moral dishonesty, but which, on tn
contrary, are HIeRuTutu u UelUDRluR w II meT
common place of business. and as being in Eowis
q difficult to be reconciled with honesty and fair deal
Fl ing. They are matters of course, and occur quit
as naturally and frequently with hundreds an
thousands of men as with the old deacon and hi
clerk. Have you ever heard the old story ? /
New England deacon, who kept .he country stor
f thought he would make his clerk honest by calm
him regularly to the morning famil, de%votiont
which be dii usually in this wise: John, Lave yo
watcred the rum2" "Yes.si replied John. Hav
t you sanded the sugar? 2" Eyes, sir." The
S come to prayers"
| A saying was once in vogue that
"a pounds n pound
a The world around )"
= but We now need to give the old proverb q ne
rendering ;-as for instance,
g A pound is an ounce short, =
' Or something of that sort!
v Now, as Martin Luther nailed his ~ninety-f'
d propositions to the door of the church in Witteu
q berg, and challenged all men to dispute them, v
wish every merchant would nail to the door of b
counting room some such heroic proclamations
5 the following, and challenge all his partners to d
nv them That the lawful length of one foe
la linear meuouTcy io tWciNo lhCucs, u uUt uiut, u
CT eleven tina, a gallon pot ought to hold fo
% quarts. and not three and a pint that a mode
IA bushel ought still to contain as much as an o
Winchester bushel of England, and not a pint lie
than four pecks that a barrel Of -four which
W not fit to be eaten ought not to 30 marked supe
10 fine ; that a quire is twenty-four sheets, and n
eighteen or twenty-two;-tbat a paper Of cut-tacI
a from a hardware store ought to number ten hu
T. bred instead Of three hundred that the leng
of two hundred yards ought to be quite as gre
IS when wound with a thread around a spool, as VIII,
ts measured in the posts and rails of a farm feuc
Us or 10 the coils and braces of a ships rigging
u Another great reform, somewhat different frc
as Luther's in the XVIII century, lie now needed
e' XIXth ; a reform that shall call things by tr
ur right names and disown their wrong "a refol
he that shall enter every dry-goods store and scar