The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-12-30
Office of Udolpho Wolfe,
NoTr INpOpTPr c- .--y-.

az BEAVER STREET, New YORK, Nov. 8, go.
TO the People Of The Southern States.
When the pure medicinal restorative,
now 80 widely known as WOLFE'S SCHIE-
DAM SCHNAPPS, WAS introduced into the
world, under the endorsement OF 1000
leading members of the medical profess
sion, some twenty years ago, its proprie-
tor was well aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and
useful preparations. He, therefore, en-
deavo-cd to invest it with the strongest
possible safeguard against counterfeiters,
and TO render all attempts to pirate it diff
ficult and dangerous. 1t was submitted
to distinguished chemists for analysis, and
pronounced by them the purest spirit ever
manufactured. Its purity and properties
having been thus ascertained, samples of
the article were forwarded to 1O. 900 physi.
clans, including all the leading practition-
ers in the United States, for purposes of
Experiment A circular, requesting a trial
or the preparation and report of tho re-
suit, accompanied each specimen. 1000
OF the most eminent medical men in tho
Union promptly responded. Their opinions
Of tho article woro unanimously favorable.
Such preparation, they said, had long
been wanted by the profession, rs no reli-
ance could be placed on the ordinary
liquors of commerce; ell of which were
more or less adulterated, and, therefore,
unit for medical purposes. The peculiar
excellence and strength OF the oil of juni-
per, which formed one of tho principal in
gradients of the Schnapps. together with
an unalloyed character of the alcoholic
clement, give 1T, III the estimation of the
faculty, marked superiority over every
other ditfusive stimulant as dluret;c.
tonic and restorative
THESE satisfactory credentials from pro-
fessional men of tho highest rank we're
published in a condensed form, and en-
closed with each bottle of the Schnupps.
as one OF the guarantees of its genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; patent was obtained
for the article, the label was copyrighted.
aJdc sin.Re of the proprietor's autograph
signature was attached to each label and
cover. his name and that of the prepara.
ton were embossed on the bottles, and the
corks were sealed with his private seal.
NO article had ever been sold in this coun-
try under the name of Scbnapps prior to
the introduction of Wolfe's Schiedam Aro
matte Schnapps, in 1851; and the label was
deposited. as his trade mark, in tho United
States District Court for the Southern Dis
trlct of New York during that year.
1t might be supposed, by persons unac-
qualnted with the daring character of the
pirates VINO prey upon the reputation of
mn 70 u,
rious trash under their name, that the
projections 80 carefully thrown around
these Schnapps would have precluded the
introductions and sale OF counterfeits.
they seem, however, only to have stimu-
lated the rapacity of imposters. The trade
marx OF the proprietor has been stolen:
the endorsement which his Schiedam
Aromatic Schnapps alone received from
the medical profession has been claimed
by mendacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been initiated, his ADVERTISE
ments paraphrased, his circulars copied.
and, worse than all, dishonorable retailers.
after disposing of the genuine contents of
his bottles, have filled them up with COM
mon gin, the most dcleterious of all
liquors, and thus made his name and
brand cover for poison.
., The public, the medical profession and
the sick, for whom the Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps is prescribed as a remedy. are
equally interested with the proprietor in
the detection and suppression of these ne
farious practices. The genuine article,
manufactured at the establishment of the
undersigned, in Schiedam, Holland, is dis
titled from a barley OF the finest QUALITY.
and favored with an essential extract Of
the berry of the Italian juniper. of une
qualied purity. BY a process unknown in
the preparation of any other liquor. it is
freed from every acrimonious aud corro-
sive element.
Complaints have been received from the
leading physicians and families in tho
Southern States, of the sale of cheap imi
tations of the Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps in those markets; and travellers.
who are in the habit of using it as an anti
dote to the baneful influence of unwhole.
some river water, testify that cheap gin.
put up. in Schiedam bottles, is FREQUENTLY
palmed off upon the unwary. The agents
of the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries on the subject, and to
forward to him the names of such parties
40 they may s5ooI iaiu 10 be engaged in
the atrocious system Of deception. In
conclusion, tho undersigned would saw
that he has produced, from under the
hands of the most distinguished men of
science in America, proofs unanswerabIe
OF the purity and medicinal excellence of
the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps; that he
has expended many thousand dollars in
surrounding it with guarantees and safe