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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



711 



der his mannfjement, will bo, fi-ec from that de- 

 Btructive malady, the rot, which has? so olien blast- 

 ed the fairest prospects. 



Columbia S. C. Oct. 5fh, 1838. 

 James S. Gniffnard, Owen McKiernan, 

 Alexander Herbemont, Col. McCord, 

 Dr. Percival, I. D. Mordecai, 



.Dr. Wells, Robt. Mayrant, 



Dr. Marks, John NuHer, 



Dr. Fitch, Maj. Thos. Taylor, 



G. W. Daniel, A.S.Johnson, 



Sidney Crane, Major Starke, 



W. B. Thomas, Dr." John Wallace, 



Kinsler, McGregor & Co. Col. VV. Hampton. 

 A. L. Kline, Dr. J. G. Guignard, 



P. W. Knapp, Benjamin Tradewell, 



Aug. W. Eaton, Dr. E. W. Fisher, 



Dr. Gibbes, Dr. John Fisher, 



James L. Clark, E. Friday. 



Col. Preston, 



Columbia, Oct, 8, 1838. 



From the specimens exhibited by Mr. Correa 

 Da Costa, of his improvements olbad and inferior 

 xvines, we deem that much benefit will result to 

 the wine makers and vine growers of this stale, 

 by obtaining his art of so doing. We do, there- 

 iore, for the purpose of obtaining his valuable se- 

 cret, promise to pay to him the sums opposite to 

 our respective names, so soon as he shall deliver to 

 Mr. James S. Guignard full and ample directions 

 in writing, showing clearly the proper mode and 

 manner of making, improving, and clarifying of 

 wines, as it is practised by him in our presence. And 

 should any of us wish to have our wines improved, 

 we are not to pay to him more than twenty-five 

 cents per gallon, exclusive of ingredients, and 

 which secret we are to keep to ourselves. 



James S. Guignard, ^50 



Dr. Percival, $50 



N. B. A good impostor may deceive a half do- 

 zen fools in a large place, but the ^'jimerican 

 wine,'" aRer having been improved by my own 

 •hands, according to viy oton system, and in the 

 presence of Maj or Guignard, cannot deceive thirty- 

 one respectable gentlemen in Columbia. Every 

 person that has compared the samples of the in- 

 ferior wiwe with the same wine improved by me 

 in two weeks, has expressed his amazement for 

 «uch wonder, ft is a fact, it is not a trick. My 

 improved wine is immortal ; keeps for ever, and 

 every day becomes better. With regard to my 

 new wine made in six days, I think it is a enough 

 to be mentioned, to be declared a wonder. Both 

 wines have been seen and tasted by a respectable 

 comraunity of this town, and I have the glory to 

 offer my services to Columbia with my system of 

 preparing wines and vines — a good source of 

 speculation and profit. I have trusted my secret 

 to Major Guignard, and as he has seen every 

 thing that I have made, to him I refer those that 

 ■say with the incredulous disciple," it is necessary 

 •to see for to believe it.'" The fact is that it is the 

 true transubstantiation of the wine. The know- 

 ledge of this united system is absolutely necessary 

 to all vine growers and wine merchants. Wine, 

 worse than vinegar, that has been sold at 12 cents 

 per gallon, is now excellent wine ; vineyards which 

 have produced only rotten grapes, will, in the fu- 

 ture, produce excellent crops of aromatic juice for 

 anakiag American wine, in order to rival the best 



improved unncs imported from Kurope. The new 

 wine made in six days, requites the expense of 

 four dollars only, in each 120 gallons of juice. 



Messrs. Abr«m Geiger, has about 60 acres of 

 land planted with vines; Herbemont 40 acres; 

 Guignard 12; Neufi'er 10; and perhaps 10 acres 

 more belonging to Dr. Percival, J)r. Marks, J. L. 

 Clark, D. Ewart and L. Sherman: all these vine- 

 yards cultivated as they ought to be would yield a 

 profit exceedingly stiperior to a plantation of cot- 

 ton of the same extent. 



Having unfortunately lost my country and every 

 thing there, however, 1 can manage the sword and 

 the plough alike. In the four years of my emigra- 

 tion, I have travelled throughout all Europe: I have 

 visited the capitals oi' all nations ; and I can de- 

 clare better that any body else, that Guignard 

 wine, Richland wine, Amaranth wine, and Costa 

 Madeira, can be transported to Europe, and be 

 presented at the best tables, because they are, if 

 not superior, at least equal to the best wines made 

 and prepared in Madeira, France and Spain. 



Ail these wines are now ready for sale, at Mr. 

 Sidney Crane's, at ^1 per bottle. 



Persons wishing to have for themselves the se- 

 cret of making new wine in six days (which, of 

 course, is a great acquisition for the next vintage) 

 and also the secret of improving bad wines in two 

 weeks, are invited to call at Mr. Guignard's office 

 at the Court house, where the list of subcribers is 

 open for that purpose. 



Correa Da Costa. 



CURIOUS EXTRACTS FROM THE ANCIENT 

 LAWS OF VIRGINIA. 



(Continued from No. 9.) 



The next enactment (of 1645) which will be 

 presented was an important measure of reform, 

 and a considerable approach made towards the 

 better security of popular rights. 



"Whereas the anncient and vsual taxing of all 

 people of this collony by the pole, equally, hath 

 been found inconvenient and is become insup- 

 portable for the poorer sorte to beare, This Assem- 

 bly haveing taken it into considerations have for 

 their reliefe hereafter thought fitt to alter the 

 same: Be it therefore enacted. That all publique 

 leavies and county leavies be raised by equall pro- 

 portions out of the visible estates in the collony. 

 The conformity of the proportions to be as fbllow- 

 eth, (vizi.) 



One hundred acres of land at 04 lb. tobacco. 



One cow, 3 years old at - 04 



Horses, mares and geldings at 32 a peece. 



A breeding sheep atl - - 04 



A breeding goate at - - 02 



A tithable person at - - 20" 

 — Statutes at Large, p. 305, vol. I. 



At the same session, the lawful money of Vir- 

 ginia was changed from tobacco to coin. The 

 first part of the act is as follows : 



"The Governor, Council and Burgesses of this 

 present Grand Assembly iiaving maturely weigh- 

 ed and considered how advantageous a quoine 

 current would be to this collony, and the great 



