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The Grape Culturist. 



Vineyard Wine Company, which has 

 shipped by sea, via Cape Horn, 11,703 

 gallons Port ; 615 do. Angelica ; 6,146 

 do. White Wine; 13,831, do. Claret; 

 2,869 do. Sherry, and 1,266 do. Brandy; 

 all which goes to their house [Messrs. 

 Morrow, Chamberlin & Co], in New 

 York. The Lake Vineyard WineCom- 

 pany also report large orders now 

 on hand, which Avill be shipped 

 as Boon as circumstances will admit. 

 Messrs. Keller & Co. have shipped 

 by sea about 3,000 gallons Sherry, 

 and also by overland quite a num- 

 ber of small orders of considerable 

 aggregate importance. Landsberger 

 & Co. have shipped via rail, steamer 

 and sail vessels to the Atlantic States, 

 during the last months, 388 cases 

 assorted Wines — 180 gallons Cham- 

 pagne — 3 barrels Brand}' — 55 pipes 

 White and Eed Wine, and 46 bar- 

 rels Wines, assorted. G. Groezinger 

 has shipped, by steamer and sailing 

 vessels, since January first, about 

 15,000 gallons assorted Wines, and 

 10,000 do. by rail, overland. The 

 United Anaheim Wine Grower's Asso- 



ciation have in the same time, shipped 

 about 19,000 gallons Wine, mostly 

 Eed and White ; while Elberhard & 

 Lachman have shipped considerable 

 quantities, the aggregate of which is 

 not known. Considerable quantities 

 of Wine have been shipped overland 

 by Wine-growers of the foot-hills of 

 the interior, via Sacramento and other 

 points, without coming to this city. 

 The ship James R. Keeler, now loading 

 for New York, is reported to have 

 about 600 tuns Wine already on board, 

 and additional lots still to be shipped. 

 We aggregate the total shipments for 

 the first quarter of the present year 

 via sea and rail, at not less than 300,000 

 gallons, and, from present indications, 

 the shipment for the quarter ending 

 Jul}' 1st promise to exceed that a- 

 mount. So far the vintage of 1869 

 remains in the hands of growers, the 

 qualit}', on the whole promising to be 

 superior to preceding vintages. The 

 bulk of the Wine shipped has been of 

 the vintage of 1868, although large 

 quantites of the 1867 Wines have also 

 been forwarded. 



COMMON SENSE vs. PROHIBITORY LAWS ; OR, THE COMING MAN 

 WILL DRINK WINE.— 11. 



The submission of a free people to 

 the executive authority of their local 

 or State government, is no more, I take 

 it, than a compliance with laws which 

 they themselves have enacted ; and, 

 while justice is impartially adminis- 

 tered, the submission of the people 

 should be voluntary, cheerful, and I 

 might almost say unlimited. If a law 

 is obnoxious, or invades their natural 

 rights, the remedy rests in their own 



hands ; the ballot box is the potent 

 friend that should redress all wrongs. 

 But as an election is often carried by 

 surprise, and the ignorance of the 

 masses on a particular point — as laws 

 are now and then enacted through the 

 same causes — it is necessar}' that im- 

 portant questions should be kept con- 

 stantly before the public and thoroughly 

 examined, in order that more light may 

 follow. 



