Auction items from the Charleston Mercury, June 17, 1863

[Becky Morgan]

I came across a reprint last week and thought the auction lists might be of interest. There were also a terrible number of people being auctioned or otherwise sold.
Note: the last auction on the list is not lacking numbers; it simply says "cases tobacco" or what have you.

Moise & Co.
Commission Merchants
No. 19 Hayne-Street
Offer for Sale:
Groceries
8 hhds New Orleans and Muscovado Sugar
15 barrels Prime New Orleans Sugar
5 bags Black Pepper
10 chests Black Tea.
DRUGS
5 barrels Epsom Salts
5 barrels English Copperas
20 gross Genuine Low's Old Brown Windsor Soap
100 pounds Chlorate Potash
LIQUORS
200 gallons West India Rum
100 gallons pure Corn Whisky
100 gallons Cognac Brandy
SMOKING TOBACCO
800 lbs. "Killikinick" Tobacco
15 cases John Fisher's "Ne Plus Ultra" and "Chanticleer" Tobacco
22 cases "Climax" Tobacco, in pound packages and 5 lb. Bales
CHEWING TOBACCO
20 boxes Chewing Tobacco, common to prime,

AUCTION SALES
Tea, Sugar, Smoking Tobacco, Ground Coffee, Hops and Leather Belting
By John G. Milnor & Co.
This day, the 17th instant, at 9 o'clock, will be sold, at our store,
8 hhds. BROWN SUGAR
78 boxes Baltimore City Ground Coffee
48 half chests Hyson Tea
40 boxes Superior Killkrankl Smoking Tobacco
582 lbs. Leather Belting, assorted sizes
4 bales Hops
3 barrels Whisky

Cargo of the British Steamer Kate at Auction
By John G. Milnor & Co.
No. 185 Meeting Street
This Day, the 17th Instant, at 9 o'clock, we will sell the Cargo of the above Steamer, direct from Europe.
"This cargo is composed entirely of English goods, and is one of the handsomest and best selected cargos ever offered in this city at auction":
GROCERIES, &c.
120 bags Prime RIO COFFEE, in double sacks
55 casks Crushed Sugar
40 bags Singapore Pepper
25 cases Table Salt, in bottles
17 cases Chedar and Pine Cheese
16 cases Prime Sardines
55 cases Finest Florence Salad Oil
12 cases Cocoa, in tin
21 cases Honey and Brown Windsor Soap
60 cases Family Soap
8 chests Indigo
10 cases, 100 dozen, Colman's lb. Mustard
100 boxes Belmont Sperm Candles
80 cases Fine Brandy.
Drugs, Medicines, &c.
50 cases assorted MEDICINES, &c., consisting in part of:
Bbls. EPSOM SALTS, Calomel, Pulv. Rhei(sp?) Balsam Copaiva, Iodine Potash, Sulp. Morphine, Powdered Ipecac, Gum Camphor, Pulv. Tar. Acid, Sulph. Quinine, Ipecac Wine, Tinc. Opic Chloroform, Pulv. Turkey Opium, Gum Turkey Opium, Finest Castor Oil, Powdered Cream Tartar, Lump Alum. Carb. Magnesia, Strong Mercurial Ointment, Blue Pill Mass, Citric Acid, Iodine, Honey of Squills, Carb Ammonia, Bi Carb Potass, Chloride Potass, Powdered Cantharides, Best Castile Soap, Spirits Nitre, Croton Oil, Essence Lemon, Glycerine, Liquorice Paste, Blue Galls, Glaubler Salue Stone &c.
1 barre; Baking Powder
1 barrel Thumb Blue
50 kegs Bi Carb Soda
250 dozen I.R. Dressing, Pocket and Fine Combs
150 Dozen Ivory Fine Combs, Nos. 8, 10 and 12
22 dozen Hair Brushes
100 dozen Tooth Brushes
STATIONERY, &c.
8 CASES RULED BLUE LAID F.C. PAPER
100 reams Copying Paper
57 reams Pink and White Blotting Paper (Folio)
54 reams Black Bordered Note Paper
150 M Blue Laid and Wove Envelopes
100 gross Black, Brown, Cameo Envelopes
550 gross Assorted Steel Pens, in boxes and on cards
150 gross Lead Pencils
-- gross Pen Holders
9 gross Memorandum Books
SHOES, LEATHER &c.
83 CASES AND TRUNKS, CONTAINING STOUT ARMY BLUTCHERS, Men's Calf Blutchers, Negro Brogans, Men's Stout Lined Roan Oxonians. Men's Goat and Kid Brogans, Women's Leather Boots, Women's La(??)ing and S. Lace Boots, Goat Balmorals, Men's Calf Pumps, Cashmere Boots &c.
6 bales Brown Harness, Light and Stout Offals, Bends and Brazil Hides
2 cases Wax Calf Skins
HARDWARE AND SUNDRIES
60 boxes BEST CHARCOAL TIN, IC, IX, IXX, IXX
442 pairs English Cotton Cards (with board and handle)
4 ½ cwt Cut Tin Sodder, in strips
2000 lbs Refined Russian Pig Zinc
1200 lbs Oval Bar Iron
150 doz Assorted Pen and Pocket Knives
26 doz Spoon Knives
600 pounds Wire (for making Cotton Cards)
400 packs Best English Pins
12 gross boxes Black Pins
300 M "Crown Royal" needles (sharps and betweens)
44 gross Corded Hair Pins
500 great-gross Black and White Bone Buttons
900 great gross Agate Shirt Buttons
8 cases White, Brown and Yellow Shoe Thread
63 doz Real and Im Meerschaum Pipes
22 gross Briar Pipes

DRY GOODS.
33 bales "SCHWARE'S" FANCY, BLACK AND WHITE AND GREY PRINTS
28 cases Fancy Prints
6 cases Fancy and Mourning Organdie Muslins
3 bales Brown Bordered Duck
2 cases Assorted Black Alpaca Lustres
1 case Black Glace Dress Silk, 25 pieces
4 cases Fancy and Mourning Barege Anglais
1 case Mantle Lustres
1 case Black Chaille
1 case Assorted Colored DeLain
1 bale 52 inch Brown Linens
30 bales Bleached and Brown Sheeting and Shirting
2 bales Fancy Saxony and Welsh Warp Flannels
2 cases Light Blue and White Woolen Serge
1 case White India Bock Muslin
1 case Rolled Jaconets, assorted colors
1 bale Fancy Cassimeres
1 bale Fancy Wool Coating
6 cases Assorted Slate and White Cotton, Brown Half and Worsted Half-Hose
1 case Black Crape, 25 pieces
188 dozen Merino, Merino Finish, and Silk and Woolen Shirts
1600 dozen "Clarks'" 200 yards, Black and White Thread
420 dozen 5-8 and 3-4 Linen Cam Hdkfs
300 dozen Madras Head Hdkfs
100 Fancy Square Shawls (18 varieties)
140 pieces Oil Cloth
2 cases Black and White B Linen Thread
1 case, 32 dozen, L B Shirts
36 Black Lace Shawls
285 dozen Crepe, Cambric and Book Collars and Sets
42 pieces Irish Linens
60 pieces Brown Linen Coating
1 bale Fancy Wool Coating

STRAW GOODS.
200 dozen Willow Hoods
80 dozen Boys' Willow Caps
48 dozen Gents' Willow Hats
50 dozen Bound Willow Hats
49 dozen Misses' Willow Hats

Direct Importations by Recent Arrivals from Nassau,
BY J.A(?) ENSLOW
THIS DAY, 18th instant, will be sold at the Store corney Hayne and Meeting streets, at 9 o'clock,
Cases best ENGLISH PHOSPHORUS
Cases best Blue Wove Letter Paper
Cases Berber's White Shoe Thread
Cases Brock's Glace Thread
Cases Coats' Thread
Cases Black Alpacas
Cases White Long Cloth
Cases Whittemore's best Cotton Cards
Cases Whittemore's best Wool Cards
Cases Black Crepe
Cases Linen Cambric Handkerchiefs
Cases Black Prints
Cases English Camphor
Cases Berlin Gloves
Cases Ladies' Hosiery
Cases English Pins
Cases Cut Tacks
Cases Hooks and Eyes
Cases best Castile Soap
Cases Letter Envelopes
Cases Organdie Muslins
CasesLadies' Morocco and Lasting Congress Gaiters
Cases Superior Brandy
Barrels Alcohol
Barrels W.I. Rum
Kegs Carb Soda
Reams Super Ruled Cap Paper
Steel Pens and Penholders
Dressing Combs, Gilt Military Buttons
Mosquito Netting, Men's Hats
Glue, L:ampblack, &c. &c.

[Johnny Lloyd]

Re: Auction items from the Charleston Mercury, June 17, 1863

"Kegs Carb Soda"

A question on this: How would carbonated water ("spa water" or "soda water" to them back then) or any carbonated beverage (ginger beer, etc?), have been kept fizzy in a barrel back then? The process of making artificially-cerbonated water has been around for awhile (mid-1700s and into commercial production in the late 1700s to 1800s by Schweppes in England), but how did they contain the fizzy from going flat?

I can't seem to find solid research leads on this forum for period-correct ways to do this or how this was handled in the period.

Perhaps if someone could have caulked a barrel extra well to hold-in the fizz, this could have worked. How about a ceramic or pottery jar of some sort? But then, wouldn't the barrel or jar would have to be kept under immense pressure to do this (like a modern-day 2-liter bottle of coke). Were there period patents for a container like this?

Of course, ignore this question if the above refers to kegs of bicarbonate of soda in solid form... joke :)