Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-06-12
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

Valuable Man.-WhiIe I, Gently in Gin
cinnai, We took occasion to call on the ven
cradle Nicholas Longwoith, Esq, the success
full American pioneer in the culture of the
grape. We learned ftom his lips many inter
esting facts concerning the progre.; of the
business of making pure wine in this country.
Having received his first impressions of the
capability Of the United States for 1ivaling
any other land in the world in the production
of valuable wines, from Major Album, who ex-
perimented with the grape unsuccessfully in
this vicinity for many years, Mr.. Longworth
has, for more than twenty years past, devoted
considerable portion Of his large income to
the perfection of the business of vine growing
and wine making in this country until mil
lions Of dollars worth of better wines tn an nina
tenths of those now imported, are annually pro-
duced in the United States, and sold at large
profits to all engaged in the trade In thirty
years more, the enterprise and public spirit of
this gentleman will have conferred more bepe
fits upon his country than those of almost auy
other man to whom it has given birth. Already
he stands its first living benefactor. Besides
the pecuniary profits of the great business he
has made for his country men, he will, in time,
have been the means of checking the vice of
hard drinking, so essentially an American vice
No people remain habitualIy inclined to it
among whom pure wines have become CHEAP.
This axiom has held good throughout all
time and among every people of whom his
tory bas preserved "reminiscences What
Maine liquor laws will never accomplish, will
be done by the so rapidly increasing culture
OF the Catswba grape in the United States:
and that, too, long ere the present generation
OF our people shall be under the sod as. in
few years, shealthy, pure, and palatable light
wine Will be obtainable everywhere in the Uni
ted States at price per gallon or bottle, less
than that for which villainous whisky now
sells. The additional millions of annual in.
come which the country already enjoys through
the enterprise and public spirit of Mr. Lenp
worth, and the percep.ible preference which
al classes in and around Cincinnati ara al.
ready giving to American wines at their pre-
sent high prices, over every other description
Of fermented drinks, are fair Indications of
what he is doing for his country, and point
unerringly to the fact that, in after times, his
memory will be universally regarded as that
OF Its chiefest industrial and moral benefactor
Bosch Among the most amusing incidents
of the times is the "whistling" of the New
York Tribune, Times, and other such Jour.
mails, to keep up the courage of their followers
We refer to the flaming accounts of tremep-
dous kansas-sfairs meetings, &c which are
nightly coming of throughout the non-slave.
holding States. according to their correspond.
enee. Villages of three or four hundred souls
rarely tuIh out less than four or five thousand
persons to attend these gatherings, if the Tri.
b"Hs Is u be credited and folks, q majority
OF whom can hardly raise coppers enough to
jingle upon a tombstone, subscribe thousands
on thousands in aid Of the cause of "Free
Kansas" Reeder is JUST now begging for
only ten thousand fighting men and two mil.
hons OF money, to be employed in an invasion
Oh MISSOURI according to the programme laid
down IN the Kansas correspondence Of the
we" iork Times; and all the balderdssb
i'lSenoods concerning the meetings to which
We refer above, are designed to aid him in
raising the wind. That can onlv he dona h,
making the gullible among the Republicans
believe fer the nonce that there is a pos,ibili.
y that they may defeat Buch anan and Br, IL.
inItdge. As, otherwise, not another dime cor,a
even such men as BeecheI and SilIiman e,
tract from them. While the newspapers re-
Tered to above are publishing their "whop.
Pers, the politicians among the Republicans
IL washington are frankly admitting in con.
'ersatlon that there does not remain a sin0,a
ehance In a hundred for the defeat of the
ticket Of the Cincinnati Convention.
The Nominations No otbs, tvo ;,.
is'pOna more heartily and frankly to the Gin.
oinnS'i nominations than the Charleston NJ
e'"y anu the New York FORMAL of o.
"sTes' nor do any other two reprsssn, uo..
powerful or respectable interest. rh..-
speaks for the able and influential - w
gentlemen active in politics thrOuvbou, ~
South who hold to the principles of Mr.. Cal.
noun, while the lattsr's pulsations are tbo..
OF the great moneyed interests Of the count,v
tnat head and front in Wall street, New YORK,
state street, Boston, and Chestnut street, Phil.
adelphia. This is the first TINA within on,
recollection, when there has existed almost en-.
tire unanimity on the part of those last men.
toned interests in favor Of Democratic n.,sv
nominations. Heretofore, they have, for the
most part, sustained, in general elections
those opposed to the Democrats They WELD
n a