New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-05
THE GREAT RAILROAD EXCURSION


From Our Own Reporter.
CINCINNATI, June ,, 1851.
How or when your correspondent reached Cincin-
natl il concerns no one to know but he will vouchsae
the information that he came by the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad in order to warn every reader OF The
TRIBUNE that if he or she baby goes west IN
NAV or June by any other route, or otherwise than
in the day by that route business or no business ne
cessty or necessity he, she or baby WILL forfeit the
respect Of whoever can appreciate the Blue Ridge OF
Allegheny scenery to be seen to the best advantage
from ra-car, grand is it in scale. As work OF
engineering strong, frm-bult road 1t has not ITS
equal.
Arrived here at O'Clock on Sunday morning, three
days before the celebration to begin found the
Burnet House full to OVERLOOKING and while some OF
our party oOttcd down in the parlOrs, l. with four
Others took small room mp stairs together, where TO
sleep till 9 o o'clock possible The rush increases,
and the committee of citizens who are charged with
distributing guests have all that they can do. The
hotels are all full and private houses fling open their
doors with true Buckeye hospitality. Into of these
have fallen into the best hands that mortal was ever
blessed with with all guest pleasures and privileges
aud mono of his pains duties Under the auspices
of my kind friends have seen the best that is to be
and though here merely 10 give you account Of
railroad doing though not expected to send you notes
of travel at all or DESTROYS of doing to any extent
will scribbe down some few things that strike me as
new and noteworthy. Tomorrow the festivities fairly
begin To keep up your spirits meantime, send these
sheets to-day. TO keep up your spirits still more, let
me say that NIr Brooks of THE ErPress with party
of fellow patriots, passed through here yesterday en-
route for the Louisville KnowNothing Council, with
out sensibly affecting the air. KnOwNOthlOg Attorney
General Gushing, whose Nurels won at the BurdeI
trial must still be fresh, also at the Burnett House
last night. 1t looks ike X. n. dodge TO get free
tickets to their convention the appointment thereof
Just at the moment Of this grand celebration. Let US
hope not. But let not spoil this magnificent day by
lighting the dark lantern / turn to SUMNER themes
more accordant with the climate, more akin to the
yellow Ohio so like to the yellow Tiber.
Thirty or forty pears ago, Mr.. Nicholas Lonsworth
began to believe that American wines We're possible
Everybody else said no; but he stuck to his yes lie
could not believe that, while Europe, with no native
grape of her own drew 50 much from her Vineyards
this country with her forests crowded with vines
could not produce a wine worth the drinking. Aud SO
the Sparkling and Still Catawba came into being
Now the grape culture in the neighbOrhood OF Cmcin
natl 90 extensively carried on that hortcuturst
sold this year million cutt IS. 1t is so extensive
that the market is already flooded with spurious com
pounds What is sold as sparkling Catswba and Ca
tawba brandy which is, when good, pressed from the
sediment is sometimes nne-tenths whisky. Even al
the hotels here it is the most difficult thug IN the
world to procure the pure article. There are Low
acres of vineyards in the suburbs of the city, OF when
$50 are Mr. LongwOrths The yield averages from
$50 to 400 gallons the acre bushe of grapes making
from three to four gallons. Twelve hundred gallons
have been produced from single acre.
The grape-culture is extending more or less through
Ohio and there are numerous vineyards IN Iowa ana
in Georgia citizens of the latter State Dragging of
yield Of from three to four thousand galons-l,poV
bushels per acre-an assertion which those who choose
may believe. Kansas will be, it is said, fine grape
growing State and the experiment should certainly be
tired both there and upon the wornout lands OF VIZ
eiuia. We shall yet live many people hereaoout
believe to this the greatest reproducing country
in the wofld-the vineyards of Europe giving out, as
everybody knows they are beginning to 90, and we
supplying the old countries with our native growth
Ourselves becoming at the tune like the French
and Germans, a temperate people, because PROVIDED
with cheap, pure wines of own and our neighborS
raising. For my own part, believe that it is precise
ly in this that the Temperance movement is to end
Mr. LoDgwOith being the Fatncr Mathew OF a reform
which shall be much more radical than that wrought
by the Irish priest Mr.. Longworth has hundred
varieties Of the grape under cultivation II is his
theory, indeed that every kind of native grape will
produce sumo wine better worse, but in all cases fit
to drink. And why NOT One singular fact about the
grupe-cul,ure has been pretty thoroughly established
by repeated experiment. None of the European vari-
cites succeed in this country They either die out the
second or third year, or they never bear at ALL The
same is the case with The American varieties in
England, SO far As tried.
TO- We paid visit to Mr.. Longworth's wine-cellar,
,ghere forty thousand pmts were lost last year by
bursting. SO great is the quantity of Catawba made
there. The damp, musty smell, the long ranges of
boz, forming the sides OF long arches, through
wllcn We gruped our way, and the immense casks,
would have delighted that Duke who drowned him
self In a butt of Malmsey. Now that We produce our
own wines. ought to produce what is fit to bottle
them in but ninety eisht out Of one hundred bottles