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consumed, under the name of wine. The excess is made up of drugs 

 and materials, it is to be feared, of a very unhealthy and deleterious 

 character. This horrible trash is administered to the sick, to no small 

 extent, am.ong the laboring poor. We cannot refrain from propound- 

 mg to ourselves this question, viz : Would it not be better to en- 

 courage the production of a pure and healthful article to serve the 

 demands of the people, and add a profitable pursuit to agriculture, 

 rather than tolerate the abuses which do exist and which are rapidly 

 accumulating? Having said thus much on the subject of wine, we 

 ask a perusal of the following 



LETTER FROM N. LONG WORTH, ESQ., 



Relative to the Manufacture of " Sparkling Catawba : " 



Cincinnati, August 21th, 1849. 

 To THE Trustees of the American Institute : 



Gentlemen — I send for trial, a half box of sparkling Catawba wine, 

 the pure juice of an American grape, and wish its qualities tested at 

 your approaching annual Fair, and should prefer its being tried in 

 competition with an approved French champagne. 



I regret that I cannot attend your Twent) -second Annual Fair, 

 and that I cannot send you as good a sample of Buckeye wine as I 

 intend to do next fali. The vintage of 1847, (which this is), was not 

 of the best quality, and the manufacturer 1 then had. has not the 

 knowledge, talents, or education of the person I have recently obtain- 

 ed from France. Confident of eventual success, I shall spare neither 

 labor nor expense, in pushing a hobby that has employed my mind 

 for twenty years. My present wine-house was built for that object, 

 but finding it not fully to answer expectations, I am erecting one 40 

 by 120 feet, three stories high, with a lower cellar twenty-three feet 

 below the surface, and large enough to manufacture 200,000 bottles 

 of sparkling Catawba wine per year. I may not live to manufacture 

 so large a quantity, but if 1 do not. the fault shall not be mine. 



Yours respectfully, 



N. LONGWORTH. 



