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manufacturers in the city, and pressed. The juice 

 is then fermented in the cellars, and the sparkling 

 Catawba is in prime order for market at the end of 

 fifteen or twenty months. A few days ago we 

 visited the wine-vaults of Mr. Longworth, and the 

 following facts were derived. There are three 

 vaults, one of which will turn out fifty thousand 

 bottles every year, and another one hundred thou- 

 sand bottles \ early of dry wine. Some portion of 

 the cellars is occupied by immense butts or cylin- 

 drieal tanks, one of which holds five thousand 

 fi:aIlons, or five thousand dollars worth of wine if 

 bottled. The staves are about three inches in thick- 

 ness, and the heads curved inward, so as to intro- 

 duce the arch to resist the internal pressure. Other 

 objects quite as noticeable, are the long i6ws of 

 black bottles placed in a horizontal position, and 

 stacked up like cord wood m solid piles as high as 

 one's neck. In the cellars of the extensive native- 

 wine establishments of Longworth and Zimmer- 

 man, are twenty-four casks, holding about twenty- 

 five hundred gallons each, oi sixty thousand gallons 

 altogether, of the vintage of 1860-51-53, and it is 

 expected to stoie twenty-five thoufaand gallons of 

 this year's wine, 



" Mr. Longworth will this year have on hand, for 

 sale, about two hundred thousand bottles of Spark- 

 ling Catawba ; Messrs. Longworth and Zimmerman 

 some sixty thousand bottles of Dry Catawba, 

 exclusive of a quantity of wine sufficient for one 

 hundred and ninety thousand bottles; Messrs. 



