The New York Herald Newspaper, August 30, 1871, Page 4

4 A SPARKLING REPORT. THE CHAMPAGNE REGION OF AMERICA Vineyards of Western ew York. } tare, and that ft is along such nortnern border that grapes are grown which give the highest flavor aud richest boujuet, It ts, theretore, to the higher latt- tudes in our Own country we are to loek and re- | ceive from them like excellencies. About Pleasant | Valley and Keuka Lake the altitude, con%gurations and surroundings give to the atmosphere A DRYNESS AND PURITY and continued exemption from dews and fogs most favorable tor vine growing. ‘This culture had a beginuing here with the wba and Isabella in garden pianting some forty years ago, but not until 1854 or 1855 Were they or other varieties grown in Vineyard quantities, “By 1899 this culture had been so far successtul, ana had so greatly extended, as to | Suggest to a few of the more pecuniarily able and | Mhoughttul the feasibility of organizing a wine com- pany. The result was that of the forming of the Pleasant Valley, ..,, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF TONS of Catawhas, Isabeilas, Delaware, Diana, Concord and Hartford grapes, neatiy packed in three, tive , 4nd ton pound boxes, found their way to New York | city and other places on the seaboard and inland; | Yet _notwithstauding this immense traitic it was The TWENTY THOUSAND ACRES OF GRAPES, of Gallons of Wines. Millions es were added, to provide other meaus of dispos. ing of the enormous yearly production of vineyards that then belted, at an average width three-fourths | ofa mile, the border of the lake and valley. | RAPID GROWTH OF THE WINE BUSINESS, The following is a record of the business in wine manufacture of the Pleasant Valley Company, and will furnish an idea of the extent of the business of this company alone since its organtzation;— AMERICA AS ARIVAL OF FRANCE NERS 4 | Boities, 1860. $8,000 186; 181. 000 1864. Grape Growing and Wine Making in Steuben, 1862...... 500 Yates, Schuyler, Canandaigua, Chau- | S*ABALMING: OF CERN eT ne MANUFACTURE | In 1865, the company commenced the mannfactare of true sparkilng or Champagne wine. For this pur. pose they secured the services of J.D, Masson, of Rucims, France, who, in addition to his experience in his native country, sparkling wine making. In 1869, Jules Masson (nig brother) Was added to tne talent of the company for Champagne making. The latter was formerly tanqua and Ontario Counties, BISE AND PROGRESS OF THE BUSINESS, superintendent of the ceievrated Longworth wine establishinent in Cincinatt. PLEASANT VALLEY CHAMPAGNE WINES. There are probably thousands of residents tn the city of New York who are not aware that within a day’s ride of their homes there is a region of country devoted to grape culture and wine making that has scarcely a rival for those purposes in the world. We refer particularily to the counties of Steuben, Schuyler, Yates and Ontario and w the borders of Lakes Kenka, Seneca, Cayuga and Canandaigua. Of course grape culture 1s largely carried on in other parts of the State and nearer the metropo!ls, especialiy by Stephen W. Underhill, at Croton Point, N. Y.; but our object at present 1s to show the ex- tent of the business as carried on within the exten- aljuyialsoil of the basin of the valley, with its or sive but compact region named. For ibis purpose chards, hiarieteers gardens = its comfortable cot- ha ah ia 30 tages, all indicating that nis lovely spot is the "cy ebbeeagaen qian aie ig ee ‘ar description noine of a thrifty and peace-loving population. Tne thereof, asking our readers to accompanya HSRALD Wine house Is a handsome structure of concrete, representative as he proceeded to make his invest. with cellars uuder ground, stone arched and e gations. ; tending into tie hillside, and affording space for the accommodation of many thousands of gallons of | the pure juice of the grape. Some of ine casks, as we viewed them by the dim light of a caudile, seem. ed as if they contained liquid enough to quench the tiirst of a multitude for a generatiou—one monster cask being of 4,000 gallons capacity, The .upper PRODUCTION OF 1865 (first year 1306. 4807 1808 Champagne. 1870 { 135, 1871 (Estimated) 200,000 bot PLEASANT VALLEV WINE HOUSE. This building is beautifully situated onthe west of Pleasant Valley. It was founded in 1809, vines aras fringe it with their lower foltage, and xtend their lines far above. Below 18 the rich si v HOW TO GET THERE. Selecting Pleasant Valley as the objective point, with Hammondsport, situated on Keuka (the pretiy {Indian name for the homely Saxon one of Crooked) Lake, the reader will take the Brie Railroad cars at Qine o'clock A, M., for Bath, N. ¥ a Corning. Arriving at Gath about six in the evenimg, he can take eltner the regular stage convey a pre vate team for Hammondsport, eight rm: distant, through a most lovely valley, or tarry over-night in Bath, where there 1s a good Uotel, Hammondsport {s not very well supped with hot but citizens ting, storage, boxing and shipping rooms—and the business of the Company 1s increasing to such an extent that workmen dre almost constantly ewe ployed in making addidons and improvements, THE MANUFACTURE OF SPARKLIN requires skill, capital and labor, ‘s frst 48 a pre-requisite, for Ute reason that all the capital and unskitied Jabor i the worl alone make good Wine, no matter now ce or thy res fe frait, Thereiore expertencea superintendents must ana the adjacent grape gentiy are very hospitable, give the wirections, and as they are diflicult to be | and look after the comfort of visitors ta fully as hadin this country fortunate isthe company that | of those Who are properly erious art. As we have belore (Valley company have been suc- ect, And whe Work of sparkling on in their establishment lke much cordiality as could ever be expected in the famous wine districts of once la belie France. And now, if ther li take a short ride with the HERALD represe he will tind himse can secure the servic posted up in the my: ted the Pié Ing goes i : ‘i § ch . Ivisnot generaily Knowa that all at- the elegant reception room of the exteusive wine temptsat making champagne bottles in this country cellar of | have proven Jaiiures; therefore they e to be mrwad 4 vain COMPANY, procured irom France at considerable cost, Tits 1s ofhypeinse Seep DOME ANE, one item of expenditure not generaily taken into Hon. D. ©. Howell, President, and in com- account in estimating the cost of champague pany with Directors G. D. Champlin, Secretary Waking bere. She corks, of a peculiar character, and Treasurer, and Youngiove and D, Rose, have to be imported trom Spain Another draw- back 18, that while the foreign importer las a protection of five per cent agamst the producers ol imitation or carbonized wine, the manufacturer of American sparking Wines has no such protection, Superintendent Jule Masson, recognized as among the first in a knowledge of the art of cham Pagne wine making in America, aud, while enjoying the genial and intelligent companionsbip of Dr. B. Van Keuren and several other gentlemen, some natives of the city of New York, let us gather a few particulars about the ORIGIN AND PROGRI in other words he has to wait @ year or two uotil his wives reaches periection while the carvonizer can real arti tnerepy seriously damaging the repuia- | tion of the entire American sparkling Wine interest. But to return to the manufacture of the pure article. The best of grapes are procured, not ot one variety alone but all which in combination are found to produce the best results. In § CHAMPAGNE OF VINE AND WINE CULTURE This culture in Wesiern New York is of modern origin, at the same time it has been rapid in develop. ment and emineutiy successiul in results, Many of our readers may be familiar with the fact that dur | tng our colonial and early sequent history American vine and wine culture was undertaken at various points within our then iimited Union of States, and in every instance failed. The cause of this fallure was found to be owing vo the fact tuat every variety of grape planted was such as were grown in Continental Europe and utterly refused acclimation, adaptation or healthy producing growth in this country. In the march of time and in the coarse of events the vinis rinVera, or European species, was aban- doned and the discovery made that we had growing wild in our forests grapes xcellent as the Catawba and Isabella, that could be successfully grown, and trom which wine could be made of such excellence as to justify the hope that time and events would reveal to realization the possibility we now find cul- M the wine is firat p the tirst iermentation and subsequent rackings, When nearly a year oid tt is hoisted [rom the cellut to an upper room, and by means of heat, and, if sary, the addition of pure sugar, a slight'fer- emiation 18 again induced. The wine is now bot. tled and keptina room of high temperature until the lermentation has created a sufficiency ot gas, which ts indicated by the bottles beginning to burst. Great expedition is Then used ip removing the bot- ties below, where the cooler temperature generally checks the bursting. In the cellar the bott jlaced in tiers, and, Ike legions of mutralieuses, seem ready to make sad hayoe among unwelcome rf iers. In these ticrs the wine reoiains until it is ume to give it Uhe finishing touches belore put- ting it.on the market. The sedimentis to be ‘dis- gorged” and the gas retained. Th peration re- quires much skill and patien The botiues are placed In racks, with the corks downward. Work. men give the Wine a twirling motion every little While for the space of four or five weeks, or until on the corks, The rack 1s then hoisted avove, the bottie uncorked and the sediment and @ slight por- tion of the wine gushes out. quaauty of minating. | Syrup. made of rock candy dissolved ti wine, is THE PAIL then put into the Lottie by an ingenious machine, a | ‘ oii new cork, about which a copper clasp ts irmiv | ‘With these varieties grape calture and wine mak- rpose of a s.rong mg were undertaken aud carried on for a few years with promise of continued success, at Cincionati, Ohio; but after a few years disease made its appear- ance inere, as in Southern Europe, and the vigne | rons abandoned without a struggle for mastery of | the malady, their vines and the wine merchant being unable to supply himself with material for manufacture, and trade saw disaster skirting the once rosy-tinted horizon of their hopeful enterprise, @nd grape-grower and wine-maker alike looked to OTHER REGIONS OF COUNTRY for success in their pursuits, This failure at Cin- cinnati occurred some fifteen years since, when, as if in obedience to an immutable decree that failure in any one thing should not be the lot of any ‘wisely direc.ed effort in these United States, it was found that besides the early culture of the Mission grape by the Jesuits in Southern California, from whence OUR SHERRY WINES ARE TO COME, we say beyond this and the failures we have hinted at, there yet remained localities peculiarly adapted to the growth of the vine in health and its fruit in the highest excellence, American enterprise, that est for attainab.e object or purpose, '$ in vine culture by producing by HYBRIDIZATION, OR CROSSING, nd discoveries of other new varieties of grapes a wondrous change for the better m this culture, AS if under the direction of destiny new plantings of vines of the older and these new kinds were made simultaneously, so to speak, along what has since been found to be the MOST HEALTHFUL NOME OF THE VINE, ‘apped in pink colorea paper, aud the wine is soon ready for market. GATHERING THE GKAPES—PEOPLE AND CAPITAL EM+ PLOYED. The grape harvest is the most exhilarating season that cocurs in the grape growing regions. It geu- erally oecurs about the middie of September—not Ce ail hauds, men and women, boys an ajolly ume. A large portign of the crop is generally sold Ww the wine makers before the fruit matures, , therefore the question of sale, transporiauen or mark ) big and little folks—the grower as well as the picker, Jn the Pleasant Valley region alone there ure more than two tiousand persons interested iu grape cul- tare, involving a Capital in the aggregate Of at least Two millions yearly, When ing the grapes 18 10 full blast i118 sale to estimate ite number of people mterested and engaged in the yusiuess In Various capacities In the Wesiern part of us Siate at upwards of twenty thousand, the grouud covering their field of lavor at | TWENTY THOUSAND ACRES, | and the capital employed at upwards oi five mMlions of doars. Surely, taking the vineyar New York for an exatuple—and they have uo paralet for extent this side of the Rocky Mountains—tne grape and Wine culture of the country is an interest of vast moment. NAMES AND CHARACTER OF CHAMPAGNE BRANDS. | The first champagne brand of Pleasant Valley was named afier (he stale of New York, “kmpire.’’ The | ud Was called the “Paris Exposition.” The first of these Wasa pure Catawba wine; te other was 4 combimation of Wines, which inet with such general favor as to induce the company Lo put i into compe- titiou at the Exposition Universale, Paris, 1567, wiiere it won the highest honor awarded to any American sparking wine, Vv tion. | , With this brand of their sparkling wine much was | done tor the advancement of not the Inierest alone ANT VALLEY js ‘ : . of the Pleasant Valicy Wine Company, bat for the more northern border of Onto and Western New American wine culture generally. .In the’ combina. York. To-day, while the borders of Lake Erie Uon of several wines Oi different strength, favor Toduce their hock wines, and the grapes ym aud Douquet was found, it Is believed, the See ceotin ~~ in and ~ grapes from SECREY OF THEIR SUCCESS; which sparkling ch pagne Is made to some €X- | g discovery made and pul im practice by no former tent, the great champagne trict, champague makers in the United States, THE BPERNAY OF AMERICA, in 1899, with the increased production of the finer | | varietes of grapes, they were enabled to sill fur- ther improve and vary the combination and to bring out their is in Western New York, and the great head centre there is Pleasant Valley, Steuven county, at the bead of Crooked, or, as we have aiready d, Keuka | Lake. Here vine and wine gro’ i has attained to a degree of perfection and height of success, litte, ifany short of fulland complete. Year after year, for more than a decade, the best avd most delicate CARTE BLANCHE, This was still another advance step in their sue cessful progress in champagne making, and 60 well it received by the American public that AN ENGLISH NOBLEMAN visiting this country was induced on his retarn home to institute negotiations for it# sale in Europe. favored wine grapes of Americun origin have been hus been founu that the agitation of even bottled planted Lere, and grown and ripened in perfection; ; wie ident 10 a voyage across the Atiantic im- and year alter year, for the same period ot time, Repeued, beyoud what the most thoughtful had has the planting of them increased and extended, With the reputation thus far attained, to say notuing of pecuniary success, which was flatter. ing, most otlers than Americans would have been | quite satisfied; but as (hey are never so, in the until now there are in thts vailey and about this lake alone, it is estimated, somewhere between FIVE @ND SEVEN THOUSAND ACRES IN VINES. | course of ume, which tn’ this case was short, It may be interesting to some to know that the psa seortng further — effort og 1” combining oe | #00 perfect was maue in 1870, resuite location of this pince is but little more than thiee | jing in what Is nuw. known as the hundred and twenty-five miles from New York by | “GREAT WESTERN” OF THK PLEASANT VALLEY WINE the New York and Erie Railroad, and about the COMPANY. Of the excelience of this wine it 1s enough to 82; same distance, nearly due north from the city Of | that Marshal P. Wilder, President of the Rational , Washington, D. ©., or 30 degrees west of ils merl- | Pomological Society, thought it deserving the name dian and latitude nortu 42 degrees, 30 minutes, | he gave it, and that a wine of less excellence should | not receive oue so broad, so noble ¢ . The altitude of Keuka Lake and Pleasant Valley is o noble and national, It some 718 feet above tide has hardiy yet been fuily introduced imto market; but wherever it has been Osed it has been pronounced KEUKA LAKE equai in favor, briliancy, boaquet and peculiar is one of a chain of lakes, heading southward, run- ning through the central portion of Western New York, about mostof which grapes are grown suc- | cessfully to a greater or less extent, a8 is the case with some of the table lands near Lockport, Niagara county and Fredonia, and Brocton, Chautauqua county, Those conversant with RUROPEAN WINE CULTURE heed not be reminded of We fact that Rheims, Epernay, Ay, Cove<'0r, as well as Jobanisvurg, ported. Give It an equal ag nd its makers will challenge @ Uial WIth nearly every foreign, as tuey do now with any American, manulacture, THE PROCESS by which these wines are made ts the same as that of the best quality manutactured in France. ‘Tne va es of grapes are, Of course, diferent, out, so far as quality 18 concerned, the advantawe is ia favor of Americ IMPORTANT TO VINE GROWERS. had twelve years in this in | part of the buildmg 18 used for ofiices, press, bot- | aad has to fight the bogus article with the pure article, | pop lis dangerous stuff off at short notice as the | into casks, where It undergoes | the sediment is worked downward and accumulates | he cork is twined, | does not intervene to mar the hiarity of the | the season for gather: | 3 of Western | it} froitiness to augost any brand of champagne im- | It may be important and of practical interest to 4re Ob he uorthera border af Kuropean wiae cul. ; those contemplating engaging im tus culture io } ' know somet of | this region, ped { the details of vine growing in | six miles down the east side, 1s D. J. W. Burge and In the selection of @ site ora plat of nd itis | landing. On theo; it hare be dry | are ya MoMilion NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 187L.—TRIPLE SHEET. P. H. Fields’, at what is known as Peach Orenard osite side, twelve males further, | Of the first impostance that the atmos; ry n, fourteen acres; Dr. Byron above it, and that the soll itself by rad or made so | Spence, twelve acres, and the by ditching and underdratning; that {t be near a SENECA LAKE GRAPE AND WINE COMPANY, body of water or peculiarly she from cold | 100 acres. This company are winds and unseasonable frosts; and, as expertence has shown, for the highest excellence of frutt that the soil be poor rather than rich, witha slope or main. inclination to the south in the Greatest success | drift formations of lacious shale, apart, after U to the depth of fifteen or twenty inches. Prefer- ence has been given to one year pid vines grown out door, from two or tnree-eyed cuttings, pI in the month of May, six inches deep, wet of porcine her shoots, varying With amount of growth, supported On stakes tli the third or fourth year, wen atrellis, using No. 11 wie, supported on’ stakes from fiiteen to twenty-iour feet apart, and three wires to the | ound necessary, as the culture extended and varie- | trellis, atan average of eighteen inches from the ground, and each other upward, te wires being heid in place by stapies made tor the purpose aud eud stakes supported by braces. THE ANNUAL PRUNING | Becessary to limit and distribute the growth, se treme growth te second also, Well grown vines in fuil bearing will li the trellis and yield from TWO TO THREE TONS TO THE ACRE. The system of pruning recommended and practiced Dr, Guyot, of France, and Professor Fredrich ‘ohr, of Germany, have preference in the Pleasant Valiey grape region and on tniand waters. THE VARIETIES GROWN here and in Western New York generally are mostly Catawba, Delaware, Isabella and Concord. About Crooked Lake the Iona 1s more extensively grown | by far than at any other poimt we have knowledge | OLin the United States. The Walter and Bumalaa are yearly receiving increased attention. RANK OF GRAPES FOR WINK AND TABLE USE, AS ESTIMATED IN PLEASANT VALLEY, ai ese Grant's Iona Island, near Peeks. i, N.Y, 2 Delaware—Origin unknown, supposed New Jersey; brought out by a Mr. ‘Taompson troin Dela- Ware, Ohio, 3. Catawba—As ts well Known originated in North Carolina; brought out by Major adiam, of Wasb- ington, N. O._ 4. Diana—Named after Mrs. Diana Crehore; ori- ginated near Boston. 6. Concord—Originated in Concord, Mass, 6, Isabella—Well known; brought out by Major Gibbs, of South Caroliua, and named after Mrs, Giobs, Succeeds better North than South, The above varieties are all grown in Pleasant ! Valley. It requires a combination of them all to make champagne, fine dry wines and sherry. Man: | other varieties are frown for market alone, sucl | @s—1, Hartiord Prolific; 2. Israella (Grant’s); 3 All | Of Rogers’ (Salem), numbers hybridised; 4 Rebecca | crn named for Mrs. Rebecca Peak, of Hud- son, N.Y. fhe following varieties are grown exclusively for | DERBY RED WINES—CLARET AND PORT—ALL BLACK, | pds, Norton's rginia Seedling—(Originated at | Richmond, Va., by Dr. Norton). | 2 Ives’ Seedling—(Originated at Cincinnati). 8 Chnten—(Originated near Rochester, N. Y., where Lhiwanger & Barry's Nurseries, the largest 1n | the world, are situated, and where atteation to the producnon of new varieties of grapes coald, no doubt, be proitably directed). 4 Oporto—(Not much grown here. Mixed for claret and port). b | NEW VARIETIES. | ‘The following varieties of grapes for wines and | table are growWh, but Ureir vaiue las not yet been fully tested: NEW VARIETIES NOT FULLY TESTED, | 1, Eumelan—black—iOriginated on tue Hudson | py Dr. Grant). 2. Walter—red—(Originated by L. M. Ferris, of Poughkeepsie), & | _ & Croton—(Ratsed by Stepnen W. Underhill, Croton Point, + Just Introduced on Canandaigua Lake by Dr. Underhill himself, Not fruited to auy extent, yet promising great excellence in habit, health and smength of vine and fruit), | 4 Senasqua—black—(Urigimated with Dr, Under- hill. Promises good as a table fruit only). 6, Una—white—(Origmated with Mr. bull, of Mart- fo who brought out the Concord. Good habit of vin Flavor ol iruit ratner foxy, and thereiore ob- Jectionable), | 6 Marcia Seedting—white—(Originated at Con- cord, Excellent habit of vine. Same vbdjection tu iruit as to the Una). | EXCURSION ON LAKE KEUKA—THE URBANA COMPANY. | If the reader will now accompany: the HERALD ntauive and @ pleasant party of ladies and | Seatlemen in the pretty littie steam yaclt Keuka, he will take an excursion upon the péilucid waters of the lake around tts vine-covered shores and hiil- sides, and enjoy one of the most delight!ul and re- freshing breathing spells that he, we warrant, soarcely ever before relished. But as we nave not | space vo enumerate all the pleasurable occurrences | On the excursion, We wili be obliged to “stick to business”’ and give an account of a visit vo the build. ings of a wine company, a few miles from Ham. mon sport, in Which Many people in New York will take an interest, inasmuch as one of their weil known fellow citizens, ). M. Ulldreth, formerly of the New York Hotel, is President of the company, | We refer to the ’ | URBANA WINE COMPANY, which Was organized im 1505 aud has 225 acres of grape land, carefuily selected, Lhe batidings were erected tn the summer of the above year, aad ara | Sabstanually coustcucted of stone quarried in tie neighborhood. ‘The two cellars are entered by entrances fronting the lake, and are each 100x22 | feet in the clear, The system of manuiacturing wine milar to that described in the Pleasant ; Vailey Nery,” and, like that establishment, the na Coinps have a8 a superiitendent an em- it French artist in wine, in ive person of Charies Le Breton, a native of Nantes, whe is a graduate of the celebrated Heldsieck aud Roederer cellars in France ‘Tae still and sparkling wines of this corm. pany are growing to public favor, as will be the lollow lug staitatic: | STILL WINES MANUPACTURED BY THE URBANA Gou- PANY. Tons. Galons, Tons. Gallons, 1865 2,400 1868... 28,000 | 1366 12,500 1869... 19,000 | ie7 ¥1,200 Bottles, 100,000 60,000 187 120,000 rands of sparkling made by the | Urbana Company are known to the trade and con- | sumers as the “IMPERIAL,” THE “URBANA” AND “GOLD SEAL.” ‘The Imperial 1s made from a mixture of Catawba, | | Isavella ana Delaware; the Urbana is from a singie grape, nol widely known; and the Gold Seal 1s from the saine grapes as the Imperial, with a portion of , Jona added. As We have bevore stated, the business girls, high and low, rich ana poor, turn out for | Of Usis company has increased seventy-five per ceut | | the past year. An order for 1,000 bottles has just | beea Med for New Ori 83, Where the President | ouce kept a hotel—the St. Cuaries. The company 1s evidenuy in @ flourishing condition, and their luscious Wines are making the Itys of bon v | smack with pleasure wherever they can | obtained, OMIEF VINE GROWERS AND WINE MAKERS, Without pretending m this tily prepared re. port to give a list of even a moiety of the names of those engaged m this ¢reat vine growing and wine making district—nol inaptly termed the “Ruine and Epernay of America’’—we will meation a few who culuvate ten acres and upwards, giving tiem with- out particular regard to geograpiical position:— PLEASANT VALLEY 4ND KEUKA LAKE, The Pieasant Valley Wine Company, by their ' stockholders, cullivate over 250 acres, and are tie largest purchasers from the smatler growers in the | tousanc viemity, reaching many | duriay a season. | growing expert, as well a3 a scholar, an editor, a traveller ana a jolly companion everywhere, grows seveniy acres; the Urbana Company (on the lake), 226 acres. ‘The large growers of ten acres or more are G, H. Whecler, T. M, Youngiove, D. Rose, H. O. Fairchild, George W. Nichols, F, M. & George Me- Dowell, DS. Wiezener, Pratt & Gillett, J. W. Pren- | uss, E. H. Burgess, —— Giffen (of New York), A. Hadden and many others, not meuding the tun- dreas who grow grapes in vineyards of less than ons of grapes é “Houoravie Men- | ten acres, making the grand aggregate from five to | pied in offering aevotior seven thousand acres. THE CANANDAIGUA LAKE GRAPE REGION. The village of Napies, at the head of the lake, is an old vine growing polut, next ta importance to Hammondsport. Hon. E. B. Powe and J. (brother of ex-Governor Myroo C, Clark) are promi- | hent growers. | east Side ol the lake, Major Hixson, H. Green and Drs. Nichols and Seclye are large growers. the lake, al Seneca Point, Mes#rs, Morse and Welles, atlorne)s in Canandaigua Village, are growers, NIAGARA COUNTY. At Lockport, Niagara county, Ringerburger, ©. L. Hoag, E. Moody and J, HL. Babcock are the largest growers, One Ol these geutiemen th 1869 grew OVER THIRTEEN TONS | of § ella grapes to the acre, and the next year three aud @ bail tons marketabie. CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. At Fredonia Dr. 8. Mitchell, 1. L. Hubbard and Rev. A. Wheelock have large vineyards—say five | undred acres In all, At Brocion one thousand acres, T. S. Harris & Co. have forty or fifty acres new plantings, thirty of which are in Salem grapes—one of Rogers’ humbers—pbut they are nov trutting well us summer. His Salem is a large red grape, sup- posed to be superior for vot table and wine; yet It Temaing G0 be seen how far it excels others, better known and more promising, for tmmediate profit. Jt is named after the place o/ its origin, Salem, Mass, We may mention in Uliis connection that BE. O. Rogers, of Suiem, 48 i8 known, brought before the ublic over fifty hybrids, as they are called, His 0.4 is called now Wilder, for President Wilder, Though a few are valued for shipping purposes, no wine ifs been made ana offered vo the public, CAYUGA LAKE VINE-GROWING REGION. Dr. 8. J- Parker, of Ithaca, at the head of Cayuga Lake, has given especial attention tothe “hybridiza tion?’ (which, for the benent of the uninitiated reader we will explain, is effected by crossing the species by applying the pollen of the blossom of one variety ol grape with that of another.) Dr. Parker is au intetligent writer on grape culture, and tn conneo- tion with Messrs. Tucker & Hungerford, they to- geiher give an impetus to the culture about this lake that is Working great guod to it. Dr. H. Parley, at Union Spriugs, near the foot of the lake, is a grower of some prominence, as are many others botu of iarge and small degree, ‘ ' SENEKOA LAKE REGION, about twenty miles westward from ay a, has at Watkins (where the famous Watkins’ en 18 Bite make into wine his own production. Following the shores of tha ake toward ita font, +has attended the planting upon coarse gravelly clay, or on argt- with the vines fiom tive to eight feet ‘he soil has been plowed and subsolied jauted = Originated the style of pack: at corn plaoting tme, and Clean cuiture to jollow, and size, from one to uiree give these packages preference over all others for conded by aiming to the lower wire, and in ex- | moby | W'S | be Dr. E. Van Keuren, who is a vine | W. Clark | In Vine Valley, six miles down the | ACTOSS | uated), J. HM. Pope, Who has @ vineyard of tweive acres, and is constructing bujidings and a vault to | Carty found ber ant reparing to bulid @ wine cellar and to enter in the business with enter. prise and spirit. HOW THK GRAPES ARE SHIPPED TO MARKET, Not the most uninteresting and important part of this wine and grape Sroging interest is the method by which the proauct 18 shipped to market. For this purpose it 13 only necessary to give a brief de- ription of the extensive GRAPE BOX AND CHAMPAGNE CASE FACTORY of Fairchild Brothers, in Hammondsport, ‘This firm e for shipping grapes Me rail some nine years ers in New York city in good order great distances since, Comimission fruit de: Bringing the contents to market in the best order— and it has this other advantage, of occupying the least possible space in carrying where room 1s valu- able. Of these boxes from 350,000 to 400,000 are made and sold annually, Jon Knox, of Pittsburg, Pa., used of these boxes in One year 32,000 for mar- keting his frait, The Fatrchilds have opened a trade with the California grape growers, which BE. maiges to be for the mutual advantage of box makers and fruit growers, Their establishment is so com- plete ip all its appointments that shay oa produce 6,000 boxes daily from the log. ie making of champagne cases alone consumes 250,000 feet of lumber—a branch of business yearly on the in- orease—as is their grape package business, ‘These grape packages and champague packages are shipped by way of Bath, Pen Yan, Naples, Canan- onan Watkins, Geneva, &c., to the great railways of the State, whence they find their way to all parts of the world. TUDE PRESENT PROSPECTS FOR THE GRAPE OROP. If “out of abundance the heart speaketh,” the hearts of the people in the grape-growing region this season will be almost ‘too full for utterance.’ The prospect at this time (August 18) Was never so promising for an extraordinary yeld, and that, Wo, of fruit of superior quality, both for’ the table and | the wine press, .But notwithstanding tne large | crop, prices are expected to rule gh, for ten cenig @ pound have already been paid for one vineyard’s gathering—probably fifty tons—by a prominent wine maker. That prices will not rule lower sev- eral reasons are given, namely:—First, the exira demand det ae making, n wonsequapes of the ins oreaséd demand for Américan wines, the tradé now being very brisk; second, the demand for shipping fruit; third, the early appearance of peaches, which willend that trade sooner than usual and make room for grapes; fourth, the short crops of ; @pples, cherries, piums, <&c.; filth, the increasing Appetite of our people for grapes as a de- ltcious and wholesome table fruit, and sixth, and | not the least of all, the appearance of that terribie | Scourge of the vine in France, the philarera vasta. triz, Which, having destroyed the greater part of the vineyards of Variciuse and Arles, has invaded those of Languedos, Aix, Lambeoo, Rognac, Mille, Equilles, &¢., and is reported to be devastating those usually fruitful regions, If the corn crops of Europe affect the prices of breadstuffs in this coun- try why should nota failure in the grape crop of France sunilarly affect grape cuiturists in this country ? AMERICAN BRANDIES. * The amount of American brandy manufactured by the Pleasant Valley, the Urbana and other compa: nies in the district we are referring tois gradually fnereasing, and its quality contimualiy improving. tis undoubtedly the pure article. All it wants is age, and this the companies shouid see that it has if they would have it Compete with foreign brands in our market. AN EVENT | One acquainted with English life, for, as a general | Tights of labor. ; in their hands,” made use of the following startling THE GOLD WAR ON THE STUMP, A Miners’ Blast in the Amador Democracy. *‘ Boilting ” Scene at a County Convention. Night Picture of the California Canvass. The Indias, the Nigger and Chinee as Listeners. SUTTER Cresx, Cal., August 15, 1871. Sapient Englishmen, who velong to what is known as the governing class, and even those who hang upon tts coat tatis and live by its bounty, are in the habit of attriputing the preservation of politi- cal equilibrium among them to the fact that the men who make demagogues in other lands gravi- tate toward parochiai offices in theirs, This self- conceited opinion is manifest in its aosurdity to any rule, parish matters are left there mostly to a very few, and those the least likely, under any circum- stances, to aspire to anything higher. THE DEMOGOGUS, EVEN IN AMERICA, is a speculator, rather than a steady, business man, and, as in all countries, his principal capitatis tongue | and cheek. The way that a man’s vote comes home | to nim tn a free country, while the system of gov- ernment gives scope to demagogues of all classes, yet makes their real tafluecnce the less; and, follow- ing the popular, contemptuous phrase of the day, Spread-eagietsm is liberally DENOUNCED AS “POPPIcoTT.” This strain of thought, coming from the supposed Seat of a labor war, 1s induced by the change which has taken place in events here. THE AMERICAN SAFETY VALYB has been regularly opened. and oratorical steam is escaping ever since. On that evening the democratic primary was held here, and after the delegates were elected Mr. James Phelan, State Sene ator from Nevada, haranguea the Leaguers on the ; He ts @ miner, and, while putting forth the well-known philippics in odd form against “the MEN WHO HOLD THE CLINK OF DOLLARS expressions:—“Governor Haight sent down the sot- of much importance to the vine-growing and wine. making interests of the State will be the holding of | the annual State Fair of the Grape Growers’ Assoct- ation, in Hammondsport, on the 20th, 27¢h and 28th of September, CONCLUSION. Tn concinding the above hurriedly compiled report of one of the most remarkable grape growing ree gions in the country this side of the Rocky Moun. tains, and rivalling in many respects the best wine districts in France, ne HERALD representative begs to be allowed to return his thanks tor kind attentions and generous hospiiality extended by C. D, Cham- plin, of Pieasant Valley; to oiiicers of the Uroana Wine Company, and to many others, vine growers ahd wine makers, who contributed to make his brief sojourn tn Pleasant Valley and vicinity an event to be embaimed lerever among the pleasantest of memories. STATISTICS OF HOMICIDES, WASHINGTON, D. C., August 29, 1871. The following table exhibits the number of homt- cides In each State and Territory during the year ending May 31, 1870, as compiled from the mortality returns at the Census Office, August 29, 1871:— = = 2 5 re & = =| State or Te r State or Terrie Sie "Ye Rae tory. es Alabama. 4 100 New Mexico 0 of “Arkansas, 8 76 New Jersey. o 5} anizona 0 44 New York 4 70) California 5 5 48 | Colorado 1 4 a} Connecticut . . v Oo 5) Delaware... 0 3 55 9 1 8 2 a7 F 4 6 7 | Georgia. 5 19 38 Idaho 0! Oop 7 5» Vermont! wv ¥ 2 32 Washington. 0 1 24 West Virgins o gf 5 42 Wisconsin 2 16 2 73 Wyomin o 1B 7 138 LL NB. 1 (2 Arizona Oo Bt 3 20 Colorad: o 2! 1) 6 22 Dakota. 0 4} | 1 2 10 | Minnesota. 5 0 0 1} Mississippi 7 e 28} Missour 1 (ees Al Montan 1 Tea Nebraska 3 0 0 3 | Nevada...0....18 1 B ut NewHampshire 1 0 Wyoming. o ut Pete a 167 2,995 | Returns from a few counties not yet received may | slivbtly change this statement. “Killed by ludians” are in- cluded in “bomicia ' A CONVENT IN CINCINNATI DESTROYED BY FRE. (From the Cincinnati Enquirer, August 24.) This morning, thirty minutes after the hour of midnight, when devastating flames create their greatest consternation, an alarm or fire was turned in from box 141, at the corner of Freeman and Bank streets. A second alarm followed in quick succes- sion, and the Fire Department responded with its usual promptness. ‘The scene 1 the conflagration proved to be in the buildings situated on Pauk street, between Freeman | and Baymilier, owned and occupied by the Suciety | | ot the Good Shepherd. ‘rhe good Sisters had ail re: tired to their beds, when the ery of rire was heard, which roused them from their slumbers. ‘Ihe outer | gates were all locked, but the keys were as promptly procured as possible amid the general fright. ‘The first object was to see that none of the Sisters | of the conveut were within the burning building. | Lieutenant Lawrence, of Oliver street station nouse, | passed throvgh the building and looked in every | room to see that all was well, Fortunate as this , was, there was much valuable property, iurniture, ! cloting, &c., which was the property of the Sisters | and the society. ‘The flames originated in the gar+ | ret, ai the northwest corner of the aweliing, directiy over ihe baking cepartment. How the flames were communicated Cannot be ascertained, as the first | | word of warning came from the streets, at which time the roof was cracking like tinder with the | flames. The Sisters have taken the utmost precau- tion agatust accidents of this kind. The roof of the buliaing, of which there are two wings, was the portion where the fire waxed hottest, | but portions of the imterior were also damaged, while all the household articies will be more or less | injured, and some totally destroyed. The scene at the chapel in the rear of the burning building was very impressive. The. Sisters for the greater portion retired to the chapel and were occur arrayed in their imposing robes their faces expressed the faith that actuates their lives, The general effect was singularly awe- | faspiring to the beholder, And amid their own pri- | vate losses and sacrifices en only anxiety was that | the buliding might be saved. ‘Through the T indness of Sister Mary Stanislaus Jacobs our reporter Was conducted to the Mother Superior of the Convent of the Good Lota ag | through Whose courtesy we are able to give the foi- | lowing particulars in regard to losses: — The original cost of the two buildings, the convent and the chapel, was $16,000, upon which there was an Insurance of $10,000, $6 000 of Which was tn the Germania Insurance Company, and the balance in| the Sun Insurance Company, both of this city. There | were seventy Sisters, under the charge of the Mother rior, and upward of two hundred pupils, loss on the buliding 1s fully covered by the in- surance, but that ou furniture and upholstery on the interior will have to be sustained by the Sisters. ‘The total loss Was estimated at $25,000 on both by the Mother Superior. Before three o'clock this morning the mastery of the flames had been compieted, and the Fire Depart- ment had added another leaf to its laureis, [tis but just to say that, amia all the dangers, the Sisters ‘displayed temaikable cooiness and seli-possession. ‘The loss falls very heavy on the Society, as it was by the exertions of the Sisters of the Order thay the money was secured to erect the handsome buliding which the flames seized this morning. BAD BARKSDALE, New York, Aucust 29, 1871. To THE Eprror OF THK HERALD: — In the account of the arrest of Ford . Barksdale published in the HERALD it is stated that he 18 an eaitor of Our Society. I beg leave to state through your columns that Barksdale has had no connection lication since jast spring, and a state. Inu eo tae effect has been published at the bead e for the past two months. ie pea MAY LOR, Proprietor Our Society. | the political issue was forced on them by their oppo- | owners, believing that the Sheriff of tie county un- | glared with a polished savagery upon each other. | tried itis true, but one im Whom the whole country | eratic convention, but one gotten up by certain inca diers, Now, don’t he know that a body of working- men, rendered desperate, can destroy more in & month than all the soldiers of California could build up in a year?” He afterward added, strangely euough, as an afterthought:—“But this isa doc. trtne which should neither be advanced nor suse tained.’ His strong point was an invitation to vote against Haight. This was ioudly appiauded and seconded in pure Californian. Mr. Phelan is a republican, and some think that his sympathy for the miners of Sutter Creek was in the interest of Newton Booth, the republican canaidate for Governor. The fire of his remarks, however, has been quenched, aud politics, not this time in dis- guise, is the horse doing all the running. Since my arrival in this vicmuity I nave been told by those opposed to the Miners’ League that that body had no real cause of discontent on the score of wages. It was, they said, owing to the machina- uons of A FEW DESIGNING MEN, with an eye to political capital, that any strike was made at all. The Leaguers, on the contrary, aver that their movement was one directed solely to a specific adjustment of the rate of wages, and that nents. From all statements the following is a fair opinion of the truth on either siae:—The proposed change in the wage rate, while self-sacrificing on the part of some, DID NOT JUSTIPY A starkR. When that error was made by the Leaguers their pollucal plan was not mapped out. ‘The mine- fairly favored tue Leaguers, immediately took ground politically on the question, and trom that date forward tere has been bard work on both sides to make up a good ucket, 1% whieu | the Leaguers have been fairly beaten. Unfor- | tunately for the democratic party, the con- tending factions were bot within its ranks, The most bitter fecling has been exhibited on doth sides, and ine repuviicans, who la a minority of 5.0, bul a uml im action, took heart of grace from the situadion. ‘The batile, Which was won by the auti-Leaguers at tae primanes, looks, tuereiore, as if it will COST THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY very dearly. The exctiement culminated at the county convention beld at Jackson, and whica, as announced by telegraph, resulied ina ‘bolt’? by the Leaguers’ minority, ‘Their purpose was avowed freely a8 soon as they had sounded the depit of their inability to carry the convention. This w pretty well Known on the Saturday previous, and the party managers on both sides were busy ail Sun- aay offering terms on both sides to Whomsoever would join them. The convention met at tne Court House, which was filled with sympathisers trom ail parties. A STALWART, MUSCULAR CROWD they made, and, witn very few exceptions, their ut- terances were bold and free, alter the approved California pattero. As soon as the permanent oilicers were appointed the meeung was catied to chairman, and the combatants ‘The chairman counselled moderauion, a counsel Wuieh fell Upon heediess ears. A sort of test youe Was taken on the quesugn as to Whether the voting should be viva voce or by ballot. The Leaguers, who wanted every Lian “to speak right out 1 iman,’? lost this painfully andibly, for the “n * shouted with thunderous jungs their dissent. The nomina- Uons were now in order, and a Leaguer proposed George Durham, the present inculabent, as the party’s candidate for Sueriff—‘a man,’’ he said, “WHO IS A NATURAL SHERIFF, a man you can cal! on at any hour of the night and be sure he'll be ou hand. me has held the oilice for the last lour years, and although some talk about giving no man an office for @ lUetime (a spiteful glance at the majority), L say when you have such a sheriit keop him.” (Loud applause by the minority.) The leader of the anti-Leaguers, the present State |. Senator, Mr. Jem fariey, now arose to nominate his candidate, “amuch respected cilizen; a man un- has confidence, and a man whom at least you should give a triai—John Vogan.”” (Applause from the ma- jority.) “The candidates are now cailed on “io detine their positions,” and George Durvam, “the natural | sheriff,”’ stalks in in ns white duster and takes the stand. A baleful light flashed irom under the | shaggy brows of the brawny six-footer, and A SINEWY DETERMINATION sits on every line of his sun-browned face. He rests one hand on the Judges’ bench, and says bluauy in the golden lingo of the Golden State:— “Lam here under peculiar circumstances, owin, to the course Of aduirs of lave. I have been vilifie by men not worthy to biack my boots, {am ac- cused of belonging Lo the Miers’ Associaucn. 1 do not belong toil, [never did. (‘*That’s 80, George.) | 1,a0 not believe in labor doing Wrong, nor in cap» talists dogging workiugmen to death. ‘These vili- fiers said 1 would not do my duty. | have never Tailed tu my duty. Lcould not move in the matter without the papers were placed in my nands. Mr. Farley there void tne mine owners so."? (Cheers from leaguers.) fhe speaker then read extract from the Masonic Mirror, reflecting on him, and com- mented (reety on that lucubration, denouncing it as false, ‘lL ask everybody, and defy anybody to say 1 failed, (“No ! no! George J have asked forno oitce, ‘Tomy friends who have stood by me | ofer my profound thanks. To those who have been MISLED BY MY VILIFIERS Ishall say nothing. They have my profound con- tempt.” (Appiause from the leaguers.) John Egan, the leader of the League, & stout, bloated man, now asked to be ih , and spoke boldiy, pomtedly and cloquenty, je avowed himself to have been a@ tite-long democrat. “Yet,’? he said, “a howi has been sent up that a certain or- ®anwation is opposed w democracy. Now I say that, In the teeti of those Who oppose that body, it 1s false. Thave formed an organization that work- ing men should assert their rights and dare vo maine tain them. For tnis we are accused and denounced, Have you heard a word yet in this Convention about nigh tariff or low tariff, or any other national ques- | uont Nota word, | do not consider this a demo- who have ARRAYED CAPITAL AGAINST LABOR. They have sau this a fight agamst leaguers. 1 ap- peal to every man who earns his bread to weigh this, nob to the slaves of capital, ‘who crook the preg: nant Linges of the knee that thrift may follow fawn- ing.’ J have as much political sagacity as many @ man, and | ted you that this labor question ts the one which fs coming, and in such form as that you CENTENARIAN TURNED OUT OF Doors BY HER Dacnan Margaret Driscoll, a woman 108 years of age, and residing with her daughter, Mity years of age, at 64 South street, was wandering around in that street last night, ids | been put out of the house by her hard-nearted daughter, Omcer Mc- 4 took her home, where she was most shamefully treated by her dauguter.—Losion Herald. AUsUst 2b. cannot dodge it, In that day you will be fain to cry, “Thou canst not say L did it??? (Cheers trom the leayuers.) Joun Bgan had finished, and he walked out of the court room, and hot foot at his heels followed fourteen more, of the delegates, teaving Farley aud his fridMas masters of the inglorions fleld, This did not please | the latter, and Farley, who, a8 well as Egan, is a” Jawver, stood up and stoully demeaded tq aad | @emoeracy ot cne convention. He dented charge of getting up an lab bitterly if gaa would oe j LL W183 LAW TO ANY BUYER for & $500 fee. “Perhaps,” he added, “it is becausd. he has not had the chance, Let any man who (ie fires to ge do so, and We shall kuow where to aud ‘The natural Sheriff again was sent for and d Clared he asked nothing at the hands of’ the’ Cons vention, {t was now, Of course, a walk over for thé otuer candidates. There was one apparent excep-; tton—the leaguers’ County ‘treasurer nominee— Who made a clever speeot of devotion to the Con- vention and thus gained 013 point. ‘The leaguers. have since washed their hands of him, and say they, Gre sorry to beat him; but do it they must. 1 have given this much space to this small count matter because it 1s the channel into which Woublous strike has been turned, It is A SAMPLE OF THE SMALL TROUBLES with whion the democratic party has to contend on the 4th of next month. it is undoubiedly true that a large number of the miners, in and out of leagu wil change their vote. Tneré are squabbles in humber of sure democratic conuties which tend td make these couaues iar from sure. At Mokelumue Hil, in Calaveras county, on Wednesday night, Lewis and Brown, the democrauc candidates 10r Lieutenant Governor and Comptrolier, scarcel! drew an audience of one hundred and iifty. anon, them were A CHINAMAN, AN INDIAN AND A NIGGER. The stand was erected ai the corner of the Te ty. | and illuminated with candles, Whoever could fin chairs in frous of the hotels sat down; the eithe squatted onthe road or stood. The speaker wi eloquent upon the “westward the course of empire’ Platform involving the qestruction of all inferior Taces that svood in its way. At this juncture the Indian rode in majestically, followed by TAREE 8QUAWS ON FOOT, Hle was dressed much like everybody else, and, having tied his mustang to a tree, ok up a positio to listen to the speaking, while the ragged, wretche squaws huddied themseives together on a door step in the shadow. It was scarcely possible to wax tic on this semi-civilizea specimen of the Lo family. If he felt any regrets they were not visible) ou his stolid face, and the best balsam Heaven ever, sent for injury {s insensibility, or, as his brothers: of tne Apaches or Arapahoes ’ would think— - revenge. The speaker, having demolished the aborigines in a few brimstone-smeiling phrases, now turocd his fierce attention to the ‘Asiatic plague’—the heathen Chinee, believe in the fatherhood of God, but not in ¢ brotherhood of man,” said the Lieutenant Governor expectant, and forthwith assailed the imported Mongolians and ali who arose in their behalf. & Chinese washerman, dressed in spotless White, with: his long pigtail dangling about his heels, came through the crowd with a snigger of humor on iis face, He was smokiug a iong reed pipe, and ree garded the motions of the speaker with much atten. Uon for some moments, and, evidently mistaking Coionel Lewis for a mountebank medicine vender, turned away, saying, “TOO MUCHEE TALKEE, NO GOOD Melican man.” This was not heard by any of the mhore fabld, or it might have been the last of Sim Lung. On the “few departure’ question tue blacks were of course treated to a denunciation which their being fellow-cltizeas gained tor toem, The nigger in the crowd did not buage an wok until the diatribe was over, and thea he ambl away chuckling. Between cissensious in the state and county orgamizations, the democratic ticket Stands in great dan, and if the three demecratice atly proscribed ra look for pleasure in the de- feat of tneir enemies, the lacter seem inclined tor GIVE THEM EVERY FACILITY, So far as the Chinainan is concerned, he appears to be particularly triendless just how, siuce the re- publicans have alsu taken dove-tailed and anti- coolle plank im their platform. So nearly alike im professions on paiionai questions are the two parttes that toe interest in te campaign is centred om railroad subsidies and lottery bills. In Calaveras county the democratic majority is not more than eighty and in Amador county not more than three Seria on the regular ticket, La the former itis feare THERE ARE SOREWEADS ENOUGIT to defeat ine unterrified, and in the latter the bolt- ing miners, to the number of avout three hundred and iifty, propose to elect the radicals. Democrats, and republicans are getting anxious now, and money will be freely used. Thanks to politics, things otherwise are quiet here, and some citizens are said to be secretly at work forming a vigilance committee to keep things so. Water, the supply of which is failing, would be the great panacea for all the fuss. BROOKLYN AFFAIRS. A Revenue Delinquent. James O'Reilly was before United States Commise sioner Winslow yesterday on the charge of retail ing liquor on Staten Island, without paying the special tax required by law. He was held to bat the sumof $509 to await a hearing on the wth OF September. s Fatal Sunstroke. About one o'clock yesterday afternoon Valentine Conneily, filty-three years of age, While at work im a nank of earth corner of Tweifth street and Seventh avenue, Gowanus, was sunstruck and died tnstant- ly. Deceased resided in Twenty-first street, ne: Third aveuue. Tue toay was removed to tha Morgue, where an inquest will be hela, Bourding Ileuse Thief, A tall, thin, fair-complexioned, middle-aged man, of fair aduress, has for several weeks past been going the rounds of respectable boarding houses, engaging rooms and meals and then walking off with anything portabie of valve that be could con- veniently get hold of, erday he stole a gold watch ald chain trom the residence of Miss Bruden- burg, 431 Clinton stree What Bevzine Will Do. Philip fGunther, a German, residing in Twenty. first street, near Fourth avenus, returnea t@ his home at a late hour last night pretty tho- rongliy saturated internally witn the bad Bourbon of the district in which he dwelis, He threw hig pantaloons out the of window, and the garment, which contained the sum of $75, was. picked up by some sober neighbor, aud carned off, Gunther mourns his toss, Crushed te Death. Arthur Walters, a native of Germany, employed in the Long Island Sugar Refinery, was 80 shock- ingly injured on Monday night by being accidentally caught in a centrifugal machine he had pag a there that ne died at bis residence, No. 258 First street, Willamsburg, yesterday, Henry Fuller, & fellow workman, was also injured by the same ma- chine. Carelessness was the cause of the fatal ace wee aud no person now living is responsible or It. Demanding Damages. Patrick Conden and Henry Brinke, both tn the employ of tbe Brooklyn City Railroad Company, were arraigned before Justice Delmar yesterday, on complaint of Hugh McConnell, residing at 217 Nine- teenth street. The latter claims $3,000 damages for a broken leg and other tnjuries, which he alleges were inficied upon him through the malice of the accused, who drove their car over him while he wad in the act of crossing Court street, The hearing of the case was put of until to-day, Denth from Drink. An inquest was held by Coroner Jones yesterday over the remains of @ Mrs, Forsyth, who died in her apartments, over a gin mill, at No, 58 Summit Street, South Brooklyn, from the effects of intem- erance. Deceased was the wife of an honest and industrious man, Who ls employed at Long Branc She has tong been addicted to’ gross inebriety, am lavishly expended all the money she could get up» the maddening bowl], She was smothered in the bedclotnes, and a verdict of death from suffocation was rendered by the jury. Killed by Bad Kerosene Oil. Coroner Whitebiil nas concluded the imaquest im the case of Mr. George Jackson, who was fatally burned by the explosion of @ kerosene lamp, at bis residence, 629 Leonard street, Williamsburg, on the 20th inst. The oil was testea by Professor Squibb, who testified that it gave of explosive vapors a& 96 degrees Fahrennelt, It was also ascertatned that the ol was manfaccured at the Washington OIL Works, Newtown Creek, and the jury recommended that proceedings be taken against Hugh King, Wil- ham Cullen and thomas McGoey, the manufacturers of the dangerous oll, The jury also agreed that ott that could not stand a test of 120 degrees should not be allowed in the market. The “tate Tax. A delegation composed of oMce-holders and promis nent citizens of the democratic party left Brooklyn last evening for the purpose of conferring with the State Board of Assessurs at Albany, and of laying before that body the necessity of their reducing the rate valuation of real estate in Kings county, Tho total valuation upon Which the basis of assessment is now made ts $208,000,000, which is regarded as excessive and unjust. Most strenuous eflorts wil be made by the delegation, among whom are Con+ ressman Kinsella, Jonn ©, Jacobs, William G, ingsiey and the members of the County Board of Assessors, to eifect a reduction of at least $20,000,000 in the total valuation of real estate, Passengers’ Kights. A case involving the question of the rights of pas. sengers to furnish the conductors of horse cars on the Brooklyn city ratiroad lines with change or sabe mit to violent expulsion at the hands of the con ue tor, came up before Police Justice Walsh yesterday The compiainant in the case (Charles Dennison) was riding on & car on Which Edwin Broon is conductor, on the evening Of the i7th inet., wnen he tendered & muatiated stamp in payment for his fare, The de- fendant dectined to accept it, Dennison offered $6 bill. The conductor suid he should turnish U change or gevoim the car, This ne refused to ad, when the ome shoved him oif the vehicie. Juage Walsh sentenced Broon to pay a tine of for he assault or be incarcerated al the Pentventiary for tour moutha.