Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-02-09

putation OF being immoral The same cicum
stance OF chance is also incident, to things admies
10 be Immoral, as gambling with cards dice
out this circumstance is rot the ingredient OF vice
such games as have been restrained bS law ar,
distinguished by other and peculiar circum>
which constitute them immoral and call for the
mos etectual restraint. They cannot be carried
on without an association OF individuals aad n sac
fihce OF time, tending by necessary consequence
to promote public idleness and debauchery; and
are freqnenty attended with sacrifice OF health
ana sometimes the sudden ruin aud desoaton oil
families Another peculiar and distinguishing
circumstance which attends such gaming is, that
the games cannot by possibility be made >nb-ervi-
ent 10 any useful purpose. Public lotteries under
1uuicious regulations are not attended with any oil
those evils, and may be used as means for ac-
comprising great and valuable public objects.
Public lotteries direciedby the wisdom of the le-
gsia'ure TO useful purposes, marine assurances, and
assurances on lives aud against fire, seem to form
the intervening link between mere games of chance
which are prod, Give of public good and are
necessarily evil in their tendency and the various
pursuits OF agriculture, commerce, and manufac-
lures, which are essential to the wants and CON-
iSrt Oh man, and yet are not exempt from a mix
lure OF chance aud uncertainty. So far lotie-
ries operate as tax on the community, il is vol
unary one, and violates no mans right; and the
funds thus raised, when directed by the wisdom of
the legislature 10 suitable objects, again restor
Ell TO the community with increased usefulness.
The spirit OF adventure and en- erprise seems called
Tor by the very condition of man; il seems inhe-
rent in our nature, and is ios,ered Ivy almost every
pursuit Of industry; it will be active ard can be
guided aud directed in iis objects only Ivy indivi-
dual discr elton. BY gratifying the disposition for
lottery adventures within Nur own state, large
sums, that must otherwise be lost % the state by
investments in foreign lotteries. may become per-
manently fixed in valuable public impro vemen,s at
home.
ResoiUed, therefore, the opinion of this
Committee, That 1t l. expedient TO license the
privilege OF vending foreign lottery tickets within.
this Commonw ealth, and to impose lax on such
licenses.
Resotped also, That il is inexpedient TO repeal,
or modify the existing laws inhibing the sale of
foreign LOTTERY tickets, except far as 10 exempt
from The operation of said laws those who shall
eniiile themselves to the privilege OF vending TO-
reign lottery tickets within this commonweai,ti.
under license from the State.
hsS0fred also, That II is eIpedient 10 authorize
lotteries, within this Commonw ealth, tor the adj
vancenenl OF such objects as the Legislature shall
deem worthy Of their and and patronage
Tobacco Inspections and Trade In compli-
aace with the request OF several in elgeni aud re-.
spectacle members OF the Legislature, ;, Q Law be
lore our readers the following letter from Mr..
James Cds6ie, OF Manchester. To most Of our
readers IL, the ,obscco-gIowing sections of Virei
MIA and North Carolina, Mr.. T.. is so well known.
either personally or by reputation, that il i, unn.
cessary Tor u 10 refer 10 his intelligence his respec
liability, or his long and nnremi.,ed attention IN
the subjects on hich he tcrites
Letter from James Caskie, to a .sfe1,be, offb,
Legislature Of Vhginia
SIR AT your request l will nos give YOU can
didly, and as clearly as able after deliberate
reflection on the subject, my view in regad 10 the
management OF business at the Warehouses in
Richmond Tor the inspection OF tobacco with III,
nature of what appears TO be considered as exist.
ing abuses, and 70 far | am able, poni out such
| improvements AZ it may be well the Legislature
! should make
| have been constantly dealer in tobacco 70,
almost twenty years, regularly ending at the in.
spections for the purpose OF making purchases. ant
think ran with confidence assert, that during the
whole OF thai .me, the Internal arrange and
| general management OF business at the inspectiou,
IN Richmond, have never been betier.-I may ssfe.
y say, until within very few years, never SO good
as at the present time.
| 1t is certainly fact, that when tobacco is in
spected, and exhibited for sale there is
some waste. The inspectors must have an oppor-
tunily TO Judge whether they ought 10 pass or re.
fuse it-and if the planter expects TO obtain III.
value OF his Tobacco, he must afford 10 The attend.
ing buyers, fair opportunity to judge of its qu Ii
ty To effect those objects, the course pursued il,
Tor the inspectors 10 draw carefully from eaci
bTeaE, SUFFICIENT quantity to ba tied up as sampl
OF the md. and II the same time 10 draw and III -.
tribute among the attending buyers, u sulfi lea
quantity for them TO open and critically examine
by "hIch they are enabled TO form more correc
opinion OF the quality, than they can do by merel,
vie wing the sampie The average quantity const
tuiing the sample OF each hid estimate al four IL
FIVE pounds this your Committee says is unn eces-
sarily lsrse- IN my opinion, only because they ar,
not particularly conversant with The subject; for il
a fact, thai IN Great Britain where the duty on Thu
| article Is so nigh as to make il object TO hay,
every leaf AIKEN Of, four pound are allow e,
to be taken as the sample TO represent the q ALT
of every hid there offered for sale The om,ui,
tee further consider the weight of the sample a. g
much tobacco lost TO the planter, andupon he e .
view oil the matter, this really appears 10 be n.
case; but the Tact 10 not sot purchaser e-tims
the value of his sample, both intrnsicaIly, and a.
II saves him the expense OF reviewing when h,
wishes TO sell, or arrange his tobacco for sb ment
end by the amount thus saved, he is enabled 10 pa,
just so much upon the hid. 10 the planter
! than he otherwise could
The average quantity drawn from each hid art
distributed among the p-rchasers, estimate a.
about equal 10 the weight Of the sample, say fou,
TO five pounds--and this really seems 10 me :
small allowance TO enable least thirty real buver.
TO determine The quality, and thus bring about ,
competition from the whole Of them as purchasers
certainly az uncomfortable sariiice on the part o.
the planter Tor the bere6t it secures 20 him. rhi.
tobacco alter examination b. the merchants, i,
thrown loose upon the hhds at the Warehouse
Afterwards II Is gathered up by The hands, d put
away to he dspo.ed of, for their benefit Tn,
quantity ~ At the same time greatly increased b,
damaged tobacco necessarily thrown off from the
ends OF hhds and cut from such as have been da.
mayed by exposure in bad weather; but can still in
| this way he mi in rnerchantahIe con,ii,;on T.