Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-06-25
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Indirect American vessels,
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Number of emigrants about 3oo
Price Of passage, including provisions. S23 81.
Ofthe 621 bottoms employed in carrying the
foregoing produce of the United States Ala were
American: li7 Hanseatic; 81 French; % Swed-
ish and Norwcgian; 8 English; Hanovcrian; !
BELGIAN: 4 Dutch 2 Prussan aud Danish.
The sales OF tobacco, at the FIVE ports on the
N,rtb Sea amounted in 1913 to 6S.910 hoosheads
less BY 49, OILS hhds. than in 1912. Prices in
1912 ruled so low. compared with former years,
that the trade overstocked itself
According 10 the statement of Baron Bulow, in
his recently published correspondence with Mr..
Wheaton. the amount of tobacco that paid duty
in 1912. in the German Customs Union, was
oie. 119 ccntners-equal 10 % 1903 57 American
lbs or % 1913 hhds. Of 1000 lbs. each. OF this
quantity. IS, 500 hhds., ii is supposed was pro-
duced in the United States--the remainder in
South America, Cuba, Hungary, &c. Now,
taking the population of the States composing tie
ZollycIein, al $500 600 inhabitants, (Something
more, however, than believe it 10 be,) and the
largest annual consumption OF our aapl; is not
above orc pound for each individual within the
limits. IT, in 1912, the purchases for the Ger
manic Association, out Of the 1885 hhds sold
at the ports of the North Sea, were &c, 500 in the
same proportion, of the 6S,970 disposed of in
l843, they would amount to % ,2293 hhds-a sup
Div of but merely l3 44-l00 ounces of the United
! States growth for every inhabilani, whilst the
consumption of all descriptions, from an official
| statement before me from Berlin, is estimated a,
three lbs per head. SO that the average Weld.
yearly cannot be less than $4,000 hhdS., in the
States OF the Zollverein.
German TO! q co is vastly inferiorto American;
indeed ii is known not to contain one-half of the
strength of the former II follows, therefore that
il its cultivation was utterly abandoned, $500
hogshcads of our article would supply its place
| But under no circumstances, can the production
] be diminished more than onc-half Of It's present
extent, particularly in Prussia, where so fargo .
portion of its soil is suitable TO its growth and
where every peasant has small LOT of ground
upon which he may raise tobacco free of duiv.
The tobacco-producng land which pays duty in
Prussia is330U0 morgcns,r and the average annual
| yield 100000 centners. OF these lands, there
are four classes. An average annual crop Of a
morgen of the first class is Q centners; of the 81,
seven and hall; Of the third, six; Of the fourth,
four and half OF the first class the latest
official report nj Berlin states, that there were
537 morsens; of the secoEd. 1878; of the third.
rs, l43; and ofthe fourth, 3,.i2 IfPrussia would
consent TO reduction OF the duty on foreign to-
bacco OF l00 per cent, the cultivation Of the ar
ticlc would unqucstionably cease, in 4 great de-
gree, on the third and fourth classes of land,
which produce eighteen thousand hogsheads, pro-
vlded prices were moderate in the United States
and the cost Of transportation TO market was not
augmented. In Bavaria, Baden, &c, Il would
bsraised in much smaller quantities than it now is.
Under modification Of our tariff, or an ad ualo-
rem duty OF twenty per cent. on al imports, | feel
persuaded that the ports on the NouhS Sea could be
rclIet upon as certain market for from 10000 to
loo,o)o hossheads of our tobacco, annually
fouth more than the average shipments 10 them
for the last FIVE years.
1t Is difficult TO ascertain, with any degree of
accuracy, where al the tobacco, which enters the
Norm Sea, is consumed. Bremen, the larges.
- m'rgs7 about equal to az sHs.