Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1845-10-30
BALTIMORE TOBACCO MARKEr.-Our

Baltimore American, who have not closely
observed the operations of our Tobacco
market, will be surprised to learn that the
quantity which will be inspected in Balti-
more the present year will exceed sirty
Thousand hogsheads-a larger amount than
was ever inspected here in any one year,
and about double the average inspections of
1925 to 1923. The large and steadily in
creasing amount of moneyed capital which
this item of our trade draws hither renders
it of very great importance both to the city
and State It is found that as the market
grows, so also does the capital increase, and
with both comes wider and more active
competition.
We allude to this subject now for the pur-
pose of calling the attention of the State au-
thorities to the fact that the inspection ware
houses do not afford sufficient accommoda-
ton to the increased trade, and to urge the
necessity of adding one or two more to the
fye warehouses already erected. The in
spection of Tobacco, it will be borne in
mind, is not and never can be source of
profit to the State, inasmuch as any revenue
above the expenses would operate as an ex-
port duty, and can only be applied to the
erection Of new warehouses;, Sc, when
needed. We learn that all the warehouses
have been paid for except the one last
erected, and that there are sufficient funds
now in hand to pay the whole cost of that
one, although it has been in use less than a
year.
The receipts of Tobacco have been, al
various times this season, so heavy that
large quantities had 10 be stored out of the
public warehouses, (the five State ware
houses being entirely full, and that some
parcels have lain for nearly a month before
tn inspectors could open them. When store,
out, the State pays, besides storage, the dray-
age from and sometimes back again to the
warehouse, and the insurance and cooper
age consequent on the several removals.
During the present year the expense OF
storage to the State, though not exactly as
cerlaned, is said to be more than the inte-
rest on the cost of new warehouse; and
the amount stored out, notwithstanding the
erection Of the fifth warehouse, is said TO be
fully as large as it was last year. We re-
spectfully commend this matter to the at
tention Of the Stale authorities, who we
doubt not will be prompt to adopt the ne
cessary measures for the proper accommo-
dation of trade of so much importance.
ARREST OF SUPPOSED ABoLTIONIsT.
A man calling himself John A. lines, of
Salem, Mass, was arrested on Saturday
morning last by officers Zell, RidgeIy s
Cook, at the Pratt street depot, just as he
was about to depart in the cars for Phladel-
phia, in company with negro calling him
self John Juni(er, and for whom hines had
purchased ticket as his slave, and signed
the usual bond to that effect at the depot
1t seems that the two had Just come on from
Washington together. On and after his ar
rest he is said to have made a variety of
statements, first that he had bought the ne
gro in Richmond, Va; then that the negro
was free and that his mother lived in Salem
and had employed him 10 GO to Virginia
and bring her son on, as he could not come
unaccompanied by some white person; and
finally he declared that he never saw or
knew anything of the negro unit! Friday
night when he saw him at Washington
He said he left the Exchange hotel in this
city on Friday morning and went to Wash
ington, and fell in with the negro there
His conversation seems to have been very
much like that Of one challenging the mar
tyrdom Of the Peui,entiary, in the cause in
which he seems TO have so unluckily en-
bark ed.-Sun.
THANKS GIVING IN PENNsYLvANIA.-Gov.
Skunk has appointed a day for general
thanksgiving, the 9th of November next,
the same day that has already been appoint
ed by the Governors of Massachusetts, New
Hampshire and Maryland. This is the Sc
copJ t;roe vue helieve that Such dav has