Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1848-11-30


+ GROW I'll NDtON>t MPriONOF TOBACCO.
Judge Suykrr ia the q lartery Register and Maya
zine gives an Interesting pa!%r IN the growth and enor
consumption of plant, PREPARED moi podnct of
and nourishgent, but stimnlant, and which was
not known in Fn'ape three Centuries ago.
In the city of New York alone tine consumption Of CT
gars computed IL 900 dollars day greater
than thai wh Oh the I'M aoants pay for their daily bread
and IL the VIII lie country the annual consumption # To
5acco i estimated at I00000,000 lbs. being seven
ponn,ls every man. woman. and child at annual
/ the c',t>u of 20 900 900 dollars
L. lcio il was ascerainad BY a committee appointed
procure and report statistical information he subject
that ab ,u 800 D09 persons engaged in the mann
fciurp and cultivation OF tbacc in the United States
GH.B0 of whom were in the States Of NIrgna. Mary
land. Kentucky auL VI .Suuri. Allowing he population
Of the whole country be II 0O0000 it will be seen
that nearly one tenth in way engaged in the
cultivation manufacture Of this ar'ic The value of
the export during that year nearly 10 00O 900 dol
Notwithstanding the variety of he soil in the United
States tobacco is prduceI in Of the States-n Mas
slchuses. Conaecticnt Pennsylvania. Maryland. Vr-
gaia, South and y lrh Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, louisiana Tennessee, Kentucky Ohio, In
diana. Illinois. Missouri, Florida. BY the returns of
1915. Kentucky produced G3,3l0 900 lbs; Tennessee
81 100 600; Vfrgria 80 ZOO; Maryland. IL 020
900; Missouri. 1874 900; North Carolina, 1888 0OO
Ohiu7 $4,000. sc. And the whole crop for 1915
pun down al lSf wv IDS III ICtD tlt crop was
tnael at 2l9, lG3,3l9 lbs, or $50 gsheads q 200
lbs each)
Tue tobacco crop Of 1917 is estimated at 22O l64 900
lbs. worth, at cents POUND, ST. 100000
Thus, tobacco, mere luxury, has become Of The
largest and mos, important productions Of the soil 1t
hnds rs way 10 almost every part Of the world and
Joyed by people Of all Countries. Humboldt derives lis
name from the iatne language, signying the pipe used
by the natives. Some curious facts connected with
It's history
n 1920, ninety young women were sent over from
England America and sold To the planters for tobacco
at l20 lbs. for each.
In 1880 the Pope communicated all who touk snuff
ur tobacco in church.
Ia II 9 the culture of tobacco was prohibited in
SIaSbnrg, as tending diminish the growing ofcorn
In 81 tobacco made legal teuder in Mary land
at one penny pound.
''lT Is 40 SECTIONAL TRIUMPH," is the general ex-
clama'lon of the w hg Press, and Of all who love the
Union and the Constitution Nearly hundred votes
have been given for the President elect from the Free
States, and with much rood will if Zachary Taylor
had been Born in New York In the same splr-
1t, Southern vote has been given for Northern Vice
President ad in both pledges have been exact
I'd. Both We're Wigs in opinion, in principe.-and as
such. those who voted for them knew they would uphold
the Constuon and the laws fr all this is the very in
iavr Of the Wing creed. The country was disguised
with ''N,rthern with Southern principles as Mr..
Van Buren, was when President and as Mr. Cass would
have BEEN if elected. Nor had ii any confidence in such
ultra politicians as John c. Calhoun, who. in common
with the ultra Abolition party ct the North, have done
spirit of dsunlon than all the men who
have lived, and all the circuHls, which have trans
PRED since the formation Of the Government. The cleo
ton Of General Taylor and Willard Fillmore, by.a vote
tr from all sectionil feelings and by of least
half Of the thirty States Of the Union, and with
half of this whole about equally divided between the Free
and Slave States, States, (th0ugh numerically the E.
/ lnctpral the ErppS STATES will The lar
ges) cannot fail to result in the greatest good Mr.. Van
BIenS cleo on had it been ssibe, would have been
purely sectional victory for State south Of Mason and
DXOn's line could have been expected vote FIR him
General Cass election would have been mainly South
ern, and MT national result. General Tayor's cleo
ton the contrary, is neither Southern North
en- bur purely COnstl utlonai and American triumph
South Carolina would not for him. because thou
from Louisiana, he was in feeling less Of Southern
tonas canlIdatehan Lewis Cas- bora in New Eng md
and resident OF Free State
We have then President who most fortunately for the
country % cupes the best possible position for admins
terlng The vernment III a manner calculated to com
mand the confidence Of all sections Of the country. Not
wlIh>tandirg the jlrrinI elements which make up
that aggregate of popular dscod which agilaes the pub
lie mind. hope and believe that General Iaylrrs ad
ADMINISTRATION will be able bring orJef Of confusion
and establish permanent harmony between all the States
OF the Unlon. w do not suppose That all Itation viii
be at an end all strife That would be incon
g 81 me .NIileptlnI; mt We do nope that, under an en-
ghtrntd, liberal. ana National Administration, all
professional political agators w be frowned down by
tn good sense and PATRIOTS # the People.
The North has shown that confidence III General lay
4 ors peEs nal honesty aud nationality Of sentiment which
warrants f. IN him the Gncsl exalted sentiments in the
AlmmIs ration. 1t not the military genius of ou
hero nor his skill, nor his courage mhich made him
cepabe the Souli but rather adm ration for
whose pride restore the Government to the geoc
old times Of the early Pesdenls-when with all rulers
there seeaed be sing enes Of purpose and that pur
pl>e the best interests Of the whole country. The cleo
tim Of Gen Taylor is not only the popular approval 0
such and such an Administrative have po;u
ted cut but Condemnation of just such AdninIstra
ton We have had and direction those who admins
Ter the Government To right xbout face aud pat TIT
Shi, Of State lpon the other tack All this be done
and Will be Done in the least calculated giv
offence the opponents Of General Taylor but it vii
nnqutsunaby be done.-dole well aud done quickly
after The fourth of March next For all dsunionists, BY
common consent whether they hail from the North .
the South, we trust mercy well be shown.
English ChHdrcn.-The philosophy Of physical life il
better understood. all eeents reduced BETTE
~yem Of practice. in Of the European Countries
than III The adaptation IF dress diet and mode
OF If TO the climate; the regulation of pursuits ant
all of those national local habits in short
which are the result ID long experience through