The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-12-20
RICHMOND, VA:
ANTWERP AGAIN.

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some where. We have created 4 sensation
we have called attention TO the subjective
have men TO thinking. Now, whether we
sustain ourselves or not. if We shall have con-
nbuted 10 make the people, the mass, think
ard care about this matter, 10 them all a most
important one,l we shall have attained great
portion Of our object. If we are in error, in
vestigation will expose our error, and truth
will have been the gamer. All we want is
truth, in every particular. All we lave said,
we believed TO be truth,nor are weyet altogeth-
er convinced that it is not truth in part, at
least.
We are told that tobacco must be kept here
nine months, in order that il may go through
the sweat Very well Is that any rea son
why ii should not have a conveyance ready,
without resorting to the expedents pow used,
when it shall have gone through that sweat
Does every tobacconst, does any one of them,
get of his tobacco as soon as he is ready to
ship it 1t makes no odds, we are told, be.
cause, in Liverpool, there is always an enor-
nous stock on hand, sometimes The accumu-
lsion of several years. In other words, Liv-
e1pool enjoys a monopoly Of the tobacco mar
ket, and does prcc sely as she Pleases. Yet,
when an attempt is made 10 relieve The pres
sure of this monopoly, We are met by clamors
as loud as though it concerned the very exis-
tence of this Repu lie that Liverpool should
still dictate TO the tobacco world. We have
heard that the tobacco fer the continent, which
was the point on which we insisted, does not
require all the process through which that
shipped TO Liverpool passes.
But take another view Of the question:
There are sometimes, it seems, in Liverpool
such large stock on hand that the tobacco of
one or two years back may be found unsod
among it. Does this cost the owner here moth
ing, and would not an arrangement BY which
part ofthis stock should lie carried to another
market, be to his advantage Ifhis tobacco
lies unsold, at the point Il. which it is deliver
ed, he surely lies out Of his money for that
time.
We are told, however, that there is no mar
ket in Antwerp. II that were literally true,
does ii afford any reason why there never
should be such marhetl There was time,
within the memory Of man, when the Liverpool
cotton market made not so good show as the
Antwerp tobacco market does al this day.
In the meantime, however, it may be as
well 10 say here, that new tobocco has been
shipped before Christmas, and sold at Odd,
pretty good price. Farther, we have under
stood that one of the Oldest merchants in the
trade has seen new tobacco in Great Britain,
which il " as impossible 10 tell from old. These
facts, it seems to us, should lead to an enquiry
as TO whether there may not be something IN
necessarily cumbrous in the present method
OF perating-sh6uldl lead, in other words, to o
doubt es TO the infallibity OF certain notions,
which have been taken for granted because
they are old. Another notion, of long stand
ing, was, that tobacco must pass through the
sweat-house, before it could be manufactured.
Very well. What has become all the sweat
horses We remember the time when thew
were as plentiful as flowers in Nav. Why
have they disappeared so suddenly, and hat
has become Of the opinion, so long entertained,
that they Were indispensable? Hav, our TO-
bacconsts discovered that q notion, merely
because 1t is old, is not necessarily true? III
'ley have, may they not, after time, discover
mat this other notion is not entitled to more
credit? Would it not be worth while, at sny
fa'e' 10 try the experiment. We understand
that there are shippers here, and they persons
OF long standing in the trade, and Of uDitn.
nsached JIjgmenI-men who do uot plume
themseive5 iii THEN statistics, but who have
made tortunes-lhat say, could they at all
times have access to the means Of immediate
transportation, they would not keep their to.
bacco Oh hand as they now do. Isihe opinion
OF such men worth nothing
Bat why is it that from New Orleans, Balti
more and New York tobacco may be shipped
ali the year, and that in Virginia, the exchange
must be confined to two or three months in the
year Our improvements are designed to
bring Western tobacco here, Il will cost, &c
cordlag to the report Of Mr. Garnet, engineer
on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, but
my cents the hid. more 10 BRING il from $50
miles this side of Memphis, where it is grown
man ii viii cost to send il to New Olleaus-
"o' renders 1t certain that the larger portion
Of VIII seek this market five do not throw
Obstacles in liz way, What more serious OBJ
s'acle can tie imagined than this' The Wes-
tern shipper knows that he can chin il all The
year round by sending it to New Orleans, If
NJ Ind 'ho, he can only ship it during two or
three months in the Year from his nv, vyf,,
hs not be sure 10 send it TO New Orleans
we VIII o"ever, admit that the sw.ot i
necessary. Then where is the oiiec,;op !,
sending II OIL immediately after il has n,ssa,
through tue sweat! Where is the ur,nr;a,,
o. waiting until more has Gccumulate1. an,
l. gone through the same process? Ia the co,oc;e
d'ys' when virginia relied entirely upon III
Old county Tor her few articles ofco9sum,
Hon-"hen 'obaeco was currency, and shin
were few and far between, there WINS sam
sense IN the process still kept up. TLos