Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1853-08-25

| Nhui" "h"ii VI tIS Ctdte' IIe is Oltler Ant
and was Phelps favorite fer the Office.
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I5f We take the following article, con.
tanning difference Of opinion between the
Times and Courier, of Louisville, from the
former paper. 1t may enlighten our ira
ders somewhat on the subject of which il
treats:
"ToBAcco.-We endeavor, as far as lies
in our power, to furnish correct information,
and if our commercial reports are not reli-
able, it is because it is impossible here to
do more than publish the sales as reported
by number Of houses doing an extensive
business, whose transactions may be taken
FOR comparative view of the market We
alter our quotations when necessary, and re-
port all sales Of any considerable extent that
reach us.
Such cannot be the governing principle
with our neighbor of the Courier, whose
commercial reports have been regarded with
much favor; for we do not know when we
have been more surprised than at the fol-
lowing notice of Tobacco in his. Price Cur
rent Of yesterday:
"The Tobacco market is quite firm, with
moderate receipts, and prices fully sus-
tanned. The estimates and speculations in
regard to the growing crops, must be con-
5idered with much allowance, as It is gen.
orally conceded that there has been more
planted this year than any other. With an
open fall and fa5oralle 1teather, very near
an average crop will be realised in this re-
gion, although the farmers generally are of
the opinion that they will make but ''half a
crop, which means half they planted. The
falling off in the receipts here this season,
as compared with the last, is upwards of
5000 hhas."
= snort time since an elaborate article
appeared from correspondent in the Dem
ocrat, T;hich contended that it was rallacv
to depend on short crop, and explained a
mode by which a full one might yet be
raised. II 9 rule it proposed worked very
well on paper, but cocld not be as veil ap-
piled TO practical Use. It is not our pur-
pose to show its inapplieabllity, but merely
say that like "signs' that ''fail in dry
weather." has been Improbable. Nor is
the Courier less deficit in hitting the mark
when it states that lit is conceded that there
has been more planted this year than an3
other" We have made diligent inquiry,
and from every paper we have opened, find
that there is universal concurrence in the
fact that less has been planted this gear than
the last, which was not more than an aver
age crop, and there is like unanimity in the
impression that rot more than half crop
will be realised. We have been through
portions Of the country where tobacco is a
considerable staple, and find this 10 be the
case. The long drought at planting time,
the fly or bug in the plants, and DISPOSE
ton to french under heavy rains during the
last thirty days, render it almost certain that
the prognOstics of our neighbor are fall
lacous.
The falling off in receipts this season, is
mainly attributable to the sudden fall of the
river and continued low water. There is
yet tobacco in the country that has not
reached market, but will before the season
is over-perhaps not enough to equal here
the sales of last year,-the crop coming into
market last year being unusually large.
This is written in no captious spirit, but
I'd set he matter right, as far as we can,
with what experience and information we
possess.