Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-07-07
The Tobacco Trade.

England derives an annual revenue from duties
bacco Of 945OOOOO OOo France % OOOO 900
francs s19OOOOOO; total Sal 100000, being more than
half levied by the United States upon the whole
mportation from both countries From recent official
reports to the State Department. copy the following par
tculars:
Up to 1917 purchases of tobacco by France made
upon the offers of merchants submitted
eraI and communicated ny the Council Of Adminis
raton The number Of competitors created embarrass
ment, and the present system was, lter some years
adopted The system is this: Proposals published by
ge make contracts for the supply OF tobacco Sam
pies OF he kinds and quaes are 10 te lsPec
ton of those who desire to contract and they thereu
submit their offers to supply at certain prices within time
specified The samples suomttel TO the FACTORS are
carefully preserved and when the cargoes arrive at the
ports samples of them forwarded to Paris and
compared wi the model samples, and the acceptance or
refusal depends upon this comp "ison.
requires but little to perceive that this system
is seriously injurious trade 1t a moderate esti-
mate to make suppose that, if tobacco admitted
port times much do at the present time The
abolition of the system would therefore to be OBJ
constantly be kept view by our government 1t
Of goveTnment and is so pToduce to the and so
important TO the government ITSELF IN the number OF
thus brought under direct influence that we cannot
hope it materially changed.
Tobacco only permitted to be cultivated in six depart
stape and this cultivation IS under TIE most
rigid Surveillance Of the government In the other de-
partm nts agrculturass allowed grow Jour plants
for for medical On he tobacco dis
posed of by the e8 whether imported or Produced the
profit All per The retail dealers
in the artic numbering about 0O under the
troll OF the regte Inspection ana are allowed commission
their sales of from 10 II cent There only
ten manufactures Trey are located at Paris ayre Lille
Strasburg Morax Tannein Lyons, aTeie Toulouse and
Each has its circle Of departments toupy aud
restricted to transactions therein. The manufactured
deposited in magazines Of which there Is 3I In
the departments adjoining Switzerland Germany ana Bel
gium the price established thy below that which rules
The object of this prevent smuggling
Where frontier facilities afforded for Illicit import tons,
the comparatively moderate. Where one exist, 1t
enormous 1hu, StrasbOurg pound worth only 10
Gents while Ore it is worth eight francs (elC6
year S4S the receipts from the customs only amount
to l46 JU0UDU francs s6OOOU 800 Of which
derived ON tobacco, nearly all grown in the Quilted states
under workings Of The rege Were this Tegte abol
ished and moderate import duty substituted, instead Of
market of l6UUu Is, hhds of tobacco per annum,
France would double that quantity Immediately
thereafter"
At the present export about twOfhs of all the
tob in Europe Strict attention TO its proper
culture will furnish much greater proportion
From 1927 1886, exports France, amounted
nualy, on an average 572l,9l0 pounds. sor many
years exported from threeourths to ourhhs OF
the tobacco France. From official Of
the authorities gather the following statistics of
our exports sales regie the years specified