The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-09-20

FoRusS Irfxs-Ths following are items Of In
terest BY the Persia:
1t h stated that Austria, Prussia and Saxcuy
we're endeavoring to persuade Hanover 70 sccept
an decentralization for the Stade dues, bus that shs
latter dispiayed no inclinm.ion to do 20. Is vas
further stated ,hat the British Cabinet had an.
nounced to the uanoverisu governments fts resolve
not to pay such onerous dues any longer.
The Emperor Of Russia had emancipated the
100000 serfs belonging 10 the Imperial domain
powder magaziue At As,rakan. on the Castian,
contaniug Il is ssid, 300 600 pounds OF gunpovder,
bad exploited destroying half the town and killing
half tho inhabitants The loss Of shipping was
also fearful.
Messrs McNair. Greephow Irving. commission
merchants, Manchester, had suspsnded payment.
The session Of the States General Of Holland had
been brought to close. The Minister OF Justice
delivered q brief and unimportsnt speech upon the
occasion.
The English Parliament has been further pro-
rogued from the 10th Of October to the 18th Of
The old government Of India had ceased to ex.
ist aud the Council held Its frst sitting On the
Sd inst
1t is stated that Capt Preedy, ofthe Asamemnon,
and Mr.. Bright, to be honored with knighthood,
for their service in laying the cable.
submarine telegraph cable, about 800 miles
long. to connect the colony OF Victoria with Tas
mania, Was being manufactured In England.
The steam frigate voyageur de 10 Mer, from
Boston and Gibralter, o present from the Americans
to his Highness the Pachs of Egypt and having
on board Colonel Greebe, Ysuam Efsudi aud Mr..
Stooe, arrived at Malta the 24th Of August, and
left on the 25th for Alexandra.
INCREASE OF rHB foBAcco Production OF VrR-
GINIA-The Fredericksburg, Va. Recorder located
in district of the State where wheat has always
received more attention than tobacco. has the fo.
lowing:
We havs been gratiled to zee the Increasing fisre.
siton In this vicinity to grow this yers profitable
CROP Many Of our farmers have ten or fifteen acres
in Tobacco this season, and in most cases looking
well and fiourishipR. They have found tito stand
drought better than corn. and to have fewer enc
mics than wheat And another advantage it p,s-
is tsat smaller il required for its cultf
vation aud consequently less Gusno. r cfevery any
fertilizer. Twenty acres Of Tobacco, quite large
crop, (or at any rsts would be regar ded in this
section would uire 200 pon nds OF Quano +,
.un of Sl2o. With suitsbls season and proper cul-
tnre twenty acres ought to make 10000 lbs of
Tobacco, which at $l5 per hundred would yiel
three thousand dollars This, we think, a fair cal.
|culatiou LCoki ing to the prices Tobacco hes com
msnded this year, we do not regard SIS an over
estimate of the price it would bring for some years
to come. at any rate And If our calculation ba
fair one We can conceive OF no more prohE crop
better than cotton in the Sdnthern states We
have cnnve; sed Leey with practical farmers OF the
the staple of VirsiDia-who assure that Tobacco
even at % per hundred is a more profitable crop
than Indian corn at three dollars per barrel: and
surely Tobscco will never be as low as three dclsrs
per hundred again. as the demand for it 10 pcreas
iDG daily Many whs have never yet grown the
is G1fe certain that those actions of Vreinia, and
indeed Of otner States tharhave Continued to grow
Tobacco all along without intermission, have con.
tinued most prosperous.