Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-06-25

fOT me N2"FeT.
To ALL THE HUABuos AND ToAFooLEHr BUsH ASH
BkiER MEN OF THE TOBACCO REGION AND
WOULD NOT EXCEPT THE GREAT "EsQUIRER" IT.
RELr. q.
G%sntlemen.-I read and observe q deal Of ine1pli.
cable confusion about our tobacco trade. without ever
coming 10 any satisfactory conclusion OF any I'M
movement or remedy for the great increase OF rur
tobacco receipts in the city Of Richmond. You can
not lose sight of the great man. called lnspector-an
officer created in the tobacco trade, who should BE- as
little known dc any other public appointee or oincer
of that kind but instead Of which our tobacco in.
spector becomes a double oficer-an inspector as
we'll as general agent and seller. have been aston,
ished at the far. fetched ressoniDgs OF Inc Enquirer
TO exonerato the inspector from q side-man, when he
becomes the public agent Of every tobacco grower IN
tho country. The Office Of inspector should not rep
resent any influence coming from seller or buyer, for
If he does, he cannot, from the nature OF Things, clear
himself from being a side man in the trsnsaohoni
and that enlightened club Of Bush and Brler men,
though a more applicable name would have been
humbug ard tomfoolery, do not throw any light upon
the trade whatever, but to the contrary, hold up TINS
great msn-inspector as The life and soul OF the TOBACCO
trade; and q greater humbug never DID enter any
trade than the polite country gentlemen inspectors of
our tobacco trade at Richmond. The very manner
Of their 8. lection renters them unfit for any commercial
usefulness. Their gelection snd appointment come
from the Governor Of the State, who generally selects
q good country friend, who, by The by. may De q very
good Judge of tobacco, but who really knows as much
about the great commercial bsarings OF the Trade a'
the ereni Knickerbucker knew eboutthe philosophers
of the moon, whom. We recollrct, be represented ae d
great nation dressed in pes-green; and | have M DOUBT
IL our uice inspectors would rg themselves IN q sun
If pea green, they would admirably fill their office.
Without further putting our gentlemen Inspectors,
who are 40 exalted as the great men Of the earth and
moon, let us sdvert 10 the trade and some OF the IN
hiences that control the commercial trade 10 any
article. Tobacco 10 our suhj-ct, the trade oil winch
has 80 increased az to make It quite al emporium al
Richmond.
The receipts of tobacco come pouring in Richmond
from some four OF q 70 railroads; when the pretended
laws We're passed. regulating the tobacco trade,
The receipts we're accomplished upon road wagons;
sud what r.h-cting msu would now conclude, That
The same regulations would suit, or apply TO Ihe great
emergency Of railroad improvement The brler men
may not have much to do viii railroads, but that
cannot bs said Of the philosophers of the "Eoqulrer,
who are located IN The centre Of the trade, aud can
If some change, or different regulations, to control
the trade. The receipts are so great, by those roads,
that our tobacco has 10 lay, after arriving 10 hich-
mond, some III or IA days before it can DO inspected,
II its condition is not such as to justify its lying 80
long, the tobacco becomes seriously %injuredi when, II
The inspector would rightly fulfil his station, by IN
specting tobacco all day, and placing it back in like
order, and lot each owner or agent take the samples,
with the warehouse seals upon them, and sell the TO-
oscco from the intrinsic value OF the ssmpls, the
different sellers could and would accomplish their
-ahes nearly as fast as their tobacco could be received.
Instead OF this, one inspector has TO discharge the
duties Of several persons, when be becomes q double
otirer of inspector AID seller.
! sha!l, in my next, point out the defective policy
Of selling tobacco q, public suction-a practice that
is followed no where by the trade but 10 Virginia.
Louisa, June 20, 1855.
Will the " Dispatch I" copy the above!