Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1858-10-01

'"N ''"''"k '"'S' S''"S ''''>N - 49, '''~''.y
of the Virginia Wccd" and its present CONNER
end ;mnnrtancr wa condense from n larpe cdito
-, :; r, H. r N,j.,I,
''"i III r'rh0y i"Ss' VI ''""."s "s'
Touch'hg tho Weeo.
Tobacco wns not known in the Old World until
aner Tho discovery If Amcricn. But the use &
something of IN, sort was general in somc Of tho
| old countries, from very early time For exam
| nlc in DR. Abbot,'s Eryrtian Museum, ut New
| Sork n most uniouc collection of antiquities,
which. once DISPERSED. can never be rrplnccd-
| there nrc undoubtcd cay-pipes which wcrc used
NJ inr hack M tho time of Pharaobs About this
there cannot bc the slightest mistake or doubt -
These venerable ripcs were taken from the num-
mic. which abound in nearly every part Of Frypt
For any thing known to the contrary one of them
| may bny, hcrn used by Joseph himself when ne
| I'm, V;,,.crcn, in the lind Of Erypt.
Tb,rc !. annie rcn,rt, traditional and historical
how rcncr,lly tobacco was nacd by tho aborigines
! oc America In the middle If tho sixteenth cen
! ,urv loss than seventy wears from the frs, wy
| arc oi Columbus jean Nicot, Frcnch Ambassador
! Ia p,rucnl scut home seeds of the tolncco-plnut
! Fortunate man, 10 have his name handod down
! T., nost,riiy in conjunction with "thc wood" Ii
! IL M, historically known since his imc MS il
! mu., Ia, far tho hnturc ms tho N,roii,fua kihdcun
Ieuornpt peopc inncy TINT it scallod tobacco from
thr island oi rohnpo: hut the fact is TINT in Hay
! :; where tho Snoniar5s first landed. md most
,,.,Lnil Grs, .n,y ,Lc MINT smnkcd tho ninc hns
| nlwn,s 6orn" ,hn nnmr Of toburto or 6,bnr So
! Unnbllt sn,s nd1inv TINT tho Spnninrls called
tho thiu,, sm,lrl from the vehicle in wbicl, wns
/ u.,l
Tobacco brought over to Europe by the Span
Trn,'.. Sir Waller Rnl,;sh who Ind nttcmn,ed
tn settle tho colony of virginia, in 1880. brought
over ,olo,,o with him. nni its rso rnpi,ily spread
| I,ucs IN, First ,n,cayored TO nut IL down hy
pro,lnmntinn after proclumution hut failed Then
he wrote book about it. nothing less than his ia
nous "Councrlast agnns, Tobacco" All in
! win fnr smoking became vet moro prcyalcnt Its
,nl,i,nt;on in Eurlnnd WINS prohibited by success.
! ,,r .nycre;gns Tuxntion srccdily luii its tenn
cious rrasr unon "thc weed" The first Tux upon
| IL uuJ,r jamos l. two hundred and fifty years ago,
WINS n,rrn dollar md half pcr round actually
,ou;y,lcnt Ia sonc five or sx dollars of our pres
,nt m,rcy Eycr since il has been n subject for
imnost The English duty is now about eighty
| ,,u,s NOR noun1 On unmnnuIncturrd tobncco nnd
two dollars II mound ON cignrs Considering that
tho nri,c in ENGLAND ranges from nine cents n
nound c,r ordinary md mixed Kentucky tobacco
To twenty cents for tho best kentucky and Nirgi-
min IL must br confessed that the tax il n very
! h.nyy ,nc -a,,ncw hat nl,,,t n thousand pcr cent
an ,i,ars and on tho raw article
Tho ouautity of tobncco annually consumed in
the United Kingdom ia about 5000, 100 pounds
nor onnum The duties thence nccrung to tho
| E,,,uun orr about so3 900 900 The amount IN d
to the United Stnics by Great Britain one year
with nuother il nhnut 81 500 900 Thus inrlu-
ding the duty, tobacco is smoked nway or snuiicd
uwny, in the United Kingdom, Ia the tune Of 500.
500 0Oo per annum This il independent of large
on,nt;lics smurrlcd in. which pny no duty
I'm Continental Europc tobncco adds materially
ia tho public revenue Of every State or Kingdom
A, this momcn, it is an object of Government mo-
nopoly in the following thirteen Stntes: Austria
/ France Snnin Sicily Sardinia Poland the pnpnl
States Portugal Tuscany. Alodcna, Parma. San
Mnrino and Lichtcnsicn Tho population Of
these countries. thus .upplied with tobacco by
their rc4,cct,e Goycrnments Is no .07 900 souls,