Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1860-03-29
Miscellaneous.
The Cotton and Tobacco Of the
limited States.

1H6 UOtbOH anu IOU6CCO Ol tuE
United States.
A most important movement is now
going on, between England and France,
! by which these two powerful nations are
about to be drawn together by a more
powerful agency than ever heretofore
operated upon them. The French empe-
ror has determined on change in the
Commercial system of the country, which
/ is most cordially met by England, BY which
the productions of each nation will be in
troduced into the pJrts of the other, on
such terms as will counteract the hitherto
almost prohibilory character of their sys-
tenn. This change is likely to have a
very important barring, also, on the pro
ducts of this country as our treaty wi !
France puts us on the footing with the
most favored nations, we presume that
whatever reduction of duties she may
consent 10 make in her treaty with Great
Britain, the United States will be entitled
TO share alike with her in her advantag-
! es. .
The N. Y. Herald, in noticing the
charges thus being affected. alludes to
the fact. that the articles of greatest ex-
port to France from the United States,
consists of cotton and tobacco, The cot
ton hence to France in 1888 amount
ed TO 463, 900 bales. Under the opera
ton Of free trade it will soon be double
We notice from the schedule of the re-
dnction Of duties proposed by the Emperor
that on and after the lst day of July
next the duty on cotton, now about 2 l. 2
cents pound, or from eightto ten dollars
per bale, is to be entirely abolished, and
that from October, 1861, all prohibitions
are TO cease. This, doubtless, looks 20
the abandonment of the prohibitory duty
on tobacco, or TO the abrogation of its
monopoly by the government.
The manufacture and sale of tobacco
are entrusted by the French government
to a commission known asthe Reggie, and
who have a capital of forty five millions
of dollars. The average export of Amer
lean tobacco into France amounts to about
eighteen thousand hogsheads. About 2
1-5 of the tobacco consumed in Europe is
the growth Of the United States. The
revenue derived by the French govern
ment from tobacco was in 1857 90, ,233
726 francs and in 1852 95,S44,009
francs.
From the tenor of the treaty with
France, it seems proposes to abolish
after the last of October, 1861, the
prohibition and monopoly on tobacco;
when this law goes into effect she will
export from this country eight or ten times
the quantity that she at present receives
from the United States. With a fair duty
on this enormous consumption, says the
HERALD, she would realize as much, and
probably more revenue than she now re-
ceiyes through the commission of the Re-
gle.
The London Times shows the result Of
the adjustment of the duties on cotton in
to that kingdom. The imports at that
period were 63,OO0,00O pounds, it's now
1,O00,000,0O0 pounds.
This is one of the most giant facts which
stands head and shoulders higher than
the crowd-so high and so broad that we
can neither overlook it nor affect not to
see it. 1t proves the existence Of thou
sand smaller facts that must stand under
its shadow. II tells of sixteen times as
many mills, sixteen times as many Eng
llsh families living by working those
mills, sixteen times as much profit derived
from sixteen times as much capitai en-
gagged IN this manufacture. Ii carries
after it sequences of increased quantity of
freightS and insurances, and necessities
for sixteen times the amount of customers
to consume, to our profit, the immense
amount Of produce we are turning out
There are not many such facts as these,
arising in the routine of Industrial his,o-
ry. 1t is so large and so steady that we
can steer our national policy by it it is so
important to us lhatwe should be reduced
to embarrassment if it were suddenly to
disappear. 1t teaches US to persevere in
policy which has produced so wonderful
a result Its benifcent operation makes it
essential to us to deal carefully with it
now we have got 1t.
These facts should have an influence
on the deliberations of our statesmen.-
Would that the time could arrive when
this eternal sectional wrangling would
cease, and the good men and true of our
whole nation would strive together 10 de-
velope the resources and extend the COM
merce of our common country.