The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1860-09-13

cents pound, would amount 70 the ex-
raoroIuary sum Of four hundred and three
millions eight hundred and thirty tbo,fs-
ana dollars, anu would occupy Ia It's nm
Iucsioh five and q half millions Of acres of
land. Nor Is this statement at all incraa;-
bic when we reflect that one-f,ur,b of tba
human race make use Of tobacco m soma
shape OF other. Ia England. T-als7r
scotland, france, and the United States,
the habit IS very generally difiused. In
Germany, Holland, Sweden. Denmark and
Russia, the practice Of smoking prevails
amongst all classes, and Is common 10 bo+b
sexes IN Spain, Portugal, Spanish Amor
Ca, the East Indies, Siam. i}u1nab Cbi-
IA, japan, and the Islands of the Indian
Archipelago. In Turkey, Persia. Eornt
and Morocco, the pipe is the con.Ttnt
companion OF the wealthy and the Moor
sven on portions Of this continent and :,
those remote regions where men still live
IN a state Of barbarisln, s.the stfnkinc
weed is old John Stowe once iudjr-
nantiy termed It, and as many others since
/ ms day haTequte syehementlv proclaim
ed 1t TO be-is held in as high repyta az
IN places where the light Of civilization
IS brightest and most diTused.
OF the immense cuanti+v Of tobacoo
consumed III Europe, the United States
furnish tour-ftths Of the entire supply
rom the perfect muddle Of statistics
which Is to be found III commercial die
uonarleS and other works Of reference wa
are enabled only to state approximateIv
the quantity Of tobacco annually raised in
TINS country, which may be ROUGHLY esti-
! mated as two hundred millions o. poiln6s
VI this, France takes about forty-oDe mil
non lbs, bremen thirty-ei4ht millions.
England tWenty-tour millions, Holland
seventeen millions, Spain seven millions,
Belgium four millions, Sardinia three aud
4 haIT millions, Austria three millions,
Sweden and Norway two millions. Portu-
gal half million. The whole quantity
exported. as given above, amount. to one
hundred and thirty-ninc million lbs. leay-
ING siEty-one millions of pounds for ex-
port to countries not mentioned, and for
purposes OF domestic consumption. The
annual consumption Of american unman-
utactured tobacco III Europe averages. r5r
each fnhaLiHnt, is as follows: In Great
Britain, fourteen ounces; France, ten
ounces Belgium, thirty-six Ounces; HoI-
land, tOrty-tVe ounces; the Hanse Towns.
elghty ounces; Hanover, fifty-six ounces;
Mecklenburg, thirty two ounces; the States
OF the ZoLl Nerein, sixteen ounces: Rms
sla. quarter Of an ounce; Austria, one
ounce; Spain, three ounces, and in Por-
tuGal, one ounce and 4 half This esti-
mated average per capita applies only to
tobacco exported from the United States.
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grown III Germany, and elsewhere, for
home consumption and for export, which
Is not embraced within the scope of the
tables we have presented. and of which
tie statistics vary so greatly as to be
wholly unreliable But if Governments
were, at an earlier day, averse to tolera-
tng the Introduction II this narcotic into
popular use, they shown q marvellous
readiness, IN later times, TO derive from ID
magnificent revenue On tobacco alone
principally Of American growth, France,
which holds monopoly OF the trade, &C.
rlves an annual revenue of twenty nil
lions Of dollars; England thirty millions :;
Holland twenty-ole millions; Spain from
her monopoly, five millions; Austria, mo-
noQoly, seven and half millions; Sar-
dinia, monopoly, two and half millions !;
and little Portugal, two and quarter mil
lions OF dollars. It VIII be seen, there
fore, that tobacco, though abused on the
one hand and glorifed on the other, plays
an important part in the history of the
civilized world; is by 30 means forgotten
by Committees of Ways and Means, and
occupies an important place in their esti-
mate Of revenue
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