Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-10-06

ANNEXATION OF xLNE AND MICHIGAN TO cAS
rur ro.-vrov7 AM eT,rrS

ANNEXATION OF E4INE AND MICHIGAN TO CASADA-
tbs CONFEDERATE STATES.
The Berlin correspondent Of the New York Her.
aid writes as follows:
The British Government is sending fresh rein
forcements to Canada, and at the same time the
Morning Post Lord Palmerston's special organ, is
beginning to talk about the feeling showing itself in
Maine and Michigan, and to throw out gentle hints
of annexation, interpreted with modest disclaimers
which bear curious resemblance to the Language
held by its French colleagues previous to the pur-
Joining of Savoy and Nice. Do they think the
Union dead, and are the crows already collecting
TO feast upon its corpse:
The attitude Of the French Government is at
least ambiguous as that of the British. Louisiana
and Florida are attempting morssls; and if there
should be scramble Napoleon His net the man to
be deferred by conscientious zcruples from sharing
in the spoil.
We have accounts from Paris stating that the
Commissioners of the Southern ConfederacT are IN
constant communication aoiA H. Ihol.reRet that large
purchases of arms have been effected, both there
and at Liege; and some go so far s.to affirm that
If the American difficulty ls not settled one Vay or
another, by October, Mr. Jefferson Davis and his
Government viii be aekno wledgod by Franee-of
course ''for a consideration This I do not think
probable; on the contrary, it wCuid be more in &C.
cordanee with the policy Of s de Tonce to let
IL two parties exhaust enselVeS in mutual Sri e.
and then step for ward perhaps in c1rjunetion 18th
England, and dictate peace or compromise by
which the disinterested me6iItors would be the
chief gamers. At any rite you may depend upon
it, that If the war between the North and South
sh ud continue but fe month"; longer II actors
Will appear on the scene, who may bring about a
catastrophe little dreamed of at the commencement
Of the drama. United Americ2 might DEFY the
world but rent by internal faction she may yet ex
perience the fate of Poland. Quad Deus aeeriut!
TIE TOBACCO QUESTION IN FRANCE.
From Cores Liverpool Conusrca al Advertiser, ssp:5
The blockade will deprive US of this tobacco SO
far as we are dependent on America for our supply
In fiscal point of view, this Is a most important
consideration to our government, the revenue
from it for the last year amounted to the enormous
sum of nearly &c coo coo. But if we will not sully
our national honor for cotton. neither will we do it
for tobacco and it is noteworthy that the price of
tobacco may be doubled without greatly enhancing
its cost to the consumer, the duty is the chief
element In its manufactured value.
The government of France is, however, more
deeply interested in this tobacco question than ours
because in France tobacco is government monopo-
ly, which contributes at least 225 600 900 france per
dH7in to the treasury. The greater portion
of the vast supply required TO raise this extraord
nary revenue Is shipped at N Orleans, and the
blockade of thatport by a 4rthern feet nat only
jeopardiZes this revenue, GR makes Il incumbent on
The Emperor to obtain the tobacco at lEhqteyer cost as
Iif his colossal Grnsy l0sre long depr;Ucd of this
hsir almost oaly lprlTy, the fortunes of his d.
uoro upheld by 100000 Jayonets, might Be
oU,rtlrned By a lstbdraleql Of their support
Here is greater hope fog. the South than in the
dearth Of cotton, which alarms US in Lancashire
But the Emperor Napoleon is pledged, as We are,
to the policy Of non-intertenticn in this transat-
lantic war, and certainly his pledge will not be
broken long as he eau obtain t,baecofFom other
parts of the world, and we have some reason to
think that even gents Of the French Govern
ment are secretly at work-not to aid the Confea-
IN arrrlira af
the Federal Union--but 10 secure supply Of the
indispensable weed for the mex: six months. Il
is fortunate that the quantity of tobacco now in
the bonded warehouses Of the United KindOm IS IS
per cent more than at The corresponding period Of last
gear. As for any legislative measures prohibiting
the export of cotton tobacco, which have been
seriously talked of in some quarters they are not
likely TO be reSorted to, the last ex remity
for such an interference with the freedom OF trad,
would subvert all the commercial legislation Of the
last quarter Of acenury Is it to be looked for
it is entirely out Of the question as the volan-
tary opening, by the Federal Government, Of the
Southern ports of America during the continuance
Of the present war.
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