Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-10-25

NUMBER l77


moro2oy. by this system the revenue was brought
up to SIS 0O0 in 1920 The sales that year, by
GoVernmeht, were, II ,6f5 277 kilOgrammes, pro-
dacing SC O27 ,lS7 Deducting expenses Of cost Of
tobacco, and Of the msnufuaet1re. the nett reYe-
nue was Al, P,2l9 604 francs In 1880, the sales
: Il,I69,554l skiogrammes. Proceeds SSI. 1855 974;
the cost OF tobacco snd manufacture, So 33S OBS;
nett reFeute S5902S 9l2. IN IS3S tobacco purchas-
ed chiefly IN America, was $500 469 kilogranmes;
val led at 491 500 The consumption Of all tobacco
in France, Fn 1858, was 2l 9s1 O96 klogrammes Ia
1881 "a 039 S37 logrammes. In 1876, the declared
value OF American. and all other tObaeco, per pOunf
was about ninsteen cents per pound, (Or, TO use
French ter ms two francs thirty eentimes for the
kil]gramHIe. e. In 1852, SI45 per klOgrsmme, o.
about twelve cents per pound the declared
value Of te tobacco, as received at the ports Of
France Cf the receipts. American tobacco eOnsti-
tuted 10 SE6l9S kilOgrammes. say 4S 66l 535 lbs,
about thirty thousand hogsheads in all The rsve>
nue. Tor 1910 was the ensrulOus sum Of s36000 600,
say loO,OOP 600 francs, and employed thirty thou
SAID persobs in its culture manufacture and sale
/ On this slbJect, an argument addressed to the
French Gdvernment through the Count de YER
gen1es BY Mr. Jefferson dated at Paris, Aug. 18th
lIo5, is full Of argument and we may at once recog
Mise that IL had produced its impression for six
years afie1warts- The ports were then thrown
open 10 tobacco az very low duties comparatively.
On the 2ld Of June, 1915, NJ ThOUrst laid
proposition before the FreRCh Assembly, that
the sale bf tobacco and snuff should no Ion.
ger be exclusively IN the hands Of the Govern
ment- 1hs proposition did not recsiUs 25 UOtss
Of an assembly CT more than six hundred mem-
bers, and bus fell TO the grouad, that number OF
asserting Vbtes being required before any propssi-
ton can CO me before the chambers even for consd
slderstlon. This vote would seem to show that pubs
lie opinion In France IN favour Of the monopoly
When we consider that the members have been so
recently chosen BY universal suffrage throughout
all parts Of France The extracts are from Mr..
Rush's late work psge 4Sl. This is the care which
the late GoFernment bestowed on our commercial
interests Mr.. Jefferson not only wrote down hfs
conveFsatic zs on the subject buE he submitted
facts and Considerations worthy Of the great inter
ests at stakb. The Indifferent memorandum by Mr..
Rush was enough for him and the interests be rep
resented in france TIE article Of tobacco is mo-
Ropoly in Sardinia ard AL Italy and in Austria and
also IN Spain. A very valuable note on the last
principe. page l79. taken from JeffersOn's report
IN lTs9, aIt artpOrt on commercial relations Of
the United States, 3ith Congress, lst session,
will be used by those who would wish % inves-
igate the Subject further. We have sufficiently de-
the value CT this artice 10 all Foreign
Governments with whom we have had much inter
course com nerci3uy. The institution Of slavery 10
III the border States depends chiefly upon the cul
ure Of tobtccO, and whilst they may not have indi
,ated any Iestlessness under evidences Of lnatten
ion 70 thei1 interests heretofore yet they uqy IN
s dJsse properly lsUy Site td1ss upon the sales of
" he prohibitions Of such countries discrimjaq,s
lgGiast ls dricss upon nhch their labor and their in
titI'iORS nal depend-snd thus bri5g up unpleas-
.lN CoAL pAlCFtlOu- AlG uOEueE Save sLaEc6 nave
light to EXPECT that this article should receive spe
ial attention from the Government Of the COnfede-
ate States IN their Intercourse with al the foreign
lowers, If not rather than part with their slaves
hey ought 10 protect themselves through their Ii.
ense Laws but as the grsvest and certainly The
rst question tor our consideration must be how
be present blockade can be removed 80 as to leave
8 the ocean clear before US. We have introduced
be facts ab1ve respecting tobacco, and fdd that we
nay athrm that, upon the export of two hundred
billions of pounds Of manufactured and leaf TO,
aeco, which is below the average exports annually.
be Foreign Governments OF the world collect at
he least seFenty-Aye to one hundred millions of
Ollars of revenue