The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-02-11

manity barter away that, to HIM, price,
less roll, which, while he is under its in
fluence, merges kingdoms, principaiities,
powers and poverty into one grand broth
erhood. .t... Y.IF laIu .lIi ssaaa
Assuming conviction to be irrcsistbly
carried 10 tho minds Of our readers by
these arguments, let us dwell first upon
the production of tobacco in our own
land. IL is grown 10 some extent in tho
Connecticut Valley, but for the finer
kinds richer soil and warmer climate arc
required. In the California Farmer
we find few remarks of this staple in
that State 1t is estimated that 1000
pounds per acre Of Havana tobacco could
be produced there. The principal sources
OF supply, however, were found, previous
to the war, in tho Southern border States,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and to
some extent, Southern Ohio and Missouri.
Illinois has also grown tobacco, though
not as a staple, we think. The plant is
emphatically a tropical one, and fiourishes
much better under calm skies and lazy
treatment than with our energetic North
ern cultivation Perhaps, the gentle tick
ling the slaves give it with hoes is better
adapted to the secretion of its wondrous
juices than the vigorous attention it re-
ceives from patent plows or drills. Evil
dcntly, some causes conspire against the
successful growth of the choicest brands
of the weed at the North. These will be
discovered in time, and il the difficulties
are inherent in the plant or only local,
they will be surmounted and Northern
"grit" will bring to market tobacco
grown under shelter, of finer quality
than ever. So far rs relates to the South
ern States, all our intelligence goes to
prove that but very slender crops have
been planted this year--as would natu-
rally be the case in country disturbed by
war. All ruminants, therefore, must ex-
pect to pay an increased price for their
consolation.
But let us look at the effects produced
by tobacco upon the human body--that
wonderful organization which repulses
with more or less vigor the assaults of poi
sons in every shape-of fever, Of hunger
and thirst aud all the ills that besiege its
many fortresses. Let us see how we
shall fare il we make the weed our lingu-
al and labial friend. Ree's Cyclopedia
says that a drop of the oil placed on a
cats tongue causes convulsions and death
in the space of minute; and certain ol
the wise medical men of the day have de-
clared that not less than twenty thousand
in our land die annually by the use of to.
bacco. DR.. Shaw names catalogue oi
some eighty diseases which, he says, may
be traced to the use Of this poison; and
yet another authority asserts that a rela.
tive used the weed to such an extent thai
he literally snu6ed the light of his exist
ence out. DR.. Twichel believed that 10.
bacco was the cause, not unfrequently, oI
sudden deaths. Became, of Belgium
was murdered in two minutes and hal
by the use of nicotine or alkali of tobac
co. Three young men formed a smoking
club and they all died within two years
from The time they had instituted it, A
doctor gave it as his opinion that they
fumigated themselves to death; this wor.
thy must have been akin TO DR.. Aiken
who declared that if he wished TO make q
sacrifice 10 the devil, he would take pig
and stuff it with tobacco. A boy o
eighteen fell dead in dramshop with .
cigar in his mouth; the verdict on thi:
feat was that he died by the mysterious
visitation Of God; physicians said it wa:
the heart disease, but person knowing
tho youths habits said il was tobacco thai
killed him. II deranged the action o.
his heart, which, ceasing to beat, caused
him to fall. Still another shining light
of science says OF the weed in question
that it is an acid narcotic, a few grains o
which cause death; that it is source o.
intemperance, induces drinking, brings or
jaundice, and, closing all, death. g
These are, doubtless, learned opinion:
and reliable ones, but some of them beal
traces Of intolerance and bigotry. 1t j.
comparatively easy for one having an an
tipathy agains. a certain article to search
the cyclopedias and bring ponderous bolt.
to bear upon it, and so endeavor 10 bat
tor it out Of existence. In this case, un
fortunately, tobacco, the object of all The
disquisition of which the opinions above
quoted are extracts, refuses to be abolish
cd; and people smoke, chew, and snuf
with, rs the novelist say, perse,e erenc,
worthy Of a better cause. Itmay be in
deed that the philosophers before mention
cd have at one time been made deadl,
sick by too ardent an application to thei
| idol, and conceiving, therefore, an intens,
dislike for it, have resolved upon its ruin
We can not think that their wishes will
be realized; the effects of tobacco ar,
undoubtedly bad, rs is, in fact water O
anything harmless per see;; taken in OK
cess il gives distress and all the symp
toms of sudden death SO feelingly alluded
to heretofore. OF the largo majority @
deaths in the country it is saving grea
deal to assert that twenty thousand O
them arc caused by narcotics in the shap
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