, 1864-01-30

eo0,0C0 But to this would be added fifteen
per cent Of which no return Is made, and We
lnye 201 ,0o0, Geo lbs, exported yearly. The
home consumption Is q, ,090, 600 lbs. making
These tables show that the quantity Of OK
ported leaf tobacco, in pounds, has di:uia-
Ishcd in two years thtrty per cent. Tho
price Per pound las increased eishty-fiye per
cent, and the gross value in dollars twenty
fyc per cert. The Commissioner says that
one-fourth TO onc-thinl Of the tobacco
Of The civilized world, or an average
for one Season Of highest prosperity Of not
more tllan :75, ,000, GU Of pounds; while the
production Of Europe is more than z00. COZ, =.
COO lrs, and South america, Northern Africa
up nearly or quite 100, ,Doo, ,Nj1lhs. Tea years
ago Holland produced but ], ,001, eco; she now
exports tint uuant!ty to England, and pro-
duccs 1:4orc than 10000, Co., Austria and
hungary Aarn increased E5,050.G00 iu ten
years, and no,7 produce IL. .09o, 900. Russia
and Poluud len years ago produced some
thing more than the Austrian domln1ons now
,icld, MD have constantly. increased Bel
GUM Inns within ten years Increased her pro-
Duct from less tLnn :i,G00, 900 TO more tAan
14,CC0,Ct0. France allows her subjects to
grow tobGcco in only d few Of her depart
ments; yet. with her plantations in Algeria
(which produce 60 C00, eco lbs, } she produces
E0,Goo, eco lbs., md Is already nearly indepen-
dent or the United States. In Bordeaux
there were applications In 1850 for permits
TO plant 509 acres, and but 1,::,a35 acres were
conceded; yet tobacco has been grown but
few years In the department of Bordeaux.
in Brazil the product Is increasing, and the
tobacco export, under the stimulus Of the
American difficulties, has Increased, in round
numbers, from 5,000, 600 to 10000 GOO.
Tie Commissioner goes on 10 add that the
tendency Of these statements and figures
show US, E.71. that We by no menus control
the tobacco market of the world, and are not
in position to dictate to foreign nations tho
price Of this commodity, as II we held mo-
nopoly Of It's production; in the second place,
HAT the capacity Of other countries to pro-
duee the amounts needed for their own con-
sumption is ample; and third, TINT it Is Ing
rapidly developed to meet their wants, to
the substitution OF their own tobacco for
America.
While, rs before remarked, it is not likely
that the uEe Of tobacco will be entirely abol-
ished, yet it may be restricted, and the con-
sumption lor.ely reduced By an increase of
cost 10 the consumer. An eShorbitAnt price
will, to some extent, accomplish what the
sterncst legislation faiIed to do. This must
he the Inevitable result with this article,
which is most extensively used BY those least
eleyen-twc1ttns Of the whole amount con.
sumed is estimated to be used By tho poorer
classes. There is general concurrence Of oil
the foreign correspondents TINT the
ogasco us % 10 1'ee era Of e,tea
dncedih consumption. and introduced as
substitutes the inferior tobacco Of other coun-
tries, grown at cheaper rates. some placing 1t
as high as onc-half II this has been done BY
IN increase Of price Of only SIX or seven cents
Fer pound, what would be the resu1t of q fur
tler imposition Of twenty cents per pound !?
That The change which hns been slowly
taking place for the 1nst two years has not
proceeded faster, is probably owing, In part,
to the well known aversion and slowness
among the European farmers to chnnge m es-
tatlishcd system Of grouping, and to engage
in a new branch Of business, but still more
Eerts On the cultivation Of tobacco. An I'D
ditIon of twenty cents per pound here, and,
consequently, the same amount added to
their profits Of raisiDg, W on1d probably quick
en- tIelrideas and stimulate eren tle sluggish
farming Of the continent
1twould seem, then, clearly unwisc and
unsafe to lay tax OF twenty cents per pound
on the manufactured article In the hands OF
the producer, as tending directly and imme-
tliately to the destruction OF our foreign trade
in tobacco: and the same reasoning Will ap'
ply, pari passu, to the imposition OF q smaller
In tine, the Commissioner is strongly op.
posed to q Tux upon the leaf as ten5inF e 70 IT.
stroy the production in the United States.
1uE erIRl7 Dc7r IN TIE SENATE.
The spirit Epccnlators boast that the cmend-
ment Of Wood cquaiizing the tar on spirits
will never pass the Senate. No doubt great
efforts will be made to prevent this coasum.
nation, and probably money will be spent II
possible. Nous re4vuf's.
SCARCITY or SALT MEATs-
Gentlemen connected with the Quarter
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