The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-12-02
Tobacco Quarrel.

While they were able 10 concentrate
all their venom and hate in attack
ing the Republicans and their candl-
dates, they were at peace with each
other. The election of GRANT ana
CoI.FAx has convinced them that 1t
will not be profitable to continue
the fight, because the Administration
will have a large amount of patron
age at its disposal, and perhaps some
crumbs may fall to those who
stand upon their good behavior. 1t
is intimated that the recent changes
in the Louisville papers look to such
a consummatiOn.
But while prudence dictates a ces
sation of hostilities against General
GRANT, there is no such necessity for
peace in their relations to each other,
and consequently several of the pa
pers have begun war of words on
the subject of tobacco, and tobacco
markets. The Louisville papers, put
ting on metropolitan airs, boasted
the superior facilities their city af-
forded as a tobacco market, and spoke
in very disparaging terms IF smaller
markets in the State, such as Clarks-
vile, Paducah, &c. This is resented
by the Paducah Herald aud the Rob
ertson Register. The Herald, in
particular, is quite sarcastic and ap
plies its cutting insinuations to the
Louisville Courier Journal with con-
siderable energy. After mentioning
the fact that the tobacco market all
over the Union is almost at a stand
still, awaiting the new crop, the Her
aid says:
The Louisville Courier Journal.
however, a wonderfully enterprls-
ing' paper, got up without regard of
expense" and with but little regard
to that virtue which is said to so
hiehly adorn a woman, but to destroy
q mantle aforesaid Courier Journal
is an exception to the rule in news
paperdom. 1t pays but little atten-
ton to whether anything is doing or
not In tobacco. Its vocation seems to
he to blow"-to blow Louisville-to
blow the Louisville Tobacco Market
and to blow everything about Louis
vile Is being the greatest thing In the
world.
We guess there is a good deal of
truth in the Herald's statements. 1t
then proceeds to claim that Pad1cah
is far superior to Louisville as a to-
bacco market-that tobacco of the
same grade brings from one dollar
to one dollar and fifty cents more per
hundred in Paducah than in Louis
Vile. 1t claims, further, that some
thousands of hogsheads from Green
River will be disposed of 10 that mar
ket, a statement that must be taken
with considerable allowance for
shrinkage.
The Robertson Register affirms that
statement of the Louisville C0u-
rier- Journal, to the effect that there
are. few buyers of tobacco in the
GAINESVILLE district, is not correct. 1t
says:
If the Courier journal expects to
gall the planters by persistIng In such
statements as that a number OF buy
ers residing in Louisville fnd it
profitable to buy in GAINESVILLE and
Paducah for shipments to this mar
ket, that paper will be sadly mis-
taken, and will only incur the just
censure of those farmers who make
sacrifices under such impressions.
Possibly, a number of Louisville
buyers have purchased tobacco upon
the GAINESVILLE market and shipped it
to Louisville, but the Courier Journal
will never name the gentleman who
made it profitable to sell such to-
bacco-in any quantity-on the Louis
vile market.
The Register then specifies two or
three cases In which GAINESVILLE buy
ers sent tobacco to Louisville and lost
heavily by the experiment. 1t urges
the planters to ship their tobacco to
GAINESVILLE. 1t thinks Louisville
buyers can we'll afford to make few
purchases in that market at high
figures, in order to get the Clarks-
vile brands.
The Louisville Courier Journal
takes issue with the Register on
questions of fact. aud insists that
there are very few buyers at Clarks-
vile, and consequently very little
competition. 1t then proceeds to
repeat the many advantages possessed
by Louisville, and blows another
blast upon its horn that must make
the ears of its Paducah contemporary
fairly ring.
We are content to see the quarrel
progress. Meanwhile, without any
fuss, large portion of the richest
tobacco raised in the Green, Ten
nessee and Cumberland River coun-
ties will be absorbed by Evansville
buyers, brought to this point and
quietly shipped East. The cash re-
ceived for the tobacco will be invest
ed by the planters in laying in their
yearly supply of groceries, or in pay
ing for supplies consumed during the
year purchased from their neigh
borhood stores. The country mer-
chants, In turn. will bring their col
lections to our city, liquidate their
old accounts and purchase new stocks,
and business will open out most en-
couragingly with the commencement
of the new wear.
OFF THE TRACK.-rhe 1910 train
on the n. o. q D. r. r. ran off the
track three times between Union City
J 81.