Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-12-30
THE TOBACCO INTEREST.
GAINESVILLE, Tennessee. the Best TObac-
co Market In the United States for
ShInnIuR I,eaf Tobacco.


co Market In the United States for
shipping Leaf Tobacco.
To the Editors of the Union and American.
BURKsyILLE, KY, Dec. "a, 1S68.-Last
Monday being the first day of Circuit
Court here and beautiful pleasant day,
vast concourse of people were ia atien-
dance, principally Tobacco planters, eager
to hear all the latest news in regard to that
narcotic weed. After the grand jury had
been empaneled and received lengthy
and stunning" charge from the Hon. T.
T. Alexander, presiding, recess was taken
and an announcement made from the court
house door that some speeches would be
made TO the Tobacco planters by gentle
men from GAINESVILLE, Tenn, Paducah and
Louisville, KY, which created quite a
rush for both standing and sitting places
in the courthouse.
The debate was opened by the distin-
guished lawyer, Mr.. Stone, introducing Mr..
Robt. Woodbridge, of the Elephant Tobac-
co house of GAINESVILLE, Tonn., with few
appropriate remarks explaining the object
Of the discussion.
Mr.. w. commenced by saying this was
novel and unusual way Of presenting the
claims and advantages of commercial mar
kets to the people. But when we take into
consideration the fact that Louisville pa
pers alone are in circulation in this section
Of the country and that they had repeated
| ly and positively refused to give cur mar
| ket access TO their press for establishing
our claims, and also refused to contradict
and remove the false statements put forth
by designing and interested parties, and as
The season for selling tobacco had now
| opened, and the five great markets, Clsrks-
| Vile, Paducah, Louisville, New Orleans
and New York were soliciting the patron
age Of the planters and spectators, that it
becomes matter of importance that every
man engaged in the cultivation or sale Of
tobacco be correctly informed as TO the
market which is best suited 10 the quality
| of tobacco raised in each section Of the to-
blcco growing country. He claimed alone
| for his market pre-eminence for the sale
| Of what is known and classified 10 Europe
as shipping leaf, and conceded to Paducah
and Louisville advantages in selling bright
and black wrappers, cutting leaf and the
nondescript tobacco from Illinois and H.
diana.
lie gave minute and graphic descrip-
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tobacco in each market, and alluded in a
scathing rebuke to the frauds which had
been practiced by the Louisville ware
housemen during the war, when the plant
ers we're forced to seek that market on &C
count Of the blockade. lie explained
clearly the different grades and qualities OF
tobacco grown in the different counties and
sections, and the uses they were put to in
foreign countries, and what class of foreign
and local buyers could be found in each
market filling orders and contracts. He
showed that tobacco could be shipped from
here TO GAINESVILLE for one-half what il
would cost TO Louisville, and from reliable
statistics furnished by the respective ware
housemen to the United States revenue Of
icers, that the same quality Of tobacco sold
Tor $53 per hid. more in Clarksville than
in Louisville, and tax ng the crop of Cum
berland county this season, which is esti-
mated at 200 hhds., if sold in the former
market, would bring back into the county
! 500, 600 more if sold in the former, than If
sold in the latter market Add TO this Sc
per hid. difference 10 transportation, makes
$50, 500, sufficient sum to pay the taxes
| of the county.
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annual tobacco report, also the HartsVille
! Videttc, in vindication of the statements he
had made. He showed out of the fourteen
large stemmeries in and around Clarks-
vile, depending on that market for sup
| plies, that some of them went TO Louis
| vile 10 purchase their almost entire stock,
aud frequently, in all probability, Pur-
chased in that market Cumberland county
tobacco and worked it up in GAINESVILLE at
4 profit He showed a knowledge of the
tobacco trade which is rarely met with in
this country. lie said ClarksVille was the
natural market for the upper Cumberland
tobacco, and Nashville the market to pur-
chase the supplies for this county, and
urged upon the people the advantage of
| paIronizing both. Mr. W., from his long
| experience is regarded by the knowing
ones here, AZ The brightest and best to-
bacco man in The State, and We predict Tor
| him liberal share Of patronage from this
county.
Mr.. Richards, of Paducah, now took the
stand and made few very interesting and
appropriate remarks, setting forth the adj
vantages Of that market
DIR. ID. p. White OF Louisville, was then
called for, and commenced iby saying the
| Louisville tobacco market was too well
known and established to require any ex-
PLANTATION or remarks from him, and under
took to tell few Illustrative anecdotes
and ridicue the size of the towns in which
the above mentioned markets were, and
asked the question where ClarksVille was
! situated To which Mr.. w. very promptly
replied that it was only necessary for the
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situated some distance south of Mason and
Dixon's line, and that if Louiavilie was on
the line now, she was a long ways north OF
il during the war. - PLANTER.