The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-10-07
The Tobacco Market,
From the New York Tobacco To,

L From Tue HGW JOTk IOD2ccU Leaf.
Pirotnia Ledt-As might have been apticl.
little chang during the week In this department
| OF the trade: Prices continue tlrm With gradual
upward tendency, though the advance has not yet
been such as 10 call for u modification Of present
quOtationa. The want Of good colony leaf Is be-
ginning to be keealy felt, and those, who are 50
fortunate as to possess the coveted article are
/ masters OF the situation 80 FAR as price Is CON
cerned We have heard Of no transactions Of IN
/ unusual character, and doubt If the aggregate
sales were cqua! to those of the preceding week.
AS we hoped and intimafcd In our last, &c Is now
said the new crop has suffered little or injury
from the frost previously ANNOUNCED, which fact
should serve TO iinpart more animation and tet-
ter feeling To the trade than has prevailed during
| has already driven some OF the man ufsc,urers
TO this market Tor substitutes and this alternative
will probably be still furthermads useof until 1T
least, the new crop 10 available as withou. this
their prospect for continuance OF work Ia any
thing but cheering.
| Manufactured. There wa ne feature of special
import In this branch OF trade during the period
uD der review. little activity vas opser vable lu
the western cities, with some call for pound and
elcsen-nch pa reels Tot The local trade A slightly
improved inquiry was perceptsble for black work.
Prices are well maintained for all grades with
trifllug advance on two or three or the lower
| grades Of black work, which are duly noticed Ia
our table of quotations. Stocks are COMPARE
wants. The new crop Is looking more promising
than when first reported, and this fact coupled
% tns IN wsf Gl 1ee % be-
looked for, AMI suggests at once The proper course
to pursue. .... .t.s ~
II having come TO orr knowledge that runor Is
In circulation to the feet tbat market reports
undsr this he ad are written by members of pro-
mtnent commission nrln IN this CITY, and thai our
columns are used for the expression OF their fpdi-
vtdua views and To advance their private inter-
eets, We hasten TO assure our readers once tor
all, Of Its entire untrulhfuu The inform alton
conveyed through weekly summary Of the
market, and the views therein expressed, are Oh
taiaet through and based on personal intercourse
with all the leading firms III this city, and where
individual views differ an average Is struck, or
those of the ma jority set forth.
The Leafs neither the organ OF any frm or num-
Der OF firms neither has 1t any Individual axe TO
grind. It aims To state facts, and To express the
views or the trade at large. When 1t falls to do this
It is ever open to manly dgnifcd and fair crlti-
csm, and willing to retract what may have been
enormously asserted IL Is pleasant to refsc. that
thus far we have received lie voluntary comuen-,
datiOu OF many In the trade whose praise Is
most valuable, and who have admitted that where
we came short OF our own high standard 1t has
been through want of effort on our part TO make
tire trade, and q colorless medium through which
per vert I'd aud opinions uuwarped by prejudice.
Sm0kiRg-Thcre were no noticeable transact
ions in smoking tobacco since our last report
The city trade has absorbed the usual quauti,y
needed for current consumption, but aside from
this there has been little doing. Neither east
ern or western buyers have yet made their ap-
pearancc to any cNteut for their winter supplies,
nor Is IL probable they viii do until later Ia the
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