The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-07-18
DARK Shi0p1a
The New York Tobacco Market ne Reported by
the tobacco Leafn h i

Manufactured The sales since our last seem
to have BE- en- confined to little bright work for
export. he receipts eth continue large, but are
chic fly conhnea to light work. The manufacturers
dizziness in the mannfacture cd article. The recent
ADVANCE they assure us, has increased the coet of
poI A., s Of Cavenaish fully one cent and half
SIX weeks ago. When the Qutetude In this market
taken Int constderat on, and he little prospect
that exists OF any advance Ia the Immediate fu.
ture, these facts become deeply significant. n
The advance In leaf must convince the most
prejudlced that an active demand exists, and
does not pass through the factories OF our le-
climate manufacturers. The latter should re-
Its tax or not, the raw material has been used
In the manufacture or the goods, and that the
more Of this illegitimate work finds its way to
the far South, where 1t is chiefly sold the better
buyers Will the bl0ckaders w1o sell 1t become In
the lie II market. Thus Is the honest manufactu-
re5s throat cut both WAYS. He not only Is com.
bockaders; but be finds his market forestalled by
compelled to pay the Tax of s2c; before pound
can leave bis factory. Does not such q state OF
thlogs cal loudly for the protective action Of the
The officials have been very stern recently with
the illicit distllers OF North Carolina, even going
50 fer as to employ the military; let them be
the bread from the mouths Of our honest manu-
facturers, and they viii receive the heartfelt
thanks OF every honest man engaged in the COM
MERGE In the weed. 1t Is a hard thing TO ask q
man to be upright, and at the same time give
every facility to the revenue thieves to WORK his
ruin. WIN NOT commissioner Pleasonton right
this grievous wrongp !"
Smoking; Trade Is commencing slowly to i'm
prove, AID desers think they Sc Indications or
The opening of the fall business in the inquiries
OF those who are looking around the market.
Virginia Le1f.-The same story comes to Us
record fur several weeks past, viz: an advancing
market. This rise seems 70 have been occssioned
by actual scarcity of certain grades. and Is thus
Will always be certain amount or speculation in
every rise in prices. but there is wide difference
between an advance based on an arti1cially-cre-
ated scarcity and one predicated on condition Of
the arket that actually exists or The latter char
acler seems to be the upward movement that has
ben PROGRESSING IN sisSnia. with only rev re-
self upon the minds OF cealers buyers, that in
really fine grades OF BILE tobacco the yant-
ed 1870 crop was wofully deficient.
This fact many OF the trade have been slow to
admit, and we ind to- day that several of local
m anufacturers are attempting to eyade the hzur's
the richmond and other Virginia - breaks" They
will find, however, that prices everywhere have
upward movement has rot apparently get re sched
Its limit And not only does Cue scarcity exist i'll
ana aes
figures, the latter selling as high as 1l315c. Dark
| filters are also In demand NJ good prices. = he
buyers for the French contract complain loudly OF
| this state OF things, and the manufacturers say
they do not get chance to buy ths leaf they need
| at anything like reasonable figures.
AS to The growing crop, we learn that the
breadth Of land planted this year falls considera-
bly, short Of that devoted to the weed last session.
owing partly to scarcity Of plants, but that the
| prospect generally Is very fair one: What the
trace needs ts not that the shall be extraor.
dnaIiy large, but that 1t shall be good. We have
Just seen how little the enormous yield Of last
| summer he's done for us in the way of keeping
prices down TO a moderate standard, and we woulc
exhort planters generally to turn their attention
10 10 aking good tobacco rather than to producing
large Quantity with put Little regard to the quail
ity. s.. -,7@
n they need any especial inducements to d.
this, they should certainly find Ii in the condition
Of the market az the present moment. Those
| planters who were so fortunate as 20 b5 able Il
market any of the desirable grades have reaped
golden harvest, while the great majority hay
been compelled to mourn the loss Of time and labo
in the sale of nondescrtpt lesf at unremunerauS
i hInres. OF course the pref ence or absence .
seasons" has much to do with the harvesting 0
saieaole crop, but, given the most propitt9a
weather, one planter will succeed, while his nexs
1 door He,ghoor, under precisely the same condi
/ lions OF soil and climate, viii fail.