The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-02-28
THE TOBACCO MARKET AS REPORTED
BY THE NEW YORK TOBACCO LEAF.

.Virqinia Lenc-Salcs Of Virginia leaf both FOL
shipment and domestic use are reported, put chief,
for the latter purpose. There Is STEADY demand
usefulness but sales are apparently curtaied fol
| the want of good working material: Wenote SONS
tie or no movement in either class. the former be
Ing slow Of sale at 5c., shipping grades.i Roth tht
Virginia and western crops have thls year a mncl
1 Of heT NV, w
wilt have to take Its chances with the varying
| tendency Of the market. Western common lug:
are thought to be poorer than they ordinarily are
arguing from those that have been handled
and with regard to Virginia Tugs OF the same
description. more complaint Is already made OF
| the grit and sand to be met with In them than is
usually heard so early In the season. PriZerS dc
not need to be told agan that foreign buyers iuva-
riably object TO tobacco that is not clearly handled
besides being objected to when in untidy condi
ton. 1t Is frequently impossible TO sell 1t on that
account and that when s9d IL Is aiw"ys ut uepIe
If to an unusually large supply OF low gr-dcs this
season IS be added unusual complaints. well and
ill-foundcd, abolt their cleanliness 1t IS easy 10
foresee what the range Of prices for them is likely
to be. All good tobacco is firm and advancing III
Richmond. bright wrappers ranging already at
fancy figures, when they are to be had. The future
of this class of goods so far as present stock is
concerned, is beyond the control of the bear III
Nr. Frederick Fischer, tobacco broker, sum-
marizes business IN his circular, dated February I'd,
as follows: New York tobacco receipts. Received
this L. onlh: Western. ,GJG: last year, Western,
Orleans, so. From Virginia, S91 last year, Fir-
ginia, 1.247. Total this month, 2,S47 hogsheads.
TolIi last year, 2.409 hcgsheadS. Stock on hand
in New orl in Inspection warehcuses-this year,
1O1G4 hogSheads; lat year. 6,597 hogsbcadS.
Sales mere for this molta, 3,i0U hogShei1' list
Orleans from January TO January 24. S74, u I
Eagshe ads; from january 10 January "a. 1873,
AZ hogshead'. Stock on hanr 1T New Dreams In
warehouses and on Ship0oard not cleared. January
"a, 1874, 1909 hogsheads last year, 1855 hogs
heads.
Mlnuftctured-Wt the exception of here and
there sales OF small lots fo- current use we hear CT
nothing during he week lust closed. Neither for
consumption II r X2Cr. were there any TRANSACTIONS
of Importance. 50 IL" ~ we have learned Some
only what could not so well be secured elsewhere.
Common 10 medium goods. they are reported 10
lave said, can, somehow or other, be obtained from
fac, cries ut lie extreme south cheaper than here.
BlockatiinE used to ht cited in explanation OF SINH
lar experiences sometime ago, but Ihis we suppose,
can hardly be adducCd TO solve the enigma now.
Bright work sctms likely To become more than
ordinarily precious as consequence OF the scarcity
and growing dea' ness OF bright wrappers Asytt
there has been advance in bright goods, bus they
have been made even iirmer than they waIe, and
may appreciate in price at almost any moment
Smoking -Iarher an increase of orders for
smoking tobacco i announced, and from quarters,
too, which suggest the opening or the spring r.dc.
prospect of good traffic in this staple the current
year. Dut viii IL lie left alone. is the question.
Unless the discussion of the subject In COngr Is
designed. some infer, merely to prevent the to-
bacco trae from asking for other useful and desi-
ra5ie notifications Of the law, there IS reason to
apprclend that before the agitation IS an In
creased rate CT lax will be levied provided the trade
do not reSuutely oppose such action.