The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-26
THE TOBACCO TRADE.
DERBY-DAY FOR THE TOBACCO MEN
IN PADUCAH.
A Tobacco Break In Paducah-The Feast
Atterward-The Kentucky Home
Cured Hams - New Orleans
and the Tobacco Trade.
and the Tobacco TT
Special Correspondence of the Democrat
PADUCAH, KY, May q, 1878.

The anticipation of the grand special sale TO-
day attracted great many visitors to the
city For several days tobacco buyers ana
tobacco dHietnti from New Orleans, New
York and Louisville have been arriving and
registering at the Richmond House. Planters
and merchants from the surrounding country
have been pouring in and visiting the ware
houses, those elegant and commodious build
ings erected for the storage and sale OF
tobacco; among which the warehouse OF
Buckner 4 Terrell may rank as the largest
THE RECEIPTS
for the last two days have been heavy,
amounting to over 800 hogsheads, to be offer
ed on special sale on the twcnty-first and
twenty instant.
At an early hour the crowds gathered about
the warehouse, and 1t was n rare sight to see
the breaks" and the long tables covered with
samples 1t looked like business; you could
see business on every mans face, and the very
air fragrant with the weed, was thick with
breeZiness and intensely exhilarating. sniff
OF this peculiar odor is just enough to take
ono back to the palmy days OF old Virginia,
when Petersburg and Lynchburg spread their
tables, had their breaks and grew great
and rich on their great staples. The esprit dl
| corns of all tobacco men is the same. You
| hear the same dialect, or rather patois, that
| is heard In Virginia, the same technicalities
and the snme literature. | suppose the trade
| understand each other and maintains Its indi-
vlduality in all sections alike, and the same
obtains In other branches of trade, as well In
cotton and grain as In tobacco.
The general quality of tobacco offered is
better than heretofore seen this season, prices
were fully sustained and later in the day
quotably higher, giving great satisfaction to
holders and sellers. The total actual sales
amounted to over $50 hogsheads, which was
good work, taken together with the general
animation and hilarity OF gentlemen under
the inspiration OF good sales, good prices and
| good cheer.
A feast n symposium spread by
Buckner Il Terrell, and the crowd ut into
| THE KENTUCKY HoME-CURED HAM,
fat mutton and roast beef with a vim that
assured of hearty Endorsement. These Ken
| lucky home-cured hams are never sighted,
! and it Is q marvel that you see this delicacy
| so seldom in the New Orleans market. They
! are cured and smoked In the SmOke-hOuSeS OF
the farmers around about Paducah; smoked
with hickory chips every damp day; taken
down in fair weather, rubbed and touched up,
! hung again and resmoked, until they are
offered for sale. This process is repeated
every week; and as no farmer is regularly in
| the factory business, and cures alone for his
own use, and sells only what he has to spare
from his own family, no wonder they com
mand a good price and are much sought
after.
A spoilt ham is unknown in this country;
it Is no unusual thing to meet up with ham,
several years old, just as sound and sweet as
| If cured last week No wonder you see q
bright smile wreath the face of the farmer
and his lovely wife when the ham, nicely
trimmed, dressed and smoking, Is reposing
on their table ready for the sacrifice. The
fair lady takes her knife and fork, and gently
resting on the epicurean joint, looks proudly
at her guests and announces with smiling
nOnchdlance that she will be pleased to give
you slice of ham, that sit Is two years old
and one of the best in the house, And then
the incision is made, then another, the clear
rich juice streams down, the delicious fra
GRANGE tittillates your Olfactory and gusta-
tory nerves: the slice of rich red, with a
corona of fat on its superior rim, Is raised and
poised in your sight just to tempt you, and
you are doomed to yield. Everybody takes q
slice of ham, and nobody but cod-eating
Down Easter could ever refuse this tempting
Wand. The ham may be called the pride of
Kentucky, and is as religiously respected as
the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of
the olden times of unadulterated State
rights.
The large receipts to-day, the immense
crowd of farmers, buyers and visitors, the
good prices, and the animation OF all, the
feast of good things and the bonhommie of
MessrS Buckner Il Terrell, all together com
bine to make this the Derby Day of the tobacco
men.
Some of the tobacco sold will go to New Or
leans for shipment to Europe, and it is often
said, by knowing ones, that next season an
increased amount will go to our city, and that
New York will no more monopolize the ship
mentS. To insure
HEAVY SHIPMENTS TO NEW ORLEANS,
our tobacco men must offer liberal induce
ments, and help to regulate freights, not only
to Europe but the river rates by steamboat,
and the rates by rail. But, as regards the
Iott m n c
don'ta mount to much.
New Orleans needs an active Board OF
, Trade. Every other city has its Board OF
Trade, and through that medium can address
the railroad men and state their cases. Rail
roads running into any city as great termi-
nus should run in its peculiar interest and
assist in developing its trade. But we never
hear of New Orleans merchants making an
appeal to any railroad corporation to lessen
freight tariffs, or remove obnoxious rules
Sometimes the unfortunate drummer from
New Orleans finds freight rates so high as to
amount to prohibition, and thus is "cut out
Orleans Railroad is moving in the right di-
rection and should be sustained; but this
road has great deal to do to establish the
Renaissance, Old fogyism and high rates
high prices and high perquisites, must die out
before New Orleans will prosper. New Or
leans merchants, whose capacities are UNI
questioned and whose honorable conduct is
traditional must cooperate with the railroad
, and steamboat men to insure low rates OF
freights, competing prices for goods of all
kinds, and offer inducements, proper and lib
eral, to attract trade and travel to the Queen
!, City of the South, whose trade languishes for
the want of means of transportation to and
: from Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia and
Florida, and for the want of liue men in the
wholesale trade, who will compete with other
! cities SHAKER.
Greatly reduced rates via the KennesaW
Route will go into effect June 1 to all of the
springs and summer resorts. good until No
/ ven bar /. For circulars. rates, etc. call on OF
) address J. G. Andrews general Southern agent
Z New Orleans.
J. r. Walker. d. d. s., l54 Canal street.
hut a few days remain for payment OF
licenses and taxes on personal property
without court costs and penalties.