598 



DEU68, NAECOTICS, ETC. 



a staple of American produce that it is singular greater efforts are 

 not made upon the part of that Government to cause a reciprocal 

 duty to be imposed, that more favor may be shown by European 

 Governments to this particular article. England, from the duty 

 imposed upon it alone, derives a revenue of 4,500,000, being 

 about 160 to the hogshead, or from ten to sixteen times its 

 original cost. France makes the trade a monopoly, from which 

 he derives an income of 3,000,000 sterling. 



STATEMENT OF IMPORTS, SALES, AND STOCKS OF TOBACCO AND STEMS, IN 

 BREMEN, FROM 1840 TO 1850. 



Culture and Statistics in the United States. Tobacco has been 

 the great staple of the States of Virginia and Maryland from their 

 first settlement. About the year 1642 it became a royal monopoly, 

 and afterwards, in order to encourage its growth in the colonies, 

 and thereby increase the revenue of the Crown, Parliament pro- 

 hibited the planting of it in England. The average quantity 

 shipped from the North American colonies to the parent country, 

 for ten years preceding the year 1709, was about twenty-nine 

 millions of pounds. For some years prior to the American revo- 

 lution, about 85,000 hhds. were exported, then valued at little 

 more than four millions of dollars, and constituting nearly one- 

 third the value of all the exports of the British North American 

 colonies. From 1820 to 1830 tobacco constituted about one-ninth 

 in value of all the domestic exports of the United States. Jt finds 

 a market principally in Great Britain, France, Holland, and the 

 north of Europe.* The crop of tobacco produced in the four 

 principal States, was in 



1838. 1839. 



hhds. hhds. 



Virginia . . . 26,000 . . . 45,000 

 Kentucky . . . 27,000 . . . 35,000 

 Maryland . . . 16,000 . . . 16,000 

 Ohio .... 3,000 . . . 4,000 



72,000 



100,000 



* Titkins' Statistics of the United States. 



