598 



DErOS, NAECOTICS, ETC. 



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

 not made upon the part of that Grovernment 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. Erance makes the trade a monopoly, from which 

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



STATEMENT OF EVIPORTS, SALES, AXD STOCKS OF TOBACCO AND STEMS, IN 

 BREMEN, FROM 1840 TO 1850. 





MAETLAND. 



TIBaiNIAN. 



KENTTJCKT. 



STEMS. 







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m 



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Ic last. 



^ 3 



03 



o 







H 



o 





-£ 



k 1st 

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3. 



-a £ 







ft 



B 



Is 



CQ 



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1 5 





OQ 



O c 



2 5 



ft 



a 



OQ 



i 



S. a- 





CO 



SI 





















'^4 







SP 









1840 



4,890 



14,570 



18,399 



1,061 



245 



3492 



3422 



285 



181 



3,803 



3,699 



285 



2853 '3362 



45&1 



1651 



1841 



1,061 



19,629 



18,321 



2,369 



285 



3466 3025 



726 



285 



5,206 



4,941 



550 



1651 7085 



7054 



1682 



1842 



2,369 



20,821 



19,067 



4.123 



726 



6729 5898 



1557 



550 



9,407 



8,939 



1018 j 1682 4151 



5386 



44i7 



1843 



4,123 



18,483 



15,004 



7;602 



1557 



5541 4242 2856 



1018 



7,485 



6,44ll2062 



447 3969 



3447 



969 



1844 



7,602 



16,978 



18,338 



6,242 2856 



5092 4282 3666 



2062 



9,736 



9,569 



2229 



969:4753 



5513 



209 



1845 



6,242 



24,251 



24,571 



5,922 



3666 



1538 3099 



2155 



2269 



11,439 



10,328 33401 209,n273 



41 52 1 1330 



1846 



5,922 



26,785 



23,788 



8,919 2155 



2336 245612035 



3340 



5,028 



6,099 



22691 133018092 4716 



2706 



1847 



8,919 



21,743 



20,681 



9,981 20S5 



911 2079 



917 



2269 



3,816 



5,013 '1072 12706 16788 8038 1456 



1848 



9,981 



12,084 



9,935 



12,130 917 



847 



1054 



710 



1072 



4,44-8 



4.980 



540 1456;4912;4473 



1895 



1849 



12,130 



19,285 



22,112 



9,303' 710 



1173 1734 



149 



540 



4,620 



4;746! 414|l895!5188i508311000 



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 164*2 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. Eor 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 aU the exports of the British JSTorth American 

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

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

 a market principally in Great Britain, Erance, 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 

 * Pitkins' Statistics of the United States. 



