The Daily Dispatch: February 21, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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The Conservative influence of tobacco.

The people inhabiting the tobacco districts of Kentucky find their pecuniary interests arrayed on the side of loyalty. Owing to the secession of Virginia, and civil disturbances in Missouri, Kentucky is enabled to hold almost a monopoly of the tobacco trade for home and foreign demand, and, as a consequence, to realize large profits. The Louisville Journal says:‘"The fragrant leaves of the great weed are becoming as precious in the eyes of commerce as the leaves of the Sibylline oracles of old, and we do not think that prices have yet reached their highest figure."’ part of the State, however, in an evil days, was lured from loyalty, and so lost all participation in this golden harvest.

That region of Kentucky now overrun and devastated by Buckner and his banditti, the fertile counties of Warren, Logan, Simpson, Todd, Christian, Card well, and others constitute the great tobacco and slave district of the State, and produce the heavy article of tobacco most used for manufacturing purposes. The annual yield has amounted to millions of dollars, and these counties were feeling more directly than any others the beneficial results of the effar is to extend the influence of Kentucky as a market. But they suffered themselves to be led estray after the false gods of a Southern Confederacy, and by this means closed their communications with their best customers, which, if now accessible, would insure prices vastly greater than ever before enjoyed.--Baltimore American.