A few paragraphs more from Mr. Lane: Dr. Rush relates that Sir John Pringle was afflicted with tumors in his hands, and had his memory impaired by the use of snuff; but on abandoning the habit at the instance of Dr. Franklin, he found his power of recollection restored, and he recovered the use of his hands." Macnish, in his Anatomy of Drunkenness, says, "The effects of tobacco are considerably different from those of any other inebriating agent. When used to excess, instead of quickening, it lessens the pulse, produces languor, depression of the system, giddiness, confusion of ideas, violent pain in the stomach, vomiting, convulsions, and even death." "Tobacco has been known, like alcohol, to issue in delirium tremens." "Tobacco often produces insanity. We have the clearest evidence on this point." "Looking at the moral influence of the habitual use of tobacco, it is not singular that in the early commencement of the habit, ["when it first came into use" would be a better phrase] many thought it originated with the devil." ** Catharine De Medicis, the person said to have prompted the horrible massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day at Paris, is commonly regarded as the inventress of snuff-taking. "What reception," says Dr. Rush, "may we suppose would the apostles have met with had they carried into the cities and houses to which they were sent, snuff boxes, pipes, cigars and bundles of cut or rolls of hog or pigtail tobacco ? * * The Indians were accustomed to use it in order to open a conference with the spirit of Evil.” "The following singular calculation was made by Lady Hester Stanhope: Every professed in veterate snuff-taker, at a moderate computation, takes one pinch every ten minutes. Every pinch, with the agreeable ceremony of wiping and blowing the nose, and other incidental circumstances, consumes a minute and a half. minute and a half, out of every ten, allowing sixteen hours to a snuff-taking day, amounts to two hours and twentyfour minutes out of every natural day, or one day out of every ten. One day out of every ten amounts to thirty-six days and a half in a year. Hence, if we suppose the practice persisted in for forty years, two entire years of the snuff-taker's life will be dedicated to tickling his nose, and two more to blowing it." Of smoking in England: "This plague, like the

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Egyptian plague of frogs, is felt everywhere and in everything. It poisons the streets, the clubs, and the coffeehouses; furniture, clothes, equipage, and persons are redolent of the abomination. * Every eatable and drinkable-all that can be seen, heard, felt or understood-is saturated with tobacco; the very air we breathe is but a conveyance of this poison into the lungs; and every man, woman and child rapidly acquires the complexion of a par-boiled chicken. From the hour of their waking to the hour of their lying down, the pipe is never out of their mouths. One mighty fumigation reigns, and human nature is smoked dry by tens of thousands of square miles." "While German physiologists compute that, of twenty deaths, between eighteen and thirty-five years, ten originate in the waste of the constitution by smoking; it is the opinion of some of the best physicians in our country, that more than twenty thousand die annually in the United States by reason of the use of tobacco. "The money which a tobacco-consumer expends in the course of forty years, (for his weed,) put to compound interest, would be quite a fortune.”

The volume is rich in epistolary writing. From a letter to the author by a Mr. K. E. G., we quote the following morceau: "You ask how it (tobacco) affected me? Well, sir, it made me feel mean, look mean, and very probably act mean; made my eyes weak, destroyed my appetite, disturbed my rest, gave me severe and almost constant pains in my breast, made me low-spirited, and, at times, very dejected; in short, seriously injured me physically, morally and mentally." Bad enough, by all the Meerschaums! But K. E. G. may congratulate himself that he only felt mean. What would he think of a man whose head became so affected by the use of the plant, that he determined to take the lease of a tenement in Crazydom? The terms were quite reasonable, considering the circumstances, and Mr. B. was duly installed major domo. Strange scenes were enacted in that building. In the morning the proprietor would imagine himself an "Havana" and offer to let himself out for a smoke to every passer-by: at noon the freak would change; and supposing himself to be an exhausted quid, he would curl his body up in a corner, looking and feeling intensely miserable:

at night he would slowly unroll, and ticket himself," Prime Rappee"; and, provided the whim seized him, that, his imaginary customers were just beginning to learn the glories of snuff-taking, he would go to bed with the most obstreperous sneezing. The last whim-wham of the old fellow is, that he is a hogshead of " Kentucky first rate," and he has solemnly labeled himself "Ready for Inspection." Mournful are the ravages of the intoxicating plant!

Mr. Adams' letter is as follows:

'Quincy, Mass., Aug. 19, 1845. "DEAR SIR-I have received your letter of the 13th instant and shall deem myself highly honored by the inscription to me of your introduction to the proposed publication of the Reverend J. B. Lane's work on TOBACCO AND ITS MYSTERIES. In my early youth I was addicted to the use of tobacco in two of its mysteries, smoking and chewing. I was warned by a medical friend of the pernicious operation of this habit upon the stomach and the nerves; and the advice of the physician was fortified by the results of my own experience. More than thirty years have passed away since I deliberately renounced the use of tobacco in all its forms; and, although the resolution was not carried into execution without a struggle of vitiated nature, I never yielded to its impulses; and in the space of three or four months of self-denial, they lost their stimulating power, and I have never since felt it as a privation.

I have often wished that every individual of the human race afflicted with this arti

generation of man, we should represent a stout Caucasian with one foot on a broken pipe, the other in a Croton bath, and an archway overhead on which should glister out in gold-letters around an empty demi-john, "PHYSICAL REFORM." The meliorators of our age overlook the first step to regeneration-the health of the body. "Next to godliness is cleanliness."

Our eccentric author says: "To write against tobacco, with its mysteries and its luxuries, may be an unpromising business. We fear the Doctor is correct. Let him open his eyes aud look at the statistics of the weed! In this blessed land, one million, four hundred thousand are engaged in planting, curing, wholesaling, retailing and shipping tobacco and several millions are earnestly consuming it! "Read and tremble!"

It is said that the annual consumption amounts to upwards of one hundred millions of pounds-giving seven pounds to "The every man, woman and child." sum annually paid by the consumers of the plant, in its manufactured state, has been computed at $20,000,000. The annual consumption in New York alone, amounts to $3,650,000.

STATEMENT-Showing to what countries the larger portion of American Tobacco was exported during 20 years, from 1821 to 1840.

England,

France, Holland, Germany,

521,640 $50,194,466

146,834

16,361,346

423,707

21,907,462

373,918

18,734,186

to the average of human life.

I am, with great respect,
Dear Sir, your friend and
Christian Brother,
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.

Rev. S. H. Cox, D. D., Brooklyn, N. Y."

The italics in the above valuable document (for every writing from Mr. Adams becomes documentary) are our own. As trophies of his mighty prowess, the demon of tobacco can point with all safety to the exhausted lands of Virginia, and to the ochre-colored, lanthorn jawed, consumptive faces of the majority of his votaries. Were we commanded to symbolize the re

States.

Tobacco demanded or abandoned,

Houses and utensils,

19,500,000 1,500,000

540,000

francs 21,540,000

francs 19,540,000

2,000,000

Here is a gem taken from the "Literature of Tobacco." We recommend it to the especial attention of Mr. Lane.

To the Honorable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled: The humble petition of the operatives and other members of the laboring classes in the city of Bristol, SHOWETH:

That the use of manufactured tobacco has become necessary to them during the nours of toil, and their chief consolation when they cease from labor; but the present high cost prevents their enjoying it, without depriving their wives and children of many comforts.

That your petitioners, as dutiful and loyal subjects, are always ready to contribute their full share towards maintaining the dignity of his Majesty's crown; and upon all occasions, both by land and sea, they have cheerfully shed their blood to uphold the honor of the empire.

That the enormous tax upon tobacco has led to such an extensive clandestine introduction of it, that, from the hard earnings of your petitioners, a sum is raised upon them by Government of three millions, and further sum of four millions of money by mugg ling.

That your petitioners rely upon the paternal care of your honorable House to relieve them from this oppressive tax, and umbly pray that the duty upon tobacco may be reduced, so that they may enjoy the use of it at a price consistent with that paid by persons of their class of society in other

commercial countries, and without inflicting an injury on their families by the indulgence of this, their only luxury. And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.

To return home. The manufacture of fine-cut tobacco, for chewing, has greatly increased within the last few years, and is now almost exclusively used in the Northern and Eastern States. It is manufactured, principally, from Kentucky Leaf. Fine-cut tobacco, when pure, is now preferred at the North, and consequently Virginia is a deep loser, as her Cavendish no longer finds a market. It was formerly a law of the Old Commonwealth, that all inferior leaf tobacco should be rejected at the inspection and destroyed, so that the high character of her staple should be maintained throughout the world. That wise law the Legislature repealed; and since the repeal, all the inferior article has been manufactured into lumps and sweetened with liquorice and molasses to disguise its inferiority, and shipped under various fanciful brands.

If this course should be persisted in, the time is not far distant when Virginia lump will be unknown at the North, and "Fine Cut" have the field to itself. A statement of the mode of manufacturing the latter article will, no doubt, be interesting, as the whole subject of tobacco assumes much importance on a view of its enormous 'statistics, and the process through which it must pass to be suited