Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-01-05


ces if necessary. but above all. to abide with
them, by the banner Of the Union.
Upon motions, severally made, bv Messrs.
Conrad, Singleton, Heiskell, and Marley Tay-
lor. copies OF the proceedings Of this meeting
were ordered TO be forwarded to the president OF
the United States, the speaker OF the house OF
representatives of the United States the presi-
dent OF the Union convention of South Carolina
the governor of Virginia, and to our delegates in
the legislature.
The meeting then adjourned
AUG. c. SMITH, Chairman.
HUGH H. McGUInE, Secretary.
We cut the following from the New York
Journal of Commerce, where it appears as all all
vertisement.
~ The following printed Circular was re.
ceived IN tuwn yesterday bv number Ut our
most extensive and respectable merchants.
The writer Of IT, visited this city for the first
time last April, aud being highly recommended
by respectable ndi,i duas from the section OF the
country where he resides. Effected purchases
without difficulty to considerable amount -
Soon after he formed connection with Mr..
Hopper, who visited our city the past Autumn,
and The first purchases Of his partner not having
then or even now matured. he solicited further
cred, and was sue, es,fu in obtaining it to an
extent scarcely to be credited by those unac-
ouainted with the generous confidence 0t our
met chants. Shortly after his partners return to
Monte 0merv, and previous to the maturity ot his
first engagements, the writer addresses the fol-
lowing Circular to all his correspondents in New
York.
MoxTGoMrpY, (Aia,l 18th Dec. 1889.
s.Gen,emen-This will apprise you that !
have sold out nv stock of goUds, and am now
settling up my business.
The reasons tina, induced me 10 sell out, are
First-Whist 10 New York, last spring. pur-
chased too large stock. aud bein. unarquaigied
with the purchase Of goods, Twas mitch imposed
upon IN their prices.
Secondly During the summer joined Mr..
Hopper in business; he visited New York the past
fall for the purpose Of purchasing what goods we
thought necessary TO keep up the stock, and t"
my utter a,tonishment We were refused credit by
nearly all the Houses had previously purchas'
ed of.
Deserted by nv friends, add having large
stock Of goods, which were laid in far ab"ve their
value, | determined to sell out, and make the
best could of The afilr. had to sell thr goods
at large discount Oh their cost, believing u was
the best ,ould lo for nv creditors aud self.
have some confidential creditors. and they
must be secured: and il you had not slapped my
credit. 10Y friend. here would have stuck tn me,
so that might have done well.
The case Is a settled one. Below YOU have a
statement Of what. and how much owe. >Ov,
if sou relieve ME from what owe you. | VIII
nay YOU, IN notes. at the rate of thirty cents IN
the dollar. Should all my creditors in n York
agree to this proposition, consigu Your demsnds
to an agen, here, which agent NAV be e L Pol
lard, if you please, and by the first OF March
will make the payment.
have written to all the gentlemen whose
names you find in the statement belo" OF nv
debts, a copy of this letter, and hope to have
reply. at once, from all cone rrned
Respectfully, j K. L WALTON.
p. ;. conference.-the amount Of my " York
debts is about $4,000.
We call the attention of the Public to it as.ex
hibting degree of effrontery and impudence
UNPARALLELED in the history of fraud. and with the
hone that the ignurnny of the transaction NAV be
fastened forever - like the poisoned SHIRT OF Her
cules" upon the party guilty OF It.
Instances of a similar character have become
so frequent ni late, and are little noticed, that
sharpers look to the creduitv Of our mere hanis
az furnishing the most ready and successful
mode offiliiBg their pockets with ill-g0ten gains
If some method cannot be devised, in which
all the parties Interested will join to bring mer.
tied disgrace and punishment upon the perpeira.
tors Of such swindiing transattions. we mus,
anticipate their more frequent recurrence.
A very similar case occurred about one year
since at Nashville. when the merchants OF that
place, with a regard to character and zeal for
the credit of their town, worthy of all praise.
came toward and wrested from the hands of a
villain large amount Of merchandise with which
he was about to c0nsummate "spfendid jrdnd !"
We would fain hope that the high minded mer-
chants of Montgomery. would show equal alacrity
in disabusing the credit OF their town. and IN
helping to bring the subject OF this notice to
exemplary punishment.
Yz,,, n, -'Tho f,rtnor of Illinois