Mobile register and journal., 1845-02-05
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 This piedpe, then, has been than redeemed, But, say mHny-you have changed your rates. So We have gentlemen; but are ,ou injured thereby? Is mol 70 cents for tine season better tariff for you than Ihe one proposed by us, 20 cents for he rs month and 2a cents for each subsequent week. h was moreover the only rate which all could agrep md we felt no hesancy in accepting it. it is th, charge n,arIably preferred by those planters with "h"m we have conyersed on The subject. lt is ih rate Taid al every important river warehouse in iht State, and we certainly cannot afford 10 build fire proof wa ehouses, where the land alone costs for inne and siore for less than is paid in wooden sheds up the country.
 Nor do we think those who last season paid from one to two dollars per bale storage, can complain, when now allowed the use nf our sheds, the entire season for % cents. But it is added, you have also put up the drayage from your wharyes, So Vt haye and reduced wharfage exactly the same amount And we humbly conceive it matter of no conse. q"euce tn ,ou, whether yon pay cents dra,ase and wharfage, or 10 cents drayage and no wharfage To protect ourselves from the machnaions of the up town ~haiingers, we foresaw ihe necessity of open ing our ~laives free, under any circumstances; and to accomplish the double object of obtaining uniio ny m the rates, and avoiding heavier loss than we could stand. we put drayage a, 10 cents.
 But yon have done still worse, say others. You have formed a combination. WIh the utmost respect, gentlemen, for your better judgment, is not so There wide difference between comhi nation or general coparnerslip among the presses, by which all roiDpetiJn is stopped-parties enabled wnh n,pun'y to sligh, their wo,k, and ilie highest rates exacied iron the community, to which it wi submit, and the adoption of d uni'orm tarh as low can be afforded, and which leaves each press to struggle for itself Such is the arrangement now made, and few words i'll show the siiy for il,
 aIf.fI IIA tI, tnI.t Ina rest either 10 form combination, or To g;,e them bisin-ss which they could t otherwise obIain. had reduced compressng to 25 cents per bale, virtual
 y to 10 cents, by putting on, free of charge, two ex tra ropes. Pickering To remain idle rather than work at loss, we refused change rates. Many shippers. knowing Ilat we could not afford the re duc'ion, were disposed 10 sustain us; others, howe yer, and shpmnsters generally, were disposed 10 pursue different c,urse. Confusion in business necessarily ens,ied Parties buyin for the same markets, and often for the same iiidi, du.ls weIe l compelled 10 send forward their accounts al dfc- rent rHies Consignees ot vessels were in the same situation in relation 10 shp's dsbui sements. Ex- plansto,y letters had To be written. Shipmasers were dissatisfied, and many apprchended he loss ol consisnments ext season in consequence A par ties admitted our rates 10 be sufficiently low; but they demanded unif,rnty. We offered to sign d uniform tariff; ihe presses which had business refused. The shippers themselves held meeting on the subject, but for uant of uianimity could do rohns. Just at this time element of confi- sion was introduced. The same presses which had red"ced compressing-k keeping their object steadily in y,ew, offered 0 st0re for nothing, charging simply the lator, or cens per bale. We urged iaclnrs 10 resist the movement, as one calculated result in injury hereafter. They admitted the justice of our arguments, bui were unwilling to take the responsi- bilty. Some, they said, would avail themselves of the offer, and send out "acc0unl sales" al cents. when theirs would be going out at l5 10 20 and oI- ten muc, higher. Four houses alone agreed to iinue to Us thelr support at our rates. Their pa tronage, added 10 what we could expect 10 receive from planters direct. when storage elsewhere was at nothing, well knew would not pay the expense account Of an shmeni, the expenses of which nre about Ss-i0 900 year The Relief Press, which with all its warehouses, might be put under the hall Of one oi sheds, and with expense count in proportion, might rely oB such d source- we did not deem t safe 10 do -i
 Under these circumstances, we were urged 10 compromise by large majority of our friends, both among the factors aud buyers and proposiio for one was submitted to us by the screw presses. Be- ing one winch could not consistently accept, il reflected. All other expedients Ina, ing thus fiD- ed, our own p-opOsitIn for uniform tarif was ,a- ken up. By what arrangements among themselves the consen, of those who had previously refused, obtained, we know not. Having consented to meet us on our own ground. and made tariff in accor- dance win our views, we saw no good reasons for withholding our signatures, but many post excellent
 
 afer mature reflection; and doubt whether there is sensbe man in the Stae who, situated exactly as we are, would not have acted in the May.-- Ky il we have injured one, btu protected alike the interest ol planters, shippers and shipmaslers ped with the wishes of nearly every cotton mel chan, the city-and perhaps saved ourselves rom hea " pecuniary loss.
 Thus much we have written, more in iusi,ce to ourselves than for the sake of soliciting bushes - From those planters and merchants, who, sal isfed with what reasonable and who do no, wish us to ruin ourselves by carrying on senseless struggle longer than is necessary for the accomplishment of the ends we had in view, would be pleased to re ceive a continuance of support From those who are dispo'ed 10 use us long as we can benefit them. but 10 desert soon AS nothing be made out of us, we neither ask nor expect anything. Those par ties. who by pc, tInS h,s act have sough. o in- jre us, we leave 10 the scorn their will ex cite, when facts are known.
 White on this subject we will say word more To planters On all sides in the last few days, we ha, been t'ld--,ou should have relied the country i; the planters intend 10 sustain you. hut ther ders are diso,eyed by their varous agents. Much of ihis is doubt true. But, gentlemen, goad intent ions won't enable to ,abiliiies; we are grale- iul for your iuteniions, but would be grateful were they acted out. And had the Independent Press really gone into combinslion and left you the prOleslon of ilie Relief esiabl s,ment, humbly think you would soon have discovered ihe necessity for action, The qualifications of inc Tariff, leaving ihe Relief Press cut, sufficiently shows how II is viewed by the other Presses, uo matter how good may he the intentions Of iis propretors. frinH
 To Messrs. Baines, Holmes q Bolt, we have only to say, that their insinuatuns in relation to a colnb nation. far the Independent Press is concerned If ,r intended to be included, a,e unequvocaily false. We can understand how parties away lrom here and ignorant uf facts, might fall into such an error. They, however, can plead no such excuse. Both Messrs. Holmes and Bott al first declared they saw objection to signing the larI, excerpt the ad ditiona two cents drayase their charge heinz eight and Mr. Barnes admits the injustice of 'he ,nsin,a- tion. It would have been credIabIe to this latter gentleman, instead of putting his name to such d cad have fulfilled his promise 10 Us, to follow the publication of the tariff, by adopting similar rates. rflIt.ef "A
 We cannot, likewise. hut feel some surprise ,hat gentlemen who have acquired the wonderful art o making money by doing business at a reduction of 100 per cent on previous raies, to say nothing of their former offer to .o i at reduciiun of l5O per cent should not also have learned pay wharf notes without wharfage. !.
 DGREEN, CASEY & JAMES.
 Mobile, Feb.a4ih. l6l5-A ta 'rii ' isi'f20i
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