The Panola star. ([Panola] Panola County, Miss.) 1856-1857, 1856-10-15
TITUS &c cos
TWENTY SEVENTH ANNUAL
CIRCUL AR.

OR GU L AR.
THE Business Season of the years sc
and 81 in the great staple Cotton, is
close upon us. We congratulate our
friends and patrons upon the flattering
prospects of good prices for the pres
emf growing crop. Advices from Eu-
rope of late date are very encouraging
to the producer, and the heavy adj
vances in the manufactured article
leads us to the conviction shat prices
of the raw material will be well sus-
tanned during the entire Aseason.-
But recently we deemed it Fexpedient
to disconnect the two branches of
business, and determined to give our
undivided time and talents to the
faithful discharge of the COTTON
FACTORAGE and COMMISSION
BUSINESS, upon legitimate 7orinci-
pies. We made this severance upon
mature deliberation, and from causes
that we concluded would be mutually
satisfactory to ourselves and patrons.
The heavy increase of the receipts and
sales of Cotton in our city, (having,
as is evidenced by the crop of So and
so increased so per cent in amount
over the crop of '54 and $50 taken in
connection with the establishment of
large, good Wholesale Grocery
Houses, left it conclusive with us, that
our entire time would be required for
that department of our previou bust
ness that we adopted. and that the
purchase of Supplies for our friends
could be made of Wholesale houses at
prices much lower than we could sell
| the same articles at ourselves with
the actually and necessary expenses
attached. The result of the past sea
sons operations have satisfied us fully
that our previous convictions were
correct, and We feel assured that our
patrons were benefited ) to "a per
cent. on all their purchases of Sup
plies.
Our charges for receiving, storing,
selling, sampling and weighing Cot
! tons consigned 10 us for sale is p per
cent. on the gross amount of sale-tO
amounting TO $50, our pay is zoe if
for $40, our pay is 81 %. This We
deem and insist is legitimate. by this
/ charge the interests of The Producer
and Seller is mutual. If We get
good price, we get good pay; if Il low
pricr. our pay is small. We are
! thus particular in exhibiting our aver
| age compensation, from the fact hat
! y per cent. is indefinitely represent
td as Il prOdigfoas sum, and prove It's
! legitimacy in cuntradistiutiun 10 the
! various charges Instituted and cStab
li>hed by most of our merchants
We freely confess To our patrons that
what we make comes directly out of
their Cotton. We can whip the Incvii
around no other stump; it is out of
your Cotton alone that We survive,
and it is by icgifimate commission.
This system of business We HAY,
pursued for the last twenty-scv,I
years, and more particularly have We
warred for it since the breaking of that
compact entered into by the mrrch
ants Of Memphis, pledgimg themselves
to do n legitimate business. And t.
thos" friends who have stand .hy H.
during the " hole time, We return unl
Ei"St heartfelt thanks; aad the evi
dcuceS of others who left us AMI re-
| turned again. are iadced gratifying
We may safely assert that this, iik,
other hings based upon false inunda
! lions, must, ere long, give place to The
regular and systematic principles d
mcrchantiie operations, as pursued By
every city in the entire commonwealth
We are we'll supplied with eariou.
and good brands of BAGGING and
ROPE, viii, h we offer Ia our tuSto-
merS at original cost, with actual ex-
penses attached.
The Tax npon Cotton in the hands
of merchants for sale will not be charg-
cd to our friends.
All Cottons consigned to us will b,
insured unless otherwise advised.
TITUS u CO,
Bank Building. opposite the Com
mcrcal Hotel
Slemphis, Aug. 27, 1856. n31-tf.