The Panola star. ([Panola] Panola County, Miss.) 1856-1857, 1856-10-01
TsTsTS & CO.'S
TWENTY SEVENTH ANNUl

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 hattering
prospects OF good pricess for the pres
ent growing crop. Advices from En-
rope OF late date are very encouraging
to the producer, and the heavy adj
vQnces in the manufactured article
leads us to the conviction shat prices
of the raw material will be well sus-
tanned during the entire season.
But recently we deemed it expedicnt
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, rpm legitimate priucii-
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 oft the receipts and
sales of Cotton in our city, (having,
as is evidenced by the crop of '55 and
80 increased so per cent in amount
ever the crop of 81 and 49, 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 previUu 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 u per
cent. ON all their purchases of Sup
plies
Our charges for receiving, storing,
selling, Sampling and weighing Cot
tons consigned to us for sale is p per
cent. on the gross amount of sale-to
wit: If we sell bale of Cotton
amounting to $50, our pay is 7jc; if
for $40, our pay is 81 90. 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
price, our pay is small. We are
thus particular in exhibiting Our aver
age compensation, from the fact that
y per cent. is Indefinitely represent
ed as a prodigious sum, and prove its
Legitimacy in contradiStintion to the
various charges instituted and estab-
liShed by most of our merchants
We freely confess teour patrons that
What we make comes directly out of
their Cotton. We can whip the Devil
around no other stump; it is out Of
your Cotton alone that we survive,
and it is by icgitimatc commission.
This system of business we have
pursued for the last twonty-Scyen
years, and more particularly have we
wurred for it since the breaking of that
compact entered into by the merch-
ants of Memphis, pledging themselves
to do Legitimate business. And to
those friends Who have stood by us
during Ire whole time, we return our
most heartfelt thanks; and the evil
denccs of others who left rs and re-
turned again, are indeed gratifying
We may safely assert that this, like
other things based upon false founda-
tionS, must, ere long, give place to the
regular and systematic principles of
merchantile operations, as pursued by
every city in the entire commonwealth.
We are well supplied with various
and good brands of BAGGING and
ROPE, which we offer to our custo-
mers at original cost, with actual ex-
penses attached.
The Tax upon Cotton in the hands
of merchants for sale will not be charg-
ed to our friends.
All Cottons consigned to us will be
insured unless otherwise advised.
TITUS 81 Co,
Bank Building, opposite the Com
mercal Hotel
Memphis, Aug. 81, 1856. n31-tf.