The Panola star. ([Panola] Panola County, Miss.) 1856-1857, 1856-09-17
TITUS g. cos
TWENTY SEVENTH ANNUAL
CIR Gull AR

THE Business Season OF the years DO
and 81 in the great staple Cotton, is
close upon US. We congratulate orr
friends and patrons upon the fiattering
prospects of good prices for the pres
ent growing crop Advices from Eu-
rope of late date are very encouraging
to the producer, and the heavy adj
vances i'm 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 expedient
to disconnect The two branches of
business, and determined to give our
undivided time and talents to tie
fai hful discharge of the COTTON
FACTORAGE and COMMISSION
BUSINESS, utUR legitimate Zrinci-
niles. We made this severance upon
mature deliheration, and from causes
that we concluded would be mutually
satisfactory to ourselves and patrons.
The heavy increase ofthe receipts and
sales of Cotton III our city, (haymg,
as is evidenced by the crop Of 30 and
80 increased 50 per cent in amount
over the crop of "a and '55,) taken i'll
connection with the establishment Oi
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
he 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. st ring,
selling, Sampling and weigh ng Cot
| tons consigned to us for sale il j per
! cent. OH the gross amount of Salc-to
wit: If we sell Il 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 "a
good price, we get good pay; if Il low
price, our pay is small. We are
thus particular in exhibiting osr aver
age compensated, from the fact that
- per cent. is indefinitely represent
Ell DIS a J3rOdtgto"S sum, and prove its
/ legitimacy in contradiStintiun 10 the
various charges Instituted and eStab-
. liShed by most of our merchants
/ We freely confess 10 our patrons that
what we make comes directly out Of
their Cotton. We can whip the reyil
( around no other stump ii is out Of
Your Cotton alone that We survive,
and it is by icg,ti9aatr commission.
! This system Of business We have
pursued fer the last twcnt y-Scvcn
Years, and more particularly have We
warrcd for it Since the breaking of that
compact entered into ~ the mcrch-
ants of Memphis, pIedging themselves
to do legitimate business. And to
those friends who have stood by Us
during the Whutc time, We return our
most heartfelt thanks; and the evi-
dcnceS Of others who left Us and re
turned again, are indeed gratifying
We may safely assert that this, like
other things based upon false founda-
tiom>, must, ere lung, give place to the
regular and systematic principles ot
merchantile operations, as pursued by
every city in the eutire commonwealth.
/ We are we'll supplied with various
and good brands of BAGGING and
ROPE, viii, h we offer 10 our custo-
mers at original cost, with actual cx-
penSeS attached
The Tax upon Cotton in the hands
Of merchants for sale VIII not be charg-
ed to our friends.
All Cottons cons gned IL lis will be
insured unless otherwise advised.
TITUS x CO,
Bank Building, Opposite the Com
mercal Hotel