New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-07-25
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Iron Bale-Bindings Triumphant !!

Iron Bale Bindings Triumphant !!
Mess Editors-In the vicksburg weekly Sun Of the 10th
inst appears card-which 1t seea, be continued
nonthconstAg Of warning the head without sgnature
letter signed samuel Boyd. Green Crnmp ',and
pet on 70 the Chamber Of Commerce city
Of New Orleansn The whole inserted advertisement
The object seems to be to and II they will DO
them possible pxnh planters 1t true the Pc
ion has names to IT. Ii II likely the Chamber Of
Of this city will compromise their dignity Of char
acter uselesy offend
they must do-by giving any serious attention. If
had NAME Now Orleans not without lessons Of hu
experience this subject Some older heads
remember how quickly and completely and
mr. action reversed when, years gone BY
tempted the modest enterprise taxing
on fre cea bale for vi afsge help pay
pay dcbs and redeem what popularity NUM-
cipsliy Mississippi Louisiana
kansas planters then badly
Of New Orleans compared what they now They
inco dependent this port for financial
sources than they present. but did they bear this
they bore did their ses the stamp duty
lonal times Meetings held the land the people,
with out regard to party though in time political excite.
men brethren in immense masses and the burning
whitening eoquence of Prentss and host of worthy
flowed like lava the shrinking stricken authors
Of SO diotic and mschsvous measure.
If such the then what will now Then there
Memphis Charleston Mobile and Ohio and no
Southern Railroad Then the idea Of the Ship Island Railroad
necessity New Orleans wishes to Quicken into the
vigorous action this at doubtful enter
PRISE again insult the dignity cotton planters by as
Stunning to tell them with what precise they shall and
other they shall their cotton bale II she
another port just by her side the charges mp
those for plotage towage shall
be only modieum Of what they here let even
unusabe and as
foreshadowed in the petition said to be lin circulation ong
brokers and buyers in this city. such petition
why publish III us have the names Of the
agne Let merchants and planters these
that arise and free American citizens you shall
buy and rope because the rope interest,"
either raising hemp twisting it, selling rope clippings or
Other deriving profit IT, You shall not use
iron bands because do not happen We can
mske them profitable to us rope. may that
bound in rsn your bales are safe from the flames gin
houses under the sheds the landings
that bring them Market while IN the presses here It
may they will waste their contents nor sub.
ect yeu any bills for repairs We have to grant that the
best Of iron asnings will you pound than rope
and weigh mere, if much. We admit that one or two
bands of iron than Of be sucien Der bale and
that you derive other unmentioAed advantages from your
ploymen OF iron but nevertheless iea, you that We
will punish d. e. provided the Chamber of Commerce of
New Orleans will become insrumenD by nacng upon
you Of not less than twelve pounds per bale upsn all
bound cotton received at this port after dae
repeat with emphasis. let nois. well know the
hills and daes the plains and mountains of the growing
region will reverberas LET who these men are Of
peal probable this IN appeal to the
Chamber Of Commerce by the dealers rope clippings looks
much like the final pamodic dying moustros
y It willing to disregard and all
Of justice Of Of safety public convenience for
preservation Of The most selfish petty interests
Of less than IL Bs per bale upon all iron
bound received at this port What think you of that
proposition, Messr Plantersf How much either iron or
put upon your bales? answer perhaps six
seven possibly nine of the
Of either maeral'
The this petition (Which on account Of sheer merit;
appended here examined the more apparent does be-
that the caption wrong The signatures may possibly
be in accordance with the programme but they to be
yet Why Of cotton object To we'll pre-
cotton bales is impossible see and It is too we'll
denied, that very many of them do not bu
contrary they favor the bands for this very
purpose. In vicksbug where the publication review
made, this fact not be we'll known. During the
past season. which, from wetness
in transit to the seapors unusual danny accrued
large extent rod the spmastes found
arrival at ports the contents
enes almost Of cotton mixed decayed baggne
and This not new to he but the afforded
by the snug compact and perfect bales bound In on
taught them most wholesome commercial lesson.
They large numbers estifyng appreciation
Of iron bale bindings and urging the of them
than they supply, To the Is matter
quence how cotton and makes his living By
this product the planter 1t is but should wish
planter 10 his Independence
which best economists his properyha binding
his bales from waste and destruction be wrong
without PROF. suppose broker of cotton thus paid
and sustained by the industry the capital patient
est toll Of the planter would sign any such petition.
1t u.s. therefore, in the absence of names, by means
harsh criticism that the caption petition wrong
What should properly be- perhaps the following
marks may determine:
The cotton seapor besides general under.
stood profits Of their business derive perquse
cents bale ia the Of cuttings which,
gate amounts to but 1t right is any
to the whole cotton producing public
four millions annually at least by casualty
rfce many valuable lives in order few
city and i'll understood Is there any polti
cal economy any principle Of social usage
that submission such influence; think and
that long the Southern cotton planters
their interest and the Of their dignity
lie in the opposite direction they will submit only
wonderful that with all its chespness facility use certainty
of supply and capaby Of preserving from protect.
ing against fire. the iron has been adopted
long ago.
Again bales bound in rope the bills repairs are
always heavy How carefully justly these are dscrn
mated among lots and lists will not undertake say
to determine their al equity but in many
they amount far greater than required cothe
the bale at first They generally from the fact
that bales expanding almost wholly direction
exertng comparatively little restraint the package
vi de and clumsy difficult turn and liable be
shreds and strips by cotton hooks In the landings
sst aims between the gin house and market The sides
bound bale being early equal 1t rolls facility
closely and gives to wharf and thieves temptation
ample rents steal the pressmen necessity
for making heavy and surprising charges for REPAIRS
Dor Of picking restoring bales the which
his drays In his Sheds drops quantities
rated bales
The subject important and merits shall receive
If necessary tho ough discussion. MEANWHILE give all
oppor unty to the document which Rttes that planters
hoops upon bales erten
tate to cali for action close this article
make 1t In few days will give many other and excel
lent for prring iron myself and for recommending
to others. 1t is no longer experiment.
This is the advertisement appeared the vcksburg Sun
and Southron:
No More Iron Ties for Cotton.
1t will be seen by The following Letter and Petition that
tans Of vessels will Bales fastened with
Iron which will put entire stop use Read
the Letter and Petition
NEW ORLEANS July Is, 1859.
Duff Green, Ftq-Dear Sir herewith you a cepy
OF Petition which circulation Brokers and
meree at an early day
being made agents Iron Hoops
tioduce them, is well planters they are
doing before they commit themselves hasing the
Ties Numbers of ship any
circumstances while others saisf them
Where vessel will not receive ropes have got be put
which Is an Of z8 bale and back
planter.
am, very truly, yours etc.,
SAMUEL BOYD,
Cara of Green / Crump
To the Chamber of Commerce city New Orleans
The Petition Of the undersigned Cotton Buyers and Brokers
OF this city, respectfully showeth-
That Planters putting Iron Hoops their Cotton Bales to
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