Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1859-02-18
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CoTTON

IN l9A
HThe fires IN TIE picksr-rO0ns Of tie Trs
mont, the Naumkssg, and the Massaens
Mills, within . few days, and When 49,
- loss - ne IN tbe last named nils were
csussd ~ tones az gravel packed WIN ns
cotton. 70 ~incraEse it, weight, coming
tart with The revolving steel knives OF 1s
heater. while the cotton was being N0A
through the opener, 80 called ne L9Nsu
scrtiasr saws that in nearly an ne pala q
cotton opened there, from elgnt 20 zen Pc
cent. az sand, stones, nails, ana ol1eI SUB
stances. are found. Single stones Welgalng
twsutv-sieht pounds have been found m mess
hslea. which sell At from eleven to nIeeA cens
a round 10 the nanufacturess-bostoa Ifer-
elsr, Dec. "a
Really, we are 10Th 70 believe TIE statement
IN the above paragraph That false packing
II done 70 some extent, We had the best o.
reasons 10 believe, for a few cases have come
within our hearing, even in the STATE al Mlsss
siuui. But, that Il Is carried on 70 te extern
named in the article above, seems almost N
possible; and vet we have no nghf 20 eoI
that fact, more than other statement parfoe
% Be truth, which we ind in the neNsPePes
Of the dsv. How can such an amount
lsinv be kept 50 secrst2 Every othei cL
with the name Of the perPstatoT
news journals If The dsv, from the enbeEIieI q
millions to the thief Of q J~ack-knie; -
this meanest Of all stealing, can
constantly, and to q heavy extent M
known in the transaction Surrey e1A.e-
= -. fbsTs = no uay in which Z can be
trsees - he guilty offender he mahWAe-
----- s-u b.rf On he commission mer-
rbsut Mo fIed his orders, and be, TIE ms1-
ehs-t. can bring the plantsr 70 an account
We have always thought that raise pacing OF
cotton was SO easily traced out mat none ouf
fSois ~ uniformed scoundreis would practice
II NJ few cases which have come to our
- we're palued Of upon the oFerseer and
negroes. and the dehcit in weight, or the weight
Of TIE stones found in the bale, paid back %
the merchant, with, pehaps, a little hash
saouev. and the matter dropped. In the name
OF common honesty, let the disIePutahle, DIS
graceful, Ealley-thievinE practice be stoppeds
II there Be 8 way Of finding out the offenders
and let every m1n's name connected with 4 be
pubFshed. and held I'd 10 public scorn- Let
commission merchants refuse any compromise
with men who ere found guilty, and give
their names 10 he slow, unmoFinE finger Of
nubIfr seorn and va think few cases would
81 treated thus before f~slss-paekng cotton
bales would cease. ne planter nat does i
q no gentleman, no matter how great or sm1h
nav Sc his means. but. en- the Other hand, is
q rogue, and deserves . cell In the Pennen-
tiarv, as well as public exseration. Such men
should Be denied business intercourse with III
RESPECTABLE cotton msrchanus ana business
houses. We learn thst the rsscahtg m thts
business 8 not confined wholly 20 The mean,
mise~eble skunk uf q miscalled cotton planter, /
81 We uould now and then see The Hanes Of
mch wretchey IN the papers, or before ne
80. ne brihe 70 ksep dark and say noth-
fne. If perhaps the alder and abettor of ne
extensive rinainies pTacrcsd in TIE tslse pack
fue Of cu-on bales and TIE merchant who
could thus Be borght ID, is bat httles any,
bsffsr thar he uozuish planter or farmer who
imposes upon hin.-gaesS0H PeHsu-