The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-08-15
From thn Nem Orleans CresdenE.
sut Lovenrooa. "Commission rerchd nd.

From the New Orleans CresJens.
Sut Loyengood, Commission Lercha inf.
Ker7,el-I left Nashville to 90 keep a country store
in Eutauy, Aabamyi but got to Orleans, jined tle
masons, walked Carondelet street for few day. in
store clothes, and it made man Of me ] cIt eve
teeth torrecktly. My bosom pauted for son heglin'
grander and bigger than keepin' horse cbultry
store. seed two or three felers said thdy ;lld
folded away half life time doint that Without
maxim either money or credit-had arnt betthr, IN
vas then tryin' Orleans commission business Iaey
sed thar was two things as paying busineFs, an
easy. One runuin Il newspaper, and totlier was
ben' a commission merchant Said the last wGs Iuosc
fashionable just then, an advised me- bein fridnG Of
mine, to drop anchor in Orleans an try my lUcl All
had to do to put out my sign, buy a thbu4and
seegyars an walk up an down Carondelet stredt With
my thums in my wesht an ask felers what's gdd and
how much cott0ns bin sold.
They said business would flow to me We'll
done it, and business did flow, hired book- Keeper
an called him "my young man opened bank
account an never ddn't have nothiu' cover.
bought me some cotton tables and some second len4
samples which hilt cents above THE mar
ket an talked about waitin' fer advance. ! writ
10 every man ever heard OF on price current sheet
an my young man got up circular for me.
Last, got a bale of cotton, Some dra,tfd fool
s0nt down to sOrer encourage to try my sense
] had to go and look at the darned thing 4 Eastman
he'd got il and tux it to his cotton press fore gos to
the eree, an Ben' clever fcler, he'd it rolLcd3out
for my inspection
Well, kernel, hit war the biggest bale cotto: in
the press yard Looked like the leer had foateG it
down the river to dodge freight charges AM daty.
Hit wet muddy, and what they called = cbw-
eaten" Hit weighed 767 pounds; fer | wegheF it
then an thar to kalkilate my commissions Bein 5cd
and evidently truly that his must so the pckerF thar
it went ;a3ot, howsoeVar, before | gathered anluI
ont Of the heart Of it whar twas dry Then Eed
cotton to sell Thar want broker in Orleans that
didntsee that cotton. called it good middlip but
every one of 'em called it dOgta to low ordinary
did power o tradin oyer that samplei Last
green spectacle felIer, he bought it, and told "my
Young man. to make the county sale. He dong it,
The bale weighed after pckin, slppin' snaclin' er
whatever you call it, 10 pounds, and thar was Pick
charges baggin, rope patchin' drayage, an lord
knows what more, mountin TO $50 a. the county
sale brought the of the cotton in debt, ain
don't know him from Adams coon dog, I'm hoadin'
the bag yt watin fer him to send more cotton Or
F." remit" as they call it.
4 chap an oruery cuss with a white choher and
lookin' like the head devil Of temperance soeiezv
Yankee chaplain aud suter-he come into MY Gtiiee
one mornn' an sed how lie wanted me to "thke Lis
bizness" l squared round to see how clean ting
he was olIerin' me Sed how he had left the pq pit
as unworthy his high order Of talent and he'd bought
stock Of goods from Wallace & Co.. an they w39uld
not ship em without cash acceptance. He waited
10 control cotton and other produce, an he'd an, an
bounded influence in his section" BED HhG!, he
@ a cacrs a ,arr,,i,s Vas 80 tcIi tIt v.@3
@,af,,, Io9e fia rood tiIIef millions Of ,em
rba ri7e Trees roade far nirch md turnenttne an
tI.a ooIlars AM tsrr,,irs was what thew made tire
soup Of al the restaurants aud fancy hotels IN Orleans
onI frcclntI, tirer Wheels ,yas ecaa.sry
~ po['l-r' I,o,,'. ,',s ,ars
saJ 6o had government contract for carrvir, tho
r,a;I a r,oyin, 1ba ronbars 0itan tbc comnrrv md
orleans was The naTlat far the meat Of the po1har
SD he had an intrpst in every rIaptation ,Tbir he
aaaG cd - pove a and ubar he ares5 TO
80 t ar,, ran, Ian .aS r$s n
niiin season and wond contfoI 100 bales cotton
a+ tho comm, cram nm, wanted rxcantanoas fr six
thousand dollars Cheap enuH! Wallace i,i folks
wouldn take i, bHt somebody else on IahaI FIeet