Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-11-08
COMMISSION MERCHANTs, FACTORS
AND PRODUCERS.

The interests Of these classes are recipre-
cal, and the relations growing out of these
interests are close and should be based upon
entire confidence and good faith. In other
words, the commission merchant or cotton,
or tobacco, or general produce factor
should have confidence in the uprightness
and integrity Of the producer, who sends to
him his cotton, or tobacco, wool wheat
-four, corn, or other product for sale. A
hefty rock, log Of wood, or inferior sample
or any other description Of cheat in the
middleo of bale of cotton or hogshead Of
tobacco, will be found and traced back to
the producer. The factor will share, to a
certain extent, the odium Of the fraud, and
is, therefore deeply interested in the hon
esty and fair-dealing of his customers. On
the other hand, the producer desires the
highest price for the article which he places
in the market, and is equally interested
in the honesty and fair-dealing Of
the person in whose hands the
, article is placed for sale. He wants
the highest market price for the thing
offered at the time it is sold. In engaging
the services Of commission merchant or
factor he desires further to know that there
will be no foul charges of any sOrt-that he
will pay nothing beyond what is not only
just but actually necessary. Such state Of
feeling did exist in this city before the late
civil commotion, and Nashville merchants
in all the departments Of trade, and the pro-
ducers Of Tennessee whose merchandise
passed through the hands of those mer-
chants, were recognized wherever they had
/ business connections, as most faithful, honest
and reliable It is notorious fact among
the business men Of the Northern CONNER
cial centres, that the merchants and trades
men of no other city in the Union enjoyed
higher character for promptness, solidity
and honesty than those of Nashville.
When, during the war, all our business
was either entirely suspended, or passed
measurably into the hands Of mere specu-
lator8 and adventures, there was not this
confidence and assurance between the pro-
Queer and factor 1t is now time that the
old order Of things should be restored.
Many of the oldest and mostI eliable houses,
well and extensively known before the war,
have recommended business, as will be seen
from our advertising columns. They have
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ample means and facilities to transact all
business committed TO them, and may be
trusted to the fullest extent. They are
engaged in the great work of pecuniary and
business restoration which is 80 necessary to
the general social and political restoration Of
the country. It remains for the farmers Of
the country to respond and re-establish the
currents Of trade in the old channels, to
bring back the substance of things past
We learn that spectators are going
through the State, buying up the sta
pie products. 1t would be well fol
farmers to be put upon their guard. II
correspondence with this city, where the
markets Of the world are known every day
by private and public kilograms, and the
tendencies of prices are studied and under.
stood, and where the highest prices are OBJ
tanned from day to day. The producer will
find it to his interest, in every case, to con-
suit before selling, some old and reliable
house in this city, where he has any commo
dity that is to pass through this place to the
point of consumption. He will thus be able
to avoid the evils of the adventurous specu-
lator and supply himself with all necessa.
ries on the best terms The subject is wOr'
thy of the sober consideration Of all