New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-03


ing Of the AUstrians greater.
Written for the CRESCENT
SUIT Lovengoud, $ Commission NIerchant.'
Eeraela-T left Nashville to 60 keep a country
store in Eufauly, Alabamy but ! got to Orleans,
iined the Masons, walked Carondelet street for
few days in store Clothes and it made man Of
me. cut eye teeth torreckly. My bosom painted
fer somethin' grander ana bigger than keepin a
one horse country store. / seed two or three fell
lers as said they he'd folded away half a lite time
dom that without maxim either money or credit
had larut better, an was then tryin' Orleans com
mission business. They sed thar was two things
as was payn business an easy One was run
MIN newspaper, aud t'other was bein' a commits
sion merchant. Said the last was most fashionable
! Just then, an advised me, bcn friends Of mine,
| to drop anchor in Orleans an try my luck, All
| had to do was to put out my sign, buy thousand
seegyars an walk up and down Carondelet street
with my thums in my weskit an ask felers
what's gold and how much eottons bin sold.
They said business would g flow to me-" Well
doae it, and business did flow. l hired book
keeper. an called him tmy young man."
| opened bank account an never didn't have
nothin' " over bought me some cotton tables
! and some second hand samples which hit seven
teen cents above the market, an talked about
I" waitn' fer an advance" writ to every man
ever heard Of on price current sheet, an my
young man got up circular for me.
Last, got bale O. cotton! Some drafted fool
sont it down to sorter encourage me er to try my
sense had to 90 and look at the darned thing
A Fas man he'd got it an TUX it to his cotton press
fore got to the leyee, an Bein' clever Teller,
he'd it rolled out fer my inspection.
Well, Kernel, hit war the biggest bale O cotton
in the press yard. Looked like the teller he'd
foated it down the river to dodge freight charges
an duty. Hit was wet muddy, and what they
call 'coweaten." Hit weighed 767 pounds fer
weighed it then an thar to kalkilate my commits
sions. Bein' sed and evidently truly, that hit must
90 to the pckery, thar it went; not, howsoever,
before l gathered armlul out of the heart of it
whar twas dry. Then he'd cotton to sell Thar
want a broker in Orleans that didn't see that cot
ton. called it Good Nlddlin', +" butevery one of
'em called it {" dogtail to low ordinary l did
po,ger o. tradiu over that sample, Last green
1 spectacle Teller, he bought it, and 1 toe ' my
young man" to make the county sale. He done it,
The bale weighed after pickin', slippin' snatcbin'
er whatever you call it, 249 pounds, an thar was
pickers charges, baggin, rope, patchin', drayage,
an Lord knows what more, mOuntn to $50 rs.
The county sale brought the owner of the cotton
in debt, an as / don't know him from Adams
coon dog, I'm holdn the bag Wit. waitfn' fer him
to send more cotton, er REMIT, as they call it.
A chan. an ornerv cuss. with a white cboker an
lookn like the head devil of a temperance society,
a Yankee chaplain and sutler-he come inter my
office one moruin' an sed how he wanted me to
take his bizness.n squared round to see how
clean thing he was offeriu' me-. Sed how he had
left the pulpit as unworthy his high order of tai
emf, and he'd bought stock of goods from Wal
lace & Co., an, they wouldn't ship EN- without
cash or an exceptance. He wanted to control cot
ton and other produce, am he'd an unbounded
influence in his section" Sed whar he ken
store thar was pine trees tell YOU couldn't renose
an the gophers an taTapins was so thick that
wapins goin' long the road killed millions of 'eu
The pine trees made tar, pitch and turkentine
an the gophers an, tarrapfns was what they made
turkle SOUP Of at the restaurants an fancy hotels
in Orleans. SEED they weighed whar he come from,
500 to 5000 pounds. and that freckently timber
wheels was necessary to move ,em,
sed he he'd government contract for carryin,
the mail an, moyip' the gophers outen the coun.
try, and Orleans was the market Tor the meat of
the gopher. Sed he had an ntrust in every plan-
tatfon whar he agreed to move ,em. and yyhar he
agreed to guarantee agin' the army worm boil
worm an heavy rains in pickin' season, an would
control 1929 bales cotton outen the comm crap,
am wanted exceptances for six thousand dollars.
Cheap enuf Wallace's folks wouldn't take it,
but somebody else on Canal street did, an got
the fellar's business, an, think its safe enuff.
find he's wuss 'en bastard plaster for draw
in,,p tho.
Ifound how many acres was in that feller,s
county. and from what cotton he said I'd cit, |
ant mean abont wbatT know, so told the fell.
lers on Carondelet street, am some of em writ it
down and sent it to England to influence prices. l
talked big about my advances to planters