New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-06
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N. Much of the cotton trade is leaving New Or
Jeans. Some of the causes are beyond our reach,
Others we can obviate. Thevery unnecessary loss
IN weight here is one of these. Tho vigilance Of
factors can detect loss by lching Of the crews on
boats and by inssructing their customers to dis
criminate against boats whose captains permit
such depredations can gradually put an end to it.
The pilferng on the leyee is now looked to by the
police, whose duty it is to stop that leak, which
was q fearful one. But after all, the great
loss in weight consists in the various perquisites
which makes each bale dwindle as each new set of
agents is let loose upon it. The factors sampler
has the first chance, cuts the bale freely, to
tain the actual value; is not easily suited in sam
pIe cuts again and again, throwing the waste
about, which is carefully gathered up by an at
tendant for the use Of the very person who draws
the sample.
The first perquisite The temptation to make
the waste large was not very ogerpowerng when
the price varied from five to ten ceuts per pound,
but now when the price is fifty cents, the sampler
must be endowed with very stubborn virtue not
to make The perquisite very little larger than is
absolutely necessary The next perquisite gatherer
is sill more formidable; he heads the raid made
by the brokers, classers and markers It is indeed
fairly represents the bale, and to do this some
cotton must be taken from the bale, but how much
more than is necessary will probably be taken
| when the person tearing the cotton to pieces, ex-
| poets to appropriate, oil that he may choose to
take, and all this avowedly as matter Of right,
and not of mere saferance on the part of the
owner and his too coniding Representative. There
lis yet another perquisite when it is waiting the
stevedore's leisure at the ships side. The police
however, can and it is to be hoped will, stop this.
The appropriations BY the samplers. classers and
markers, can only be stopped by the action Of
the owners. a l gaaEy5
IA bale of cotton is not, as too many seem to
suppose, a dead whale adrift, which every bird of
prey has a right to deyour at pleasure. It is the
absolute property of the producer or buyer
Every fibre of it beopgsto either or the other
1t is the imperative duty of the representative of
either owner to protect the rights of his principal
which is unquestionably to all of his own cotton.
Whenever he permits any perqnisite, he neglects
his duty. So far as regards the sample in the fac
tors Office the planter has always allowed him to
take that, with the implied obligation that he per
mitted no other reduction in weight. The way to
'puta stop to these, depredations in the press is
simply carry very plain and obvious principles
OF right into effect
Let the representative not allow any of the cot.
ton--not lock Of ito be taken by anybody,
under any pretence, which is not paid for at the
regular market price; bnt let him pay for all labor
wholly in cash. For, if he allows any perduisite
he can have no idea how much he
pays for handling his cotton. What began
on mere snfferance is now demanded reso
lutely as a right; but it would certainly seem
to dsinterested party, that the person who draws
the sample and makes the waste should be the
very last person in the world to appropriate it.
inasmuch as he might possibly be tempted to draw
very largely on the bale, when the proceeds, worth
fifty cents per pound, were to go into his own
pocket. If he draws for the owner only, he will
neither waste his own time nor the owners cotton
unnecessarily, 1t has grown to be q gigantic abuse
and must be abated. MERCHANT.
MISS CHARLOTTE THOMPSON The Montgomery
Mail Of the ID says that Miss Charlotte Thompson
has purchaseda large farm near that CITY, and is
going to make Montgomery her permanent resi-