The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1870-04-20
commercial Intelligence
SOUTH WESTERN OFFICE,

Shreveport, April 90, 1870
Inc past week has developed nothing worry of spe
cai comment In business circles The planters gsker
any nave been busy with their new crop, The " pitch
ing oiWnlch requires their close attention. and henc
they have not had leisure to visit us as often as
merchants could have wished. However the latter
more than pleased to witness the energy evinced By
mat class upon whom dependent all trades, profes
sions and branches of business AS til ey prosper,
all prosper as they fail so all departments oftrade
langush. So true it is that the planter is the body
polite the heart to the physical man, sending the
blood through all the veins and arteries, giving
health and tone and vitality itself to the system
The merchants are generally we'll supplied with
spring stocks, which, having purchased at reduced
rates, they can sell correspondingly cheap Staple
goods have all along been sold here at mere trife
above New Orleans prices-not sufficiently large a
profit to pay the expenses of shipment And now fancy
dress goods offered as old Hebrew friend re.
marked to the other day, with intense disgust so
cheap as never vos"
Our wholesale grocers prepared to supply all de-
mands upon them, at reasonable - they think un-
reasonably small-profts; and many of them are ex
tending accommodations to prompt and reliable plant
ers TO enable them go through the planting season
Nor do they attach the condition which some Of the
Memphis merchants append to their advances namely
The cotton and gold markets have not undergone
any spasmodic changes since our last weekly report
Gold has had an upward tendency, and the prospects
of"a specie basis are growing small by degrees and
beautifully less, those quid to the contrary not
withstanding, who recently confidently asserted that
the financial millennium was near at hand
Cotton has not fuctuaed more than is its wont, and
appearances would indicate that the market will
tinue in healthy condition unto the end. At all
events there is little prospect of any marked decline
so say the knowing Our buyers continue to pay
New Orleans prices with the hope of rise before their
purchase reaches the city. Complaints of commission
merchants loss of weight, &C. &C. have for years been
chronic with buyers and planters. Indeed, it has al
ways been remarkable what dstrust of the commission
merchants of New Orleans pervades the minds of these
two classes-the universal opinion prevailing that
trail human nature is not competent to resist the temp
tations that constantly beset the pathway of the
chant Be this opinion true false it certainly de-
sir able that this region of country should have more
than market for its cotton as competition would
lessen those restrictions which hamper trade and GRIP
pie the interests of shippers In this connection we
pleased to from the st. Louis Democrat that an
old and experienced business there expresses the
opinion, that the establishment of a cotton press in
East St. Louis added to the running of steamers regu
ularly to Red Arkansas and White rivers would inev-
hably result in that city becoming important point
for the receipt and sale of cotton.
Business yesterday was by no active. Cotton
in fair demand at the outside figures of quota
ons though factors disposed to hold off for bet
price. We repeat quotations of yesterday la
currency, ordinary l7@l714 good ordinary l8H@l819
and low middling 19@l9Hc. In gold
Good Ordinary .... -. ..............,..I 6 Gl6&
Low Middinp IR8/m17l/
COTTON STATEMENT.
Stock on hand Sept /, 1869 .......... bales sc
Received yesterday .................... l35
Received previously. IS 027-95 1862
95218
shipped yesterday Observation-Disclosures.
Shipped previously .. ,........... SO ,954--89 1854
Stock on hand Observation-Disclosures. 1924