The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-03-09
Grand POw-wOW Of Our Gotten
Buyers.

The recent decline IN cotton has
seriously upset the calculations of
the dealers in that snowy staple. So
much so that while lounging around
on Saturday night last, the writer
quietly dropped in on an august
body of cotton buyers who were
holding a meeting of coincidence,
and he proceeded to take a pen and
ink portrait Of the assembly.
Sitting at the head Of the table
was an elderly gentleman bearing
a striking resemblance to JOIN TY-
LER who, from his professional
cognomen, was, it is presumed, at
tending in the double capacity of
cone of the ones" and surgeon to
the afflicted crew. His face was
indistinctly seen, but from the hol-
low reverberation of his voice he
was manifestly ''down in the mouth
Being a big gun in the affair we
suppose he voted t00.
Next sat a tall spare built devotee
of the staple whose high retreating
forehead betokened him a success
full cotton man on-a-rise, but whose
pile grows beautifully less on a de-
cline.
Third came a man younger in years
but a decided lover of the science
"a bird by the way-and some on
a yarn. He contributed several, to
the evident delight Of his neighbor
ofJhI FIsKrAN proportions, whose
frequent ordinations betrayed a
hearty appreciation Of the jokes
or a happy sell out il Nashville.
Further on were several occasion
ais, I. e., not regular buyers but en-
titled to seats, one having held on
to his fifty cent cotton, Ito control
the market no doubt) another hav-
ing bought Y bales in Alabama the
other day ION spec at u cents,
and still a third, who came in on
the merits of losing four hundred
dollars last year on cotton. Alto
gether they were a woe-begone set,
and looked like old Parson SUGGs
when SIMON won Button at cold
sledge," SUGGs sighed and-said
nothing; they talked and-same
result; but at the sound Of the ga
vel COTTON hook silence reigned
in Hepsidam, and he of TYLERIAE
visage took the chair, and called the
meeting to order.
On motion each was called on for
his experience and
The fret was one that's boar and aged
IN pills and cotton long engaged.
In poems impTomptu being stout,
He gave this rhyme or theTeabout:
"Cotton boys, is down, down, down,
You see the buyers skUlking round,
Some by disasters now can't pay,
One acted wise and ran away.
Another, foreseeing the coming change
Came nearly butung out his brains;
One different than he'd been Rccused),
At whose ardOr I was amused,
Had offers making losses small,
And on the handsome cashier he let about
"A bales Of pretty common cotton with
the bad luck apper tanning thoreto, fall.
Another one has largely deaIt,
And this decline by him is felt;
he bought four bales to- day for eight,
He thinks that heavy ''dog-tail" rate,
But jim, the Major yet has hOpe)
VIII buy his ''dog tail'' bales forrope."
Thus sang the Chief who pas, ed his muse
T. the worthy f'Vieen with leave to use.
B. F. C.
''There is no poetry in my soul,
hy thoughts are such ] can't control,
But sure 1 am in this decline,
That havnt by any sort Of means scared
up gold or oliver mine"
With numerous signs and many emotions,
He turned to his friend Of Jim Fiskian
proportions,
jill,
Who said, 4" IT'S true Pm in the ring,
| But boys, l really cannot sing"
II. 8.
"What purchase did make
Der seventy bales-a great mistake
Without rise, I'm surely lost,
At least can't get out at cost"
LEE r.
"Tve soventy-nfne good bales-Tm slammed,
If prices fan, why I'li be-oraaapsd.
HICK ( SaUaat).
g IT'S strange to see why we don't quit
Before in deeper we do git
! Wen venture more to win hat'sl osts
And never more get out at cost
CHAIRMAN.
''Now come, sold High let's have rhyme,
ATaE ~ % we frlH
HIGH.
F'My sad experience you shall hear,
/ But I'm not one who 10 this year,
/ But " hat lve lost in years before,
/ l here relate my loss was sore,
/ bought i've bales to start my biz
/ The staple fell, il would not 'TiZ.'
( My fate IN consequence, WAS sad,
/ ] lost near all the funds [ had,
I l suffered to the tune Of four
! OfhundTed's 'skads' perhaps and more-n
EDITORIAL NOTE.
/ Perhaps kind reader, while you stroll,
Z Around he country you may see,
( This pensivs loser, he doth keep
( country store near Pulask-EE.
=. i. g., "a rare 5ird.)
/ In low grade cotton have dealt,
And all The time secGTuly felt;
/ But low grades dogJa.l and clean stain
OF late me sadly on the waue,
3 II seems now ear unto my mind,
That III come out few behind"
r II.
4 Il think the grounds heen occupied,
SO III just stand at once aside,
CHAIRMAN.
''We'il Join in singing "thro' the Sgen
And adjourn this meeting siac de "
The meeting was perfectly har-
monious and nothing occurred 20
mar the general misery Of the oc-
casion. After the reading Of the
! poem and other fearful proceed
ings, the meeting adjourned sine
j de, 10 meet at some friendly grave
yard on a future day.