New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-29
NAsBY's BANKING ENTERPRISE.
CoNFEDRIT Y ROADS
(Wich is in the State OF Kentucky,

CoNPEDRiT RoADs)
tWich is in the State OF Kentucky, ?
August 27. 1875,
| Ef life ever wuz a rose tinted dream to
me at any time dooring my mortle pilgrim
| age, this Ia the precisL time. i am thoroly
happy-so happy, indeed, that the priva.
shens and troubles that / hev bin thro are
lin out NV my memory entirely. l hev
| paid Bascom's account wich has bin runnin
for SO many years, ard hev his receet in my
safe-my SAFE. ] say Proudly write these
Worde. My safe. VINO, thirty days ago,
wood hev supposed that should ever say
| MY safeY Then l hev two scots ov close
| good Ones-wich is one and half more
than l hev sence l was postmaster under
Johnson-Heven rest his sole. hev two
shirts for the first time in my life, and am
wearin stockins! / hev but one pare ez
! yet, but one can't rise TO the summit nv hoo
man graDier at win bound. l shell buy
! another pare in week or two. | think
every bank president ought to either hev
! two pare Nv stockins or return to the stern
virchoOs Nv the republic in its better days,
| and go barefoot. Com bar efuot or hevin a
| change is necessary to the keepin Nv q bank
presidents office in a sweet smellin condi-
| ton.
b ut this is digreshen. Suffice il to say,
| am clothed. / pade three dollars and a
| halt pare for them stockings-they is cot
| tun-wch Is three dollars and quarter
more than they wuz worth in the cid
| money; but wat difference does it makel
| That three dollars ami half wuZ made by
four pulls on Simpsons printin press, and
| when money kin be made III that way wat
difference does it make wou i pay Tor cot
| ton sOx!
At the begnnin we ishooed 10, 90, % and
| % cent currency. but we hev quit that.
Prices hev gone up so, under the general
prosperity, that there amt a thing in the
| Corners that sells for less than dollar per
one, and the trackshnel currency wuz de-
| cided to be yOoselis Besides it cost lest as
| much to print ten cent note ez il does a
| dollar. and We heleeve in ecnnnmiain
| Simpson, the printer, is maxim us little
trouble. At the beginnin ! yoosed to pay
| him tor printin our bills by EST signin enutf
| Nv EN- ez they come from the preZz to make
his amount but lately he hez retoozed to
take our money and insists on greenbax
| We tried to overawe him, but when he
| threatened to publish the financial condi-
| shun of the president and direktors it was
considered advisable to humor him. 1t Is
| singular that sich men throw impediments ts
| in the way Nv progress.
The obstacles In the way Nv the bank
| that hev thus far developed therselves hev
| bin happily and easily removed. Bascom
demanded wheat ov US to ship to Louisville
u git more whisky, and we he'd to let him
| hev it, and take pay in our own money.
| Anu 6Z ne uellduutu tUdV We Jake our own
| money Jest the same eZ greenbaX. that bein
the standard in Louisville, We met heavy
| loss. The account stands as follows:
| One thousand bushels of wheat cost us, in
| our own money, at so per bushel.. -. 1900
Sold it to Bascom Al Louisville prices wich is
! s PER bushrl. ttkin pay N the same
| money We had paid for rit..........,,..... 1000
Loss (wlch is easily fggeredl ....... $500
We had one more trouble. wIch we got on
| with pDUShv Ehnerna lar -h,
| took our money, rnH out NV leather. and
when he sent to Louisville for more, the
| merchants there, ez IN the case Nv Bascom.
| ref0oZed TO take our currency. Pugsby
| knowd Nv Bascom s experience and he came
up smilin to hev us cell him wheat enutt at
| .greenback prices to renoo his stock.
wat kin We dor demanded in dire dis
trees, for really ! didn't see why Pugsby
shoodnt hev wheat to renoO his stock ez
well ez Bascom, ceptin thai whisky is more
necessary to the Corners than leather.
"Do" sed Issaker Gavitt, with a ex-
preshunEuv skorn on his classik teechers.
do! And you claim to be tnauseers' Hez
Pugsby safe! No! Well, wher does he
keep the $4,000 Nv our money! In his
desk! Yes! And that is wooden; and his
bildin is wood. Very good. Tell Pugsby
| to come to-morrer and we will give hin
wheat at 81 bushel for all Nv our money
he has got We hey twenty four hours,
and banks, ez we'll ez nashens, kin be saved
| i'll ty-tour hours"
! And Issaker put some matches in his vest
| pocket-about $3 worth. Matches hez gone
| up to 81 30 bUX-our money.
| That mite Pugsby's shop burnt up, and
| the fire commenced jist under his desk. The
next mornin that untorchnit man came to
Us and insisted on havin' the wheat on the
score Nv the money he had ov ours.
| Bring us the money! said Issaker,
| beamin sweetly onto him, "and We'll give
yOu all tine wheat you want
But you know that had yoOr money,
| and that it was burnt up last nite.'
81 persOOm you he'd some of our money,
| but l don't know it " replied Issaker. mo
well regulated bank kin live if they shood
take every mans wordsez you want us to.
How kin l tell but what you hev that
your shop was skeem TO defrod your cred.
itors! l am not shoOr that it isn't my
doOty to investigate the matter"
Aud Issaker looked 80 stern that Pugsby
left the bank with howl of terror.
Issaker is devt lopin so great a genius
in finanseerin that I'm reely jealus NV him.
He is the master spirit of the in,titooshun.
At the Board meetin last mite we DISGUST
wat we shood do in sch cases ez Pugsby's
hereafter, but arrived at no definite con-
clooshin. There is several NV EN-, and they
will hev to be met. Issaker bleeves in the
style Nv treatment he used in Pugsby's
case, but can't consent TO it. It's heroic,
i admit, and good enutf for a temporary ex.
pedient, but it won't do for a reglar system.
Ell eur money stimoolates mans biznis to
the pint of his bildin new house we hev
benefited him, and the commoonity ez
well. But et to avoid the Inconvenience
Nv redeemin that money we hev to burn
the house, wat good hev we accomplished
None. We hev got to find some other way.
l don't see any other way, but no doubt it
will sejest itself to me in time.
1t is astonishin how the Corners is bloom
in, now that it hez money enuff. Five new
raler0des are bein built, twelve new turn
pixies, one hundred and twenty y-eight new
cellers for new houses is bein dug, and last
week the cOrner-stuns for eight factrys
wuz lade with approprit ceremonies. The
gradin is bein dun on the ralerOdes and
turnpikes, and that part Nv the work will
be pushed to an early compleshun for the
labrers furnish their own shovels and picks
and take our money tor wages. The labrers
buy their livin NV the farmers along the line
with that money, and then the farmers come
to the Corners with it, and cheer their soles
at Bascom's.
So far all is serene and sweet So far
the money sheds blessins, ez skunk does
perfOom. But at this pint comes worry.
Wat is BascOm to do with i'll The LoOis
Vile merchants refooze to tech it for likker,
Louisville prices agin. We wood bid dis
tillery, but alas! we can't pay for the nails,
the glass, and the stillin apparatus in our
money, and we amt got any other. But, |
thanks TO an overrulin Providence, Bascom |
hez enutf likker To last two weeks. and