Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-14

promise not TO tell, l will let you know
what the NJ. Z. was organized for. Il
Was to pass resolutions condemninR
other Cotton Exchanges for trying 70
beat the poor planter out Of three
pounds cotton for eide pieces. You see,
we made q ten strike, played high, low,
jack and the game; for don't you see
we caught the game with gush, for we
bad sense enough to know II was
against United States law, consequent.
ly side pieces had TO be kept on. By
this time the planter wac 90 beWildered
he was satisfied TO pay storage on al.
most anybody'S cotton. He felt sick,
wanted to go home, but when be
reached out his hand for tho money,
be was given a check payable In three
days. Well, what's this2 l want my
money. Well, you see, by q wise pro-
vision, you can't get 1t for three days.
| want that time TO pick the cotton 10
pieces and see IL il il not water packed.
Oh, Lordy, three days 10 bore one bale
Of cotton. No wonder you want ell
the negroes 10 go 10 Liberia, If they are
this slow. WEI. you are very annoy.
Ing, but | surr osC | will have to ex.
plain. You see, II | don't pay you for
three days, | will sell the cotton again,
consequently save bank exchange. For
Code cake tell me what I Odo? | want
10 go home bad three days in this
placer will go mad! Be easy now,
and will tell you what TO do; get
somebody to discount the check for
you, as you say you live across Big
Black, and can't keep your team 10
town, Well, all right, anything to get
out Of this place, but when | do get
out, won't | give It the go.by. Well,
he had not got far out Of town before
he met a friend, 10 whom he stated bis
grievances. Friend Immediately gave
his experience. Well you see, know
ing | could not get 81 much for my
cotton as II was worth on the street,
and would hava to pay storage any
way, l concluded | would carry my cot.
ton to the Congress and store II 90 that
when l got my crop In, | could sell in
o lump, besides watch the market. and
when cotton went up | could sell aud
deliver Immediately. When | got
about forty bales In, cotton took q squirt
upwards, went to Compress to get sam
Piles aud weights, when, behold l was
met with the Information that twelve
bales had been lying out in the rain,
consequently not wanting to cheat or
be cheated in weights, | had to wait q
week, and lost 4 cent all around on my
cotton for the Compress failure to
keep dry cotton that storage was paid
on so you see Il is a grab game all
around, and l have concluded TO do as
one of my neighbors did the other day,
take weights and samples and 90 to
Port Gibson or Warrenton and sell It
on sample and deliver TO boat on river,
draw my money and come home with
out trouble, and II this was done here in
Warren, how easy It would be for you
that live across Big Black. The friends
parted exclaiming, no wonder Vicks-
burg merchants are complaining, and
some of them failing when they arc
carrying out a policy that ls so lpjuri.
ous to the planter. Mr.. Editor, my let.
ter has drawn out its length much far.
Their than | intended, but, however,
there is one other question | would
like for the people to be Informed
about, and that is the bill recen tly in
troduced In Congress by Goner.
al Chalmers which IL intended to
do away with side pieces on cotton.
This | consider a mistake, and will
work injuriously to the planter for the
reason il is to the interest OF the plan
ter to have his cotton entirely covered
up with 6agging 10 prevent waste and
stealsgP, especially IL shipped. There.
fore, | hope General Chalmers will
wait until after the Planters Conven-
ton meets 10 Vicksburg, so that vi can
get an expression from those most IN.
terested. Hoping that the above subjects
will continue TO be agitated until the
rights of both parties are respected, |
remain a well.wlsher OF the prosperity
of Vicksburg. S. 7. FORTsoN.
WARREN COUNTY, Dec. 10, 1877.