Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-04-12

on any other Market the planter
will require to see something MOI
tangible than merely listening [
his ipse dixit on the point. Mr.. Z
Herndon being very much intel
ested witness in his own case, hi
. statement is ruled out of court @
worthless, and the Judgment on hi
D lingo must be left to the decision {
those who have sold in other maj
kets besides his own.
Mr.. T. Herndon appears to b
very DESTROYS that planters shout,
know what kind of Tobacco hi
friends in Louisville are advising
planters to grow in the future, a
will be seen in his circular. w
have no means of knowing who MI
Il. HerndOn's friends in Louisville
are-whether they are in the DIR,
goods, boot and shoe, hardware o
notion business but if they shout,
happen per chance to be in the To
bacco warehouse business, we woulC
be glad to be favored with the name
of OnLg one of his friends in tina
line, so that we might be able t.
publish his name as towering ex
ample of his disinterestedness ir
advising planters to quit raising the
heavy rich Tobacces (Which are in
so much demand all the time in
his own market) and go to growing
| the thin light stuff he refers to-
which after all is not quite as thin as
1 Mr.. t. Herndon's logic, which can
be seen through, nor quite as chaffy,
/ as Mr.. T. Herndon evidently thinks
he can stuff into the heads of his
planter friends whose cOnsignments
he is so slyly trying to get hold of,
by throwing a little Tobacco dust
in their eyes when they happen to
look in the direction of Hopkins
vile or Louisville to ship to.
If we supposed Mr.. L. HerndOn
did not know that the delusion he
refers to is estimated at its proper
worth in Louisville, as well as it is
anywhere else, we would assure him
that it is, and also that the "dark,
heavy, fire cured Tobacco" which
he says "may be out of fashion in
Louisville, as it doubtless is, to
judge by results" is no more out of
fashion in Louisville than it is in
GAINESVILLE, nor is it likely to be,
Notwithstanding Mr.. T. Herndon's
gauZy elOquence that it may be and
doubtless Is. Why beat about the
bush, Mr.. Il. Herndon In your
next circular, unless "private and
confidential" please give us few
instances of the results you refer
to, which you say have rendered
heavy, dark Tobaccos, "may be''
and "dOubtless isl out of fashion in
Louisville. We think our ware
housenen would be glad to be en-
lightened, if you can spare them
little of your thunder, which we
feel certain you can do, now that
you are supported by 'sthe largest
board of buyers ever on your mar
ket." Next time please be little
more independent, if you can be,
and not lean on your "friends" in
Louisville to support you in any
weakened attempt to raise your
own market at the unfair expense
of your neighbOr.
We always thought that Louis
vile had pretty good share of the
representative buyers for all the
markets in the world on its breaks,
with sales every lawful day in the
week, from one years end to the
other, to meet them; but possibly
"the largest board of foreign and
home buyers ever on the GAINESVILLE
Market" which "meet for the pres
ent on Wednesday and Thursday of
each week." may be getting ahead
of Louisville, and we are therefore
glad to give Mr.. L. Herndon and
his market all due credit for the
strides they are making, hoping
that they will now and then throw
just few hOgsheads to Louisville,
if only to revive our dropping spirits
after GAINESVILLE has got away with
us. Not satisfied with using his
flying artillery, the shot of which
he feared might be of too small cal
iber to take effect, Mr.. T. HeFndOn
brings to his support his Calling to
'earneStly urge" shipments to
GAINESVILLE, and winds up with a
shot from his COlumbiad to bring
the stuff "where heavy orders are
awaiting to be filled with it," As
heavier artillery than COlumbiads
even have burst before now in the
hands of poor gunners, Mr.. L. Hern-
don may do well to be careful when
he fires again, or his gun may burst,
if it does not get spiked.
Without desiring to draw COM
parison between the buyers in
GAINESVILLE and Louisville, or the
prices realized in both markets,
truth cOmpels us to say that were it
not for the extreme bids made now
and then by the leading buyer in
GAINESVILLE, whose purchases, if we
are not mistaken, amount to those
of all the other buyers there put
together (WhO can make or unmake
prices at any time), the high prices
which rule there occasionally would
never be heard of; whereas no one
man controls prices in Louisville,
the great number Of buyers of
GAINESVILLE types here compelling
which forces prices
higher and renders our market all
the time more regular, under or j.
nary circumstances.
Meantime the entente cOrdiule be-
tween GAINESVILLE and Louisville
markets is not to be interfered with,
as we feel quite sure it never can be,
even by such illusions as Mr.. L.
HerndOn when he has his weather
eye cooked after biZ-fOr his own
house and market.
l repeat we have the largest board
of foreign and home buyers ever on
this market, or any other market,
for the GAINESVILLE styles of tobacco,
and as a result prices are firm for
all grades of these styles, and will
inform the said editor that
good demand brings in many
buyers, many buyers make
strong competition, and strong COM
petition results naturally in firm
prices. 1t is far from me TO imply
or admit that Louisville has larger
board of foreign and home buyers
for GAINESVILLE tobacco than we
have, on tee contrary we emphati-
calIy deny it, and remind Mr.. Edi-
tor of a fact very patent to all
observers of the Louisville market,
that but comparatively few buyers
ever get to examine any one sample
while it is being sold on the
Louisville market, while with us