The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1841-10-23

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Cook as soon as possible to pay it over.
He informed me that he had been In
structed, since our last interview, to take /
nothing but Louisiana or par funds. | /
had, then, to buy up cotton with nv |
Union money, which / was forced to re-
ceive at par, and ship it to New Orleans
to get Louisiana money. In the opera
ton | lost between 81 800 and 1000. |
And | suffered this loss rather than en-
force the deed in trust against these debt
Iors, which could have done at any time
in 80 days after The 1st of January, 184O
| did not enforce the deed in trust until
towards the end of the year 1910, and
when | became fully convinced that they
intended to swindle me out of my just
rights if they could. Yet, have been
represented as a merciless creditor, be-
cause | endeaVored to prevent Mr. Tin
min, who never has paid me one dollar,
from running off his property to Texas,
and to force him to pay me small part
Of what he owes me.
saw Mr.. Tinnin no more, think,
till the fall of the same year (184O1-
Meantime | was repeatedly warned by
my friends to keep sharp look out lest
the Caraway property and Mr.. Tin
INNS property should suddenly find the
way to Texas and leave me in the lurch
-irretrievably ruined. To run off pro-
perty in order to escape from creditors
was, at that time and during the preeed-
ing year, almost an every day, or rath-
er every night, business, as the people Of
Madison county are fully aware. Men
who had borne the reputation of honesty
as long as Mr.. Tinnin-although he had
done SO as he says, during the long Pc
Rod of "ffteen years"-had run off
/ their property. And why should he be
! free from suspicion if he gave cause, as
! he did, to suspect he was inclined to
dodne? Invent to Mr.. Tinnin, | think in.
September, 1910, in order to see if some
plan could not be devised by which |
might be made safe without running him;
Tor really did not want to lnJure him.
1t seemed to be the wish of run and the
administratix of Caraway thai the pro-
perty on the Caraway place, when was
the one | sold and on which Nh, ara
way had lived,) should be exhausted be-
fore he IT. should pay any Of the deb.
had not released either party from Iiabil-
ity to me, but was willing that they should
do as they likedln that respect. I,there-
fore, made this proposition in substance:
That ! would select two appraisers, and
b. ana the administrative might select
two, and these four to select another,
thus making board of fve;-that these
appraisers should value all the pro-
perty real and personal on the Cara
way place; that it should be all legally
, sold, and that at the sale the price at
: which the appraisers set down each ar
I ticle should be my standing bid, permit
! ting others to bid more if they wished
J or, In other words, that would guaran-
: ty that the whole property should bring
} its appraised value. That | would dis
} miss the suits which | had Instituted
: against Mr.. t., at my own costs-that |
$ would give the widow of Mr. Caraway
4 whose estate was insolvent, all the house
: hold and kitchen furniture and likely
h negro woman-and that would without
| charging any fee and thus save him near
: ly S300-defend suit which had beer
e instituted against Mr.. Tinnin in the Fed
| eral Court Oil Bill of Exchange for up
r wards of $500. This bill at tweIV
d months he and Mr.. Caraway gave me
h about the lst of April 1889, that Nigh
% take up my own paper with it. cred
t. tied their paper which was then due, wit
d the amount of it, less the discount; an
Is yet neither Mr.. Tinnin nor Mr.. Cara
IS way paid it; for a suit was brough
,e against me, as the endorser of this We
ry bill at the November Term, 1910 c
"a the Federal Court at Jackson. This
# the way, suppose, in which he ha
o ''overpaid" his debts, as he says he "wi
h be able to show" | agreed that, if tn
% property would not pay my claim,
IF would indulge Mr. Tinnin, say one, tw
le and three years, or as much longer as
,r could, he giving me good security for til
4 debt. The same proposition was SUI
r mitted to the administratrlx, as Mr.. Wn
ne j. benson one of their neighbors wi
,r testify. ! stated the terms of the pr
re posal to several others of their neigl
j bors, who unanimously agreed that
r.. was as liberal as, ifnot more liberal tina
Id they could expect. In this opinion NJ
Sc Tinnin concurred, and accepted the pr
he position. was glad the matter was
a. amicably arranged although | wants
We money-not property and although
a. felt sure the appraisers would value
r. much higher than it could be sold f
~ in cash.
he The Federal Court, and the Cirel
he Court of Madison county commenced the
Of Terms on the fst Monday of Novembt
TT, 1910. went down to Jackson, to attic