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


evy of the attachment, conveying the
same tidings. | had no time 10 lose. Il
got an attachment forthwith, on two notes
each for the sum Of $4,000, one OF
which was due on the 1st January. Is4I,
and the other on the Ist January.
1842. got it under the goth section OF
the Attachment law, (see Revised Cole
by Poindexter, page 1861 which author
ICES any creditor, When be has ..sath-
cient grounds to suspect that his deb.or
will remove with his effects out OF this
State, before his ds5t rH Be paugUe.~ u
use this kind Of process 70 prevent IL, or
TO compel him to NEeRter into bond, with
sufficient security, for ths prymeuf Of Lte
said debt tvken 1t shall become uavaJle.1
| applied 10 the Sheriff, Mr. Hamb.en.
for deputy or two. The Court being
in session they were all busy, aud I could
get but one, Mr.. Hickerson. | obtained
an order from the Probate Judge 10 the
Sheriff to take the property Of the Car
away place out Of the possession ofthe
Administrative, and to keep it I'll the
next term of the Court, unless she would
give bond and good security TO have It
forthcoming. As the deputy could not
do all this without help, be summoned 4
man to assist; and went with them IN
to the neighborhood. We started. as
some Of my friends in Canton know. IN
der the apprehension that we might be
compelled to follow on TO Texas, anu
provided and determined so to do, II i
should be necessary. When they went
on Mr.. Tlnnin's farm, on the 9TH OF No
vember, the very midst of Cotton picking
season, although the field was white With
cottonunpicked, yet the sheriff could ind
but twelve negroes out OF about thirty.
six that be had when making his crop
Twenty odd of them had been taken OF
to Texas by his brother, who was in
formed lived there, under a pretence o.
sale, las believed and now belieye.) Il
said brother. Now, WHY was so large
portion of his negroes sent off 50 early
IN the season leaving an insufficient forcs
to save the cotton? Why did he send OF al
the old negroes, if any, and childrer
which might impede a rapid and suddeE
movement, retaining such as could b
started at moments warning and car
ried rapidly along hy-waysl Why ha.
b, S Wagons and teams been sent of =
AZ pit him under the necessity Of hirin:
a wa qo,on to haul his cotton to the Gin
ton DeI,ot? Why was his stock beius
driven oh that very mornlngl But WI
not tire the ,.ea, Ter with a relation Of a.
the circumstan, IS which | could prove
that 90 conclusivsly % show his ln'en
ton to run of. ana the utter inadeqaa
cy of even fund of .'h.te9a years re
putation for honesty to draw Ngainst-
will, only, in addition, notice his arg
Indebtedness at that time. Ills liaoi.4 U9
to me were between $4,000 and So,
900. There was an execution agalns
him in the hands of the Marshal | va
told for nearly $4,000. There was
suit against him in the Federal Court 10
upwards of $500. And, shortly ate
the attachment was levied, he contesSeI
judgments in the Madison Circuit COur
in favor of different persons Tor 50,
386 90, making together upwards
| $4,000.
! In his concluding paragraph, he Ia
the shamelessness to say that he viii '-b
able to show, at the trial OF our sult, ina
Garrett is Ouer-paid Ia a0Rey--tis o,r
}, property back &c. Now be knows We
that have the documents, 0rsr has or
signature, to prove this assertion falls.
: ''OUer paid in ns0Aey!'n Mr. TinnI
never paid me any money. Mr.. Cara
| way, about the time they bought the pr
perty, owed Leigh, Maddox & Co neaFl
t $4,000, which has been paid since, IS
& C. C.. Shackelford, Esqs- and the pal
E lie records will prove. He owed, as
5 sundry other debts, one OF which amour
5 ing to several hundred dollars, | haS
| had to pay, since his death, as his ssear
2 ty. Mr.. Tinnin was the other securit,
| and owes me therefore, one half Of
D And the "citizens Of the county"
| which he says he has resided ssfor the Ia
e fifteen years. and spent 80 MANY droI
: of sweat" and 10 whom he has 60 -
/. TERED his advice against "electlng "a
Il rett to the Legislature to make laws, Al
J. HambIen as Sheriff, To execute them.
i say these ''citizens" would more readi
il listen to his advice if he would prove }
n fifteen years" honesty to be well fo0
:. ded by paying over 10 Garrett the o
j. half of this security debt which he lu
10 ly owes. and which . Garrett has th
d been compelled to pay for Mr. Tlnall
I father-;n-law, instead Of sPending
il money in hiring printers 10 publish 50
,r derous circulars. Now, according
Mr.. Tinnin's statement, he viii Be a
if to prove, that Mr.. Caraway IN his ].
If time and his administrative siace
r. death together, have, with foar coz
ID crops, made by between twenty and -