Daily national Democrat., 1858-11-13
Negroes Hiring their own Time.

The following, from the Georgia Constitu
tionalist, may be of interest:
To THE People OF BURKE COUNTY You
have quietly submitted for the last ten or fiji
teen years to one of the grossest outrages up.
on your rights as citizens and American free
men of which the mind can well conceive.
We allude to the practice of allowing ne
groes to hire their own time. All are alive.
perhaps, to the evil consequences of such a
course, and it is high time that the people of
Burke were ridding themselves of such nui-
sances by legislative enactments or otherwise.
There lives in the vicinity of Rock Creek
Church an old negro by the name of Antony
Byrnes, who passes among some people as a
free person, among Others as the property of
DIR. Goodwin Attaway, of this county, who
is allowed to own land, hire negroes, and run
wagons and teams in his name. His house is
the rendezvous of all the mean white people
and negroes of the county; and two thirds of
the eggs, chickens, &c, that are stolen from
this section of the county, instead of being
carried to Waynesboro', as is too generally
supposed, are taken to this old negro, and
the negro who carries the stolen property re-
ceves rotgm whisky in exchange We know
this to be so, because we caught him in Just
u
We need not go farther upon this point, but
will simply say that every species of rascalty
is carried or to an extent almost beyond be.
lief at his house. If we mistake not, he has
been presented to the grand Jury Of Burke
twice, but after the adjournment Of Court,
we hear nothing further on the subject. We
are not prompted to make this public from
desire to injure any one, nor do we wish to
be understood as apologizing for this article
when we say this, but we are compelled to
do it in order to protect our rights and inter
ests, and the rights and interests of others.
We consider it the sacred duty of every one.
male or female, who wishes the promotion of
his own welfare, as well as the welfare of his
neighbors to bring all such persons or any
person, to public notice, living in open viola
tion of the laws of his country We earnest
ly petition the next Court to take some def
mite action, in order to rid the people of all
such characters We await the decision of
that body, and if it passes the subject by as
it has done for the last two or three years, ]
should not be at all surprised if the people
should take the law in their own hands, and
Antony the immortal Antony, at least torn
from his throne and ousted from his domicil,
without leave or license, judge or jury.
The CAMELs-The United States cames
that strayed eff from Fort TETON, have all
been reeaptured A letter from Fort TETON,
written by Mr.. Bishop to the Southern Vine.
yard, says:
Part of the camels which have been domi.
ciled, at this place. strayed off about the lst
of October, not from any storm or cold, but
from desire to ramble about, which they
have evinced ever since they recruited from
their trip across the plains. They were fol
lowed by party fitted out by myself, and
the majority of them found by my party
the balance by Mr. Garcia, not far from Lake
Elizabeth.
Bishop says the animals are in fine health,
and full of life-being ready for use, and
quite anxious to stray off, if given an oppor-
tunity.