The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1868-02-15
Compiled from the Daily Clarion reports.
FRIDAY, Feb. 7, 1868.

friday, req. Z, 1000.
Convention met at the usual hour
Mr.. Railsback, from a special com.
mittec to confer with Gen. Gillem
submitted the following reply:
HEADQUARTERS FouRrH MILITARY DsrRIcr, !
mississippi and Arkansas)
0FPicE or CIvIL AFFAIRS,
vIcxssuRo, Mss, Feb 4, 1867.
Hon. Geo. SouaH, chairman:
SIR am directed by the Genera
Commanding 4th Military District
to acknowledge the receipt Of your
communication enclosing a copy Of
resolution directing the appointment
of a committe of FIVE, to proceed to
this place and urge him to issue 0
General order "forbidding sales by
all officers and trustees, except for
wages on plantations or mechanics
labor" and to inform you that after
mature consideration Of the subject,
the General Commanding is con-
WINGED that a great portion Of the
distress of the people in this State is
not more the result Of the failure OF
the crops, than that Of Indebtedness
which existed at the close of the late
war. Debtors have now had three
years in which to cancel their obliga-
tons. It is believed that facts will
support the assertion, that the in
debtedncss Of the people is greater at
present than il was in 1865. Nor Il
Il believed that il would be easier tc
cancel these obligations in 1860.
A great proportion of this indebt.
edness was incurred prior TO 1861.
and was secured by mortgages or
real estate. Slave labor was relied
upon to supply the means BY which
to cancel these mortgages; and slave.
ry having ceased to exist, the onl,
means Of cenccling these obligations
is the sale Of the real estate, or SC
much of the same as shall be neces.
sary for that purpose. Now Il Il
apparent how the sale, and conse.
quent distribution Of such real estat,
will %iujure the natural prosperity o
the State.
In noticing that portion Of thu
letter of the majority Of your com.
mittec, which asks for this interven.
ton to "enable the people to proceet
with their planting, as extensively a
their limited means will permit
thereby keeping of threatened star
walton, the General Commander,
begs leave TO call the attention o
your committee to the Bankrupt Law
Of the United States, which Is gov
erned In its operations by the law
Of exemption in the several States
II will be observed that the exemp
ton laws of Mississippi allow to eacl
family one hundred and sixty acre
Of land, including the dwelling, tw'
horses or mules, with the necessar,
harness and implements, five cows
household furniture, with one year
provisions, etc, etc.
Huis Suggested that with thcs
allowances or exemptions, no famil,
il threatened with starvation, presen
or prospective, by non-intervention
or allowing the law TO take It's course
From the above considerations
the General Commanding deems !
inexpedient to issue the order aske'
for in the resolution Transmitted b,
your COMMITTEES.
| am, sir, very respectfully, you
obedicut c fvant,
JoHy TYLER,
LIST Lieut. 43d inf. b. Mai. U. s A.
Act A. Adj. General.
Report received, ordered TO b
spread upon the minutes, and com
mittee discharged.
The resolution providing for a sta.
Law for ninety-nine years came up
Amendments were offered, and con
siderable discussion enstcd. vhcr, NJ