The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-11-30
Loo SEIZURES IL MISSISSIPPI.
Editor New orl.su. rims..

Wv Di'eo N'h'I "P''
l discussed log secures. WI
YOU extend the courtesy oil
your columns, not TO an owner O
timber lands, bnt 10 one who has
A., bteu here snce 1923, has owrec
saw mills and run them Tor hin,-elI
and Others, and has, since the tlrs'
sawmlll was built on he PoscagonIa
r been interested in the m%anlacuIurt
( of lumber, and familiar With tina,
-, branch OF industry?
Mr.. Campbell's article was not
: written in the interests Of the sawmli
men, but a. a IRlr exposition of the
. matter al der Discussion I'D bis
r statements were in the m In true
wa not intended SO an attack upon
Coz. Garter, but to place before the
public q true statement OF iactr, which
he as vel as mtny others though had
been misreprescnted to him by hr
agents and men of the Bliss stripe.
NJ. A.. Campbell is no myth, M
hclitious pc sonage, as | shall prove
Mr. b iss to be, but Il I testDl c OF flesh
and bl0od-one who can be seen aud
felt if necessary.
Mr.. Bliss, or the writer who APP
prOpriates the name, starts out with
The assertion that he is . landowner
N Jackson Couaty. THIS is false.
There is not a foot Of land ia Jackson
county belong ng TO any man or
woman of that name whether
acquired by purchase from the gov
eminent at 81 70 per acre, ,quatted
on as q homestead, or bought from
the State at ten or twenty-five
cents per acre.
He next states that six years ago
he was engaged in the manufacture
of lumber on the Pascagoula river.
That liz also false, for there never
has been, at any time, a person OF
that name engaged in milling or the
manufacture OF number on the Passes
goula, EEcatawpa or any other
stream i'll Jackson comfy; and il
he was, his article shows d witlful
misStateTent OF facts or culpabIe X
n0rauce Of 'wnat he knows 20 m.ch
about. II is rue that the owe
flowed lands were cedei to the Sute;
but the writer of that article know
as well a. any man in this county
thai the ~(so.cilled) overlowcd land
embrace much of he arg est land IN
the couaty, and has been sold and
bought by such meo as he for a
nonmal price, solely Tor the timber
growing thereon, which timber pa,
beru cpt and so d, ana il beng cut
and sod, to the mil.s by the owners
of tie land, and whom he chooses to
stigmatise as thlves. dow does he
know where the tmber iscu,? How
does he get the Information that
induces him to brand the log men
as thieves, aud the mill owner. rs
accessories to the fact? My word
for it, ii the truth were known he
has himself been y log and timber
getter aud a drpredator on public
both State and govnrum mt,
His statement az regard the value
OF timber cnt on the sO,catleA over
lands (neadow pine We
caIl ~ is equally untrue, i being
A well known Fact amnng mill man
aud lumber dealers, that This species
Is more durable, finer grained, ina,
less sap and shakes, sud is better
adapted to the manufacture Of
than tue ridge, or yellow
Jlnc-lor the above reasons and
hal the timber is shorter, and rarely !
makes more tiun one saw log, and j. I
,ousequ My Tree from knot--and ,
never is OF has been sold at a lower ,
igure than other pine. ,
He saws, also, mat the The State I
ands do not extend more than a [
quarter or halt mile on either side =
the Pascagoula river. This is y d
peryorsion of fact or worse |
sta ement made ia ignorance OF @
which is 50 well known thai there
re but seven places (bIuH) on the
'asc4 gonta river where the \
'verHowed lands do no extend +
wo aud one.half to seven miles, v
township maps" to he con. :,
ry, not s. outstanding. Who yer saw o
correct map oil any township, or e
e%ctiOn, even. a
\ow, Sir. Editor, | 10 not propose II
D take anytbing for granted that he v
s. umr5 nat do nOt prove. 80 lar II
: there bcing 9a.l00 of government '
in the bOOm- or SIT e. N 0l this I
ounry | DO not believe tlere : 10 81
er ceHtum OF either COVE nmeut or te
tate timber ahoat. | do not believ- pI
Il the log mon are thieves, and that tu
he mill men know they are buying OIL
oien p operty when they purchase 81
leir logs. | do not believe that dc
ERE is or Y c has been made a dis tie
notion in favor Of high land as pl
,ainst meadow (uot loblolly or th
ort leaf pine. oil
But | do know, and shall prove pu
the appended certificate, that Mr.. <
is is an imaginary being, who III
shes TO gain noioriety BY couch to
: his lance against MA Campbell. 1t
a knight Of the quill; and having reI
that fact, | submit, that be IN