The Opelousas courier., 1882-03-18
Pinchback's Pedigree.

says:
This camp, Dahlonega, is where Port
surveyor Pinckback's father made his
stake from 1881 to 1888 inclusive. He
came from New England to Dahlonega
in 1881, bringing a few thousand dol.
lars. He was a sharp Yankee trader.
He opened q mining camp supply
store, with a general assortment of mer-
chandise. He traded with whites,
blacks and ~indians-the Cherokees. In
1892, a tar heeler by the name of Dan
iel Davis, made his entry into camp.
Davis, when young, had married a
Cherokee squaw, who was the illegiti-
mate offspring ola full blooded sqnaw
by a slave. They had a daughter who
was 90 years old in 1881. Pinchback
made court to this octoroon- Cherokee.
He made money fast. Currency was
scarce, and to establish some class OF
exchange Pinchback sem for a large
number of phials holding half ounce,
ounce and five ounces of gold dast
These he filled, corked and covered
the top with a seal bearing his initials.
The amount Of gold or its value was
labeled on each bottle. These became
the currency of the region. None
doubted the perfect g~enuineness of the
contents of those small bottles. He
continued to put them put until up
ward of $50, 900 were in circulation
| Mine owners would save nuggets to
carry or send North to che mint.
Pinchback's bottled dust was held in
the country, it being a convenient <
change. In the summe of 1888 a
m~ine-owner sold some property here
for a large sum. He received about
$50, 900 in those bottles. He took it to
| Philadelphia and delivered it to the
director of the mint. When assayed,
it returned 40 per cent. copper and 5
per cent. brass, in the form of filings.
This brought his gold value down to
$l9,250. This mans name was Stod
dard. Instead of coming on here at
once after learning how he had been
swindled, he imprudehtly notified Isaac
Humphreys. a Georgian miner, who had
been here for years. Humphreys took
the letter to Pinchback, who imme.
diately held an interview with his ina
morata, the Davis girl. He sold Out
his stock. loaded two wagons with his
nugget and coin gold and fled inte
Southern Alabama, with the Davis girl
whence, after selling his teams at Mo
bile, so as TO hide tracings, took q YES
sci for New Orleans. Thence he went tt
Mississippi, where he had a brother
He purchased a large plantation, slaves
mules and pharapheTnalia generally 0
the owner, runuinggin debt for $40, 900
Fall of which he paid IN q very few years
AS soon as his children by this daugh
Ter III Cherokee. and African were oil
eRongh sent them away to the bes
schoois.M Mr.. Stoddard died ID 1884
No other n party held any consider
able amount Of the Piuchback gold
copper-brass dust, hence the perpetra
tor of the fraud was nnmolested. TIL
Yankee had INST and worsted the GeoI
gia cracker. go here in the gold hill
of Georgia | find the pedigree Of SUI
veyor Pinchback OF the word Of eS
slave owners. The fact stands that b
is one-eightll unadulterated natiy
American. o~ne-eighth African, Tar Het
one-fourth and Yankee one-half.
Our branch road drags it's slowl
length along, and for anght we kno'
may reach cur town next fall. Th
gap between the point reached by th
codspany and orr town hardly exceed
trrn rnilaa and nau1d ha c1aaad in