THE CASE OF GEORGE FISHER. 



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To 2 barrels of brandy 

 To I barrel of rum . 

 To dry goods and merchandise in store 

 To 35 acres of wheat 

 To 2,ooo hides . . . , 



To furs and hats in store 

 To crockery ware in store 

 To smiths^ and carpenters^ tools 

 To houses burned and destroyed 

 To 4 dozen bottles of wine 

 1814. — To 120 acres of corn on Alabama River 

 To crops of peas, fodder, etc. 



Total 

 To interest on $22,202, from July i 



47 years and 4 months 

 To interest on $12,750, from September i 



46 years and 2 months 



Total 



813 



to November i860, 

 814 to November i860, 



280 00 

 70 00 



1,100 00 

 35000 



4,000 00 

 600 00 

 100 00 

 250 00 

 600 00 

 48 00 



9,500 00 



3.250 00 



34,952 00 



63,053 68 



35,317 50 

 133.323 18 



He puts everything in this time. He does not even allow that the Indians 

 destroyed the crockery or drank the four dozen bottles of (currant) wine. When it 

 came to supernatural comprehensiveness in " gobbling," John B. Floyd was without 

 his equal, in his own or any other generation. Subtracting from the above total the 

 $67,000 already paid to George Fisher's implacable heirs, Mr. Floyd announced 

 that the Government was still indebted to them in the sum of sixty-six thousand jive 

 hundred and nineteen dollars and eighty-five cents, " which," Mr. Floyd complacently 

 remarks, " will be paid, accordingly, to the administrator of the estate of George 

 Fisher, deceased, or to his attorney in fact." 



But, sadly enough for the destitute orphans, a new President came in just at this 

 time, Buchanan and Floyd went out, and they never got their money. The first 

 thing Congress did in 1861 was to rescind the resolution of June i, 1870, under 

 which Mr. Floyd had been ciphering. Then Floyd, (and doubtless the heirs of 

 George Fisher likewise) had to give up financial business for a while, and go into 

 the Confederate army and serve their country. 



