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I confide greatly in your tact and experience
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^Jrhis patriotic gentleman -undertook, and ably performed this delicate mission, ^o man living, commanded to the came extent, the confidence of that powerful tribe, ^e checked the intrigues of the hostile agents, and stayed the tomahavk, then uplifted to strike,	-----— — -
The*first arrest ever made in this county, then the parish of Biloxi, “as made by v’udgs Favre. t;B 10th January, 1811, lie arrested one 1/m, Bonford, suspected of having stolon two ne gross end throe horses. There being no jail the prisoner was sen*’ to Hew °rleans, and he ras subsequently delivered on tne requisition of Gov. -koines of Mississippi, to Thomas Torrance, to be tried in the county of Amite, the negroes having been stolen from: Thedas Batchelor and Agrippa ^ayden of that county.
^udge ladnier. from some unintentional misconstruction of his authority, got into the hands of ^r. 12Hery, a prominent and sharp lawyer of Xi3v; urleans, who usually passed his summers here, on the property now owned by Madame ^'Brien.	applied in
person fx>r advice to &cv. vlaiborne , who gave him the following letter to the Attorney General.
I'ew °rleans, ^une 6th, 1311 ”Th© bearer, and' honest and voll meaning justice of the parish of Biloxi, is harrassed for an act, which, alihough perhaps, not strictly legal, appears nevertheless, t oh eve been very just, -^ar his story and advise him for the best. If justices arc to be proceeded against for every unintentional and petty irregularity. 1 shall very seen receive the resignation of two-thirds of them. &r. ^adnier informs rs that ^r. -^llery demands of-him fifty dollars, and promises to discontinue his complaint. This_ is a heavy assessment on a poor iLan for an honest *act. B^t, if nothing else can be done, it may be well to pay ^r. Ellery, at my expense. 1 often see instances of these poor people being oppressed under color of lav, and always regret v,hen ± have it not in my power to intervene.”
Mr. Ellery, got his fifty dollexs, and died not long after, and was buried in the old grave yard on the front.
■fibout that tir;©, 1312, the Mississippi Territory was represented in Congress by the non. George Poindexter, a mn of great ability, who vas. then taking measures to have Mississippi admitted into the. Union as a State.
Among his papers 1 find the following letter from Gov. °laiborne, from which 1 quote•
"Success attend your efforts to bring in Mississippi, but 1 cannot approve your wish to attach the whole of ».©st Florida. iJ-ad you proposed that Orleans ‘-eerritory shoxxld extend eastward to Pearl river, and up to the 31st degree; and the district from -^earl rivar to the Perdido, to be --