society. and hurI i back some thousands Of
years. into its primitive or savage state.


- Yours, &c.

T. A. FALc5NER, ESQ
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Ia the last
number of the Guard. some meddlng ou.
sy.body. who was so much ashamed OF
what he was about that he sikulked oehind
the borrowed signature of "a CITIZEN, III
order that he might CRAFTY his petty maj
Ice unseen, has done "his small best to
createsame prejudice against me. notice
him only because my silence might De
construed into an acknowledgment OF the
truth Of his misrepresentation.


la the first place. every "citizen'' ~ the
County, who is not natural born fool,
knows that | am not the tax collector OF
this couniy-ihat being the office of Mr..
Eppes, whose deputy with others
have been. Ii is Mr.. Eppes, and not my
SELF that is responsible for ''the people S
money" He is responsible to the State
to him; and [ have never heard that he has
made aay complaint in regard to the non
pay ment # taxes collected by me.


Ii IS not trse that "had report put out
that Auditor Matthews had agreed to re-
ceIve The money here Mr.. Anderson re-
celved letter from Col. j. w. Mathews,
in which he was requested to inform me
that the auditor would be here in few
days, and that by seeing him | might
probably save the expense of a trip to Jack
son. That was the ''report | had pat out
here" thought | had right to suppose
that the brother Of the Auditor was acquain-
ted with his movements The Auditor
has since told me that he did intend to
come here. and would have done so but for
the illness of his wife


| have not seen the Oxford 'Organi2er."
and do not know what the Auditor may
have written to It's editor | presume,
however, that his letter is of no very re-
cent date, for the balance reported IN the
Mssissippian in March last as due from
this county was, if [ recollect Alright; So
1855


Since tha. time, the Auditor has exc
cuted his receipts TO Mr.. Eppes for the
following sums, viz S539S, 80,


-S2500, S625, making


SS523, 80.