The United States in account with the legal representatives
of George Fisher, deceased. 
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1813.--To 550 head of cattle, at 10 dollars, ............. 5,500.00
To 86 head of drove hogs, ......................... 1,204.00
To 350 head of stock hogs, ........................ 1,750.00
To 100 acres of corn on Bassett’s creek, .......... 6,000.00
To 8 barrels of whisky, ........................... 350.00
To 2 barrels of brandy, ........................... 280.00
To 1 barrel of rum, ............................... 70.00
To dry-goods and merchandise in store, ............ 1,100.00
To 35 acres of wheat, ............................. 350.00
To 2,000 hides, ................................... 4,000.00
To furs and hats in store, ........................ 600.00
To crockery ware in store, ........................ 100.00
To smith’s and carpenter’s tools, ................. 250.00
To houses burned and destroyed, ................... 600.00
To 4 dozen bottles of wine, ....................... 48.00
1814.--To 120 acres of corn on Alabama River, ............ 9,500.00
To crops of peas, fodder, etc. .................... 3,250.00

Total, ..........................34,952.00

To interest on $22,202, from July 1813
to November 1860, 47 years and 4 months, .......63,053.68
To interest on $12,750, from September
1814 to November 1860, 46 years and 2 months, ..35,317.50

Total, ........................ 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 five 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 1, 1860, 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.

Were the heirs of George Fisher killed?  No.  They are back now at this very time (July, 1870), beseeching Congress through that blushing and diffident creature, Garrett Davis, to commence making payments again on their interminable and insatiable bill of damages for corn and whisky destroyed by a gang of irresponsible Indians, so long ago that even government red-tape has failed to keep consistent and intelligent track of it.