Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-06

self I do not recollect the precise amount, So
about three thousand dollars, which consider pal
AS claim an interest in certain funds arising OF
of certain tobacco sales, and which were deposlte
in said Bank, and by certain funds which l sent !
at various times TO the Bank, while II was in tn
South have not received my obligation or note!
and do not really know how the books OF the BAN
will show this thing.
Question.-Do YOU know Of any notes being pali
( here due the Bank of Tennessee in Confederate o
any other kind Of money, after the Bank left mere
/ Answer know that Esquire Ensley paid Il
/ Captain NJ s. Pitcher about between the sum of ont
thousand and two thousand dollars in the Bank o
Tennessee notes. know another paid to Captain
NJ s. Pitcher by John Reed, for about the sum o
one thousand or eleven hundred dollars. This wal
paid in Tennessee money. These payments were
paid some time ago, but since the Bank was sent
South The notes were in the hands Of Capt. Pitcher
and paid to him as above stated.
Qaestion.-Do you know Of any other notes being
thus paid
Answer do not.
Col. G. c. Torbett, sworn.
Question.-Has the Bank Of TENNESSEE received
any Confederatesmoney in the payment Of notes due
by individuals to it?
Answer-There has becn 4 great many Of such
notes paid in such funds, bat 10 what particular
persons or notes do not know, except in very few
instances as l never received dollar or paid out a
dollar for the Bank of Tennessee l was not in the
J
1861, and had no connection with said Bank in any
way, previous TO that time.
Question by Mr. Steele.-WhilG the Bank was at
Chattanooga, did not many persons pay their notes
in Confederate money?
Answer.-They did.
Question by Hr. Steele.-Nhat WAS done with the
Confederate money?
Answor.-It was funded to a great extent.
Question by Mr.. Steele.-What was done with
Tennessee Bank notes that was paid TO the Bank of
Tennessee
ADswer.-There was a very small amount came
in after it known that Confederate money would
be taken. What was received ] ordered to be can
celled, and taken out Of circulation and if any
re-issued it was not intended, except, say twenty
thousand dollars, which was paid out to small de-
positors at Chattanooga.
Question by Mr.. Steele.--How does it happen that
issues of the Bank of Tennessee signed by your
President, bear date prior 10 your term Of being
President?
Answer.-Largo amount, say about two millions
Of dollars, was thus issued and were filed up by la
dies employed for that purpose prior 10 their be
signed by me- and l signed bill for circulation
that not thus Dated except some post notes that
l remember.
Question by Mr.. Stcele.-How much coin did be-
long to the Bank of Tennessee at the time it was in
your possession in Georgia?
Answer estimated it from recollection Of the
reports of the Cashier at FIVE hundred and forty
thousand dollars, while John a. Fisher, Cashier,
contended that the amount six hundred and forty
thousand dollars or thereabouts that difference
account of neither of us knowing the correct
amount.
Question by Mr.. Carter.-What amount Of Ten
nessee Bank money was drawn out of said Bank by
the military committee?
Answer cannot tell, as l have no means Of
knowing.
Question by Mr.. Steele.-How much Tennessee
money is in circulation at this time?
Answer refer you to the books Of the Bank
for correct answer; but think il to be about foar
and one-half million dollars, old and new issue
There was about twenty thousand dollars issued at
Chattanooga since the Bank left Nashville. We is
sued no other notes than about this twenty thousand
dollars
Mr. R. B. Cheatham being duly sworn testified
follows
Il do not know of any debt having been paid TO
the Bank Of Tennessee after it left Nashville in
1862. I paid a note as endorser 20 the Bank of
Tennessee for about one hundred and fifty dollars.
paid this in this city, two three months ago, to
General Samuel r. Anderson, former President of
the Bank. It was a note of my father-in-law, Mr..
S. Il. Bugg on which was endorser l think the
note belonged 10 the Bank Of Tennessee.