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


Dickey in return
Answer-John A. Fisher, Cashier Of the BanI
Question by Mr.. Richards.-Was anything said {
the time Of receiving those documents, or while e
Griffin, in regard to what they contained
Answer.-No, sir
Question bv Mr.. CarteF-What compensation di
| Mr. Dickey pay for carrying documents and II
turning with those sent By Mr.. Fisher?
| Answer.-He gave me 81, 900 to make the trip.
made him pay in advance before started.
Question by Mr.. Richards--In what did he pay
! Answer.-In Greenbacks.
Questionable you settle any claims, notes 0
bills for any other person during the trip to ID
South?
Answer did.
Question will you give the names for whom
you settled, and the amount Of their several labil
! ties ?
! Answcr.-I settled note for Arson Nelson, OF
| which he was endOrser Of $3.50 in Bank of Tennes
see paper. ! paid two notes on VIM. Stockell o.
| about 500 in the same currency. None others.
Question by Mr.. Mulloy.-Did you pay of any
/ debt or note due the Bank of Tennessee while in
Georgia at any Of your trips in Confederate money
! Answer.-I did not. Mr. Fisher is a son-in-law o.
mine and when l went there told him didnt
want TO know anything about the Bank of Tennes
! see.
/ Question by Mr. Richards-Did you during any
of the trips to- and while in Georgia. take with you
or pay TO any party there any Confederate money
Answer did in paying my expenses, otherwise
not.
Question by Mr.. Mulloy-Did you bring back
any discounted notes or bills belonging to the Bank
to any individuals
Answer did not
Mr. Burns sworn.
Question.-Do you know of any notes or bill. due
the Bank Of Tennessee being paid of in Confeder-
ate money?
Answer know Of but one instance, that OF Mr.
Dickey.
Question.-Plcase state all you know about the
case
Answer have no distinct recollection of the
particulars. The substance Of it is this Some ar
engagements was made for Mr.. Mitchell TO 90 South,
and Mr.. Dickey left funds in my hands to be hand
ed TO Mr. Mitchell when he returned with Mr..
Dickey's Indebtedness to the Bank of Tennessee.
The principal funds was a check on j. T. Dickey &
Co., Pittsburgh, which was paid.
Question.-What was the amount Of the check and
funds left with you by Mr.. DIckey?
Answer.-About ST., 900.
Question by Mr. Richarts.-Did you know Of Mr..
Mitchell taking any funds South J.?
Answer.-NOt TO my knowledge.
Question by Mr.. Richards.-Did you ever hear
Mr.. Dickey say what he was sending Nj. Mitchell
South for?
Answer did not understand that Mr.. Dickey
sent him at all. don't think he was exclusively on
Mr.. Dickey's business. He transacted business for
him know.
j. F. Brown, formerly cashier Branch Bank Of
Tennessee at Trenton, being duly sworn answers as
follows:
QuestiOn.-DO you know anything about the cap
ital funds Of the bank of Tennessee or any Of the
branches thereof, being distracted therefrom2
Answer.-I do Of the Mother Bank Memphis
and Summerville branches.
Question.-By whom?
Answer.-John A. Fisher, former Cashier of the
Mother Bank, and two other parties, on their own
statements.
Question.-Who were the other parties?
Answer.-T. d. Flippen, Teller OF the Mother
Bank, and John Z. Wilcox, Cashier Of the Clarks-
vile branch
Question.-HOw much, and in what kind of funds
did each of these parties take2
Answer saw John a. Fisher use eleven hun
bred IUO dollars in gold in the purchase of ster-
ling exchange which think he appropriated to his
own use. / know Of no account being made of this
sum the books Of the bank. I also hold the Ger
tifcate Of Il. l. Claiborne to the effect that keg
marked, said to contain sixty thousand $780, 000)
dollars in gold coin, belonging to the Summerville
Branch, was taken from the assets of said branch
while in charge Of said John A. Fisher.
Question.-What amount was appropriated by
Fhppen, upon his statement referred 70
He said he used over s., 900 Ave thousand dollars
in gold. On comparing the the count made here
after the return Of the funds, it found that the
coin Of the Memphis Branch, from which Mr.. Flip
pin took this, fell short 81 500 seven thousand five
hundred dollars which l suppose to be the amount
Qpestion-What amount was appropriated by
Wilcox?
Answer.-Se5O six hundred and fifty dollars out
Of one Of the boxes belonging to the Shelbyville
Branch.
Question.-Werc you in the habit of collecting
notes due your Branch in Confederate money and
giving up the notes or giving memorandum receipts
therefor
Answer.-Up 10 the spring of 1863 did receive
Confederate money for between $4,000 and $4,000
of notes and bills owing to the Bank. Said notes
and bills were either delivered or Cancelled at the
time; after which time I declined receiving it in
payment Of debts due the Bank, except in the case
of two small notes amounting TO about $3.50. The
balance Of my collections were paid out Of amounts
TO the credit Of parties the Banks against whom
the Bank also had claims
Question.-Did not A. J. kyler pay note TO the
Bank in Confederate money in 1852.
Answer.-He proposed to do so, and did not take
i. He subsequently, told me that he had paid the
amount to Mr. Fisher, the Cashier of the Mother
Bank at Chattanooga, for which he took Fishers
receipt. The note is still among the assets of the
Bank.
Question.-Iou speak Of certificate of Il. S.
Claiborne Have you copy Of that certifcste7
Answer have and presented the following:
hereby certify, 1.-THE request Of Mr.. J. F. Brown,
Cashier OF Branch Bank Of Tennessee, at Trenton,
that on about the I'd Of May, instant, l was on
the car which conveyed the assets of the Bank Of
Tennessee from Greensboro to Augusta, preparatory
70 moving the same TO Tennessee. Twenty pack
ages that is, nineteen boxes and key of gold and
silver belonging to said Bank and Branches. Of
this specie there nineteen boxes deposited in
the State Bank Of Georgia, branch at Augusta, Mr..
Davidson, the presiding officer of that Bank refus-
ing in my presence, to take the key On the train
which conveyed tho assets Of the Bank of Tennes-
see, were Mr. Fisher Cashier of the Bank of Tennes
see; Mr.. Wilcox, Cashier OF the Branch At Clarks-
vile; Mr.. Cleag Cashier Of the Branch at Athens.
As far as Union Point 81. L. Claiborne, Clerk of
Bank Of Tennessee. and Mr.. P. H. Mitchell, who
was the bearer of a communication from Governor
Brownlow. The nineteen boxes were counted by
me standing in front of the State Bank, and after
had finished the count WAS agreed TO by Mr.. David
son, the officer of that Bank. l then went to the
Office where the books and papers of the Bank were.
have had no control OF care of the specie of the
Bank, being a clerk only of the same.
TSigned.I H. L. CLAIBORNE.
Mr.. II. L. Yeatman, examined:
Question.-Do you reside in Nashville
Answer-Yes, sir.
Question.-State whether you know Of any per-
son paying their Indebtedness TO the Bank of Ten
uessee in Confederate money, IN the South
Answer-There must have been a large number,
but cannot say as to any particular person; by
thinking little might remember
Quesuon.-Did you ever pay any of your own il
abilities IN Confederate money?
Answer never did.
Questlon.-Can you remember any person who
did
Answer.-l can remember one person whom ru-
NOR says did pay thus.
Question.-Who is that
Answer.-Mr. u. d. Dckey
QueStion.-Iave you any knowledge Of the
amount thus paid?
Answer-I have not
lsuestlon-Do you remember the time?
Answer About two years ago.
Mr.. J. c. French sworn:
Queston.-Do You reside in Nashville