The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-12-04
General John S. Mosby in the
New York Gold Room.


The New York Herald, Of Wednesday
last, says:
About noon yesterday strange scene
occurred in the Gold Room on Broad
street. Sitting by the side of the Vice
President, Mr.. Hoyt, was person wearing
a greycoat, who it was whispered round,
was the ex-rebel chief, "Jack" Mosby.-
The breasts of the loyal brokers burned
with Indignation, which burst forth in the
shape of a.note written by Mr.. j. B. Col
cate and seut to Mr.. Hoyt, asking him if
the rebel Mosbywa sitting at his side, and
if SO, protesting against his being there
On receiving. the note and glapcing over its
contents, the Vice President read it aloud
and then said, "Gentlemen, allow me to
introduce to you Colonel Mosby." Mosby
then arose and was received with mingled
cheers and Kisses. The brokers ofthe New
York Gold Board were evidently never
more divided than on this occasion. While
some advanced to the Colonel to shake him
by the hand, others protested against the
proceeding bv Loyalty shaking their heads
and cesticulating their indignation. Amid
the din and confusion, the following bro
ken sentences might have been heard
ono place for traitor cas-. much right
there as anybody else" "Who have rem
dered themselves infamous by their rebel
lious acts2" "Colonel Mosby was brave
soldier" "Good judge of horses" "a
better man never lived.'' ga worse was
never Lung,n &c. These delectable and
entertaining expressions of the difference
of opinion in with Mr. Mosby was held by
the brokers present were suddenly silenced
by that worthy leaving the room and the
Tice-P President calling special meeting
of the Board, when he desired to know
whether or not he was to be sustained in
introducing his friends into the ROOM
Tab!eaux The Vice.President was sup
ported by the majority, who en- lorsed his
action in introducing from his elevated po-'
sion, one of Ills friends( Colonel Mosby the
ex.euerilla chef,) to the loyal brokers OF
the New York Gold Board.
The New York correspondent of the
Charleston Mercury gives the following
version of this affair:
Some of the papers having published
what seemed to me one-sidcd version OF
the scene in the gold room yesterday af.
ternoon, when the presence of Colonel
Mosby was discovered, ] called on the ia.
nous raider last night and obtained full
statement of what occurred Being in
New York for the first time hethought he
would 90 down among the bulls and bears,
and on reaching Wall street he met
friend who brought him TO the gold room.
The President Of the Board, Mr.. Hoyt, in
vitcd Mosby TO a seat, near his own, and
while the cx-Coloncl was looking at the
brokers, one of them, Mr.. Colgate, wrote
on Slip of paper, aJohn S. Alosby is a
traitor. and has no business i'll this room.o
TIc sent this up to Mr.. Hoyt, who called
the board to order, and read it aloud, and
two-thirds of the brokers were on their.
feet in an instant, shouting, Kissing, cheer
inc and ecst;culating like madmen. Mosby
was taken by surprise, but when the up
roar had gone on about ten minutes, he
rot up and faced the crowd and said,
sGentlemen, no such Glamour as this can
flighten me.' The president did all he
could to command order, but without
much success. Finally, the cheer over
came the Kisses and majority Of the bro
kers went up one after another, and shook
Mosby by the hand. The Glamour subsi-
dcd soon after, and Mosby walked quietly
out of the room with his friend. MIR.
IIoyt is the same gentlemen who invited
General Bcauregard to the gold room last
Summer.