The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-10-23
particular taste Of the reader may please to put

particular taste Of the reader may please to put
SO far all this scandal has been con-
veyed by baseless innuendo. save where the
, 10 SAY 9a SSsteSer the conspiratos chose
10 put In his mouth. Another word about Corbin,
ana then iet ms epsapm DC wen py tne same nana
OF this planet Let Admiral Fisk do the posthumous
labor OF recording his virtues
CoHBN IN A NUTSHELL.
Corbin was the Mephistophees OF the ring. He
undertook the Titantic work OF managing certain
newspapers. with one sole end in vew TO influence
the market and the administration and make his
pile He undertook to deceive the sharp OF fel-
lows that composed the gold ring, and who can deny
that he failedY Who can deny that he made Fisk,
Gould END the rest OF the ring believe that his
voice was all potent at the White House, else
alone opened the eyes OF his trusty foowers9 This
professional lobby Iobber OF course cared nothing
carea Ie Naneeon for 70 ms his
sodiersf To stride to victory over ruin
and misery needs heart Of sterner stun
than ordinary men possess. And what cared
he for the administration. for the country,
for anything under but mis- sordid self9
Let Grant go by the board and the memory OF his
great victories be wiped out in the reproaches OF
Indignant nation rather than Corbn should lose his
margins on gold. or such was the creature with
whose Shiny exudations these active contributors
TO the Bohemian press would fam besmear the
reputation OF our Chief Magistrate. But nous
UerfOns. These ab0rlous scandal mongers have their
time OF trial. too and the future Is not too dark TO
that the labor OF their present undertaking will
nave a reCOU lT0u WHICH tney may Ndlnly ueSuc w
escape.
THE RING rHIRsrINo FOR OTHER VICTIMS.
/ Casting around for other victims after the
slaughter OF Corbn the ring discovered that General
Grant and one OF his appolntees, the Assistant
Treasurer In New York. could be assaulted at one
and the same time. General Butterfed was selected
the tangible target for the poisoned shafts
OF calumny, and united EFFORT was made TO drag
him. body and soul, into participation IN the secret
designs OF the conspirators The adrotness OF the
man9uvre cannot be questioned. Here comes Mr.
Frederick A. Lane henchman to Jay Gould Co.,
with long report addressed to his employer OF the
various interviews he had with General Butteraeld
IN all OF which ne struggles hard to give the
reluctant to pay his losses. 1t may no. be
quite irrelevant to inquire who IS Frederick A.
Lane, and whether he be not identical with the at
torney VINO sold out the proxies OF the Erie Railroad
TO Fisk Gould, by which they were elected
the money for the purchase OF the proxies being fur
nshed by Daniel Drew, with the understanding that
he was TO receive them In his election. 1t is well
remembered how Uncle Dan was counted
out, though only for his kindly helping hand
the world OF wall street and the eges Of the Erie
Railroad might never have heard the names OF Fisk
and Gould. Did the transaction rebound much to
the honor Of Attorney Lanep The curious in the
matter can inquire Tor an affirmative Wall street.
There are good many little incidents in the attor
ney's career which throw such q curious renec-
ton his highly spiced account OF General
Butterfelds relations to the ring that 1t would be
well for General Grant Tor whose especial eye the
OF the author and the relation he holds towards the
controllers Of Erie stock This is not meant by way
OF defence OF General Butterield for he needs no
volunteer In that regard, being amply competent
prove in the proper place. his entire in
him. The public, however, might ike to know from
what every day these torrents OF ready
made atfdavits letters reports and statements, and
OF which the supply seems never likely TO stop.
THE LIES OF LANE.
Lane In his letter to Gould starts out with this
statement OF his interview with the Assistant Trea-
surer the day Of the panic-
stated to General Butterhsld that had called refer
ence to the one million and half door of gold he had in
lao per cent told him that he must either put
for his account and in his name.
The General replied that there was some misun-
derstandlng II you bought for him; and while he did
not admit his legal liability flor they did not have
his signature to anything did they have scrap
OF paper In his handwritlng, yet whatever his
friends had done for MIN he felt in honor bound to
stand up to- and he would do 80. Il peg leave TO
state that the General must excuse me from giving
his exact words. his conversation was SO inter.
larded with profanity that no gentleman would re-
peat it).
The sentence in parenthesis needs no comment.
Lane was GouId's confidential agent that day; and
II General Butterfed was IN that pool, where was
the necessity OF saying there was some misunder-
Jay Gould parades a check he says he gave
General Butterheld for $4,000. Now is Mr..
Gould prepared to swear he did not give that check
to General Butterneld to accommodate him In meet
ing an account at MS bankers, as he might give 1t
to any old and intimate friend with whom he came
IN contact daily. and whose means warranted him
in expecting punctual paymentS And now what
Is meant bv the long winded yarn that
ed to pay up $1,000 or run the risk Of being sold
out OF the pool He tries TO make 1t appear that the
General Is IN the pool with the rest, and that as
matters are going contrary to expectation he must
put up more margins or take up the gold entirely
1t would be sold out for his account How like the
tone OF Shylock this sounds.
Al my orders from you were perempory SAYS Lime 10
make him give margin. or take up The gold have sold
would take the responsibility OF selling him out would
O'Clock, Monday, and agree to mortgage his
real estate for balance to be found due the
tons when they were closely
in hfo
and he sent Lane to have the money or
the pound OF flesh The whole tone OF this story as
told by Lane s strained and malicious but told with
80 much pausbity as to catch the atlentic of the
unwary reader and make the subject OF 1t appear
by inference implicated In the operations OF the
ring. AS TO the mortgages on General Butterneld's
real estate they prove nothing but prurient
Osity on the part OF those who love hunt I'D the
private transactions Of public men and spread them
IN cheap print before the public limiting the same
time that any man who mortgages his property and
holds an oflcal position must certainly be engaged
logic.
ACTION OF GENERAL BUTTERFIELD.
However, General Butterneld is not asleep In this
matter. He has informed the President and Secre-
tary OF the Treasury that certain allegations have
been made against him, he deems 1t incumbent to
call for court OF inquiry to prove his entire nno-
cence. He utterly repudlates the idea that he has
been concerned in any OF the gold ring operations,
and, he Is still oflcer OF the United States army
he requests that an investigation be instituted by a
court composed OF the highest Ocers In the service
be cleared Of any aspersions cast upon it. He
denies every charge made against him as being
wholly and unqualifiedly false, and eagerly asks
for an opportunity to prove the same. When the
nty their pleasure the full correspondence viii be
given TO the press.
A TILT AT THE RING.