Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-08
Smoke Clearing Away.
Reorganization Of the Gold Exchange
Bank.
The Gold Room under a Ban.
Fisk and Corbln--MOre Sworn State.
ments.
President Grant and Boutwell,.


NEW YORK, October THE Assistant
Treasurer has redeemed q, ,O0O, 900 of thre'
per cent. certificates.
The Gold Room had an executive ses.
sion to-day to consider the report of the
committee instructed to devise plan fol
aclearing house, but action was suspended
for one week upon the strength of the
representations of the Gold Exchange
Bank, that they would be able to resume
business in a few days, and intended to
propose the entire reorganization with
new directors and officers, and were more
over willing to abandon the banking bus
mess and confine the business ofthe Bank
exclusively TO the clearance of gold, and
1t was decided that all persons
having unsettled contracts outstand-
ing are requested to refrain from
dealing in the Gold Room.
The arguments were heard to-day by
Judge CORDOBA In one of the gold in
junction cases, but the decision was not
given. The capias in the case of Brown
VS.. Fisk & Gould has been served on
Mr.. Gould.
Rumor speaks Of another bull move
ment in the gold market.
NEW YORK, October 6.-The following
affidavit will appear to-day:
State of New York, City and County OF
New York:
ION Thursday, September 10, 1869, I
met Mr.. Gould and Mr.. Fisk, at their
office, corner of Twenty-third street and
Eighth avenue, New York city, and was
instructed by them to call on Mr.. A. r.
Corbin, brother-in-law of the President Of
the United States, at O'Clock on the fol-
lowing morning, at his residence, No. 81
West Twenty-seventh street, where i
should obtain letters from said Corbin to
President Grant, at Washington, Penn,
and take such letters and proceed by the
first train to said Washington. If the
President was not there upon my arrival,
to travel until overlook him, and deliver
TO him said letters in my possession, re-
ceiVed from Mr.. Corbin. On Friday morn
ing, September 18th, called at Mr.. Abel
r. Corbin's house, at 6:45 am. His SER
want appeared and brought two letters
from Mr.. Corbin, which he handed me,
and while was conversing with the SER
want Mr.. Corbin appeared at the head of
the stairs, and 1 told him (Corbin)
had seen by the morning papers
that the President was in Pittsburg,
Penn, the day before, and asked
If lie thought 1 shomld find him at
Washington, Penn. He replied, You
will find him in Washington, Penn
sylvania' / told him I supposed had
better deliver the letter to the President
in person. He said he wished meto do so.
1 asked him whether, if the President
should be engaged, should send a card
to him, telling him / was a special mes
senger from Mr.. Corbin, his brother-in-
law. He approved Of my suggestion and
told me TO do SO.
'I took the $40 train, via Pennsylvania
Central Railroad, for Pittsburg, Pennsyl-
vania, arriving at about 80 am. Satur-
day. l took q carriage for Washington,
Pennsylvania, arriving between 9 and 10
O'Clock. I found the President stopping
at the house of Mr.. Smith, about half
mile out of town. / first inquired for
Gen. Porter, TO whom also had n letter
from A. r. Corbin. Gen. Porter shortly
afterward appeared, and / presented him
his letter, and told him l had one for
President Grant, which 1 wished to deliv-
or to him in person. The President soon
came up. 1 handed him his letter, telling
him had been requested to do so in per-
son. He took and opened ii, In nv pres
ence read It, returned into the house, and
soon sfterward appeared again, with a let
ter in his hand. / shortly afterward
w
ton, from whence telegraphed Mr.. Jay
Gould, President of the Erie Railway
Company: Letter delivered all right I
then returned to New York.
(Signed) "WM. o. CHAPLIN.
"Sworn TO on the 9Th day of October,
1869, before me.
-.s MORTIMER SMITH,
Notary Public of New York"
The Evening Post says Mr. Corbin, who
L. ata
in reply to Mr.. Fisk's letter. Its nature
may be gathered from statements of
friends who have been in communication
with him. These deny that Mr.. Corbin
ever, from the beginning of the gold spec
ulation, many weeks since, to noon of
Friday, when the gold market broke, on
September p, had any conversation with
James Fisk, jr., on financial subjects OF
any kind, either alone or In the presence
of others. They deny that Corbin ever
authorized or instructed any person, eth
er verbally or in writing, during the same
period, to buy or sell stocks for him or for
others. Mr.. Corbin's friends say that the
letter of Fisk and the affidavits sccompa-
nying it, show q deliberate attempt to
place Corbin in false position. Bantield's
affidavit shows, they say, when analysed,
that for three months this man was en-
gagged watching Corbin's house, in order
to be able to swear that Fisk and Gould,
at different times, actually passed in
and ont of Corbin's door. They add
that during the whole course of the
late gold speculation, Fisk was not once
invited by Corbin to his house, for any
purpose; and that, in short, the impress
sion that Corbin was, during the gold
excitement, with Fisk, is not true. Cor
bins friends say il Is true both Fisk and
Gould have been in Corbin's house. They
made various calls there, with the pre-
1ext or excuse of Offering railroad and
steamboat accommodations to Corbin's
family.
Ii is asserted that one of the calls made
by Could at Corbin's house, was when
President Grant was staying there.
1t Is added that Gould conversed with
the President, and asked him some ques-
tions about the general financial policy of
the Government. To this Grant, il is as
serted, replied that he had told Mr.. Bige-
low, editor of the Times, in a converse
ton, all he thought the public needed to
know, and that BigslOw had put it Rll into
an article published some days ago, TO
which Gould might refer. This explains
the Presidents patience with Fisk iIl-
terrogating him on the boat, as well as his
reference to a previous conversation.
The Post says; " The above statement,
we have reason to believe, contains the
views of Mr.. Corbin, and will be repeated
in any reply he may make to Mr.. Fisk's
letter"
The feeling on Wall street against Fisk
and Gould has died away, and the most
bitter denunciations are made against the