Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-08-11

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The Erie War among the, Bulls and
Bears Of Wall Street.
The North American Review, for
July, has a history of the great Erie
war, from which we print the follow
ing:
HOW JAY GOULD WENT To ALBANY, AND
HOW THE ERIE BILL WENT THROUGH.
This mission was by no means unat-
tended by difficulties. In the first
place, Judge BarnaTd's process for
contempt seemed to threaten the lib
erty of Mr.. Gould's person. He left
Jersey City and arrived at Albany on
the 30th day of March, three days af-
ter the defeat of the Erie bill, and two
days before Mr.. MattOon had made
up his mind as to which report he
would sign. Naturally his opponents
were well satisfied with the present
aspect of affairs, and saw no benefit
likely to arise from Mr.. GOuld's pres
ence in Albany. the day after his
arrival, therefore, he was arrested, on
the writ issued against him for con-
tempt of court, and held to bail in
half million of dollars for his ap-
pearance in New York on the follow
ing Saturday. He was Immediately
pailed of course, and for the next few
days devoted himself assiduously to
the business he hadi in hand. On Satur-
day he appeared before Judge Bar
nard, and was duly put in charge of
the Sheriff to answer certain inter-
rogatOries. 1t would seem to have
been perfectly easy for him to have
given the necessary bail, and TO have
returned from Barnard's presence at
once to Albany but the simple meth
cd seems never to have been resorted
to throughout these complications /;
nothing was ever done without the
interposition of a writ and the as
sistance of a crowd of council. In
this case Judge Barrett of the COM
mon Pleas was appealed to, who issu-
ed a writ of habeas corpus, by virtue
of which Mr.. Gould was taken out of
the hands of the Sheriff and again
brought into court. OF course the
hearing in the case was deferred, and
it was equally a matter of course that
Mr.. Gould was bent on at once return
ing to his field of labor. The officer
to whose care Mr.. Gould was intrust-
ed was especially warned by the Court,
in Mr.. GOuld's presence, that he was
not to allow his charge to go out of
his sight. This difficulty was easily
surmOunted. Mr.. Gould went by an
early train to Albany, taking the Off
Ger with him in the capacity of a
travelling companion. Once in Alba
ny, he was naturally taken ill-not
too i'll to go TO the Capitol in the midst
of a snow-stOrm, but much too i'll to
think of returning to New York. On
the 10th the trusty official and travel
ing companion signified to Mr.. Gould
that his presence was much desired
before Judge Barrett, and intimated
an intention of carrying him back to
New York. Mr.. Gould then pleaded
the delicate condition of his nealth,
and wholly declined to undergo the
hardships of his journey. WhereupOn
the officer, stimulated, as was alleged,
by GOuld's opponents, returned alone
to New York and reported his charge
to the Court as a runaway. a new
spectacle of judicial Indignation en-
sued, and new process for contempt
seemed imminent. OF course MOTH
ing came of it. A few affidavits from
Albany pacified the Indignant Bar
rett. The application for a habeas
corpus was discharged, and Mr.. Gould
was theoretically returned into the
custody of the Sheriff. Thereupon
the required security for his appear
anee when needed was given and
meanwhile, pending the recovery of
his health, he assiduously devoted the
tedious hours of cOnvalesence to the
task of cultivating a thorough under
standing between himself and the
members of the Legislature.
a strange legislative episode occur
red at this time, which threatened for
a day or two to thwart Mr.. Gould's
operations, but in the end materially
facilitated them. All through March
the usual sensational charges had been
flying through the press in relation to
the buying of vOtes on the pending
Erie measures. These were as vague
and as difficult to sustain as usual, and
it was very important that no indis-
Greet friend Oflegislative purity should
blunder out charges which could be
triumphantly refuted. On the 1st of
April, however, the second day after
Mr.. Gould appeared on the ground, a
quiet, country member named Glenn,
remarkable for nothing but his ad-
vanced years and white hair, sudden
" created an intense sensation by
rising in his place in the Assembly
and eXcitedly declaring that he had
just been offered money for his vote
on the Erie bill. He then sent up to
the speaker charges inwriting, to the
effect that the recent report on the
rejected Erie bill was bought, that
members of the house were engaged
in purchasing votes, that reports of
committees were habituaily sold, and
ended by charging corruption, deep,
dark, and dammins upon a portion of
the House." of which he felt 'degra-
ded in being member" A commit
tee of inVestigat; = was of course
appointed, and the ress congratulat-
ed the public that at last specific
charges had been advanced from a
responsible quarter. On the 9th, Mr..
Glenn followed up the attack by charg=
ing, again in writing, that one MEM
Der of the Committee of Investiga-
ton, whose name he gave, was the
very member VINO had offered him
money for his vote. Mr.. Frear, the
member in question, at once resigned
his place upon the committee, and
demanded an investigation. Then it
turned out that the simple old gentle
man, between the desire for notoriety
and his eagerness to expose corrup-
ton, had been made the victim of a
cruel joke. Some waggish colleague
had pointed out to him an itinerant
Jew, who hounted the lobby and sold
spectacles, as an agent of the fourth
estate. From him the old gentleman
had, after some clumsy angling and
many leading questions, procured
what he supposed to be an offer of
money for his vote, which, by ludic-
rous misunderstanding, managed by
his humorous colleague, was made to