Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-02-04
THE GOLD "RrNos / IN NEW
YORK.

A Congressional committee has been
lately investigating the transactions Of
the "Gold Ring" Of New York. The
public will remember that an attempt
had been made to implicate President
Grant and his wife in the operation,
through Grants brother-in-law, Abel
B. Corbin, but without just cause, as
will be seen by the following testimony
of Corbin himself before the commit
tee. The following is copied from the
Washington correspondence of the
Philadelphia hqnirer of january eth,
which certainly goes to exonerate the
President and his wife:
ENTER ABEL n. coR1ix.l 81
To-day, to the surprise Of the whole Com
mittee, Mr.. A. r. Corbin walked into their
room and announced that he had received
the final summons Of the sergeant-at.arms
and was ready to answer. ,
THE OATH ADMINISTERED.
He was at once sworn, and kept on the
stand for three hours, and made revelations
concerning himself that completely vindi-
Gated Fisk and Gould.
nr cRIMISArEs HIMSELF.
He admitted having gone" into the gold
speculations with Mr.. Gould, to having got
the Sl25,0 900 for Mrs. Grant, which he says he
kept and never meant 10 give her; and con.
siders that a. he was dealing with u~nscrupu-
lous men he had q moral right to involve the
President and his family for the purpose Of
| making money.
~HxcULPArBs rHB PRECEDENT.
He tried to vindicate the President and
Mrs. Grant, but was so %garrulous in his tes-
t;mony, so wandering in his replies, that he
| failed to conceal the fact that he was totally
devoid Of principle. and fully justified the
hostile criticism Of J. Fisk, Jr.
coRBIS's CHARACTER.
He is a man Of cunning and craft, fully
equal to the shrewdest Wall street operators,
and what the Committee got out OF him had
to be literally dragged out.
MORE TESTIMONY TO CONE.
They let him 60 to-day until tomorrow,
when he will again be pat on the stand.
DOES NOT VISIT II wHITs HOUSE.
He is stopping N Capitol Hill with a sis.
ter, and so far has not got near the White
| House, nor has any Of the Presidents family
been to see him. He startad for this place
Yesterday. Before leaving, he said that he
would not go but for the letter just received
from Washington, saying that he must go
and exoneratc the President and Mrs. Grant,
il it cost him his life.
STIMULATES INFiRAITY.
He walks with u cane, and pretends TO be
very badly crippled with the rheumatism,
but the Committee believe his sickness to be
fcigned.
PERSONAL APPEARANCE.
His bushy beard. dyed black, his gray hair
and prominent features and white eyes,
which roll around rapidly and sesrchiugly,
tend to make up a physi0gnomy that once
seen will not easily be forgotten.
coNTRADIcTs FISK.
He is very bitter against Fisk for his testi-
mony, and denies that Fisk ever came to see
him but once, and that was after the panic.
C0LLOorIAL.
He stated to the correspondents who called
to see him that, acting under advice, he de.
clined to speak about the unpleasant matter
that brought him hero unwillingly, but
seemed ready to talk fuently about anything
else since the days Of Tom Benton, whose
amanuensis he once was.
WHO WAS 0yBk-REAcHED.
The first impression Of the Committee was
that Mr.. Corbin had fallen into q den Of
thieves, but now it seems that Messrs. Fisk
& Co. have been the unfortunates who have
been over-reached By their supposed ally aud
well nigh totally engulphed in the ruin they
were so coolly mapping out for others.