The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-02-25

jail, but no had plenty of It. said L
him after I commenced: "Givo mo {
letter explaining TO Mr.. Corbin that
know ali about this affair THAT ho had
j IButterfeld appointed; that he should
Iget all tho information from tho Gov.
ernment and Gen. Grant, and that he
was pledged there should bo no gold
Isold on the part Of the Government)
80 that could talk to him. started
to Mr.. Corbin, and ho explained u
me that everything was oil arranged
that he had this stock with Mr.. Gould
who had held $500, 900 for Mrs. Grant
which had been sold out, and he had
received check for $25. 900, which he
Ihad forwarded to Washington. dc
said that everything looked bright and
he was confident we were doing great
national good--good for the country,
as well as assisting the road to secure
this transportation" On the Monday
before the "Black Friday" Mr.. Chap
in was sent by Corbin "a o special
messenger with letter to President
Grant, then at Washington, Penn.
He travelled night and day till the let
ter was delivered. "Gen. Grant open
the letter, and read it part through,
and then went out evidently ns If be
were going to show it to Mrs. Grant,
or some one else. He was gone about
15 minutes, when hc came back he
said to Mr. Chaplin: "All right" and
bid him Good morning." Mr.. Chap
in hurried to the first telegraph station,
and about IL o'clock we received his
dispatch. Delivered. All right" was
all the dispatch said. Thursday night
/ was around to see Oorbin, and Cor
bin said everything was working all
right, and that letter which had gone
forward had clinched the matter. .
Fisk continues:
"On Friday morning or Thursday
evening Mr.. Belden, then Of the firm
of William BeAaap & Co., who had a
brother-in-law y nine partner Of his,
who had done more or less business
for US all the time, said to me. If you
have all the gold you want, and want
assistance whatever, you had better lot
me come in 10 assist you ] said, 1i
you want TO go in go it, and give your
orders He said, Il have not time
Eenongh to see it, and hope you will at-
tend TO IL for me in the morning, when
you come down. viii bring my bro
ker into the back Office OF Heath Il Co.,
and you may give him whatever orders
you please. / told him that he must
give me letter of authority, and he
did give me the following letter of au-
thority:
SEPTEamER pa. n.
JAMES Fisk, jr., esq.-Dedr sir: ]
hereby authorize you to order tho pur-
chase and sale OF gold on my account
during this day, TO any extent you may
deem advisable, and report the samo
TO me as early as possible. It is to be
understood tho profits OF all such or
derssbelongs TO mo, and that I will
bear any loss which may result.
WM. BKLDRx.
On Friday morning, when I got
down to the Office Of Heath IL Co., ut
half past ten, Mr. Belden brought in
one Speyers, whom, suppose, you
have heard of. He introduced Dir.
Speyers, and said, sMr eFisk, Mr..
Speyers will execute any orders for my
account you may give him. He thcn
turned TO MIR. speyers, and said.
Whenever you have executed these
orders, you will report tho gold to
me- Gold was then about 143, and I
told Speyers the quicker he got thero
the quicker he would get some at that
price. Speyers, being ono Of those
Roman Saxonians belonging TO the
German Order, felt that as soon as he
could fill Belden's orders he would fill
his own gut with the same kind OF
stuff. It then got to be about 101
o'clock, and told Speyers to go it,
and buy all the gold he could. Away
he started, but by the time he got
there, gold had reached 160. Speyors
could not see why, when it had gone
up from 15 to 20 per cent. in 30 min
utes, it should not reach 800, and
hence he began toload up ct 160, and,
Judging from all appearances, he got
o pretty good cart-load Of it." Fisk
called on Corbin that evening and ask
ed to see his wife. tShe came down,
and she was precisely Of the same opin-
ion as Mr.. Corbin, that some mistake
had occurred; that Boutwell, had sold
the gold, probably, without consult
ing the President. She said that Mrs.
Grant had written her letter, in
which she stated that she hoped this
gold transaction would be over as
as possible as it made her husband
nervous. / said something had to be
done; that we could get out of this
scrape, and into the bert possible
shape we can. I said that the best
thing for him to do was to pack up and
start down to the White House along
with Mrs. Corbin, and you see what
all this means. II they are to sell the
gold, the sooner we know of it the bot
ter. They said they would pack up
and start on Saturday night. I went
around the next morning, and they
told me that they were packed up, and
that they had telegraphed that they
would breakfast with the Presidents
family at the White House on Sunday
morning. He told me he would be
back on Monday morning, and that
was the last I ever saw OF them"
The Committee put the following
questions to Mr.. Fisk over and over
again: "Will you state to this Com
mittee whether or not, during the time
from Sept. 21 to Sept. 27, any Gov
ernment officials were connected with
you in gold transactions in the City
/ of New York;
Mr.. Fisk's answer was invariably