The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-03-05


information from the Government and
Gen. Grant, and that he was pledged
there should be no gold sold on the part
of the Government), SO Lat | could talk
to him. | started off to Mr.. Corbin and
he explained to HE that everything was
all arranged that he had this stock
with MIR Gould, who had held $500, 900
for Mrs. Grant, which had been sold out,
and he had received check for S25 900,
which he had forwarded to Washington
He-said that everything looked bright
and be was confident we were doing
great national good-good for the coun-
this trans oortation." On the Monday
before the "Black Friday" hlr. Chapin
was sent by Corbin as special messen-
ger with letter to President Grant, then
at Washington, Penn H. travelled night
and day till the letter was delivered.
''Gen. Grant read the letter part through,
and then ueut out, evidently - !. he
were going to show it to Mrs, Grant, or
some one else He was gone about l5
minutes and when he came back he said to
Mr.. Chaplin "All right and bid him
''eood morning" Mr.. Chaplin hurried to the
first telegraph station, and about IL
CLOCK we received his despatch. DE
livered. All right" was all the despatch
said. Thursday night | wcnt around to
see Corbin, and Corbin said everything
was working all right, and that the letter
which had gone forward had clinched the
matter" Fisk continues
'On Friday morning or Thursday
evening Mr.. Belden, of the firm of Will
liam Belden & Co, who had a brother-in-
law Of mine a partner of his, who had
done more or less business for US all the
time, said to me, If you have all the
golu you want, and you want any assist
ance whatever, you had better let lie
come in to assist you l said, IF you
want to go into it, give your orders
He said, L have hot time to see it, and
hope yeu will attend to it for me in the
morning, when you come down. | will
bring my broker into the back Office Of
Heath 4 Co, and you may give him
whatever orders you please told him
that he must give me letter Of author
ity, and he did give me the following let
ter of authority:
SEPTEMBER 24--a IN.
l hereby authorize you to order the pur-
chase aud sale Of gold on my account
during this day, to any extent you may
deem advisable, and report the same to
me as carly as possible. 1t is to he un-
derstood the profits Of all such orders
belong to me, and that will bear any
loss which may result. WM. BELpoa.
On Friday morning, when got down
to the Office of Heath & Co, at half past
ten, Mr.. Beldon brought in orc Speyers,
whom, suppose, you have heard of. He
introduced Mr.. Speyers, and said, Mr.
Fisk, Mr.. Speyers will execute any or
ders for my account you may give him.
He then turned to Mr.. Speyers, and said
Whenever you have executed these Or
ders, you will report the gold to me-
Gold was then about l43, and l told
Speyers the quicker he would get some
at that price. SPeyers, being one 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. 1t
then got to be about 104 O'Clock, and
told Speyers to go it, aud buy all the gold
he could Away he started, but by the
time he got there, gold had reached i60.
Speyers could not see why, when it had
gone up from 15 to 20 per cent. in 30
minutes, it should not reach 800, and
he began to load up at l60, and, judging
from all appearances, he got pretty
good cart-load of it." Fisk called on
Corbin that evening and asked to see his
wife. 'she came down, aud she was of
the same opinion as Mr.. Corbin, that
some mistake had occurred; that Bout
well had sold the gold, probably, without
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 soon as
possible, as it made her husband nervous
/ said something had to be done, that
we had to get out of this scrape, and into
the best possible shape we can. | 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 see.
what all this means. IF they are to sell
the gold, the sooner We know it the bet
ter. They said they would pack up and
start on Saturday night. | went around
the next morning, and they told me that
they were packed up, and that they had
that they would break fast
with the Presidents family at the White
House on Sunday morning. He told me
he would be back on Monday morning,
and that was thu last / ever saw of them.'
The Committee put the following ques-
tion to MIR. Fisk over and over again
'.Will you state to this Committee wheth-
or not, during the time from Sept. q to
27, any Government officia were con-
nected with you in gold transactions in
the City of New York ?''
Mr.. Fisk's answer was invariably: sI
beg to state to you that l have told you
in good faith in what connection con-
sidered the Government officials were fig
uring with me in that gold speculation
havo stated to you the Precise position
in which / have considered Gen Grants
family in this gold transaction, on the
information derived from Mr. and Mrs.
Corbin, and that is all the answer you