Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-02-24
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I was sent for, to go to Governor HoIdc0's
)house, about O'Clock at night Tie
| Governor wanted Inu 10 bear q letter t.,
lChief Justice Pearson 1T his home by ueyf
train. The train left about 1 O'Clock that
might NY impressions wcrc that he
WANTED me to proceed at once. He gave
lme money TO bear expenses. lie gave me
no instructions about c0Vs,yancas at High
Point or elsewhere. / went to Salem, and
fgot part of the way between there and the
Chief Justices and stopped about 10
o'clock at night, at farm house, until
next morning, got guide and proceeded
10 the residence of Chief Justice Re
NAMED there about two hours Tic Chief
I1ustlcc came with me on nv return. The
Governor did not tell me anything about
bringing the Chief Justice with me-. Mr..
Ball was there, and told me- the best road
to go, and said 7 had b tter pct s1ch =
conveyance that the Chief Justice could
come down with me. Mr.. Bali stated that
be had been TO see the Chief Justice and
that he would come. e would be more
likely 10 come if [ carried Il convcvancc
that he could come with me. ! STAYED
! about three miles from the ('h!ci j Justice
home the night before, and reached lis
house about O'Clock in the morning, p
NAMED about two hours and started. We
took dinner at Salem and supper at High
Point, and reached Raleigh on schedule
!
and part of two nights.
I know that the Sentinel newspaper is
published in Raleigh. 1t came to the
executive office. Can't say that i saw IL
there every day. Have seen the Governor
reading it often. The letter taken by .nu
to the Chief Justice was sealed.
4. d. Jenkins-I received 500, 600 lis
paymaster. Paid out tho first $1,000
principally for commissary stores-I paid
to Geo. W. Kirk 81, 600 rs teller il thc
treasury department., before ! VA az
pointed paymastcr, on All crInr isau11
from the Governors Office ntar8iEue1
by Auditor. This was about tho Dist or
22d of June last. phis sum Is not includ
ed in the $66, 000. -aa -
L received S., 600 On the 14th OF July,
1870, part of it was used in paying Of OF
ticers in advance Of their pay rolls beinc
prepared. L ondeavored to be Oh my guard,
so IS not to pay in advance OF what
due. July 22d / received 500 eco. Or
that day Gov. Holden sent message for
me. He, Gov. H told ne that Uorncr
would make out WaITang tor 800, 600, Et4G
it was done. Don't knew Wig ii W.
done that day. L had heard that tnere
might be an IN upction. 1 Turned oN,r
more than $4,000 to Alr Neathory.-
! (Wltness gave exact figures but hepOrirI
did not catch them.) Some time In thc
latter part of August received no'lco al
injunction, as pagmas CT. s me four ar
five days after ] received oIdoij To- tar
over the money III my hands TO Mr.. Noa
| thery; it was on Saturday morning recci'-
| ed the order. L did not obey Ii that day
L showed it to Mr.. Bailey, II lawyer.
| did not refuse to obey. | did not do a.,
or that day because I want / - crn,t.I
counsel to know If / was restrained f..uu
obeying IN consequence of the lnjupctiul
! On Sunday morning about Q o'cioci
met the governor at National Hotgi, l.,
erquired as to when I would turn over N.c
money to Mr. Neathely, as ] had been O.
dered to do. L declined to do SO then. t.
/ said it was important iJ should be done
told him / would see him again. a me-
sengcr came to nc and said that tbo guv-
etnor wanted to see n4c. [ went 10 the
Executive office, there [ saw the governor,
Mr.. w. Ell. Bailey and Mr.. Il. G Badger
/ The governor asked me If it would DC con
venient for me to turn the funds over t.
Mr.. Neathery that day. / informed liz.
that if I could get tue funds ouf of ban
that day l would. Mr.. Bailey @lid
would have to obey the order. IA.
have hesitated somewhat; L hesitated be-.
cause Of the Injunction. Gle governor
said it was important. Something vas
said by some one in the room about tht
bank being epioincd. This was i'll the
have the troops disbaudel. the GOV.
ernor knew of the Injunction. I told hin,
OF it, underworld to convey the i,'ct T.
the Governor tha5 ! could not pay Wii..@
the Injunction was pcnliDg. / do nos
know that my father was reluctant 10 pay
out any OF this money IS Treasurer, after
he had consulted counsel. IL3 consulted
the Attorney General and other counsel.
[ first went to the Raleigh National Bank
! tn Nm. nj IN 1 MI
get out such funds Us L lad IL Bank az
paymaster. He told me that ho would
examine into the funds and sec-aud /
went about s O'Clock that night to the
Bank. Mr.. Wiley, not being, cerfain about
the matter. L thought 1 would see if Nj.
! Williams, of the State National bank
would not cash my draft GA the Raleigh
National Bank. He said he won!d If he
could see Col. Anderson, who had gone to
a funeral. Got buggy and went after
| Col. A. L received part III currency AMI
part in q check on New York from Alr.
Wiley the residue got from Mr.. VIII
liams, on a certified check. Attar l had
seen the Bank officers L went to see Mr..
Neathery. He was not at home. l. then
sent for him. He came about 10 O'Clock
it was Sunday night We were in the
Executive office / then turned the funds
over to him. We got through about T.
o'clock that night. After ! had made az
my mind to do SO, [ wanted TO turn the
money over. was merely detailed as Pay
master. l was appointed AiI to the Gov
ernor. / consulted counsel because L hal
not taken oath to obey orders, and thought
that was therefore bound by the lnjuuc-
ton. The Treasurer deposits IL both
Banks. L had a small amennt, some 5000
of the funds alluded to, in the Treasury
the remainder was to my credit in Bank.
Mr., Bailey advised me. that rs long as [
was detailed, the Injunction bound me,
but did not after the detail was revoked
Mr.. Bailey was not my counsel. L under
stood he was the Governors counsel. /
saw him with him.
Abel W. Fisher. l am Adjutant Cen
eral [ have one letter, / think in my Of
fee from Ct. w. Kirk to the Governor. /
have no kilograms or letters relating to
Col. Kinks command, in my office, but
this one. All orders would necessarily go
through my Office. I don't know that ali
corresDOndenca would. All orders Ger