Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-04
BETTER THAN A LOTTERY
Thousands Of Money sold by Auction
Names of the Fortunate, and the
Amounts Of their Acquisitions.

BY the directions of the appoiRtee of
chancery, Samuel Moseby, Esq, Mr..
Irrelevant, of the firm of Register, Treze-
want & Co., Yesterday sold the remain
ing assets of the extinct Gayoso Bank.
A sale Of express goods usually excites
interest; but II is q pale shadow COM
pared to the enthusiasm and eager ex-
pectation displayed at this great sale Of
money and securities. A display of
locked trunks and corded packages at
an express sale does not "amount to a
circumstance beside the lavish sums
in bank notes, the filled-up forms
of engraved and stamped papers,
signed and sealed, that represented
whole tracts of land and vast
gold mines of money, and entire. Al
ladin's lamps of treasure. Here there
was no "buying a pig in a poke"-all
was "open and above board" Mr..
Moseby allowed the valuable assets that
had come to the hammer TO be exam
ined, handled, and investigated, so that
every one before bidding off a fortune at
the rate of thousands for a dollar or two,
should realize the Yastness Of the posses
sions placed within his reach. Imagine
the scene when all this wealth was
placed before a patriotic and q generous
people, with the assurance that every
body might have just what they liked at
Just what they pleased to give for it. A
tribe of P%atagonians with awhole family
Of missionaries on hand-father, mother,
sons, daughters, and the baby-with a
good fire and a full supply of griddles
and saucepans, could not be more hap
pily placed than was the immense
crowd at Messrs. Register d Trezevant's
auction room when all this uncertainty
was placed before ii, for every n to
choose how many thousands he would
put into one pocket for two or three dol
lars he expressed from another. At
length Mr.. Irrelevant, hammer inland,
assumed his place, made one of his
happy opening speeches, then proceeded
TO offer notes of the Exchange Bank of
Georgia to the amount of five hundred
and tifty-six dollars. One single ten
dollar greenback secured the whole gilt
tering prize, and G. Cronin, Esq, was
the fortunate pOssessOr of the first half
thousand. Two hundred and thirty-five
dollars Bank of America (Tennessee)
money was next offered with profuse
lavishness by the unshrinking dispenser
of wealth and fortune, Mr.. Trezevant.
The twice-tOld favorite of fortune, G.
CrOnin, Esq, carried off this also. "In-
satiate archer, would not suffice?'
A greenback five made him the
happy master of this quarter of
a thousand more. Five hundred and
eighteen dollars, City Bank of
Tennessee, was sharply taken up
by Pat. NJ. Winters, and all the
gratitude he had to show for the favor
was to hand owe one dollar and a quar-
ter, in greenback and chicken-stuff, and
the half thousand was his. Winters
will never want to be Sheriff of Shelby
county again now he has found the Sc
cret of minting money at Trezevant's
auction. These were mere ~droppings
from the over-laden hive however. Thir-
ty-three thousand two hundred and
ninety-eight dollars were next brought
up TO be knocked down by MI. Treze-
wants fortene-dispensing hammer. How
the table grOaned under the weight Of
wealth! Every spirit present was will
ing to tap at that table, and what NOR
tai could refuse to be a medium when
the Influence was so strong? To give
all present a chance of being happy and
able to take a summers trip to Europe,
the money was divided into parcels,
and one pocketed five thousand, and
another twenty or thirty thousand, just
as they chose to pay from two to three
dollars for each five thousand lot. The
money was of the Confederate States,
and it possesses the peculiar property
of not taking to itself wings and
flying away. The many who got
rich with that money yesterday will
be rich, for it will stay by them
''till the cows come home,n and they
can pay Peter from it when they pass
into paradise after the last trump. Two
and a half for five thousand dol
lars of such abiding wealth-wealth that
thief will steal and no extravagant
son throw away on "wine and women,
mirth and laughter'i-it is unparalleled
since the time Adam bowed the first
candle out. Pity we have not Homer's
power and the medieval monks length
of sheepskin, to tell every detail of this
shower of wealth pouring and pelting
down upon whomsoever chose to be
deluged with the rustling thousands
but posterity must lose the story, for we
can add only that for 81 so John Dignan
bought S2115 of the Lawrenceburg Bank
of Tennessee. For So . per $1,000 w A.
Bickford became the owner of S4081 of
Mississippi cotton mOney-this put one
Memphis real estate holder, at least,
in funds. Another happy Individual
swoOped up $50 of Arkansas war bonds
for one dollar! G. Gordon gave S135 for
Sl39 of sundTy uncurrent bonds-what
was the milk in that cocOanut no
body appeared to know. A pack
age of wealth upon wealth, marked
by the cashier of the GayOso
Bank " worthless" G. Cronin car
ried off for SI7; there was evidently
{ a thing or twOn about that parcel that
that cashier was not down to. Next
1897 of sundry Southern State
S57 Mississippi cotton money;
$40 Confederate, etc, mixed money;
800 % in railroad change tickets; So 90
Bank of Tennessee change bills-in all,
S699, went to c. Cronin for S745. One
5000 Desha county, Arkansas, levee
bond, dated May so, 1867, payable " on
demand" was sold to James Cruikshank
'r $500. One S5353 So Phillips county,
Arkansas, levee bond, payable Novem-
Der Is, 1872, sold to K. j. B. L. Wynn
or $500. One $500 Phillips county, Ar
Ievee bond, payable June Is, 1862,
was taken by James Cruikshank for $500. !
Four hundred pieces of swamp-land
scrip, each piece for $50, was next Of
iered, and taken by various parties at
rom So to S45 a lot. One bill receiva-
Die, balance of S66, went to g. Gordon
or 81. -Four old bills receivable,
amounting to S2l7O, were taken by C.
Cronin for 81. One note receivable, for
balance of 81 81, was awarded to W. A.
Bickford for 81. One note receivable,
or S155, passed over to John Dignan
or 81 50. One note receivable, for Sl1S,-
,5, went to w. A. Bickford for 81. We
Indrstand there is "no more of the same
Jort left" and those who did not buy
themselves a fortune yesterday must be
,Ontented to have no banking account
md no iron safe for the remainder of
heir natural life.