The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-12

| acrimonious litigation among its principal stock
holders, and had therefore abandoned it with
| out receiving any dividend or certificate, but at
a loss of the money had paid upon it, and of
| the fact of these conversations 1 will produce
| evidence. | come now to the bank deposit of
| $1,000 in bills for June %, 1861 and the&com-
mittee will remember that really invited the
| examination of my bank account by stating to
| them unmasked that kept my accounts at the
| LIST National Bank, where all my checks depos
| tied would be found endorsed by Inc, whether
| payable to order or bearer. Difficult as it is to
recall all the transactions of five years in
| public mans life, will state to the committee
| where all the money came from deposited from
June %, 1868, and will add that it was the
month Immediately succeeding my resignation
| for the Office now hold, and the total deposit
was $196S.63, and there being no previous de-
post later than the LIST of June, it shows that
| the deposit was the accumulation of monies
paid to me during the intervening three weeks.
| This is also proven by the dates of the three
| June Is, signed by j. N. Seymour; one for $3.50,
dated June II, signed by E. c. Cordin, and one
for $500, dated June II, signed by T. Denny &
| Co., none of them having the slightest connec-
committee. Of the deposit of bills for 5000, 1
am positive they were paid me by my step
! father, Mr. Matthews, on account Oh debt he
owed me in December, 1867. 1 paid S455 for a
| piano of Steinway & Co., through w. G. Met
zerolt, for his daughter, the check for which is
| in the bank, and agreed to wait for the most
| of it till the summer, when he expected to be
| better able to pay me.
After my nomination in May, 1868, L had
numberless appeals for contributions for politi-
| cal expenses in various localities for process
I sions, bands, charity religions, &c., and had
| promised to contribute as promptly and largely
as possible to the legitimate expenses of the
canvass in my sharply contested State of Indi-
| ana l therefore asked Mr.. Mathews to paw me
his Indebtedness as soon as he could raise it, to
| assist me in meeting those demands incident to
| my new position. Dursng the month of June.
1868, and, as nearly as can fix the time. abour
| the middle of the month he paid 5000 in bills
on account, and early the next month he paid
ment before Congress adjourned late in july.
l am very confident this 5000 formed part of
this $l20o deposit being part of my cash re-
| June 22d.
About the time OF this payment. and as near
as can nix the date, abovt the middle of the
month OF June and very soon after the paw
ment OF Mr.. Matthews was opening my letter
mail at the breakfast table in accordance with
my usual custom and found an envelope with
another envelope postmarked New York. On
opening the inner envelope found it Contained
a letter written by George E. Wisbitt, congrat-
uiating me most cordially and warmly on my
nomination for the Vice Presidency, and say
ing mat the writer desired to send me confiden-
tlaliy the remittance enclosed to aid me in the
heavy expenses In the canvass, but wished it
kept secret as neither his family nor any one
would know it unless told them. Enclosed in
TINS was greenback or national bank note
| for $1,000.
II was as gratifying as it was liberal, and
holdlng up the letter and the bill ! asked the
attentlon OF all my family to it and then read
them the letter. The bill was then passed
around from hand to hand and examined. am
! sure l deposited it with the 5000 had received
from Mr.. Matthews and purchasing on the very