Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-02-21

is there found. He had carried out exactly
what he wrote: that IL was intended to be
on1dential--unknown even to his family
and II It was revealed 1t would have to be
by me. He evidently sent In bill the more
surely TO accomplish the object During the
last eight or ten years the accumulation OF
my letters has been so extraordinary that II
has been my regular habit to destroy fully
niHe-tenths OF them; those that are not de-
stroyed are not fled but kept in their envel
opes until they crowd my drawers and tables,
and are then tied up, but not chronicled, to
De slowed away wherever room for them can
be found; indeed, Mr.. Chauncey, OF the
House, employed after had left that wing
OF the Capitol, for the Senate wing, In 1869,
happened to find box full Of old letters
thus tied up, the loss of which had entirely
overlooked; have gone three times over all
the letters have preserved, and have not
found this letter nor my political letters for
June; the acknowledgment of this draft for
$1,000 sent to Indiana cannot be found,
though fortunately the bank was able
to find the draft itself; the letter accompa-
nying the three checks deposited June % has
also been destroyed, so that l am unable to
produce either of the FIVE letters relating to
transactions Of that day. l remember dis
tinctly that after my nomination my mails
Increased enormously, amounting to fifty, IL
not sometimes one hundred letters per day,
and their preservation seemed so impossible
| remember, as others do, more than once al
most filling waste basket with fragments
OF destroyed letters. But, as l said, there
are living witnesses here to prove that re-
ceived at that time this 81 900 bill--one of
them having made three thousand mile
ride alone to tell this committee her recol-
lection of II. When my bank account was
examined here the cashier was asked what
the $40, 900 footing meant, and he replied to
the question that it was the amount of debts
Euh &c a,,a
ly balanced. 1t was telegraphed to the New
York Tribune that night that the books
showed that deposited $4,000 in one year,
and the Inference, of course, was that /
could, therefore, easily have forgotten
Sl,2OO AS my general accounts have thus
been made the subject OF discussion, and as
have no secrets in regard to them, feel It
my right now to correct this misstatement.
This total was for three years, not one year,
namely, from December, 1865, to October,
1865, inclusive, and embraced besides other
cash accounts, changes made in my invest
ments, the avails of a laborious life, and
which changes were mainly on advice of
valued friends In New York and the West.
On the debtor side are purchases of
$1,000 seven.thirties of the bank,
between Decembep 1885, and
April, 1866, mainly from receipts
for lecturing; one share of New York Tribune
stock, 5000, in January, 1857; present of
$1,000 in the early part of 1867, to my
mother, then an inmate of my family; an in
vestment of 5000 in bonds Of the Pennsyl-
vania Steel Company; house and lot in
South Bend, near the post-office, which am
glad to state Is worth now nearly double
the S2,2OS paid for 1t; asloan of S455 to Mr..
Matthews, as stated; aninvestment of S., 600
in the Wesler Rolling Mills, and the pay
ment of 81, $50 to Mr.. Rickston Burroughs
for money borrowed of him this amounts to
$4,000 out of $4,000 transactions these
three years; the deposits on the credit side
that enabled me to pay these amounts were
as follows: During these years l was lectur.
ing ON my stage-coach ride of 1865 across the
continent during November, in the holiday
recess, receiving from 300 to 5000 per lee
ture; received in all over $4,000 from this
source, of which 1 estimate about $40, 900
was deposited here; I sold the 81, 900 in
1905, and also sold the Tribune share for
$6, 100, and Matthews returned $455 he owed
me; beside these items I sold sixtY-two
shares of Adams Express stock at IN, and
a lot of second mortgage bonds of the Alton
81 Terre Haute Railroad for 81, $50, making
about S3l, ,000'in all, which offsets the $50, 900
in investments charged against them. OF
course the Committee understand that in the
bank accounts where changes of investments
are made the same money alters the figures
three or four times over. Thus l deposited
my lecturing money; bought seven-thirties,
sold them at an advance, and used the pro-
SSouE iVl allOLuCl luN6olulCnL. u
Tribune share mainly out of similar receipts,
sold 1t at an advance, and again used the
proceeds. A large part of the money drew
from the Sergeant-at-Arms for my salary was
dspQsited in the bank, as paid my house
Reef&pg expenses there. 1t has taken aIlsnfy
divideB8s, besides my salary to .psg~fhy ex-
penses fdisthe past half dozedesyears, and
hence my wfraaEs1sss tapfoifow the counsel
of better financieE g Sap myself in invest
ments and chaafses of Investments.
In answer to questions by JARge. Poland,
MrAs6lfax testified that he thodgf4ahe re-
ceIved the 81 200 the day after he received
the money from Matthews. When the wit
ness told Ames that he (Colfax) must be ovt
of it, Ames put his hand in his pocket, took
out small coin, and, offering it to the wit
ness, said: "Consider that l have bought 1t
back" The witness always had great repug.
nance to lawsuits, and drew out of the Cred
it-Mobilier for that reason. He would have
been glad to get out of the Credit
Mobilier at the cost of twice the
sum he paid Ames. He received
the 81 900 from Nesbit about the middle OF
the month succeeding the nomination. II
he had received the 81, 900 from New York
and $1,000 from Ames also, he would have
deposited both of them