New Orleans Republican., 1875-10-03

That was a nice party that cooked up
Black Friday-it was! There was Jay
Gould and Jim Fisk, the Erening Post and
John Bigelow, with other cooks and soul
lions ''toO numerous to mention in this ad-
vertisemeut." Amos Corbin. a relative of
the President by marriage, was tempted
into the speculation by no distant view of
golden profits and princely emplOyments,
none of which, we dare say, he ever real
lied, by way of giving quasi official in
fuence to the movement. Tue Post was
retained early. 1t did yeoman service for
several months in bulling -gold-and in its
leading editorial column. 1t fixed the "nor-
NAL" value of gold at lSO per cent, and per-
sstently worked up to this high pressure
point. 1t was never exactly knOwM who
handled the "consderation" for his ser
vice-whether w. c. Bryant g. Co., or
Isaac Henderson on private account, or
Henderson in joint account with the Taurus
Major who did the writing. But it GER
tainly fell out after the Commercial, early in
October, exposed the completely of the
paper with Black Friday, that there was
jolly Tow in its office, and somebody had
to go. 1t may be supposed, without great
violence to probability, that the scholarly
young man. who had gold on the brain, if
not in his pocket, could best afford to retire,
and he did. Then the Post could demnr TO
the Indictment of the Commercial which
was done in a very clumsy and unlawyer-
like way. Mr.. JoAa ~Bigelow came into
these kitchen counsels after Mr.. Weed had,
on his behalf, induced MIR. George Jones to
make him editOr-in-chief 0t the Tines. a
folly, by the way, for which Mr.. Weed, we
believe, has never orgiven himself EaIly
in August he had confidential chat with
the President, then in New York, who
frankly expressed his views of adminstra-
tion in regard to the reduction of the public
debt, the close and faithful collection of
the revenues, aud his great anxiety to
bring the national credit up to the pl .ne
of four or a four and a quarter per cent
funded stock. This policy was already
being pursued, but Bigtl w, new to his
present employment-having been out of
the press since lS5l-thought proper to give
emphasis to the views of the President next
day. This, according to the testimony be-
fore Congress, was on the sixth OF August,
soon after which the President went East,
not to return through New York to Wash
ington until near the close of the month.
Gould and Fisk were quick to seize the in
tervening opportunity to capture Bigelo ".
They did not go for him in their usual
vulgar fashion, for Bigelow had been an
ambassador to the French court and it
would not do. We noted James McHenry,
of London, was here at the time, and he
had Bigelow meet Gould at his cosy private
dinners up town. Next to Sam Ward no
one knows better than McHenry how
those things are done. Well, our late
ambassador was soon made an Erie
man, and not long after convert to
high gold. He protessed that he had not
succep ded in the Times to the hostility of
Mr. Raymond tlately deceasedl to Messrs
Gould and Fisk or to the Quarrels of his
financial man. then under bail to answer in
sundry suits, in three or four different
courts, for damaging the reputation of this
hnnaful nar nd tha arp,lIt nt fha up
tunate road which tbev had ravaged to the
modest sum total of $4,000 900. The whole
kit and Doodle might have been thought
dear at half the price, and this was not
paid. We have intimated that the fortnight
between the interview with The President
and his return from the East through New
York was well employed by the cnn-pira-
tors. Whether BigelOw was made their
dupe or something worse, it is sufficient
to sav that the celebrated double-leaded
editorial Tor high gold, dictated by Jay
Gould and in the manuscript of Corbin, as
from the "highest authority" was timed
with General Grants passage through New
York. 1t was fortunately intercepted, as
| the testimony relates, and the rascally de-
sign of connecting the Presidents name and
| authority with it thus happily frustrated.
These are the facts of the conspiracy so far
as it was intended to compromise the Presi-
dent through his relations with Mr.. John
Bigelow and the Times. When the scan
dalOus affair culmina I'd in Black Friday,
Bigelow was then the confident of one or
more of the conspirators, but he had that
| week received from Mr. George Jones no.
| tice to quit, and memorable editorial
fascO and scandalous conspiracy came to
an inplorious end tie same day. Why the
President should have failed to restore him
| to the diplomatic service, after reading the
| testimony before the congressional commit
| tee, may be easily understood.-Ne Yorl
| Commercial Advertiser.