The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-12-29
rhe Hubbard -Burnea-Ansvews Draft
-ssafemeat In Reiastes so sas Case
Especial Telegram TO the NewsI
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AUSTIN, December y. 1877.
! The following statements are had
from source deemed entirely relisble,
as well as perfectly informed
The inuendos of the German Post are
/ false. Colonel ANDREWS knows aud Col.
onel Burnett viii testify that he (Bur.
nettD nearly five months ago said 10 the
governor that If he 1.-THE goyernoFl could
raise money that he needed on draft
which he would draw on j. II. Burnett
Il Co, that he tBurnett) would see IL
accepted, bat that the governor must
protect il by shipments OF cotton. Colo>
nel Andrews endorsed the draft, The
cotton was not shipped on time, and the
draft was not paid, and is still unpaid.
Whether J III. B. Il Co.. had an Office.
or received other eottons or not. does
not change the question. The transae-
ton was purely of personal and busi>
ness character
Card from J. n Burnett d Go.
EDS NEws--0bserving an article in
your issue of the list instant, trans.
ferred from the German Post, | deem il
my duty to give IL an unqualified and
emphatic denial of some unwarranted
statements, which either the grossest
carelessness or something worse has
caused TO be published. ifthe reporter
of the Post had indeed been in search
of the facts ia the matter as to the kind
and amount of business done by the
firm of. H. Burnett a Co., an applica-
ton to us would have placed him in the
direction to obtain them fully and
arir i.,I L. h l..
TO assert that Burnett a Co. have for
some time past hsd no Office, and kept
no books, and done no business, is as
false as would be our statement that the
same was true of the German Post.
Some three months ago we determs
iBed to move and did move our place of
business from the Strand to one of our
own offices IN the fremont hotel build
ing, from considerations of economy and
convenience. Having our means locked
up in the hotel and in the penitentiary
contracts. we therefore determined not
to engage as extensively as We had done
IN the cotton factorage business. but
merely, without solicitation, to handle
any cotton that our friends might
choose to contide to our care. Receivs
ing copsigpments from several OF these,
and finding our present office to be un
advantageous for the proper conducting
of the business, We made arrangements
with reliable house on the Strand to
take charge of any consignments made
TO us. The names of parties who have
shipped us during the present season
and their postothces are upon our books
at our office, and are subject to the
freest inspection for verifcation by any
fairly disposed person having an inter.
est in the matter.
So far as relates to Governor Hub
bards business relations with us, the
facts are simply these Some five
months ago he called on US as factors,
for the purpose OF effecting loan of
certain sum of money, with which he
desired at once To meet some pressing
Indebtedness. As security, he offered
to US an ample amount of real estate,
but as this was wholly an unavailable
collateral. as is known to all merchants
here, we proposed that he draw on our
house in such sums and such maturities
as he might be able to meet by ships
ments of cotton from his own planta>
ton or otherwise. and we would try to
provide the money, we suggesting three
or tour months, Burnett Il Fitzpatrick
knowing nothing of the transaction
and having not scintilla of interest in
it.
This is the whole matter in nut
shell, and the real history in connection
with q draft about which such ahame>.
ful and infamous peryersiou of facts
has been insidiously paraded before
the public, IN a mysterious and mis-
chievous manner, for purposes, politi-
cal and Others, TO injure US or to reflect