The Democratic news., March 12, 1870, Image 1

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JACKSONVILLE, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1870
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and that Corbin hud told hiui thai no gold was to morning. Ho told me he would be back on Mon­
Constitutional Amendments.
come out fiom the Government. There was not day morning, and that was the last I ever saw of
much gold here, and we can pul it to 145 and shall them.”
FISK, jr .’ s , STORY BEFORE THE CONGRESS INVESTI-
THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT—1865.
not lose anything.”
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The
Committee
put
the
following
questions
to
: Published Every Saturday Morning,
• GATING COMMITTEE-
A rt . 13. S ec . 1. Neither slavery or involuntary
started, and 1 found I got what I could carry every Mr. Fisk over and over again : “Will you state to i servitude, except as a punishment for erime, where-
Fisk jr., and Jay Gould.gave their testimony be­
BY P. ». HULL,
bit ot it. Gold, when I started in, was 136]. It this Committee whether or not, during the time
of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall
Publisher As I> r o p r 1 e t <» r. fore Hie Investigating Committee on Saturday. had been down to 131, but go| up there again be. from Sept. 21 to Sept. 27, any Government offi-1
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exist
within the United States, or any place sub­
Mr. Gould was exaimm-d first, and occupied at
fore 1 got in, Gould had gold enough to sink a ciils were connected with you in gold transac-! ject to their jurisdiction.
OFFICE—On Third St. Between California and C. least four hours in giving his evidence. Mr. Gould
I ship. 1 never knew all, iut he had plenty of it. tions in the City of New York?”
S ec . 2. Congress shall have power to enforce
.Mtetncd to bo very reticent, and the Committee
TERMS:
I said to him after I commenced > “Give inc a
Mr. Fisk’s answer was invariably : “I beg this article by appropriate legislation.
$4 00 could get nothing out of him except by continuous I letter explaining to Mr. Corbin that I know all lvaveNo state to you that 4 have told vou in good
Subscription, per annum, in advance..
THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT—1861.
12 00 ¡questions. Mr. Fisk, on the other hand, began his ¡about this affair (that he had Butterfield appointed; faith in what connect ion T considered the Govern­
Six months..............................................
jstory, ami went directly through with but little that he should get all the information from the
A rt . 14. S ec . 1. All persons born or natural­
ment officials were figuring with me in that gold
ADV ERT IS EM ENTS,
questioning. The following is the substance of his
ized
in the States, and subject to the jurisdiction
I Government and Gen. Grant, and that he was speculation. I have stated to you the precise po­
In T he D emocratic N ews will be charged at ■story :
I pledged there should be no gobi sold on the part sition in which I have considered Gen. Grant's thereof, are citizens of the United States and of
the following rates
Fisk and Gould desired to raise the price of gold
juf the Government), so that I could talk to him. family in thii gold transaction, on the information the State wherein they reside. No State shall
$3 90 'so that they might be able to employ their road
First insertion, (ten lines or less)
I started to Mr. Corbin, and he explained to me 1 derived from Mr. and Mrs. Corbin, and that is make or enforce any law which shall abridge the
For each week thereafter.................
$1 00 ¡(Erie R. R.) in the shipment of grain which would
that everything was all arranged ; that he had this all the answer you can get out of me, fur this is privileges or immunities of citizens of the United
A liberal deduction from the above rites will be remain in store if gold was low. They according
States ; nor shall any State deprive any person of
stock with Mr. Gould, who had held $500,000 for all the information I have got.”
made on quarterly and yearly advertisements.
ly determined to interview President Grant, and
Mrs. Grant, which had been sold out, and he hid
“Do you know whether Gen. Butterfield was in life, liberty, or property, without due process of
went with him to Boston, where they gave him a received a check for $25,000, which he bad forwir-
| law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdic­
these gold speculations, Mr. Fisk?”
JOB PRINTING.
supper. They then learned that he favored specie ded to Washington. He said that everything lotk-
“les, I understood Gen. Butterfield had a share, tion the equal protection of the laws.
Every variety of Job Work executed with neat- payments and cheap gold. They argued against
S ec . 2. depresentatives shall be apportioned
ed bright and he was confident we were doinj a or was engaged in speculations at this time in
uesa and dispatch, at reasonable rates.
it. Fisk says : “1 remember one remark Gen. ¡great national good—good for the country, as well 1
among the several States according to their respec­
Wall-st.”
Grant made, after we had talked about an hour
as assisting the road to secure this transportation.”
“Did Mr. Butterfield furnish you with immedi­ tive numbers, counting the whole number of per­
and a half. ‘That, anyway, tho bubble might as
On the Monday before the “Black Frida)” 3Ir. ate news of the dispatch he had received to sell sons in each States, excluding Indians not taxed.
well break at one time us another,’ as much as to
But when tie right to vote at any election for tho
Chapin was sent by Corbin as a special messenger Government gold?”
say that if the crash had to come, it might as well
Mr. Fisk—lie was in communication with us. choice of electors for President and Vice President
with a letter to President Grant, then at Washing“
come at one time as another. Our idea of a ‘crash’
ton, Penn. He traveled night anti day till the let­ We knew he had one and a half millions of gobi I of the 1 nited States, representatives in Congress,
is to have it all milk and honey with us, and to let
ter was delivered. “Gen. Grant opened the le ter, with us. We bad a messenger go down to Mr. tho executive and judicial officers of» State, or
the next fellows stand the brunt of the crash. We
read it part throngh, and then went out evi­ Butterfield's office three or tour times, and every the members ot the Legislature thereof, is denied
JACKSONVILLE LODGE No 10 want to sell ‘long,’ and let the next man have all and
dently as if he were going to show it to Mrs. Gnint, 1 time he came back with the word from Gen. But­ to ;my of the male inhabitants of such a State,
'the flurry. We want all the fun, and let the next
or some one else. He was gone about 15 mimtes, | terfield that every thing was “all right.” About being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the
JJOLDS ITS REGULAR MEETINGS ON fellow have all the trouble. In other words, we
when he came back he said to Mr. Chapin : “AH' i 11 o'clock, when he went there he did not find Mr. I nited States, or in any way abridged, except for
every Saturday eveuing at the Odd Fellows'
want
to
make
the
money,
not
to
lose
it.
But
Gen.
Hall. Brothers in good standing are invited to
right,” and bid him Good morning.” Mr. Chapin 1 Butterfield, When he came back, alter being • participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis
SILAS J. DAY, N. G. i Grant didn't seem to reason it quite that way.” hurried to the fust telegraph station, and abcut 11 ¡gone
attend.
about 30 minutes, I asked him, “Where the • ¡of representation therein shall be reduced in the
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N. D. SHORT, R. Sec’y.
Next Gould made the acquaintance of Mr. Corbin
devil
have you becu ?” He said, “ I could not proportion which the number of such male citizens
’¡o’clock we received his dispatch. “Delivered.'
P. F ehlet , )
the President's brother-in-law. They s
• All right,” was all the dispatch said. Thursday i 1 get in, because there such a commotion, and when shall bear to the whole number of male citizens
S. J. D ay , I Trustees.
iary
Bout
wed,
but
got
nothing
satisfactory
from
W m . R ay , J
night 1 was around to see Corbin, und Corbin said ¡ 1 did lie pointed me to another man who held a twenty-one years of age in such State.
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him.
When
the
President
started
for
New
York
in
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No person shall be a Senator or Repre­
t—f
May 1st, 1869.
everything was working all right, and that letter ¡uLpatch ordering the sale ot four millions of
June, Gould wrote a “strong letter,” wh.ch be
which had gone forward had clinched the mutter.” geld.'’ Evidently that information had been re- sentative in Congress, or elector of President and
JAMES K. NEIL,
gave Fisk, jr., to put in the hands ef the President-
Iceivcd by Gen. Butterfield, and indicated to other \ ice President, or hold any office, civil nr military,
Fish continues :
Fisk says : “Gould asked me to take it to Gen.
under the United States, or under any State, who,
“On Friday morning to Thursday evening Mr.! I parties betore it had been indicated to us.
Grant, and have a talk with hitu, and if I saw lit
“Did you state that you carried some gold fur having previously taken an oath as a member of
Third Street, (west side), between California to say to Gen. Grant, if Government would not Belden, then of the firm of William Belden <t Co., I
Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or
who had a brother-in-law of mine a partner of his, Gen. Butterfield'.”’
and Main.
sell gold, we, for ttie sake of geltiug this transpur
Mr.
Fisk
—
.Mr.
Gould
carried
some.
as a member of any State Legislature, or as an ex­
who had done more or less business for us ad the
Will practice in the Supreme and other Courts
tation, (fur the sake of getting employment for our
“
W
hat
became
ut
the
$50,000,000
gold
carried
ecutive or judical officer of any State, to support
of this State.
time, said t<> me, ‘Ifyou ha ve all the gold you want,
1,700 or 1,800 men, whom we had fur the purpose
for
Mrs.
Grant,
and
$500,006
carried
fur
Gen.
Por
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the Constitution of the United States, shall have
and want assistance whatever, you had better let
T9"“ Particular attention paid to the collection I of moving this crop, whom we had to pay whether
■ engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the
ef Claims against the Federal and State Govern I we moved it or nut), would go in und put the gold me come into a.'si.«t you.’ I said, ‘Ifyou want ter. and $1,500 000 lor Corbin ?”
“Uli 1 that has gone with all the rest. Where same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies there­
meats, th* Entry of Lands under the Pre-emption
to go in go it, and give your orders.’ He said,
and floruestead Laws, and to the Entry of M.neral j market up to a point where we could ship this crop, ‘I have not time enough to see it, and hope you the woodbine twineth 1”
of. But Cungre s may, by a vote of twurthirds of
and start up trade here. I went down and had u
Lodes under the recent Aet of Congress.
“You stated that Corbin was paid $25,600 fur each House, remove such disability.
will attend to it for me in the morning, when you
long conversât on with Gen. Grant on the way to
S ec . The validity of the public debt of the Uni­
Mrs. Grant. Was that in a check or in money?”
C. W. KAHL EK,
Newport, and at that time, when 1 left Gen. Grant, come down. I will bring my broker into the back
Mr. Fisk — It was in a check, drawn by Mr. ted States, authorized by law, including debts in-
oflice of Heath A (. o., and you may give him what­
we decided that we should couie to Newport next
ever order.- you please.’ 1 told him that lie u^ust Martin in favor of Jay Gould or order. Mr. ■ curred for payment of pensions and bounties for
Sunday, and in the interval he should telegraph
Gould indorsed it, and handed it to Mr. Corbin services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion,
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for Boutwell, and cither hav^ Boutwell come to give me a letter of authority, and be did give me
who deposited it in his bank for collection, and it shall not be questioned.— But neither the United
JACKSONVILLE, OREGON,
the following letter of authority :
Newport or have some decision of the matter, so
[Went to Mr. Gould’s bank, and was drawn and de­ States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt
S eptember .21—a. m.
Will practice in the Supreme Court, District, and that we could tell something about it. In other
posited to the credit of Mr. Corbin. This showed or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or re­
other Courts of this State.
words, we were to have a conference on the sub­ J ames F isk , jr., esq.— Daur *lr: I hereby au-1
bellion against the United States, or any claim for
OFFICE— In building formerly occupied by 0. ject. I learned in the latter paft of the week that thorize you to order the purchase and sale of gold that*there was something unusual about the trans­
action, for it is not the way men do business in the loss or emancipation of-any slave, but all such
Jacobs—opposite Court House square.
he had not heard from Mr. Boutwall, and we did on my account during this day, to any extent you
debts, obligations, and claims shall be held illegal
New York.
not go up. Then it got to be about the 1st of may deem advisable, anti report the same to me as
DK. CEO. B. TO LU AN,
“Do you know if any money was paid to Mrs. and void.
August.” Meantime Gould made the acquain­ early as possible. It is to be understood the prof­
S ec . 5. That Gongress shall have power to en­
Grant?”
(late Surgeon U. S. Army,)
tance of Mr. Catherwuod, Mr. Corbin’s son-in-la-v, its of all such orders belongs to me, and that I
Mr. Fisk—I only know what the old thief Cor­ force, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of
and he was talked of for Assistant Treasurer in will bear any loss which may result.
this article.
bin says ; I don't know of my own knowledge.
Physician, Surgeon, and Accoucheur,
New York, but was subsequently dropped for But­
PROPOSED FIFTEENTH A mendment — 1870.
W m . B elden .
“Mr. Fisk, do you know wh.it the lcttter con­
ILL PRACTICE IN JACKSON AND terfield. Fisk continues : “It seems ut that time
A rt . 15. S ec . 1. The right of citizens of the
On Friday morning, when I got down to the of­ tained which Mr. Chapin carried from Mr. Corbin
adjacent counties, and attend promptly to I Mr. Corbin (Grant’s brother-in-law) had taken up
United
States to vote shall not be denied or
fice of Heath A Co., at half-past ten, Mr. Belden to Gen. Grant at Washington, Penn., and which
all calls on professional business.
the theory that the crops should bo moved off at brought in one Speyers, whom, I suppose, you
abridged by tho United States, or by any State on
Mr. Corbin says had clinched the thing
OFFICE AND RESIDENCE,
high prices, and he went one slip further, that a have heard of. He introduced Mr. Speyers, and
“No ; that is the only mistake made ; that is account of race, color, or previous condition of ser­
<m 4th street, opposite the M. E. Church, Jack- I good deal coaid be made out of it. If you know said, Mr. Fisk, Mr. Speyers will execute any or­ 'where wo were overreached; we ought to have vitude.
aoaviUe, Oregon.
anything about Corbin (and I suppose you do) you ders for my account you may give him.’ He then found out what that letter contained.”
S ec . 2. Congress shall have power to enforce
8th, 1870.
jan8-tf.
know that when he goes into anything, he gener­ turned to Mr. Speyers, and said. ‘Whenever you
this article by appropriate legislation.»
Ben. Holladay.
ally wants to take all. When he reaches up fur ha ve executed these orders, you will report the
Dr. L. T. DAVIS
H enry C lay .—In his day it was the habit of
i anything be generally wants to take everything gold to me.’
Gold was then about 143, and I tcld
‘
•Fortune
is
a
fickle
jade,
”
and
no
more
curious
the polite world of the Capitol, dressed in their
there is on the shelf, and he does not even leave Speyers the quicker ho got there the quicker he
illustration
of
the
truth
of
the
expression
is
found
gayest,
to repair to the Senate Chamber to listened
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the shelf, lie takes the nails, the boards, and all. would get some at that price. Speyers, being one
Opposite t lie Old
You know that any scheme he touches withers. of those Roman Saxonians belonging to the Ger­ than in the experience of Ben. Holladay, the mar­ to him when ever he spoke. Clay was everybody'a
He probably never touched any one but Mr. Gould man Order, felt that as soon as he could fill Bel­ riage of whose daughter to a French Count, we pet. No man has ever had such adulation since.
chronicle in another column. Ben Holladay is an
A kkans as L ivery S table , and myself who did not die, and he came very den’s orders he would fill his own gut with the old Platte Countian, and we therefore take a lively No inan has ever got habitually such brilliant and
near killing us both. Corbin then conceived the same kind of stuff. It then got to be about 10J interest in him and are proud of his financial suc- splendid audiences for his orating as he. Those
idea that, having Butterfield (Assistant U. S. o’clock, and I told Speyers to go it, and buy all Icess in the world. Many of our old citizens re- were days of grand debate, when the Press had not
Jacksonville, Oregon.
I member well when Ben. at that time as poverty
Treasurer at N. Y.) in there, Butterfield, feeling the gold he could. Away he started, but by the stricken a wretch as any ot us, established himself gained so much prestige—before oratory had given
E- II. GREENMAN,
untier obligations to Mr. Corbin, there was a great time he got there, gold had reached 160. Speyers in
’ business on Bee creek in this county as the way in Congress to the reporters. There were no
ician «49 Surgeon, deal of money to bo made, as I understand he was could not see why, when it had gone up from 15 keeper of a one-horse bar-room. His “shebang” veryfofty flights then and you cou’d not prick an
speculating largely at the time he was turned out. to 20 per cent, in 30 minutes, it should not reach , was a frail shanty where from a counter construct­ orator, like a bubble, with a witty sarcasm. Clay
OFFICE—At his residence on Fifth Street
ed of a plank laid on the ends of two barrels, he
Jacksonville, Oregon.
Mr. Gould, I understood since, had bought about 300, and hence he began to load up at 160, and, used to dispense liquid lightning to his thirsty never disappointed. Fe would not have dared.
JSD“Will practice in Jackson and adjacent coun- two and a half millions of gold. He commenced judging from all appearances, he got a pretty good customers
at five cents a drink. Ben has prosper­ But ho dared things that no other man then or now
1
ed
in
the
world
since those days until now he is dire. At the end of a brilliant passage he would *
ies, ar.d attend promptly to proiessional calls.
at 137, at which price he told me Corbin had told cart-load of it.” Fisk called on C rbin that even­
classed
as
one
ot
the wealthiest men in the United
him that Mrs. Grant had $500,000, Gen. Porter ing and asked to see bis wife. “She catne down,
States.
There
are
yet living in this county friends pause deliberately and walk six steps across the
DB. A. B. OVERBECK
$500.000 and he had a million and a half, himself. and she was precisely of the same opinion as *lr. of his who helped him to elope with his present aisle, to Robert J. Walker’s snuff-box, and taking
WILL PRACTICE MEDICINE AND SUR- It was at this point I got into the matter. Mr. Corbin, that some mistake had occurred ; that wife, the daughter of our fellow-citizen Mr. Smith a pinch gracefully between his finger and thumb,
H GERY, and will attend promptly to all calls Corbin told me this afterward. It ran. along to Boutwell bad sold the gold, probably, without Calvert. Ben quit the whisky business and gut to return to his desk and put it with such ineffable
freighting across the plains. From stage driving
on professional business. His office and residence about Sept. 15th. dold during that time kept set*
consultiug the President. She said that Mrs. to the proprietorship ot Holladay’s Overland Stage distinction to his nostrils, the whole audience was
•re at
tling down to 131, and Mr. Gould had got his own Grant had written her a letter, in which she stated Company, was a rapid advancement. Then came ready'to burst in applause. With any other man
The Overbeck Hospital,
lines of Steamships from New York to Aspinwall,
1-tf carpet-bag full of it, as I could see from the way that she hoped this gold transaction would be over and thence to San Francisco crowding along in that would have become ridiculous. Clay made it
On Oregon Street, Jacksonville. Oregon.
he was tearing up little pieces of paper and strew­ as soon as possible as it made her husband nerv­ fortunate succession. Then various huge specu­ sublime. It was the great king going to bed in
ing them around the floor. Every man has his ous. I said something had to be done ; that we lations, always successful, until finally we read of the presence of his admiring courtiers.
JAMES D. FAY,
peculiarties. You know that the hatchet was on could get out of this scrape, and into the best pos­ “Holladay’s Valley Railroad” through Oregon,
F ortitude of the B ed B ag . —“Some year«
him very near up to tho handle, and that about al sible shape we can. I said that the best thing for and still later, see him allied, in the marriage of
his daughter, to nob.lity itself. Now, for the pur­ ago,” says old Hank, “I took a bed-bug to an iron
of his consolation was when be became thin am him to do was to pack up and start down to the pose of rubbing off upon our humble shoulders
CalUbrnia Street, in building formerly occupied by weak, to go off and counsel with this high-mindei Wnite House along with Mrs. Corbin, and you see some of the glcry of Ben’s illustrious self, we foundry, and dropped it into the ladlo where the
melted iron was, and had it run into the skillet.I *
Dr. E. H. Greenman.
friend, Mr. Corbin. When he came down to the what all this means. If they are to sell the gold, would remark that one of the late compositors in
our
office
is
a
brother-in-law
of
Beu.
Well, my eld woman used that skillet pretty con­
Will practice in the Supreme and other Courts
office he would stop every morning and take a dose the sooner we know of it the better. They said
Such
are
some
of
the
vagaries
of
dame
Fortune,
stantly
for the last six years, and here the other
of this Stale.
of Corbin.
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After I commenced they would pack up and start on Saturday night. and if she keeps on petting Ben, we would not be day she broke it all to smash, and what do yoa
Particular attention paid to the collection to buy gold, I said to Mr. Gould : ‘Where are I went around the next morning, and they told surprised to some some day hear of his being Em­ think ; gentlemen, that eTe inseot just walked out
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acainst the Federal and State Govern- you? Have _ you any
. understanding with Mr. Cor- me that they were packed up, and tuat they bad peror of the French ; then because his brother-in- of his hole where he'd been lying like a frog in a
law was onoe our printer (if he rewards like Grant), rook, and made tracks for his old roost up stair» L
ox viaime »a
Lands under the j>re.emptj0B bin 7 Has he oarried out any of those theories with
•
telegraphed
that
they
would
breakfast
with
the
1
we hope to be Prime Mini.ter.— N.atte City Rc- But, bv George, gentlemen, he looked mighty
I °WB and to the Entry of Mineral' Grant which he commenced as far buck as July ?’
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un^the wceit Act of Congress.
1 tf.
Ik said : ‘Yes, that
everything
was
¿inderstoo
tbat
^inderstuod, President’s family at the White House on Sunday vcille.
The Gold Conspiracy.
Attorney & Counsellor-at-Law.
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attorney & Counsellor-at-Law,
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