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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 16: capture of fortifications around Richmond, Newmarket Heights, Dutch Gap Canal, elections in New York and gold conspiracy. (search)
as not your business there largely with your Confederate friends,--getting their money into Canada? Yes, sir. Did you renew, if you had ever broken it off, your connection with the Peoples' Bank in Kentucky? Yes, sir. How long did you remain in Montreal? I came here from there in December, last. Did you set up your business here in your present firm name? Yes, sir. Who came with you? My brother, younger than myself. Who are your partners? My brother and Jesse D. Bright, the president of the Jeffersonville Railroad, Indiana. How much capital did you have? Eighty thousand dollars in greenbacks. Who put it in? My brother and myself put in one half, and Bright put in the other. I put in thirty thousand dollars and my brother ten thousand dollars. This has been your place of business ever since? Yes, sir. And what is the exact form of your business, that is, what kind of broker's business do you do? General speculating in gold.