HOW MR GREEN SOLD THE PRESIDENT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 419, 24 April 1863, Page 5

HOW MR GREEN SOLD THE PRESIDENT.

The richest sell ever perpetrated upon tha head of a nation has recently come oft i:i Washington (writes '• Manhattan," the'Standar correspondent), whenaimu named Grven, pretending to be a messenger of Jeff Davis, with Ji)ropi»sals of peace, completely huiii'ji<::ged the President, obtained; his entire con si-■jt-nce, whs present by special invitation at two cabinet meetings, received a liundrer!. dollars in cash, and n pass to fittsburg, ami yet never was at Richmond, but was live years in the .»tate prison Tor avandiing a carpet ;: an out ot ; two buudsed dollars. I can ta?)jy helieve that he victiiaisvd the I're^ideut, foV he victimised your ' correspondent' ouc of twenty dollar's in tht. most iieughtnit manner. In ISSS, I owned au'ii edited a.paper of :ny owi).' Green called, 5h00.., hands, and was delighted to see me. He asked ior my resi-

dciß-e. as he had a i>air of'iruinense sUtg-bi;n:s tb.it he had brought in his steamer from California, sent by an admiring friend .of mine anil, a subscriber, of my paper. An hour laier h'e'ealied again. Ho had; left a l.vr^c quantity of gold dust at :i Wail-street broker's. It would take an hour belore it \v;:s weighed;; meanwhile his steward vvtis w;i>ti;;:j down .'•tail's, and wanted money, to go to Washington' market to get fresh 'meat for tiic crew of his steamship. If I had any moiiey that I did not want for an hour—twenty dollars would bo enough. What could I say or do in such a case to a capt <in of a California;! steamer who had so very kindly brought nit; a pair of deer's horns, that he had ser.t to my SioHse free of expense. 1 gave him. the twen!y dollars. '. He went down stairs, i ne\vr saw deer's horns or captain of. the steamer ; but when " Confidence Green" was arrested i<n tlie carpet matter, 1 wt nt to see him' in the Tombs. He was my deer-horns captain. IJo ivh welcome'to the monej'. He was sent up iv.-c years. "I heard he was in the Japan business out West, and now he has done old Lincoln and his Cabinet. It i* perfectly rich. Oh, how easily I can imagine my. plausible deer's horn captain-having frequent interviews with the President! Fancy the Captain, Ministers, all listening to the views of Jeff Davis as given bj' a man who had never seen him in his Jife. The Cabinet was suspicious; but Green disarmed them by soft-soaping the Present about his emancipation yieivs. We have had nothing like such an insignt into a President's Cabinet since the famous Sam Green's letter in the New York Herald, revealing the secret of President Pierces Cabinet in 1857.