Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1858 — A Hard. Man to Buy. [ARTICLE]

A Hard. Man to Buy.

General Ainasa Cobb, member of the Senate from lowa county, in 1856, seems to have proved about the hardest customer that the La Cross Company attempted to “propetiate” by a “pecuniary cum pi i men*.” It ».>. e*:s from the testimony 1 efore the Investigating Committee that William Pitt Dewy was sent by Kiibourn to labor with General Cobb. Mr.' Dewey, after urging the subject for a time, remarked: “They (the La Cross Company) are hound to carry it through anyhow, and you might • s well make something out of it as the rest of them.” General Cobb—-“ What s the amount of the capital stock of the company.” Dew 'ey—“Tun mil I lions.” General Cobb (in his quiet, slow, deliberative manner) —•• Well, you can say to Mr. Byron Kilbourn, that if he would multiply the capital stock of the company by the number of leaves in the Oapitol Parkland give me that amount of money, and then have himself, (Kilbou'-n,) Mo»es Strong and Mitchell blacked, and give me a clear title to them as servants for life, I would take the matter under consideration.” — Madison i irfs.J St-.itg Jounutl-