Schwab did not have access to Spence's report which gives further ground for this suspicion.] [Footnote 1070: A newspaper item that Northern ships had run by Vicksburg sent it down; Lee's advance into Pennsylvania caused a recovery; his retreat from Gettysburg brought it so low as thirty per cent.

discount.] [Footnote 1071: After the war was over Bigelow secured possession of and published an alleged list of important subscribers to the loan in which appeared the name of Gladstone.

He repeated this accusation--a serious one if true, since Gladstone was a Cabinet member--in his _Retrospections_ (I, p.

620), and the story has found place in many writings (e.g., G.P.Putnam, _Memoirs_, p.

213).