  [1] My old friend, General Spinner, can further enlighten the reader on Leipold’s fitness for a commissioner to wind up the affairs of the Freedmen’s Bank. [2] Since writing this, one S. A. Peugh, a Claim and Pension Agent, was convicted by a jury of this District for taking an excessive fee. Compared with Attorney-at-Law Totten’s charges, his fee was extremely moderate. [3] Mr. Johnson, the Auditor, to whom the Court referred for adjustment certain accounts of the Freedmen’s Bank, has just furnished me with the following statements: In the case of Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Company vs. Abbott Paving Company, No. 4465, found balance due the bank, $63,890.80. To meet this there is on hand, in depreciated and worthless securities, $44,165.67. Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Co. vs. Vandenburgh. No. 4463. Found balance due the bank, $85,372.64. Securities on hand to meet this, depreciated and worthless $75,208.21. Stickney’s shameful and criminal mismanagement is forcibly told in the above. If we had a Tweed to tell us the true inwardness of the Abbott Paving Company, and the men behind its scenes, the story would be doubly interesting. |
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