[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.