Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-05-18
RICHMOND. Va, TUESDAY. NAY is. !
rENNsYLyANlA eANK or TnE 4. )

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The Stockholders of the Bank hold ,.,plr ,ii,,
meeting to.day-and if the Committee of lnyr,,
have faaressly and fully done their duty, we ;. :.
the veil of mystery rent, and the secrets Of Tn,
house dragged to the light of day. The wo,
learn, what has become Of the hundreds o. ;ho,..
of dollars, which were paid into the hands Of II.
die, on the Cashiers chechs-that were ai,eras..
lowed by the Dividend Committee without inye.
ten (see Lippinco,ts defence, and the article Fl
PhiIadelplia Public Ledger in this days paper
the vouchers for which disbursements have H..
suspciously destroyed Mr.. BIddIe sophstica,e
equiyocates upon the subject; and CoPperthwalte.
great aifec tation ofcandor, declines any eSplana,
Il now becomes the duty Of the Committee Of Inv.
ton to shed all the light upon II, which they la,
able TO collect How much Of these recent func
zone to bride the press-how much TO purchase
how much 10 influence the last Election .
New York Journal of Commerce APPLY SAYS
announcement that the vouchers for the 81.
were DESTROYED, shows a degree OF vlilanr
we hardly expected. What deeds of crime =.
corded in these vouchers, that nothing but III.
tructlon could screen the perpetrators: Nhose i.
were written on those vouchers: Are they nan,.
in Office and influence? Certainly We have rl,.
are obliged to infer, that the very wors. use w
of this money. Did it all go the way Of tie $
and to purchase men whose names cannot IT, men, \
TIE public have deep interest in this matter, VI
they own Bank shares or not; and certainly tie /.
holders ought not TO rest, until they know wh,.,
large sum WENT The clerk who kept the you
probably knows; and It cannot be difficult 70 L.. /
least the outlines of the matter.
Let the world see how far also the statements
Pennsylvania made las that highly respectful
nal asserts) supon good authority are cor!ec
us see how far il IS true, "that the Bank OF H. i
was no, broken alone by its cotton sPrcuIst..
dealings in fancy stocks; and how Tar Il i IT,
sercn millions IF doiiars Of the suspended d.
cupying nine folio pages OF the Ledger, cct.
loans 10 active and prominent Fedora! Wings
the last few years, and some of them made r.,
as 1889 and lS4O' Let Us see whether, 10 I. y
NJ. Mckinney, there is charged the enormous.
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars = and u
used or abused that money. Let wheia,:
fact, that ITO Daniel Webster, the small sun
hundred and ten thousand dolars-,wen,y.ee.t II
sand dollars Of which was over drafts in l-,9 an-
and whether "To John ). Riddle, the modem
Of one hundred thousand dollars stands chr. "
Let US see whether il is true, as has been
that the present Secretary Of the Treasury a.
dabblng in its loans-ln fact, let the seals be i
and the truth be known about our public men II
those more delicate matters, in which icma.r Y
lodelpnia is said 10 have been concerncd-,
sum Of 10000, whic n is said TO have been -.Gt
for her benefit, why, the stockholders nny p-.
it, or not, as they think proper-but the SOUND
public morals demands full expose oil all the 81.
this bankrupt institution. glorious ncorl v
indeed il is which has given the property o. II
and orphans, to be squandcred by corrupt po.: n
and dissolute roucs