Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1857-08-06

aats Nts7oh : totuet esaNehiou1 - tho Nouee1gt
oaiy SS53,OOO have been returned Of a SUM
of more than one million -dOllaH, taken from the
Treasury by Mr. Breslin, Of which he alone was
in default making John G. Breslin a d0fauItsF
for $7ss,69l oil
OF this sum be furnished deprecated paper
mouating to SI54,636 Sc, making the SUITE
loser outright and uBsceouhied for Of s57l,
s54 SIS Mr. Gibson claims that not one dollar Of
The public money has stuck 70 bis hands or been
lOzt BY him, aud presents an account Of balance
due to him BY the State Of $4,000.
At the time Ar. BresIin saA making up his
aunual stAieFnehts in October 1858 which
showed that over s700peO was then in the
Treasury, il will appear from the testimony Of
Mr. Deshler, Cashier Of the Clinton Bank Of this
city, that Mr.. Breslin's draft for $4,000 was
protested in New Work, and rot paid for weeks
after bis return her and then in dribleis, which
facts we're known to the Fund Commissioners aud
Coy. MedT Mr.. auditor Morgan, whose
books called for the Treasurer 70 haYe on banC
the large sum Of money reported, knew of tlii
dragging theh onor ofthe State iu the dust. and
no Governor then called on the deiauRinp Treas
urer to resign, as did Governor Chase when Nj
1 Gibson's ryelations were made known to him.
Mr.. Rreslp lost the confidence Of bis own polit
ical friends bere, Wien be leit his own cour IT.
: and fed to the dominions OF Queen Victoria
, The refuge OF fugitive slaves. Testimony has bee
given that he has signifed bis intention not to n
turn, aud a few days since his family repaired I
q Windsor, his present place Of sojoum.
One Of my former articles spoke Of the poss
: bility 0: Accelerated Cincinnati Police officer b
ing able to secure the return Of Mr.. B. For
e wEmed, the gentlemen in Canada loaded himse
n from illegal arrest being satisfied pe treaty sti
d ulaiions warranted bis extfadton. o. a.5r
p Mr.. Gibson, under ell, 900 bonds for his q
y. pesapce at The Franklin county Court in Oct
Der, has been hele for several days and relpr
y this morning to Tiffin.
He declares that no human soul was knowir
of the fatal step taken by him Of conceang Bre
e. n's defslcalo1. His motives, he declares, we
d. two fold--Lo protect his own Interests, and tho
re of the State. He was personally liable on b
bond for $250,0Q0,--bis dearest friends 10 Se7e,
re county, many Of them induced TO become so |
N him, were also Breslin's securities.
ip On learning Of bis predecessors defalcatiou,
i. deemed it to his and their Interests to save hi
a. and them from loss. For the interest Of the Stst
he deemed il best to conceal il aud obtain as mu,
" of the money back as he could, by carrying 4
Mt load on bis shoudsrs--fatal determination.
n He claims that pot dollar of the money Of 1
State bas been used illegally, or misapplied by hi
OK but that the chances are that the three huudr
and threeShousand dollaIs obtained from Bres
by him, would 20, Otherwise have been broue
into the Golfers of the Stale, -- d. ...E
BY bis exertiops he claims that fifty thopsa
dollars was secured of Bresliu's suspended de
from Dayton Bank, Of tie BeckeI claim, part
which mas been paid. That Mr.. Bresliu wol
have, if then exposed .leh Immediately for CaI
da and that he relied upon bis personal iDiuer
with Breslin. and con6ded on his propises, a
ell carried the load lie did until it crushed him,