, 1860-09-22
MORE FRAUDS,
4 Further Discovery by the Ser
ale Committee.
TOTAL AMOUNT LOST, s42S, ,9Go.

uu1lnE The administration Of Governor A.
c. French, who was elected in l84s, the Leg
isla!ure passed bill for the relief Of Michael
Kennedy, to whom tho Governor was directed
to pay S3s, 900 in Stats indebtedness. Thos.
Il Campbell, then in the Auditors cf1ice, was
requested hy the Governor to keep uncancel-
led such Internal Improvement Scrip as camo
into his office, in par ment for State lasda, uu.
til enough should bo accumulated to pay
Kennedy OF. Fer this purpose Campbell
laid By $4,000 Of this paper, and
eventually transferred that amount to the Gov
ernor, making, fer his own protection, mem
orandum in sr1.ieh the scrip soas described 1y DE-
nomination and number. Kennedy got impatient
for his money, and the Governor, finding that
the scrip came in very slowly, finally signtd fer
him IS bonds, $1,000 each, in compliance with
the law. Governor FRENCH says that that
scrip was in his olIicr, uncAncelled, when
Matteson took his place in January, 1853.
An examination Of the books in the Audi
tor's Office now shows that these pieces of
scrip, identical in nunters and sums NTH that
described in Camp1elrs memorandum, were
funded by Joel 4. Matteson for Jesse O.
St1arg, May l4tb, 1s57-soon after tbs pas
sage Of the law by which funding Of that
kind Of paper was authorized. In addition 10
the principal $4,000, evidences Of debt to the
amount Of S2,l55. we're issued to cover at
rears OF interest. The five bonds for priuci-
pal have sincs been purchased by the State
and paid for in goldl
We need mike no comments on the case.
These ara tue facts.
In the box or trunk sent by Josiah McRob- !
erts, By order Of Gov. Matteson, to Spring.
f.1d, and by Matteson 1ecciyed--the same
that contained tha S223, 5000 Of ninety-day
checks OF which our rea lers have heard and |
read SO much-weze two Canal bonds ot 81, 900 |
zach. They have disappeared from the public
ohioes. They were uncancelled, and their num-
oErs are not known. Somebody has got them,
a7d before this he who took them has proba-
'ly received the gold for them also.
In that box or 1hat trunk, was bund.c cf
'cip which had descended from one Trustee
o another, amounting to the modest sum CT
5s9, 900. That has been looked for but not
ound. It is not in the State House. But Of
lat description Of indebtedness, just about
hat amount more than soas eper issued has
zen paid-stowing clearly enough that part
}. the issue has bzeu pail twice. There is no
.cord Of the numbers Of the scrip in that pack
&c, hence there is no method Of ascer.aining
y the Au iitor's books who has been guilty
{ this great additional fraud. We do no.
barge that Governor Mattes,n is tho man;
ut that the scrip was traced to his hands,
nat it there disappeared, and that he and the
ctlttous names used by him ia his many deal
'gs with the Stats; frequently appear on
1e record as the parties funding scrip like
lat missing, arc matters susceptible Of easy
I'd abundant proof {
These facts coma TO us from Springfield in {
lch shape that We are not at liberty to :
'ubt their correctness. The footiugs then !
and thus:
,e great steal discovered in 1859.