Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Thompson or search for Thompson in all documents.

Your search returned 2 results in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], The great fraud. (search)
of the House of Representatives, of which Mr. Morris, of Ill., is chairman, gives a detailed account of the facts relative to the abstraction of the Indian Trust Bonds. Thirty or forty witnesses were examined, including ex-Secretaries Floyd and Thompson. The latter is exonerated from any complicity in the defalcation, but he, as well as the former Secretaries of the Interior, are censured for the insufficient manner in which the bonds have been held in that Department, there being no adequate Chicago, (A. Campbell witness,)21,000 Thomas Swann, Baltimore, (Wm. Mckim witness,)10,000 R. D. Gaither, Balt., (W. Fisher witness,)3,000 B. Atkinson, Balt., (W. Fisher witness,)1,000 Townshend Scott, Balt. (W. Fisher witness,)5,000 Lownds, Thompson & Co., Baltimore, (witness Martin Lewis,)5,000 Total$134,000 A few other bonds were ascertained to have been purchased by Riggs & Co., bankers, of Washington, for other parties, and by other individuals, which are not included in the abov