As soon as it was known that Meiggs had fled, the town was full of rumors, and everybody was running to and fro to secure his money.

His debts amounted to nearly a million dollars.

The Hamburg house which, had been humbugged, were heavy losers and failed, I think.

I took possession of Meiggs's dwelling-house and other property for which I held his mortgage, and in the city warrants thought I had an overplus; but it transpired that Meiggs, being in the City Council, had issued various quantities of street scrip, which was adjudged a forgery, though, beyond doubt, most of it, if not all, was properly signed, but fraudulently issued.

On this city scrip our bank must have lost about ten thousand dollars.