Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-04-11

1868 so
Among the items which compose
tins aggregate, are some which
deserve i special mention:
For making the wood work Of
bodies, At 500 each, 100 90
For making two pairs
wheels with inch
felOes, SIP 90
For making 1 tires. 81 90
Putting on broad tires,
chipping and filing
OF same, and drilling
bOlt-Eoles, 30 90
Making 22O bolts for
wheels, IS 90
Pattern for wheels $50
Drawings for wheels 10 90
30 } days work on
wheels, at 50 - So esq
Engraving plates on
wheels, Is 90
Making cost Of pairs
Of wheels, exclusive
OF mateuals) $50 Is3
For two SEES OF harness Sl60 90
Forging pads and ter
rots for ditto . 90
Plating do DO - %
Making total cost Of .
sets Of harness 200 90
The committee have searched in vain for an an
ptopIallou ny congress Tor TINS expenditure. the
quariermaster general, MIR Cross has charged il
upon the fund "ior supervising Indian hostilties"
IL IS not believed that Congress designed, ia sup
plying the money to carry on the Florida war; that
any portion OF 1t should be appropriated for the con
strueton of a wagon at go 300 cost 10 be used in
the sands and swamps OF that Territory. The ex-
pendture seems TO be without excuse or palllatinn
The expenditures connected with the Creek war
IN $50 have been directed with as little re-
gard to the public interests as those for the Semi
mole war. The committee have discovered many
most extraol binary and eItravsgani; among them
IS an item for transportation, which they will men
ton:
Amount paid John G.. Winter for hire OF ten wa-
CONS 10 transport public stores from Augusta
Ga, to Columbus, distance Of 200 miles, allow.
ing 80 days TO go and return, at go so per day
each $3.50 20
Amount paid Samuel II. Peck for ten
wagons, similarly engaged, allowing
80 days, at $40 so per day each 4,O95 90
Amount paid MIR Peck for ten wagons,
similarly engaged, allowing IS days,
at ss so pc! day each 1915 90
Amount paid Mr. Peck for five wagons
for U. s. marines from Anguish to
Columbus, allowing g days, at $40
30 per day each sI9e5 90
To hire Of several other wagons for like serviees
at the sum OF 80 50 per day.
To amount paid John G.. Winter for transnor,ins
l4,4Sl los from Augusta 10 Columbus. al SI2 50
per hundred pounds.
This system Of eX;ravagance seems no, IN he
confined 10 the army upon the theatre Of war onlv
Al the stations on the public works, far removed
from the influences and excitement Of war. where
even the plea of necessity cannot be ureed the
same spirit OF pro1gality seems 10 prevail /, an
pears from these facts, 10 have become part of the
tactics Of the army Of the United States TO souan
DER the pubic treasury for the benefit of favorltes
and contractors, rather than 10 economizs the ex-
pendtures Tor the good OF the service and the IN
eresi Of the people who are taxed to sustain them.
lS36-l55 soldiers from Norfolk to
,s,- Charleston s2,l5O 90
l50-l59 soldiers from New York
TO New Orleans 1922 90
2l3 soldiers from New York
to barracks below New
,oo o leans 1852 90
New Orleans 3OOO oO
2l3 soldiers from New Yorkto
81, New Orleans 1000 90
10 New Orleans 2O0O 90
s. soldiers from Appalehioo-
Ia 10 Columbus t0o M
accompanies from Fort CraU.
, E to For Smelling ISIS 90
Carter" for a voysge
from New York 10 Ban
co., Me. , 1900 90
Savannah to New York 900 Oh
. companies of infantry from
,sqs r. boailo 70 For, Howard 10000 90
Columbus to Augusta, Ga.N
the price Of 50 per dsy for
each team.
lS4O-Iransporting from Bangor %
Haneo;k barracks. Name. H.
$. stores, at 81 perday Tor two.
horse wagons, and four horse
teams at 81 per dsy, goingnnd
returning.
1893 For siE teams, m Transporting
baggage, &C., Of n detachment
Of u. 8. troops from Fort
Jesup, &c, TO Fort Towson.
30 days--eaoh team 10 carry
800 pounds, 70 travel ~
miles per day, at $50 per dsy
tor each team 5000 %
ITO be ConiHutdl