The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-12-29

1or tuo euSuinB year, also ZOE ueu :
ciency for the past year, have been
furnished the Comptroller-G General.
No funds are low on hand for carry
ing on the work and maintaining the
convicts, and it is with great difficult
ty that we are enabled to get on
without money, as merchants and
others are 10th to supply us on u
credit.
We're funds supplied us, so that
cash payments might be made, the
work could be carried on much more
economically. Respectfully submit
ted, THOMAS B. LEE, JR.,
Engineer and Architect and Acting
Superintendent South Carolina Peni-
tentiary.
Major Lees statement in reference
to transactions at the South Caroline
FenitenLiary, and concerning which
certain parties have testified. First,
in reference to certain iron sold to
the State by James Windsor, agent
of Major Lee:
This iron was purchased from DIR.
John Lynch, by me, the money was
paid him for it and j now hold his
receipt. The sworn statement of
James Windsor, that I purchased
this iron with some stone from DR..
John Lynch, and paid him about
sixty dollars for them, is utterly and
absolutely false. It was not pur-
chased for the State, nor was it con-
templated to use said iron in the con-
struction of the Penitentiary. Some
time after this purchase was made by
me, there arose an urgent demand in
the construction of the Penitentiary,
for iron of the kind I had on hand;
not knowing of any other lot of the
same kind of iron, and the merchants
in Columbia not keeping on hand an
assortment of iron OF this size, I in
structed my assistant to weigh the
iron, make out the bill for it, put
fair price on it and sell it for me rs
my agent. The price he put on it, I
then, and do low, consider as fair
price, and not above its value. I
then considered it as iron of the
very best quality, and caused it to be
applied where only the best refined
iron was admissible; and the usage
and test to which it has been sub
jected have fully confirmed my first
estimate of the value of this iron;
and L now affirm that this iron was
equally as valuable as the best new
refined round iron, and large por-
tion of it, on which the threads and
nuts were, (such threads and nuts
being perfect, and were used for work
requiring them,) being of higher
v0lOa fhun >roc ,,o;t e., f,,.,
circular of Charles Inloes, Balti-
more, where bolt ends are quoted at
fourteen cents per pound.) The
threads AND nuts on this iron were
good as new, and being used in work
where such threads aud nuts were
necessary, their value was greater
than was paid for them. During the
progress of the work, some of this
iron was exchanged Qpound for
pound) for new 5s round iron, for
which about the same price had been
paid to n merchant in Columbia.
This fact can be substantiated by
Messrs. Goldsmith & Kind, with
whom the exchange was effected.
In reference to certain hogs kept
at the Peuitentiary and carried away,
and matters incident thereto:
I kept hogs at the Peniteptiary,
with the full knowledge and consent !
of Governor Orr. and sent them
away when [ saw proper Accom-
panying this. please find letter on
this subject from Ex-Governor Orr,
dated November 27, 1868. L pur-
chased for myself, last year, from
Mr.. O'Hearne. three large and three
small hogs. He delivered them to
me on the Penitentiary lot, and they
were penned here and fed on offal
from the kitchen. About Christmas,
1861, I sent away one of my small
hogs and caused the other two to be
killed; OF those two killed, the guard
consumed one and q portion Of the
other-how much of the other can-
not say exactly. A short time after
this. one of my large hogs (very fat
and weighing upwards of 200
pounds) was killed at the same time
with the hogs belonging to the State.
The fat from these hogs (mine and
those belonging to the State) were
tried into lard ali together; my hog
should have yielded about twenty
pounds of lard. L claimed at the
time from the store. keo,er on onn;yo