Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-01-06
The Audiror,s Report.

The Raleigh Sentinel is serving up for
the benefit of the taz payers, in broken
doses, the report Of the Auditor OF Public
Accounts. It is we'll that our people
should be kept advised why it is that SO
large an amount Of money is required to
run the State Government, and we are
clad to see that Mr.. STRUDwIoK, Repre-
sentative from Orange, had a resolution
adopted by the Legislature calling upon
the Auditor for an itemized account OF the
very heavy expenditures under the head of
" Contingencies, contained in his re-
port. This account will doubtless exhibit
some striking pecnliarities of the Radical
administration, more interesting than
agreeable to the taxpayers.
We publish the following exhibit from
our Raleigh contemporary of amounts paid
to three of the Radical hangers-on about
the seat of government, to wit !: Handy
Lockhart, colored, IT, z. Odds, late Attor
ney-Genoral. and ID. J. Pruyn, Deep
FLYER Penitentiary swindler
HANDY.
In looking over the report OF the State
Auditor, in the tabular statement of ex-
penditures in detail, we find that uncle
Handy got the following sums for the SER
vices mentioned:
In the month Of November, 1869, page
80 of the Report is this item:
Handy Lockhart for repairing
60 desks in Senate Chamber
and 81 chairs repairing
Speakers and Clerks stands.
and 120 seats in House OF
Representatives, S465. 90
In the month of March, 1870, page 119
OF the Report is this entry:
Handy Lockhart, for making
desk and letter box for Sen
ate Chamber, and repairing
chairs. $50. 27
In the same month, page 123, Is entered:
Handy Lockhart, for repairing
chairs in Senate Chamber
and House of Representa-
tives, and work done in sun
dry offices of State House, SOC. 81
And again, in the month of July, page
146, is recorded:
Handy Lockhart, for repairing
20 chairs, $1,000
Making in the aggregate the sum of
foe hundred and eighty foau' dollars and
fourteen cents paid to Handy, mostly for
repairing chairs in the two Halls. The
Radical Legislature must have been a ter
rible set for breaking chairs, taking the
above charges rs criterion to Judge by.
We daresay that the most rowdy drinking
establishment in Raleigh, or even in New
bern, didn't have as much breakage
among its furniture between Oct. LIST,
1869, and Sept. Both, 1870
But the above does not tell all the Chair
story. In addition to this tremendous
amount OF repairing, we see that the ad-
minlstration purchased of Messrs W. II.
q II. >. Tucker IL Co., one dozen chairs
Tor $45, and from Mr.. Traps, sc arm chairs
Tor the senate Chamber; from the same,
IN the month of November 1869, one chair
Tor the Speaker of the House of Represen-
tatlves, for 1928, and in the month OF
March, 1870, from the same, q s'pivot
chair" Tor the Speaker of the House OF
Representatives for SIS; and in the same
month it is recorded that Mr.. Fraps was
paid $76 for repairing chairs, dc.
Surely they were the most SiHinq dOpl
set that ever assembled in Raleigh Blu,
we must Leave them now, to sit at theil
ease awnlIe-that Is, as much at their ease
as they can, under the circumstances. AND
turn our attention to.
''MY soN-1N-1Aw LOUIS"
We find it recorded of the Attorne,
General, who, be it remembered, received
his appointment from Dad" on the resio
nation of Coleman, who was sent off f
Stettin because liquor was scarce there
that he received regularly his MONTH,
salary of $125 from October, 1869, to AN
gust 1870, inclusive, making $1,375 o.
For indexing public laws of
1e6S-69 100 O.
Under an act ratified March
II, 1870, with regard to
the Chesapeake and Abe
marie Canal, he got. for
something, the report
dees'nt Say what, $50 o.