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lH'I TRHI- EEKLY AEWS, - -- .y___s-_ _- .A rUJILISIIED EVERY TUESDAY, TIIURS muor0 than tent lines. (dnc~ s"hui"e, ) will DAY ANp SATURDAY, & inseed n . EW a .r l 1 v Gaillard, Desportes & Co. -set I vinllsboro,' S. C., at $6.00 per au- I r ad rtitielel wn n coutr 1 in advnnco. - a w - c ieapp IHE FAIRDFIELD HERALD, T o o w o Ernl $10,00" Martiage, Ohitutry Not ies, & c., will 1o I UIt1.ISIED EVERY W DNESDAf MON- - _ .....----. --- -- - --- - charged the mne as fdvcrtiA nul, wht INa, AT $3.00 PER ANNUIH. j VOI4. IV.] .LWINNSBOIO, S. C., TUESDAY, DECE BEa 4, 18&.1 2. Over ten ries, ad stse ni l fou wli handed in or they will not appear. TRANSIT GLORIA BREVIS. BY ALBetRT PIgKE. When Autumn's chilly winds complain, And red leaves withered fall, We know tihat Spring will laugh again, And leaf and flower recall. But when Love's saddening' Autu nn wears IThe hues that death presage, No Spring in vint er's lap prepares A second golden ago. 8., when Life's kulumn sadly sighs, "et sniles its cold tears th:rough No Spring. with warn and sunny skies. The soul's youthi will renew. Love blooms and dies but once for all ; Life has no second Spring; The frost Miust cotne, the snow must fall, Loud as the lark aty sing. 0 Love! 0 Love! ye fade like flower'" 'l'hatd roop anti die in June : '1he present-oh, too short !-ls ours, And Autumnn comes too soon. PMESSAGE NO. 1. (Concluded. } TnE PENITENTIARY. Pursuant to the provisions of tie A.t o' the la'e extra. scssion1 to estab lish -a Penitentiary I appointed [essrs. William Gregg,' of Edge1ield, Wim. It. Robertson, of Fairfield, and Archibald Cameron of Charleston, "Conuissioners of the- Icnitentiary" "to selcet and procure a site and to erect a suitable temporary enclosure aad tetIporary-cells." They have per 'ormied the duty of select iug and pro curiug the site, and have ordered the work on the cells to ooniueneo. I submit to you herewith their report, together with the plans, esthnates and drpwings of the entire cMtablishment, prepared by Captain T. B. Lee, the 1.nginoor and Architeet, The site is within the corporate limits of the City of Columbia-a platoett of sever al acres of level surface, with a bold bluff on the canal, rising some sixty feit above the le'vel of the river. A track less than halt' a miler nearly at grade, will connect the building with the Greenville Railroad at the point tinc-half a mile front the depots of the ,otu'th Carolina and Greenvi-llo and Columbia Railroad, The' water now Tunning through the channel will fur tish all the motive powo'r that will be neede,l for many years.- Its accessi lility from every part of the State by rilroad, and the facilities'thoroby af f rded fQr the transportioW of krovis" ions and materials, and f'r, sh'pping the sTplies nmanufactured, make it a mo.t admirable and advantageous' location. Granito, in inexhaustible quantities, can be procured, if not within the walls, .cortainly within a atone's throw of them, without any 'cost of transportation. Its loeation, within the city limits, will allow the number of guards to be reduced great ly below tie force which wofld be requisite for tle afe-koeping of the prisoners in remote localities wlgero the population is -sparse.- It is be Iievod by the Architect and'Etngine-or having the work in elurgo that cells may be in readiness by the Brat of January to receive convicts. The 1ngineer and Architect eti-' mates the appropriation nogded for the .rapid and successful prosecution of the work for tho nextycar at forty liyc thousand dollars. ' I directed the Commissioners who qynrn ordered to sell the buildings, ma *7iinery, &c., of the State Works at reenville, to reserve such machinery *s might be usefully employed in the anmufacture of wood and Iron in tihe V&dnitentimary, when fully in operation. ffhom reservation was muade, anid there pHvfi be in the future- otily a trifling t>utlay needed for Mhe machineory to &aptrate most branclisof zmant#as4tuwes 4,.weed and ?rou.,. THE LAND scnP yd6& 'OMA AGUE05t . Ja' obdedie tu the resoluta ef the General Assomblyt passed at thpe ,'poeial sessions' I 'spp.inted. Joke $' Kibar; eq; 4enof the Statoe/for thme ptrpose of proosrin mad sellng th adscripto wiajeb i St*te was ontitled under the Act of Congress, establishing Agricultural and Me ohanical Collcges. IIe was furnished with a certified copy of the resolution, duly authenticated, and filed it in the Department of the Interior. From a communication addressed to me by the Hon.p. H1. Browning, Secretary of the Inteitior, a copy of which i herewith communicated, it will be saon that he declines to issue the scrip uatil the Legislature accepts, by Act, the donation in conforinity to the provisions of the law of the Congrem of thd United States, making the gr'ant, No time shouldbe lost in so. ctring this untificent donation to the cause of education and science, and I recommend that an Act be passod for that purpose. This step will coY'tain ly be aecepted as a complianed with all the rcquirinients of a Congression al law. In some of did Northern states, fite fund thus raised tias been used in es fablishing schools for teoehing the branches required by Act of Congress, in existing colleges anI unliversities'; and if this policy should con:nond it self to yotir apprdval, the agricultural and mechanical features of the Col lege may be oigrafted on the Univer sity of So'uth Carolina, and save the State all d pense for lands and build ings re(juired .to be furnished by it: Th" buildings of 'the Univershty .are commodious enough to acconne*'Ate' all.stude'ts. that may desire -fo'ra triculate', and the lands adjacetit tdtnd owned by the College will furn h suf ficient land for an exverintettal farm. It is very important, if the' donation be ac6epted, that sudlf Iegislatiop sball be adopted at thar p'relt seski, as will Mwake it av'ailable' inde'p'idently, of, or In conjunctfoW vth1 tVW;Uiivor" sity.. TES souTn c'.n60i:r t:i'n>7'sfr! was organized early in January last, and has now about sixty-fi,'e' stud'ants, but its iYuaber of natriculates Imau not been equal to the expectaton of its friendse The Act of last 1Yece'iiber, establishing an 'University,. reguires further anieulment, by providing for Medical and Law Schools as a part of the general system of Universitf edu cation. Dfany of the young inili who go to the iJui'ersities of other Stato's, to prosecute their studies in 'tlio professions, would willingly avail th.mnmselvek of the' opporttn ity, if offer ed, of pursuing thenhere: With one Professor of Law, atd two Professors in the fedical School,- iY conjunction With fhe P'rofessor of (ihemistry al redy there, these schools could be put into complote and successful opoathm, and the h)pe' might thou be reason;: bly entertained that t:o- number of stirdlents would be largely increased. The Board of Trustdeh, for reasons which were'tfotibtless,' Hatisfactory to then, declined,-in May last to fill the chair of Modevt Languages.- This iin portant branch a' .mnodern education should not-longer o- iprotided for, and the Trustees will doubtles's? fill the vacant chair at their annual meet= ing in D'ecoembor The Institution as organized during the' present year, thottgh by law an "liiversity,' has be'enapractieally nothiig more than the College revived, No' new braneh es havd beon taught, and so' loig aso provision is not mrade for teachihgtlh tnodern languages, anid for organizing Medical and Law i8elr'ools, so- loig: wi the youth of the State seek othet ia stitutions, where thced studies' isy.bo prosecuted. Until the UInyvesIty can be ma deWt merit the patrounge 'of the State,,by enlarged facilitifew forcqukt ing.knowledge in science, laniguages, and the learned pr'ofessions, its frIends cannot c'xpect to connand a oneoral public patronage to sustain The- Board of Trustens now num bets nearly forty miembersa -This mae It a .very unwieldy body. Its wuerliJera destroy all sense of individu a! r onsIibilit in:the-mnaugement of the'a frt of tIe UnIverity., Nearly oenilf of t1d'#mrd 'aro f'rusteoos e*I a q$oi manouba otsiuo nan a ..' on of official engagomentg, which call them to Columbia in May and Decent. bor, the majority who attend .its. ses sion. It was found nearly impossible to secure the attendance of a quorum (one-half of tha Board,) and you pro. vided by law, at the-kst session, that nine should constitute a quotum in a Board of* thirty-nine members, A smaller body would realize tuprb fully their-esponsibillty to the Sta4 for the proper mianagemont of its principal educationu1 institution. I therefore recommend that the Board be reduc ed to seven members, and appointed in such mannter as the General Assembly, in its wisdom, may direct." -HE PlURCHAsE OF cOnR. Pursuant to the rusolution of' 21st September lasts lass'd by th General Asvombly, I appoitted Colonel D. Wyatt Aiken, A gent of the State, to make purchaae's of corn. Iavfig sat isfied himself ftlly that the dUdble restriction imposed in the roedlitlon tendered it itnpossible to effedt pur chases, lie de'cl?ned the appointment. I contiffte'd fully in .his enelusion, that te double restrietioi ,ridered the whole scheme I Wgatort, -and I have not, therefore, appolinted another Agent. The resolution re.dircd that three hundred thousand dbliers of bonds should purchase and dol1ver in 'he Statb three Ltundrod Atho,sand bushols of corn. It is rtasonably cor tah that the bonds could not have beon sold for more thanraeveuty,cets to the dollar, and corn could' not be pureba$ed, in any inarket, and ddiver ed'at one dollar pOr. busbol-f Tte cor resabifleneo betwee Cot, 1Alken and !! scf is herowifth o sted. 'Ac grain arop of thei 't bt(deenl ga t iotdea Y o' fbo prer. n 6* thanr at theo extrii soi or 07" ; ta'rmino the de'fiioney, andl what will be 'edec# to scfpply tb' tbsohte' wants of t'te poo'r Wheh you Ntv6 fixed th'e amount, the graNYe fnestron arise's 4& are .you to supply tho' fuiids to pureliao it.? The feverish and tna settled condition of public affairs fine not tetded to appreci'te the credit of ths Southrn States ; and if tho' pur chase of a largo amount of bre'adstuffs, for distribution among the Po06 is to be efflcted by the sale of .thto b6lds, it can only be accomplished tit i ruin ous d iscount. '{hc quest ion is earne-dt ly connended to your grave.i do11be ration. 'The firm of Browne and Schirtsr,' grain iiercliaii of Clari.ston and Co. iitnbiii, have- made a 'prnuo,tition to fur nisht corn, and have re-qn'"eid mep to lay it. before you. ' hey propose that if the State shall n'vance to thein twenty dve thonsand dullars, which they wil' give approved security to refutid; they will engag'e' to furnish 60,000 hushels of corn per mont h,- to' be sold at attual cost, wit h' trutisportatiotn an' two-and one-half ptir cent. comntissio)Y adil,d, to the citixits of the State ;- invoices to be submitted to commissionerj,- and the corn t.o be anbject to inspection by thle commissibt . era or by an iag'n..- If a largtr amount shouhl be netded monthly, that larger tm)tttr.t will be farnished,-utpon condition that the State malb' a pro ratinerttase oif thd' loan. The tntneyloatied is to be re: turned as soon s, the contract. tet'mleatt"s. It. is proposed by t hseo'gent.l-mtni' to' es. tablish- depots fir the sahl of the corn in Charleston, Columbia and Marion, from wlideh-points it nihy readily be'dibtribttedt t.o every 'section of t,heo Siate. 'rhe memitber's oft the tn-are onterprising-, and~ frnautworhy,- and, if suchr conitrat is zt wardb*d: them:. ~ they will,- dbnabtlba., fulM'I its atip)ulatiou)b w~ith- fihhlety. If the ne ediib of the Siate sthnid re-' gturo. t jnipott a'iou' of one mnillioth of bushl.,- to steply the wafts ol' those whe mrust buy and ae aube to fay,- thie savir*g to the petople of te1ta Statte, by umnch'an' arrangfnt, would' not fall short of two hu,ndre& fhodeh u1~!)ars. I htave been infourmnbo tha~t a ptopha)i tiotn of the anne a6ri, will bW daoit,dtt to you by K. fIlWi',- a graiu ,met'. chaunt of Chanrle4tin, who' can RWiiah' yon with aatisf'actory- teuinnilftT otin. tegrity and hIuteie apadta '&'he pluns Ar'sunnivmcn wit,h corn t. *hbla npbji' missioners of the Poor, who will be compelled to provide fur a large number of indigent persona, at a profit of only two and a half percent. to the contractor, on cost and expenses, are commended to your favorable considera tion. TH1' PECUNIARY DISTRESS OF TILE PEO ttLE OP TI STATE. 'he slort crops of grain and cot-ton cituses the nduihtedness of the people to press heavily on theiri. This state of things'irrposes on every generous credi. tor the duty of making as liberal com promises %0rth1 his del1tors as ho can admit withoit pectniary ruin. If he has been forf.unate in escaping the general wreck he shoudd cItee'rflly hmd a helping haud to his less foituntato neighbor who is still struggling int a sea of debt. Legislation Consistont w itlh the Constitutioi and tile general idterest of the community may be adopted, which will greatly relieve the public. I reite. rate my recommendation made at, the extra session, that imprisonment for debt be abolished, except. in cast"s of fraud ; and when a debtor ir about re. inoving his person or property w it hout the limits of the State, that tie insolvent lawe be so extended that a debtor may, by petition, on givimg throe montihs no ttce, to all his creditors, require them to come in and prove their demands, and upon his anrrenderirng his entire effects fort heir ben'efi,-thdtt they be perpetually barred from ever again proceeding t'gainat hkim' in' the Courts of this State, anid that air 4asEs where .a defdendant is sitd an'd nakdbs no defence to the action; no coSts shall be taxed against him. Pertits in stiajarl, ca'n now compro. mise with their dubt'u's, bit sdbh sr ecbipa ffluciary position are reatrahiwd . " t'adn t tt' }t il (Y5ib . - are, they freqinkll' te the entire debt. it is aotfl poliby to' omdify those' rules, so as to al%w th'tfn to compour.d the d'em'ndh they hold against debrors, taking care to' guard against fraud or ill ltaith on the:r part. * I invite your attentiiottn tle propti& ty of passing a homestead"la'w,- and of extending th vlun of arti'es e.empt t from levy and sale,- for the he"ad of each I family. iost of the St.:ttes have mado mttt lh more libehaf amti humanio luovis. ions than South Carolina for guarding the fanili'ea Of mifortunate and improvi. dent. debto's,aga4intst he'illg cast out npn tlii world, itoi6sblests ,ind' breadls"+. Th. t decisions of somb of the State Conrts have affWrmt this cortstittitional 'pbWcrs of their Legislatitres to enact laws in Orensing the exemptions from levy andi sal, even upon antecLdent debts. It is not by any means clear that you are precluded frn edheting such a law, eithrr by precedent reaison,"justice or the Co nstitdtion. Agrechbly to the ' esolution of the I 21st. of September last passtd by the General A-seuilyr a circular w3 'issne by me, "direcied' to va'ch of the tatx-C61. loctors of the State, requiring them to furnish mte with a list of the~ musrls of all citizens in their respective Iisiricts who were permiullntly disabled in' tho State or Confedurat'o service difing the late war;: rhrti'oblitl, specifying thhse who htat been depti'ed' of their liitbs,- and atatidk ii' each' case &ilihh'r i1 be ai' arm of leg,- or bbth." The information thub acqhited thb Governor was re.quest ed to furnish to the General Assembly at the next regutlar sesion. Returns haun igent rec ived fr'cIn the Tax. Coliectors, with the exceptiont of' t.hoan d'Abbhe+ihll, Blarnwehl. Chetster, Cheterfilid, Clarendot,, l&reratiw, Lex:. in'gton.- Nriarion andm Ufnion, and the Pmr ishes* of St. Gterge's, .Dbrchester, so. flelemt, St. Jams,' .Goope Creek,- St. Jameos', Santtee, St. John's-oltn n St. Stephoft's. - ,oltn n T1he Idit,s andi panns reported hantv beetn alphabt.iesly .ratuig.-d, and ate hew,t.ith traiwmitted ihr fi3Tir infor. umdbnt$. Thbt utnbel' 19pbrtod, -so . fa r. at ittiih' lbs) lgs,- I- on4i'tuhdred and si ty4de en;iodb litaderd. dnd eigh.ty have hist arths; otib lutddredand1 eeven: f, he gtheoywise permanently diusbied: th' ridtlne eb JbAnunul- n tha c.x, tra s'ssionl, toreIlter with t.ht' joint res(' lition1s then p1:1-sel, could not ie com-i pleted until within thtt past week, and1( my attention w;ts nor. called to von re.iolution of tho 15th of Septelnier, "directing; the (ovvrnor to invite pro p").alsand Spoellnn'ni< of ar ic"ial legs." P'ropo,als hai1ve noitl, hetn invii.d-- I ami1, therefore, not prepared to report. ''tii nme111 of that ll faii i1ctlurer who will pre'setl the bett, and cheape.,t Imodela, with the price thereof." CoVy-:toxN TItt"; ST.\TI: IIi%: Iin conifority to vtlur r-solltiotl of the 19th of S'ptembtl'r hst, adveitise. mlent,s were plti.h.d inviain;; propu,s-i. for ''estiu!,tl's of the cost. of covering the new State 1ion,1", :.il of ftttui uip I herein at suflicil"nt. al -rl"1 of romnil. I.)r Lte uts. oftl. th e t"1er l .\NSs l'l)l, :nd 1"i., Iflicers u1pon the tmlout. tconoiilmic;al p.l:l. Bids hiave l>een 2r'.i(ivtd fron tt rec aitld.ers. ''!w."' vwill be laid before the Lonllitev.of the t.to I lounes ch1ir' d wvilh 11lie Stbjeer, lot.I' er whtlh their i-r. ;1pective 11Iin . Sill c fienti.lnl and. e)ai na.1tes, WetlI-inh>.rnw1d ;rchlitte s r1epre-. ent. that tlm( Inl:hllinl; in1 itst pr nt l ondliliti, \' ill rapitly leterlor:ite, tiol I 1econlm'nd Ihat :In ap1prop)riattion hw n}lt' to ca rry ott the pur' ,sc of your -eso111 on. al-:Ni:u, l I 'cI1li'tt i:i'IN A C-r. I respectfully renew myv f.arter n-com nqindations. Ihit a g'neral fneoporatiotin hl hIt pas:ed. Caital sthould bie" in. rited itot) tht: S:ate by" every ligitilat. a t1s al nd( rady f,tlit.es l11r .r11' iil ;ing chrartaredi conmanies , wtlwre ;t 1n:1 Scollcetrat-d fI' etierptiit Ito l;u or indlviditai eiTort, w -til ) 0 note It -"id, nlitt tIe greatly te''iled. Stieb ial ket. would sav elIt itte of '1t: intimt which he Ocene:-al AS8'nbhl; i:3 now't compelled" o ('Vot to' t'rt nitig lmrt'iS, an1td inl'd rt'ei , very lit'rially. the alt. ma! co?t of printilng lk -nlti A cts of ncritpoiration. TIIl- INSANE: ASYL,U.\t I comunilica;tII h.-r(with the replort of. )r. Parker, iiSpelintedi. nt and l I'hysi -inn of the A'Syltmn. Yout will bI 11rt ron it. that. there are now ill the Ilutitlt ion 143 patients, of whotm 56 are pav. ng nid S are charily litientS. Tit! a:t'r list. willsoon he incras"td by tralis or fronm the fornwri, t oising ifIrin ti( niability of pr"set"9 payi..: 11'1 al.It1S to) -aisejnnd fol-tritlr to suppor1t)it t hem'tsel 'ets. 'l(' Insttitulln 1is t:lmira':lbly Ito:1m"e'l it all its dpliartm) int-. ma i con.mltlJel it, o yonr continuing favor. TOP I:A. ANt) U.\1: AND T.II": BI.INI. The CommlissionII'rs of ith A s-im. or the Di'af and Dumb and th lt- ll hd. it Cedlar Spri,, in SptIantinrg I)i:; rict, muet int Juno }e.;t nnn nh it111 he IeCCSs ry armat i ts th r pottitng i he , lechools into op .Ion111. rtn'lur ((lm su1per risiol of Messrs.-1 1iiltn'son Fntd1 Walkio'r. L'ho. boarding.hue' an schol( 1 we"re >).ened t"arly inl N.lvembter, and the,y ave now re+sltsleil their I't.g stupedl I ilctimli nti.ler liit hoist. Invoralile au, dcies. ''he sctIoo!4 aru ratpidly filling up, nld'promise to reach, at an early <dy, hlt tnaaXinum) mu!her her'"tof.)re altlainl ed. 'hl'e' r'polts of the(' (ottmisson1ert m1t1 Supt'rlintend. mis wi l be s' oon talls nitted to yout I btg t.) com(mend t is loble atirl' h u; el rit y to' your fos erie.' care. dv9'rrurtos,tl, 'A1110:1n11:.fr enlot'osF: BoY ('N It n 1:st. I ttransml. irewi lh : co tnnni "t i')n l-t'to'i lie lf'ou. W. It. Sewad,u'I,'ocving i he con3 Li1 inal amiendniint priopii.id 1n ilt' steveril stateis of' the Uniont. hy thivetone'enxs of i t [Jnl ie Sitae's ilikt ory furiishesii few ex. imiplese of a peiple' whoi Joive bien r'etiired .o'concede iinoe to tie will iofii teir' eotn litertors ltin tpople~ of i Shoil ib. ie . ry3 conIcessionI wet h-ivi itinde, however', st fatr ('role n 11 tocing th matgn-mIimtily iti gene-i rosity oft lie vIit'ri. ha:ei she:L'i n d the; r irimy of (1h0 htMto Confe'tderte oviernm ie'e. presentinug thle ttihlt'y.lhower' arid anrity1 >r hisa re'spootive Gorit''nlent, tagieed iuponl ICe'lnih I tcesi of ce isp itt laien. -W I hie Cxa: -~ log in inen respcts'. thies e termi wLr,'in i .ho m'ain suchl nn a' libel atid geesC'c rictor' wonI'd ceinoxio to a fuhIen foo .Th'emV tere enocoptedi ini goitd fith icy lihe 8ontl herll; peoleli, tand etvery origttian iiet ha e of sioliig nI opi ohiii s ts the laws of lice Uniite-I t:( itare in a fecw days isperaadt. Sot'tCcely Od.Tiu os sciar, 1-AG .1