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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