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BY JULIAN A. SELBY.
COLUMBIA. S. C.. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 8, 1868.
VOLUME IV-NO. 9.1
THE PHOENIX.
rOBLIBHXD BAILY AND TRI-WEEKLT.
THU GLEANER,
EVERY WKUNESDAY MORNING.
BY JULIAN A. SELBY,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
Ornoo on Main street, a few doors above
Taylor (or Camden) street.
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MW A liberal ditaounl made on the above
rates.when advertisements are inserted by
the month or year.
. . AQF.NTfl.
Lexington-B. J. Hayes.
Spartanbnrg-Hiram Mitchell.
J. B.. Allen, Chester.
Julius Poppe, Anderson C. H.
8. P. Einard, Newberry O. H.
James Grant, Union.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
MUNICIPAL OFFICERS-CTT? COLUMBIA.
For Mayor.
COL. J. P. THOMAS.
For Aldermen.-WARD NO. 1.
T. W. RADCLIFFE.
CLARK WARING.
JAMES OLAFFEY.
WARD NO. 2.
C. A. BEDELL.
. L. BRYAN.
O. Z. RATES.
WARD NO. 3.
W. P. GEIGER.
W. T, WALTER.
JOHN AGNEW.
WARD NO. 4.
EDWARD HOPE.
W. C. SWAFFIELD.
L. P. MILLER.
THE front part of our
Store having been damaged
by the recent storm, we will
be compelled to sell off our
Stock of CLOTHING, GAS
SIMERES, HATS, &c, at or
nearly COST, for Want of
room.
New styles of Boys' Straw
HATS just received.
E. & W?0>SWAFFIELD,
Main Street.
May 30_
C L O C K S,
Watches,
Jewelry,
Spectacles,
&c, &c,
AT
ISAAC SULZBACHER'S.
REPAIRING,
In all its Branches,
Attended to Personally.
June ll_
?0 THE LADIES.
MRS. C. E. REED has
just received a splendid
assortment of DRESS
TRIMMINGS. Also, a
fresh supply of MILLI?
NERY GOODS, of all
descriptions, at wholeaaie
and retail. French Cor?
sets, Zephyr Worsted Hair Braids,
C^s, etc., which will be sold very
ALSO,
DP^SS-MAKING in all branches,
warranted to give satisfaction.
Main street, over R. C. Anderson's
clothing store._April 22 3mo
FURNITURE.
SHAVING just received,
an addition to my former
stock of the above, IT
of.'sr, at low prices, a variety of
BEDSTEADS, BUREAUS, SIDE?
BOARDS, CHAIRS, TABLES, PA?
TENT IRON BEDSTEADS, PA?
TENT COTS, PATENT SPRING
BEDS, SAFES, and other articles
too numerous to mention. FURNI?
TURE and MATTRESSES MADE
TO ORDER. Particular attention
Riven to REPAIRING, PACKING
and JOBBING.
JEROME FAGAN,
Washington st reft,
April 28 Opposite Masonic Hali.
SPECIAL NOTICES^
?.MANHOOD."-JVnothor New Medical
Pamphlet from tho pen of Dr. Curtie. Tho
Medical Tin " najB of this work: "Thia
valuable tre^ti-J on the cause and euro of |
premature doclino shows how health is
impaired through secret abuses of youth
and manhood, and how easily regained. It
gives a clear synopsis of tho impediments
to marriage, the cause and effects of ner?
vous debility, and tho remedies therefor."
A pocket edition of tho ahovo will bo for?
warded on roceipt of six stamps, by ad?
dressing Doctor Curtis, No. 139 F street,
Washington, D. C. May 27 ly
FISHEBT& LO~WRA?Cir
COLUMBIA, S. C.
GREGG. PALMER & CO.,
BROKERS AND COMMISSION AGENTS,
?gUY and sell GOLD,
SILVER,
STOCKS,
BONDS and
EXCHANGES.
Advances made on COTTON.
GRAIN and COUNTRY PRODUCE sold
on commission. March 10
DR. THOMAS T. MOORE,
SURGEON DENTIST,
RESPECTFULLY announces to the
public, that ho lins taken the front
rooms in Messrs. Weam A Hix's photo?
graph gallery, and is now prepared to exe?
cute, in tho most elegant and scientific
manner, all branches of his profession.
TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN,
by use of protoxide of nitrogen, or laugh?
ing gae. Dr. Moore is a native ot New?
berry, 8. C., anlis a graduate of tho Penn?
sylvania College of Dental durgory. For
further information, call at tho office or
address Dr. THOMAS T. MOORE, Colnm
bia, 8. C._June 7 8mo
DR. D. L. BOOZER,
HAVING obtainod from the different
patentees of the profession, office
rights of the latest improvement in DEN?
TISTRY, is prepared to do all kinds of
DENTAL WORK with neatness, durability
and despatch, at the very lowest rates.
Perfect satisfaction guaranteed. Office oa
Main st root, Columbia. 8. C., throe doors
North of Agnew's. Vulcanized Rubber
Plates inserted at $25._May 2 ly
EXCHANGE RESTAURANT,
Camden Sb eet, rear of Gregg's China 8iore.
J. CJLENDINING, - - - Proprietor.
90 * m
HAVING thoroughly fitted up the above
establishment as a RESTAURANT,
I am prepared to furnish visitors with the
beet of EATABLES and DRINKABLES.
0?S?EK8, GAME, FISH, MEATS, etc,
prepared in tho very host style, bv one of
the finest cooks in the city. SUPPERS
furnished at short notice. Families snp
Sliod with OYSTERS at reasonable- prices,
hoice WINES, LIQUOR8 and CIGARS
constantly on hand. LUNCH every day at
II o'clock._Deo 10
Nomination for the Mayoralty.
WILLIAM M. MYERS, ESQ., is a candi?
date for tho Mayoralty, and will bo sup?
ported by his
May 8_ NUMEROUS FRIENDS.
Clarified Sagan.
OK BBL8. Coffee and Extra 0. 8U
LU * } GARS, just in and for salo br
Feb 28 E. St G. D. HOPE.
Fresh Biscuit and Crackers.
OA FRESH CRACKERS.for sale
?t\3 low by_E. St G. D. HOPE.
New York Sugar-Qnred Pig Barns,
BALTIMORE ORANGE HAMS,
.Sugar-Cured Breakfast Strips,
Rico Flour-new ground. At
G. DIERCK8',
May 2G_Sc egera' Old Stand.
BACON MOLASSES, &c.
i>r\ f\f\f \ LBS- Choico BACON,
?jKjAJyjVJ dry salted,
5 hhds. Prime Bacon Shoulders,
6 casks First Quality Orango Hams,
sugar-cored,
150 aaoks Country Flour,
15 hhds. Cuba and Muscovado Molasses.
For sale low for cash only by
April 19_E. A O. D. HOPE.
ORANGE HAMS.
Ifl OB SALE by
1 May 22 FISHER A LOWRANCE.
GOV. ORR'S LAST COMMITNICATION TO THE LEGISLATURE.
Gentlemen of the Se?ale and House of Representatives.
While no legal oflicial relation exists between the present
Executive and thc General Assembly, I avail myself of tho oppor?
tunity to communicate to your respective bodies tho information
and statistics which have como to ray knowledge during my admi?
nistration, pertaining to tho material and educational interests of
South Carolina. The reports herewith transmitted to you from thc
various executive officers, and others connected with the public
institutions, embrace a period between the adjournment of the last
session of thc General Assembly, in 1866, and the present time.
They constitute a part of the archives of tho country, and without
them there would be a void in the history of the various depart?
ments to which they refer, during the time indicated.
Thc reports of most of the. officers of tho State, and of those
connected with public institutions, have been brought up to the 1st
day of May, under the impression that my administration would
cease about the middle of that month.
Without further preliminary observations, I proceed to call your
attention to the several subjects matter of public interest, and to
such other facts ns may facilitate the discharge of your duties as
Legislators.
THE PUBLIC DEBT.
By reference to the report of tho Comptroller-General, addressed
to this Department on tho 25th of November, 1867, a copy of
whicli is herewith transmitted, it will be seen that the entire public
debt of tho State, on the 1st day of October last, together with the
interest which lind accrued up to the same date, amounted to
$8,378,255.64. Deducting from this sum all the bonds and stocks
issued between 1860 and 1865 for military purposes, and thc interest
on the same, amounting to $2,854,679.08, the debt due by the State
on the 1st of October last was $5,523,676.50. Of this sum $5,407,
215.23 is the principal, and $110,361.33 is interest. While this debt
is small as compared with that of many other States, yet, in the
present impoverished condition of the people of South Carolina,
the annual payment of $331,414.59, which is the interest upon the
debt at G per cent., in addition to the maintenance of the State
government, would be excessively oppressive.
Thc contingent liability of .tho State from endorsements of rail?
road bonds, is ns follows :
South Carolina Railroad bonds, payable in 1888,
secured by first mortgage.$2,093,312 40
Charleston and Savannah Railroad bonds, payable in
March, 1877, secured by first mortgage. 505,000 00
North-Eastern Railroad bonds, payable March 1,1869,
secluded by first mortgage. 92,000 00
Laurens Railroad bonds, payable in 1879, secured by
first mortgage .*. 75,000 00
Spartanburg and Union Railroad bonds, payable in
1878 and 1879, secured by first mortgage. 350,000 00
Greenville and Columbia Railroad bonds, payable in
1881,1882,1883 and 1886. 945,471 21
Of the endorsements upon the Greenville and Columbia Railroad
bonds, $700,000 is under authority of the Act of 1861; and $203,
848.89 is under tho authority of tho Act of 1866, passed for the
purpose of enabling the Company to pay the interest past due and
to fall due prior to the 1st of January, 1868, upon coupons and
upon the mortgage and guaranteed bonds. This guarantee is upon
certificates of indebtedness. Tho sum of $41,622.38 is upon the
outstanding debt of the Company, upon which there is no lien
the guarantee having been made where the holders of demands upon
the Company surrendered three dollars of demand for one dollar
of bonds.
The Ordinance of the Convention, adopted on the 15th of March,
1868, declares "That all Acts or pretended Acts of legislation, pur?
porting to have been passed by the General Assembly of the State,
since the 20th day of December, A. D., 1860, pledging the faith and
credit of the State for the benefit of any corporate body or private
individual, are hereby suspended and declared inoperative until the
General Assembly shall assemble and ratify the same"
lt is unnecessary to enter into any discussion at the present time
concerning the legal force and effect of the Ordinances passed by
tlie Convention, various opinions being entertained as to the ques?
tion of their legal validity. But, in any point of view, to remove
all appr?hension upon the subject of tho bonds of the Greenville
and Columbia Railroad Company, now held by citizens of the State,
and guaranteed by the State, I recommend that the Act of 1861,
authorizing the issue of $900,000 of bonds, and tho Act of 1866,
providing for tho guarantee of certificates of indebtedness, and also
of bonds ono for three to satisfy other indebtedness of the Com?
pany upon which no lien existed, bc validated by the action of your
body. Persons holding bonds under the Act of 1861 hold them in
lieu of the original mortgage bonds due them by the Company,
which mortgage bonds were surrendered to the Company-the gua?
ranteed bonds of the State being taken in payment of tho same,
upon thc faith of the Act of 1861. It would operate as a gross
fraud upon those bond-holders now to declare their bonds void.
Common honesty would require, if tho Act is not validated, that all
persons holding guaranteed, bonds should be allowed tho privilege
of surrendering the same, and of receiving in Heu thereof the
original mortgage bonds or their duplicates. These remarks apply
with equal force to the bonds of the Columbia and Augusta Rail?
road Company, and bonds of the South Railroad Company, and are
entitled to your early consideration.
It is beliove4 that bonds thus endorsed to the amount of nearly
$3,000,000 will be promptly liquidated by the companies as they fall
due, and that the guarantee of the State will be discharged to that
extent. As to the remainder, there is more doubt; but in no con?
tingency is it probable that in consequence of the failure of the
companies to meet their bonds, the State will have to provide for
moro than $700,000.
The report of tho Comptroller-General further shows
that the cash balance on hand, on tho 1st clay of
October, 18GG, amounted to.$211,190 83
That the receipt? from all sources from the 1st of Octo?
ber, 1866, to the 1st of October, 1867, was_.. 454,302 23
Making a total of.$665,493 06
This includes of Bills Eeceivable $222,000, . which had
been signed, clipped and carried to cash, pursuant to
the provisions of tho Act of 1865, authorizing their
issue. The expenditures during the same period
were.$474,453 37
Leaving on the 1st of October, 1867, a cash balar? ce in
the Treasury of. 191,039 69
The report of the Treasurer, made to this Department and here?
with transmitted, shows the operations of the Treasury from the
1st day of October, 1867, to the 1st day of May, 1868.
From this statement it will bo perceived that on the 1st
of October, the balance of cash on hand was.$191,039 69
The total receipts of the Treasury from all sources since
that time has been. 303,387 73
Which, added to the cash on hand, made the available
means of the Treasury. 494,427 42 '
The total expenditure during the same period has been. 398,881 16
Leaving, on the 1st day of May, a cash balance in the
Treasury of. 95,546 26
This amount will be very materially reduced during the month of
May by the presentation of claims against the Treasury for pay?
ment before the expiration of the term of the present administra?
tion.
It will be observed, from the report of the Treasurer, that the
Convention levied a tax which it was supposed would realize the
sum of $75,000. Sufficient returns have not been received from the
various tax-collectors of the State to enable him to say whether the
calculation will prove correct. Tho actual sums drawn from the
Treasury, by order of Major-General Canby, to defray the expenses
of the Convention, amount to $110,000, which is an expenditure of
$35,000 more than was provided for by the tax bill of tb o Conven?
tion, assuming that said bill raised the estimated amount
By the Act of December, 1865, authority was given to tho Trea?
surer and Comptroller-General to issue $500,000 of Bills Receivable.
These officers found that it was not necessary to print more than
were embraced in the first contract with the engravers, to wit:
$390,000. Of this sum only $222,000 have been signed and carried
to cash in the Treasury. On the 1st day of May, 1868, there was
outstanding and in circulation of these Bills Receivable only
$135,687.
TAXES AND TAXATION.
No duty is ever devolved upon tho legislator involving such deli?
cate and ramified interests as that which looks to the creation of a
just and equitable system of taxation. It is an accepted truth in
political economy, that in levying taxes upon the people, it should be
done in a manner which will enable them to pay the same with the
greatest facility, and without nunecessary oppression. The sudden
change in the system of labor which has prevailed in South Carolina
for so many years; the destruction of more than one-half of the
estimated wealth of the State by the abolition of slavery; the devas?
tation of cities, towns, villages, farms and homesteads, by the
ravages of war, and by invading and retreating armies; tho disas?
trous drought which existed throughout the State in 1866, cutting
off almost entirely the cotton and greatly reducing the provision
crop, thereby rendering it necessary to purchase large supplies from
abroad for tho subsistence of the population ; the great reduction,
in many sections of the State, of the cotton crop of 1867, by the
spoliation of the caterpillar and boll worm; and the pressure of
debts contracted anterior to the war, when the basis of wealth and
credit was so essentially different from that which exists at the
present time, admonish us that the people of South Carolina are
unable to bear a burdon of taxation which, prior to the accumula?
tion of these misfortunes, would have been deemed moderate and
inconsiderable. Whether, therefore, you look to the contentment
of the population, or the material prosperity of the State, it is the
dictate of wisdom that you should exercise the most rigid economy
and reduce expenses by curtailing salaries and dispensing with all
appropriations not absolutely necessary to the aclministration of
the Stato government.
The taxation of the present and preceding year has been a sub?
ject matter of great complaint. The large number of tracts of
land, as well as other property, levied upon by Shoriffs in the
various Districts, for the non-payment of taxes, unmistakably
evinces the extreme difficulty encountered by citizens in raising
money to meet this demand of the State. Whenever taxation
becomes thus oppressive upon a population, its influence cannot but
provo disastrous, because it tends first to demoralization, to dis?
honesty, to the making of false returns; and secondly, it is calcu?
lated to drive from the State a valuablo portion of the community,
to seek other localities where the remuneration of labor and capital
is not paralyzed by such heavy burdens.
Thc expenses of the Convention, and of the present session of
your Legislature-whoso labors cannot, in justice to the various
changes proposed in the new Constitution, bo terminated short of
four months-will, of themselves, add to tho expenses of tho State
not less than $250,000. Tho judiciary system, which you are
required, under the Constitution, to put into operation, will prove
much more expensive than that which now exists, and add to these
burdens.
To illustrate: the expenses of grand jurors for the city of Charles?
ton, and for the country, assuming that they are occupied but three
days at each term, will bo $13,824. For potit jurors for the Court
of Sessions, three terms for city and country, assuming an average
of five days per term, $51,840. Cor petit jurors for Courts of Com?
mon Pleas, city and countiy, two terms, five days per term, $34,560;
making a total expenditure for jurors alone, under the new Consti?
tution, of $99,224.
The whole expense for jurors and constables for the year ending
1st October, 1867, (and this includes them for the District Conrts,)
amounted to only $42,292.88; showing a necessary increase of
expense for this service alone of $56,931.12.
This, evil may be obviatod to some extent by modifying the law
so as to provide for panels not exceeding eighteen in number for
grand jurors, and twenty-four petit jurors, with authority to supply
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