The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-12-29
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| COLUMBIA, 8. c., Dec. 25, 1885,
The business Of the State has been overhauled
and laid upon the shelf for another twelvemonth
Legislature adjourned on Tuesday last; session uu
usually loDg-nearly fl We weeks-vsry harmonious
aud very harmless The great measure of the ses
sion was killed off viz: the 'Bilt to afford aid 70
the Blue Ridge Railroad 10 South Carolina" Said
road 10 designed to connect Charleston with KNOX
| vile, Tenn. Already large amount has bee d
| expended, and the road was progressing favor
ably as could be expected; but further aid re-
Fused, and no doubt the enterprise must be sus-
pended for year or two It looks like poor policy
| to spend 30 much money and then. by refusing
further aid, to render useless the work done, aud
lose entirely the interest on the money expended;
but tho Assembled wisdom" thought differently,
and we have nothing more TO say.
The charter for q road from this place to Augusta
was granted so that nothing now remains bnt the
forty miles from Danville Va, to Greensborough,
N. u, to establish an "air line" from Richmond to
Augusta. That line would sweep the travel
Passengers generally from New Orleaus, Mobile,
and all the Southern States except Florida, would
come into your city over she Danville road. learn
that the Committee on Railroads in the North Car
olina Legislature will report against the Danvlle
ans Greensborough connection but 1t is thought
the report will be rejected and the charter granted
So much for railroads. As to the other business of
the Legislature but little can be said. Nearly $50
bills wereiniroauced in the House, and about so in
the Senate. The entire number Of acts ratified 1
think was twenty six. But the work of 2e present
at the session of 1857, business is taken mp at the
opening of the next session, at the same stage in
which it was dropped at the close of the last
Thus the bills read the first time the last session.
come up on second reading at the opening of next
session. Under that rule, "A bill for the promotion
OF the public health' was read the first time. and
continued. The bill coDtemplates new q quarantine
ground for the harbor of Charleston, as well
a. the removal of the hospital and store,houses
from the city.
The bill, together with petitions and memo-
rials from the City Council and citizens of Charles.
ton and vicinity, have been printed in pamp phlet
form and circulated through the State. No doubt
law will be passed next winter, tending greatly
to mitigate the peris of that plague stricken city
new daily paper-''The Disunionist"-is ad.
vertised to appear soon In this place. learn it is
in strong bands, aud will take rank as a first class
paper advocating extreme Stste-Rgbts measures
The Farmer and Planter" an agricultural month.
1y, is to be removed so this city from one of the
up-country towns; SO that there is a prospect for
work for a respectable corps of printers for the
next year.
Christmas is just closing ont. The day has PASS
ed quietly. and the usual amount of powder and
pop crackers have been burnt this evening.
Trade is now very dull. Merchants are closing
up their yearly accounts, mechanics are finishing
up what jobs they have on hand, the daI kies all
have holiday; and there is little or nothing doing
In COTTON.