The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1860-12-04
The Governors Message.
Gentlemen of lie Senate and House of Repr

Gentlemen of Tie Senate and House Of Repre-
sentatives:
Nothing has trauspired, since your recent
Extra Session, that requires any special notice
The past year has been remarkable for the un-
precedcnted health with which our citizens
have hccn blessed; and, although the crop,
both o. cotton and grap is again short one,
yet with wise economy, very little if any,
brcadstuffs will have to be imported from other
States, and the cotton crop will, in all proba-
biity, enable the planter to meet his ordinary
liabilities by bringing fair and remuncrating
!. price. For these favors, and particularly for
our good health, we should always bear in
mind the source from whence they come, and
with grateful hearts and earnest voices, send
up to the throne of grace our sincere thanks
for such rich blessings, SO literally bestowed
upon us. And while we appoint days of hui
initiation and prayer. and invoke each other t"
observe them, let lis not forget that we, too,
should call upon,God to sustain us in this crisis
of our country's history, and give us the wis
dom to plan and the energy to perfect our own,
and contribute to the deliverance of the South.
In providing for the Improvement Of the
Port of Charleston, and the dredging in the
Beach or Mafit Channel" the Legislature
made all appropriation Of $4,000, but for
Z some reason, the report naming Commissioners
to supcrintcnd the work, and agreed to by
both Houses, was mislaid, and as it was evil
dently the intention of the Legislature to have
the work carried on, having appropriated funds
for The purpose, i took the responsibility Of APP
: pointing Commissioners to supcriutcnd the
I work, and. selected those that were named in
creport of the Committee of the House of
Representatives.
Gs4TAwBA INDIANs.-In my. last annual mes
sage, recommended that n small appropria-
ton be made to pay the travelling expenses of
two or three of the head mon of the Catawbas,
who desired to 60 on visit to examine the
Choctaw country, and report to the tribe on
their return, hoping that a favorable report
might induce them all to remove West. In
this expectation, have not been disappoint-
3D.. The appropriation of five hundred dollars,
in consequence of the excitement and pressure
of business at the last session, not being'placcd
in condition to be drawn from the treasury
by the Indian Agent it becomes necessary ior
me to advance the money out of the contin-
gent fund of the Executive Department, and
Mr. d. J. Rice, Indian Agent, accompanied 10y
Allaa and John Harris, two of the chiefs, start
el on the 10Th July last, to visit and examine
the Choctaw country, and returned on the
29th August. Unfortunately, Allan Harris
died soon aftcr.his arrival at bis destination; !;
but notwithstanding this great calamity, JOHN
Tsrris Z Tas so pleased with the country, and
the recention he met with, that he determined
{ to remain, AM. has written such a fattering
letterto his tribe, depic;ng the great advantages
to BE derived from a renewal to- country
and this account has been sofalls asa.
-confnned BY the Indiau Asseat, that forty
seFeno outof the y-fiyc Of the Iudians living