The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-12-06
PIoccct.Ipgs of Council.

| more IMAM 7 HyDopNS III tnlb NuOTDl'is NEWS
The Mayor called tho Council to order. proscnt-
AhcrIoeli M,,aHALb Bsowa. wHiI,uEsi. EauLe SrEia-
| MEYHn, BUTLER, HoNoUE, SdALt, C.HEnpH, ESsr ON,
OAEEs. RYAS, GHnnrs and pniNur.E
The minutes Of The previous rlrc:in; ware read ard
approved.
\ communication read from Alderman j. q. Mil
SoI rratnirg his Office, in qucco CT tho
nin,y as TO residence i'll tho city His rnignntlon
accepted. ana election ordered i'll Ward No. l.
| Various applications read, AMI referred to the
appropriate committees.
The Mayor read letter from Eossrs. Csthcart Nc.
1Iian & Morton, proprietor. of tho Charleston Daily
NEws inqnrng Of Cy Council how 1hd happened that
the city printing given to the Charleston Courier
when tho conductors "f that paper had not handed in
their estimate and letter OF application the day I'D
the proptioors of THE News had handed their letter
ut I!.1 P: M-l2 NJ being the timo up to which tho
Clerk had stated proposals would be received.
Tho Clerk OF Council being called o testified to tho
correctness OF the facts stated tho letter mention
upon which, Council referred the matter to the Com
| mittco on Contracts
A,bn Of the Charleston Gas Light Company against
Mayor by Gen. bennett, who had endorsed the pa
per that as long as the military authority had collected
rate of 1sai night for each lamp but that now
the city should pay it. Referred to Committee Ac.
The bill to establish Health Dep lrtnent was next in
In Irdsr and samo up for second reading Alderman
Ing that there was no necessity for this Increase Of ply
sieans for tho poor that tho old system had worked
prise at this Time
Alderman Honour objected that it was too complicated
and that the City Registrar already performed the fnc
tions contemplated by this bill for the chief physician
There was long debate this matter; aud the bill,
after being variousy modified, passed and read
tiir, time. provides for the election OF sx physi-
clans for the poor, who report to the CITY Kcgis-
trar. The salary 10 be six hundred ,olla per annu
The bin lies over to the next meeting for ratification.
Scinmcycr moved an Ordinance that hereafter thore
two City Apothecarics.
Reports were read from the sc7oral Committees
.tttCrniun Whi!ucn, from tho Committee tho
Fire Department. reported that they have not hud
time sufficient to give tho subject tho consideration
necessary. and that the Committee respectfully beGs
i'r further time to prepare their report. IN tho
advise the several ire companies without an apparatus
at this tme to cndccvor to supply themselves with
steam engines, a! moved that City Council offer
ward of $500 TO the first volu company W ho
would supply themselves with steam engine; said
at Baltimore. philadelphia and New York, in reference
to this matter Steam engines almost exclusively
uscl in all the cities, aud answered very satisfactorily
and that they coHt moro than the hand engines.
The report ordered 10 lie till the meet
The Committee on Streets report that Last Bay from
tstrect to the Battery, and Broad street,
BAY TO Meeting street require paving and they
would recommend Council to advertise for cstinatcs as
10 the best modes Of paving.
The Mayer stated that the city haa no contract at
present with tue Gas Company for lighting the streets;
nd had been stated ut earlier part the
ing the military authorities decline to pay for it any
longer, some plan must be adopted ut Upon
sultaton with the President of tho Gas Company ho
learned that 1927 lamps Ia the complement Of tho city
the number Of corners between hvc aud six hundred
ana that tcsc could be lighted at fifty cent advance
on former rates, say at about s4s.15 per annum
each lamp
Alderman whilden moved that the matter be referred
to the Committee on Lighting the City, with power to
act from month to month till permanent arrangement
lie made.
Alderman steinmeyer moved that all the resolutions,
pm % ey ey S during & "sr the saa
salaries that may hereafter fall due BE- pai at what tbev
were previous to the
give notice that Council ut their next meeting would
elect an inspector Of Flour.
Council next proceeded to elect the Boards of
Commissionera follows:
u eoa"issioners on, s. Of Aqrksts.c N. F,rman f L.
Riggs, YIN. Lobby, George H. Ingrahnn John y Stock,
J, W. Brown, George Bowman, G. d. Farrar J. +.
Commissioners Of 0.psan HOH:c.-H. !. DcSaussnre,
DR. James Moultre, W. c. Rec, Charles Macbeth james
Ingper a% , j. u F. ,isa sshrnG5 & w. H Houston H. Gill
J. II. NIurrcl
camn,ssion.ss ej POor-Dr. J. L. Dawson, p ], Dur.
Dr. H. w DesausA re. Joseph A. Sanders. F. j. PelEcr,
John NJ Greer ", G. Gi6bea, JOS. Dawson, Thomas
Commissioners Of l'otage:-A Q. andrews, Capt.
Ferguson Daniel Lesesne rhos: s. Budd, James Wells
Supervisors High Sctook-R. Yeadon, H. D. Lcscsne,
Col T z; B. White, Hon " D. Porter, George s. Bryan,
lcn oakes, and Mayor o6icio.
Election for Firemasters postponed to next meeting of
Board of HealM-Hon. P. c. Gaillard. Mayor; Alder
men me Rayenel Ryan, Brown. Small, oakes. Marshall,
Trustees Of Charleston Colifgc-Aldermen RavencI,
Honour and Trenholm.
On motion, the Council adiourned-aftcr 10 r. II.
copARrsERsHIp.-It affords us much pleasure to OBJ
serve that Messrs. CHAs T. CRAIG, JOHN TUoMEY, and
r. W. LOCKWOOD have entered into business together
for the transactlng Of the ship chandory and shipping
and commission business at No. 48 Bay store
formerly occupied by NAYLoR & SMITH. These gentle
men are well known in the community AZ industrious
and energetic in any matter which they may undertake
and therefore, predict for then In their pre- esent
avocation, q large and prosperous business.
The railroads OF New England and the idde Statcs
doing good business and the traffic in freight and
passengers Is large to call for additional facilities
and routes The extension of the Harlem Railroad
northward from its present terminus at Chatham, N
Y, to Bennngtt n, VT, to connect with the West
| ern Vermont road, at that point, and thus form
straight line from New York to Montreal, is a matter
settled npon between the directors of tho Harlem and
Vermont roads, The estimated expense is two millions
oneha Of which has been subscribed and as further
aid Is promised by responsible parties the early COM
pletion of the line is considered certain
The surgeon having charge of the sanitary condition
OF the freedmen In North Carolina, under the auspices
OF the Freedmens Bureau, has forwarded to that de-
parment Retrospective report of the condition of tho
blacks IN that State during tho last three yearH In the
large colonies yellow fever smallpox have ragged
with great fatality from time to mc The mortality ut
Anderson, where h located of tho largest freed