The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1865-12-16
LEGISLATURE SOUTH CAROLINA.
MONDAY, DECE,HBER II, 1865.
SENATE.
The Senate met at lOb a IN.


%lle Senate message asking leave to
amend the message from the Senate in
relation to the adjournment of this Gen.
,eral Assembly on Saturday, the 18th
instant, by striking ont Saturday, the
10Th instant" and inserting Tuesday,
the 10Th instant, at II M" which was
! concurred in
uhc special order for II ma bin to
amend the Patrol Laws-receiva the
second reading, was agreed to, and was
ordered to be sent TO the House of
Representatives
MIR. Eawton submitted the followi.
report; which was ordered to'lie on the
table, and to be printed
The special joint committee of the two
Houses appointed to nominate p idcht
and four Directors of the Bank of the
State of South Carolina. ask leave to
report the following nominations, viz:
For PreSident-C. NJ. Furmam For
Qirectors-W g. Dukes, G.. f. Hanck.
cl, j. p. DeVcaux and J. j. Brabham.
MIR. Bratton moved the following re.
solution; which was considered and
agreed TO. and was ordered to be sent
to the House Of Representatives. for con-
currcncc:
Whereas, The Bank Of the State Of
South Carolina Ss ''at present, little more
than an Office for deposits" and will
probably SO continue for some time to
come:
BE 1t Resolrcd That it. be referred to
Jolnt committee, to c INSIST of the Sen
ate Committee on Finance and Banks,
and the House Committee on Ways
and Means, TO require and report. as to
the number OF salaried officers, with the
salary of each, now enlployed by the
Bank of the State and its various
branches, aud the number of officers
aud the salcries of each. actually requirs
cd in the present condition Of affairs !;
and also as to the practicnbility of re
trcnchment in the exponces Of the
Bank.
The President annouHced that i,c had
received through the post Office, a com.
munication from the colored.pcoplc Of
South Carorolina, in Convention Assem-
blcd in Charleston.
The FLOWING communication was re-
ccivcd from his Excslency B. F. Perry
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, S. c..
December 8, 1865,
To Ills Ercellency Ggv. Ovs
My DEAR SIR Il received two weeks
since, a Telegram from he Hon. VIM.
II. Seward, Secretary o. State, in re.
lalon to the rcpudiation of our war debt
i'll the followerlng words: Upon re.
Election. South Carolina would not care
to come again into the councils of the
Union encumbered and clogged with
debts and obligations which had been
assumed in her name in vain attempt
to submit it. The President trusts that
she will lose no time in making an etfec.
tive organic declaration, disowning all
debts and Obligations mnde and assum-
ed in her name or behalf in aid Of the
rebellion. The President awaits further
events in South Carolina with deep in.
terest."
In reply to. tl,in dispatch, / stated
that it was impracticable, now. to make
any such "organic declaration" as our
State Convention had been dissolved
by my advice, after having done all that
the President had requested to be done,
and that ! was opposed to keeping n
revolutionary body, like that Of the
Convention, in existence longer than
absolute necessity required. | further
Stated, that our war debt was very
small one and could not be separated
from the ordinary current expenses of
the State-that South Carolina had been
refunded, by the Confederate States, a
large portion Of her expenditures on &C
count of the war-and that no one in
the State had any right to complain Of
being taxed to pay this debt, as the,
were all guilty in incurring IT,. stated,
moreover, tha. the estates of of'lwidows
and orphans had been invested inthis
debt, as the safest invrs, ment which
could be made for them. and that il would
now he pross injustice q this innocent