The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-28


provisions of the Act aforesaid.
Pursuant to the extra session to
fs5"Dh T@e6d Win IH{en{"F, ;pontg4d Mes William Gregg of
Of Charleston Commissioners Penitena select
fn procure ee site and % to erect suitable temporary enclosure and
procuring the site, and have ordered the cells to com
submit herewith report together with the
plans, estimates and drawings esalsne prepared
by Capt B. Lee the Engineer and Architect. The
OF level surface with bold bluff canal rising some
nearly at grade viii building (renvie Ra
Toad at point one:of mile from the depots of tie South
rnnn through the canal will furnish all the motive power
the State by railroad facilities thereby afoded for the
transportation OF prisoners provisions and materials and for ship
advantageous location Granite quantities can be
procured if not within the walls certainly
them without any cost Of transportation Its location within
elty hn mt VIII allow the number of guards to be reduced greatly
prisoners remote localities where population sparse It is
believed by the Architect and Engineer having the work charge
The Engineer Architect estimates the appropriation needed
year at forty-dve thousand dollars.
machinery &c, OF the Grcenve to reserve
such machinery as might be usefuy employed in the
reservation made and there will only ne
of iron
THE lap son1P gon THE AencrITaAn COLLEGE
the special session. appointed John Richardson Esq Agent
which 1 this State M o % "ffh ne t I t Sec o cSda4 so n fs to
Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges He was furnished With
certified Of the resolution duly authenticated
it in the Department. Of the communication
addressed to by the Hon o. H. Browning,
INTERIOR OF which herewith will
that he declines issue the scrip until the Legislature accepts
Act the donation III conformity to the of the law of the
Congress OF the United S;cs making the grant No li1eoul
be lost IL securing this nluicent donation the
ton and and recommend that be
purpose This step viii certainly be accepted compliance with
all the requirements OF the Congressional law.
In OF the Northern States the fund thus
used in establishing schools for teaching the branches by
Act OF Congress- existing Colleges
policy should commend itself to approval the agricultural
features Of the College may be engrafte the Un>cr
SHY OF South Carolina and the State all lands
buildings required to be furnished by it, The buildings
University commodious enough to accommodate all
that desire nltricuae owned
by the College viii furnish for an experimental farm
1t important If the donation be accepted
ton shall be adopted at the present session. will make
able, independently Of conjunction with the
was organized early January last and has
i've Students but its number OF macuates has been equal
the expectation OF its trends The Act of last December
fishing University requires further amendment
Medical and Law Schools of the general
University elucaton Many of the young go to the
professions would willingly avail themselves of the opportunity
offered Of pursuing them here With
Professor Of Chemistry already there these put
into complete and successful operation, hope might
reasonably entertained that the number of students would
increased ile 5oart OF Trustees which
less satisfactory to them, declined May last
Modern Languages This important branch Of
should not longer unIrovided for and the Trustees will
fill the vacant chair at their annual meeting December
institution, the
university has been practically nothing than the College
VISION not made for teaching the modern languages and
organizing Medical and Law Schools long of the
State seek other institutions where these studies
Until the University be
State by enlarged facilities for acquiring KNOWLEDGE in science
languages and the learned professions its friends expect
command general public patronage to sustain it.
Tho Roo 1ofT Tr,4o