Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-12-08

pal being further Increased by the Investment
of the interest annually accruing, will nccu.
mulatc the sum of three millions eight hun.
dred and nincty.ninc thousand three hundred
and twelve dollars, which will be nearly ado.
quato to the payment Of the entire debt then
due, and recommend that proper legislation
be adopted at tho present session to inauyu-
rate this scheme.
Under the Act of September 2lst, already
referred to, provision was made to fund the
interest on stocks issued under authority of
the Act OF 1868, to continue the construction
of the new State House. The whole amount
issued WAS twenty. four thousand eight hun.
drcl and twenty dollars ($24,S2O). The is
sue was not made until Son,c time during the
year 1864, when there was Il heavy drprccin.
tion Of the currency, and when labor aud ma
trri,,Is were III Il corresponding d,yrce upprc-
ciated -Four hundred thousand dollars were
is ncd i'll 1862, under authority Of the Net OF
1861, wi Ell labor and material had nppreci;-
ted very little In my Proclamation cx.
cepted til sc two issues from immediate fund,
ns until the General Assembly met and de
tcrmincd whether these stocks should cscalcd
to the rea! value received by the State Tor
them when issued. The Convention adopted
rule for the government Of transactions be.
,
lust and honest, and no reason is perceived
why the same rule should not be applied il,
trans actions between the State and its credit,
If the General Assn .bly should determine
Il commission must be appointed to fix the
rates, and the interest can be then computed
accordingly. Should the General Assembly
tol. > ~ ~
present session, the funding will be cxeeuc!
in conformity to tho provisions of the Act
aforesaid.
TIE pENITENTIARY.
Pursuant to the provisions of the Act Of
the late extra session, to establish pcnitcn-
tiary, appointed Mcssrs William Gregg, of
OF Edgciicld, William r. Robertson of Fair
field, and Archibald Cameron of Charcston
Commissioners .! the Pcnitcn,i,ry" :" to
select and procure Il site aud to erect suita
bic temporary enclosure aAJ temporary cells"
They have performed the duty of selecting
aud procuring the site, and have ordered the
work ON the cells to commence. submit to
you herewith their report, together with tic
plans, estimates aud drawings of the entire
establishment, prepared by Capt. i. b. Zee,
the Engineer and Architect The site is
within the corporate limits Of the city of Co.
lumbia-a plateau Of several acres OF level
snrf,ct with bold bluff on the canal, rising
some sixty feet above the level of the rive, :
y track less than hall mile, nearly at grade,
will connect the building with the Grccnvllc
Ka'Iroad at point one. half Il mile from the
dcpots of the South Carolina and Grccnyllc
and Columbia Rairoad The water now run.
ming through the crnal will furnish all the mo
tiy,. thar will bn n,o,n, ,.o,,,
Its accessibility from every part Of tic State
by railroad and the facilities thereby afforded
for the transportation Of prisoners. provisions
and materials and for shipping the supplies
manufactured, make it most admirable and
advantageous location. Granite, in ncxhm,s.
tible quantities can be procured if not with
in the walls, certainly within stones throw
Of them, without any cost Of transportation :
It's location, within, the city limits, will allow
the number OF guarls to be reduced greatly
below the force which would be requisite for
the sa!c.kecping OF the prisoners in remote
localities whore the population is sparse. 1t
is believed by the Architect and Engineer
having the work in charge that cells may be
IN readiness by the first Of January to receive
cpnvlct,.
The Enginccr and Architect estimates the
appropriation needed for the rapid and sue
cesSful pros cu'ion of the work for the next
year at forty-ive thousand dollars
| directed the Commissioners who were or.
dcrcd to sell the buildings, machinery, Ne,
OF the State Works at Grccnville. to reserve
such machinery as ni;ght be usefu|y employee,
in the manufacture of wood and iron in the
PenItentiary, when fully in operation. The
reservation was made and there will be in tho
future only IA triiin. outlay needed for ma
chincry to operate most branches Of manuiac-
lures of wood and iron.
THE LAND SCRIP FoR TIE AGRICULTURAL
AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE.
In obedience to the resolution Of General
Assembly, passed at the special session, ap-
pointed John $. Richardson, lisq., Agent of