The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-09-11

gestion made by me and approved by the
Attorney General, instructed the Tax-Col-
lectors not to issue executions against the
freedmen, for the capitation tax, until the
present session of the Legislature. This
was to avoid all conflict with the military
authorities, arising out of ,he fact that our
courts were notused for the protection Of
the freedmen, and no provision was made
for the helpless. Whenever your legisla-
to the State laws, these executions may be
issued. Proper diligence Sof the Sheriffs
will enforce tho satisfaction of most of these
executions, and the fund may then. be ap-
propriatcd exclusively to the support of the
class from which it is derived
If you should in your wisdom, determine
to make On appropriation 20 buy subsis-
tence for tho indigent white and colored,
the Several Boards Of Commissioners Of
tho Poor, would be, perhaps, the best agents
for its distribution.
To meet any appropriation made, there is
no resource available, and the funds can
only be raised by issuing and selling State
bonds. The credit of the State has hereto
fore been untarnished, and reasonable
hope is entertained that b,rds issued for
snch purpose will command nearly par,
in the money markets of tteiUnited States
or Europe. M
AS the present is called session, and
you may desire to return 70 Jour homes ut
the earliest day compatible with your public
duties, shall defer, until tie regular scs-
sion, bringing to your attention the general
financial condition of the State, or making
any recommendation for putting it on Q safe
and satisfactory basis. Under the authori-
tyof your Act authorizing tho issue of bills
receivable, in payment of the indebtedness
of tho State, the Treasurer had engraved
and printed bills to the amount of $8O0,OO0
and has paid out, to the public officers and
other creditors of the State, only $3.50. 900.
Most of the Tax-Colleotots have made their
returns, and tn legal tender United States
notes paid into the Tressu sIogetker with
tho bills reUeuaSlefnov yct issIed, Will en-
able its operations to, be conducted without
embarrassment until your regular session.
Of the bills issued, they have already been
redeemed in payment of taxes, $4,000.
No appropriation was made to defray the
expenses of engraving and printing the
bills, but the Treasurer, acting upon my re-
commcndation, advanced the expenses
incurred from proceeds of tho loan hereto
fore authorized TO be made. The amount
paid by him, was 81, 4S6.12. l recommend
that an appropriation be made to cover this
amount.
If the Treasurer had declined to make the
payment in advance of the appropriation,
the Act could. not have been carried into
execution, without convening an extra ses-
sion ofthe General Assembly.
AT the last session of the General AS
sembly, "full power and authority" was
given the Governor to make "such reghla-
tions as in his opinion might benecessary to
prevent the entrance and spread of Asiatic
cholera in this State" In February last, 1
opened a correspondence with Major Geno-
ral Sickles, with reference to the establish
ment of4rigid quarantine over all the seaports
inthe State, which resulted in the military
authorities undertaking to establish and en-
force proper. quarantine regulations. am
happy TO say to you that the duties, under
orders from. General Sickles, have been we'll
performed, and not single ouse OF cholera
or yellow fever has occurred within tho
limits of the State.
The work OF reorganization and recon
struction is progressing slowly, but steadily.
Our Senators and Representatives. have not
been admitted to seats in tho Federal Com
gress, and we have received no relaxation
from oherous taxation, notwithstanding we
have been denied representation 1t is be
neYeu, however, tnaJ our leHoW-cNlZenS IN
the North and West will not much longer
permit this aagrant injustice to be contin-
ued. The State Government is entirely re-
organized--the law Courts held their regu-
lar sessions in the spring and despatched
much business, which has been acoumulat-
ing for years, and very generally cleared
the criminal dockets. The Courts of Chan.
Gerry have also been regularly held on all
the circuits. The machinery ofjustice is in
full operation, and private rights and pub
lio wrongs can be enforced and punished.
However much all may deploro that the
progress of the State has been retarded, and
its prosperity paralyzedby loss Of fortune
and credit, and by short crops, the wise
aud manly course Of our people is to re-
double their onergy--banish unayailing re-
grets-meet adyefsity With stout heart
and brave hands, and through the approy-
ing smiles of o gracious Heaven, our vene.
rable mother will egain be prosperous, and
her children contented and happy.
..ts JAMES u. ORR.
The love of the beautiful and true,
like tho deW-drop In the heart. of the