The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1866-12-05
G0VERN0R's MESSAGE-SyN0PSIS.
From the Charleston New.

From the Charleston News.
He advises the Legislature to provide
- for an amendment to the Constitution of
the State in regard to the District Courts;
: which can be consummatcd at the next
session. He says the Sd article, limiting
the Jurisdiction of these Courts to colored
people, should never have oeen incorpo-
rated into the Constitution, and the
Legislature would then have been left to
establish such superior and inferior
Courts as the interests Of the State may
require. As it is, the Constitution Of
the State runs counter to the legislation
of Congress. The Governor views the
District Court only as an experiment; ;
as indeed all legislation must be consider
ed that owes its existence to a state Of
- things consequent upon revolution, and
made for society in state Of transition.
G~ He advises the dispensing of Grand
Juries at the District Court, and the
reduction ofthe venire for the Petit Jury
from d to IS, making the jury daty
( the State largv amount Of money.
He makes several other recommended
24ions of salutary reforms in the admins
Of justice; others in regard to
Commissioners of Deeds and Notalivs
Public.
$ He next refers to the Importance Of
modifying the criminal law Of the State,
- iuView of the establishment Of peniten-
- tiary ; is opposed to public whipping at
X the whipping post; speaks Of the I'M
Rortanco of enforcing the law against
sheFiffS andjailorS, for neglect Of duty 10
g allowing prisoners to escape from their
s custody. No less than seventy prisoners
- are e>said to. have escaped in this State
within the last few months.
He recommends the election for
~ members Of Congress to be held bienially,
on the day that members of the General
SAzAsseMbly are chosen, so that they will
take their seats in the December follow
,ing,-a much better arrangement than
formerly, when members were elected
fourteen months before they could take
,eszztheiE seats.
e. -. -, BE next adyertS to the transfer Of
EtinFisdictipR from the. military to the
ss-seiya authority: thinks that experience
,zsttpS far has justified the action Of the
sS1eneral Assembly in permitting negroes
Ito testify in Court From this the
>. Governor passes on to speak on the
subject of labor and the frccdmcn-tAat
he has discouraged their migration, and
.sGsays: "If the negro remains here his
. s2,lahor must be made sufficiently rcmuncr-
alive to. subsist and clothe him comforta-
big. Schools must he established to
; educate his children, and churches built
- q for stas moral train;~~>
y He also recommends the passage of al
gactmaking it incumbent on the Commits
= ssioRerS ofthe Poor to provide suitable
= .baildingS at ihe various District Poor
: Houses for the accommodation and sub
zSisteRee@ Of aged, in6rm and helpless
Freedmen. ~
The next subject Of discussion in the
Message is the revenue Of the State.
From this VIC learn that the entire
revenue received into thetreasury during
the year, is $477, ,743. 81 j; of this amount
there was in the treasury on the 3lst
October, subject to draft, balance Of
$f73, ,055.03, of which SIS, 1855 was in
national currency.
The Governor recommends several i'm
-zpoFtaHt changes in the matter oftaXatiOn;
among them system of licenses and
~. stamp duties, and an income tax, which,
@Hnaer existing internal revenue circum-
sstaBeeS, we fear will not prove very
-nRalatabie to our citizens.
The Rarl= =-af tt.o-Stztv-eff South caro-
lima the Governor recommends to &c dis
continued, and that it be put into the
hands of Commissioners for al early
liquidation. - -
The whole amount of the public debt,
prinei pal and interest, of thiS State, not
Including the debts contracted for or on
account Of the war, was, on the first day
of October last, So, ,2O5, ,227.7+. The Gov
,esnor makes several recommendations in
reference to the arrangement of this debt,
and providing for the payment Of princi-
pai and interest.
= - The site selected BY the Commission
erss for the establishment of peniten-
tiary is withia the corporate limits of
.ColAnbia, facing the canal, about half
mile above the.depot Of the South Caro-
Ina Railroad The architect in charge
ofthe buildings, Captain 7. B. Lee, is
confident that he viii have eetiS in Tcadi-
ness by the first of January fer the re-
ception Of cGnvicts.
e.. & Gov. Orr recommends Ienlency and
foFbearaHce on the part Of creditors to
debtors, in view Of the bad crops made
this year in almost every part of the
State. He again urges the abolition Of
imprisonment for debt. He also recon-
mends the passage of Homestead Law.
The South Carolina University is the
. next topic adyerted to in the Message.
There are at present sixtyfive students
in attendance Governor Orr recon-
. mends the appointment of two Professors
for the Medical School, and one Of Law,
. to put those two departments into sue
cessful operation, He,alSo advocates the
establishment Of a professorship Of Nod
ern Languages, and recommends that the
Beard of Trustees be reduced from the
present unwieldy number to seven MEM
berS.
The Governor refers to the failure Of
the legislative scheme for supplying the
people with corn, and recommends a
further consideration Of the subject.
"A general Incorporation Act is strong
ly recommended in the Message.
The consideration Of the Constitutional
Amendment, proposed by Congress, next
engages the attention of the Governor.
He treats it very briefly, seeming to
think it unnecessary to do more than re-
cspitulate the many strong arguments al
ready brought against it, in which he