The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-17

shall be made upon any lots upon which there
is wooden building" In conclusion, would
inform you that up to this time, lapse OF over
two years. but four loans have been made.
This fact shows that the ordinance IS defcctve.
Allow parties to erect wooden buildings with
slate or metallic roofs, and soon our vacant lots
will be covered, and money from taxes will flow
into our treasury.
PROSPECTIVE IMPROVEMENTS.
am in favor OF cutting canal across the
Neck, from the Ashley to the Cooper Rivers.
The following results would be attained The
Neck would be drained rendering it perfectly
healthy. By having the canal of sufficient
breadth, boats and rats could pass from river
to river, saving much valuable time and ex-
pense, and would be great aid to commerce
and the shipping interest. A large number OF
the poor people would be furnished with en-
ployment, and the cost to the city would be
trivial; every load Of earth eXcavated would be
worth for filling purposes about the streets and
the low grounds OF the city every dollar 1t
would cost.
The pond between Beaufain and Broad
streets should be improved and made a beaull-
full spot. The expense OF this would he proDa-
bly, not more than $4,000 or $4,000.
The city institutions, House OF Correction, y
or "Work House." "Alms House." Hospitals
and Orphan House." should be made as near
self-sustaining as possible, and l will present
a plan TO accomplish this to certain extent.
The city should erect on 'Potters' Field" a
farm of thirty. five acres, owned by the city, a
suitable building for its Aims House, selling
the property now used for that purpose, and
also another building for House Of Refor-
nation" for the numerous young vagrants
about our streets, and with the help Of the in
mates OF these institutions, should raise vesc-
tables and garden produce sufficient for all the
institutions of the city.
Two or three hundred head of hogs could be
attended to By these same inmates. The gar
bage and swill collected about the city oy
proper city carts would be ample for their sup
port and meat enough would be raised to sup
ply all dependent upon the city's bounty.
The pr1ves of the city should be regularly
and properly cleaned by city laboreIs and
suitable carts, and the offal taken to this same
Potters' Field to be worked into manure by the
same hogs, for sale to the farmers on the Neck
or elsewhere. The extent to which this self
sustaining process can be carried is scarcely
thought of and still less realized in this COM
munity.
have endeavored to present the leading to-
pics OF interest pertaining to the manage
ment of the city government clearly to your
view, and, with few parting remarks, will
leave them in your hands.
This city is far from being bankrupt and
ruined. We have climate equal to my in
the United States for salubrity and pleasant
ness the year round. Our harbor is not ex-
celled by any in the Southern States. We
have large back country, extending by the
Memphis and Charleston Rlilroad to the Miss
sppi River and as soon as the Blue Ridge
Rairoad is completed by direct communica-
tion with Ohio. We have population equal
to any for labor of all kinds; all it requires is
the education and direction. And now, with
all these advantages of nature and art, 1t is for
the individual interest of every one residing
here to ''accept the situation as it is;" to give
to every man, of whatever race or nationality,
the right hand of fellowship and his full polit-
ical rights under this free government oflaws:
And not 10 ,oan for Northern or other capital
to come and rebuild our fallen fortunes, but
to 90 10 aoorE, aud as soen Us the others see us
helping ourselves we shall not want for Lheii
aid and assistance.
City Hall, Charleston, December 15, 1868.
Alderman Voigt offered the following resolu-
tion, which was carried
ResolUed, That the City Council petition the
Legislature to amend the acts Of 1888 and 1861
relative to the erection of wooden buildings
and that it lie over to the next meeting O.
Council.
On motion, Council then adjourned.