The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-08-26

TIE HEALTH OFFICE BILL PosTPoNED-DnLs 8
+ sUoCEs: oR-THE CHATHAM RAILROAD SCHEME
"A BIG BRIRE oFFHRED-A DISGUSTING AP-
pEAIrxA o1Rcurr JuDaEsHR FOB Ex-aovERN-
Oh ORB, &c.
IspDc1An TELEGRAM TO THE DAILY NEws.]
CoLuMB1A, August 25.-In the House to-day
the Committee on Vacant Offices made an un-
favorable report on the bill 10 create Health
Office. The bill and report were postpone ed to
the next session.
Bosewen, Of Kershaw, was sworn In the
place osDill. illy -. ''-S-s
AL long debate arose on the bill granting the
Chatham Railroad. charter, but no action was
taken.
In the Senate the two Loan bills passed their
third reading. ~ ..g=I
The bill amending the charter of the City OF
Charleston is ready to be ratified.
Messrs. Msgrath and Peake, Of the South
Carolina Railroad; Solomons, Of the North
eastern Railroad; Gen. Harllee, Hon. B. D.
Townsend, and others interested in railroad
matters, are here. The fight will be on On
amendment OF the Chatham Railroad bill re.
curing North Carolina to grant the Cheraw
and Coalsield Railroad the right Of way to Sal
isbury, N. @.
It is reported that the Chatham Ra ilroad
Company have oferedthe Governor s7o,Ooo
loan, II the charter is granted.
Bennett, Of Beaufort, made disgusting sp-
peal to the House to-day for the Chatham
road, stating that this was the first to &C
knowledge the equality Of the races. The
speech was written and evidently prepared by
the Chatham managers.
The Republican caucus tonight nominated
Jas. L. Moore, for the Seventh, and Jas. L.
Orr, for the Eighth District Circuit judges.
THE so-oAILRD LEGISLATURE IN THE THRoEs
OF DIssoLUTIoN-soME SPECIMENS OF ITs
AaoNIEs-A yoURNALIsTToM MOUSE BRINGS FORTH
A MoUNrAM-THE NEW CIRCUIT JUDGES
E1.aovERNoR oRR's, POSITION DOUBTFUL
WHAT THE RADICALS THINK OF RECENT MOVE;
MENTs IN CHARLESTON, 60.
[FRoM DUB OWN OoRREsPoNDENr.]
COLUUBIA, AuRubp I'll A0f0A os" " $1,000
hung, but l. imagine that il ifshould, would
feel q sensation Of pity for the victim, and yet
without the slightest desire to rescue him from
the merited punishment Of his, crimes. At
any rate, feel a sensation akin to pity, though
savoring strongly Of contempt, when I con!
template. the moribund assembly, yclept the
Legislature of South Carolina. Throttled by
public opinion, Dot Of the>State alone, but oi
the whole country, its throes are mortal
There is none to stretch forth helping hand
Some things that occurred in the House to-
day indicate the character Of the body. i
The Election bill, as reported rom the COM
mittee, provided thst managers Of elections
should be. paid three dollars day. The e1-
trayagance Of this provision was clearly shown
and several strong efforts made by Whipper
and DeLarge to strike out the provision alto
gether, and failing that, to reduce 1T to seven
ty-five cents, one dollar, or one dollar and hft5
cents; but the best they could get was two
dollars. Whipper said they were passing this
bill to pay two dollars when they knew it was
not necessary, and when they did not know
where the money was to come from. In fact, ne
did not see where the money was to come from
to pay the Legislature itself. 9. The House
voted down with laughter resolution to sell
State bills for what they would bring to pay
members, and yet bill providing for the very
same thing passed the Senate and was read in
the House the first time, and win probably be.
come law, unless the Governor yetoes it.
8. Henderson, of Newberry, wanted members
to "consideratenr tha pay Of managers, because
the duty was "a little more fatguener" thu
members might suppose; and the right sort-oi
men could not be found so "deliberal" as to
work for nothing. Burrel James, OF Sumter,
wanted 'sto fix up this fact that managers
must be promised something for their work,
even if they never got nothing" This same
fellow, James, offered resolution to punish
men for selling "whiskey" at the polls, without
mentioning any other liquor. 4. Whipper Of
fered the amendment to the Pilot bill, requir-
ing one of the commissioners to be full
branch pilot; and Wilder, Of Richland, think
ing. very naturally, that majority ofthe board
should know what they we're doing, proposed
that two commissioners should be full branch
pilots. Whipper explained that the present
full branch pilots were all whites and opposed
to colored pilots, and to put two OF them on
the board was to exclude colored men from
being pilots; and so the amendment requiring
one commissioner to be full pilot was adopt
ed.
An editorial article in the Republican" the
government organ, miserable Little snees
published by the public printer and edited,
am told, by Attorney General Chamberlin and
Associate Justice Willard, creates some sensa-
ton here, and is regarded as an incendia1y
document. 1t contains an implied threat OF
changing our republican government to one