The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-12
COLUMBIA.
Newspaper Changes-.The Broad River
Brtdge--What the Legislature Cost
Inst Session--The Memoirs of Long,
streets sCoxps--The South Carolina PEN
itentiayy.
iraoM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

SSAsA.3-o1 S-'SA-A'A'J
COLUMBIA, 8. c., April 9.-To-day is warm
ard very windy, clouds Of dust sweeping
through the streets, filing overybody's eyes
that ventures out. Our little city cannot Of
ford a water cart, and we expect to be tor
mented with dirty linen all summer.
C.P. Pelham will re-establish the ''Soutll-
ern Guardian" by tho first of May. If well
conducted it certainly ought to succeed, as 4
good daily is needed. The Phoenix has broken
down every paper commenced in opposition to
it since the war, and it would have succumbed
itself did it not have the job of State printing
for Two years.
The bridge over Broad River, about two
miles above Columbia, is being rebuilt under
the management Of Alexander T. Lee, Esq.
1t is badly needed, as all the crossing from the
Richland to the Lexington side has been done
in flats since he war; Instead of entire gram
ite piers as before, hollow iron columns are fixed
BY pivots to granite foundation reaching just
to tine level Of low water. 1t will be pretty
and economical piece Of engineering.
A few members of the Legislature are still
are afraid to 20 home, but We think they are
after some berth in the way of census-taking,
enrolling militia, &c.
The expenses of the Legislature for the last
term is put down at about S150,0O0, exclusive
of standard printing. This is the amount in
greeubacks disbursed to members.
We are in unison with the public sentiment
in saying we have been satiated with war books,
especially those written by men Of such stripe
as Pollard. However, we here note work
which will be distinguished exception. Gen
eral E. P. Alexander will soon have ready for
the press, Memoirs of Longstreet's Corps"
1t will be precious record to the former NOM
bers of that gallant command aud their rela-
tives, many of whom wero South Carolinlaps.
The work will contain in full the official state
ment of every engagement, and tho names OF
tho killed and wounded. These statements
will be woven together in an interesting, man
ner. Some time ago, each corps com mandcr
was requested by General R. L. Lee to write
history OF his own corps; in tho case OF Gene
raj Longstreet, he requested General Aexan-
der to undertake his part, which he did, and
it will be we'll done. General Alexander ID
distinguished graduate of West Point, clear
and facile writer, and is now professor i'll the
University of South Carolina. He is brother
of the well known army correspondent, "P. w.
A." On the other hand, his work will be au-
thentic; he was chief Of artillery in Long
streets Corps, and we are informed he was not
only the main adviser OF General Longstreet,
but his yiciss weic sought by General Lee him
self.
No decisions have yet been rendered in the
Supreme Court.
We paid a very interesting visit to-day to
the penitentiary. There are twenty-three
white convicts, two hundred and thirty-nine
colored convicts. Total. two hundred and sixty
two. You will notice the tremendous pre-
dominance Of colored convicts; and three OF
the white ones are discharged United States
soldiers. General Stolbrand is not as popular
among the copvcts as Major T. B. Lee; he
feeds them as well, but works them harder,
vet we must confess General S. appears to un-
derssand his business, and everything is car
ried on economically. AL their clothing is
made u3 aud manufactured by themselves, cs
also their shoes. There is also we'll kept
garden, a blacksmith shop, machine shop,
erist mill and tin shop. The convicts that
are not employed in any of these departments
work on the building and in the quarry, which
is in the enclosure, and from which all the
granite for the building is obtained. There
are twenty seven guards-fftcen negroes and
twelve whites. All these whites are discharg-
ed United States soldiers. Thomas Dolan,
sentenced to two years for shooting a policeman
in Charleston, was pardoned to-day by the
Governor. HALIFAX.