The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-15

CHARLESTON,
sary to protect the rights of the State to the river
phosphates The resolution was discussed little.
Cain, Wright, Rainey and Arnim opposed the
resolution, arguing that it was not fair for steps
to be taken at once by the Attorney General
against these men who were earning living by
digging phosphates Corbin explained that the
object of the resolution was not to provide for the
punishment OF those who had been stealing phos-
pilates, but for the punishment Of those who may
steal hereafter
The committee is not expected to report chow
they are on the phosphates'' for some time.
THE DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND ASYLUM.
The Committee on Claims and Grievances, con-
ssting of E. S. ]. Hayes chairman, John Lunney,
j. H.. Reid, Ghas. W. Montgomery on the petition
OF Woodward Allen and Raymond Owen for
s1o,l9S 90 Including $4,000 for their own personal
services) for building the asylum for the deaf,
dumb and blind, at Cedar Springs, in Spartan
burg County, reported that in 1857 Governor R. F.
W. Alston. Honorable G. G. Memminger and
Honorable Samuel McAliley, commissioners on
the part OF the State, contracted with the petit
TONERS, Woodward Allen and Raymond Owen,
obgating the State to pay them the sum OF
$50, 900 for constructing the building since known
as the Asylum for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind.
Before the petitioners had entered Into bond for
the faithful performance OF their part Of the con-
tract sudden and unexpected rise in the cost OF
all kinds OF building material admonished them
that they could not comply with the terms Of the
agreement without ruInous loss to themselves,
and they so stated to Mr.. Memminger, who Urged
them to 60 forward with che work. assuring them
that the State would not only protect them
against loss, but would reward them properly be-
sides. They went ahead and actually expended
s3I, ,SS5 so, and received in various instalments
from the State sum amounting In the aggregate
to S27,5oo, leaving balance in their favor Of
s43s5 so-the last instalment being withheld be-
cause Of leak In the tin roofing OF the dome, In
attempts to repair which defect (due solely to an
error la the judgment OF the architect who
planned the structure, and not to the build
ers, who only executed the design,) they expended
$500. While matters were thus pending, the
State became involved in civil war, and the Pc
ttioners being unwilling to accept deprecated
and almost worthless currency for debt con-
tracted by the State upon gold basis, awaited
patiently until the reconstruction policy Of Con-
gress gave them the assurance that the State
would soon be able to make good the pllghted
faith OF her agents, and, in the language Of Mr..
Memminger, protect them against loss and re-
munerate them for their services. The COM
mittee are Of opinion that, as contractors,
they should have been sufficiently clrcum-
spect in making their estimates to have placed
them sufficiently high to have covered oil contin-
gencles and recommend that they be paid $1,000,
and the bance OF the claim s319s 90 be rejected.
The calling. up OF his report to-day caused
little discussion, after which the further consid-
GRAFTON Of it was postponed until next Thursday.
THE EDUCATIONAL BILL.
The Senate ''bil to establish and maintain
system Of free common schools for the State Of
South Carolinan was taken up in the House to.
day, and the first and second sections passed
through their second reading. When the third
section, which gives the power of purchasing the
school books to the Slate Board Of Education, was
called up, DeLarge, Elliott and Ransier spoke in
opposition to it. DeLarge said he was opposed to
giving so much power to Jillson, who, II he was
an honest y1an, was not an honest politician; he
had come down here to fool the negroes repre-.
sented himself as Republican, but was not one.
There is considerable opposition to this section,
and II is scarcely probable that 1t will pass Id its
present form. During the discussion the House
adjourned.
CIVIL RIGHTS.
1t appears that the House differs with the Judi
ciary Committee, for to-day the members ordered
through Its second reading the bin 70 secure equal
civil rights, and to provide for the enjoyment OF
all remedies in law by all persons. regardless Of
race or color, Qhe provisions Of which were pub
lished in yesterdays NEws)upon which the COM
mttee had reported unfavorably: thereby assu-
ming that the colored people enjoyed all the rights
they were entiucd TO.
FERRY TO JAMES ISLAND.
To-day the House passed Through its second
reading bill vesting for fourteen years in TOney
Stafford public ferry from place known as
Dils Bluff, OH James Island TO the City Of Charles
ton, with the privilege OF charging ten cents for
each passenger conveyed, provided that he shall
have the said ferry fully established and in good
working order within six months after the pas
sage Of this act.
FENCE LAND,
The House today ordered the enactment clause
to he stricken out Of bill providing that 1t Shall
be required Of all planters, farmers and gardeners,
to protect their crops, OF whatsoever nature, by
fences which shall be sufficiently high and strong
to prevent their being entered into by cattle or
stock Of any kind that if any Of these parties
have complied with the provisions Of the act, and
whose field or garden shall have been entered
into and injured by cattle or stock, may institute
suit against, and recover damages from, the
owner or owners OF such cattle or stock, In any
court Of competent Jurisdiction in this State.
YEMAssEE AND aILLEN RAILROAD.
The bill to incorporate the Yemassee and Millen
Company, now pending before both Houses, pro-
vides that Alexander lsaacs, James H. Taylor,
Andrew Simonds, j. Cunningham, ]. Reid Boyl-
ston, Vim. S. HASTE, James B. Campbell and
David Jennings be appointed commissioners to
open books Of subscriptions to the capital Of
the company, which shall be one million dollars,
to be divided into ten thousand shares of one
hundred dollars each; that said company, when
organized, shall be authorized to construct and
operate railroad from Yemassee or some other
point on the line OF the present Savannah and
Charleston Railroad or from point at or
near the intersection Of said road by the projected
Port Royal Railroad, In Beaufort County, to and
Milen in the State OF Georgia. or in the direction
of and to such other point Of intersection Of the
Central Railroad, in the State Of Georgia, as that
State may authorize them to construct o railroad
MO. MI II tho pnworc riphtc nrivt.