The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-29
rFRoM OUR owN CORRESPONDENT
COLUMBIA, January 81.
PORT ROYAL RAILRoAl


PORT ROYAL RAILROAD.
/ have mentioned that Wells had introduced
In the House bill providing tina. t.e time for the
completion Of the Port Royal Railroad be extend
ed to the first OF August, 1871. The contractors
pledged themselves to complete the road by the
first of August next, and, 1t Is asserted, will be
able to do so by the arst of October, unless un-
foreseen circumstances occur to delay them, to
provide for which the bill above mentioned was
prepared 1 am Informed that the terminus has
not yet been determined upon, but will be next
month. The general impression is that Battery
Point, about four miles below Beaufort, will be
selected.
TIE BAnSwELL RAILROAD COMPANY.
The bill introduced in the House to incorporate
this company provides that Geo. D. Chapman, H.
Il. Beverly, Vim. 81. Thorp, Fl. Bulge, ]. D. Mills,
A. W. Gre"nleaf, ". ". Dechalt, c. P. Leslie
c.. .R. abb, Willis Gaybold, S. c. Pomeroy, and
their associates, now forming and constituting
the Barnwell Railroad Company, be authorized
and empowered to extend the said railroad from
point at or near Blackwell to Sumter Court
house, in a line as nearly straight as may be
practicable or convenient, so as to form direct
line from Sumter Courthouse to the Savannah
River; that the capital stock Of the sold company
may be increased at pleasure to sum not eX-
ceeding three million Of dollars to be divided into
shares Of one hundred dollars each; that the COM
pany be vested with all the powers and privIe-
ges and subject to all the duties and Liabilities
that the Greenville and Columbia Railroad are
invested with and subject to by an act entitled
San act to charter the GreenviHe and Columbia
Railroad Company and all acts amendatory
thereof Some OF the friends Of this road favor
the running OF the road direct from BlacSville to
Columbia, claiming that by this route they will
secure access to the North as easily as BY the
route to Sumter, and that this road can be con-
strucsed much more cheaply.
SPEND LITTLE TO SECURE MUCH.
have before mentioned that little job by
which certain parties intend to push through the
General Assembly bill to authorize the issue
OF 1924 in bonds Of the State to pay the prin-
clpal and interest Of q loan made in July, 1864,
and February, 1866, by the Charleston Savings
Institution to the Bank Of the State, and thus
secure to themselves the handsome profit OF two
hundred and 1fty-six thousand dollars. The
rumors about interested parties being up here
with "lightn to show the legislators the route by
which bill becomes an act, are more dehnite
and 1t is now stated that the interested parties
are willing to invest one.ffth of their hoped for
profit in votes.
THE STATE PESIrESTIARY.
In the Senate, to-day, there was taken up q
Joint resolution from the House providing that
the Treasurer Of the State be authorized and re-
quired to pay to the superintendent OF the South
Carolina Penitentiary the sum Of $4,000 per
month"; in advance, Of the appropriation for said
penltentiary the sara amount to be paid out OF
any monies not otherwise appropriated, and to
be deducted from the appropriation for said peni-
tentiary when made. This elected some discus
sion, whereupon Hayne explained that the super
intendent had no funds to go on with the work
upon the penitentiary, the fiscal year having en-
pired; that many of the convlcts were idle, others
working about Columbia for parties for whom
The .believed) they had no business to work:
that the superintendent was now borrow
ing money from Messrs. Scott Williams &
Co., at the rate Of one and half per cent. per
MONTH Leslie intimated that there was big job
going on, and in il was the State superintendent:
that the o., superintendent had made specula-
tion of the once, aad it looked as II the new one
was leaning the same way. After speaking in
This strain for some tinc he announced his inten-
zion TO introduce resolution OF inquiry In re-
gard to the alleged arrangement OF the superin-
tendent with Mr. Pope, who had leased some
State lands in the vicinity OF the penitentiary-
Nash did not like Lesiie's remarks, and gave no.
tice OF his intention to Introduce bill to provide
for. public granny and public grumb!er, and
when it was passed he would nominate Leslie to
MI the ONCE. After some further discussion, the