The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-01-13

Company. amounting TO 81. .O93, ,312.4 40.
and those OF the North eastern Railroad
Company, amounting to $92, 900, are
past due, the former having matured in
1868, the latter in 1869. None of them
have as yet been paid, but no demand
has been yet made on the State for pay
ment. and the Comptroller presumes
"that the companies by whom they we're
issued have made, or are about to make,
satisfactory arrangements relative there
TO-"
DEBIT AND CREDIT. No.
IL credits an additional Indebtedness Of
the State of So, G42, 103. 4S. which, when
added to the railroad debt Of SS,797,-
608. 20, makes the total debt of the State
$11 429, 711.68. So it will be perceived
that from Mr.. Neagle's own report the
debt Of the State is over S11, 1000, 900.
The advocates of reform were, therefore,
not far from wrong in their estimates of
the State debt during tho late canvass.
+ BANKS AND CAPITAL. Statement No.
IA comprises abstracts'of the returns of
Banks of the State, filed in this Office,
under the provisions of the enablis>g
Acts of March, 1869. In accordance
Herewith, tho following named Banks
have, during the last fiscal year, resumed
business, with the amount of capital
placed opposite their names, respective
ly, viz: Bank of Charleston, $3.50, 900;
Peoples Bank of South Carolina, $780,,
0"O; Planters and Mechanics Bank,
100000. The Bank of Newberry and
the South western Railroad Bank are
redeeming their bills, but have not re-
sumed business. The following named
arc in the hands of receivers, &C., np-
pointed under tho provisions of the
above named Act, or orders of the Courts
prior to the passage thereof: Bank of
Camden; Bank of Chester; Commercial
Bank of Columbia; Exchange Bank Of
Columbia; Bank of Hamburg; Bank of
Georgetown; Merchants Bank of South
Carolina, Chernw; Planters Bank of
Fairfield; State Bank of Charleston, and
Bank of South Carolina.
RAnRoADs.-The abstracts of the va
rious railroad reports contain some very
valuable statistical information, from
The net earnings of the various roads
are set down as follows: Spartanburg
and Union Railroad. S14, 4,502.O3; Green
vile aud Columbia, none; North east
ern, $96,207.94; South Carolina, $685.
1856 Out of this $59, 1914 have been
paid in dividends, leaving q surplus of
5000, ,534.55. The total number of per-
sons killed on all the roads arc reported
as nine; injured, nine.
| The PENITENTIARY. The report of the
| Superintendent and Directors of the Pc
nitentiary ask for m appropriation Of
$50, 900 for the erection of permanent
brick building for work shops. There
are now in confinement BIT persons, of
whom $40 are males, and Z females. 1t
would seem that the inmates nro kept
we'll employed, as appears from the fol-
lowing exhibit of the work done by them
during the past year:
In carpenter shop has been manufac-
tured IS wheel-barrowe. 160cell benches
180 spittoons, 3 derrick frames, 1872
hammer handles, 430 axe and pick
helvcs, 13 mess tables, 36 quarry buck
cts, performed work in erecting machine
shop extension, erecting the new sheds
for tho protection of stone.workers,
built aqueduct wood work in miIl-racc,
fitted up store-room and hospital, ro-
paired boats, wagons, fences aud build
ings, to an aggregate amount of at least
S3, 600. In blacksmith shop has been
made S7S balcony bearers, vast number
OF stone cutters, and other tools used in
the various departments, to an aggregate
amount of not less than $4,000. The
weaving shop has produced S,20S yards
of cloth Of various kinds and qualities,
to value of $3,616.60, which has been
made up into garments in the tailor shop.
During the year 2Sl persons have been
received; of whom 205 have been par
doned, % discharged, "a died, and es-
capped.
LUNATIc AsYrUM.-T expenses of
this institution, as appears by the report
of the Treasurer, amount to $5S, ,507.
Its assets arc $43,471 and liabilities
S14,97S.
The South having exhibited of late
signs OF revival, and q somewhat inde-
pendent expression and exercise of OPT
nion consequent thereupon, the Radicals
deem it necessary to again put on the
legislative screws. With this view q
special message is being prepared for
Gen. Grant by some legal romancer, ex-
hibiting the usual desperate state of
affairs, so constantly encountered in the
columns of the Washington Chronicle
and Now York Tribune. This is to be