The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-12-14

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The correspondent Of the Charleston
NerS states that "among the most i'm
portant OF State statistics arc the follow
lug statements, furnished at the demand
OF the Ways aud Means Committee from
the books Of the late State Treasurer,
and showing, IN gross amounts. the re-
oelpts and expenditures of his Office DUR
ing the past fiscal year:
RECEIPTS. on hand October
81, 1871, S24. 207. .23; received on account
taxes 1867, 1868, 1869. 1870, 1871, l, 1GO,-
937.O7; received on account license tax,
62, go. Go; received from phosphate com
ranics, 30, 7G7. 40; received from Colum-
oia Stone Company, 90; received fees
Secretary of State. 2,545 S9; received
fees State Treasurer, 1,2lS; received in
dcxing records Surveyor Generul's Of
ice. 800; lease Saluda Turnpike, 352 so;
81. e Hayne, Land Commissioner, 7lO;
Secretary of Suite, Laud Commissio er
department, 6,3lS 92; w. B. Gulick.
Treasurer Sinking Fund, %, 100; sales
forfeited lands, 1876. general interest
account public debt, 2,505; Charleston
Joint Stock Company, 1000; j. Al.
Wilder, ex-Sheritf Sumter County.
4.757.5G; School Commissioner Abbe.
vile, (refand.) Sc 73; II. H. Kimpton,
Financial Agent, SOB. 00O O-total, 81 ,G32.-
1917.
EXPENDITURES Salaries, $II3, GG5. 40;
refunds to County Treasurers, 1858. 81 !:
contingent funds, S,S33.SS; Orphan
Asylum, $500; schools, lis, 7S7. 80;
armed force, S3, ,503 81; advertising Acts.
40. COG. &c; permanent printing General
Assembly, S3,724 AZ; current printing
General Assembly, 9l,2OS.79; claims,
,97G. II; mileage State Board Education
754. IL; Catawba Indians. 200; expenses
OF loan in payment of interest on public
debt, 5,S92.73; general interest account
of public debt, 3,77411; repairs to
Lanatic Asylum, 10,500; transient sick
poor, 12G. so; support Of South Carolina
University, SIG; furnishing and heating
Asylum, 5000; legislative expenses for
1870 and 1871, G9,097; Legislative ex-
pensea for 1871 and 1872, 472, 2,17O.16:
Lunatic Asylum, 33, 1892 80; maintaining e
quarantine, 025; free school deficiency,
9.655.04; kcc. er of lazaretto, 2GG.C7;
deaf. dumb anu blind, 1922. o.; books
for Universitr library, 35; publication
of decisions Of Supreme Court 500:
State capitol bonds, 1853, 203, 900; Peni-
Tertiary, 1854 G4; deficiency in pay
ment for elections, 342 rs; vault doors
for treasury, 1,500; H. II. Kimpton, FL
nancial Agent, 47, POI. .13; civil conticent
fund, 7,3O2.1 .15; books for Supreme
Court library, 1925; clothing for discharg.
ed convicts, 24G 90; bills receivable, 281; !;
militia account, 237. 40; bills payable for
Legislative expenses, ITO, 982 .27; interest
on bills payable, $40. 80; school records,
25; expenses for general election of 1872,
42 40; total, 81 ,G34. 1886. 81.
The Cuban insurgents, with valor
and persistence before which the strug-
gles Of '7G pale, are still resisting the
Spanish forces. Recent advioes from
Sante Espiritu report minor successes.
This will fan the flame of revolt anew,
and revive their hlgging spirits. It is
bloody drama, without parallel in his.
tory, and that international law which
binds the hands of neighboring power,
seems in this instance curse rather
than blessing.
Col. ". P. RAMSEY KILLED. The
Columbus Sm reports that Col. W. p.
Ramsey, young lawyer and planter in
Harris County, was shot and killed last
Monday night, by Mr.. Swimson. a car
penter lately from Texas, but last from
Clayton, Ala. The shooting occurred in
the rear room OF store in Hamilton,
and but little is known of the details Of
the difficulty,