The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-12-05

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The disbursements for supplies, wages, &C.,
have amounted to $50, sos 50.
The liabilities of the institution are stated as
follows:
For supplies. $50. 2o5 Al
For salaries and 15,so6 80
For furniture and bedding. 2,3St Fl
Minor expenses. 161 W
Borrowed money 7,OOO w
Balance due treasurer. IA 10
Total. .S62,o16 65
The total assets consist OF the balance of the
appropriation for support of the Asylum for
the year ending October 81, 1872, $75,-
04s So; but 1t must be remembered that war
rants to the amount of $s0,2l4 IL on this
balance have been disposed Of In payment OF
the debts of the institution, and accounted for
as a part of the receipts and disbursements Of
this year, which would leave the net assets of
the institution October 81, 1872, $54,s29 AZ.
The historical portion Of the report covers
eighteen printed pages, and gives q graphic
picture Of the Immediate and pressing need OF
additional buildings. freplaces, ranges, fur
niture, dumb walters, washing facilities, &C.,
and describes vividly the straits to which the
officers of the Institution have been reduced
In providing during the year for the daily
wants of the inmates. The report says: "rhe
past year has been one of extreme anxiety
and apprehension, not only to the friends and
relatives of our inmates, but to those charged
with the government, responsibility and man
agement of the Institution. Many have been
the DAYS hat We have not had supplies Of
food for the morrow, and when there seemed
no possible chance of obtaining them. Star
walton and nakedness stared US In the face,
and but for the generous and humane lndulg-
ence of some Of our Columbia merchants,
our patients must have perlshed or
been turned out upon the public, and the
doors of the Asylum, which, for the last fifty
years, has been a refuge and q blessed retreat
for the afflicted of the State, been closed
a gloomy and painful example of official e1-
~trsvagance and official corruption. 1t is no
figure OF speech to say that. from the begin
Ming ofthe year to its close, the existence OF
the Institution has been one severe protract-
cd struggle. All this anxiety, all these pain
full approximations and these trying and terri
BILE embarrassments were caused by the State
treasurer falling, az he still fails, to pay the
appropriations made last winter by q gener-
GUS Legislature for the support Of the Aay-
lum.n The superintendent then details his
experience during the year In borrowing from
the merchants of Columbia and Charleston
enough supplies and money to feed
and clothe the inmates from week to
week, and he acknowledges especially the
Kindness of Mr.. E. Hope, q merchant OF Co.
lumbia, and of Messrs. John Agnew d Son,
Hardy solomons, Secretary OF State Cardozo,
aud Of some of the merchants OF Charleston.
The superintendent rays: 81 present these
details to show what b hard struggle the lnsti-
tutIon has had for existence during the past
wear, as we'll az to demonstrate the utter i'm
possibility of keeping 1t open another year,
or ever another month, unless prompt mea-
sures are taken to relieve US Of our present
dIspraceful financial embarrassment. 49,"
A large portion OF the appropriation was
eaten up by bills OF interest, and by the pay
ment of excessive and. rulnous prices. The
merchant could not be expected to sell goods
at cash prices on indefinite time, and many OF
our debts are from one to two years stand
Ing. am satisfied that, II we cou'd adopt
the cash system, with an economical expendi-
ture of the money, the institution could be
supported for fifteen or twenty Thousand dol
lars less per annum than under the present
system of indefinite Credits" The following
appropriations are recommended to be made
by the present Assembly: $7,lSs Al to supply
the deficiency OF The past year; $4,000 for the
support of the institution for the next year;
$4,000 for putting 10 dumb walters, and making
ouch alterations In the female department as
are necessary for the accommodation OF the
colored females; $4,000 for putting heating
apparatus ln the male department. $4,000 tor
buildings new kitchen and constructing new
cooking ranges; $4,000 for building a new
laundry. and $4,000 for the purchase OF land,
and a levy of $500, 600 for the completion of
the new Asylum. The superintendent says I:
..These look like large figures, but the several
amounts 1 have indicated are absolutely nee
essary for the proper care Of the Insane OF the
State, and, as their representative, 1t is my
duty to bring them 10 your notice. 1t is Tor
the State to say whether or not they shall be
supplied"
This report was made by the superintendent
to tie committee of the board of regents,
Messra. Henry sparnick, W. B. Nash and 8. B.
Thompson, on the slst of October, reported by
them to TIL board OF regents on the 18th ulti.
and transmitted by the board to Governor
Scott on the goth ultlmo. 1t has not yet been
formally transmitted to the General Assembly,
but 1t has been printed In pamphlet torn and
will, it is expected, be laid upon the desks OF
the members IN a day or two. PICKET.
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COLUMBIA, 8. c., Wednesday, December 4.
The Electoral College of South Carolina met
to-day. D. q. Chamberlain presiding, and a.
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