The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-01-24
TWO REMARKABLE DOCUMENTS.
A Quarantine Report from DIR. Lebby
and Pardon Record from Governor
Scott-Legislativo LuzIness.
rpaoa OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

fPaOH OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE
COLUMBIA. January %.
Our model legislators do not appear to be
satisfied with the little holiday they have en-
joyed since Friday, and this morning they
adopted an original and highly effective
method of prolougIng their resting spell by
staying away from the Statehouse, SO as to be
out Of reach Of the sergeant-at-arms. In the
Senate, alter half dozen callings of the roll,
and the loss of half an hours time, bare
quorum was got together, but no business OF
any Importance was transacted, and in the
House all efforts of the speaker and the ser
geaut.at.arms were insufficient to hunt up the
requisite number, and no session was held.
There were laid on the desks of the lsena-
tors this morning copies Of two rather impor-
tant and interesting documents. The first is
DR.. Lebbj's annual report of quarantine op-
eratlons on the coast OF South Carolina dur
ing the year 1871, which appears TO be mainly
an argument 10 prove, first, that the Vislta-
tion of yellow fever in Charleston last sum-
mer was due to local causes, and was not at
trlbutable to a lax quarantine; and, second,
that the citlzens Of Ch arleston should be sum-
marily deprived Of the management of their
own sanitary affairs by the appointment Of
metropolitan board ofhealth, such as has been
saddled on New York for some years past,
This last argument Is composed Of about equal
facts of prophecy and poetry, the prophecy
being that board clothed by legislative au-
thority with plenary power would accom-
plish more in two years In destroy
ing the poisonous germs and prevent
ing the atmosphere of this city from
being poisoned by the fermenting watts
of scavengers' garbage, and the putres-
cent gases eliminated from the graveyards
situated In the heart of the city, aud the pu.
trefaclive solutions Of these graveyards eking
into the sewers, drains and wells that sur
round them, than has ever been done before ,
The poetry is in reference to the necessity
which DR.. Lebby alleges, of removing The
burial grounds beyond the city limits. On this
subject he gushes ss follows;
.sThe Civilized, Intelligent cities of the worlt
have removed these receptacles of the deat
outside of the Inhabited limits. These cities
of the dead are far from 'the hum of trade
and business. They are beauti1ed and mourn
fully adorned and held sacred. When visited
the mind Is iusiincllvely impre essed with the
solemn thought that this Is holy ground, thi
is the Portal of Eternity No such impres
slons are made upon entering city buria
place where boys are playing within the
sacred precinct, and where, on one occasion
skull vas the football used for their pas
time"
The other document is one that Is we'll cal
calculated TO prove that kindness of hear
which Governor Scott's friends are fond o
Calming for him. 1t Is q record Of pardon!
granted by the Governor from October, 1870
to November, 1871; aud carenl perusal of l
will show thai his Excellency Is tno kind
hearted to keep these poor fellows, who ma
have committed such little iudlscretions a
murders, rapes arsous, &C., penned up in th
penitentiary, whrre they Can neither vote tn
Radical ticket nor illustrate thrir usual p ay
fnlness of disposition in other little eccenir
ties. I have prepared the following, table
which gives. IN the cases Of those criminal
twhose offences the Governor has been goo