The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-10-11


I want to hear from my old home S.
MEETING OF TaK LkGrsLATuRE.-Go-
vernon Moses has issued The folio wing
proclamation, convening the Legislature
in extra sesaion on Tuesday. October 81: :
STATE OF South CAROLINA,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
COLUMBIA, 8. O., October ., 1873.
Whereas, by the Constitution Of this
State, it is required that 1.-The General
Assembly shall provide for nn annual
tax, sufficient to defray the estimated
expenses Of the State for each year,"
And whereas, it is by law provided
that the Comptroller General shall, on
| or before the 18th day of November All
nually, give notice to the County Audit
ors of the rates per centum OF taxation
authorized By law to be ieviod for the
various State purposes:
Aud whereas, the General IDLY,
at it's last session. omitted to provide for
such annual tax, for the fiscal year to
commence on the first day Of November
| next. by reason whereof the Comp
| troller-General is unable to give notice
to the County Auditors of such annuul
tax, ut the time such notice is by law re-.
quired to be given:
And whereas, by the decision Of the
Supreme Court of the State, the Comp
troller-General is required to levy a rate
per- cehtuns of taxes to pay the interest
| upon certain classes of bonds, Which aru
part OF the public debt OF the State,
and to give notice of such levy to the
! County Auditors on or before tho 18th
| day of November next:
And whereas, it is doomed importunt
to the welfare of the State, in view Of
the decision of the Supreme Court, that
the General Assembly should take into
| immediate consideration the condition
of the public debt of the State, and shall
30 provide as that whatever taxes are to
be levied to 'pay the interest thereon,
shall be levied at the same time ss that at
which the general State levy is required
to be made;
And whereas the facts above recited
present an extraordinary occasion,
which, in the Judgment of the Execu-
tive, makes it necessary to convene the
General Assembly at day earlier than
The period provided for the regular an-
nual session thereof:
Now, therefore, I. Franklin J. Moses,
Jr., Governor of the State of South
Carolina. by virtue of the power vested
in me by Section 16, Article III, of The
Constitution of the State, do Issue this
my proclamation, commanding and d.
recting the Honorables the Senators and
| members of the General Assembly to
attend in their respective legislative
chambers. on Tuesday. the 21st OF this
month, at u NJ, there to take into con-
| a Hara fb rio,o ~, tiara + osa; ot>o
fore recited, and also such other matters
as, iu their wise and discreet judgment,
may require attention at this time.
set my hand and caused the grea:
seal OF the State to be affixed, ut
| LIS Columbia, this ninth day of Oc-
October. a. d. eighteen hundred
and seventy. three. and in the
ninety-eighth year Of American
Independence.
BY the Governor:
FRANKLIN J. MOSES, Jn
Il. T.. HAYSE, Secretary of State.
The Rev. CEAMER. is openly
asserted in st. Pant, says n writer in
the Chicago Tribune, "that Minister
Cramer, Grants brother in law and
| 1ututsteT W DeuMRtK, 00S Deen one I'll
the paid agents of the Northern Pacific
Company to induce Scandinavian emil
grants to settle upon the lands of that
company in Minnesota. Hundreds Of
Scandinavians, continues this writer,
''are scattered along the line of the
Northern Pacific Railroad, living in
mud novels, and barely raising enough
provisions in the short season to subsist
on during tho long and gloomy and
terrible winter, with no market for what
little surplus they may stint themselves
to acquire-whose curses are loud and
deep against tho deception pructiccd
upon them"
RoBBINa RADICAL STATE The
honest Repnblicans-the party of wllich
Jay Cooke & Co.. Henry Clews & Co.,
and the other great bankers and de.
velopers OF Wall street are members
have been plundering the State Trea-
sury of Pennsylvania. In six years the
official reports show deficit of the snug
little sum OF 50. 985, 1872. "a, or in round
numbers of So. 1000. OOO-that is $500, ,OOO
a year. OF this sum $3.50, ,408 80 is a
deficit in tho intereat ocoorrf Viho