710 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



2. One and a quarter mills for ]>onal, chari- 

 table, and educational institutions. 



8. Two mills for public schools. 



4. One and a half mill for expenses of extra 

 and regular sessions. 



6. One mill for public Printing. 



6. Three and a quarter mills for deficiencies. 



7. Three-quarters of a mill for Bank and 

 Trust Company (II. Solomon). 



8. One mill half-yearly interest on public 

 debt. 



9. Three mills for county purpose*. 



Of the measures before the Legislature tow- 

 ard the close of the year for the arrangement 

 of the debt, the most prominent, known astho 

 " omnibas hill," proposed to " scale " the valid 

 bond*, both the old and the new, at fifty per 

 cent., and the fraudulent conversion bonds at 

 thirty per cent. 



The amount of taxable property in the State 

 in 1873 was $167,481. 092, including $112,884,- 

 146 real and $55,096, 940 personal property. 



In 1873 the scholastic population, which 

 includes those between six and sixteen years 

 of age, was 230,109, of whom 145,127 were 

 colored. The school attendance was 83,753, 

 including 46,535 colored. There wore 2,017 

 schools, in charge of 2,810 teachers, bcinu' 

 an increase daring the year of 98 schools and 

 125 teachers. From the above figures it ap- 

 pears that about two-thirds of the children of 

 the State are growing up in ignorance. 



The Superintendent of Education reports 

 that the progress and success of the school 

 system has been greatly retarded by the un- 

 satisfactory condition of the finances of the 

 State, and recommends that proper legislative 

 action be taken to secure such appropriation 

 as will cover past indebtedness. 



The present State government, composed of 

 " regular " Republicans, is as follows : 



Governor, Franklin J. Moses, Jr. ; I.'u n- 

 tonant-Qovernor, Richard 11. (iluaves(colored); 

 Secretary of State, Henry K. llayne (colored); 

 Attorney-General, Samuel W. Melton ; 

 Treasurer, Francis L. Cardozo (coloivdi: Con- 

 troller-General, Samuel L. lloge ; Adjutant 

 and Inspector- General, Henry \V. 1'nrvis; 

 Superintendent of Education, Justus K. Jill- 

 sou. The Legislature is composed as loll 



Republicans.. 

 Democrats... 



Republican majority 



8 

 17 



J M 



100 

 S4 



78 



1SS 



88 



South Carolina had 37S miles of railroad in 

 1851,'.'::! in IM',1, and l.W'2 in 1*7:!. The fol- 

 lowing table shows the railroads lying wholly 

 or partly within the State, with the termini 

 of the lines as projected, the length of the en- 

 tire road, and the number of miles in operation, 

 in 1873 : 



CHABLBSTOS. The chief commercial city 

 of South Carolina is Charleston, which is sit- 

 uated 100 miles south-southeast of Colnm- ' 

 bia, the capital of the State; 82 miles north- 

 east of Savannah, Oa., and 455 miles south- 

 sotith west of Washington, D. C. The city, of 

 which a fine view from the hay is given in the 

 accompanying illustration, stand- at the con- 

 fluence of the Ashley and Cooper Rivers, which 

 here unite and form a spacious harbor. These 

 rivers run a parallel course for nearly six 

 miles, widening ns they approach the sea. thus 

 gradually narrowing the site of the city into a 

 peninsula. The city is built upon low and 

 level land, nnd, to one approaching by water, 

 i to rise from the sea. The harbor is a 



large estuary extending about seven miles 

 southeast to the Atlantic, with nn average 

 width of two miles. It is landlocked on all 

 sides, except an entrance of about a mile in 

 width. South of tliis entrance, extending 

 along the coast, is Morris Island, about five 

 miles Ion;.', and throe miles wide. The width 

 of the inner harbor at its mouth is something 

 over a mile. The passage is defended by four 

 fortresses. On the right hand, at the entrance, 

 is Fort Monltrie, on Sullivan's Island, occupy- 

 ing the site of the fort which, on June 2*. 177'', 

 heat off the British licet, of Sir I'eter Parker. 

 On the left hand, raised upon a shoal in the 

 harbor, and directly covering the channel, is 

 Fort Sumter. Immediately in front of the 



