A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . ital of the state has for many years been enormously disproportioned to thepopulation. It exceeds $12,000,000. Being, however, divided among nearly 70 bankinginstitutions, it has generally been managed with safety to the public, and to the advantage ofthe stockliolders. In January, 1838, the legislature abrogated the use of capital punisliment in all cases ex-cept for murder and arson. At tlie same time, they substituted imprisomncnt and line for allkinds of corporal punishments before that time in use in the state. During that year, thestate pr
A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . ital of the state has for many years been enormously disproportioned to thepopulation. It exceeds $12,000,000. Being, however, divided among nearly 70 bankinginstitutions, it has generally been managed with safety to the public, and to the advantage ofthe stockliolders. In January, 1838, the legislature abrogated the use of capital punisliment in all cases ex-cept for murder and arson. At tlie same time, they substituted imprisomncnt and line for allkinds of corporal punishments before that time in use in the state. During that year, thestate prison at Providence was completed. The buildings consist of a keepers house, and arange of forty cells, two stories high, adapted to the Pennsylvania system of discipline —separate confinement at labor, with instruction. After a few years experience, this system wasabandoned, and the Auburn system substituted in its place. Since its establishment, 127prisoners have been confined in it, of wliich number 37 remained its inmates in October, SOUTH CAROLINA is one of the Southern States of the American republic. It wasoriginally included in tlie grant by Charles II. to Lord Clarendon and others, in 1C62, whichembraced both the Carolinas. The coast, however, had been discovered nearly two centuriesanterior to the first attempt at a settlement thereon. In 1670, a few English emigrants laidthe foundation of a colony at Port Royal, under William Sayle, who acted as their the following year, the colonists took what they deemed a more favorable position, on tliewestern bank of Ashley River. Hence they again removed, shortly afterwards, to the con-fluence of that and Cooper Rivers, the site of the present city of Charleston. But little STATES AND TERRITORIES. — SOUTH CAROLINA. 133 progress was made by the settlers in this region, until the Carolinas were divided, in this period, notwithstanding frequent hostile incursions and sanguinary cruelties on thepart
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