The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-09-01


That BRICK CHURCH PROPERTY The
= Common Council, of New York. is dis
,.poaed to retaliate upon the Daily Times
& newspaper for re-publishing the garbled
accounts of defunct local administra-
rtion as specimens of present civic cor
.rupsion. The Brick Church property.
non which the Times building stands,
.originally belonged to the corporation OF
i,NeWIYork. That corporation leased it
rto q religious congregation. at q trifing
annual charge, for church purposes.
ts0ut of that lease the congregation
rtrumped up claim of ownership, and
raried to sell the land to tho Federal Go
-zernment for post Office. Tie legal
-advisers OF the Government were not
satisied with the title which the church
could give. The Times publishers
Bought it, however. with the cloud on
ats title. and now the corporation of New
York proposes. as it has never divested
itself Of its fee simple in the property,
aand in fact had no legal power to dis
pose of its fee in such manper,) to
eject. eDjoin and take all other means to
.4aecure it's rights. The ''snffering tax
.payers," for whom the Daily Times
effects to manifest such diainterested
sympathy, are about to .'try conclusions"
with the owners OF that newspaper for
.1he recovery Of $500. 600 in real estate,
.uut OF which they have been .'hocussed'
for tho benefit Of the journal in ques-
ftion. AS Sir Lucius O'Trigger says:
'slts q very pretty quarrel as it stands. I"
-~-e-e-s
Bowen LOOMING UP AoAIN-A Wash
s:angton despatch to the New York Herald
says:
Congressman Bowen, OF South Ca.
Soiinn, IN u letter addressed to friend
ia this city, states that since his return
to Charleston he has been assured of the
tunwayering aud unfnltoring friendship
of his old constituents, aud that he IA
confident that the past will DO forgotten
and his claims to tho suffrage of his fell
lov-citizens be as readily acknowledged
IN the future as in the pnst. Ho is men
'tioped as the next Republican, candidate
.for Governor of that Stntr--n compro.
mise between himself aud Congressman
DaLarge. whose seat he intended to con
sest on the meeting of Congress.
:WoRsE SCARED THAN HUHr -Charles-
ION is utterly ''demoralizAd," and with
out any good reason. The official in
formation in our possession is rather en-
rcouraging than the reverse, and yet the
people are as panic-stricken as though
the fever ragged in half the houses in tho
4oity. During the week ending last Sat-
urday. there wore six deaths from fever,
and, since Saturday. we have reports Of
eleven more. This total OF seventeen
deaths. in nine or ten days. does not, we
repeat, justify any wild excitement or
violent alarm. A large number of
strangers have guno away. This has the
>.offect Of diminishing the field in Which
Che fever would first opernte, and where
it might gain strength for an advance all
along tho limo. A great improvement in
sthe condition Of tho streets is in pro.
,gress, and. together With tho free uso of
.disinfectants, must tend to keep the dis.
lease within reasonable bounds.
We do hope that the people will calm
.&heir fears, mud face the danger, small or
great, with manly composuro. Nothing
10 moro encouraging to Yellow Jack than
~anstrung nerves, Gaccid muscles, and tho
9th. effects of what is ineieguntly called
a big scare. Charleston Ne,os