The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-09-05
American IntclliRenoo.
NOON DISPATCHES.

ooAEAN AFFArRS-sILyER MINES DISCOVER
ED-RAILROAD PROGREss-INDIAN TRoU-
bLES-LARGE CARGO OF TEA-REPORT OF
BOARD OF HEALTH OF NEW ORLEANS
FAILURE OF COLLIER's MIssroN-HEAyY
sU1T-TRAvELs OF YARMOUTH / co.
NO YELLOW FEVER IN sAvANNAH-FEYER
DEATHS IN CHARLESTON, 4o., &c.
NEW ORLEANS, September An Of
iclal note from DR.. Russell. Secretary of
the Board OF Health, states that there il
not case OF yellow faver in New Or
leans.
The Picaynne, on the sanitary condi-
ton OF the streets. says Providentinl
lnterposition, perhaps, has kept sickness
from our doors. The health of the city
has been preserved in the face of a most
utter disregard of sanitary precautions.
The canals are stagnant with impurity.
and vegetation, green and rank, covers
saeir surface, and decay and fester be-
aeath the hot rays Of the SUM- Pools of
fetid water, the receptnoles of dead ami
mails and the sweepings of the levee, nre
scattered over the batture property, reek-
ing with pestilential disease and filling
tho air with sickening odors. In many
localities cItlzens are compelled to close
their doors and windows and endure n
want of ventilation and the excessive
heat OF the summer nights, that the moi
some smells from the streets may be ex-
cluded.
Branches of the city, as we'll as Of the
state government, seem characterized
by imbecility. corruption. fraud or vio-
lence
The grand jury, reporting the condi-
lion OF The Boys House Of Refuge, state
fr0n nfyrno
Henry. Superintendent, and Schwind,
assistant, deserve to be stigmatized as
brutal and ruffianly in the extreme. and
the sooner Jail wall is placed between
society and Messrs. Henry and Swipd.
The better it will be for society.
Judge Abel, of the First District
Court, calls the attention uf the grand
Jury to the action of the State Treasurer.
Dubuclet, in refusing to paw the orioi.
nal creditors OF the State. compeiliDe
them to sell their claims to his friends.
Abel says: "The State Treasury, once
the pride of the State and the finannial
agent OF her creditors. has been literally
turned over to tax gatherers, brokers.
snaTers and hangers on. have presided
long in this court, and have some idea of
the depreciation and plumber of burglars.
thieves, Co., and am satisfied that the
officials of the State have, in two years,
Plnndered the State OF more than all the
thieves, etc., for tho last quarter OF q
century. Fraud, speculation, extortion,
and blaok-mailing, are resorted to in q
most unscrupulous manner. The mil.
lions raised by the two per cent. tax and
the vast amount OF licenses will be alb.
sorbed-at least ono.haif of it being
consumed by corrupt officials and mer.
ciless brokers, and these official econo-
mists who manage out Of o salary of less
than $40, 900 to save $3.50, ,OOO." He re-
CARDS the laws inadequate, with the pre-
sent jury system, to check or punish
these officials, and advises the wise men
OF The State to counsel together for its
redemption, and in conclusion saye:
"Tho darkest page in tho history Of the
State is now being made up in darkness,
which, I repent, when deciphered, will
show present bankruptcy and perhaps