The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-04
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SATURDAY NIGHTS DISPATCHES


Ne,o Orleans, September Am official
note from DIR. Rupell, secretary of the
Board of Health, states that there is not
case of yellow fever in New Orleans.
The Picayaae, on the sanitary condition,
says: "a Providential interposition, per-
haps, has kept sickness from our doors.
The health Of the city has been preserved
in the face of the most utter disregard of
sanitary precautions. The canals are stag
nant with impurity and vegetation, green
and rank, covers their surface, and decay
and tester beneath the hot rays of the sun.
Pools of feted water, the receptacles of
dead animals and the sweepings of the
levee, are scattered over the 'Batture" pro-
perty, reeking with pestilential disease and
filling the air with sickening odors. "a
The branches of the city as well as State
governments, seems characterized by imbe-
cilty, corruption, fraud, or violence.
Judge Abel, of the First District Court,
calls the attention of the grand jury to the
action of the State Treasurer Dubuclet, in
refusing to pay the original creditors of the
State, and compelling them to sell their
claims to his friends. The Judge says:
. s'The State treasury, once the pride and
financial agent of her creditors, has been
literally turned over to tax-gatherers, brok-
ers, shayers and hangers-on. have pre-
| sided long in court, and have some idea of
the depredations and plumber of burglars,
thieves, &C., and am satisfied that the State
officials have plundered the State in two
years Of more than all the thieves, &c., for
the last quarter of a century.
| Fraud, speculation, oppression, extor-
ton, and blackmailing is resorted to in the
most unscrupulous manner. The millions
raised by the two per cent. tax and the vast
amount of licenses will be absorbed at
least One-half of it being consumed by cor
rupt officials and merciless brokers, and
those official economists who manage, out
of salary of less than SIC, 900, to save a
quarter of million.
"Judge Abel regards the laws made
quate, with the present jury system, to
check or punish these officials. He
advises the wise men of the State to
counsel together for its redemption and in
conclusion says !: sThe darkest page in the
history of the State is now being up in a
darkness, which, l repeat, when deciphered,
will show present bankruptcy and future
reputation. The great criminals who are
destroying the future of the State may, for
the present, be too strong for the imperfect
laws upon the subject, and too corrupt to
fear jury, one-half of whom can neither
read nor write but they may yet meet the
frowns and indignation of an injured peo-
pie, and be forced to enjoy their ill-gotten
gains beyond their sight,"
From San Francisco.
San Francisco, Sept. 2.-The campaign
against the Apaches, owing, it is alleged,
to the interference of the peace commission
ers, is total failure. The campaign of the
Apaches against the white settlements is
complete success.
The China mail steamer Alaska, arrived
in thirty-six days from Hong Kong. The
cargo includes s., ,665 packages of tea, the
largest quantity ever landed from one ves-
sci at an American port. China and Ja-
pan are reported quiet.
The British war steamer Ring Dove has
returned from Corea with two Englshmen
captured from the wreck of the ''Chusan. /"
They had been kindly treated, and no inss
dignity offered them. The German report
ed by the Chinese as having been captured
at the same time, was found to have been
left with the Chinese, who, it is supposed,
murdered him and invented the story OF
his capture by the Coreans to conceal their
crime.
Shanghai papers publish an authenticated
letter from the Corean government to the
commander of the United States steamer
''Wachusett," when that ship went up the
river in 1868, to inquire after the crew Of
the ship "General Sherman" The letter
was friendly and eonciliatory to the last de-
gree, ard had it been received by the com.
mander at the time it was intended to reach
him, the subsequent bloodshed would never
have occurred. The letter was delayed fol
few hours, and meanwhile the "Wachu-
sett" sailed without getting it.
The German iron schooner "Valador''
has been wrecked in the Corean Straits
Her crew escaped in boats, and was picked
up after suffering great hardships.
Advices from Tuscon, Arizona, of Au
gust 26th, announce new and rich silver
mine discoveries near Prescott.
Fire at Meridian, Mississippi.
Meridian, Mss, Sept. 2.-The squar,
bounded by Front, johnson, Rhodes, anC
Commerce streets, mostly wooden build
ings, was burned this morning, except thu
Savings Bank building. The loss wa.
100000, with very little insurance. A
large portion Of the goods was saved.