Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-04
Southern Notes.
AFFAIRS AT NEW ORLEANS.

AFFAIRS AT NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 3.-Dr. Russell, secre-
tary of the board of health, states that there is
not case of yellow fever in New Orleans.
The Peayune, in an article on the sanitary
condition of the streets, says that proyIdcntial
| interpostiOn perhaps has kept the sickness from
our doors. The health of the city has been
| preserved in the face of almost utter disregard
OF sanitary precautions. The canals are stag
nant with impurity, and vegetation green and
rank covers their surface, and decay and fester
beneath the hot rays of the sun. Pools of fetid
water, receptaces of dead bodies of animals
and the sweepings of the levee are scattered
over property reeking with pestilential disease
and filling the air with sickening oderS In
many localities the citizens are compelled to
close their doors and suffer for want of ventla-
ton in the excessive heat of summer nights
that the noisome smells from the streets may be
excluded.
The grand jury reporting on the condition of
the boys in the home of refuge state that the
treatment of the inmates by Henry the super.
intcndent, and Schwind, his assistant, deserve
to be stigmatized as brutal and rutfianly in the
extreme.
Judge Abel calls the attention of the grand
jury to the action of the State Treasurer Du-
pliclet in refusing to pay the original directors
OF the state, compelling them to sell their claims
to his friends. Judge Abel says that "The state
treasury once the pride of the state and the
financial agent of her creditors, has been liter
and hangers on. have presided long on this
court, and have some idea of the depreciation
and plumber of the burglars, thieves, ETC., and
am satisfied that the officials OF the state have
in two years plundered more than all the thieves,
etc., for the last quarter of century and that
speculation, oppression, eXtortion and black
mailing are resorted to in the mot INSCRIPTIONS
manner. The millions raised by the two per
cent. tax, and a vast amount of licenses will be
a0sorbed-at least onc-haf of it being consumed
by corrupt officials and merciess brokers and
those ofhclal economists who manage, out of
salary less than ten thousand dollars TO save
quarter of a million" He regards the laws in
adequate, with the present jury system, 10 check
or punish the offenders. He advised the wise men
of the state to counsel together for its redemp-
ton, and in conclusion says; "The darkest
page in the history of the state is now being
made up in the darkness, which repeat, when
deciphered will show the present bankruptcy
and perhaps the future reputation of the great
criminals who are destroying the future of this
state, and may for the present be too strong for
the imperfect laws upon the subject, too corrupt
to fear the jury, one half of whom can neither
read nor write. But they may yet meet the
irowns and Indignation Of the injured people
and be forced to enjoy their ill-gotten gains be-
yond their sight"
FROM MOBILE.
MOBILE, Ala, Sept 3.-Dispatches, published
as coming from Mobile, stating that several YES
sells are quarantined here with yellow fever on
board, are false There is no yellow fever here,
nor has there been this season. No such mes
sage originated here.
FROM COLUMBIA.
COLUMBIA, S. G., Sept. 3.-The Union, of YES
terday, says a gentleman from Washington, N,
c., states that, as he passed Greenboro N. c.,
he saw sixteen kukluX in charge of United
States troops, the commanding officer of
whom told him that about sixty more were to
be arrested. Those under arrest, one of whom
was said to be member of the North Carolina
legislature, were on the way to put in an appear
ance before the United States commissioner at
Washington.