The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-08-21

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New York, Sunday, A~guss n. lssa
the SewA
1Ae report OF the City Inspector shows that nine
Assdrsd and strty-nine PERSONS died In this Guy
airing the week which ended last night Arranged
according TO sex we find that there were three hun
- and sjxty-two men, one hundred and dfty-six
vsaen, two hundred and thirty eight boys, and two
hulrsd and thirteen girls, amongst the deceased.
Compared with the return Of the preceding seven
Ays the general total exhibits an excess Of mortality
nnountlDg to three hundred and eighty-fouy cases.
The predisposng causes of disease remained I'M
changed, but the terrible effects Of the late hot
Weekn are shown upon this record with the awful
certainty of statistical regularity. The fata!
sases Of sun stroke amounted to too hundred
o~d fourteen, whilst forty.two adults died Of
apopeIy, and sixty nine Of congestion of the brain.
The increase Of deaths from the two last named DIS
Eases alone amounted to pinety nine; and as the ma
josity Of them may be fairly elassed with those
Hlting from the excessive heat it win be that
mis- extraordinary and mournfu addition can be
ssunted for without the existence of an epidemic.
We may add that fortytwo persons died of the vari
swfevers-that Of the typhus type carrying away four
tsen-whist infammations Of the great cavities, or
ther contents, swept of forty nine of whom twenty
one died Of Inflammation Of the brain. Eighty
1nur infants died of cholera infantum, twentynine
A0m hydrocephalus, sixty-slx from commissions,
md thirty eight from marasmus. There were
hnr sudden deaths by drowning, and one
ense of suicide The difference between the
zm0unt OF iAfantile and adult mortality Is not 80
ssmarkable as during the foregoing week. Four
hundred and forty five OF the deceased children
nader ten years Of age, but four hundred and
sighteen persons between the ages of twenty and
fifty years died within the same time, the latter
being the periods of life at which their ordinary
occupations and compelled the working classes
% expose themselves to the unusual high tempera-
tnre -Four hundred and seventy are registered
- natives Of the United States, three hundred and
0irty a. Irish, and one hundred and six az Germans.
One hundred and seventy people died in five down
1swn wards-ffom number one-snd four hundred
md four in Eve up town wards counting from num-
ber fifteen. The greatest number Of deaths during
any one week Of the last cholera visitation amounted
- somewhat over fourteen hundred.
despatch from New Orleans states that two
hndred and twenty seven persons died from yellow
aver, and fifteen from other causes, on Friday last
being considerable increase on the mortality of the
Two previous days. Though many of its members
have been cut of by the epidemic, the Howard Asso-
sstion continues its work Of humanity without
wavering, and is about opening four new hospitals
- the reception of the unfortunate. Mr. II. W. Hill,
planter Of Louisiana, has authorized the Howard
Association to draw on him for 800 week during
0e continuance Of the fever at New Orleans. Full
Details Of the latest intelligence from the stricken
ely are given elsewhere.
Fourteen fatal cases of cholera are reported to
have occurred at Cumberland, Nd, since Wednesday
lst The disease, which is declared TO be subeding
b Supposed to have been produced by the overflow
q canal which runs through portion of the town.
Our special Washington CORES pondent writes that
81 100000 Of government stocks have been pur-
chased within the last three weeks by the
Secretary of the Treasury of which $626, 900 were
United States skies Of ls67-ls6s, at the premium
fixed, twenty one per cent This does not seem to
init Mr.. Hodge, the Assistant Secretary Of the
Treasury. He wants the treasury depleted at q
more rapid rate. He undoubtedly has some specu-
lAting scheme on handsome plan to help the specu
heors Of Wall street out of their financial difficult
ties. he appears to sympathize deeply with them
n their, distresses- Fortunately Mr. Guthrie holds
tAe key to the strong box and stands forth as the
champion Of the Sub Treasury system. 1t has acted
- check upon all sorts of speculation, and it must
not be disturbed. We do not want the treasury L.
legally depleted.
A despatch from Washington gives currency to q
report that Governor Howell Cobb, of Georgia will
get the mission to France. The chances OF General
Dix for this vacabt post are now looked upon out
Of the question. The quarrels among the New York
democracy have completely blighted every prospect
Mat the General will get anything better than his
present Office of Sub Treasurer at this port. grand
ReunioD, in commemoraton of the battles Of Con-
keras and Churubusco, took place yesterday between
General Pierce and several Of the officers who be-
haged TO his brigade in Mexico. In consequence OF
irregularities, great many clerks have lately been
dismissed from the Treasury Department
The curious case of Edymoin, who was lately
pardoned out Of the Auburn State prison by Cover
NOR Seymour on the strength of forged papers
setting forth the convicts excellent conduc. and i'm
paired health, and alleged to be signed by all the
chief officers OF the prison, yesterday came up for
hearing, on writ of hsbeas corpus at Auburn. This
affair exctes unusual attention among the legal fra
ternity Of this State, and the result Of the invest
CATION IL looked for with great anxiety. Should
Edymoin succeed in making the Governors pardon
hold good, it is not improbable that he will be re-
arrested and held accountable for the alleged forgery
Of the papers which had the effect of hberatiag
him, so that, under any circumstances, he is in a
very perplexing predicsment.
We give in full to-day the opinion of Judge
MLean in the late Fugitive Slave case in Gin
cnnati, by which, as was previously announced by
telegraph, the slave was delivered up to his claim
ant in spite of the protestations OF philan
thropists and the slave stealing aboltionsts o, the
Queen. City The opinion is learned disouisition
ON the constitutioDality of the Fugitive Slave law,
and Judge N Lean has no doubt satisfied himself
that cour try has power to make laws for is own
government aud safety, the opinions of mad aboi
tionists to the contrary Notwithstanding.
Files Of Bermuda journals to the 10th of this month
have reached us. They do not contain any news oi
importance. The committee Of the House of sserl.