Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-08-20

report Of which 2S5 wee from yelox fSxsv ks .,ths
in the last fortyeght hqrs from few aoas were 4sQ
The distress and suffering Nhch exist ase IN clas.es.
and especially the poor the sick, and are syond
the power OF language to describe. The WHe -, il
solemn scene OF funerals and death There se,- y, he
no hope OF an abatement Of the dreadful scourT t on
tne other hand It is fearfuly increasing, ams,nti,lg
almost to plague.
New ORLEANS, AUGUST 16-The fever Is alarmipayo,,
the increase The Board of Health reports two hundred
ana hirywo deaths for the twenty -four hours ending
AZ noon to-day The distress is ndescrbable The peo-
pie continue to desert the city, leaving hardly enough to
bury the dead In cases whole families are carried
of by the pestlence.
NEW ORLEANS, AUGUST 1.-THE deaths this week
amount to fifteen hundred and thrtytwo Of which thY-
teen hundred and sSty-one were by yellow fever The
Howard Association have taken in charge three thousand
in four weeks and expect to have thousand at
cost OF ten dollars each They ask aid Of tho Northern
CITIES This week all the dead could not be buried; one
hundred and twenty-five bodies have been burnt The
weather continues unfavorable and the fever is worse
than ever. The merchants are closing their stores.
New ORLEANS, AUGUST 18.-The pesence is still ON
the increase The total number Of deaths the past
twentfour hours reported by the Board Of Health is
2l9 Of which 1873 were from fever The distress and
suffering is beyond description.
Important from New Meaico
New ORLEANS, AUGUST 1.-THE Picayune has advces
from El Paso, Mexico to the 22d July. Great excite
ment existed IN consequence of party Of Americans
lacking the Jail to returned Cafornians
who they alleged, had been unjustly imprisoned by the
MeIcans A guard Of Mexican troops fred on tho
Americans, killing the district attorney of Ell Paso
ty Texas end wounding several others The final result
Of this affair had not been ascertaned but serious
sequences apprehended. The Mexicans armed
and drilling the American town Of Paso, which
said to be in great danger
Fugitioe Stare Case at Cincinnati
CINCINNATI, AUG. 1S-There has been little excite
ment, but disturbance among colored population
for the last days. in consequence of the arrest of
fOItIy
city and taken before Judge MCLEAN for examinations
1t having been proved that the person claimed was
slave, he remanded to his owner.
Judge MCLEAN in giving his decision in the case re-
piled to certain objections raised by the counsel for the
slave, by maintaining the consutonality of the fug-
tye-slave laws Of 1898 and 1850 He holds that State
has power to pass law preventing fugves from be-
ing delivered up to those to whom they service that
before the Supreme Court proof is necessary that
slavery exists in State from whence fugitive es-
capes, it should be taken for granted that the SUI
preme Judges know the laws of all the Staes that the
States could not be compelled to give up fugvcs by
law of Congress if the provisions in the constitution did
not do that slavery only exist by authority Of
law, and as exists in slave States said law not be-
ing an infringement of the constitution, the free States
bound recognise it in delivering up slaves from
these States upon clear proof that they ore such.
Tremendous Thunder Storm.
BosToS, AUGUST ia terrible thunder storm
red in this city and vicinity this morning At George
town the Baptist parsonage house was struck and the
wife ofthe Rev. Mr. Russell the pastor, instantly Filled
Strange to say child in her escaped injury. At
Groyeland the house Of VIM Fowler struck and him
self and wife knocked down senseess barn struck
at Byfeld and destroyed Another barn also struck
at Andover and burnt Several houses at Lowell Law
renee Hayerhill &c. struck and persons injured
Effects of the Heat.
New YORK, AUGusr l5-The heat in this city yester-
day frghul the thermometer reaching 102 in the
shade. The Coroner reported naety deaths from the
heat.
C,;c.,yo n 3 9,,o Eo,,,1Ies
MAscHEsTER, On. ~ AUGUST I5-Last evening two
females, named Cutharne Cotton Of Powna Maine, and
Clara G. Ccchrane of New Boston n H., after supper,
dressed themselves in white and went out hand in hand
to the canal at this place, and ump and we're drown
ed From letters which they left II appears they had
contemplated suicide for some time past.
Railroad and other Casualties
BALTIMORE, AUGUST lS.-An accident occurred on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad this morning the Wheeling
passenger train it in the outer depot AS
the train passing switch, when it got about half
over the slide worked out of place. throwing the hind
most another track and breaking the train two
The locomotive, tender and of the other broke
loose and went off at very rapid spsa coming in col
sion with burden train smashing tie engine and some 4
Of the cars, and slightly inurng several persons
The extensive ropewalk Of Mr. Henderson, Aisquith
street, was totally destroyed by fire last night.
Two workmen engaged on the fourthstory Of Mr..
house this morning precpated on to the
earth by the scafoldng giving way One Of them was
probably fatally injured, the other badly hurt
From the Fisheries, dc.
BosToS AUGUST 16-Haifax advices of Saturday state
that the United States steamer Princeton had been visited
by Earl Ellesmere, Gen. Gore the
and other officers, who politely entertained by Conn.,
Shubrick The English vessels active, but had made
no captures of American vessels.
The weather at Halifax had been intensely warm and
many deaths had occurred from the heat.
The --latest Railroad Slaughter
PROVIDENCE, r. i AUGUST 16.-The Directors Of the
Providence and Worcester Road understood to have
made an investigation into the Of the accident and
ordered that another track be laid Immediately Ions
dale and also that fagmen be stationed at the to
the road.
The master Of the transportation train at Providence
who was coming from Woodsocke in the uxbridge train
at the time OF the accident also the engineer and
ducor of the down train have been discharged from fur
Their service on the road.
Railroad accident.
BALTIMORE, AUoUsT 17.-An accident happened yes
terday the Erie Railroad miles east of Erie, by
which the baggage and two passenger thrown
of the track Fifteen twenty persons badly in
ured but none killed
Baltimore Markets.
BALTIMORE, AUGusT l9.-There sales to-day Of
800 barrels City Mills -four at 1926. The price
IS asked for Howard street. but sales. About 5000
bushels wheat offered and mostly sold ut los los cents
red to 112 is cents for good to pure white About
800 bushels soda 60 81 for white, to 8 for yell
ew advance. Rye GO TO- Oats 36 80. Provisions
Ind groceries unchanged Sales 5000 bags Rio coffee ats
% 81 to % cents per pound
The Tobacco market is quite active and very firm.
Sales Of about 200 hhds mostly Ohio and part Mary
and previous prices, which full Thereis up
in market Recpints and supnlv