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

In Baltimore and Philadelphia, respectively,
about eight or ten deaths occurred on Friday and
Saturday from the effects of the heat in Boston
perhaps nearly the same number. But the mortali-
ty from excessive heat in the city of New York and
Its environs will show proportion Of deaths from
this cause exceeding any thing that history records
We can remember nothing at all like it certainly
not in this country. The weight of the mortality
has pressed upon the outdoor aboring classes, and,
from the names of the dead we should suppose that
far the largest proportion were Irish.
We copy the subjoined brief statement from the
New York Evening Post of Monday:
The destructive effects of the hot weather during the
past week have never been paraeed in the history Of
New York The thermometer, beginning with Tuesday
the 9th instant and ending Sunday the 18th instant
ranged from 900 to 1929 in the shade and the deaths
from excessive heat in New York. Brooklyn Williams
burg, and Staten Island less than ro hundred and
% (which one hundred and eighty far as can be as
certained occurred in the city of New York The
demands the services Of the Coroners hive been
wholly unprecedented. Coroner Wilhelm returned on
Sunday at six o'clock p NJ with twenty-one inquests
all Of which were en- persons who had persisted
from coup de solea The major part Of such cases are
Irish and other emgrants employed PAYERS hacken
or in some other work requiring great exposure The
ravages OF the cholera in 849 are almost rvaed by the
mortality Of the past week. Upwards Of one hundred
horses we are informed killed by the bot weather
on Saturday and the day previous. The laborers en-
gagged In putting up many Of the buildings in this city
stopped work during the heat Of the day. working only
early in the morning in the evening when the shades
Of the adjoining buildings afforded shelter from the suns
rays.
Last night slight but refreshing shower passed over
the city, with decidedly beneficial influence As the
sky is cloudy and the wind from the east we may
perhaps presume that the worst is over.
On Thursday 18th, the Grand Jury found bin against
John Charles Gardner brother Of DR.. George A. Gardi-
ner indictment for perjury alleged have been
committed on his examination witness in tho recent
trial Of his brother in Court lie charged upon the
testimony Of COL Lorenzo John Bayne Dr. Chas W. Da-
Wis, w w. Corcoran, and John ]. McElvne with having
perjured himself in the following particulars, viz:
In testyng that he Genaro la Vega sign his namo
to certain paper on the 10th November 1851 that he
the Prefect Of Rio Verde Fernando Maria also
sign his certain document produced in Court;
that he had visited place called San Jose Mraores
that he had visited Lagunlas in the fall Of ef4 that
he had visited his brothers alleged mines in 1914 and
1916; that he did think he was in Rio Verde in 0c
tober, 1851 that he did know at oil remember
such person as Domingo Chaves, chief alcade Of Rio
Verde that he did not believe the letter Of November
10th, 1851, produced him in Court his alleged
by the prosecution that he had personally
pecuniariy interested in his brothers alleged mines and,
lastly that he had received any portion share OF
the award made his brother by the Commissioners under
the treaty OF Guadalupe In all these points the indct
ment charges John Chas Gardiner with having wfuly
perured himself The accused entered bail for his APP
pearance to answer the charge in the Of $4,000 the
suretes being Messrs Hudson Taylor and Geo W. Yerby
New SAM PATcH--A Mr. Watkins, for the gratifca-
ton Of large number Of spectators on the 10Th ultino
at Nashville, Tennessee, leaped from the suspension
bridge into the river descent of hundred and ten
feet He, however struck the water partly his back