New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-08-13
GENERAL NEWS.

The Committee Of the Board Of Supervisors, Of
which Mr.. Purdy is Chairman, met yesterday in
connection with Controller Brennan and Corpora
ton Counsel Devlin, and determined at once to in
vestgate the claims for damages alleged TO have
been sustained at the hands Of the rioters. All
claims undes $500 will be first considered, and claim
ants will be duly notified when ari where to attend
1t was decided that only the members of the Com
mittee, a stenogrspher and the claimants, with Wit
nesses, should be present during the investigation
1t is well known that many of the claims that have
been pnt in are excessive, aud some curious facts
have been made known to the Controller within
the last two weeks which will astonsh several Of
the claimants The county will be taxed heavily
enough TO pay legitimate damages, without having
bogus claims foisted upon it by persons who never
in their lives owned onefftieth part of the property
they alege to have lost At the hands Of the rioters
Over eighty of the Rebel wounded prisoners in
Decamp Hospital, en- Davids Island, have died
within the past two weeks, and the mortality
among them seems to be on the increase. The
Rebel prisoners now this island, numbering over
1900. were taken at the battle Of Gettysburg aud
Dearly all Of them are badly wounded.
The Riot trials are for the present term Of
the Sessions. William Whittier, the man who led
the mob a, THg TRIBUNE Office the first day Of
che rio,ing, was convicted yesterday, and will be
sentenced today. We give full repor, Of the case
on another page.
The funeral Of Policeman Mcintyre, whose
death resulted from injuries received during the
not on the 18th of July took place yesterday about
three hundred members Of the Department paying
the last tribute OF respect to their late comrade.
by steamer arrived at Fortress Monroe We
have news from Charleston Hsrbor TO ii O'Clock on
Friday might. heavy bombardment was going
CD, evidently between Sumter and Morris Island,
and the sky was brilliantly illuminated by shells.
The Inman steamship Glasgow, Capt Gill,
which left Liverpool at O'Clock on the afternoon
Of the 18th, and Queenstown on the Both July ar.
rived here yesterday. Her news has been snlici-
pated.
Judge Hogeboom has granted the motion TO dis-
solve The injunction to prevent tho building of a
bridge across The Hudson River at Albany.
The Hon. j. w. Crisield has been renominated
for Congress by the Union Of the LIST District Of
Maryland.
There has been q heavy decline in the Stock
mss espssy In the shares OF the through lines the
West. being uOdsrsood that the arrangements heretofore
essnI The transportation Of eghts and passengers
end end that another Of free composition has
us.ceo The msrkei closed weak and irregular Sterling
EIohsrss firm, I39d43Si With moderate amour, Of
The money market 10 somewhat irregular There
parties WHO paving per cont and complaining OF
tight m.rsst while capitalists are offered money ct per
sen, Tee general rate remains sac, with doing
per cent and he supply sufficient to cause an easy
,ttsi to good borrowers Gold has been steady. with
oderais asvs:aeni, at 1871 QI2ei eoslnE at l6t