The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-08-06
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
New York News. .

| NO" o.
n vopK August 3-A Tribune OF.
new r. W. special says: The Kepubli-
taw" nortv has been defeated in their
nrts oa to obtain Democratic form OF
Ian;sIature for Lower Canada, by vote
ofS9 to 81. Upper Canada will have a
legislature of one Elective Chamber
which is the form sought by the Repub.
licans of Lower Canada. - D. =,
The parties who were implicated In
the recent murder and outrages In West.
chester county, where Miss Hicks was
killed and the arm of o Mr.. Elliott was
broken, are members of Company ID, lst
Artillery, and were passed out OF Fort
| Schuyler on the authority of one of them,
| a Sergeant Doran. One of the parties,
Burke. is a returned deserter, who had
got back to his company only the night
before the murder. The Corporal F1tz-
| gerald who did the shooting, deserted
| his post to 90 with the party, although
he could have refused them permission
to pass out. He bears very bad char
acter in the regiment.
By a decision of Judge MCarn, the
health officers are not to be interferred
with in removing the fat-melting estab-
lishments within the city limits
The French gunboat La Megre arrived
at this port, and reports having left the
United States steamers c. G. Seymour,
Desota, Florida and Mecanceo at St.
Thomas.
Twenty.four cases and two deaths by
cholera were reported in the city yester-
day. Since the 2Sth of July, according
to the official report, one hundred and
three have died in the city of the
disease. The report from Brooklyn gives
fifteen cases and six deaths by cholera
in the city since the 2Sth. The disease
is abatiDg on Governors Island, and on
Dayid's and Hart's Islands matters ap-
pear to be more favorable.
The Post Surgeon at Atlanta, Ga,
informs the health officer that parties
there are shipping infected rags North
The total number Of deaths in New
York for the week ending today was
seven hundred and ninety-nine-a large
increase over those for the same week
last year.
A dispatch to the World dated Rut-
land Vermont, says an accident occur
red on the Rutland g. Vermont Railroad
near Granville, New Hampshire, to-day
by which two passenger cars were
thrown from the track, one of them filled
with passengers, one of them rolling
down high embankment and injuring
six passengers, some Of them severely.
The conductor and brakesman were also
injured, though not seriously. Tho
wreck has been removed and the road is
now clear
A Tribune special from Washington
says: Attorney General Heron, who
was an officer in the rebel service, virtu-
ally outranks General Sheridan, as by
the order of the President, tho military
are subject to the call and disposition OF
the civil authority. Rumors here to-
night says General Sheridan will resign
on account of the Presidents conduct In
this affair
The Tribune's New Orleans special
dated the I'd, says: The military com
mittee appointed to investigate the
massacre OF Union men took DR.. Doestes
deposition to-day. The Hon. John Hen
derson and Rev. VIM. Horter were too
weak to give evidence. The Rev. M.
Jackson, Hon. Oscar Parnott, Hon. L.
Dupont and the Hon. George Howe are
among the dangerously wounded not
heret ofore reported. Governor Hahn and
Hon. S. S.. Fish are badly wounded but
will recover. l saw them to-day in the
hospital The Grand Jury have indicted
the members of the Convention, and
those of them able to be dragged out
were re-arrested. General Baird ordered
stay of the proceedings, but the Presi-
dent telegraphed him emphatically not
to interfere.
NEW YORK, SUNDAY 5th.-Thero were
% cases of cholera and 10 deaths in this
city yesterday. The mortality Of the
week from the city and adjacent Island
was 900. Thirty-eight new cases OF
cholera occurred in Brooklyn on Friday
No new cases OH David's Island
Four convicts escaped from Sing Sing
yesterday.
A man named Poole was murdered by
another man named Mum, proprietor OF
hotel in Newark, yesterday.
The defaulting salesman reported yes
terday is Isaac w. Dean and the defraud-
ed is the New York Steam Sugar Refining
Company.