Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-07-24
rELEGRAMs. &c.
! dispatch nom Sayannah. On vest.

A dispatch from Savannah, 9A, yesterday
says-Ten deaths from cholera have occurred
since yesterday morning among the troops on
Tybee Island. H. ID. Cooper, the iighthouse
keeper, Ihas died Of fever. There have been
about MY desertions from the troops. The
passengers on the San Salvador continue well.
Only one death from the cholera has occurred
at Iyeee to-day. No new cases have been re-
perted. The physicians do not appprehend .
further spread Of the disease. - @t q ~ .
General Thomas W. Sweeney, Secretary OF
War, f. B., and leader Of the late Fenian
movement against Canada until arrested by
the United States authorities, together with
F. L.. and Colonel Mehan, Chief of General
Sweeneys stan, have been released on bail
Mr. David q. Barnard. Of Brooklyn, NJ Y,
Burlington, VT, gave them complimentary
fete on the occasion The released Eenian
officers left for New York. ~A
Accounts from all section of Soutn Carolina
represent the crop prospect for cotton and corn
verv gloomy The injuries are occasioned by
beyond remedy. The rice crop, however,
wherever planting has been resumed, is re-
ported in good condition.
The New York mail bag, due in Montreal.
Canada, Saturday night was stolen from the
Bonayenture station shortly after the arrival
theft was an adroit and hasty one, as the bag
was seen at the station but few minutes be-
fore, and officially handled.
boiler in Harris & Dayton's sugar refinery,
on Leonard street New York, exploded yes
terday morning. The steam rushed into the
lower part Of tenement house adjoining
and fatally scalded a man and woman, and
severely scalded eight or ten others.
Mr.. Butterfield. the cashier Of the Bowdoin.
ham National Bank, received by express his
pocket book, containing notes and private
papers. that were among the booty taken by
the robbers of that bank.
The troops that recently arrived, and are
still arriving, in Canada from England and the
English colonial possessions are TO remain in
the provinces, and none are to be sent away of
those which were there previously
The New York Board Of Aldermen directed
the street commissioners TO Immediately re-
move the battery barracks. They were 10 he
used by the health commission as q cholera
hospital.
Twelve new cases of cholera reported in
New York yesterday. -Four proved fatal.
Twenty -one cases of cholera and four deaths
were reported In Brooklyn.
MAJOR General Cullum, superintendent of the
Military Academy at West Point, is in Mon.
treal.
The rumor that a number Of Fenian pris.
oners confined in the Montreal Jail had made
successful escape proves wholly untrue.
The Austrian Consul At New York has
opened subscription for the benefit Of his
wounded countrymen.
Seventeen thousand five hundred emierants
have arrived in New York since the LIST in
slant.
The Tennessee Legislature had a quorum
yesterday, hfty-seven members answering 70
their names.
The most elaborate honors OF every conceiy-
able kind were paid to Major General William
7. Sherman, IN Montreal.
A break has occurred in the Erie canal four
miles east OF Little Falls
Fifty renewals have been made In the New
York custom house during the past week.