The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-04-25
LATEST NEWS.
The Cholera On Board the ship Virginia, nea,
New York.

IAe Vicinity OF New IOTk. lHc steamship
Virginia, having on board number of emf
grants, left Liverpool for New York on the
4th April. Her passengers numbered more
than 1000. On the fifth day the cholera
made its appearance, and some forty deaths
occurred before the vessel reached quarantine
near New York. The following is the state
ment of the health officer, DR.. Swinburne /:
The steamer Virginia arrived at the lower
Quarantine about o'ciock on Wednesday
evening. She was at once boarded and ex-
amined by Dr. Burdett, who, after making
the usual medical examination, found TWEEN
ty-eight of the passengers in the storage
lying sick of cholera The doctor immedi-
ately made communication of the fact to
me, and went on board, and found the sick
suffering from Asiatic cholera They had all
the positive symptoms of the disease. Their
faces were of dusky color, their eyes were
sunken, and they had the purgings. incident
to the disease Their hands and body were
sErunk, and they had also all the other symp-
toms. The surgeons assistant had been
stricken with it, and his place had to be sup
piled. | Immediately ordered Dr. Bissel to
have the Virginia sent downto the lower bay,
and not to permit the passengers to land I'M
der any circumstances. In addition to those
who were lying sick, found ten or twelve
others who were laboring under the disease
in its incipient form. The passengers who
had escaped the disease were full of appre-
hension lest their continuance on board
might be the means of their taking it, and
they were anxious to leave the ship | found
lo6 io,l WI, la 81
was coming to the lower bay After making
the requisite examination left the steamer
and made the necessary arrangements to have
the sick attended and the disease limi-
ted to the vessel on which it broke out"
Fiaaaeial Effects OF The Cholera.
The financial article of the New York Post
of Thursday evening says
"The reports of the deaths by cholera On
board the Virginia have produced little
scare in Wall street, and the bears this morn
ing have availed themselves of the opportu-
nifty to depress the quotations of the lead
ing stocks.
Z" In two or three hours, however, even the
most timid began to take courage, and the
rumors that were put in circulation as to the
lnalignity of the disease, the number OF the
would hasten out of town, and fee immcdi-
ately from the face of the destroyer, were
pronounced to be either exaggerated Or
untrue"
The New York Commercial Adreriser of
the same day says:
1.-THE stock market suffered this morning
from a slight attack of cholera, the result OF
sympathy with the reported sickness Oh
board the quarautined steamer Virginia.
The street is very sensitive upon the proha-
bilities of the scourge breaking out in this
country; and. judging from the tone of opin-
ion, the evcntwould be attended with an i'm
portant decline in securities
iMmensc Rcyenres---0ver FIVE hundred millions.
WASHINGTON, April 2O.-ILe receipts
from customs, internal revenue and miscelia-
neous sources, for the present fiscal year, will
be over five hundred millions of dollars, of
nearly one hundred and seventy-one millions
and falf more than those of the previous
year.
Congressional.
WASHINGTON, April 20.-The Senate pass
ed the bill amendatory to the hdGaGs corpus
act This grants immunity to army officers
for acts committed in aid of the suppression
of the rebellion, and excerpts them from liza
bllity to civil courts for such acts.
During the discussion of the above bill,
Mr. Salisbury remarked that if he were
judge. he would pay no attention to it, be-
lieving it to he unconstitutional, which led
to some sharp, personal language between
that Senator and Mr.. Clark, who said in the
course of his remarks that if the spirit of
the rebellion had crept into the Senate, there
was more necessity for the passage of the
| iill The personal discussion was of some
length
The House was engaged in the further con-
sideration Of the army peace establish
ment bill.
Gen. BFag5's C0nfssated Estate.
The case of the United States cs. the
Greenwood plantation of Braxton Bragg was
up 'refore the L. S. District Court at New
Orleans on 10th. Alter hearing, the Court
decreed that, after deducting costs and taxes.
amounting TO $4,504 AZ, and the Judgment
| in favor Of d. Augustin for $500, there be
paid to j. r. Maurau $2S,763 70, and to
Pierre Lored Sf4,631 Sc, amounting in all to
over S4S, 900, the price at which the planta-
ton was sold.
The Late Judge Douglas.
| The corner stone of the monument to be
erected over the grave of Stephen A. Doug
las will be laid some time during the month
of May or June and the Trustees having the
matter in charge have invited William H.
Seward, Secretary Of State. to be the orator
Of the occasion. In reply, Secretary Seward
writes: Il may inform you that should
consider it an agreeable duty to accept this
invitation which docs not cxaggerate the
regard in which hold the memory of Ste
phen a. Douglas The last of his days in
Washington were employed in consultation
with President Lincoln and myself in organ
| ling the resistance to disunion."
Gen. Meade at .--The Feniaas TO be
TORONTO, CANADA April 20-The Fenian
prisoners at Cornwall were remanded until
Wednesday next, the government awaiting
important evidence.
A special despatch to the Globe, from East
port, Me-, says General Meade announces his
determination to line the coast with fifty
thousand men if necessary, to prevent Feni-
an mischief
The meeting of Parliament has been post
poned until June
Frem Mexico.
New YORK, April 20-Passengers who
/ left San Francisco on the 30th ultimo, give
further particulars of the collision between
the Liberals and the French at Mazatlan-
The French troops marched out of the city
to give the Liberals battle. The fighting
was very severe no prisoners being taken on
either side The officer in command of the
French was killed.