The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-12-19

the Executive ana Judiciary departments S62 900 for
the SAME period The value Of stock hand is nearly
100000
UsSscd States Claims In . Frcnch Court.
The telegram by cable frotn Paris published in Mon
days papers, relative Of the United States be-
ing before French court omits 10 state the subject
matter OF the suit doubtless refers 70 an action
brought by government against Armaud builder Of
the Confederate -ofwar Bordeaux, 70 recover
the Of the United States the purchase money for
those vessels which had been paid TO him by the late
Confederate government though the latter never re-
csived the shps their delivery having been prevented
by the Emperor Napoleon TO avoid dnhculty with the
United States The claim that Armand Is accountable
70 the United States for the money
Award ef Contracts for Indian Supplies.
The contracts for indian goods awarded to-day.
G. Francis Bates, Of New York, obtained that for
blankets and clothes, being class Nos and q John "
Farewell Co., OF Chicago for dry goods class No 81
and G. Hunt Co., Of b. Louis, for hardware, class
NoA
Conversational Excursien 70 Now Orleans.
Among those going on the through excursion to New
Orleans and back during the Vice President
Foster, Senators Ramsay, Lane, Hendricks Norton,
probably Wilson and several others; Representatives
Kstchum, Of New York; Newell, Of New Jersey; Law
renee, Of Pennsylvana; Delano and Hubbel, of Ohio;
Grover and Benjamin, Of Missouri; Rousseau, Of Ken.
",
merchants from the North.
Wreck Of an Unknown Vessel from Norfolk
Near Cape HRytien.
Information has been received from h. E. Peck, Esq
uned States Minister Resident at Hayt Of the coming
ashore ct Borgne about twenty-five miles west Of Cape
Haytien. the nth ultimo Of American brig laden
with lumber In . dismasted and abandoned condition
There Indications her the place Of
her departure destination Her place OF hail was
shown BY the word " Norfolk' painted on her stern.
she well the cargo will be sold and the proceeds
held by the subject to the claims Of parties
interested.
The Tehuantepec Railroad.
The project Of the Transit Company for the construc
ton Of railroad and telegraph the Isthmus Of
Tehuantepec is attracting general attention here
than any other commercial enterprise Of the day. the
route by the isthmus from New York to our Pacific
coast being represented shorter by nearly fifteen hundred
miles than by way of Panama. and that II the Fcrnan-
dina road Florida be adopted part Of the
route the distance saved will DO nearly two thousand
miles The liberals have been throughout in undsputed
possession Of the State Of Tehuantepec The Transit
Company have an order from President Juarez the
local authorities to extend all facilities for the imme
date and prosecution Of tho work. and
will proceed forthwith build the road Its friends
confidently expect that less than two years the route
will opened and thronged with the commerce Of the
world
Reappearnnce Of the Cholera at COnstanti-
nOple.
Hon. F. J. Morris our Minister to Turkey in letter to
the Secretary Of state dated November IT, 1866 says
regret to be obliged TO the temperance Of
cholera at Constantnople II broke out few days
since ct Ortakem, neighbortng village on the Bospho
and out Of twelve reported from that locality
70 this date eight have terminated fatally Four
cases and two deaths have also occurred at the arsenal
on the Golden Horn. whence IL extended itself in the
Summer of 1865 tho whole city. One death from
apopicic or adrdm cholera Is reported from Bebec.
The disease at present threatens to take epidemic
form. II II should become epdemical II must be very
fatal the winter here,s generally mild in tempera-
ture, and much suffering exists In consequence among
the population, the great bulk Of whom live In miserable
tenenents and scantily clad and lily provided with
the Deccssaes Of le 1t s to be hoped that not
TO witness repetition OF tho horrors Of 1885, when
fully fifty thousand people swept of In six weeks
by this ecourge Of humanity.