New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-01
1NrEREsT1Na GENERAL NrEI11aENcE.
Etc,


ASPY BAY, July 30-Mldnlght.-by the ARRIVAL
Of vessel from Port au Basque tonight, further
dispatches from Europe have been received. Sev-
eral messages to private parties from England are
among those brought from Hearts Content by this
arrival. Arrangements have been made which
will insure the more rapid and frequent transmits
sion Of dispatches from Port au Basque hence
forth until the Gulf cable is laid.
LONDON, July 28--P. M.-The latest reports from
the seat of war state that peace preliminaries be-
tween the contending parties were progressing,
but no details have heen received.
NEW YoRK, July 28.-[Query-July 81 ?l-Pri-
vate dispatches quote mddling Orleans in Liver
pool at 144d., on the 28th with firm market.
The grade of cotton quoted in this afternoons
market report was not stated in the dispatch but as
middling Upands is uniformly given when the
price of one description alone is reported, that is
probably the description referred to,
The Herald has the following over the cable:
LONDON, July 28.-An armstice of four weeks
from yesterday, has been signed by Prussia, Aus
tria, Bavaria aud other German States. The pro
positions embrace lasting peace over the whole
continent of Europe
| The Trioune's special, dated Friday night says
In the House of Commons, Lord Stanley said the
cabinet were anxious to remove any irritation
/
tween the North and South if the American cabi
net present ciaims to the English government
The government intended to issue royal commits
slon inquirlng into the neutrality law.
| This paragraph as received ID uninteigble.
We have endeavored to interpret it.-ED. CREs
CENT
AsPY BAY, July SO.-The reply of the President
Of the United States to the Queen of England was
how Fam oFtnr uy,5
will be forwarded to the queen probably about
two O'Clock on Tuesday afternoon, Greenwich
time.
New YORK. July Sit is stated that the
cholera is assuming an epidemic form in this city
but not to an alarming extent. At meeting O.
the Board of Health to be held this evening extra
ordinary measures willto be proposed for improv
ing the sanitary condition of the city. In conse
quence of the neglect of physicians to repor
cholera cases, orders have been issued insisting
upon their so doing. The number of deaths in the
city for the past week was III, being decrease
of 592 from the previous week. Sixteen persons
died of cholera at the workhouse on BLACKWELL
Island from the 9th to the 18th of July. com
parative table of three years of the cholera epi
demic shows smaller number of deaths yester
day than on the same day in l849 and 1854 at tht
Battery Barracks Hospital matters appeared rathe
: favorable. An injunction will be applied for Il
compel its removal.
In Brooklyn the number of deaths for the pas
week was 304. The cholera has not increased bu
D no decrease was observable. There were 4
deaths from cholera during the past week.
t The Atlantic cable and the news which wa
3 flashed over it exerted controlling Influence
business circles yesterday especially in the grail
trade. Prices were generally unsettled by tn
fall Of gold, and currency values were lowe
= Cotton was more active and flrmer.
: NEW YoRK, July 3l.-The provisional charge
for the transmission of messages through the Al
4 lantic cable from any telegraph station in AmeriC
to any telegraph station in Great Britain, for twen
q words or less, including the address of sendC
and receiver, twenty pounds in gold; for ever
additional word not exceeding FIVE letters, twent
shillings sterling, per word.
From any telegraph station in America to an
a telegraph station in Europe, for twenty words {
4 less, including address of sender aud receiver
tweniy-one pounds sterling in gold; for every AZ
ditional word not exceeding five letters, twenty
!. one shillings in gold per word.
J From any telegraph station in America to an
J. telegraph station in Africa, Asia or India, fC
twenty words or less, including address of sendt
e aud receiver, not exceeding in all one hundre
G letters twenty-five pounds sterling, in gold; fc
d every additional word not exceeding five letter
Il twenty-five shiIlings per word.
e The letters in all words after the first twent
j will be counted and divided by five, each five 4
: fractional remainder will be charged as a word
Messages in cipher will be charged double tn
foregoing rates. All figures intended for tran
. mission must be written in iull length, and will
charged as words