The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-11
NEW YORK ITEMS.

were reported in this city, ,.~s,s erwI
There had been no admissions Of
cholera patients in the hospital ON
Blackwell's or Randall's Island.
In Brooklyn a marked decrease |
was also noticed, there being but 13 |
cases and two deaths. yesterday. s..vI
On Governors Island but two new
cases were reported. DIR. Thayer in
charge of the cholera hospital reports
the epidemic as decreasing in the 18th |
ward, and that all the new cases were |
of a mild type of the disease.
The Queen Of the Sandwich Islands
visited St Luke Hospital yesterday
in company with. Drs, Dix and Vim
ton and the Consul Of Howai To-day
she will visit the Navy Yard, and
probably the islands and institutions
around New York.
In the case Of James Hughes, who
has been accused of defrauding James
Reilly out Of 800 bounty money,
Commissioner Osborn yesterday rem
dered a decision discharging the de
fendant. TEF9a) EsAst@Kt
TIE Herald 'ssqMexico correspond
ent ssaYs the Austrian man -ofrWar
Danbale has come to an anchor at
Vera Cruz, and was taking on boards
large, quantity of provisions 1t was
regarded as a fixed fact Shat Maximil-
iansahd a large body guard of Aus
trian troops would soon embark on
her for Europe. On the other hand,
it is said that Marshal Bazaine will
order his detention, by force if heces-
sary.s Several letters from SantaAnna
to parties in the City of. Mexico and
Vera Cruz had been intercepted by
Maximilian, and several arrests have
taken place. Santa Anna's estates
near Jatapa were confseated, several
million dollars being by this means
turned ip'o the Imperial treasury
Anew Orleans special to the Trt-
banes says official information at head
quarters shows that the statement of
Lieut. Gov. VOORHEES,, that twenty
two policemen and several citizens
wereseither killed1or wounded, is an
unnlitigated falsehood. One police
man died of injuries; three more were
badly wounded; one citizen-a rebel
was killed accidentally by the po-
lice On the other side the record
will SHOW the slaughter to be over
one hundred. Union men and the
wounding of about three hundred,
These are facts, / have it from trust
worthy authority that Gen. Sheridan's s
telegram Of the 1st inst, was pervert-
ed for political purposes. Among the
sentences withheld from publication
was one that he-Sheridan-held
Mayor John j., Monroe responsible
for the murders committed on Mon
day. Lieut.. Butts, of the; Freedmen's Is
Bureau, has .o9been murdered and
robbed in jackson Parish.
Theqrebels arengcamplaining that
they did not kill enough Yankees and
ConEentionersy but brag that the time
is coming when they will finish their
work! p" Union men are afraid to GO
utFin the streets after dark, and IN
variably barricade their homes during
the night. While the present police
a is composed of thugs life is terribly
: insecure. day or night. as *
sl0 A Washington special to the Tn
b1c,ae says "A private letter to- Gen
Howard, Inspector General, dated
Vicksburg, Miss, August Sd, states
that things are getting worse in this
country every day. Freedmen MUIR
ders are nothing new At least thirty
have enkilled within the past SIX
weeks in this country, in addition, in
the past twentyTfour. hours, Southerr
Union and two Northern men have
complained to mesg that they haye
COME to town because they dare not
remain longer on their places neal
Edwards. Depot,
los A IeavenW6fth1 special says The
exprasslo messenger from junction
City, Kansas, has received information
from brother of one of the Massa.
a soft men, that the Indians have muir
S idered six men. in the vicinity of Fort
! Laramie. The Indian war has com
F lgmenced again ~ III 80 Isi 81 4,e4e.
! ISas A Ar.Washingtons special says: Gen
! \ L Grant received a dispatch this after
] Ifnoon, dated Fort Reno. announcing
the murder, by the Indians, of Lieut.
, Daniels. 18th Infantry, on July Goth
Since the 18th of July twenty-foul
men have been scalped between
Brown Springs and Tongue River.
=. New York, August 10.-The morn
E ing papers have the following specials
from Washington. Brevet Majol
Gen, A. A Humphreys, Lieut. Colo
mel of Engineers, has been appointed
, to succeed Brig. Gen. r. Delafield as
Chief Engineer,ofs the army.
- Gen. Baird has been removed from
his command at New Orleans, anC
General Stoneman appointed in hi
place. s. ia lssA 10 el8c
~ The President and Secretary Sew
ard will leave here on the 2Sth inst.
to attend the Douglas Monumen
> ceremo nies, going by the Waylof New
! York city. as .9ii iiiysaaf5 PR 7n} -2 r
Z I The Queen of the Sandwich Islands
has accepted,an invitation to be tht
guest Of the Government, and viii b.
: in Washington in few DAYS