Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-08-06
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FROM NEW YORK.
Cholera Report for Frrdn,

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/ NEW YORK, August 4.-Twenty- four
cases and two deaths by cholera SereI re-
ported In this city yesterday. Since the
28th of July, according to official fepOrts,
one hundred and three persons have died
in thecity of this disease. -
/ The report from Brooklyn gives fifteen
cases and six deaths from cholera yester-
day. ~ tlS. Il -
The disease is abating on9Governor's Is
land, and on David's and Hart's Islands
matters appear to be more favorable.
The Post Surgeon at Atlanta, Ga, in
forms the Health officer that parties the re
are shipping infected rags North. -
Efforts TO Obtain n Democratic
Form of GOvernment for LOwer
Canada. TllEnI2 g
A Tribune Ottawa, Canada, special says
the Republican party has been defeated in
their efforts to obtain DeniOeratic form of
Legislature for Bower Canada, by vote of
go to 81. Upper Canada will have Legis-
lature of one elective Chamber, which is
the form sought by the Republicans of
Lower Canada. .--.....-,r
The Fort Schuyler. Affair.
The parties who were implicated in the
recent murder and outrages in Westchester
county, when Miss Hicks was killed and
the arm of a Mr.. Elliott was broken, are
members OF company II, 1st artillery, and
were passed out of Fort Schuyler on the au-
thOrity of one of them, Sergeant Doran.
One of the party, Burke, is a returned de-
serter, who had got back to his company
only the night before the murder. The
Corporal Fitzgerald who did the shooting
deserted his post 10 90 with the party, al
though he could have refused them per-
mission topass out. He bears a very bad
character in the regiment.
Health Officers Not TO be Inter-
fered With. - 9
By a decision of Judge Mccain, the
Health Officers are not to be interfered
with in removing the fat melting establish
ments located inside the city limits.
The French gunboat La Megre arrived at
this pOrt,reports having left the United
States steamers G. G. Seymour, De Sofa,
Florida and Meconieo at st. Thomas.o
Railroad Accident.
A dispatch to the World, dated Rutland,
VT, says an accident occurred on the X. 81
w. Railroad near Granville, IN. H., to-day,
the 3D., to the New York express train
which left here at l2:40 p, M, by which
two passenger cars were thrown from the
track, one of them filled with passengers
rolling down high embankment aud in
juring six passengers, some of them seri-
Ously. The conductor and brakesman were
also injured, though not seriously. The
wreck has been removed and the road is
now clear. 31r 'H-n ' lFs . ,
Cholera Report for Saturday.
NFw YORK, August 4.-Twenty-t cases
and ten deaths from cholera In the city, and
forty-seven cases and ten deaths in Brook
lyn, arereported to-day. Twenty-Five of
the Brooklyn cases occurred in the Peni-
tentiary. The total number of deaths in
New York for the week ending to-day, was
799-a large increase over those for the
same week last year. ~ &
u The Cable.
New YORK, Aug. 4.-Eleven messages
were forwarded from this city Saturday for
transmission to Europe by the cable. for
which $ll05 in gold was paid. Most of che
daily papers call for reform in the man
agement of the cable, particularly in regard
to the press dispatches, and complain Of the
excessive charges.
Az 't Financial. NTN
New York, Aug. 4.-The Commercials
money article says: ..-
The reaction of the stock market con-
tinues. There is disposition among the
larger operators to sell and realize profits.
This tendency prevails over the inclination
to bring the railroad lisC most generally d
@H per cent. lower. .- g.. ...T
Money is, very abundant. The general
rate with the banks is per cent, but heavy
sums are loaned at A per cent. ia rm
Discounts are quiet at 5@6% per cent.
Foreign exchange is nominal at 1880
107A for sixty days.
The European steamers to-day took out
$40S,006. Total amount shipped for the
week $524,564. ... 40
No dispatches have been received this
morning by the Atlantic cable. 1t was re-
ported late yesterday that firm in Ex-
change place had received London dis
patch reporting the conclusion of peace and
a reduction of the Bank of England rate to
8 per cent, the advance of middling up
lands to l5d, and 20s at go. ~, =. ~