The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-08-11
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
New York News.

Nvw yoRk,Aug. 1O.-The reports from
oil CHARTERS Yesterday, indicate steady
abatement of the cholera; II new cases
and 9 deaths were reported in this city
There had been no admissions of cholera
patients to the Hospitals in Blackwell g
and Randall's Island. In Brooklyn a
marked deer ease was also noticed, there
being but thirteen cases and two deaths
Yesterday. On Governors Island bat
two new cases were reported. pr,
Thayer in charge of the cholera Hospital
reports the epidemic as decreasing in the
Twelfth Ward, and that all of the'neW
cases were of a mild type OF the disease
Queen Emma of Hawaii Islands visited
st. Luke's Hospital yesterday in compa,
ny with Drs. Dix and Vinton, and the
consul of Hawaii to-day She will VISIT
the navy yard and probably the Island
and institutions around New York
In the case of James Hughes, who has
been accused of defrauding James Riley
out of $3.50 bounty money, Commissioner
Osborn yesterday rendered decision
discharging the defendant. 49,
The Herald's Mexico correspondence
says: .t. Il,
The Austrian nran-ofwar Dapdelion
has come to an anchorage at Vera Cruz,
and was taking on board large quaint
ty of provisions. ....s.
1t was regarded as fixed fact that
Macmillan and large body guard OF
Austrian troops would soon embark tor
Europe. On the other hand, it is said
that Marshal Bazine viii order his deten-
tion, by force if necessary,
Several letters from Santa Anna to
parties in the city of Mexico and Vera
Cruz, had been intercepted by Maximil-
ian, and numerous arrests had taken
place. Santa Annals estates, near Jalapa,
were confiscated several million of dollars
being by this means turned into the
Imperial treasury.
A New Orleans special to the Tribune
says: Official information at Head
anarters shows that the statement OF
Lieutenant Governor Voorhees, that two
policemen and several citizens were
either killed or wounded is an unmiti-
gated falsehood. One policeman died of
sun.stroke and about three were badly
wounded; one citizen, rebel, was
killed accidentally by the police on the
other side. The record will show the
slaughter to lie over one hundred Union
men, and the wourding of about three
hundred. These are facts | have it
from trustworthy authority, that Gener-
al Sheriaan's telegram of the lst of Au-
gust was perverted for political pur-
poses. Among the sentences Withheld
from publication was one that he (Sher-
idan) held Mayor John j. Monroe
responsible for the murders committed
on Monday.
Lieutenant Butts, of the Freedmans
Bureau, has been murdered and robbed
in Jackson parish.
The rebels are complaining that they
did not kill enough Yankees or Conyen-
tioners, but brag that the time is com
inc when they will finish their work.
Union men are afraid to go out on the
street after dark, and invariably barrl-
cade their houses during the night.
While the present police IS composed Oh
Thugs, life is terribly insecure day or
night. r,
4 Washington special to the Tribune
SAYS: A private letter to General HOW
ard, dated Vicksburg, Miss, August Jd'
states that things are getting worse Ill
this country every day. Freedmen muir
ders are nothing new. At least thirty
have been killed during the past SIX
weeks in this county. Within the past
"A hours one Union Southerner and two
Northern men have complained to me
they have cause to leave, because they
dare not remain longer in their places
near Edwards depot.
A Leavenworth special says the eX'
press messenger from Junction City has
received information from q brother OF
one of the murdered men that tho In
dians have murdered six men in the VI
cinity of Fort Laramie The Indian war
has commenced again.
Washington special says General
Grant received dispatch this afternoon
dated Fort Reno, announcing the mur
der by the Indians of Lieutenant Dan
iels, 18th Infantry. Since the l4th ult
twenty four men have been scalped by
Indians, between Browns Springs and
Tongue river.