Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-29
From New York.

Cholera.
New YoRK, August 2S.-Five cases and
five deaths from cholera were reported yes
terdsy. The mortuary report of the past
week showed a decrease since the report OF
the previous one. There were twenty-five
deaths on Wards Island and two in the
lunatic asylum since Sunday last There
were no deaths at the other public institu-
tons. The reports from Brooklyn showed
q decrease in the number of cases. There
were 271 deaths in Brooklyn last week. The
indications were that IT would soon disap-
pear from that city
Fenian Affairs.
The Fenian affairs in this city are looking
up. Mr.. Stephens and the escaped Dublin
prisoners IRE sketehing out their proposed
battle, and considerable aid is forthcoming
in the shape of contributions. Mr.. Stephens
will probably leave for Troy to-day on his
western tour. The rival headquarters of
the Roberts faction are preparing vigorous
ly for the coming Senate caucus at Troy on
Thursday. 1t is expected that this Congress
will finally decide whether it is expedient
TO i~naugurate another Canadian invasion.
It is rumorad that Roberts has sent = special
agent to Ireland TO report on the state Of
affairs Eere. The troops at Fort Erie have
been ordered to break camp, but the active
reorganization Of the militia still continues.
Prom Honduras
The Herald's Honduras correspondence
dated at Belize, July 18th, says: The
Colonial affairs are not very promising.
Property was burdened with government
taxes and there was g general desire to
avoid payments of the imports.
The prisoners taken by the Yucatan In
dams in April last have been rsnsomed by
the Colonial government and a claim will
be made on Mexico for the expenses.
The colonists entertained the idea of ap-
plying all their energies to the cultivation
Of sugar n
Anairs I'm Cape Haytien.
The Herald's Cape Haytien correspondent
of August 5th, says a fire destroying 500, 900
worth of property occurred there on the
26th.
The insurgents had advanced on Cape
Haytien but were repulsed with severe loss
by the government troops. At last accounts
they were in iun retreat for San Domingo
Senior Dareo Mazufa n Santa Anna
An order of arrest againt Senior Dareo
Mazura was granted by judge Barnard
yesterday, atthe suit of General Santa Anna,
charging him with fraud in the purchase Of
the sIeamhhip Georgia He states in his
affidavit that Mazura exhibited q letter to
him purporting 70 be from VIM. h Seward,
urging him (the plsintifO to come to the
United States, as the government was will
ing to aid him in behalf Of the Mexican
people, which letter was concocted by Ma
zura, and not written by VIM. II. Seward.
The plaintiff states that through the deceit
and fraud of Mazurs, who has been his pri-
vate secretary, he has sustained damages TO
the amount Of S7O5,0OO.
The New Orleans Riot Investigation
The Times New Orleans special says that
the commission appointed by General Baird
toIinyestigste the late riot, have completed
their lsbcrs. The report will show that the
first shot was fred from a revolver by 8
white man, at a procession of freedmen.
Twenty minutes then expired before any
further disturbance took place, when the
procession reached the place where the
convention was in session. Here the police
interfered and attempted to make arrests,
firing on the freedmen, who returned the
fire. A mob Of citizens then Joined the po-
lice, and the great massacre commenced. 1t
also shows that several police hid their
badges 90 as not 10 be recognized, and, after
entering the hall ~oisregarded the white
flag and fred indiseTiminstely upon the
members of the convention and spectators.
Some Of the citizens wore badges indicating
an organization. After the barricade was
established IN the hail., not one person es-
capped unframed, and about thirty were
murdered.
While credit was given to the police for
saving the lives Of all persons in the build
ing, the force is found guilty of nearly all
the murders committed. The evidence
shows that the policemen killed freedmen
when they could have arrested them with
out trouble, and that wounded negroes were
thrown in carts and killed while struggling
10 free themselves from dead bodies placed
on them.
The Committee report that the riot was
caused by the bitter feeling on the part of
the police and citizens toward the radical
Unionists and the freedmen. They will alse
probably report that it wss preconeerted,
inasmuch as it is in the evidence that it was
talked Of several days previously. It'll also
the opinion Of the Committee that if the
military had not appeared at the time itdid,
the riot would have progressed 70 the exter-
mination of all the Uui0nists and freedmen
in the city.
The city press are attacking Gen. Sheri-
dan for what he reported in his official dis
patches, charging him with untruthfulness.