Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-22
Prom Panama.

From Panama.
NEW YoRK, August 21.-Panams adviees
of the 18th are received.
The United States frigate Lancaster left
there for Calloa on the 18th. The United
States steamer Wateree arrived at Panama
on the 10th. She ia to be placed at the dis
posal Of party of Americans who are going
to survey the Isthmus of Darieu.
a revolutionary uprising has taken place
at Chihuahua.
News of Lost ShiPs-COftOn Crop of
Texas-RaVa9es of the CaterptlIars-
Robbery i'm New Orleans.
New ORLEANS, August 21.-The New Or
leans Tribune, a Republican freedmen or
gan. announced a temporary suspension to-
day.
Two bottles were picked up at the mouth
of the Bayou Terrebonner on the 18th, in
the Gulf of Mexico, containing papers as
follows:
No. L Ship Flying Eagle, May oath, 1866.
Lost all masts, and are in helpless eOndi-
tiOn with six feet of water il the hold,
signed Cragan.
No.2, much faded in pencil US. Ship
Powhattan, Chinese coast, Oct. 9th 1857
Cotton is reported as knee high in the
eastern part of Warren and Clairbone coun-
ties, Mississippi, and devastated by worms,
Marion counties.
Cotton growing reports show that in Mad
ison, Carroll, Claiborne and Scott coun-
ties, 322 plantations who in 1860 employed
1924 hands on S4,311 acres, raising 1851
bales, there are this year 3,495 hands plant
ing 322,22l ceres. From other counties the
reports are not full. On this basis the crop
Of 1866 would be 100000 bales in Missis-
sippi, and 100000 bales in the United
States.
Letters from Matagorda, Texas, of the
10Th says that the catapillaTs arc now fully
at work on Coney and Oyster creek, and in
BRACES it is the general opinion that the leaf
will be destroyed in ten days, with not over
one quarter to one-third of a crop to come
from the slluviate lands of Texas.
A. Marchard, pawnbroker on Common
street, was robbed to-day of $500 worth of
jewelry.
New York Politics.
SING SING, August 2O.-The Republican
Convention of the Sd District of Westches-
ter County met to-day at CrotOn Dam and
chose Horace Greeley, Hezekiah D. Robert
son and Francis Lankin as delegates to the
Syracuse Convention. It is asserted that
the conservative delegates were excluded
and held q separate convention which en-
dorsed the proceedings of the Philadelphia
Convention.
Cholera.
sT. LOUIS, August SI.-No cholera report
from the Board Of Health since Saturday,
but the police repA for the IS hours ending
at O'Clock this A. NJ, which is very in
complete, shows Isl cases and SO deaths
Fire.
fire early this morning destroyed the
bedstead factory Of George Frank, and the
Touring mill of Joseph Brotherton, on Wash
ingtOn avenue and 10Th street. Loss $751; 900,
mostly insured.
The FeniaH Picnic at Buffalo.
BUFFALO, August 21.-The Fenian picnic
to-day called together large number of
persons. 1t is estimated that there were
15,OO0 or 10000 on the ground. at 3 O'Clock
the sham fight commenced, descriptive Of
the Limestone Ridge affair, which made
considerable fun. Soon after the meeting
was organized and A. Sherwood, of this city,
chosen chairman. Gen. O'Neill addressed
the meeting at some length, and was fol-
lowed by Hon. A. NJ. Clapp and Charles
Macomber of this city. There was no hint
given of any progressed hostilities, and no
one here believes a raid on Canada is in
tended at least for some time, if at all.