Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1866-08-24
Dumrstir Neius.


mated at between g. 900 900 and 81, 600 900
Among those known to have perisheo
were Capt. Reilly, Of Cape Cod: first mate
Alonzo Kelly, OF Cape Cod seamen, Arthur
M. Milton, Of Bridgeport, Conn. Mr.. Har
wood, one Of the lessees Of the cotton dock
estimates his loss at 5000, 600. The loss Of
the Erie RaiToad. is $50 600.
By the great ERE in Jersey City yesterday
thirteen lives we're lost; 10000 barrels q
oil burned fourteen vessels consumed twt
oil and cotton docks burned, and there was
great loss Of tobacco.
The Italian Government is also sufferer by
the destruction Of shipping.
The Tribune estimates the total loss al
s2.000,0000
CINCINNATI, Aug 20.
Sixty-nine deaths from cholera we're re
ported on Saturday, and htty-iour yesterday.
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.
Fourteen new cases Of Cholera were re-
ported in this city yesterday, and fourteen 10
Brooklyn.
CHICAGO, Aug. 10.
ERE occurred here this morning, original
ing in Van Horne, Murray and Cos Tobacco
Warehouse, destroying that and adjoining
property, valued at $500 600; insured for
$500 600, mostly in New York companies.
on the Michigan Southern Railroad, at Hal
lisville this morning, irjuiing more or less
twenty-three passengers.
WAsHINeToN Aug. 81.
A member of the Executive Committee of
the Republican party, in a communication
published in the Washington Chronicle this
morning, suggests an early meeting of the
committee TO elect chairman in place If
Hon. Henry J. Raymond, who has deserted
the party, but does not see ft TO resign his
position.
report received from Brevet Brig. Gen
A. p. Runkle, Acting Assistant Commission
er of the Bureau in the District of Columbia
South Carolina, contains interesting informa-
ton relative to the condition OF tffairs in that
section.
AZ in many other portions Of the South,
where yearly contracts are m de, many Of the
planters show a disposition to take advantage
of the ignorance of the freedmen and dis
charge them npon frivolous charges, just at
the time when the crops are matufed, thus
securing to themselves the shares which the
freedmen should rec, i've as remuneration for
their tolls during the season
The slow manner of examination Of evils
OF this character by the customary process,
is not effective, snd it is essential that com
missioners in that section should be invested
with greater power.
Prompt and vigorous action is required,
and il has been recommended that the Pro-
vost Court be Abolished and Freedmen's
Court be established in connection with the
Bureau.
NEW YoRK, Aug. 81
The reports yesterday showed a continued
decrease in the number Of new cases Of chole.
ra in this city
Eight cases and seven deaths were all that
were reported.
The deaths in public institutions and in
the city from cholera, last week, were las.
being los less than the week before.
In Brooklyn the disease Also appears to be
sbating.
There were seventy-eight deaths from
cholera in that city last week.
Seven lives are now known to have been
lost by the Jersey City fire.
The loss in tobacco wss S273 coo
About 400 men are thrown cut of employ
ment by the destruction Of Valentine u Coz
oil sheds.
A Matsmoras correspondent says The Ameri
can colonists in Mexico are begging trsnspor.
tation to the I nited States again.
CINCINNATI, Aug. 81.
There we're sixty-one deaths from cholera
yesterday.
ST. LOUIS Mo-, Aug. 81.
The Denver Neios of the 18th inst says
BuDts majority Tor Corgr has been reduc-
ed to 80, and it is thought that the districts
yet to hear from will elect Chillicott, the Re-
publican candidate.
DEEEyER, CoLoBADo, Aug. 20.
Chillicott, radical republican, is elected dele
gate to Congress over Hunt, the administra
tion candidate. The dispatch referred to by
Senator Doolittle in the Philadelphia Con
vention is erroneous. The southern counties,
hitherto democrat, return large republican
msjorities.
INV York. Aug. %.
The reports yesterday showed slight de.
crease in the number of new cases of cholera
in this city. and rather more severe mortality
for the same cause.
Twelve new cases and eighteen deaths
were reported in Brooklyn.
The two wings of the Fenians were busily
engaged at their respective headquarters in
this city yesterday.
Mr.. Stephens received personal report
from two young lrishmen, just from the Old
Country, and recently ont OF Mount JOY pris-
They report the organization stronger than
ever since the suppression Of the habeas cor
pus.
New YoBK, Aug. %
Gold, l47. 6's Of 81, llllS. $780,,
LOG A. 520's OF 80, ll0ls 8; do. of 65,
los 5S. l0.40's, small, l0l 4.
special from New Orleans, August 2lst,
says the Investigations of the military COM
mission into the cause Of the riot are nearly
closed.
The report will be submitted TO General
Sheridan about the close OF this month.
After endorsing the report, he will commit
1t to the War Department.
1t is believed that the report will be Of a
radical political character. Certainly, if an
honest report
French papers contain China dispatches Of
June 20, stating that the rebels had been dis
persed, their encampment burned, and their
leader killed.
The ATLANTIC CABLE. recent meet
ing Of the French Academy of Sciences, M.
Babinet suggested that it would be we'll to
take advantage Of the Atlantic telt graph to
with prsciainn tho l,n,,,,'4. 4