The New York herald., 1867-09-13
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THl wHArun YsnERDAY.-yAs weather yesterday
wAs decidedly pleasant and everybody on the street
appeared g enjoy y amazingly. The Temperature at
two p II 70 degrees
Tas cHoIxRA ON GovrRxoR's IsLANp.-Dr Harris the
cholera autho Of the Board Of Health states that the
cholera wh,cn' has pssn prevailing on Governors
Island for some days past s being rapidly mastered
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rne Medsai Army Board have causs4 49, A'''es
to be burned up and new ones erected over the water
distant from the Shore He gives II ~ his opinion that
the military authorities have done all that the most
pert cholera fighter could do 10 stamp out the.
the disease and that he hopes to be able ofhciay 70
say in day two that their eors have been <ned
with success Iu the meantime all recruiting HIS been
stopped In this department
ANOTHER CosoRRssIoSAk CoxYIrrEk--A suhcommlt.
tee OF Congress- consisting of Messra Van wyck and
Randall, commenced session at tho Custom House
yesterday, for TIE purpose OF investigating certain
alleged frauds upon the revenue department Another
OBJECT oil the committee is TO devise modification Of
the present. system Of collecting the revenue. The
committee Will not fairly get 10 work until to day. the
business transacted yesterday being merely preliminary
TIE Book TRADE SAIE-The attendance at the book
trace sale yesterday was by good pre-
Tious days and the competition evidently abstng.
The catalogues were mainly from European publishing
houses but no marked demand apparent. The COL
! lection OF William 2. Nmmo, o. Ednbarg, embraced,
among other works, Iyer's History of Scotland ia
| superb bindings; Scott Moore, Wordsworth, Milton,
Golfers Pictures OF the Periods, &c. large asHo-
ment from the house of Gale ingis Edinbnrg prin.
cipally juvenile works. sold al from fifty to yhve per
cent below the retail price Shakespeare. family edition
morocco sold for So TO- Altogether the prices realized
were somewhat below the average obtained at previous
sales. The sales 10 the afternoon concluded with
stereotype plates and the invoices Of George Leav
| Of this city.
| FRAUDS l. PAyxAsTER GENERALS DEPARTMENT
Congressional committee appointed at the last session
OF Congress to investigate frauds committed in the Pay
master Generals Department during the in
| session at the Astor House. During the war many
frauds were perpetrated both the government and
on the soldiers, by the paymasters Every method by
which the soldier could be cheated and a rapid fortune
made by the paymaser, put in operation. Oicals
10 the Pay Department, and claim agents who had
charge of or had bought up the claims OF soldiers
the government were hand and glove with each other,
and Lowenthal, notorious claim agent who did busi-
ness in Washington publicly stated that he paid to
clerks in the Paymaster Generals Department certain
percentage in order to get his claims sed without
delay BY reference TO the newspapers of the time II
Will he seen there were many instances where paymas-
ers had been detected cheating the soldier and swim
ding the government and who instead of being pun
ished were permitted TO make partial restitution aud
then discharged from the service This committee
wide field IN which TO make inquiry, aud undoubtedly
there plethora OF evidence this subject, If pro-
perry ecited. Three witnesses were examined yesterday
ATTEMPTED SUIGDs.-wliam Ruiiman, an emplcye .of
the st. Nicholas HOTEL attempted TO commf suicide last
evening by shooting himself through left side at
loa west Nlnstsenth street He was removed TO Belle
vuc Hospital by an officer Of the Twenty ninth precinct
FATAL CAR CAsUAIrY.-An inquest was held yesterday
at 62 Lewis street. by Coroner Schrmer the body of
Thomas Fitzsimmons, a boy ten years Of age, whose
death was the result of injuries received the 9th
instant By being by No 81 of the DRY Dock
and East Broadway line. At the time OF the accident
James Mugan driver Of the car arrested aud held
to await the result The evidence taken before the Cor
oner showed the occurrence to have been accidental
and the jury returned verdict to that effect Muligan
was discharged.
RAILROAD AccIpEyr.--Coroner wldey yesterday held
an inquest at the New York Hospital on the body Of
Richard White late brakeman in the employ Of the
Erie Railway Company whose death caused by in
juries received on Wednesday last While the train on
which deceased was braKeman was passing through the
Bergen tunnel he fell from the platform before the
Wheel which passed his left leg arm thus re.
ceivng fatal injuries The jury returned verdict OF
accidental death Deceased was twenty lave years of
age, and lived in PORT Jervis N. Y.