New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-06-25
BY TELEGR A P H..
WASHINGTON.
GeorRetoHn Collexe.

! Georgetown College.
WAsHlSGToN, June 24.-At Georgefow
| College to .y awards were delivered t
| the senior classes. For rhetoric, gol
medal, to John Carroll Payne, of Virginia
premium. to John G. Agar, Of Louisiana
distinguished, Clement Manly. of Nort
Carolina; English literature and compost
ton, premium. John G Agar, OF Louisiana
distinguished, j. Carroll Payne OF Virginia
Clement Manly, of North Carolina: PhiliI
NJ. Ruz, of Cuba.
Members Of the Cabinet.
The Postmaster General will return her
retary of the Treasury have returned.
Work Stopped.
Work on the public buildings at Chicago
has stopped on account of the uDfavorablt
report of the committee regarding tounda
tion and material.
Health Reports in the Navy Department
The mails for the NAVY Department from
the South Atlantic station have not yet al
rived, though they are hourly expected
Therefore the department has no official
advices of the existence Of yellow fever oI
the United States vessels ia those waters
A private letter received here today By an
officer Of the navy from brother officer al
Rio, dated May %. reports that the yellow
fever was raging at that place, and the
number of deaths daily was from fifteen to
twenty.
During the first half Of March 1872 deaths
were reported. On the United States
steamer Lancaster there were several cases
Fleet Surgeon DENLY and Assistant Sur.
geon Fassig have died; the former on the
third Of April at Bahia. Brazil, but the date
of death OF the latter 10 not mentioned.
There had been much sickness on board
that vessel. On the Brook lyn several cases
Of fever we're reported, and two sailors died
in April. She arrived a. Rio on the twen-
tieth of May. and was then reported by the
surgeon in good sanitary condition.
There were few cases on the M0nOnga-
hela, but no deaths are mentioned. When
she left Rio several officers and seamen re-
mained in the hospital on shore. but all had
recovered excep. Assistant Surgeon Waugh
1t was expected he would soon be abla to
start.
F. a Roe. commanding the Lancaster.
reports the arrival Of that vessel at Bahia,
Brazil, the ninth Of May, from Rio April %
en- route home. The yellow fever broke out
on the twenty eighth Of April, Lieutenant
Bolles being first attacked. On the twenty.
eighth. Master J. B. BurdOck medical in.
were reported down. Bolles died on the
second Of May. and Dinhv the third Of NAV.
On tho same day B. +. Fassig, assistant
surgeon of the Lancaster. was attacked and
to the hospital, where he died on
the tenth. No other cases had appeared on
the Lancaster. and it was believed she was
free from disease, having been thoroughly
fumigated aud cleansed.
A later dispatch from Captain Roe. dated
NAY Is, says since DR.. Fassig was attacked
no o, her cases have appeared. and there are
no symptoms at present. He expected to
leave Bahia for the United States on the
twentieth OF May. The Monongahela lett
Rio for the sonth May , for the health of
the ships crew.
A private letter from Rioreports ten cases
and two deaths on the Brooklyn. and one
death OF the Monongahela, that of S. NJ.
Coleman, secretary to Admiral Leroy.
Bishop Ames.
Bishod Ames is a member Of the Sioux
Indian commission.