AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL. his respects at Guam, one of the Ladrones, touched He was preparing the four quarters of a human body in destroying the oven, and burying the remains of at Manilla, loft his card with the resident at Sinca- for the feast; the large bones, having been taken the girl; they consented, and each having propore, said how d'ye do at Pulo Panang, and stop-out, were thrown aside, and the flesh being comvided himself with a shovel or a pickaxe, we reped awhile at Madras, where fame and fortuno at pressed, he was in the act of forcing it into the oven. paired in a body to the spot. Atoi and his friends tended his practice as an artist. His health, how- While we stood transfixed by this terrible sight, a had by some means been informed of our intention, ever, having declined, he resumed his locomotive- large dog, which lay before the fire, rose up, seized and they came out to prevent it. He used various ness, went down to Pondicherry, and embarked for the bloody head, and walked off with it into the threats to deter us, and seemed highly indignant; England by way of France. But it seemed as if his bushes; no doubt to hide it there for another meal! but as none of his followers appeared willing to journeying must be extended involuntarily where The man completed his task with the most perfect come to blows, and seemed ashamed that such a he did not voluntarily desire to prolong his excur-composure, telling us, at the same time, that the transaction should have been discovered by us, we On removing the sion. The vessel for Bordeaux was obliged to go repast would net be ready for some hours! Here were permitted by them to do as we chose. We to, and was condemned at, the Mauritius; and our stood Captain Duke and myself, both witnesses of accordingly dug a tolerably deep grave; then we countryman reached England by à different route." a scene which many travellers have related, and resolutely attacked the oven. During our work clouds of Having made known the traveller, we now leave their relations have invariably been treated with earth and leaves, the shocking spectacle was preHo is in New-Zea. contempt; indeed, the veracity of those who had sented to our view, the four quarters of a human the temerity to relate such incredible events has body half roasted! been everywhere questioned. In this instance it steam enveloped us, and the disgust created by our "I witnessed a specimen of their summary me. was no warrior's flesh to be eaten; there was no task was almost everpowering. We collected all thod of executing justice. A chief residing in the enemy's blood to drink, in order to infuriate them. the parts we could recognize; the heart was placed village had proof of the infidelity of one of his They had no revenge to gratify; no plea could they separately, we supposed as a savory morsel for the wives; aud being perfectly sure of her guilt, he make of their passions having been roused by battle, chief himself. We placed the whole in the grave, took his patoo-pateo (or stone batchet) and pro- nor the excuse that they eat their enemies to perfect which we filled up as well as we could, and then And when they were gone, the natives disinterred ceeded to his hut, where this wretched woman was their triumph. This was an action of unjustifiable broke and scattered the oven." "The next day our old friend King George paid omployed in household affairs. Without mention. eannibalism. Atoi, the chief, who had given orders ing the cause of his suspicion, or once upbraiding for this cruel feast, had only the night before sold their favorite dish, and ate it; for, her, he deliberately aimed a blow at her head, which us four pigs for a few pounds of powder; so he had killed her on the spot; and as she was a slave, he not even the excuse of want of food. After Capt. us a long visit, and we talked over the affair very dragged the body to the outside of the village, and Duko and myself had consulted with each other, calmly. He highly disapproved of our conduct. Atoi received us in his which might have cost you your lives, and yet did there loft it to be devoured by the dogs. The ac- we walked into the village, determining to charge In the first place,' said he, you did a foolish thing, count of this transaction was soon brought to us, Atoi with his brutality. him to tell some of his stories. land. and we proceeded to the place to request permission usual manner; and his handsome open counte. not accomplish your purpose after all, as you mere to bury the body of the murdered woman, which nanco could not be imagined to belong to so savagely succeeded in burying the flesh near the spot on was immediately granted. Accordingly, we pro-a inonster as he had proved himself to be. I shud- which you found it. After you went away, it was cured a couple of slaves, who assisted us to carry dered at beholding the unusual quantity of potatoes again taken up and every bit was eaten,'--a fact I We talked coolly with him on the sub finding it empty. King George further said, 'It was the corpse down to the beach, where we interred it his slaves were preparing to eat with this infernal afterwards ascertained by examining the grave, and in the most decent manner we could. This was the banquet. second murder I was very nearly a witness to, since ject; for as we could not prevent what had taken an old custom, which their fathers practised before my arrival; and the indifference with which each place, we were resolved to learn, if possible, the them; and you had no right to interfere with their had been spoken of, induced me to believe that such whole particulars. Atoi at first tried to make us ceremonies. I myself,' added he, have left off eat. barbarities were events of frequent occurrence; yet believe he knew nothing about it, and that it was ing human flesh, out of compliment to you white the manners of all seemed kind and gentle towards only a meal for his slaves; but we had ascertained men; but you have no reason to expect the same each other but infidelity in a wife is never forgiven it was for himself and his favorite companions.-compliance from all the other chiefs. What punishhere; and, in general, if the lover can be taken, After various endeavors to conceal the fact, Atoi ment have you in England for thieves and runaHe add-ing. Then,' he replied, the only difference in our he also is sacrificed along with the adulteress.-frankly owned that he was only waiting till the ways? We answered, 'After trial, flogging or hangTruth obliges me to confess that, notwithstanding cooking was completed to partake of it. these horrors staring them in the face, they will, ifed, that, knowing the horror we Europeans held laws is, you flog and hang, but we shoot and eat.'these feasts in, the natives were always most anx. After thus reproving us, he became very communi. opportunity offers, indulge in an intrigue." ious to conceal them from us, and he was very an- cativo on the subject of cannibalism. He said he re But worse remains behind. "The New Zealanders have been long charged gry that it had come to our knowledge; but, as he collected the time prior to pigs and potatoes being with cannibalism; but as no person of importance or had acknowledged the fact, he had no objection to introduced into the island, (an epoch of great imcelebrity had actually been a witness to the disgust- talk about it. He told us that human flesh required portance to the New Zealanders,) and stated that he He kumera; fish they never saw, and the only flesh he ing act in pity to our nature such relations have a greater number of hours to cook than any other; was born and reared in an inland district, and the been universally rejected, and much has been written that if not done enough, it was very tough, but when only food they then had consisted of fern roots and to prove the non-existence of so hideous a propensi- sufficiently cooked it was as tender as paper. He said the flesh then THE CHOLERA, it has been forcibly said, is the It was my lot to behold it in all its horrors! held in his hand a piece of paper, which he tore in theu partook of was human." ty. One morning, about eleven o'clock, after I had just illustration of his remark. returned from a long walk, Captain Duke informed preparing would not be ready till next morning; but me he had heard, from very good authority, (though one of his sisters whispered in my ear that her bro. Apostle of Temperance. It is most strikingly se every person it has assailed, who was addicted to the natives wished it to be kept a profound secret,) ther was deceiving us, as they intended feasting at here, for it has dealt death almost without escape to that in the adjoining village a female slave, named sun-set. We inquired why and how he had murderMatowe, had been put to death, and that the people ed the poor girl. He replied, that running away were at that very time preparing her flesh for cook. from him to her own relations was her only crime. the intemperate use of spirituous liquors. So a meing. At the same time he reminded me of a cir. He then took us outside his village, and showed us dical student wrote from Brunn, in Moravia, in No "the Cholera has here furnished an additional cumstance which had taken place the evening be- the post to which she had been tied, and laughed to vember last, when the pestilence was raging there, fore. Atoi had been paying us a visit, and, when think how he had cheated her :-" For," said he, "I going away, he recognised a girl whom he said was told her I only intended to give her a flogging, but seized hold of her, and gave her in charge to some ran cold at this relation, and I looked with feelings set in, has had no influence upon the disease, but so a slave that had run away from him; he immediately I fired, and shot her through the heart!" My blood proof of the fallacy of creeds founded on the almaof his people. The girl had been employed in carry of horror at the savage while he related it. Shall thuch the inore was it affected by the vintage and ing wood for us; Atoi's laying claim to her had be credited when I again affirm, that he was not on the church feasts. Never did the stato of civilizaHe was a man we had admitted to cur to render an epidemic a most impressive moni. caused us no alarm for her life, and we had thought ly a handsome young man, but mild and genteel in tion, and the nature of a disease, so powerfully contor to men, to rouse them from their fondness for no more on the subject; but now to my surprise and his demeanor ? horror, I heard this poor girl was the victim they our table, and was a general favorite with us all; were preparing for the oven! Captain Duke and and the poor victim to his bloody cruelty was a pret-sensual indulgences, and to force them to reflect on myself were resolved to witness this dreadful scene. ty girl of about 16 years of age! While listening what is beneficial to themselves. He who tries the stomach also. As the English temperance societies We therefore kept our information as secret as po-to this frightful detail, we felt sick almost to faint hearts and reins scems disposed for once to try the sible, well knowing that if we had manifested our ing. We left Atoi, and again strolled towards the wishes, they would have denied the whole affair. spot where this disgusting mess was cooking. Not send emissaries over the country to preach up a cruWe set out, taking a circuitous route towards the a native was near it: a hot fetid steam kept occa-sade against gin and whiskey, so the cholera, Heavillage; and, being well acquainted with the road, sionally bursting from the smothered mass; and the ven's own apostle of temperance, is making the tour we came upon them suddenly, and found them in the same dog wo had seen with the head, now crept of the globe; and it will, no doubt, effect a more of the prime vie, than those foes to spirituous limidst of their abominable ceremonies. On a spot of from beneath the bushes and sneaked towards the speedy and complete moral reform, by the cleansing "An observation made every where else has been rising ground, just outside the village, we saw a village: to add to the gloominess of the whole, a man preparing a native oven, which is done in the large hawk rose heavily from the very spot where rest form, proves fatal, almost without exception." following simple manner :-A hole is made in the the poor victim had been cut in pieces. My friend quors, through the medium of the obtuse brain. ground, and hot stones are put within it, and then and I sat gazing on this melancholy place; it was verified here, namely, that the cholera, in its seve Trifle not with disease and death.-A gentleman all is covered up closo. As we approached, we saw a lowering gusty day, and the moaning of the wind evident signs of the murder which had been perpe. through the bushes, as it swept round the hill on trated; bloody mats were strewed around, and a boy which we were, scemed in unison with our feelings. was standing by them actually laughing; he put his After some time spent in contemplating the miser who resides in the upper part of the city states, finger to his head, and then pointed towards a bush. able scene before us, during which we gave full vent that a man who was employed in making arrangeI approached the bush, and there discovered a human to the most passionate exclamations of disgust, we ments for the reception of patients in one of the chohead. My feelings of horror may be imagined as I determined to spoil this intended feast: this resolu- lera hospitals, sportively stretched himself out on recognized the features of the unfortunate girl I had tion formed, we rose to execute it. I ran off to our one of the cots and exclaimed, "Here is the first Been forced from our village the proceding oven- beach, leaving Duke on guard, and, collecting all case of cholera." I nac and the barometer: the bad weather, which has The man some hours after was ing! We ran towards the fire, and there stood a the white men I could, I informed them of what taken down with the disease, and the next day was man occupied in a way few would wish to see. had happened, and asked them if they would assist a corpse.-[Gaz.] NEW-YORK AMERICAN. JULY 28, 30, 31, AUGUST 1, 2, 3-1832. LITERARY NOTICES. is presumed it will not restrict you to a servile copy, free will of the nation, he repelled all ideas of plots, should the action of the figure, which you are at li- auarchy, and civil war; and never would he consent berty to choose, require a more animated expression to return to France in the train of a Vendean female of countenance. Napoleonist. His principles are those of the Em"Accompanying this note is a plan and descrip- perer-All for the nation, and nothing but by the Again, with the exception of the two publications tion of the place in which it is intended to place nation.' His love of country, the popular origin of mentioned below, we are without any thing to no- the statue, that you may be enabled to give the base his elevation, his long experience, his deep study of as well as the figure, the proper elevation. the admirable institutions of that country, have radtice from the press. Literature, business, the pur. "The four faces of the base, should you decide on icated in him ideas of independence and equality, suits of pleasure, and the pursuits of gain, all making it quadrangular, may be occupied with bas- to realize which would be beneficial, but the triumph seem suspended by the overshadowing presence of reliefs; representing, first, the surrender of York. of which he would not seek to promote at the cost the Pestilence which is scourging the nations. At town; second, the resignation; third, the inaugu. of a single drop of French blood. A stranger to all ration as President of the United States at New-personal ambition, he will always follow the line such a season the little work on our table is particuYork; fourth, an inscription. prescribed by duty, and, above all, the happiness and larly appropriate. It is entitledShould you prefer an octagonal base and pedestal and inclinations of the French people. We have cited the words of the Count as they have "THOUGHTS IN AFFLICTION AND BEREAVED PARENTS in order to make it more conformable to the shape Consoled, togetheR WITH SELECT POETRY," N. Y.-of the hall, the intervening compartments may be been reported to us." filled with such ornamental sculpture as you may David Appleton, Clinton Hall.-The first part of desire; but the square would, it is thought, be the The following notice of the last abode of Buonathis very neatly executed little volume-"Thoughts best arrangement, as presenting a larger unbroken parte is from Capt. Mundy's Travels: in Affliction"-was prepared by the Rev. A. S. Thol-surface for your figures; and corresponding, as "As we turned through the lodges, the old house wall, of Trinity College, Cambridge, Eng.-and is you will see, to the four entrances into the hall. For the historical bas-reliefs, the pictures of Trum-appeared at the end of an avenue of scrubby and now, for the first time, reprinted in America. It is bull may furnish you with the resemblances, and, in weather worn trees. It bears the exterior of a rethe fruit of his own experience in affliction the re- many cases, the pictures of the principal actors are spectable farm house, but is now fast running to decord of the consolation he himself sought and found proserved in their families, which will readily be cay. On entering a dirty court-yard, and quitting ---and it is especially in this character he desires it furnished to you; but the grouping is left to your our horses, we were shown by some idlers into square building, which once contained the bedroom, taste. should be received. The second part is an affection. 66 Although no particular appropriation has been sitting room, and bath of the Empereur des Franate Address, by John Thornton, to those mourning made for your compensation, yet the duty of the Cois. The partitions and floorings are now thrown down and torn up, and the apartments occupied for the loss of children; and the volume closes with va. President requires that the expense should not exsix years by the hero before whom kings, emperors, rious pieces of Sacred Poetry, carefully selected, by ceed that which has been paid for similar works executed by artists of the first reputation; a limit and popes had quailed, are now tenanted by cart a Clergyman. which, he is persuaded, you will not exceed; and horses! Passing on with a groan, I entered a small THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL PULPIT, Vol. II, No. an estimate of which he requests you will furnish, chamber, with two windows looking towards the north. Between these windows are the marks of a VII. This number is occupied entirely with a sermon as soon as convenient. fixed sofa: on that couch Napoleon died. The I am very happy, Sir, in announcing to you by the Right Rev. Bishop Bowen, on the Office of this proof of the high sense the representatives of apartment is now occupied by a threshing maDeacon in the Church. It is a fine discourse, setting your country have of your genius and talent, which, chine-No bad emblem of its former tenants!" said a sacrilegious wag. Hence we were conforth with earnestness the high and arduous duties I am persuaded, you will exert in a manner worthy Du grand Napoléon le nom toujours cité Ira de bouche en bouche à la postérité. breur than as a poet. The emperor's once well kept The writer doubtless possessed more spirit as a sa. garden, And still where many a garden flower grows wild,' those who dedicate themselves to the Church of the subject on which they are to be employed. It is ducted onwards to a large room, which formerly ut placing before them upon the evidence of a record no ordinary task that is confided to you; the remot-contained a billiard table, and whose front looks est posterity of your countrymen, travellers from out upon a little latticed veranda, where the impethat does not lie, the certain and glorious rewards the most distant regions, will come to study, in your rial peripatetic-I cannot style him philosopherof those who faithfully fulfil their calling. delineation, the form, the features, the character of enjoyed the luxury of six paces to and fro-his favor. We annex as german to the spirit and purpose of the man, who, although the successful leader of his ite promenade. The white.washed walls are scored countrymen in war, the founder of their free consti- with names of every nation; and the paper of the these notices, which embrace the arts in their sur-tution in peace, had the higher title of being first ceiling has been torn off in strips, as holy relics. vey, the annexed extract from the New-York Mir- at all times in their affections. When you have Many couplets, chiefly French, extolling and la ror on the subject of the Statue of Washington, which impressed on your mind, by a close study of his life menting the departed hero, adorn or disfigure (acand character, the acts and qualities which entitled cording to their qualities) the plaster walls. The Greenough is to execute for Congress. him to this proud distinction, your imagination will only lines that I can recal to mind-few are worth [From the New-York Mirror.] it-are the following, written over the door, and be prepared to give form and expression to the figure STATUE OF WASHINGTON. To the polite attention that is to represent this rare combination of talent, signed *** ***, Officer de la Cardo Imperiale :*** of Mr. Verplanck, we are indebted for a copy of Mr. character, and virtue. If your art, in the words of Livingston's letter to our countryman Greenough, a kindred spirit, is truly described as that sa the gahjoot of the statue of Washington for the • Per quam spiritus et vita redit bonis post mortem ducibus,' Capitol at Washington City. Every lover of the art it never had a more appropriate occasion to perform of sculpture,-indeed, every lover of real merit of any description, will unite in praise of the discrimi- deserve this epithet of good; never was it more im. its legitimato functions. Never did a leader better nating taste displayed by Congress in this measure; portant to embody the expression of his virtues; is now overgtown and choked with weeds. At the and all must acknowledge the great skill and genius and, by the touch of genius, to restore life and ani-end of a walk still exists a small mound, on which of the artist selected, as displayed in the lovelymation to features which, in a very short time, no it is said the hero of Lodi, Marengo, and Austerlitz, group long exhibited here at the National Academy of Design, under the name of the Chanting Cherut, one living will have behold. We insert Mr. Verplanck's letter, although not sure that it was intended for publication. "WASHINGTON, July 10, 1832. Gentlemen:-It is not often that any of the off. cial papers of our statesmen and public men can find an appropriate place in your columns, devoted to taste and literature. I have, however, the pleasure of now sending you an official unpublished letter of our accomplished Secretary of State to our excellent , sculptor, Greenough, communicating to him the resolution of Congress for employing him on a statue of Washington, to be placed in the Capitol. Having been a member of the Committee of Public Buildings, who introduced and carried through this resolution, gives the following account, as we find it translated I was favored with a copy of Mr. Livingston's letter, in the Commercial Advertiser, of the departure for which I now send you. It is written with the feel. Europe of this eminent person: ings of a patriot, and the taste of a refined judge of art, upon a subject that must interest all who love their country, its fame, and its arts. It cannot, therefore, but be most acceptable to the readers of the Mirror. Your friend and obedient servant, "G. C. VERILANOK." amused himself by erecting a mock battery. The water fish, is quite dried up; and the mud wall, through a hold in which he reconnoitered passers by, is, like the great owner, returned to earth!" "Excuse these reflections, which are drawn from little chunamed tank, in which he fed some fresh mo by the nature of the subject, but are not, I am sure, necessary. As an American, you will duly appreciate the importance of your task, and the honor you will acquire by its execution; as an artist, tion of mind necessary to a proper conception of the you will feel, better than I can describe, the eleva. character your chisel is to delineate. I am respectfully, sir, your obedient servant, The tomb is thus described : At the gato wo were received by an old corporal of "About half an acre round the grave is railed in. the St. Helena corps, who has the care of the place. The tomb itself consists of a square stone, about ten feet by seven, surrounded with a plain iron railing. Four or five weeping willows, their stems leaning to. COUNT SURVILLIERS.-The Courrier des Etats Unis The willows are decaying fast, and one of them wards the grave, hang their pensile branches over it. rests upon the sharp spears of the railing, which are buried in its trunk-as though it were committing suicide for very grief! The foliage of the rest is thinned and disfigured by the frequent and almost "After a residence of sixteen years in this coun-excusable depredations of visiters. Fresh cuttings try, M. the Count de Survilliers has removed for have, moreover, been planted by the governor, who some months from the hospitable soil of the United intends moreover, to set cypresses round the outer States. Yielding to the last appeal of a dying mo- fence. Madame Bertrand's immortelles have proved, ther, and the pressing requests of a spouse danger. alas! mortal. The fine tall old corporal who came ously ill, he undertakes a voyage which has been for out from England with the ex-emperor, was full of some time determined on, and the term of which we his praises: I saw the general often,' said the old are assured, is limited to the next spring. fellow; he had an eye in his head like an eagle !"SIR-I have great pleasure in transmitting to "We know that the late events in Paris, of which He described the visit of the French pilgrims to this you a copy of a resolution of the House of Repre. M. the Count de Survilliers was apprised on the very spot-their Kibla-as most affecting. Some are exsentatives, by which they have authorized the Pre-day he left Bordentown, furnished him with an travagant beyond measure in their grief; falling on sident to engage you to execute a pedestrian statue occasion for expressing himself with the great their faces about the railing (which they never onof Washington, to be placed in the Rotunda of the est frankness as to the objects and motives of his ter, as foreigners do,) praying, weeping, and even Capitol in this city. The reference in the resolution voyage. Justly proud of the glorious titles of Bro. tearing their hair. Whilst we were there, my friend to the bust by Houdon, was for the purpose of sether of Napoleon, Uncle of the Duke of Reich. of yesterday came towards the spot; but when he saw ouring a good representation of the features; but it stadt, Prince of France, elected by the suffrages and our large, and I fear me,rather unimpressed party, he "DEPARTMENT OF STATE, "Washington, 23d Feb. 1832. AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL. O high ambition lowly laid! [From the Missouri Republican, July 17.] FROM THE ARMY.-An express arrived in town tarned upwards, and disappeared. After inscribing Indians (who will probably remove to, and reside Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said yesterday from Gen Atkinson's army, bringing letour names in a book--into which also appropriate in it. poetry as well as ribald nonsense finds its waywe drank to Napoleon's immortal memory in his commissioners shall be authorized to convene togeters from gentlemen attached to the command, from On the approach of or as may be apparently disposed to commit, or may Water, above the river of the Four Lakes, where own favorite spring, and mounting our steeds, spur.ther such of the tribes as may be in a state of hostility, which we learn that the army had arrived at White have committed, depredations or aggressions against the main force of the Indians were embodied, as red towards Plantation House." others, and to endeavor to arrange the difficulties stated in our former accounts. between them, so that the protection promised to the army, the Indians, it appears, changed their pothe emigrating Indians by the sixth section of the sition, and it was supposed had taken shelter in a campment, and within a few miles of our army. On act of May twenty-eight, one thousand eight hun. large swamp, about eight miles from the former enSec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said the morning of the 7th instant, during a very thick dred and thirty, may be secured to them. that if the Indians would stand a battle with the rement a plan for the improvement, government, and was shot down, and on that day, it was supposed, commissioners shall also report to the War Depart fog, one of the sentinels belonging to the main army, security of the Indians. HOME AFFAIRS. By Capt. Woodbury, of brig Maria Theresa at Boston, from Cronstadt, we learn that Mr. Buchanan, our Minister, arrived at St. Petersburg on the 3d June, in a steamer from England. them to surrender. Gen. Dodge, with a strong detachment, had been Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said gular troops at all, there would be an engagement. NORTH EASTERN BOUNDARY.-The National In commissioners shall inquire into the mode in which telligencer contains the proceedings of the Senate the business of emigration has been conducted, and sent to the opposite side of Rock River to cut off more economical, or better adapted to the comfort time would bring the enemy to a fight or compel Another letter states, that "the Indians were disin secret session, relative to the North Eastern report any changes which would render the same their retreat, and it was expected that a very short Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That in the Boundary, the injunction of secrecy having been and condition of the Indians. The regular troops they will never bably the case. removed. The proceedings occupied a part of twenshall be regulated by such instructions as they may come to a general engagement." This is most proty one days. The resolutions, as modified previous discharge of their duties, the said commissioners persing in every direction, and that they would not receive from the War Department. to final action on the subject, were as follows: Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That twenty face, and all the fighting (if any) must be done in Resolved, That the Senate advise the President to communicate to the British Government that the thousand dollars, for the purpose of carrying the small skirmishes by the mounted militia. United States decline to adopt the boundary recom-provisions of this act into effect, be and the same mended by His Majesty the King of the Nether- is appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That this act lands, as being suitable, between the dominions Treasury not otherwise appropriated. of His Britannic Majesty, and those of the United States, because in the opinion of the Senate, the shall be in force for the term of two years, and no King of the Netherlands has not decided the ques- longer. tion submitted to him, touching the Northern and Northeastern boundary of the United States. Vote: Approved, July 14, 1832. [From the Washington Globe.] OFFICIAL. [From the Norfolk Beacon, of July 26.] FUNERAL OF LIEUT, COM. WM. H. COCKE.-Yester The United States' schooner Porpoise arrived at Norfolk on Tuesday, 24th ult. from St. John's, Porto Rico, having on board the remains of Lieutenant Commandant WILLIAM H. COCKE, who was killed by a shot from the Castle of St. John, while entering that harbor, in March, 1823, in the United States' schooner Fox, then under his command. The Porpoise was despatched on this melancholy Resolved, That the Senate advise the President to open a new negotiation with His Britannic Majesty's DEPARTMENT OF STATE.-The following informa- errand by an order from the Navy Department, and Government, for the ascertainment of the Bounda all'honor on Wednesday last. ry between the possessions of the United States and those of the King of Great Britain, on the North- tion has been received at the Department of State the remains of Lt. Cocke were to be re-interred with By a Decree dated February 20, 1832, various ar. eastern frontier of the United States, according to from Peru :the treaty of peace of 1783. the territories of the Republic, subject to duties of The first resolution was rejected by the following ticles before prohibited, are declared admissible into Ayes.-Messrs. Dickerson, Ellis, Grundy, Hen- importation, viz: wearing apparel made up, boots, day afternoon the remains of this galiant officer leather and segars, subject to a duty of ninety per ed by a large number of officers of the Navy. They dricks, Hill, Holmes, Kane, Marcy, Moore, Robinson, shoes, chairs,upholstery, furniture, carriages, thread, were removed from the U. S. schr. Porpoise, escortwhere they were received by the relatives of the deRuggles, Sprague, Tipton, Troup.-14. Nays.-Messrs. Bell, Benton, Bibb, Brown, Cham. cent. ad valorem, of which fifty must be paid in sil-were landed at the Market Wharf, Portsmouth, Barrels of flour weighing less than eight arrobas, ceased, and a body of Marines from the Navy Yard bers, Clay, Clayton, Dallas, Dudley, Ewing, Foot, ver, the rest in notes. Frelinghuysen, Hayne, Johnston, King, Knight, Mangum, Miller, Naudain, Poindexter, Prentiss,pounds) each will pay uine dollars duty. On and the vessels of War, now in the harbor, under quintal (— pounds.) Snuff, six reals (75 conts) per to the New Burial Ground, where they were deposiRobbins, Seymour, Smith, Tazewell, Tomilson, Ty. Cuba and other West India tobacco, sixty dollars a command of Lieut. M'Cawley, and were conveyed lb. Wine in casks, two dollars the arroba-wine in ted with the usual honors. A number of citizens Ayes-Messrs. Benten, Brown, Dallas, Dickerson, bottles, three dollars per duzen, except Champagne, united in this last impressive tribute of respect to the Tallow, one real (12 1.2 cents) per pound. Olive Dudley, Ellis, Grundy, Hendricks, Hill, Holmes, which will pay six dollars per dozen. Kane, King, Mangum, Marcy, Robinson, Ruggles, lars per dozen. Wool and Silk Hose, four dollars Smith, Sprague, Tazewell, Tipton, Troup, White, Oil, in barrels, five dollars per lb.; in bottles, four dulWilkins.-24. Nays-Messrs. Bell, Bibb, Chambers, Clay, Clay- each. Straw Hats, made in either Europe or Asia, ton, Ewing, Foot, Frelinghuysen, Hayne, Johnson, five dollars each. Knight, Miller, Moore, Naudain, Poindexter, Pren. tiss, Robbins, Seymour, Silebec, Tomlinson, Tyler, Webster.-22. lor, Wobster, White. Wilkins.-30. The second resolution was adopted as follows: lamented dead. The funeral service was performed by the Rev. Mr. Wingfield, of the Episcopal Church. [From the Norfolk Beacon of July 24.] ARRIVAL OF THE FAIRFIELD.-The United States NAVAL. The U. S. schr. Experiment, Lieut Com. Mervine, anchored off Seawell's Point last evening; The following articles are prohibited: coarse wool-offieers and crew all well. soap, brandy, rice, vegetables, hogs lard and tallow lens, fannel and baize, gunpowder, saltpetre, sugar, candles; these may, however, remain four months in arrived in our harbor yesterday, in eight days from at the end of that time, will be seized, and the owner the broad pendant of Commodore Jesse D. Elliott, We publish below the law of the United States the port where they are landed, but if not exported ship Fairfield, from the West India station, bearing for the appointing of Commissioners to superintend fined in proportion to their value. Another Decreo declares, that after the first day Matanzas. In passing the French frigate La Flore, the emigration of Indians, &c. The powers granted We regret to learn that Com. Elliott's health is by this act to the Commissioners are very large. of March, 1832, Callao shall become a port of Depo. Captain Le Blanc, in Hampton Roads, the Fairfield paying any deposit duties; after which, those not turned with a like number. The gentlemen appointed by the President are, Mr. sit, in which goods may remain four months without received a salute of thirteen guns, which was reRoberts Vaux, of Philadelphia, well known in every prohibited may remain 20 months, paying storage, much impaired by the climate of the West Indies, three years. The officers and crew of the Fairfield philanthropic undertaking; Mr. Carroll, formerly unless their decay should have rendered it necessary The Fairfield sailed from Matanzas on the 16th Governor of Tennessee; and Mr. Stokes, formerly to eject them before the termination of that period. on which station he has commanded for the last The following official information, in relation to are in good health. Governor of North Carolina. cennes, Captain Shubrick, for Portsmouth, N. H., vessels proceeding from countries where the Cholera ment of State :prevails, to Russia, has been received at the Depart. inst. in company with the United States' ship Vin. Upon the arrival of such a vessel in a Russian and Eric, Captain Clack; parted company with the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepresenIf it be found that no dis nicate with Lieut. Com. Boerum of the schr. Shark, tatives of the U. States of America in Congress as- port, the officer commanding the station, will inspect former 4 days since, in lat. 28, lon. 80, 45,-all sembled, That the President shall nominate, and, by the ships papers, &c. The surgeon then on duty, well. The Erie would touch at Havana to commuThe following is a list of the officers attached to and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall will examine the crew. appoint three commissioners, who shall visit and ease resembling the Cholera, has appeared on board and sail immediately after for Boston. The Shark Commodore-Jesse D. Elliot. examine the country set apart for the emigrating during the voyage, the vessel to be forthwith admit- would proceed to the Gulf of Mexico. Lieutenants-Samuel Batron, 1st; E. B. BoutIndians, west of the Mississippi river; and shali, ted. The same steps are to be observed in ports on when it is necessary, enter into negotiations with the Baltic, with respect to vessels that may have the Fairfield: Should any case of Cholera exist then, or have them for the adjustment of any difficulties which been subjected to quarantine on passing the Sound. may exist in the location of the lands of the emigrat ing Indians in the boundaries thereof. Such com- existed on board during the voyage, the vessel shall well, 2d; Fred. A. Neville, 3d; E. W. Moore, actmissioners shall also ascertain and report the proper be detained five days, for the purpose of ascertaining ing 4th. places of location for such of the tribes and portions that the melady has not spread among the crew. -of tribes, as raay yet wish to remove to that coun. During this detention no communication shall be try, and shall transmit to the War Department all permitted between the crew and the land, or with the information they can procure respocting its cli- other vessels, without conforming with the regula mato, soil, and capacity to support the nuraber oftion prescribed by the quarantine officers, An Act to provide for the appointment of three Com missioners to treat with the Indians, and for other purposes. Fleet Surgeon-James Cormick. Midshipmen-W. P. Jones, Overton Carr, C. B.) Alexander Danouille, of Santa Martha, to be Con- presumptuous to say-the certain and eternal re- Captain's Clerk-George W. Camp. Acting Boatswain-Ralph Cleghorn. Carpenter-John F. Nicholson. The United States' ship VINCENNES arrived at DETROIT, July 19. AUTHENTIC FROM THE ARMY.-We are indebted to the politeness of Governor Porter for the following extract of a letter from General Atkinson: "Head Quarters on Rock River, To Major General Scott, "As yet the hostile Indians have eluded iny pursuit, although I have been for several days within few miles of a part or the whole of them. The a country is so cut up with prairie, wood, and swamp, that it is extremely difficult to approach them. Indeed, many parts of the country for miles are entire. ly impassable, even on foot. "We are engaged at this moment in throwing a bridge across this crook, White-water, with a view of getting up with the enemy, who is represented to be only five or six miles before us. Yet, if he chooses, he can easily elude us, by changing his position over ground that our mounted troops can not pass. Edmund Brandt, to be Consul of the United BROOKLYN, July 27.-Thirteen new cases and 7 States at Archangel, in Russia. deaths. John Owen, to be Consul of the United States JERSEY CITY, July 27.-Up to 9 o'clock this mornat Puerto del Principo, in the Island of Cuba. ing, there had been seven cases of cholera, four of George Coursault, to be Consul of the United which had proved fatal. Among the latter is Jacob States at Truxillo, in the Republic of Central Ame- Liming, who has left a widow and nine children. riza. James James, to be Consul of the United States Mail Agont, and conveyed the great Southern Mail Liming was engaged as a deputy to Col. Dodd, the at La Vera Cruz, in Mexico. between New-York and Jersey. THE CHOLERA. Friday, July 27.-The now cases to-day are, in his morning, were 89-of which 63 were from Cholera. Harwood, merchant of New-York, died at the above PHILADELPHIA, July 27th, noon.-There have been two eases of Malignant Cholera reported to the Board of Health, in Hospital station No. 4, Third street. above Brown, N. L. ALBANY, July 26, 4 P. M.-New cases of epidemic cholera 32, of which 20 are severe; deaths 7. Physicians report two more cases of Epidemic ChoROCHESTER, JULY 24, 4 P. M.-The Board of lera; one in the south part of St. Paul street; the other in the north part of State street; both females, and still under treatment. 6 new cases and 1 death; on the 23d, 6 new cases PHILADELPHIA, JULY 26th, NOON.-There has been no caso of Malignant Cholera reported to the Board of Health for the last 24 hours. AVON SPRINGS.-A report has been circulated, that which 18 are severe. ALBANY, JULY 25, 5 P. M.-New cases 29-of such case has existed there.-[Buffalo Journal.] case of Cholera has been at these Springs. No Deaths 7. a Saturday, July 28.-The new cases to-day are, in the city at large, 61, and 19, deaths; in the HospiSunday, July 29.-The new cases to-day are, in the city at large, 93, and 37 deaths; in the Hospitals, tals, 58 cases, 15 deaths; at Bellovue, 1 case, 2 The Indians are between this creek and Rock 49 cases, 26 deaths; at Bellevue, 1 case, 1 death deaths; and at Yorkville, 2 cases, river, about ten miles above 'Lake Goosh-we-hawn,' at Harlaem, 2 casos, 1 death. deaths. or more properly speaking, the Lake we live on :' The interments for the twenty-four hours ending at 8 o'clock this morning, were 107-of which 85 were of cholera. agreeably to Farmer's map. The interments for the twenty-four hours ending at 8 o'clock Monday, July 30.—In the city at large, new cases 62, deaths 14; City Hospitals, cases 35, deaths 19; "The enemy is represented to be from seven to eight hundred strong, well armed, and provided with powder and bali. My own forces consist of four der the disease; and by the Standard of this morn. hundred and fifty regular troops, and about twenty. ig we learn that Dr. Gilbert Horton, "who left at Bellevue, cases 3, deaths 3; at Yorkville, cases 3, one hundred mounted volunteers, all fresh from the city on Thursday, to supply the place of the late their homes, oxcept the two hundred and fifty under Gen. Dodge who have in part had a little experi. Dr. Arnold-was taken at 1 o'clock, and died at 9 eds of the disease w ith him." deaths 3. The interments for the twenty-four hours ending at 8 o'clock, this morning, were 81-of which 47 were from Cholera BROOKLYN, July 28-New cases 23, deaths 9. July 29.-New cases 23, deaths 7. 6 cases of Cholera reported to the Board of Health, PHILADELPHIA, July 28th, noon.-There have been and 4 deaths. July 29, noon.-New cases of Cholera 6, and 1 death. mic Cholera, 40, of which 27 are severe-deaths 11. ALBANY, 27th July, 4 P. M.-New cases of epide. CHOLERA AT SYRACUSE.-By the Onondaga Stand Major Gen. Scott, commanding the North-Western Ward-that error is corrected in the annexed comArmy, to Governor Porter. We learn that the Ge- munication which, coming from an authentic source, neral has requested the Governor to furnish him a presents in a most striking point of view the labors ard of Wednesday last, we learn with regret that reinforcement of 4 or 500 efficient mounted volun-of two men, whom it well calls " teers, to be organized, armed and equipped accord. ing to the act of Congress. To this step he cause of humanity." martyrs in the some thirty cases of" well-marked cholera" had occurred there from the 15th, of which ten terininated fatally. Several of the fatal cases were among the salt-boilers. The pastor of the Baptist Church, Mr. Gilbert, was among the victims; his wife and children were also attacked, but recovered. has been constrained by the unexpected and dis. To the Editor of the New-York American: astrous ravages of the cholera. On his arrival at Sir:-You wore mistaken in assigning the Sixth Chicago, General Scott expected and had depended Ward as the scene of Dr. Arnold's indefatigable laon a force of not less than 1000 active and efficient bors: it should have been the Twelfth Ward. He men of the regular army, to co-operate with the lived in the family of the late Rev. G. L. Hinton, In addition to the foregoing, (says the paper,) a force already under Gen. Atkinson; but tho destroy- who collected all the information respecting the young man from New-York, whe left that city on ber of the brave men on whom he had relied, a re. thought, in case the disease visited Haerlem, his ad- and stopped at the Syracuse House, laboring under ing pestilence having so greatly reduced the num. treatment of the Cholera in the first stages; as he Saturday, on account of the disease, arrived here in quisition of some hundred mounted men became vice, from the circunstance of his living in the same the Telegraph stage between 11 and 12 on Monday, necessary. In consequence of the panic which has house with the Doctor, in case of his absence, would an attack-died at 8 o'clock the same evening. spread itself through the country, doubts have arisen he asked. When the calamity attacked the inhabitwith the General as to the expediency of requiring ants, calls came for the Doctor from every quarter. Utica Observer of the 24th,) captain of the Western ON THE ERIE CANAL.-Mr. J. Baker, (says the the services of any soldiers who have been recently He was unable to attend to all;-and Mr. Hinton Barge, a line boat, we understand was taken sick of attacked with the discaso; such men being much felt as if duty called him to supply his place. He the Cholera on Sunday morning last, and died at 2 debilitated, and the fear of contagion powerfully epe. went forth with directions from the Doctor, how to o'clock in the afternoon, about 6 miles east of this rating on those in health. administer to the sick, and a message from his GoD, eity. A captain of another boat died near Herki. Appointments by the President, by and with the ad. vice and consent of the Senate. Our Governor, with his usual promptness, has at to console the dying. From house to house they mer on Friday last; a captain of a boat from the once adopted the necessary measures for the imme. went, not sparing themselves, but making an effort east also died at Whitesboro' one day last week, diate supply of the volunteers called for by General to visit all, without respect to station; until, abso- supposed of cholera. [The Western Barge arrived Scott, and has also directed special arrangements to lutely exhausted, they died martyrs in the cause of at Pittsford on Tuesday, having buried the Captain be made for the supply of provisions, and for the humanity. health and comfort of those whose services may be and a passenger that morning, and having one dead enlisted for the campaign. The Rev. Mr. Hinton's child sickened on Tuesday body on board and two persons sick.] morning, 24th inst. at half past 7 o'clock, and died at 1 o'clock. Mrs. H. sickened at 12 o'clock, and from this village. The unfortunate subject was a SCHOHARIE, July 23.-One fatal case, eight miles died at 1 o'clock in the morning. Mr. II. sickened Mrs. Broom, aged 35. She arrived at her father's, at 9 o'clock in the evening, and died at 4 o'clock in from Albany, eight days previous, in good health. the morning of the 25th. Dr. A. sickened at 5 o'clok Sho was attacked with the symptoms of cholera in the same day, and died the next day at 10 o'clock. the severest form, at about 4 o'clock in the evening, What has the heroism of the battle field-we do and died in six hours. not say to surpass, but to cqual, such self-devotion BOSTON, July 17.-The following letter was re as this simple narrative records? What has life, ceived this morning from the Resident Physician: Alfred Laussat, of Pennsylvania; to be Consul of ignominiously saved by a dereliction of duties, to Quarantine, July 27, 1832-Friday, the United States at Maracaybo, in Venezuela. compensate for the unfading glories, and—can it be thing to report this morning, but the good health To the Hon. Mayor and Aldermen: I have no. Stephen Thompson Mason, to be Secretary for the Michigan Territory. Robert Butler, to be Surveyor of Public Lands in Florida, James R. Leib, of Pennsylvania, to be Consul of the United States at Tangier. of every person at the Island. Very respectfully,) BROOKLYN, July 31.-New cases 7; deaths 4. and obediently, &c. Thursday, Aug. 2.-The new cases in the city at NEWARK, July 31.-By the report it appears that large, to-day, are 47, and 14 deaths; at the City P. S. The schooner Mail, Loring, master, from 10 cases of cholera and 6 doaths have occurred in Hospitals, 24 casos, 17 deaths; and at Bellevue,. 0 New York on Sunday, has just arrived, having on this town within the last week. cases, 0 deaths; Harlaem, 9 cases, 2 deaths; York. board 27 passengers. Bradford Drinkwator, of PortELIZABETHTOWN, JULY 31.-The Board of Health ville, 1 case, 1 death. land, supposed to be about 40 years of age, sicken. ed on Wednesday morning last, and died at 2 o'clock report five now cases for the week ending on 30th, in the afternoon of the same day. I am informed and three deaths. They all occurred in a confined that he had a severe diarrhea, vomited, and before location, near the creek. death spasms. The crew and passengers appear to be in good health. Respectfully, &c. J. V. C. SMITH. NEWPORT.-The Rush Light, Capt. Scott, from Newport, yesterday, brought the distressing intelli. gence of the appearance of two cases of Malignant Cholera in that town. PHILADELPHIA, July 31st, noon.-New cases for the last 24 hours, as follow:-Alms-House, 5 cases, 2 deaths. Private practice, 5 cases, 2 deaths. Hospitals, 9 cases, 5 deaths.-Total now cases, 19; total deaths, 9. The interments for the twenty-four hours ending at 8 o'clock this morning, were 81-of which 56 were from Cholera. BROOKLYN, August 1-Thirty-five new cases, and eight deaths. Total number since commencement, 227 cases, 82 deaths. August 2.-The report to-day is 15 cases and 4 deaths. PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST 1, NOON.-Report for the last 24 hours: new cases 21, deaths 8. PATERSON, N. J.-The authorities have issued The victims were two res- BALTIMORE, says the Chronicle of yesterday, has poctable females of Newport, recently from New-been so far spared; but we have little reason to notice, prohibiting, for the present, all strangers York in a packet. We understand they had performed quarantine eight days. No other cases had hope for entire exemption. new We must therefore from lodging in the place. But two cases of Choleprepare to encounter it with fortitude and resigna-ra have occurred there, and in both instances the subjects were from New York. been reported when the Rush Light left Newport. SOMERS, WESTCHESTER COUNTY.-There has been The names of the two deceased girls, were Hos- tion. well and Peckham.-[ Providence Journal.] two cases of Cholera at Somers, both of which STATE PRISON AT SING-SING, July 31.-16 [From the Providence American of Friday.] cases since yesterday at noon, and 2 deaths. proved fatal. The first was a stranger, who died on Sunday. On Monday the lady of Gen. J. Brown It will be seen by the following letter from Bris-maining on 30th, 52. tol, that a case of Cholera has occurred there. The POUGHKEEPSIE, August 1.-The board of health sickened and died. We learn that the clothes of deceased was a passenger in the sloop Hero, the have reported two deaths by malignant cholera the first person who died were burnt in a field, and sanie vessel from which the ladies who died at New-since Wednesday last. They occurred in Water that a Mrs. Wright was taken sick from the effects port were landed. We also learn that a lady, (Mrs. street, near the river, about half a mile from the of the effluvia. In АNGRAM there have been 10 cases of the ChoChase) another passenger in the Hero, and mother centre of the village. This makes six deaths that of the wife of the gentleman named below, who was have occurred in this town by the cholera in a period lera, and 4 deaths. The names of the deceased are, landed at Portsmouth, was seized with the Cholera of three weeks. on Thursday morning, and before night expired.— ALBANY, July 30.-New cases of epidemic cho. "BRISTOL, July 27. lera 26; deaths 10. Mrs. Susan Montgomery, from New York, Mr. bocker. ALBANY, JULY 31-4 P. M.-New cases of cholera 29; deaths 6. "I much regret to inform you that a case of the TROY, JULY 30.-There have been reported for the Cholera has occurred here. A young man of this town, Mr. Pearce Bowen, who left New-York ten four days since two o'clock, July 26th, 7 new cases, The Cholera reports from Albany, for the month days since, and quarantined at Newport eight days, and 6 deaths, arrived here yesterday morning, was taken ill at BUFFALO, July 27.-The report this day shows 15 of July-the first case being on the 3d July—prehalf past 2 P. M. and died this morning about 5 o'-new cases of cholera and 4 deaths in this city, in sent this result: 387 cases, 136 deaths. GREENBUSH, JULY 31, 8 o'clock A. M.-For the clock. He was a very worthy young man, and strictly the 24 hours ending this day at noon. temperate in all his habits. No other case is known SAG HARBOUR, JULY 28.-Captain Beckwith ar. last 48 hours the physicians report eight new cases to exist here. rived here about 9 o'clock on Sunday last; he was of epidemic cholera, and three deaths. ROCHESTER.-Up to the 28th ult. there had been Tuesday, July 31.-New cases in the city at large attacked with the diarrhea while on his passage, about 3 o'clock on Sunday morning; he was taken 22 cases and 6 deaths, of cholera. 59, deaths 23; at the City Hospitals, 52 cases, 20 with the spasms and cramp about 3 o'clock, P. M. BUFFALO, July 28.-The reports show 8 new cadeaths at Bellevuo, 1 case, 3 deaths; at York- all which left him at about 7, when he appeared to ses of Cholera and two deaths within the city, for ville, 3 cases, 1 death; and at Harlaem, 6 cases, 1 be mending, until the typhus set in on Tuesday the 24 hours ending this day at noon. morning-he died at 6 o'clock Wednesday morning. NORWALK, July 31.-Since Thursday last four death. The interments for the twenty-four hours endir.g at 8 o'clock, this morning, were 78-53 of which were from Cholera. BROOKLYN, July 30.-New cases 13; death 4. lera for the last 24 hours, 15; deaths 7. There was another vessel from the city which ar. rived the same day at North-sea, (about 7 miles from cases of Malignant Cholera, three of which have this place,) with a number of passengers, one of proved fatal, have occurred among a family of blacks residing in the cellar, or basement story, o. whom, Phobe W. Jennings, daughter of Paul Jen. an old building on the west bank of Saugatuck PHILADELPHIA, July 30, noon.-New cases of Cho-nings, a young woman of about 20, was unwell on river. The first case was that of a woman who ar. the passage, but it was supposed to proceed from rived from New York on Wednesday, and died on sea-sickness; at 7 or 8 o'clock on Monday morning, Thursday night. A man named George Husted STATE PRISON, MT. PLEASANT, July 27. July 26, total on sick list 256, cholera remaining she was taken with vomiting, cramps, Sc. and died died on Sunday morning, on the east side of SauTwo cases of gatuck river, of Rum Cholera. 28, new cases 8, dead 5. July 27, total on sick list at 7 or 8 o'clock, P. M., same day.[Corrector.] MONTREAL-New cases from the 20th to 21st, 20, Cholera have also occurred at Wilton within two 240, cholera remaining 30, new cases 13, dead 5. One case of cholera in the village to.day. All the deaths 17; from 21st to 22d, new cases not ascer- or three days, in a dissolute family. MONTREAL, July 28.-We are not able to ancases of cholera yesterday were of the most malig tained; deaths 23. A letter from Messrs. H. Gates Several died in from 6 to 12 hours. & Co. dated Montreal, July 24, says: "We regret nounce any perceptible diminution of the mortality nant kind. The folAmong the dead is the noted Stevens, who was to state that there is some increase of cases of cho- in our city, since we last went to press. lowing is the report of the Board of Health :-New convicted for forgery of Messrs. Howlands' check, lera here, and that they generally prove fatal." for which Redmond was arrested. The Cholera in Portsmouth and Norfolk. cases of Cholera reported from 22d to 23d July, at 8 P. M., 28-deaths in same period, 234 from 23d ALBANY, July 28.-New cases of epidemic Cholera To the Editora of the Baltimore Commercial Chronicle: "A disease, which the physicians do not hesitate to 24th July, cases 17-deaths 12; from 24th to 28, of which 16 are severe; deaths 18. July 29, 5 P. M.-New cases 35, of which 22 are to pronounce to be the genuine Asiatic Cholera, has 25th July, cares 29-deaths 20; from 25th to 26th made its appearance in Portsmouth. The deaths July, cases 19-dea the 15. sovere; deaths 17. GREENBUSH, July 29, 8 A. M.-The spasmodic from Tuesday last, up to yesterday (Sunday), were THE CHOLERA is spreading through our country. cholera has appeared here with some degree of se- twenty-one, principally confined to the black popuWithin the last 48 hours the physicians re-lation, eighteen of that description; one white man, In Philadelphia the cases slowly but rogularly inverity. Mr. Thomas, a carpenter, who was just recovering port seven cases; deaths 1. from an attack of diarrhea, imprudently drank freely LOCKPORT, JULY 24.-The Cholera made its ap-of iced liquors while overheated;-a man named pearance in this village on Friday last, and from the Crosbie, an habitual drunkard, and a marine at the reports made by physicians to the Roard of Health, barracks, habits unknown. Several of the blacks down to last evening, it appears that there have been were very old and debilitated, and had no physician, 17 cases and 4 deaths. There are no cases now re- so that it cannot, with critical accuracy, be affirmed Much alarm was excited for several days that they died of cholera, though they were hurried maining. but it has in a great measure subsided, and it is gen-off in 5 or 6 hours. In most of the cases, there were erally believed that the disease has disappeared. some predisposing causos, such as intemperance or FROM CHICago, we have seen a letter of 16th, sta- debility, or some act of imprudence, as in eating deting that no new cases of Cholera had occurred leterious food, which might have proved fatal as well the thanks of this Board to the Board of Health of among the troops, and but few deaths. Another with, as without, the presence of the epidemic. It Quebec, for the distinguished manner in which the officer, however, Lieut. McDuffie, had perished. is remarkable that so fearful an attack of disease New-York Commission was received by them; and be requested to communicate to the Physicians of Capt. Galt was convalescent. Col. Worth and Lieuts. should have been made in so proverbially healthy a that the President of the Quebec Board of Health Monroe, and De Hart, were, on their return, still place as Portsmouth." Of the blacks who have died, three belonged to Quebec the high sense which this Board entertain of feeble, but not ill. Gen. Scott was in perfect health. Mr. David Reynolds, the proprietor of the Globe the facilities which were placed at the disposal of Wednesday, Aug. 1.-The new cases to-day, are Inn, and two others to a Mr. Burke, adjoining. The the New-York Commission. deaths in Portsmouth, by cholera, have been, on crease. Baltimore is yet exempt; but it appears to have jumped, with one of its capricious bounds, to Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va. Its havoc among the black population of the southern states is, we fear, likely to be great. BOARD OF HEALTH, JULY 31, 1832, Alderman Rhinelander presented the following, which were adopted and directed to be published: Resolved, That the Mayor be requested to return Resolved, That the Mayor return the thanks of in the city at large, 47, deaths 13; at the City Hos- Tuesday 3; Wednesday 5; Thursday 6; Friday 2; this Board, through the President of the Board of pitals 39 cases, 24 deaths; at Bellevue, 4 cases, 3 Saturday 3; Sunday until noon 4. Other cases ex. fiealth of Montreal, to the Physicians of Montreal, ist. My letters are silent with respect to the suppos- for the great kindness and attention which the New deaths; Yorkville, 5 cases, 1 death. Yours, &c. York Commission received while in that city. The interments for the twenty-four hours ending at 8 o'clock ed origin of the disease, J. MORTON, Secretary. Baltimore, July 30. his mornjng, wero 78—of which 58 were from Cholera. W. G, LYFORD. |