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During Assault.-An assault was made on

 Saturday about i2 o'clock. on the person ul James B. Congdon, Esq. Cashier of the Mer- l chants Bank. hy black fellow named Jim Dyer armed with a cowhide. MT. Congdon at the time was passing through Water street. and was taken by surprise. and consequently

 received two or three blows before the cow

 hide could he wrested from the hands of the assailant. The cause efthe assault was sayow- :

 ed to be, in revenge for a publication made last September, by Mir. c. as Chairman of the Beard of Selectmen, in relation to the breaking out of the Choiera, in this town, which was found to have originated in Dyer's house. in consequence of the filthy and un- wholesome state in which the house was kept. When Mr. Congdon' and the hoard of health visited the spot scene of distress was wit messed which beggars description. Nine!een Canackers, (nativcs of the Sandwich Islands) [besides his own family were crowded into

 four small rooms and cellar. several of whom

 were sMiferinR with the Cholera. It was as-

 certained that they had bsea kept on the

 most Npwh0lesome fo00 and treated in the

 most shameful manner. The facts we're com. imunicated to the public, through the columns