The New York herald., 1866-09-04

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other places Of battle Of Russia and America
formed the notices. At one banquet the health
OF the President Of the United States toasted before
that of the Gar honor before paid by Russians
to foreign ruler The people out in thousands,
aud when Assistant Secretary Fox and the peasant pre-
server (now uobe OF the life of the Emperor appeared
arm in arm the crowd was s'wild" with enthusiasm.
Our dates from Buenos Ayres ami the Of war in
Paraguay are the l4th Of July. The situation is
of .mastery inactivity The allies still encamped
in deep in convenient reach Of the Paraguayan
guns which play upon them at pleasure The camp
cannot be moved until horses are obtained and an
order has issued TO soize 900 among those owned
by the citizens The Paraguayans, in the meantime had
placed eight more guns in position to play upon the al
lied camp. The differences between Chile and Uruguay,
in regard TO the judgment of Spanish prizes IN
Uruguayan ports, has been reconciled strong effort
making to invite immigration, plot Of eighty acres
being granted each family and exemption from taxation
for five years.
The Philadelphia parti- -colored Convention com
meuced work yesterday. A grand procession was
formed in the morning TO escort the Southern deega
tions to tho Union League House. 1t composed Of
the Boys in Blue, the National Union Club the fire
companies, the Loyal German Club Generals Ben Butler,
Burnside, Governor Sprague and other organizations and
individuals. speech welcoming the delegation made
answered on behalf Of the visitors and then the
ven,ion called to order, the speaker using the
identical gavel used in the South Carolina Convention
when the ordinance of secession passed. There
were only three colored delegates the floor,
but the hall was formerly an establishment for negro
minstrel performances. Thomas J. Durant, OF
Louisiana, elected Chairman. committee on
permanent organization was appointed, and the
convention adjourned until this morning. A
meeting of the Northern radicals was held simultane-
ousy with the Southern meeting at tho Union League
House. Governor Curtin elected Chairman, and
number of State Governors made Vice Presidents
Fred Douglass proposed Of the Secretaries but
he declined in favor Of Theodore Tilton Speeches
delivered in the evening by Henry Wilson, Horace May
nard Colonel Stokes and Others Mr. Wilson was nduging
in his usual abuse Of the President when man, an
nouncing himself American soldier, declared that
he would not hear the President reved He was
promptly elected and the meeting after that har.
monious and undemonstrative.
portion of the National Republican Committee met
at the Astor House yesterday in obedience to the
call Of Henry J. Raymond, the Chairman. Only
seven OF the committee were present Under
call issued from Washington another por
ton of the committee met in Philadelphia, and
declared the places of Raymond, the Chairman, and
Spery, the Secretary, and Seuter Of Ohio. in the Com
mlttee, to be vacant and resolved that the vacancies
be filed by appointment by the Committee.
The elections to fill the vacancies in the Louisiana
State Convention Of 1854 understood to be progress
ing in the parishes unrepresented throughout the State
The business OF the convention which led to the recent
riots in New Orleans was, will be remembered. to
present list of these and order elections
Gil them
Tae radicals of Knox county, Me-, having conven-
on in full blast recently, invited General Tson, the
present Commissioner OF the Frcedmen's Bureau in
Georgia. to ventilate his sentiments having doubt
that he would do as the other orators did, defend Con-
gress and dcnounco President Johnson The General
made his speech, but II fell like blanket upon the
party present. the OF It being the very opposite of
what they expected They listened 10 silence, or At
tempted to the speaker by nterrogations bat
they failed and at the end Of the speech quietly sepa-
rated. without the usual cheers aud demonstrations
The American Consul at Havana has furnished the
Secretary OF State with copy Of tho Of the
nor General establishing strict quarantine against all
vessels from the United States All such vessels to
be declared foul and compelled TO perform quarantine
Marei, without regard to their bill OF health
There we're fortyeght deaths from cholera Sunday
in St. Louis, six in Philadelphia and two In Cncn-
natl yesterday There thiry-four cases in New
Orleans Saturday and Sunday, and two deaths from
yellow fever.
Great Indignation Is manifested ia Ottawa among tho
Canadians the recent escape Of Head Centre Murphy
and his confederates II asked what use there is in
keeping the other Fenians in prison any longer,
that the leaders have escaped Arms and munitions OF
war are being smuggled into the province by the Fe
mans Considerable discomfort still prevails among tho
militia and 1t is said that except those under orders,
more troops will be despatched from England.
heavy storm visited the neighborhood OF Gin.
cinnati yesterday. creek swollen that
thirty tenement houses were swept away, the
occupants barely escaping. Longworths colebrat-
cd wilma cellars oyernowed, three tanneres
destroyed, and main culvert burst open. The
total damage roughly estimated at three four hun
dred thousand dollars Several persons drowned
in the country adjoining.
There appears to be doubt that the radicals in Mis-
souri, organizing secret and armed conspiracy to
carry tho against the conservatives resist
federal authority. Arms being shipped in large
quantities from the State arsenal in st. Louis the In
terror by Of the Governor and squads Of negroes
armed drilling in every portion OF the State These
preparations all conducted with a secrecy that dc
notes conscious auit.
The Bergen county Circuit Court met at two P. NJ.
yesterday, and proceeded with tho trial OF Elisha Ruck.
man, charged with poisoning cattle In the and
fall of 1865, the palisades Bergen county,
But few facts additional TO those previously pre-.
scented elected. The counsel occupied for
considerable time In the denomination OF recalled wit.
nesses and in obtaining from them Information In
gard to the topogphyof the locality In which the poison
found.
Mr. Thaddens White, Who II will be remembered was
In May last died Sunday at hs residence Staten
Island The trial OF Allen tho alleged homicide, will
take place the 1th OF this month. at New Brunswick
The New FRENCH MINISTER or FOREIGN
AFFARs-A SIGNIFICANT APPoNrMESr.-The
resignation of Drouyn de Lhuys as Napoleon's
Minister OF Foreign Affairs and the appoint
ment in his place of the Marquis de Moustier
(not Montholon) is a change of some signf-
canoe in the present position OF European
affairs. In the first place the question recurs,