The New York Herald Newspaper, September 26, 1867, Page 6

6 . NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1867.-TRIPLE SHEET. W YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. rl yw) N JAMES GORDON BENNETT, JR. MANAGER. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hegacn. Letters and packages should be properly sealod, Rejected communications will not be returned. Volume XXXT TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, Septembe! EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- day evening, September 25, Garibaldi’s arrest and imprisonment oxcited his adher- ents in Florence to uch a degree that a serious street riot ensued, but the movement was promptly suppressed by the government The volunteers of the Army of “Action” have been dispersed by the Italian troops and have retired to their homes. King Victor Emanuel issued @ proclaina‘ion explaining his actiou against Guribaldi, his regard for the faith of treaties imposing on him a “painful duty.” The Italian government offers to send Garibaldi to his home in Caprera, provided he gives his Parole not to engage im furcher ‘‘hqstilities” agalust the Roman States, Tho Paris journals are unanimous in their approval. of the course of the Italian government toward ‘he Gari- baldians, and accept it as a strong guarantee for the peace of Europe. Tho English government apprehends a Fenian attack on Dover Castle, and is strengthening the garrison, Bishop Whitehouse, of Illinois, preached the opening @ermon of the Pan-Avglican Episcopal Conference in London, The Newmarket Course was weil attended and the racing good. Consols closed at 94 7-16, for money, in London. Five-twenties were at 73 in London and 7634 ia Frank- fort. Cotton dectined 44d. in Liverpool, the market closing dull with middi'ng nplands at 9344, Breadstuffs heavy aud unchanged, Provisions steady and more firm. Our special correspondent in Geneva, writing to the 12th of september, f rnishes a very graphic and spirited report of the proceedings of the Peace Congress of the + Reds,’ and of the reception accorded to Garibaldi in the city. The account of the action of the American ropresentatives is quite amusing, THE CITY. Comptr Connolly informs the Citizens’ Associa- tion that the introduction of the ticket system among the market wagons has increaged the revenues from that source three bandred per cent. The number of wagons visiting the city duily with produce for vending wader this system ts one bundred and seventy. The in the late sculling match between Hamill and Brown were yesterday paid over to Hamill under the referee's a jon ‘This also decides all outside bets on tho result of the race. ‘Tha case of ex-Collector Callicott and others was called ap again in the United States Commissioners’ Court in Brooklyn yesterday, but owing to the absence of the prosecutin torpey and one or two of the counsel for the accused { was forther postponed uotil Monday, Tho North German Lioyd's steamship Deutschland, Captain Wessels, will eal from the Bremen pier, Hobo- kon, at now to-day (Thursday), for Southampton and Bremen. ‘Ibe matis forthe United Kingdom and the Continent will close at the Post Office at half-past ten o'clock. The steamship Morro Castle, Captain Richard Adams, will leave pier No. 4 North river a. thves P. Mf, to-day for Havana. Tbe mais will clove at the Post Office at two o'clock. ‘The stock market was strong and excited yesterday. Government securities were dull, Gold glosed at 143% a M44, There was but little antmation in the markets yester- day, put prices for almost all commodities wore very firm, and in some instances higher. Coffee was quiet, but steady, Cotton was in fair demand, but at a decline of 3c. per Ib. On ’Change flour was dall, and the com- mon and medium grades were 107. a 25c. lower, Wheat was active, and 1c. a 2c, bigher. Corn was in good demand, and aivanced 2c, Oats opened firmer, but closed heavy. Pork was dull and heavy, while beef and lard were steady Freichts and whiskey were un- changod. Naval stores were dull and deprossed. Pe- troloam closed Le, lower. MISCELLANEOUS. The Reublica Convention met at Syracuse yes- vorday, and Mr + Gibson was appointed temporary Chairman, The roll of delegates was called, and atter bard persuasion the roll of the conservative New York jon’ als, Committees wero then appointed on contested seats. and = for other parposes, The revnlar organization was finally per- fected by the election of Roscoe Conkling to be presi- dent The Committee on Contested Seats reported im favor of the delegation from New York ty beaded by Mr. J. G Abbe. The following are the nom na mado by the Convention:— Secretary of eneral McKeon, of New York; compiroller, Calvin T, Hulburd, of St Lawrence; Treasurer, J. €, Gates, of Ulster; Attorney General, Jadge Van Cott, of K. ‘anal Commissioner, John M. Hammond, of Alleghany; Inspector of State Prisons, Gilbert Delemeter, of Wyoming; Judge of the Court of Appeals, Charles Mason, of Madison, Rosolutions were adopted pledging the party to tho advocacy of negro saffrage and proposing @ modification in the present Excise law. At midnight the convention adjourned sine die, We publieh this morning several official Mexican ‘vcumente relative to the disposal of Mazimilian’s body. Kscobedo was ordered to take sole charge of the remains, keeping a strict cuard over them. Admiral Tegethof, in asking to bare them turned over to his charge for con- veyauce tc Austria, said that he had no credentials, being merely commissioned verbally by the mother of the Archduke to obtain bis remains for the family, if possible, thoy considering that a private requost would please the repdbile betier than an official one. He was informed by the Pres at when he obtained official documents or express authority trom the family, the government, out of @ natural sentiment of piety, would be disposed to permit the removal of the remains The Oficiad Gavetle, of Havana, bas just published the law of July 11, 1866, for the total suppression of the slave trade, The supreme government has ordained that a roneral ce s be made of ali the slaves living in the sland of Cuda, from and after October 1, and all free colored people be provided with warrants showing their proper regisiration, under a penalty. Foreigo vessels are to be prevented from registry in Spanish porta Our despatches from Havana to-night state thatan me from the suprome government by the ing tho new (oternal revenue law and ng the old system of taxation. General Man- ano had proposed this change, as under the oppression ‘of the new jaw av oulbresk among the pow muinent at auy timo, Uneasiness ta anticlpatl an event, i) s said, hastened his death. (yencral Sherdau, xccompaned by three of tie stot officers, loft Waet.ngton yesterday, aud on tus arrival et Baitime crowd, ws trations tw Grace, avd ow bi orrival at Philadelphia an immense concourse of peoples were prepared to receive him. Fireworks abvunded on the route of the procession to the hotel, and a formal welcome was extended to him at the even'ng, fromm which representatives of tho preas were excluded. General Sheridan is expected iu this cy cn Monday, When he Will be reeeived by the od Army of the Ri and be ccrenaded in the evening at the Union Loague Club Hoase, Secretary Seward decimes to consider Yellow Fever Biackourn av inciaded im the Amnesty proclamation of dent Jounson, and has totarued to him the oattr of subsoribed and for. re silegimace which that individanl by warded to the Departaent Of Hag for filing, The Sec retary chara sea joctor ax a detesiabie folon, whose ofime cannot be regarted © act of rebetiton ut Chri war, but ofence agains! mankind. Governor Browalow and the municipal authorities are still at loggerheads, The geocral comumand‘ng the State militia is concentrating bis troops in Nashville, and as an offset the city authorities are swearing in extra police- men by the bundred. General Thomas is prbibited by Genera Grant’s order from interfering, and if some ‘one does not back down a bloody collision is considered inevitable oa tho day of election. It is at present thought that Brownlow will be the one to withdraw, ‘The Convention of Soldiers and Sailors of the Union residen's in Virginia met in Richmond yesterday, Reso- lutions were adopted in support of the reconstruction policy of Congress and favoring negro suffrage, but dis- approving of tho platform adopted by the Hunnicutt Convention in April last, Only one colored delegate was present. The Convention adjourned sine die. Captain Hall, the Arctic explorer, has been heard from by means of a whaling vessel which arrived at New Bod- ford on the 23d inst. He wasat Repulse Bay, where he had been for two years, bu! next spring he will proceed to King William’s Land and return home. Philadelphia was visited by a terrific hailstorm ye» terday afternoon, which stiashed window panes indi+ crimina'ely and demolished the trees in the squarcs. The stocks of several merchants wero injured by the hail dashing through the skylights, A panic tock place in the Blind Asylum, where a public colebration was going on, but no one was hurt, Commodore Selfridge, wio commands the Navy Yard at Philadelphia, has refused to obey a writ of habeas corpus for the surrender of an enlisted man, and has stationed double marine guards around the yard, Our correspondence from the Indian country gives & detailed account of the councila of the Commissioners with Spotted Tail, Pawnee Killor and other chiefs at North Platte, The white prisoners who were surren- dered by Spotted Tail were three girls and some chil- drep, Tho girls speak well of their Indian captors, and say that they treated the children with especial care, General Schofield has decided that only those excluded from holding office under the laws of Congress are in- eligible to seata as delegates in the coming Virginia Convention. Governor Fletcher, of Mirsourl, made 4 radical speech in Paterson, N. J., om Tuosday night. The health of Thaddeus Stevens is rapidty improving, ‘and he will soon resume his work on tho Congressional measures that he has 1n view. Senator Howard, of Michitan, publisbes a lotter in which he asserts that certain acts of Prosident Johnson are intended not for buncombe only, but really to pave the way for a forcibte resistance to his impea:hment by Congress, He thinks it probable that in the long run such a mad attempt would be a benefit to the govern- ment, as the rebellion would be finally suppressed, The European Situat It is not many days since, in commenting on the Peace Congress at Geneva, we stated to our readers that, as the natural and necessary resul' of that meoting, we might expect very soon to hear of fresh insurrectons or assassi- nations in Enrope. Sooner almost than we expected fac's have justified our feara, Riots of a serious character have taken place in Man- chester and in Dublin, and mob violence bas robbed the law of its rightful proper'y. Gari- baldi, the kin; of filibusters, has put bimself at the head of his handful of liberators, and, in the vain attempt to get up a second Aspro- monte, bas l:ndd himself in prison in Alessan- dria. The Emperor Louis Napoleon, fearful lest the Roman question should enter upona new ph’se without his intervention, hurries his troops to tho aid of his ally and protégé, King Victor Emanuel. Bismarck, chuckling over the general con‘ysion, and rejoicing particn- larly at the prospect of seeing the bands of his great politic:l antagonist tied, bursts out in language of open defiance, telling Germany and ihe world that there is no power strong enough to hinder the union of the Fatherland, and no power paltry enough to make the attempt. The British police out witted by a Fenianism which was supposed to be dead; the Italian people clamorous for Rome, and Garibaldi in prison for attempting to give effect to ieir wishes ; Napolson threat- ening another occupation of the Holy City ; Bismarck waiting to pronounce the unity of Germany, and tho government of the Czar ready to revolutionize the entire East of Europe—auch is the situation at the present moment. The central difficulty—the focus from which revolution is all but eertain to radiate over the Continent—is Rome. Garibaldi has « second time failed in making Rome the capital of Italy. The hero of a hunlred fights, the man to whom Italy and Italy’s king owe more than they owe to any other, is in prison; but the Roman question, with which the name of Garibaldi is now intimately and inseparably associated, demands solution as loudly, nay, more loudly than ever. The Dalian govern- ment have imprisoned the popular hero; but will the Italiin people give their consent either to his continued confinement or to his trial? We have no sympathy wild filibusters in any country or in any cause, and Garibaldi, as we have said already, is a filibuster of the purest type; but we do not forget that the cause which Garibaldi represents, and in which he has once again signally miscalculated, is a cause which is popular with all ranks and classes of Italians, from the prince to the peasant We have never believed that Gari- baldi would be allowed to take Rome; bat we have not been without good r@son for believing that there was collusion between the Garibaldi party and the government, and that it was the fixed determination of the gov- ernment to make use of the insurrectionary movement and make themselves masters of Rome. Events have been miscalculated by Garibaldi. They have, also, unless we greatly mistake, been miscalculated by the govern- ment of Italy. We cannot resist the convic- tion that the Sphinx of the Tuileries has out- witted them botb. It is difficult to believe that Garibaldi would have made the attempt if he had not had some understanding with the Italian government. It is as diffcult to be- lieve that such an understanding could exist, unless there bad heen a conviction on the part of the Italian goverament that Napoleon would not interfere. Napoleon has interfered, and the Roman question presents itself in a new phase; but itis as fall of difficulty as ever. How this question is to be settled, or to what complications it may yet give birth, it is impossible to say. Napoleon has resolved to send troops ani war vessels to Italy “to aid the King’s government.” Does the King’s government wish such aid? What if, under the guise of “aid to the King’s government,” we have another French occupation of Rome? Napoleon, it is to be borne in mind, can make mistakes now. What if Italy should resent such aid and openly and doggedly resist it? What if the alliance which proved ao destructive to Austria should be resamed, and more accept able aid should be found by the Italians in the strong arm of Prussia? What if, in the con- fusion, Sonth Germany, which is by no means | unwiliizg, should, by little gentle pressure, be constrafaed to enter the Nortbern Union? What if Russia, impatient of farther restraint, should march her armies southward and settle the astern question at once? If Napoleon, by armed force, interfere in the affairs of Italy, it will, unless we sadly miscalculate, be the grondest mistake of lis life. The Republican State Convention. Wo give in another part of the paper the pro- ceedings of the Republican State’ Conveation at Syracuse yesterday. This body met at noon. Mr. James Gibson was made temporary chair- man. In his brief address he struck the key- note of the political campaign as this party is going to conduct it. The whole burden of his remarks was about President Johnson. Tho party, finding no great principles to go upon or to bring forward, no new issues or measur’s to propose, and being anxious to throw off the odium of the ruinous policy it has been pursuing the last year or two, it proposes to make Mr. Johnsen and his blunders the sub- ject matter of the campaign. In repudiating him, their own President, they intend to throw him and his blunders upon the democrats. It is a very narrow platform to siand upon, but seems to be the best they can find. There was a very lively time in the Conven- tion at the commencement on the quesiion of calling the roll of delegates. The Weed dele- gation, headed by Mr. Rufus Andrews, insisted upon being placed on the roll, Ths radicals opposed this. Finally the list of contestants was called and the matter referred to the Com- mitte2 on Contested Seata. After a recess till two o’clock the Hon. Roscoe Conkling was chosen President of the Convention. On taking the chair he followed the usual practice of making a speech, It was like all such speeches, highly eulogistic of the party, very florid and full of the old political claptrap we bave heard a hundred times. But, hke that of the temporary chairman, it was chiefly confined to one theme—denuncia- tion of President Johnson, his measures and policy, Mr. Conkling was afraid to touch the vital questions of the day—negro supremacy and the national finances. Like Mr. Gibson, the burden of his talk was Johnson, Johnson. The campaign is to be conducted on no other or higher issue than denunciation of the man the republican party chose as its leader, though it now denounces him. And this Mr. Conkling calls the party of great principles and great ideas, Why, it is afraid to enunciate clearly any principle. It has no avowed policy but hostility to the Executive itself created. Mr. Conkling made a mistake when he said the Forticth Congress was carrying out the will of the people in its reconstraction or negro supremacy policy, and that the dominant radi- cel party is faithfully doing that for which it was elected. No such thing. The success of the republicans was due to their declarations that the Constitutional Amendment wes to be the settlement of our political troubles and restoration of the South. They were elected on this platform. Negro supremacy and & negro balance of political power was an after- thought. The people see this now—see how they have been cheated—and hence the reac- tion in public sentiment and the alarm of the party. Itis not the President that is before the bar ‘of public opinion, or the democratic party, so much as the republicans themselves. They cannot shift the responsibility for keep- ing the country disorganized and threatening the republic with negro rule from their own shonlders. They cannot make their opponents responsible for Mr. Johnson, whom they ele- vated to poweg, The disorganizing and ruin- ous legislation of a radical republican con- gress is the great question now before the people, and all the efforts to disguise it by assailing Mr. Johnson will not succeed. The Convention made short work of the Murphy-Weed delegation by rejecting them and admitting the rival delegation from New York. Mr. Andrews, who spoke for the discomfited conservatives, pleaded earnestly for recogni- tion and forgiveness for past offences, but tono yurpose. The Convention was inexorable, and the rejected delegates departed with the com- fort of hope held out to them that if they should behave better in future and vote the repub- lican ticket they might be admitted to the fold again. Notwithstanding this action of the Con- vention in rejecting the Murphy-Weed deloga- tion, there was an evident desire to keep every section of the party together. Despondency and fear of defeat operated powerfully in the efforts for conciliation. In the eflernoon session General McKean, of Saratoza, was nominated for Secretary of State; Calvin T. Hurlburd, of St. Lawrence, for Comptroller, and Theodore C. Gates, of Ulster, for Treasurer. Afier adjournment, and when the Convention met again at half-past seven o’clock in the evening, Judge Van Cott, of Kings, was nominated for Attorney General, and A. C. Powell, of Onondaga, for State En- gineer. The old Canal Commissioners have not been renominated. _ Under pressure of the German republican delegation from this city the Convention agreed to @ modification of the Excise law. ‘The great question, however, was that of equal negro suffrage, and to that the Convention has com- mitted the party. Itwas done with trepidation and with evident reluctance at the last hour. A great many of the delegates left before the Convention concluded iis labors. Ii remains to be seen how this negro: suffrage plank in the republican platform will be received by the people of the State, though, as far as New York itself is concerned, it will make little difference, as the negroes are ® small fraction of the community. The resolution on this question is worded very delicately and in loose, general terms, and does not touch at all the important question of negro supremacy and ® negro balance of power in ten or more States of the Union. On the whole, the Convention acted with fear and caution, hardly knowing what to do under the threatening reaction in public sentiment. It closed its labors at midnight, when a great number of the delegates had already left for home and when there were scarcely a sufficient number to transact the closing business. ‘The Position of the Blair Family. We print in another colamn part of a/speech recently delivered by the Hon, Montgomery Blair at Bladensburg, Maryland, whieh is, of course, intended to inform an impatient and ex- pectant world of the exact position of the Blair family in the political current. The Blair plat form has two strong points—the finan¢es and the white man. These are worth all the rest. Mr. Bisir holds the same view on gome import ant points in our financial system that we bave for along time urged in the Herat, And to which some distinguished radical leadets even have become converte—the view, namely, that Mr. Chase’s financial estab’ must destroy the country unless the country is be- forehand with it, and that the national banks Jaro the moat giguntic swindle ever deliberately organized oytside a den of thieves. We com- mend to publie attention the story which Mr. Blair tells once more, and which cannot be told too often, how, under this system, the government may be made to pay for the use for one year of thirty thousand dollars the nice sum of one hundred and seventeen thousand dollars—a fine rate of interest! Mr. Blair re- greta that Mr. Jobnson, in his discussions with Congress, “haa not given free course to his own higher nature,” and with this regret the country will sympathize ; but was this intended as praise of the President, or “ censure in dis- guise?” . Our Southern Correspo: The contest between black and white in ‘the South is growing warmer every day. In Virginia the convention soon to assemble will make negro supremacy one of its vital topics of discussion, and it is hoped that the strong conservative element will be able to carry the day and still preserve the State from complete wreck by the radicals. If Virginia is awaken- ing to the necessities of the hour, North Caro- lina is not less alive to the fact that she is threatened with negro rule. The conservative element there has already taken the prelimi- nary steps for a State Convention to be held on or about the 16th of October next, Following in line comes South Carolina, which, though the most radical pro-slavery State during the war, has the good sense to accept tho resulta of the contest and trim her political sails for the new course. The only trouble reported from there is what naturally occurs under the new order of things, and is, as elsewhere, between black and white. In Tennessee the old trouble between rebel and Unionist still continues. The horrible out- rages perpetrated on the Union people of this State during our war were so fearful that even now the hatreds which were thus engendered have not died out. From time to time blood still’ flows, and now the murder of a Union man, now that of a former rebel, tells to what a fierce extreme the passion’ may be carried in a civil war. On both sides the accounts are much exaggerated, and it is to be deprecated that both radical and conservative will still, by false reports, stir up the passions which should by every means possible be allayed. From Mississippi we have the meeting of the radical convention at Jackson. About one- fourth of the convention were blacks. One- half the counties of the State, more or less, were represented. The organization was most ludicrous, and the election of presiding officers resulted in such an admixture of -white and black as might have suited the most radical of all the radicals. Color ran up or down in all gradations, from a stove polish to a pumpkin- and-milk ting It was decided, too, that all committecs should be half blick. The plat- form adopted was fully up to the times, It en- dorsed Congress and ita acts, and under- took to educate every black and white child in Mississippi. Certainly a magnificent under- taking, Texas, the least damaged of all the Southern States by the war, appears to be making vigorous efforts at improvement, and a rapid growih indicates that she will soon be the most important and powerful of our subdi- visions lying upon the Gulf. Her population is, however, of all the South, the most indis- posed to accept the results of the war; and there are too many indications that the strong- est feeling against union is to be found in Texas. Here, as elsewhere in our lato rebel territory, there is a terrible revulsion of fee!- ing against negro supremacy, and the white population are willing to undergo any trial and make every effort in a defence against the evils which threaten. The State € tional Convention. The State Constitutional Convention has finally sdjourned until after the November election, and the members have returned to their homes, For this, as for the whole work of the Convention since its organization, the republican majority are alono responsible. They had the numbers to secure the constant attendance of a quorum, to push through all the necessary work to completion, and to sub- mit to the people such amendments to the organic law of the State as they might deem desirable. If the whole of the democratic members had absented themselvez from their seats from the first day of the Convention the republicans, if faithful in their attendance, could have completed their work in time for the next general election. There is no possibility, therefore, for the party of the majority to evade the responsi- bility for the disgraceful failure of the Conven- tion, and that failure can be attributed only to one of two causes—incompetency or dishonesty. Fither the republican members were inade- quate to the task of framing a revised consti- tution, or they were unwilling to burden themselves at this time with the fssue of negro suffrage, which is to form the leading feature of their new organic law. To the republican party in Congress the country owes the reconstruction laws, which are so framed as to nullify the amendment to the constitution of the United States upon which the elections of last fall were fought, and to secure negro supremacy at the South by disfranchising a large number of the white citizens and enfranchising all the blacks, rebel and loyal, without distinction; and yet we find this same party, so willing to force the rule of the negro upon the South, fearful of submit- ting their favorite doctrine ot negro suffrage to the people of their own State. It was to avoid this issue before the people in November that the Convention was adjourned over with its work unfinished, and the action of the majority shows the utter demoralization of their party and foreshadows the overthrow that awaiis them in the approaching fall election. President Johnson’s Latest Spevoh The speech of President Johnson to the sere- nading party at the White House the other evening was well considered in being made short. He said that “if the time and circum stances justified, I would with much pleasure address you on the questions which divide and distract the public mind;” from which it is clear he was satisfied that on these questions enough, perhaps, hs@ been said already. We are sorry to hear, ‘however, from the White House, that “our country is in great peril,” and that “the constitation of our country is in peril ;” andin his next speech wo hope Mr. Jobnson will say, “the country and the consti- tution are safe, for they are in the hands of the people.” That is tho talk for the White House—not peril to the country, bat cond dence in the people. The Financial Question Elections. It is evident from the news we receive daily relative to election matters in the West, and particularly in Ohio, that the question of our national finances is looming up prominently in the contest. Mr. Pendleton and other lead- ing men give great prominence to this question on the democratic side, taking strong ground against the Chase financial policy of a national bank monopoly, contraction of the currency and a moneyed oligarchy, and in favor of pay- ing off the national debt in greenbacks as soon as practicable. The radical republicans, who are for the most pari Chase men, touch this matter very gingerly, but they cannot ignore it. Governor Cox, in his speech at Cleveland on Tuesday, was compelled to accept the issue, and defended as wall ashe could, in the old hackneyed manner, the financial wisdom of Mr. Chase and the blessings of the national banks and contraction of the currency. The radical republicans have the weak side on this issue, for the mass of the Western people, in- cluding large portion of the republican party, are against the national bank monopo- lists and bondholding money oligarchists. The more prominently the democrats of the West can bring this question before the public the more likely are they to defeat the ra‘licals. With ordinary skill in managing the campaign, with the negro supremacy question and the oppressive and ruinous financial policy of the radicals, the party must go under. But theso are only the first movements on a great issue. The time is near at hand when the question of our national finances will be the most absorbing one. Hedging. The Albany Journal, in discussing the busi- ness of the Republican State Convention, says that “one issue stands predominant in this cam- paign, and cannot fail to be so regarded by the Convention. The infamous course of Presi- dent Johnson has forced it upon the country. New York is either to pronounce in favor of the legislation of Congress and the policy it embodies with reference to reconstruction, or else to sanction the: usurpation, the subter- fuges and the crimes of a recreant Executive. Before this all other matters of opinion become trivial and insignificant. Nothing must be permitted to distract the altention of the people from the momentous struggle upon which, pos- divly, our national liberties depend. There are other matters which may remain for future ad- juastment,” &. This moans that the republi- cans at Syracuse are to give the go-by to the financial issue, the tariff and internal taxation questions, the excise question, and, as far as possible, even the question of negro suffrage; but as this thing, to its fallest extent, is em- bodied in the reconstruction policy of Con- gress, it will have to be met. We aré only curious to see the shape in which it is to be presented from Syracuse. When a great party is required to shorten its lines wo may look out for some hedging and dodging. io the Coming Alarmed Kvon in Masenchnsctts. In the proceedings of the Worcester (Mass.) Republican Convention it appears “the tem- perance question is left open, the republican party not being responsible for the probibitory law, and republicans are entirely free to sup- port or oppose that law according to theirown senso of right”? When the Massachusetts Pari- tans begin to repudiate their blue laws there is evidently something in the wind. Jef Davis. It is given out that the fiiends of Jeff Davis are to set him up as a permanent housekeeper at Toronto, Canada, from which we infer that he has made up his mind to remain in the new dominion, at least until called to cover his bail bonds at Richmond. When that day cometh we dare say that Horace Greeley, Gerrit Smith and Company will be beyond the reach of Judge Underwood or his successor in office. TERRIFIC HAIL STORM IN PHILADELPHIA. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS TO THE HERALD. Pumapanrma, Sept. 05, 1567, 6 o’Clock, I, M. ‘Tho heaviest bait storm that has prevailed in this vicinity for many years commenced at four o'clock this afternoon and continued for half an hour, Hail stones fell with great rapidity, many of them being the sizo of a hen’s egg. The destruction of property in the resking of glass, cutting of awnings, demolishing frait trees, &c., 1s very heavy. Whole squares of houses facing north had entire windows de- molished. Huge limbs were swopt from trees in tho public squares and along the sidewatks. Travel was entirely uring the prevalence of the storm, ‘nd car drivers and others having charge of horses found great difficulty ia man them. The strects iboded with hail and oe yy foared that the were ungathered crops will su‘for heavily. Additional Particulars—Damage te MM chants’ Stecks—Panic in the Blind Asyl "} T oGbekF, Me ‘The damage done by the storm proves to be a serious matter. Wholesale dry goods dealers on Market street have suffered severely by the damage done their stock tht the breaking of skylichts and windows. The loss individual firms varies from $1.000 to $500. ‘At the Blind Asylum, where there was a public cele- bration, a panic was caused by the breaking of windows and the ing of bricks blown from achimney on the premises. Ne one was burt, THE STOAM IN READING. Reaping, Pa, Sept. 26, 1867. The storm was very violent bere. The hail was more noted for its size than number. Many of them were as large a8 a hen's egg, some measured eight inches in circumference an‘ wei three ounces. Very exten- iy eye of was done to the window lights, nearly half of those of # north posure being riddied to pieces. HEALTH OF THAD. STEVENS Laycastan, Pa, Sept. 26, 1807. ‘The condition of the health of Hon, Thaddeus Stevens is rapidly improving. His fron will even sarmounts discace, His (riends throughout the country ave been unnecessarily alarmed. It is true, hew- ever, that the hot days of Inst week did prostrate the ‘Great Commoner” very much. He is now sub- stantially better, and will soon resume work on bis re- construction, revenue and financial measures, hoping w have them ready at the meeting of Congress, Novem- ber 21. Mr. Stevens bas not been away trom here this sumwmer, although be bad intended to bare gone to hie tron farnace and thea to the upper lakes. WEWS FROM CAPTAIN SHALL, THE ARCTIC EXPLORER. Captain White, of the whaling bark Biack Engle, which arrived at New Bedford on the 23¢ instant, brings news from Mr. Hall, the Arctic explorer, whe was at Repulse Bay, where he bas remained for about two years, A year ago iast winter he made @ journey to Pella Bay, about 190 miles north. Next epring, in company with Siz White men, who have joined bim from the whaling fleet, he intends to proceed to King William's Lan will return home, if possible, in Pamapecrata, Sept, 26, 1867, Jamos Miller, colored, killed his wife this erening io the basement of @ house in Locust street, where she was employed as a domestic. Ho had been separated from her, and on hor retusal to live with bim again be shot her by five digcharges from revolver, Tuo mur- ror bas not yet Deen arrested, WASNINGTON. Sept. 25, 1867, 11 o'Clock P.M. } The Generals in Washington—Mrs. General Grant's Reception. Previous to General Sheridan's departure this morn- ing he called on General Grant, at the War Deparimont, where also’ were Generals Sickles and Hancock, and made quite a long visit, Mrs. Genoral Grant gave a reception last night in honor of the three prominent Generals who were then here. Among the distinguished personages present ‘were Generals Sickles, Sheridan, Hancock, 0. 0. Howard, Hunter, Delafleld, McFaren, Hardy, Emory, Rucker, Surgeon-General Barnes, Comsiock, Parker, Badeau, and Colonels Webster and Leet; Secretaries MoCal~ loch, Welles, Ministor Biacque and Secretary, Judge Ad- Vocate-General Holt and a large number of others, many of them with their ladies, Another Serenade to General Hancock. Major-General Hancock was to-nixht tho recipient of another serenade; on this occasion by the officers of the Fifth cavalry and the Twelfth Infantry, the band of the latter performing the music. He appeared on tho bal- cony of the Metropolitan Hotel, and merely thanked them for the compliment, General Hancock will Jeave Washington to-morrow morning, stopping a few hours at Philadelphia to visit his widowed mother, and thence proceed to St. Louis, He will not enter upon his duties at New Oricans until= the subsidence of the yellow fever. This was arranged by General Grant through the President. He may, how- ever, before that time establish his heaiquarters tem- Porarily at some other place. Until then General Mow. er will be responsible for the command. Parol Required from Returning Rebels ii e Fifth Military District. General Mower, commanding the Fifth Military dis- trict, has issued an order similar to those issued in the W. .First, Seoond and Fourth districts, requiring all persons 4 | subject to parole under the terms of the surrender of the rebel armies who exiled themselves from the United States and have since returned to give the required parole within thirty days from the 19th inst. Rumored Proposed Resignation ef Secretary © Browning. Rumor is in confidential circulation in political ciroles that Secretary Browning will soon tender his reeigna- tion on account of continued ill health, and that certain words of encouragement given by tho Prosident to Louis V. Bogy, of St Louis, ex-Commissioner of Indian Af- fairs, im reference to the office of Secretary of the In- terior, are sufficient to account for the presence of that gentleman in the city at the present time. Register of the Treasury. A. Graham, Assistant Register of the Treasury, was yesterday appointed by the Presideat Acting Register until a successor to Mr, Colby shall be appointed. The Case of Dr. Binckburn—Refusal of the Secretary of State to Receive His Onth ef Allegiance. ’ The following letter was despatched to-day :— Derantussr oF STaTH, Wacnrxatox, Sept. 25, 1867. DS Esq., United States Consul, Toronto, On- Sin—-Your despatch of the 17th of September, No. 223, has been received, with an accompaniment, which is an affidavit containing an oath of allegiance, sub- scribed by S. P, Blackburn, and verifiet by yourself. I remit that paper to your care, with perm‘ss'on to restore it to th adiant, I assume that the paper was made and delivered to you with a viow to its betng fied in this department, under provisions of the President’s proclae mation of pardon issued on the 7th of September instant, The afiant is understood to be the person who is. called Doctor Blackburn. Nothing is known by this department concerning him as having directly or indirectly participated in the lato rebellion, All that is known is that he hes under the charge of felony, in this, that he conceived and put into execution within a foreign jurisdiction a plot to disseminate com- tagion and pestilence im this and other cities of the Umited States by clandestioely transmitting for an un- suspicious market masses of infectel clothing takom from the corpses of persons who lad died of the yellow fever 12 the tropics, It 1s pot easy to understand how am offence of that character, which is a detestable crime agaigst mankind, can be supposed. oven by thé felon himself, to be entitled to be regarded as.an actof insur- rection, rebellion or civil war, The President’s procla- ‘mation offer: no immunity in this case 1 am, bE obedient servant, WILLIAM H. SEW, f The Alabama Claims. It is understood that the State Department is by no means despondent about obtaining a fair settlement of the Alabama claims, although it may 6e hindered and delayed by the death of the Iamented Sir Frodorick Bruce, ‘Orders from the War Department. The order directing Surgeon Wales to report at Aana- polis as a member of the Examining Board has beon re- voked, and Passed Assistant Surgeon Luck appointed to supply the vacancy. An order has been issued from the War Department di- recting all carriages and spring wagons of every descrip- tion, except the prescribed medical wagons, and all amba- lances, excepting those known as the Wheeling or Rucker pattern, together with the harness used in connection therewith, which belong or pertain to the Quartermas- ter’s Department, to be immediately turned into the most convenient depot or depute of said department, with a view to their sale at public auction; and hereafier no ambulances, carriages or spring wagons will be par- chased or manufactured exorpt by order of the War Do- partment, Expected Prize Fight. ‘A prize fight between Dan Dilton and Ssarney Mation wiil take piace to-morrow morning in Virginia, four miles fiom Washington. A large number of the fancy have arrived. The Tobacco Tax. Several committess of tobacco manufacturers, repre- senting the cities of New York, Philadelphia and Balti- more, waited on the Commissioner of the Internal Rev- enue Bureau this morning, with a view to obtaining a modification of his recent decision regarding the tax on tobacco. Virginian Politics. Charles H. Porter, a Norfolk radical, arrived in Rich- mond, Va,, this morning from a stumping tour ia the Piedmont district, under the auspices of the Congres- stonal Republican Committee, He reports that he found the negro vote pretty equally divided between the white wing and the Hunnicutt-negro wing of the republican ‘Bxamination of Naval Apprentices. The United States practice sbip Sabine, Commander R. B. Lowry. from New London, Conn., arrived at An- napalolis to-day, The Sabine has been ordered to Annapolis by the Secretary of the Navy to have another examination of naval apprentices for the selection from them of one midshipman. In July last the Sabine was at the Academy for the regular aunual examination, at which twenty apprentices were examinod, cleven of whom were rejected and p:x¢@ passed, the law requiring that ten sbali be selected each year, The Secrotary ordered the return of the veasel, that the rejected eleven should be ‘re-examined and one of them passed. ‘The Yellow Fover in New Orleans. A Geapatch received at the War Department from Genoral Mower, at New Oricans, reports General Graham and the rest of the officers there who are sick with yell low fever as doing well. Tho Army of the Tennessee. ‘The following bas recently been iseued:— Waswwaroy, D. C., Sept, 6, 1967. Orricens OF TAR ARMY OF THe Trxwwsite:— Yon are respectfully notified that the second annual meeting of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee will be held In St Louis, Mo, on the 13th day of November, 1867, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. Every officer who bas at any time served with honor in the Army of the Teunessee 13 entitied to and -to all each an earnest invitation is extended to be pres- ‘ent to assist in perpetitating its history and to keep aive thet kindy, cordial and social feeling which was one of the chief characterstica of that army during its giortoas and eventful career, All arrangements for the meeting will be made by the local committer, resi- deot ia St. Louis, of wi due notice will bo given ioe ior Gonersl JOHN A. RAWLINS, Presidant, Lieutenant Colonel L. M. Davtow, Rec, Ser'y A. Hicaneiooran, Cor. See'y, Ctocinaat, vino, SALE OF GOVERNMENT GOLD. {Wasdiagton cctreepenionse sf the Boston Poat, Sop- Secretary McCulloch's curreocy funds are stort, and to meet the daily demands upon the Treasury anotoer sale of gold willbe mace. Upto Saturday evening last nine ‘miilions ‘bad beea sold during the present month. Only thirty-five millions of currency are pow oa deposit jneluding the amounts in the various national baoks; thia, twenty-five millions canaot be drawa out under laws. This leaves Mr McCalloch only tow miliions of lable funds to meet the currea: demands. This no- cessitates a salo of a portion of the one hundred and seven tnillions of gold now on bi: { have good Teaton to believe that twenty millions will be thrown upon tue market this week, RESTORATION OF WAR MATERIAL TO THE FENIAMS. Buvraro, Sept. 25, 1867. James Gibeon to the delivery of 150 tons The late visit of PLB, @ Washington reewited to-d of war materm! to the oe es . ceroton porty was captured by 00 98 during the invasion oF canada in 1808, and bald at Port Ousario, Ogdeusbarg, Not.