The New York Herald Newspaper, September 21, 1873, Page 8

‘NEW YORK HERALD|™ seeing, Semtace | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR ‘All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henaxp. Volume XXXVIIT. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Yariety ENTERTAINMENT. MRS. 'F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE,— As You Like It, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Across tux Contiext, Atternoon and evening. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Sixth ay. and Twenty-third st— Rir Van Winkix, NEW LYCEUM THEATRE, lth street and 6th av.— Notne Daux, METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Vaniety ENTERTAINMENT. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—C uniosity—LittL& Sunsuing, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Dust anp Diamonns. . BROADWAY THEATRE, 725 and 730 Broadway.—Orera Bourre—La Fitts pe Mavame Ancor. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker sts.—ALappr NBAD THE SAILOR, THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Variery ENTeRTAINMENT. 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KAHN’S MUSEUM, No, 688 Broadway.—Scrrxce axp Ant, QUADRUPLE S New York, Sunday, Sept. 21, 1873, HERT.| THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. | ‘To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE APPROACHING CONFERENCE OF THE | EVANGELICAL ALLIAD LEADING ED- | ITOR(AL ARTICLE—Eicatn Pace. | TWO SIDES OF TH POLARIS SEARCH HIS- TORY! DR, BE EL AND MR. HUMANN | * AVER CAPTAIN HALL DIED OF APOPLEXY! HIS DIRE IMAGININGS! A WELL-POSTED OFFICIAL LIFTS THE DARK CURTAIN OF MYSTERY! HALL AND FRANKLIN'S SEARCH! THRILLING NARRATIVE OF PERILS IN THE ARCTIC EMPIRE—Firra PAGE. BUDDINGTON'S HOME! WHAT THEY SAY OF HIM AT GROTON! HIS WIFE’S FAITH IN HIS RETURN—TWELFTH Pace. MURE FINANCIAL CRASHES! THE LONDON BRANCH HOUSE OF THE COOKES “GONE BY THE BOARD!” THE UNION AND NATIONAL TRUST COMPANI SUSPEND! THE STOCK EXCHANGE CLOSED! ALARM- REVERBERATIONS FROM A CLEAR PROSPECT— SIXTH PAGE. NO FINANCIAL “BREAK” \ EUROPE AS YET! CAUSES GREAT ST! RAILROAD AND STOCK THE PREDISPOSING CAUSE THE | ACTION AND STATUS—Seventu | ANOTHER HERALD VICTORY! THE KHIVAN INSURRECTION NEWS JUST RECEIVED BY THE BRITISH PRESS! THE XCERPT | FROM THE HERALD OF AUGUST 30, A | FULL SPECIAL REPORT OF THE AFFAIK— NINTH PAGE. CART, REDUCED TO THE POINT THE TERMS DEMAND. SH FLAG FIRED UPON! THE MALAGA SOCIALISTS ABODT 1 TAKE THE FIELD! BLUODY REPULSE OF THE CARLISTS FROM 1OLOSA—NINTH PAGE. SKIRMISHES BETW | MENT SURPRISED—NintTH Pace. FURTHER SLAVE TRAL HORRORS! A COOLIE- LADEN SHIP SUN 418 OF THE PooR | WRETCHES PERISH—NINTH Page. CHAMBORD AND RULE IN 3s XED TO THEIR HEADS ROCHA IN WILL WORSHIP RIMAGES | THE CHRISTIAN BROTH- WESLEYAN L RELIGIOU; iURAL—TENTH Pacr, TRIUMPH, AS OMAR— AMUSEMENTS —GENERAL NEWS — Nine Pace. AT Wa. VERLY, N. J.—A SING RACE ON EVENTH PAGE. Fnom Sr. Domrxco, under date of s ptem- | ‘ber 6, we have advices which confirm previous | reports to the effect that the revolutionary movement against the Baez government is in- fluenced and led by men who enjoy the esteem | of a very large section of the people, and that | it is likely to produce most decided effects on the commercial and financial interests of the Trepublic at home and in matters connected with the trade with the United States, Tue Stave Traps cannot be said to be Bbolished so long as it is permitted to the greed of Anglo-Indian and Chinese merchants to ship coolies, under the deceptive classifica- NEW YORK eR HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. To-day we turn aside from Wall street and take up & more congenial theme. As the day approaches interest centres more and more in the grand Obristian council which is so soon to be held in this city. Each successive steamer which arrives from Europo brings another batch of delegates ; our own divines are making all needed preparations, and we are not allowed to doubt that, when the 2d of October comes round, New York will have within its bounds an array of ecclesiasti- cal talent such as has not been witnessed in any city since the birth of the present cen- tury. We are not forgetful of the late Coun- cil of the Vatican when we make this asser- tion. It is not to,be denied that in pomp and splendor and all that belongs to historic dignity this forthcoming conference will fall behind the late Council of the Vatican, but, from the nature of the case, it is reasonable to presume that this Evangelical Alliance Con- ference will bring to New York a larger num- ber of ecclesiastics than the late C2cumenical Couneil brought to Rome, The sessions of the Vatican Council were held in secret. None but delegates or persons privileged by the Church authorities were allowed to be present. At this forthcoming conference it will be dif- ferent. At all the meetings to be held between the 2d andthe 12th of October the doors will be open to the public. The discussions, in fact, will be held in public, and we may well take it for granted that the occasion will bring together ecclesiastics from all sections ot the Continent, and that the audiences, from first to last, with the exception of the promised evening meetings, will in the main be clerical. From all we can gather we are satisfied that nothing will be left undone to make this the grandest council which has ever been held in the name and in the interests of the Protes- tant world, It is now many months since wo first called public attention to this conference. In the interval we have frequently alluded to it, and it is only a few weeks since in an exhaus- tive article we gave a history of the association, as well as a sketch of the programme to be followed at the approaching meeting. For the benefit of our readers we are not unwill- ing to repeat some of the statements which have already been made. Let us explain, first of all, what is this Evangelical Alliance. It is a fact not generally known that the associa- tion which has now assumed such gigantic proportions really dates its origin from the Bicentenary Commemoration of the West- minster Assembly, held at Edinburgh, Scot- land, on the 12th and 13th of July, 1843. A volume of ' essays on Christian union was the immediate result of that meet- | ing—a result brought about mainly through the liberality of a rich Glasgow merchant whose name is now widely known throughout the Churches—the late John Henderson, Esq., of Park. The essays did much to diffuse the surely some common platform on which the various Protestant sects could meet, confer and make arrangements to actagainst what they believed to be common enemies. Preliminary meetings were held in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Liverpool, and finally the Evangelical Alliance was formally organized in London in 1846. At this first London meeting six different divisions were agreed upon, as fol- lows:—First, Great Britain and Ireland ; second, the United States; third, France, Belgium, South Germany and a portion of Switzerland; fourth, North Germany and a portion of Switzerland ; fifth, British North America, and sixth, the West Indies. Branch associations now exist not only in all thé places just mentioned, but in Sweden, in Tur- key, in Africa, in Australia and in New Zea- land. Successive meetings have been held in Paris in 1855, at Berlin, 1857; at Geneva, 1860, and in Amsterdam, 1867. The New York meeting will rank as the sixth General Conference of the Evangelical Alliance. The creed of the Alliance may be briefly stated as follows:—The Divine inspiration, authority and sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures ; the right and duty of private judgment in the in- terpretation of the Holy Scriptures ; the unity of the Godhead and the trinity of the persons therein ; the utter depravity of human nature in consequence of the fall; the incarnation of sinners of mankind and His mediatorial intercession and reign; the justification of the sinner by faith alone ; the work of the Holy Spirit in conversion and sanctification ; the immortality of the soul ; the resurrection of the body; the judgment of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ, with the eterhal blessedness of the righteous and the eternal punishment of the wicked ; the Divine insti- tution of the Christian ministry and the obli- gation and perpetuity of the ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s supper. Such, in brief, is the creed of the Alliance, although it is distinctly declared that this does not in- volve an assumption of the right to define the limits of Christian belief, and is to be re- garded only as an indication of the class of persons whom it is desirable to embrace within the Alliance. It will thus be seen that the Evangelical Alliance clings to the side of orthodoxy, is somewhat exclusive in its character and does not by any means cover the whole of the so-called Protes- tant world. Mr. Beecher can belong to it, but Mr. Freeman Clarke cannot. What are the aims and objects of this Evan- gelical Alliance? This question we have in- directly answered already; but, in attempting to present the character and the claims of the Alliance before the public, the answer must be directly and explicitly given. As we have said before, the association owes its existence to an anxious and earnest desire to heal, as far as is possible, the divisions of the Protestant world, At the first meeting in London three resolutions were read and approved of—reso- lutions of which the burden may be said to be regret for existing division among the Protest- ant charches and an anxious desire to bring about among those who had a common belief something like sympathy and unity. In addi- tion to this, however, the Alliance ‘endeavors to exert a beneficial influence on the advance- ment of Evangelical Protestantism and on the counteraction of infidelity, Popery and other tion of Asiatic emigrant laborers, in such numbers as to furnish material for such a ter- rible calamity as that which is recorded in our forms of superstition, error and profanencss, especially the desecration of the Lord's Day.” These are the objects of tho Aliiance, and it feeling that the Protestant world was pain- | fully end even shamefully divided. There was | the Son of God, His work of atonement for | Christin union. It secures sympathy and united action where formerly there was nei- ther the one nor the other. It has in many instances prevented persecution where perse- secution was threatened, and made an end of persecution where persecution existed. It has lent a powerful influence to Christian missions in all parts of the world, and, by encouraging co-operative efforts in the foreign field, has done much to commend the Gospel to the heathen, who were wont to laugh at the Christian missionaries who had come to convert them before they themselves were re- conciled to each other. Ithasdone more than alf this. It has brought men of different per- suasions nearer to each other, has removed many old religions barriers, and has paved the way to a union which is much larger than was originally contemplated—the union of the entire Christian Church, Protestant and Cath- olic, Greek and Roman. Such, then, is the Evangelical Alliance; such is its history and such are the ends which it seeks to accomplish. This is the assgcia- tion which, on the 2d of next month, will hold the first session of its sixth General Conference in this city, and the object’ of the ten days’ discussions will be to advance the cause of evangelical religion in the large and not un- generous sense in which its members under- stand it. It would not be difficult to point out defects in the organization, to lay the finger on points which are disagreeably sec- tarian, and otherwise to show that it lacks the genuine spirit of catholicity. Rome, how- ever, was not built in a day, and there is so much that is good and promising in the Evan- gelical Alliance that we feel as if it would bo ungenerous to complain. When the Confer- ence is called to order it will be found that no such galaxy of divines was ever before assem- bled in New York. The subjects to be dis- cussed are full of interest, and they will, no doubt, be ably handled. We wish the Con- ference success. We shall watch and note its proceedings, and our comments will be frecly given as the occasion may demand. . The Financial Storm—Good Effects of Sunday Rest and Peace. The week has been one of great excitement in Wall street and some alarm im business circles, but we may expect that Sunday rest and quiet will bring confidence and wise coun- sel. Yesterday, like the two days preceding it, was a busy day in the street. Additional failures | were added to a list already too long, but a better feeling prevailed at the close of business, and it was generally believed that the panic would be confined within its proper limits— | those of reckless speculation. So far the banks are not affected, except one or two, which were closely connected with the opera- tions of the speculative brokers. The trust *companies which have failed owe their down- fall to similar causes, and in one case, partially H atleast, to defalcation. Outside of these there | have been no fajlures. The mercantile inter- | est is as safeas inthe best of times. The | railroads, except the wild-cat affairs: which | were made the basis of reckless speculation, are uninjured. Credit generally is unim- paired. Nothing more serious has happened than the overthrow of a few houses which | were doing a notoriously unsafe business. It was a mere financial thunderstorm, passing | through Wall street and toppling over some unsafe buildings, but leaving the substantial houses in as good condition as before. Al- ready the storm is almost past, and the sky will soon be serene and fair and the at mosphere purer and beiter, if wise counsels prevail. There is no occasion whatever for a general panic. The real business interests of the country cannot suffer while the embarrass- ment is confined to the speculators in worth- less railroad bonds and the gamblers in value- less stocks. It will be a wholesome lesson to all classes of business men if the storm is confined to those who courted it, and when it sowed the wind were compelled to reap the whirlwind. This panic has been entirely different from any that preceded it. In 1857 the evil effects of the storm were felt all over the country. The banks generally suspended, even those which were solvent beyond all question being compelled to adopt this course as a precautionary measure. Business was prostrated, and the suffering was intense and | universal. Black Friday was entirely confined to the Stock Exchange and the street, and had no effect one way or the other on the great question of ‘moving the crops.’ This panic is only similar to the Black Friday affair in being confined to the street. That was a conspiracy ; this a blunder certain to result from reckless speculation. It is not | easy to determine which is the more criminal, for that was wicked in design and this in vie- timizing many innocent people. That wasa subject for homilies, but it cleared no rubbish away and taught nobody what to avoid; this is a wholesome lesson, and it buries the mythical railroad enterprises which were its cause in the same grave with the men who fell under their weight. And it must not be forgotten that Congress is partially responsible for the present condition of things, for, to a great ex- tent, these worthless railroads were projected merely to seize upon the public domain, with the consent of the national legislature, and victimize the people into buying bonds of companies which have plenty of land, but no money. If, in addition to sweeping this worth- less stock from the market and trom the lists of reputable bankers, the public lands, so un- wisely appropriated, can be recovered the storm will become almost a matter of rejoic- ing, if not an actual blessing. We cannot dwell too much upon the fact that, notwithstanding all the fear and alarm and excitement of the past few days, the banks are safe, This seems to show that their deal- ings are with the legitimate business interests of the country, and not with the reckless speculators. While they remain firm the evil consequences of the panic must be of little real importance. Public confidence, which has clung to them so far, can do more to keep them firm than anything else, and the still- ness and peace and quiet of this Day of Rest should usher in a week of security, based upon the general prosperity of the whole country, Spars Contrsves To Be Arrutcten by the terrible jarring of dynastic and political ‘4sms.’”” The public hodge-podge is ot such miscellaneous composition that the Spanish cable news from Calcutta, Four hundred and | is claimed that the association is more and | people obtain but little of national nutriment more accomplishing the end for which it pro- | from it, and are exceedingly likely to burn eighteen unfortunates perished in a wreck! Mou’ ainbumanity to want is over no one will regret that they who. any one of the seething dishes which are set before them almost hourly, flavored with a small grain of some fresh seasoning. The Polaris Survivors and Hall's Death—The Government Search. Our special despatches from Dundee, Scot- land, bring us the emphatic denial of Dr. Bes- sel and Emil Schumann, the chief engineer of the Polaris, concerning the ‘rumors of foul play in the death of Captain Hall. We have always held that these rumors should be care- fally handled, in default of full information from all sides. What we now learn from the two members above named of the expedition is to the effect that he died of apoplexy, and that it was only during the delirium of illness that he manifested great fears of being shot or poisoned. It would be reasonable enough to suppose that all this is true, but we hope to see the matter set so clearly before the world that there can be ‘no loop or hinge to hang a doubt upon.” The necessity which exists for having the entire truth told will doubtless act upon the parties concerned and actuate an en- tire laying bare of all the facts. We must re- member, ltowever, that though the groundwork upon which the poisoning rumor took shape was noticeable for want of firmness, yet, that the facts which gave the strongest coloring to its probability are daily receiving stronger confirmation. We refer to the lamentable spirit of insubordination which divided the command against the commander. The graphic and interesting letters of our corre- spondent from Greenland contain, among other matters of great interest, a remarkable interview with H. Krarup Smith, the Danish. Inspector of Greenland. His evidence on the matter leaves no doubt on our minds of the deplorable demoralization which existed on board of the Polaris, just as her commander was about to venture forth in the fearful wastes of the frozen clime. There-was a snap of the spirit of true authority in the proposal, to be found elsewhere, of the late Captain Davenport, of the United States steamer Con- gress, to end the matter at once. Mr. Smith’s statements are direct, and tally fully with Captain Davenport's report upon the insub- ordination that existed, except that they spe- cify directly who were the cause and instru- ments of this reprehensible action. We can imagine no situation on board a ship in which the most cheerful and complete dis- cipline could be more emphatically needed. The fear-filled mutterings of the flickering spirit of Captain Hall, before it went out for- ever in the desolate gloom of the Arctic night, indicate that the knowledge of this ingsubordi- nation, where it should least exist, had caused him the bitterest agony, even in perfect health. The poisoning of Captain Hall would have been a crime of the most infamous mag- nitude; but the accusations of envy of com- mand, impatience of restraint, fomenting of discord and unpardonable contempt of legal authority are things that, if proven, will take a deep tint in the rank of transgressions. The persons implicated will do well to bring all their knowledge of the facts to bear, in order that the world may see their conduct through- out in the light which they would desire it to be seen in. We would wish to be able to say that no stain to American honor remained from an expedition in the cause of science which ing of its ultimate object; which has the ill-timed death of a great explorer like a martyr’s aureole upon its record, which ina miraculous chain of events brought all, save the great explorer, safe through the awful perils of savage solitudes, wherein ice, cold, snow and hyperborean darkness commingled, to the warmth and light of home and friends. Such is our earnest desire, and, in default of its being gratified, we can only sadly resolve to distribute the blame where it is deserved. Our Greenland letters also graphically de- scribe the search made by the Tigress for the missing men. That it might have been more thorough st Littleton Island and more intelli- gent afterwards is an opinion largely held. We shall know more of the motives governing it when Commander Greer returns, as we hope he soon may. A prosecution of the now useless search in the Arctic waters, if ex- tended many days longer, may defer his re- turn for a whole season, as every day makes the chances greater of the Tigress being frozen in. It is but just to stat that she is well pre- pared for this contingency. Sable Sock and Buskin. Lady Audley is one of those dainty-handed adventuresses who seem to have henna on their finger tips and Gehenna in their eyes. She is as white as a wax doll, and her head is framed with golden ringlets, like o capillary nimbus. This description tallies with the ideal of the novelist. But we all know that Miss Braddon dramatized is not the Miss Braddon of Maudie; and actresses who are born brunettes sometimes despise aureated tinctures and flaxen wigs and trust to their mimetic art in this réle to outbalance mere physical contradictions. A very pleasing but apmewhat ouiré illustration of this was given on Friday evening in Republican Hall, at the intersection of Twenty-third street and Broad- way, where a company of colored amateurs acted ‘Lady Audley's Secret’ and “Mr. and Mrs. Peter White."’ No minute inspection ot the programme was necessary to detect the extreme felicity of these selections, The very wording of the announcements betrayed a subtle self-consciousuess on the part of the amateurs. The dramatization, for instance, was announced as a “new and origi- nal version,”’ and so it was. We have never seen anything so new and we never expect to see anything more origirfal. Twelve months were supposed to elapse between the first and second acts, but in consequence of the delay in the arrival of the orchestra it was pleas- anter, as well as easier, to suppose them to have elapsed before the play commenced. ‘There was a delicious natural antithesis which } no art could have excelled in the complexion of the lady and gentleman who acted Mr. and Mrs. Peter White and the surname of the dramatis persona themselves; but whether this was intentional or not- fine stroke of art to heighten the histrionic effect by an insinuation from rhetoric—we will not undertake to decide. But, like cream chocolate, the exterior only was dark, The instant you scraped it you touched awhite emotion. We advise the white popu- lation to attend the next performance. A achieved much, though fail- | colored person represented by a white one upon the stage is an old story. It ia some- thing new to perceive a bende réle created by existe It is itaelfa visible farm of | theik Sacer when they aummpadh tee glow te 1am insniionnussl: Aitionte Coming Al- The Religious Press—The Meeti: ef the Evangelical Mance, The approaching meeting of the Evangeli- cal Alliance—which assembles in this city on the 24 proximo—continues to attract the attention and evoke comment from our relig- ious contemporaries, particularly those of the Presbyterian persuasion. The Observer, whose senior editor is chairman of the Committee of Arrangements for the occasion, announces that the great men who have already arrived, the names of many more on the way, the grandeur of themes to be discussed, the his- tory of the Alliance, and the aspects of the questions in their relations to the civil and moral condition of affairs in the world, give to this Conference an immense interest, and it cannot fail to exert a salutary influence upon the religious sentiment of the age. Besides various countries of Europe which will be rep- resented, it is already ascertained that China, India, Turkey and other distant countries will be heard on the floor of the Conference by Christian natives or missionaries who are well acquainted with the internal condition of those lands. The Evangelist says the mecting of the Alli- ance on this side of the ocean will mark an era in its history. ‘In no land,’’ continues the editor, ‘could it receive a warmer wel- come than in ours. With a perfect religious liberty, that to many foreigners has been a stone of stumbling from the fact that it ex- tended full, toleration to all sects and sections of sects, it has yet resulted in developing under the influence of a free Gospel a degree of religious unity in feeling and practice, if not in belief, to which some established Churches, sanctioned by the State, can lay no claim.’” The Evangelist also elaborates upon the sub- ject of ‘Arctic Adventure and Missionary En- terprises,’’ claiming that, ‘‘while not disposed to detract one iota from the real merit-or just fame of those who have risked life and health in the Polar Seas, the enthusiasm of that man who plunges into the wastes of heathenism, not to solve a geographical problem, but to instruct and cheer and save a human soul, has o broader and nobler basis than theirs.”’ The Observer, remarking upon the speeches made at the dedication of the Roman Catholic parochial school of St. Peter's parish in New Church street, this city, and the arrival of one of the Christian Brothers, accompanied by twenty-four young men belonging to that so- ciety, who haye been educated to serve as teachers in the Catholic parochial schools about to beestablished throughout the United States, says: — This is the beginning of an organized system of schools in op poROn to the public schools of New York city, If the subject is properly treated by the Board of Education the establishment of these Romish schools will be the easy solution of the vexed question, which has causcd so much trouble tor so many years. If the Romanists avow their purpose and carry it out, to withdraw their chil- dren trom the public schools, the city will not be required by any principles of justice or propriety to regulate the schools to satisiy those who do not wish to enjoy them for their children, The Independent presents ‘a word”—a col- umn and a half long—‘to the Evangelical Alliance.” It takes it for granted that the evangelical bodies are not simply gratified to have individual heretics join their number, but also to discover in what they have re- garded as heretical sects more Christianity than they had supposed. Referring to the doc- trines of the Universalists the Independent asks: — Are men that have this faith.to be excluded from the meetings of the Evangelical Alliance—a body which should include all who wish to honor the mission of our Saviour? Their taith is, except in unessentials, the same as that of the rest of Chris- tendom. Do they believe that God will finally abolish sins? So do m of the honored German associates of the All The Alilance will do well to reconsider its action excluding men who are on the same side with them in the battle with atheism and infidelity, The Christian Intelligencer e.vers that the pro- gramme of the coming session of the Evan- gelical Alliance embraces nearly all the most important religious questions of the day. “Christian union,’’ it affirms, ‘underlies them all ;"’ and the Intelligencer is anti-Chris- tian enough to designate Catholicism as among the antagonisms of Christianity. Our Catholic contemporaries, the Freeman's Journal, the Tablet, the Catholic Review, the Boston Pilot and others, are alive to the inter- ests of their special calling, the subject of Catholic parochial schools being a prominent topic of favorable consideration. The Jewish Times, Jewish Messenger and He- brew Leader enlarge upon subjects in the par- ticular interests of Hebrewism; and, alto- gether, our brethren of the religious press this week, from the unusual vigor of their edi- torial articles, show that ‘‘playday” is over, and that watchful sentinels of our religious liberties are again at their posts for the season. The English Press “Eating the Leck” in Face of Herald Special News Enterprise. The Herat of Saturday, August 30, con- tained a special news telegram from Central Asia, announcing the important fact that Khanate clansmen and sympathizers in Khiva ahd Khokand had, just previously, risen in insurrection against the Russians, and that the movement was suppressed only by the prompt adoption of the most stern military action by the Muscovites under General Kaufmann’s lieutenant, the Czar's commander-in-chief being himself temporarily absent. When this intelligence was made known in Great Britain, by means of Ameri- can goaheadism, the London journals denied its accuracy, and misled a large portion of the European press in the same direction by the tone of self-sufficient importance in which they conveyed the assertion, The English metropolitan papers printed the same news yesterday—one month after date—and have thus just commenced to assure Mr, John Bull of the fact that men are likely to become restive under the iron heel of the conqueror in Asi® just as they are in Europe. Considering the position of the British in Afghanistan and the neces- sity which exists for England keeping some- what square with the Czar Alexander, we can see why the London press should like to “fence it’ slightly with regard to a rebellion in Khiva ; but we can scarcely pardon the un- generous and unprofessional course of a denial of accomplished facts first submitted to the world by means of Hrnatp enterprise. GREECE. Exit a Social Curse. The following brief despatch is printed in the London Times of September 9, announcing the oppértune od of one of the worst rascals of mod- bichon . ATHENS, Sept. s, 1873. Arvanitaki, the chief of the band which mas- sacred tl THE PRESIDENT IN TOWN. Secretary Richardson to Arrive To-Day< A Great Financial Caucus To Be Held in the Fifth Avenue Hotel—The $44,000,000 Reserve of Currency. President Grant, accompanied by his son Ulysses, arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel at five o'clock last evening, and a few minutes later he was shown to room 33, on the parior floor, It is re ported that the President came on in compliance with a telegraphic despatch sent to him by Senator Morton, of the National Finance Committee, after a meeting with several bank presidents on Friday evening, begging General Grant’s presence in this city with reference to the existing financial trouble, and to see whether means could not be devised to stem the tide of public distrust Which has been en- gendered by the crisis of the past three days. But few people in the hotel were aware of the President's arrival till about nine o’clock, whem it was bruited through the crowded corridors that he was up stairs, The greatest Interest was ex- pressed as to whether it was merely an ordinary visit. which had brought him to the city, or whether he had come to try and ALLAY THE PANIC. The majority inclined to the latter belief, and, having establishea it in their minds, they wanted to know if Secretary Richardson, of the Treasury, Was coming on to meet and to hold a consultation with the President and the leading financiers of the city, to see what steps should be taken under the circumstances to prevent the further decline of United States securities and restore confidence once more, INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL SHARPE. Atnine o'clock the HgRaup reporter met Gen- eral Sharpe near the President’s room, and the following conversation ensued :— RePORTER—Have you heard if Mr. Richardson is coming on to meet General Grant ? GENERAL SHARPE—I had a telegram from hum this evening, dated at Washington at four o’cl and it may safely be said that Mr. Richardson wil not see the President to-night, and, ergo, no finan- cial scheme can be discussed, MB. RICHARDSON ‘TO ARRIVE TO-DAY. At ten o’clock last night Senator Morton re- ceived a telegram from Washington, and a few minutes later stated to the writer that “Secretary Richardson would be here to-day and that he was sorry he could not give him any information about their plans,'’ A large number of financial, celebrities called open President Grant during the evening and ex- plained thetr views of the causes of the panic, what should be done under the circumstances. Among them were Mr, Gers, Meg of this city; Messrs. Drexel and G. W. Child, of Philadelphia. General Sharpe also paid a prolonged visit. It is believed on all hands that some action om the matter at issue will be taken to-day, and that & portion, If not all, of the reserve currency of 000,000 will be put upon the market, . EXCITEMENT AMONG THE STOCKBROKERS, The excitement at the Fifth Avenue Hotel fairly beggared description, The corridors were im- passable. Some of the despondent men prophesied that the Stock Exchange would remain closed all next week, Others said it was the government's duty to come to the rescue. The feeling as to Monday’s development was very depressed, It was reportea that a slight run had taken place on some of the east side savings banks, and thata meeting of the presidents of the savings institu- tions was to take place to-day. RIPPLES FROM THE FINANCIAL WAVE. Vanderbilt to the Rescue. Ata late hour last night it was stated in one of the clubs that Commodore Vanderbilt had paid into the Union Trust Company during the day the sum of two millions of dollars, the amount due that company by the Lake Shore road, thus enabling the Union to resume busiaess to-morrow. Owing to the lateness of the hour our reporters were un- able to verify this important statement, The Situation in Pittsburg. Prrtapurd, Pa., Sept. 20, 1873, The excitement in financial circies here continnéd to run high with the startling news flashed from New York. There is a sort of a panic among finan- ciers, and a feeling of depression and uneasiness in business circles, But, nevertheless, banks and bankers are confident of comiug out of this flurry with clear skirts, Some heavy drafts were made, this morning on two or three of our banks, but all demands were promptly met and cash paid over the counté for all checks presented. A number of men of the same bust ness interests, Who had deposited largely with one of our banking houses, simultaneously checked out their deposits this morning. One of them had $30,000 on deposit and being ashamed to check tt out himself gave three of his iriends checks: tor $10,000 each and had them obtain the money jor him. At another bank acheck for $75,000 was presented this morning. In this, as in other cases, . the money was at once paid. The amount of Northern Pacific Railroad stock and bonds held in this city is set down by good authority at about three-quarters of a million, and as it is nearly all held by private parties it is hardly possible that any bank or banking house of the city will be atfected by the depreciation of either stock or bonds. Itis said that a good deal of it is in first hands. A number of the favored few who got stock for noth- img through investing in bonds—heads of very wealthy houses here—say that many of the fatiures of New York (that is, of the smaller ones) are with the common consent of the firms who are gainers by embarrassments of others, Effects of the Panic in Cincinnati: CINCINNATI, Ohio, Sept. 20, 1873, The feeling in financial circles here continues to be one of confidence. Third street to-day has been free from excitement, thongh the intelligence from New York has been watched with great in- terest and has been freely discussed. No paper has gone to protest, and the banks generally have been carrying for their customers, Though the past two days have been diligently used in pre- paring for every possible emergency the merchants and moneyed men of the city almost uniformiy be- heve that Cincinnati will not be seriously affected by the storm which is raging in the East. No Panicky Feeling in St. Louis. Sr. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 20, 187% * The feeling here to-day regarding monetary atMairs in New York has been more anxious and apprehensive than it was yesterday, but still there has been noalarm or excitement. The suspension of Taussig, Gemp & Co. produced no perceptible effect. ‘They owe little or nothing here, and, therefore, nobody will be hurt. The banks have curtailea their discounts ‘but slightly. A majority of all od paper is passed promptly, and theree seems ts be little or no. distrust. The markets on ’Change to-lay were a good deas unsettled, and corn and oats declined a cent or two, and {t was diMcult to sell any article; but this was the result of an uneasy feeling and a desire to hold off until steadiness 1s again restored rather than alarm. There has been no panicky. feeling whatever. Suspension of a Savings Bank. BURLINGTON, Towa Sept. 20, 1873. The City Savings Bauk suspended at hall-past twelve P, M. to-da; THE BROOKLYN TRUST OOMPANY AND CERTAIN BONDS. MippLETows, Conn., Sept. 20, 1873. ‘The following are the facts concerning the claimed stolen New Haven, Middletown and Wil- | limanttc Railroad bonds:—On the 14th of Novem- ber, 1872, the towns of Portland ana Middictown deposited with the Brooklyn Trust Company $804,000 of the Willimantic Railroad Company's bonds§ and took receipts signed “The Brooklyn Trust Company, ©, S. Mills, President.” The statements that these bonds have been negotiated by Mills, Rodman & White, with the consent or approval of the officers of the ratiroad company, are incorrect. A part of these bonds are now known by the ontcers and the attorney of the town ‘to have veem negotiated by _ Rodman and White to weil known brokers in Wall street and elsewnere. and the statement that any person ever received any of these bonds from the hands of Mr. Warner, the Attorney of the town, is untrue. The towns have the names of the parties to whom they were negotiated by Mills, Rodman and White to extend loans whic! they were under obligations to carry for the ratl- road company. These facta are admitted by the parties Who negotiated the bonds, THE HALIFAX BOAT RACE. HALIFAX, Sept. 20, 1873. The race over the Bedford Basin will take place on Tuesday morning at nine o'clock, weather per- mitting. There is great excitement here over the forcicoming event. The betting 1s six to one om Brown, Biglin is still the favorite. YACHTING NOTES. The following are at anchor off Hmratp Tele~ Graph station at Whitestone :— English travelers at Mgspiuon, has { ¥acne Rostiess, N-Y.Y.C., 3, Boren.