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QUADRUPLE SHEET. {HE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. *LTo-Day’s Contents of the Merald. "FRENCH POLITICAL PARTIES! A NEW PRE- TENDER! THE REVIVAL OF AN OLD HISTORICAL LEAGUE*—LEADING AR- TICLE—EtcuTH Pace, HE LAST FRENCH POLITICAL SENSATION! JEROME NAPOLEON'S MANIFESTO! A UNION OF FACTIONS FOR THE ADVANUE- MENT OF BONAPARTISM! WHAT CHAM- BORD HSS DONE FOR FRANCE—Firra PAGE. A NAVAL VICTORY GAINED BY THE SPANISH “ GOVERNMENT FLEET AT CARTAGENA! THE INTRANSIGENTES BADLY HANDLED! GREAT REJOICING IN MADRID — Ninva PAGE. ADMIRAL POLO DE BERNABE ON THE PRES- ENT CONDITION AND PROSPECTS OF SPAIN AND CUBA—SEVENTH PAGE, CUBA'S NEW CAPTAIN GENERAL! SLAVEHOLD- | ERS! CONSPIRACIES! REMARKABLE PHE- NOMENA—SEVENTH PAGE. ‘FRENCH REPUBLICAN CONGRATULATIONS OVER THE RECENT ELECTORAL svUc- CESSES—ENGLISH GOLD FOR AMERICA— THE PANIO IN BERLI NINTH PaGE, GERMAN EXPULSION OF EMIGRATION AGENTS— PER® HYACINTHE HONORED BY THE OLD CATHOLICS—THE AUSTRIAN EMPEROR TO VISIT THE CZaR—NintH Pace, FEMALE MEDICAL STUDENTS AT THE EU- ROPEAN UNIVERSITIES! RUSSIA DEBARS THE STUDIES OF RUSSIAN WOMEN AT THE ZURICH UNIVERSITY! GORTSCHA- KOFF AND THE EMPRESS! SPIES AND PLOTS! WOMEN AS SURGEONS—SixTH Pace. THE ITALIAN RULER IN VIENNA AND AT THE EXPOSITION! THE POPE'S AUSTRIAN LIEGE! PRESS COMMENTS ON THE VISIT— REMARKABLE ASSAULT UPON THE PRESS IN AN ENGLISH COUR!—Tugreenra Pace. EXCITEMENT IN THE LONDUN THEATRICAL WORLD! HENRY IRVING'S RICHELIEU! ACTORS AND PLAYS AT THE VARIOUS THEATRES—THE WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS— SEVENTH Pace. MEMPHIS AND SHREVEPORT! HOPE FROM THE FROST! FORTY-SEVEN FEVER VICTIMS YESTERDAY IN MEMPHIS—Nintu Pace. POURING OIL UPON THE TROUBLED DEMO. CRATIC WATERS! THE DEMANDS OF APOLLO HALL AND THE CONUESSIONARY OFFERS OF TAMMANY—Firtu Pace. TAMMANY'S STANDARD BEARERS IN THE COUNTY! PROCEEDINGS OF THE CON. VENTION—GENERAL POLITICAL NEWS— HONORS TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE MR. CHASE—FirTn Pace, THE DISCREPANCIES IN THE CITY FINANCIAL BUREAU! MR, GREEN'S MANAGEMENT AND EXPLANATIONS—THE FINANCIAL CLEARING UP—Tweirrn Pace. EX-PRESIDENT JOHNSON “SWINGING AROUND” THE NATIONAL CAPITAL! THAT DE- POSIT! THE SURRATT TRIAL! SPECIE PAYMENTS AND THE FINANCES—Firra. PaGs. THE MURDER MANIA! TWo DETESTABLE CRIMES IN ILLINOIS—THE KILLING OF GENERAL McCOOK—THE SUNRISE CRUEL- TY—THIRTEENTH PAGE, DEPRESSING THE MARKETS! STOCKS DOWN TO “HARDPAN!’ THE SALIENT POINTS IN FINANCIAL AFFAIRS—FURTHER PRO- CEEDINGS IN THE STOKES CASE—ELEVENTE Page. REAL PROPERTY IN THE METROPOLIS AND SUBURBS! FLUCTUATIONS IN VALUES OF ALL KINDS! THE BUSINESS DONE—VERY IMPORTANT LEGAL PROCEEDINGS—TentH Pace. From Memrurs our reports of the terrible Wavages and generally lamentable con- ‘Bequences of the yellow fever continue to be very sorrowful. The unfortunate city, we ‘may say, is disarmed, subjugated and lying Bt the feet of its merciless enemy, Im- Mediate assistance is wanted beyond the con- tributions going in, and the city of New Work, through her liberal citizons, always fore- ‘most and most generous in good works, owes it to herself and her high namo to see to it that the immediate wants of the suffering people pt Memphis are generously suvvlied French Political Parties—A New Pre= tender—The Revival of an Old His- torical League. 1 French history so often repeats itself that there is nothing new or strange in the attempt just made by Prince Napeleon to revive the old alliance which flourished from 1815 to 1848 between the Bonapartists and the repub- licans, The Prince, whom Parisians nick- name “Plon Plon” and ‘Le César Rouge,"’ in his manifesto, which we publish to-day, so clearly nominates himself as the leader of this red and blue party that the whole opposi- tion press has caught fire, and His Imperial Highness has been rewarded with an explosion of furious invectives such as, perhaps, he searcely foresaw. The thoroughgoing im- perialists, of whom young M. Paul de Cas- sagnac, of the Pays, is a fair sample, accuse him of being a downright traitor, who has long been watching for an opportunity of set- ting up a banner of his own, and the repub- lican sheets declare with one voice that they will not be duped again into an alliance of which experience’has taught them the cost. ‘This is all very weil, butas a matter of fact Prince Napoleon’s only blunder is that he has spoken out too soon, If he had waited till the Count de Chambord was enthroned his letter to M. Portalis would not have excited wrath, but gezeral in- terest; it would not have been dismissed by the royalist journals as an effusion beneath contempt, but would have been discussed as the significant programme of a party who have no scruples and dare everything, who have set their hearts on ruling France, and will be a permanent danger to every faction, royalist or republican, that attempts to govern without them. Even as it is, Frenchmen conversant with the parliamentary history of their coun- try must well know that a pact between Bona- partists and republicans is not a thing merely possible, but inevitable. The two parties are linked by principles which appear outwardly similar, and which have struck deep roots in the national heart. Both represent universal suffrage, hostility to priest rule and equality; both date their birth from the great Revolu- tion, and their baptism of blood from the vic- tories won by Hoche, Moreau and Bonaparte over the coalesced armies of monarchical Europe ; both are further united by the mem- ories of battles fought and persecutions en- dured in the reigns of Louis XVIII., Charles X. and Louis Philippe when they combated side by side under the common name of liberals, The word liberal was, indeed, first coined after Waterloo to designate the powerful party who professed to uphold the principles of 1789 against the reactionary tendencies of the Bourbons and the anti-Napoleonic policy of the Holy Alliance. The old soldiers of the Empire and the decrepit orators of the Con- vention, the sons of men who had strangled the Revolution on the 18th Brumaire, and the children of those who had bled or been im- prisoned for the Revolution’s sake on that famous day forgot their mutual grudges, and jumbled their convictions into a common stock for the greater confusion of the reigning dynasty. It was at bottom a grotesque alliance, for what bond could there be between the sturdy republicans, who believed in the rights of man, and those grizzled dragoons who had marched into every capital of the Covtinent enforcing only the rights of the sword? But politics are based on sentiment—seldom on sense—and the ‘liberals’ somehow made their devotion to freedom accord with their allegiance to the “Martyr of St. Helena.’’ Their party kept sacred the anniversarics of the 2lst of September, when the Republic was proclaimed, and that of the 5th of May, when Napoleon died; it sported bunches of violets, which were imperialist emblems, and Waistcoats with broad lapels called giles ala Robespierre; it spoke reverentially of the mur- dered Ney, who had been the Emperor's pet general, and acclaimed Benjamin Constant, whom the Emperor had always hated and op- pressed; in a word, it was the party of progress, to which all young men bce longed who had their way to carve in the world, and it had Béranger for its poet, Paul Louis Courier for its pamphleteer, and Foy for its orator. Those who are old enough to | remember the Paris of fifty years ago can call to mind how ferocious were the party strifes, how brutal and unprovoked the insults which the henchmen of either camp lavished on each other. The first per- formance of a new theatrical piece which bore any historical allusions, the burial of a public man, a religious procession, a state pageant, were all seized on as pretexts for violent wrangles which ended in bloodshed. Tho officers of the King’s guard would go to the Theatre Fsangais in a body to hiss Mile. Mars because she was a Bonapartist; those of the old Imperial Guard would retort by hooting all the pieces at the Gymnase, then | called ThéAtre Madame, in honor of the Duchess of Berri; and royalists and imperi- alists had each their café (the Café Valois and the Café Lemblin), where duels were prepared every evening as regularly as if throat-cutting were the prime method of asserting one’s opinions here below. Fiveand twenty years after this—that is, towards the close of Louis Philippe’s reign—the Napoleon- republican fervor, though grown less turbu- lent in its manifestations, had not abated in its intensity. Far from that, it had towered into something almost as sacred as a religious creed, and during the three days’ insurrection of June, 1848, numbers of the poor dupes who were shot down behind the barricades of the Faubourg St. Antoine fell crying, ‘Vive Na- poléon et le Socialisme !” as if the two words meant the same thing. Even among the edu- cated republicans the illusion was just as com- plete, and it makes one smile now to recollect that the three principal advocates of Prince Louis Bonaparte’s election to the Presidency were Thiers, Emile de Girardin and Victor Hugo—Victor Hugo, who has since written “Les Chatiments” and ‘Napoléon le Petit!" Well, they erred in good faith, for how could it be suspected that the ox-prisoner of Ham was only spreading nets for the Republic when from that bootmaker’s shop in the Passage des Panoramas, which was the secret headquarters of the Napoleonic propaganda, pamphlets, placards and romances were issued by the million declaring the Bonapartes to be the stanchest of radicals; and when organ-grinders wont braying through all the streets of the city a song beginning— Napoléon rentre dans ta patric, Napoléon ton bon républicain! We all know how the republicanism of Prince Louis ended, and how the pretty bird whom the democrats had so carefully hatched turned out to be an eagle, with fine talons and beak. But if there is one point on which all political parties are alike incorrigible it is in their disregard for the lessons of history, and despite past mishaps, broken hopes and sub- sequent recriminations we are certainly about to witness a renewal of that strange league which reminds one of the alliance between the earthen pot and the iron one. Nor let it be contended that any specula- tions as to their likely results are at this date premature, for events in France move apace. In two months from this time the Count of Chambord may, according to all present pros- pects, be on the throne, and if the republicans and Bonapartists are as prompt in banding together as were the legitimists, Orleanists and republicans in forming their anti-imperi- alist league after the establishment of the Second Empire, the new King and his Minis- ters may find themselves involved in such home troubles as may lead them, in obedi- } ence to immemorial French custom, to seck diversion in foreign war, which would mean trouble and panic forall Europe, Henri V., it must be remembered, would be but a shaky king owing his crown to a few parliamentary votes scraped together by lobby intrigue, and if sore pressed by an array of republicans and Bonapartists, with two thirds of the nation at their backs, nothing would be more likely to suggest itself to his mind than the idea of con- solidating his throne by reviving the military prestige of French arms. In 1823, when Louis XVIII. was in a similar predicament, the Duke of Angouléme was sent to Spain to reduce the Constitutionalists, who were endeavoring to wrest concessions from Ferdinand VIL; in 1873 Spain offers just as good an excuse for Bourbonist intervention as it did forty years ago, and the sight of the Dukes of Nemours and Aumsle marching across the Pyrenees to put down Castelar and seat Don Carlos, whilst the Prince de Joinville took a fleet to bombard Cadiz, would be one that would certainly gratify French vanity, if it did not recommend itself to common sense. But, supposing Spain vanquished by French arms and King Carlos concluding treaties with his cousin Henri, what would be more consistent than to yield to the clerical agitation and to seek new laurels by restoring the temporal power of the Pope in Italy and ousting Victor Em- manuel, Prince Napoleon’s father-in-law? This war would be even more popular than the other, for the French of all opinions feel bitterly towards the Italians, whom they tax with ingratitude for having neglected to repay the debt of Solferino by assisting France in 1870. But what would Bismarck say in such a juncture, and what would Germany do? Prince Bismarck is a peremptory statesman, but astute, and he is just the man to let France embark in an Italian war and then fall on her to wind up his settlement of old scores (which would signify the annexation of the rest of Lorraine and Burgundy), when she was fairly in the toils. All these eventualities must be considered in judging of French af- fairs at this moment, and particularly in cal- culating the results of the combination which Prince Napoleon has been projecting. But it may be asked, again, how can the republicans forget the treatment they suffered. under the Empire and make common cause with the men who gagged and exiled them for twenty years? No doubt the ques- tion reads queerly, but who could ever have foreseen in 1847 that ten and twenty years later Bourbonists, Orleanists and republicans would meet together in amity in the drawing rooms of MM. Thiers, Berryer and Marie, turn by turn, and combine parliamentary tactics, newspaper articles and electionsering manceuyres to vex Napoleon IIL? Yet such was the case. Every Wednesday, in M. Thiers’ house of the Place St. George, and every Fri- day, in M. Berryer’s handsome saloons, you could meet the Duke de Broglie and M. Gar- nier Pagés, M. Jules Fayre and M. Prevost- Paradol discoursing cheek by jowl, and fancy- ing themselves to be of one mind because they were temporarily confederated for a common purpose, The reconciliation of the republi- cans and Bonapartists will not be an odder thing than this, mor, on the whole, less absurd, for this one positive truth must be taken into account, that the republican and Bonapartist factions contain a far greater number of adventurers than the others, and that, therefore, scruples of conscience will not weigh much more with them than they do in the case of hungry men who wish to grow rich. The new party will probably not call itself liberal, as of yore, but democratic, and, under Prince Napoleon's auspices, it will go in boldly for fret thought and some modified form of socialism. The republicans Will con- veniently forget that Napoleon III. supported the Pope's temporal power for two and twenty years with French bayonets, and the imperial- ists will dismiss from their minds all the un- pleasant plots in which Tibaldi, Cluseret and Bianqui took parts. In course of time we may hear of Gambetta being on excellent terms with the ‘Red Casar,”” and of Paul de Cassagnac taking his absinthe at the Café de Suéde with M. Ranc. Then, some day, if the young Prince Imperial disappear from the scene, as the Duke of Reichstadt did, the republicans may find once again that they have bestowed all their energies in refounding a Third Empire for the behoof of a portly gentleman who will shoot, exile and put them under lock and key with the perfect serenity which his family have always evinced in such cases, Meantime, gazing on these plots and coun- terplots, a foreigner who stands disinterested amid the broils of French parties may well feel some pity for the good-natured and bewildered people who were once called La Grand Nation, and ask, When will this unhappy country at length obtain rest? Frownina ox Emicration.—Germany, as we learn by a cable despatch this morning, has taken stringent measures to repress the stream which has been annually draining from the Empire thousands of young men who could be made useful to swell the imperial armies or contribute to the national industry. Allemigration agents are to be expelled by the local authorities, under the direction of the Berlin Cabinet. Butno such means will suffice to keep at home the restless clement in the German populations, which focls the heavy burden of the paternal government, and sees across the Atlantic a free republic, where youth and its hopes are not sacrificed to the ambitions of a dynesty or the policy of a State. Though Kaiser William may not relish the fact, we shall still expect to wel- come German emigrants, who prefer the free- dom of America to the greatness of imperial Fatherland, The Factions in Spain—The Cause of Don Alfonso. According to the Spanish news of this morning the intransigente fleet and the gov- ernment fleet under the command of Admiral Lobés came into collision on the afternoon of Saturday last. Tho fight took place not far distant from Cartagena, and lasted two hours. The result was not decisive; but it would seem as if the government ships had the best of it, for the insurgent vessels were compelled to take refuge in Cartagena harbor. One report has it that the Tetuan, one of the in- surgent ships, has been captured; but while we write this report lacks confirmation. Spain is said to be jubilant over the victory. It is not to be denied that if the government of Castelar succeeds in putting down the naval rebellion the Republic will gain some éclat. It is just some such victory as this which is wanted to put the government on its feet. On Sunday, in Madrid, it was currently reported that an attempt had been made on the life of Oastelar, This report has not, while we write, been confirmed; but neither has it been contradicted. We can see no motive for any such act, Castelar has done as well since his advent to power as it was reasonable to expect. The assassins in Spain aro generally to be found in the republican ranks. What grudge the republicans can have against Castelar, except that he is doing his best to restore order, it is difficult to dis- cover. Is it possible that this report has been got up for the purpose of casting odium on the party of order, and especially on those who are supposed to have at heart the restora- tion of the monarchy in the person of the Prince of the Asturias? We shall rejoice to learn that the assassination story is without foundation. It is quite clear from a variety of causes that the faction fight in Spain is not yet ended. The Carlists have, we think, lost their opportunity. Don Carlos, some three months ago, gave us fair reason to hope that he would, on an early day, take his seat on the throne of his ancestors. Reason for such hope no longer exists. The international or intransigente party are likewise on the decline, Cartagena alone remains to them; buta few days more may be found sufficient to restore the ancient city to its allegiance and to de- prive the rebels of shelter alike on sea and land. But when the Carlists and the intransi- gentes are both out of the field Spain will still be divided between two great rival interests. Two factions will still remain—the Alfonsists and the republicans. The Alfonsists largely represent the party of order. Serrano, Topete and the whole powerful middle class who be- lieve in @ constitutional monarchy are on the side of Isabella’s son. From one of our latest reports it appears that the Alfonsista Club have issued a manifesto declaring that the time has come to prepare for the accession of Don Al- fonso to the throne of Spain. The manifesto will be eagerly looked for, and its appearance may mark the commencement of another na- tional crisis. There is great reason to fear that the men who must soon come to the sur- face and occupy the principal government offices are at heart devoted to the interests of the young Alfonso. The Female Students Zurich. The interesting story which wo publish this morning from the pen of a special Henanp correspondent, writing from Zurich, is worthy of the most careful attention. The social his- tory of Russia is little known to the general reader, and true accounts of her domestic life are current among those only who have tray- elled over the Empire, or have been thrown in frequent contact with students who have made a close study of her institu- tions. We are sorry to say that the more intimate one’s knowledge of the social struc- ture the less inviting does its contemplation become. The Russian people may not be to blame for this, and whoever is responsible for the political and social depravity existing we have no disposition at this time to point out the sources of the aggregation of debauchery which disfigures the proudest nation of Eu- rope. But its melancholy existence is a fact. From the palace to the humblest cottage there is a lamentable unsoundness, weakening every component part of the Empire. So well known and keenly appreciated is this fact by the astute statesman who does no other's bidding but the Czar’s, that no family can leave Russian soil and travel in foreign parts without a certified permission from the gov- ernment. Nobook can be published unless stamped with the imperial “Yes,” and there has, therefore, been no encouragement to describe Russian life as it is. The Russian novel, in the sense of the romance of English life, giving exact, if unpalatable, national fail- ings and situations, never appears, But this morning we beg to present a pretty picture of Russian life in Zurich—not to exult over the weaknesses and misfortunes of ascore of young women driven from their homes in pursuit of 6 professional education and an honorable future employment—but to show mankind that there is always the desire among women to better themselves whenever the opportunity presents itself. Between this desire and the young women the powerful arm of tho Czar is interposed and a vehement ukase is issued depriving the female students of all character, of all future patronage, simply be- cause some of them have been indiscreet enough to consort with Russian refugees in the little Swiss town. From the account of our correspondent, written in an impartial spirit as it is, we cannot believe that this ac- tion of the imperial authorities will meet with any sympathy at home orabroad. The pretence that a few girls at an inland university could in any way reflect upon the purity of Russian morals is too absurd for consideration; and even if they have now and then departed from the conventionalities of life they do not inaptly represent the shortcomings of the Russian aristocracy. If the imperial govern- ment persists in its unwise and illiberal course it will be a severe blow at education in the Empire, and will only be on a parallel with the persecution to which proselytes from the Greek Church in the Baltic provinces were subjected previous to tho carnest protest of the Evangolical Alliance. Russia claims a friendship with the United States. Wo are not insensiblo tq the Russian, at NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTUBER 14, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. value of her good will, but absolute freedom can never amalgamate with absolute despotism. Popular sovereignty and paternal government divergo as do the radii of a circle, but let us hope that they can at least be united in one at- tribute—humanity toward women. This Day’s State Hlections, The State elections of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Iowa come off to-day. Their results will doubtless show in every case an immense falling off from the popular vote of last year, for we have never known such ‘general apathy’ among the people in reference to party poli- tics as that which now prevails throughout the country. It is probable that, by greatly re- duced majorities on a short vote, the republi- cans, as usual, will carry all the four States named. Should they lose any one of them they will have to look out for their laurels in New York and other States in November. Ont- side of the States which vote to-day very little interest is felt for the results therein, except- ing the results in Ohio and Iowa, in regard to which certain new elements in the field may, it is widely supposed, materially disturb the calculations of the republican politicians. In Ohio, under the style and title of the people’s party, the liberal republicans are running their own candidate for Governor, and as the strength of this new party in the State, whether ten, twenty or thirty thousand, has never been discovered, the regular repub- licans have been working for a margin to cover losses, which may foot up to ten, twenty or thirty thousand. The elections of last year, when the liberal republicans were fused with the democratic party, afforded no test of the liberal strength, because the old democratic Bourbons, who bolted against Greeley, outnumbered in every State the re- publicans he carried over to the democratic side. Now, however, with the whole demo- cratic vote in Ohio united upon Allen for Governor, and, with the liberals doing their best for their own candidate, it is thought probable or possible that they may carry off the republican balance of power, and so se- cure the election of Allen. Hence the public curiosity outside of Ohio in reference to the results of this Ohio election. In Iowa the democratic party has disap- peared in: its fusion with farmers’ granges upon their anti-monopoly State ticket, and as many republicans are identified with this anti- monopoly party the results of this election in Iowa.may be somewhat surprising to the re- publican managers. But, whether the grangers’ succeed or fail in this trial, it may doubtless be regarded as the beginning of an indepen- dent anti-monopoly movement which will enter very largely into next year’s elections for a new Congress. The Administration Financial Doctors Disagreeing. The President, while expressing his views on the currency and financial question rather timidly and modestly, is clearly of opinion that the forty-four millions of legal tenders in reserve ought to be reissued, and said that, if he were now engaged in writing his annual Message to Congress, he should recommend positive authority to reissue this reserve. On the other hand, the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Richardson, says, ‘I would as strenuously oppose a bill for permanently increasing the legal tender circulation above the present standard as I would a bill for permanently fix- ing it at three hundred and fifty-six million dollars.” The Secretary wants the power to draw upon the forty-four millions reserve in case of necessity, temporarily, but with the understanding that the reserve shall be placed back again as soon as the exigency may have | passed. He is, however, decidedly opposed to a permanent enlargement of the greenback circulation. This difference of opinion shows how difficult it is to come to any clear under- standing on this question of the currency. There will be, probably, as great a conflict of opinions in Congress on the subject, An elastic currency in some form, through the direct action of the Treasury Department or through a system of free banking, seems to be regarded by many as necessary. We are approaching the time, no doubt, when tho currency system of the country will have to be revised and put on a substantial basis, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Rear Admiral Emmons, United States Navy, Is at the Astor House. General A. S. Diven, of Elmira, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mayor J. H, Millard, of Omaha, has apartments at the St. Nicholas Hotel. State Senator McGowan, of Frankfort, N. Y., is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. ~ General S. E, Marvin, of Albany, is registerea at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Professor Benjamin Silliman, of Yale College, is again at the Albemarle Hotel. General John G. Hazard, of Rhode Island, arrived at the Albemarle Hotel yesterday. General Joseph R. Anderson, ot Richmond, Va., is registered at the Windsor Hotel. Captain H. Tibbits, of the steamship City of Paris, is staying at the Everett House. Ex-Governor Alvah Saunders, of Nebraska, yes- terday arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. State Senator Abiab W. Palmer, of Amenia, N.Y., yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Lieutenant Commander F, R, Smith, United States Navy, has quarters at the Westminster Hotel, Sir Charles Dilke has become an Odd Fellow. He became enamored of the cratt by his treatment in California by its members, Frederick A. Sawyer, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, arrived at the Filth Avenue Hotel from Washington yesterday morning. The Kev. Dr. Moran, the great Southern preacher, has been the guest of Commodore Vanderbilt during the Evangelical Alliance, The report that the second son of the Duke of Marlborough is to be married to Miss. Jerome, of this city, is announced by the Oxford Times to be untrae, General Sherman, with Colonels McCoy and Bacon of his staff, left Washingion last evening for Toledo to attend the reunion of the Army of Tennessee. The Rev. Father Paolo Grassi, late incumbent of the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore, in Rome, re- cently recanted his former faith and was baptized a3 a Baptist, Maurice Delfosse, Belgian Minister at Washing- ton, and Mr. Barbanson, Secretary of the Belgian Legation, yesterday arrived at the Brevoort House from Newport. Sir Charles Lyell has been given by the King of Sweden the Grand Cross of a Commander of the Order of the North Star, and Professors Huxley and Tyndall have been made Knight Companions of the same order. George W, Childs, of the Philadelptia Ledger, has been allowed by the Dean of Westminster to con- tribute the cost of a memorial window to be placed in the Chapel of Westminster Abbey, a8 monu- ment to George Herbert and Wiliam Cowper, who were educated in Wostminator achool. WASHINGTON. pS BIDS ek ok WasuINaton, Oct. 13, 1873, What the President Meant to Say Oon- corning the $44,000,000 Reserve. The friends of the President who have talked with him recently on the financial condition of the country and have heard him express his views in regard to specie payment, were surprised to find in the semt-official article published this should morning the statement that “he recommend positive authority to reissue the $44,000,000 of legal tender reserve.” His attention was called to this apparent variation in his views, as repeatedly stated of late, and the President waa surprised to find he had allowed himself to endorse this language as reflecting his opinion on the subject, and which he saw wae liable to be construed as favoring expansion. What he meant was this:—piversity of opinion did exist as to the right of the Treasury Department to issue any portion of the reserve, and all doubts could only be removed by @ joint reso lution of Congress, His purpose was to direct attention to this fact and ask Congress to settle, by positive legislation, the right of the Secretary of the Treasury to consider the $44,000,000 as @reserve to be temporarily drawn on only as ac- tual indebtedness made it necessary for him to do 80 in paying the demands made upon his department. This might be regarded as favoring expansion, but he was convinced that without such @ reserve the Treasury would at times be in the condition of some of the national banks and obliged to suspend currency payment, Let the outstanding circulation be fixed, as it now is, at $356,000,000, and the $44,000,000 be kept, aa tt is now, @ reserve for any emergency. Such a reserve was absolutely necessary for the protection of the country’s credit, and if it could not bo held as at present, it would have to be made by withdrawing notes from circulation, and then the cry of contraction would be ratsed. While he did not favor increasing the circulation permanently, or inflating the currency, as it waa called, he did not want the unsullled credit of the nation jeopardized by restricting the Secretary of the Treasury within $356,000,000 any more than he would wish to see the business in- terests of the country embarrassed by withdrawing any considerable portion of that amount from cir culation to create a reserve. Inreply to the sug- gestion that under his administration such author- ity as he spoke of would not be abused, but that it was a dangerous power to confer upon the Presi- dent, he replied:—“‘The authority may be .imited by law, and need not be left wholiy to the judg. ment of the Secretary; but it willbe time to dis. cuss that some weeks hence. Iam satisfied Oon- gress will act wisely in the matter.” Call for Reports of the Condition of the National Banks. The Comptroller of the Currency to-day tssued circulars calling upon all the national banks for a report of their condition at the close of business on Friday, the 12th of September, 1873, The Bank Superintendent of the State of New York haa already called for a report of the condition of alt the State banks of that State for the same day, 80 that complete statistics of all the banka, State and national, the city and State of New York can compiled from these returns when received, The Comp- troller has also selected this day in order that he may be able to furnish complete statistics of the condition of the national banks of the whole coun- wy just previous to the beginning of the panic, As the cail for the report has been delayed for ten days beyond the usual time it is urgently re. quested that the bank oficers will respond as promptly as possible to the circular of the Comp- troller. The Polaris Investigation. The examination of the Polaris survivors way continued by Secretary Robeson to-day, but the injunction of secrecy has not been removed, and therefore nothing reliable can be ascertained con- cerning it. Appalling Losses by the Late Storm. A report of the movements and damage done by the great storm of August 24, 1873, has been pre- pared at the signal office in this city, from data carefully collected from reliable sources, which will be given in fuil to the public in a few days.’ The following 1s @ summing up of the losses caused by this terrible storm :—1,032 vessels, of which 433 were small fishing schooners, are known to have been destroyed, during the 24th and 25th of August, in the neighborhood of the Gulf of St. Law- in be rence and the Atlantic shores ol Nova = Scotia, Cape Breton and New: foundland. In addition to this large number over 9u vessels were destroyed by the same storm in ita course before reaching Nova Scotia, making a grand total of at least 1,122 vessels destroyed within a few days. Two hundred and twenty-three lives are definitely reported as lost, and the most moderate estimate of the numerous cases in which whole crews are stated to have been lost swells this number, to nearly 500, while if to this be added the loss of life on land and in the earlier history of the cyclone, the grand total amounts to at least 600 lives. The records also show that about 900 buildings were damaged or totally destroyed by this storm. The fishing inter. ests of the United States and Canada have been seriously crippled by these losses, which have fallen with especial severity upon Gloucester and other New England towns. Demand for the Trade Dollar, The Superintendent of the Carson City (Nev.) Mint informs the Secretary of the Treasury to- day that the trade dollar has, since the fnancial troubles and the depreciation of the value of sil- ver, gone into circulation extensively, and, though not intended for home use, the miners and busi- ness men prefer it to fractional currency, Pomeroy’s Assailant Considered of Une seund Mind, Several of the old personal friends of ex-Con- gressman Conway, who attempted to kill ex-Sen- ator Pomeroy on Saturday last, will to-morrow make application in the District Court for a com- mission of lunacy to examine Conway, as they be- lieve him to be of unsound mind, The Supreme Court Judges at the White House. The Justices of the Supreme Court, accompanied by Attorney General Willlams, calied at the Execu- tive Mansion to-day and paid their respects to the President. The Trial of Judge Wright. In the Criminal Court to-day E. P. Stantun filed &motion to quash the twenty-eight indictments against Judge Wright charging him with certain forgeries in Indian bounty cases, and by agree- ment the argument to quash was postponed until Chief Justice Cartter shall hold the criminal term. The Government and the Western Union Telegraph. The Attorney General has decided that oneaelt of the compensation chargeable for goverament despatches over the telegraph lines of the Westera Union Telegraph Company along the Kansas Pacific railroad may be retained by the government and applied to the payment of the bonds issued by the United States, to aid in the construction of the road. ARMY ORDERS, WASHINGTON, Oct..23, 1873. The following general order has been issued (rom. | the War Department tu-day :— ‘The President of the United States commands tt tox’ be made Known that all soldiers who have desertedy their colors, and who shall on or belore the Ist 4 of January, 1874, surrender themselves to any mi ttary station, shall receive full pardon, only fa) feiting the pay and allowances due them at the time of desertion, and shail be restored to duty without trial or punishment on condition that the: faithfully serve through the term of their eniis mont. The Superintendent. of the General Recrusting Service has been directed to send 125 recruits to Omaha for assignment to the Fourteenth cavalry. NAVAL INTELLIGBNOS Commodore Cooke has been detached from the Naval Academy and ordered to duty at the Torpogo Station, Newport, R. 1.; Lieutenant ip ete is ordered to the Ossipee; Paymaster Arthur Burtia to special duty at Wa aington i ceeree Assistant Surgeon George S. Bright to the Naval Academy, Tho United States steamer Bache wos towed into Quick's Hole, R. 1, on Saturday morning by the tux Cora L, Staple& ech her Dravsilor disabled. P