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NEW YORK HERALD
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JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
4 PROPRIETOR
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|, ADJUSTMENTS TINS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
WsE WILLIE wMxIE. Matinee at .
WOODS MUSEUM Broadway, cor ner Both st-Perrorm
ances every afternoon and evening.
BowERY THEATRE, Bowsry.-RopHpr EMMETT
OWLS OF PAnrs-TBE Snow BIRD
7 FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. rwsn.y.,ourss s.-MAs
AND WIFE. Matinee at ~
Rr VAN wNKLE Matinee At ls
roURrEExTH STREET THEATRE srheasr rr.ncals)-
kLnABETu. Matince-Tnx STRANGER.
\ GLOBE THEATRE. ~ Breadway.-vAarxry ENrEr
xANxxNr-NrNPns OF THE CAanBxAN SEA. Matinee.
IVA wAL5IAoK's THEATRE: Broadway ana 18th street.
NEW YORK sTADT THEATRE, Is Bowery.- CRANE
0ssxAs orERA-NAR1HA-
:, M Tdo r.os GARDEN B,.sdway-EseIrsn OPERA
LIMA gDwIEs THEATRE. 40 gss.dway.-ALADDIs--
BLACK EYED SUSAN. Matinee at g.
c.ASp OPERA SSgsE s e and
MRS. ,. D: coSwAY's PARK THEATRE. Brooklyn
NAN AND WYE
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUsIc.-MArrE sEKBAoH
A Macy STUART
TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE. acl Bowery-vA-
sIs1Y EsrERTAISAEST. Matinee at ~
THEATRE ooMIQgE, n4 Broadway.-coMIo VOCAL
ism, MICRO Aols, &C. Matinee at "a.
MORO MINsTEELsY, FARcEs. BuR.EsouEs &c.
KELLY Icons MINsTRELs. No 500 broadway
THE ONLY LEos-LA ROSE DE 81. fLouE, 2c
HOoLEy's OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.-YEaRo MIN
sTRELsY, BURLRsouEs, &c
BROOKLYN OPERA HoUsE--wELca. HUGHES h
WHITES MISsTHELs-CoLoRED TROOPS FoUGuT MOLLY.
BROOKLYN HALL. Myrtle avenue.--MR. DE CoHDovA
NEW YORK CIRCUS Fourteenth street. SCENES IN
TIE RING, AoRoBATs, &c. Matinee at 2G
APOLLO HALL corner 2s.h street and Broadway
GRAND CONCERT.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE EXHIBITION. -EarrnE
RINK, Third avenue and sIxtythrd street
NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANAToxY. els Broadway
soIkNoE AND ART
DR. KAHN,s ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, as Broadway
sCIEHcR AND ART.
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B0WERY THEATRE, Bowery-RoBRpr EmMErT-
Owls OF PARrB-THK Snow BIRD.
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r FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twen.y.rour.h s,.-MAN
AND WIFE Matinee At ~. -
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WOODS MUSEUM Broadway, CO r ner Both st-Perforu-
Ances every aftcrnosn and evening.
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BOOTHS THEATRE. SD st.. between 5.h AMI oln ava
RIr VAN WINKLR. Matinee At l.
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GLOBE THEATRE. ~ Broadway-vARrxTy ENTER
OF THE CARIBBEAN SEA Matinee.
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STREET THEATRE (Thea tire Francais)-
LIzADETn Matnce-TIR STRANGER
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wALLACK'S THEATRE Broadway ana 18th street. =
JOHN BULL. Matinee-ADRrKNNE LEcouvnnUR
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NEW YORK sTADT THEATRE, Is Bowery.-GRAS1
QHRMAN orERA-MARIHA.
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iulness, Ills power 10 expose vice ana
corruption and to sustain virtue, and
his ability to do good in hundreds of ways
are entirely unknown in tho sphere of the
politician. One has only to look into the in-
trigues of the political wire pullers to become
Disguised with the whole system. Take our
friend Roosevelfs case, for example We will
be bound that schemes are on foot to accom-
plish his overthrow, if possible, to which he,
with his natural instincts as gentleman,
would not countenance on his own behalf; or,
if he did, 1t would arise from the fact that
in leaving his sanctum he left honor behind,
and had become contaminated by the political
atmosphere in which he is compelled to move.
No, gentlemen. Better be good journalist,
respected by constituency whose influence is
universal, than to hold any public Office that
has to be reached by political triokery and
chicanery, whether that Office be a pound
keeper or the Presidency Of the United States.
That editor, we think, makes mistake who
allows his sanctum to become o hotbed in
which to cultivate Congressional aspirations.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-04

ct the head Of the department. The
chiefs of bureaus are experienced officers,
and they are the proper advisers Of the Score
tary in matters upon which his own know
ledge may be deficient, and they have been
found by all previous Secretaries to be amply
sufficient for the proper and efficient admins
tration of all the affairs Of the navy. For an
officer TO be stationed at the department as
prompter to the Secretary and general facto-
tum is something entirely unprecedented,
and the evil of such an innovation has been
sufficiently proved during the year that the
present administration has been in power
No sooner had President Grant been inaugu-
rated than Vice-Admiral Porter managed to
establish himself at the Navy Department,
for the nominal purpose of instructing the
new Secretary in his duties. One Of his first
acts was to start afresh the old quarrel be-
tween the line and staff, and ever since he
has been in power there has been contention
and trouble. Poor Mr.. Borie soon got very
sick of the job, and proceeded to get himself
out of the difficulty by resigning. When Mr..
Robson was appointed, it was thought by all
who knew him that Porter would very speedily
receive marching orders. Mr.. Robson was
reputed to have ability aud pluok and his
friends asserted confidently that he would be
the last man to submit TO impertinent inter
ference in the duties of his Office from any
body. There was much disappointment,
therefore, when Porter did not receive his
dismissal, and as the troubles of the navy
continued, the Secretary was forced, Justly or
unjustly, to share the unpopularity of the
Vice-Admiral. He is the responsible party,
and Porters schemes are carried out in his
name. 1t is difficult to conceive how a man
of spirit can submit to appear before the
country in such an anomalous position as
this; and even if Secretary Robson should
commit mistakes, the country will be much
more ready to forgive them if they are merely
his own errors of judgment than if there is a
suspicion that they are the result of bad
counsel from those who have no right to die
tate or even advise with regard to the ad-
ministration of his office. 1t will be good
thing, therefore, if Porter is ordered off
without further delay. He has done harm
enough already for any one man, and it is
time that Secretary Robson should retrieve
his credit and show whether he really has the
ability to run the Navy Department in a salts
factory manner on his own hook, and without
allowing himself to be made the tool of ring
of officers who are seeking to manage the
naval service exclusively in their own
interest.
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ANOTHER CHECK TO THE INDE-
DIN u N ArA II GALA ID LII pun LuLrI


PENDENOE SQUARE PROJECT.
The contract made by the Building Commits
sion with Mr. McNikols for the excavation of
a cellar on the Walnut street front was pre-
sented to City Councils for approval yester-
day. 1t encountered earnest opposition in
both branches, but the friends of the Inde-
pendence Square project mustered working
majority in the Select branch, while in the
Common Council motion to indefinitely
postpone the ordinance approving the con-
tract was passed by vote of 10 yeas to IS
nays. Another breathing spell. is thus gained
by the opponents of a measure that is exceed
ingly unpopular with large proportion
of the citizens of Philadelphia, and
they should improve the opportunity
by using promptly every honorable and just
means to arrest the proceedings of the Build
ing Commission. That body acts in exceed
ingly bad taste, if not in clear violation of
law, by awarding contracts and attempting to
incur enormous expenditures in advance of
an appropriation by Councils. The most ra-
tional explanation of its precipitate pro-
ceedings is to be found in its well-grounded
fear that the sober second thought of the peo-
pie will condemn the proposed desecration of
Independence Square, and scatter to the
winds the commission which is so exceedingly
anxious to consummate this outrage.
The people demand q vote on this question.
1t would be the height of injustice to
commit them against their will to the
expenditure of a vast sum of money for
buildings upon site which cannot be legally
ba ;nko al oh 20
deemed unfit by many thousands of tax-pay-
ers, even if public convenience alone is con-
suited, and which the city is bound, alike by
legal requirements and associations which
should be deemed sacred by every true
American, to maintain as green walk for
ever.
The centennial of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence is rapidly approaching. Councils
and the Legislature have invited here, on that
occasion, the representatives of the industrial
interests of our own country and all other
parts of the civilized world. If, as may be
reasonably anticipated, hundreds of thou
sands of strangers are attracted to our vicinity
then, independence Square will pre-
sent mortifying spectacle if
Councils permit it to be cut up with excava-
tions and covered with building materials.
Myriads of visitors will ask, Had Philadel-
phia no other spot to devote to her courts
and public offices Could she not afford to
maintain agreeable and appropriate surround
ings, for the brief period of century, for
the most sacred spot, in the eyes of the lovers
of human liberty, in the whole world /? Had
she neither the sense nor the feeling to
crafty a proper desire for improvement
without committing shameless act of desc
Grafton
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SINGULAR MARRrAGBs.-The following paragraph
from the North Devon Jout nal OF November /, 1882
is worth repeatng:-"A Novel Scene.-A wedding
TOOK splace at IT.. Marylebonc, which was
particularly interesting on account OF its no
vety The happy couple (Mr Alfred Thomas Max
well and Mis- Rosina Paxton) are both deaf and
dumb and the ceremony performed In the
finger and sign language by the Rev. Samuel Smith,
Chaplain OF the Association in Aid OF the Deaf and
Dumb. We believe that this is the first time in
this country that dactylogy and pantomime have
been brought into use such an occasion. Seve-
raj OF the members OF Mr.. Smiths deaf and dumb
congregation were prcsentto witness the ceremony"
singular as this marriage ceremony may appear.
amuch more remarkable scene OF this Kind occurred
some two or three centuries since In my own native
county, OF which, perhaps, some OF your readers
may be able TO supply further details In the interest
ing columns OF and O. In the marriage register of
the parish OF ST. Martin Leicester is an entry OF
the names OF Thomas Tlsey aud Ursula Russell,
the first OF whom being 'deate and dumbe,'it was
agreed by the Bishop, Mayor, and other gentlemen
OF the town that certain signs and actions OF the
bridegroom should be admitted instead OF the usual
words enjoined by the Protestants marriage cere-
mony First (ssys Britton In his Beauties OF Eng
land and Wales, volume 9, page 35I, probably quo
ting the parochial record he embraced her with his
arms and took her by the hande aud put ringe
upon her finger, and aide his hande upon his hearte
and upon her hearte, and helde up his handles TO-
wards heaven, and to show his continuance to fwell
with her to his lyves ende, he did it by closing OF
his eyes with his hande and dlggnge out the eathe
with his feete, and pullinge as though he would
ringe bell, with diverse outher signes approved.
81 shall be glad to hear OF any similar customs
having been practised at the nuptial ceremony in
other parts of the United Kingdom.
'Barnstaple. GEORGE LINDSEY"
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Mr.. vAMBRRY has written two more articles in
the Atlgemeine Zeitlg the Russian expedition to
Khiva, and repeats his general statements concern
ing Russian policy in Asia. He says 1t is quite natu
raj that the Russian press should not share his
opinions; but he cannot change them, both on ac-
count OF his personal knowledge OF the country
where the conquests going on, and OF his inti-
mate acquaintance with the intentions OF the Rus
sian Government in that quarter. The creation Of
commercial route from the Bay OF Krasnovodsk to
the Aral Sea is, according to Mr.. Vambery, mere
pretex as the stppes to be crossed destitute OF
drinkable water, and cannot be traversed during
the whole OF the summer season. II the Russian
Government has chosen this route, it is exclusively
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TIE FRENCH CoUR DE CAssATIoE has just had
singular affair under Its consideration. 1t seems
that last year the Poocureur-Imperial Of st. Omer
called upon three master carpenters to furnish the
necessary workmen to construct the scaffold for
execution. They one and all refused his request,
whereupon report was drawn up by the commits
sary OF police, and the rebeous carpenters were in
due course cited before the tribunal OF police OF st.
Omer for an infraction Of an old law OF the First
Republic, which eIApowers the proper legal officers
to command the services Of workmen in so far as
these may be essential for executing the DEGREES Of
Justice The tribunal dismissed the complaint,
whereupou the Procureur-Imperial appealed to the
Court OF Douai, which confirmed the decision
already given. No other resource was now left ex-
cept to invoke the aid of the Cour de Cessation,
and to that body the Procureur-lmperial now ad-
dressed himself. The Supreme Court, however, re-
jected his application, on the ground-frst, that
report of commissary Of police is not sufficieni
evidence OF fact involving an infraction OF the
law; and, secondly, that there was no direct re-
fusal on the part OF the master carpenters to give
their individual assistance towards the construction
OF the work in question, but only to provide work
men for t-a piece OF legal hairsplittng due to the
liberal ideas lately come
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FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1870.
GOLD 1874.

A DEsPAroH announces that further decline
in gold has taken place in New York this
morning, the price reaching 1139, or the
lowest point since the battle of Bull Run.
The second Bull Run, fought in 1862 must
be referred to here, as the suspension Of
specie payments did not occur until that
year. The disastrous defeat of the raw levies
commanded by General Mcdowell at the
opening of the conflict did not exert any i'm
mediate influence upon the money market
and it required a succession of adverse
military operations as well as enor'
nous expenditures to create a
premium on gold. The nation is now
restoring her credit more rapidly than it ever
declined, and if the gold gamblers get few
more such blows as they have recently received
their vocation will soon be ended. The large
amount of surplus revenue received by the
National Government, the steady purchase Of
bonds aud sales of gold by Secretary Bout
well, the apparent indisposition of Con-
gress to make extravagant appropria-
hons, and the reported diminution in
the exports Of bullion all unite to reduce the
premium on gold, and hasten the era when
specie payments can be safely and perma-
nently resumed. Whether the present down
ward tendency of gold will be steadily main
tained or not is a matter of comparatively
small moment. Confidence in the public
credit is so thoroughly re-established that
nothing but disastrous change of policy can
again inspire sensible people with a distrust
of the peouniary ability and honesty of this
great nation
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-04

THB TREASURY DEPARTMENT annually uses many
thousand envelopes OF peculiar greenish tint,
which rarely seen outside OF Government offices.
No one, on examining them, would suspect OF what
they were manufactured They are strong, smooth,
and businessike in appearance, and have the letter
IT stamped through the fibre. Old greenbacks form
the material OF which they are made The Treasury
Department saves up all the bits and remnants of
paper used in the manufacture OF currency with
old stamps and bills and all the mutiated green
backs that have back to it, and, instead OF de-
stroying this mass OF rubbish was formerly done,
the department turns it over TO the paper makers,
who return In the shape of servlceable envelopes
Many dollars are annually saved to the Government
by this means These envelopes are used extern
svely In the Custom Houses, the Post ONCE, Sub
Treasury, and other Government offlces.
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THE GAM EERS FRIEND.

The consideration of the bill for the sup.
preston of gambling was urged yesterday in
the State House of Representatives by Mr..
Beans, of Bucks, who called the attention of
the House to the article published in The
EVENING TELEGRAPH some weeks ago, in
which the names of some of the principal
gamblers of Philadelphia and the location of
their establishments we're given. Mr. Samuel
Josephs promptly took the floor in defense of
the policy dealers and gamblers, and in argu-
ing against the consideration of the bill, he
exclaimed plaintively that only that morning
he had privately informed the member from
Bucks that the policy dealers and gamblers
of Philadelphia had never been poorer
than now. We can imagine the emotions of
the gentle Josephs at the idea of passing any
law to break up the business of his friends
the professors of faro and keno, in their pre-
sent impoverished condition. According to
all the rules of the 'fancy," it is not the fair
thing to hit a man when he is down; and ac-
cording to Josephs it would be too bad
really too bad, to place the gamblers under
any further disabilities, after they had been
so cruelty treated by newspaper in the pub
lication of their names, places of business,
and methods of depicting the pockets of their
victims. The sacred privacy of their voca-
tion had been invaded, and all the world had
been informed exactly who and what they
were, and was not that punishment enough,
thinks Josephs? The House evidently thought
so, and, in commiseration of the wounded
sensibilities of Josephs, who had not been
le to impress the hard heart of Beans
of Bucks, in the morning, it refused to con-
slider the bill for the present. This gives the
gamblers and policy dealers another chance to
convince our immaculate Legislature of the
injustice of the prosecutions under which
they suffer. But if they are as poor as Jo-
sephs represents them to be, they will have
but slim chance at Harrisburg this winter.
The average Pennsylvania legislator is not
otherwise than virtuous, unless his sins are
we'll covered up by Uncle Sans promises to
pay, and it will go hard with Mr.. Josephs'
friends if they are reduced in circumstances
at the present moment.
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EXIT PORTER.
TIE New York Sun of yesterday says

HE New YORK Sun OF yesterday SAYS
"There Is hope for that ancient mariner, Rear
Admiral R0bes0n We learn on undOubted authority
that the head OF the Navy Department is weary OF
serving as q stopper to a bottle OF very gaseous
Porter. He has resolved 10 cut the strings which
have hitherto ANONYMOUSLY bound him and assert
himself In short, Porter Is to be shipped Off forth
with. Instead OF inditing manifestoes on naval et
quette and rigging out our mariners like so many
mountebanks he is to return to his proper place
the quarterback. No doubt the change viii be a
disagreeable one to SO important parsonage as
Admiral Porter esteems himself but breath of the
brine and taste OF the tar-bucket will do wonders
GUS and enervatng Official life of Washington very
toierabie sailor was fast becoming mere saltwater
Iurveydrop turn among the seal fisheries OF
Alaska Will anord wholesome change and well
come relief to the country"
This is almost too good to be true, and yet
it would be matter for sincere congratula-
tion if Secretary Robeson would take the
management of the Navy Department into his
own hands and be Secretary in fact as we'll as
in name. There is no doubt of one fact and
hat is that the department of which Mr..
Robeson is nominally the chief is most un-
popular. For this unpopularity yice-Admiral
Porter is very largely, if not entirely, to
blame, if for no other reason than that he
is attached to the department in capacity
unauthorized by law, and which gives him ar
authority and influence that he ought not tC
WELD without some corresponding responsi
bility. Both in and out of the naval service
it is thought by those who are best able tc
Judge of the matter that the interests of the
country and of the navy can hes
be served by having ciyiliaI
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THE Pal Nall Gazette comments as follows on the
visit Of Prince Arthur to President Grant:-We learn
from the New York Herald that when Prince Arthur
visited the President and Mrs. Grant the President
himself made no extra establishment OF his ward
robe. "He wore fr0ck-coat vest, and pantaloons
OF plain black such he usually In his office,
and had the appearance OF who had just left his
labor for moment to interchange passing cvili-
ties" Mrs. Grant "wore plain black silk" The
Prince twas attired in black fr0ck-coat grey cash
mere pantaloons, and patent leather shoes. He
wore his coat closely buttoned. Upon an immacu-
late shirt bosom he displayed several diamond studs,
and around his neck brown silk scarf. lie had
however, more clothes outside the room, for when
he left the room he assisted into his overcoat by
the Presidents valet" When the visit was over the
President returned to his Oilce and resumed his
duties as If nothing had happened; and, ndee l. II
we except the episode OF the oyercOat, nothing had
haIpened-but how gratifying all this must be to
everybody Especially to the Daily Telegraph Can
we imagine the possibility OF any serious disagree
ment arising between two nations when the valet OF
the President OF helps q Prince OF the blood
royal of the other into his overcoat? Never did
valet perform nobler mission than that republican
Jeames when he thus assisted Prince-never did
Prince honor himself more than in thus gracefully
accepting such assistance Ii the two, the Prince
and the valet could have looked beyond the mystic
rious film which shrouds our limited vision. they
would have seen the Angel of Peace smiling through
tears OF Joy at the in the Presidents vestbule
"a struggle, but not between husbands and fathers
and brothers in oceans of blood diluted with the
tears Of the widow and the orphan Only struggle
to get into overcoat party payfully assisting
the other first the right arm, then the left. 1t is
over now; but the buttons OF that overcoat have
linked two mighty nations together, and who will
dare to unstch those links of love forged by the
Presidents valet and our own Arthur?
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TRAIN composed Of all the locomotives aud rail-
way carriages In Europe would reach from st.
Petersburg to Paris, and would contain 100000 pas
senger carriages and 100000 luggage vans. The
railways OF Europe are carried 900 large and
small bridges, and go through 81 miles OF tunnel; |;
16O 900 cwt OF iron has been used for the rails,
and cwt OF Goals is required yearly to feed
the engines. The network OF European railways
represents length OF 7O,Ts miles, $4,000 locomO-
tives are employed on 1t, and the distance these
travel during the year is 60, 600, 900 miles.
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with view TO conquer Khiva Mr. Vambery thinks
1t is 10y means the intention OF Russia to acquire
market in Central Asia, for 1t already has one,
and the small khanat OF Khlva lying quite out OF
the way, would not interfere at all with the trade
OF Russia. From what he has read in the Russian
papers, and from his own observations on the spot
M yambery feels convinced that Russas final aim
Is the subsection OF Afghanstan