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HAS received direct from Paris, Spring and Sum
II mer Styles, and will exhibit them on
Wednesday next. April 18th.
ap6lt13

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NOTICE is HEREBY given that the subscribers have
IN been duly appointed and taken upon themselves
the trust of Administrators OF the estaie OF
SAMUEL FREEMAN. late OF Portland,
in the County of Cumberland, deceased. ann given
bonds as the law directs All persons having de-
mands upon the estate OF said deceased, are required
exhibit the same and all persons indebted TO said
estate are called upon to make payment TO
HOWARD q. FREEMAN hdr.,.s
ALBERT Z FREEMAN, Ho"".
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nj Office is hereby given that the subscriber has
~ been duly appointed AMI taken upon himself
the trust OF AdmiuistI of tn estate ct Samuel
Meserve, late OF Gorham. in the County of Cumber-
land, deceased, and given bonus as the law recs.
all persons having demands upon the estate OF said
dec ased req ired to exhibit the same and all
make payment TO
MERRILL T. FILES, Administrator.
Gorham, April 5, 1870. ap7 1aw3wTh
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has
IN been duly appointed Executor Of the Will OF
SARAH CUSHING, late OF Cape Elizabeth in the
County OF Cumberland, deceased, and has taken
upon himself that uust. as the law directs. All
persons having q mands upon the esate oil said de-
ceased, are required to exhibit the same; and all
persons indebted to said estate are called upon to
make payment to
AMASA X. WELDON, Executor.
Cape Elizabeth, April oh, 1870. ap7diaw3wTh
, 1870-09-16

0LLE og Enhver som MATTE have
III NOget at fordre paa Skiftet efter
afgangne Jomfrue Hortence SOuffrain
indkaldes herved med tire Maaneders
Varsel til at anmeIde 90 beviisliggj0re
deres Krav for undertegnede Execu-
torres testament.
st. Thomas, den Bite August, 1870.
Nj. &. D'AVEZEDO.
s. BARTOLOMEI LANCE.
n LIE og Enhver som have Noget
III at fordre paa Boet efter afgangne
Seyerine (Cyrene) DAILY og tidIigere
afgangne Mand John DAILY, indkaldes
heryed til at anmelde og beviisliggj0re
deres Krav for undcrtegnede Skifte-
ret linden UdI0bet af 3 Maaneder efter
denne In%dkaIdeIses sidste Bekjendt-
g~j0relse.
Christiansteds Skifteret den Tide
September 1870.
C. SARAUW.
, 1870-09-16

which must be carefully looked to. AS
long as We are without such a gun and
the French or Prussians or Americans
have it, their artillery is for the day Of
battle, aud ours for Shoeburyuess.-
L0nd0n Times.
, 1870-09-16

tantry is the finest in the world happily,
ther. is not much Of it" and he here
points out the secret of their Pro.4a0-oe
success. He writes -
GAS soon as the cannonade began We
rushed on 10 take the bull by the horns. AS
about a thousand metres from the Bri-
fish line our soldiers began 90 talk, and
hurried forwards with a slight degree of
confusion. The English, silent, arms
grounded, looked in their impossible
steadiness like a long red wall, which
had "a good deal of effect on our young
sters. The distance became less. The
troops began to cry, 'VjUe rEmperem !
En- aUant d III b~aj0nRetteP and to wave
their caps on their muSkets. The march
became a run; the ranks were somewhat
broken the agitation sWelled to a tumuIt,
and a good many shots were fired. The
British line, still silent and lmmOvabIe,
still with grounded arms, though WE were
but 300 metres off, seemed not TO perceive
The storm about to reach it. The con-
ttast was striking. More than one Of our
fellows began to think within himself
that the enemy was very slow In firing,
and that his fire, when it came, would
shortly be very unpleasant. We felt less
ardent. The moral influence, irresistible
in war, of that compOSure which seems
to be undisturbed (eyen when it is not SOY
over disorder intoxicated with noise,
weighed upon us. At this moment of
painful suspense the English wall pre-
scented arms. An impression the could
,oh I,C,o -1uo4oJ 10 Fho c,oOf p1ony Of o1r
men, who were beginning to open a drop
ping fire. The fire of the enemy, in per-
feet unity and precision, moved us down.
Struck back, we receded TO recover our
balance then first three formidable hUr-
rahS broke the silence of our adverSaries,
AT the third cheer they were upon US,
driving in our disorderIy retreat. But, to
our great surprise, they did not urge their
advantage beyond a hundred yards, but
fell back on their lines to await a second
attack. The second attack, reinforce
ments, was generally made, but made
with the same result and fresh losses"
The essay on 'Rifed Ordnance in Eng
land and France" drew q startling COM
parison between the artillery of the two
countries. This comparison was greatly
and deservedIy to our disadvantage, but
it bas been profted by, as is admitted in
a note, and is less merited now. We
have no space to notice this assay as we
should like, but from lis whole tenour we
deduCe these maXims-1hRt complaints,
such as Sir William Armstrong;, Of the
stupidity of gunners who throw theis guns
out of order, are not only idle, but are a
condemnation Of the gun, which so far
from being entitled 10 as much care as an
A---.-.L.l annLsntnA Il ---l-
, 1870-09-16
AnSsettelse.

UNDER Site JUL d. A. er der tilIagt hid
tiIv@rende constituent Politimester i Ere
deriksteds Politidistrict, H. G. L Egge,
aIlerh0ieSte Udnavnelse i bemeldte Embede
fra 1ste dennes at regne.
, 1870-09-16
AMERICAN OPINION OF THE WAR.
(New York TGmeS, J

France corld NOT look nnmovod n,on
tho snnron ro@ aoanjrad hv hor dariHr
r;voI m Edaor Olain., wrots in 1ee1o.
-~Wiu nor E7ranct nGan and often wake
from her sIepn. lhinkin0 she hears the
stem Of her oiant ne,ob6onr7 Or. sunnos-
mo she were "a fan ~ Seen witbout tatino
nrndenlial measures. wouId non This he
the sion Of q d.ad1v relaxation ? And
what . temntaIion then for Germany to
take odvantorn ofltI In all thnsA caees
our DANCER is eonaIIv GREAT" But what
could France do At his nprjod ? She had
no weanon which she could onDose to
the necdle-gnn of Prussia. and Ehe exam
ple of Austria had shown how mad was
the hone of winninc battles with an infp-
rior arm Tbp host If Austria fell like
corn beneath fine sickle. while the Prns-
sian rroons wsra comnarativpIv nnscath-
ed Austria had made the fatal mistake
Of nnderratinc her rival The SAVING at-
trihnted To Prince Sch warzenbrro2"U
fant aviIir Ia Prnssn d,abord nonr eHsnite
Ia d6molir -wbntber really uttered or
NOT pvnrossad the sentiments nrov,iIinc
at Vipnn, and rho rosnIt was that Anso2
tri was herself almost DESTROYED.
The Emperor Napoleon could not fpbt.
but he could prepare to fight. Prussia,
so far from moderating her aims, seemed
clearly TO be enlarginS them. Her next
move was TO place a feudatory upon the
throne of Spain. NAPOLEON saw that the
hour had come for striking the blow. If
he has been ambitious, can anyone pre-
tend that Prussia has not also been guid-
ed nv that fatal nassion9 Il the "a o9ros-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-10-08
BEEcHER IN THE LECTURE ROOM.

sinners Like Dark Lanterns--Wall Street
Bulls and Bears Worse Than Arabs.
Plymouth church lecture room was crowded to
overnowing last night, there being in addition to
the regular Audience alarge number OF missionaries
with their patrons, who took the opportunity to spy
out the treasure OF the Beecher domain The famous
pastor was inspired by the large congregation or
by the missionary meetings he had attended during
the week to unusual brllliancy, ana Illus
trated the subject OF love In his own
pictorial way. He said that the disciples
associated with Christ as with genial
companion and friend, that Chrst's familiar con.
descending love fills the New Testament There are
times when christans lean Oh the bosom Of Christ
but those are rare hours Our life Is usually like
dungeon with slit in the wall, and twilight is
all we get OF the sun that fills the heavens with
stimulated by His love and patience, boy ~
fiiled with noble ambition by his teachers ten
der, watchful care. lantern without light
IN it is worthless, but put inside tai
low candle only and it is hooded with
light, and your path Is clear before you.
A man without the radiance of love is like that Ian
tern before 1t Is Illuminated. People become hand
sOmer after they converted There IS one recipe
that cures all our sickness. Love is tile universal
want OF The world. Love enough ana you can over
come all. Love Is the golden key that unlocks mans
complicated destiny. He thought that missionaries
have an easier life than cergymcn and people who
remain in their own lands-they have the advan-
tage. 1t Is harder for man to do business IN wall
street than TO live among the Arabs. We who are
at home need missionaries to pray for us. The cares
shut nom these things could live more easily
q Christian life.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-10-08
TRIPLE SH EFT.
CONTENTS OF TO-DAY,S HERALD.

PAGE. 0~''1''>~7>>
acknowledgements
2-Adyerlisements.
3-Paris: Steady Advance Of the Germans on Iy.
ons; Fighting Between Detachments or Both
Armies at Numerous Points; Prusslan Repuse
AZ GisorS and Retreat; Epernon Tcury and
Other Places Evacuated by them; Great Up
f rising n inc nosges; Paris to be Bomoarded
The Herald Special Report OF Affairs
II me Capitai; The Deiences stronger than
Ever; Alternate Elation ana Depression Of
Public Spirit; Socialist Agitators Actively at
Work; General Review Of the situation in the
City; Napoleon Repuda'es the Recent Mani
festo; BlSnarck's Opinion OF the French Re-
public; 1t Is Not Dangerous to Germany.
4-Europe: The Herald's War Correspondence;
itApreared after the Capitulaton: Enthusiasm
Of ne French n for or, the Republic: the Bqrnina
and Anecdotes Of the War.
5-Europe Continue nom Fourth page)-yarraQan.
set Park; Third Da! OF the Autumn rrotting
Meetnc-Tne Turf in Notwithstanding
Classes OF Germany and France-News from
st. Domingo-City Taxes--Marsh, the Muir
Jersey Items-A Wa Managed Plantation
The Yellow Fever In New orleans -Ie ome
Park Shooting Allray-A Good Ground for d.
yorce.
6-EdItorials: Leading Article, The New German
observation-disclosures Announcements.
photographic News from all Parts Of the World
Terrible Earthquake in the Southern Part of
Italy; Many Lives Lost and Several Villages
Destroyed; Dr. Jacoby's Letter TO Bismarck;
England Supplying Russia with Arms--News
from Observation-Disclosures Jockey Club
Amusemenis- Business Notices.
S-German Polar Expedition Life in The Frozen
Regions-New York City and Brooklyn
Courts-Amercan Board OF Missions--A Man
trap--An Objection in CouIS--Ciry Railroad
Strkes--A Man with Delicate Nerves--Tne Up
per End OF Manhattan Wants Theatre
Greai Fire In Williala Srect--A Gilded Den Of
Infamy Young Woman stabbed Six Times
III Lexington Avenue Bagnio-Brooklyn City
Ncws--clerks IN the Tax Recieyer's ONCE.
p-rhe Taylor WI Case: Two Millions OF Dollars
involyed-The Murder Calendar-The New
York Canals : The Canal Question in the Pend
ing Canyass-Real Estate Transfers-Death OF
a Jerry Rescueri-Einapcial ana Commercial
Reports-Marrages and Deaths.
1O-The Gallows: Execution OF Archer Hines, y
Negro, In yirgjnia-The Washburn VIII Case
Seizure OF the hornet: The History OF the Ves-
sei-MammonLoyiDg Meuiums--Woman Suf-
frage-The Remains OF . Woman Washed
Ashore at Cape May-ShiDping Intelligence.
Advertisements.
11-AdvertiS ements.
l2-Ad.ertSements.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-10-08
Our Docks md Piers.

A standing reproach to this great maritime
city have always been our docks and piers.
Instead Of being public convenience they are
public nuisance. Instead Of affording
accommodation to our shipping they are
powerful auxiliaries Of filth and pestiiencc.
There is hardly pier on the two water fronts
on which business can be conducted with any
degree of safety or which offers proper facii-
ties for landing cargoes. For years past they
have been tumbling to pieces, rotting away
ike dead trees. They have been patched up,
it is true, now and then, for temporary pur-
poses, but without any permanent advantage.
While such is the condition of the piers the
docks which lie between them, we know, are
the receptacles of The city sewerage and the
concomitant doors and extracts that flow in
that delightful and not very limpd stream
In brief, our docks and piers are disgrace
to the metropolis Of America, and they have
been so for twenty years. The last Legisla
ture gave ample power TO the Commissioners
of Docks to put all these matters to rights
They appear to have gone to work in earnest
az far as receiving plans and specifications
goes. They have now before them---presented
at late meeting-plans bold enough and large
enough to give us complete system Of dock
age all round the city. No doubt they will
have, and probably have under consideration,
many other excellent plans, but it seems that
the one recently suggested embraces good
deal Of the elements for an admirable system
The Dock Commissioners should remember
that no patchwork, no tinkering Of pier here
and there will suffice. The work should be
done completely, from the Battery to Harlem
river, and from Spuyten Duyyil down to pier
No. | on the North river The work will be
costly. 1t may take some time to accomplish
it but it is better to do il well at once and be
done with it. There is certainly no public
work in the city so much needed
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-10-08

OUR FOREIGN CoRREsPoNDESCE. published
in another part of the HERALD this morning,
furnishes our readers with many interesting
incidents of the war now progressing be-
tween two of the most powerful nations of
Europe. From one Of the Prussan advanced
outposts HERALD special correspondent
details the progress Of the siege of Montmedy.
We have also description of the inn at
which the ex-Emperor of France stayed for
repose and refreshment the second day after
his captivity. Strange enough, the hosiery is
kept by a man bearing the same name as
that of the Prime Minister of the En-
perors Cabinet. A description of visit to
Sedan, an account of the troops who escaped
from Metz as well as few more particulars
regarding the burning Of the village of Bazailles
by the Prussian troops, form portion of the
mos. attractive features of our European cor
respondence. Coming nearer home we have
letter from ST. Domingo, showing some Of
the workings of affairs in the Dominican re-
public, as well as explaining matters which
to some extent will indicate the channel in
which the current Of European as well as other
opposition runs.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-10-08

A GERMAN POLAR EXPEDITION. Our Berlin
correspondent furnishes highly interesting
narrative OF the second German Polar expedi-
ton which left Bremerhaven in two vessels
the Hansa aud the Germania--in the summer
of 1869. The Germania returned on the 18th
of September last, the Hansa having been
crushed in an ice drift. The sufferings and
experiences of the crew of the Hansa, who
encamped on an ice field seven miles in crcum-
ference, where they spent two hundred and
thirty-seven days, read like repetition Of the
Kane and Hayes expeditions. The Captain
eulogizes the conduct Of his men, who never
gave him the least reason for complaint. The
results of the expedition are Of great scientific
Importance, and are set Out. in detail in the
correspondence.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-10-08
The War Situation.

Our special correspondent inside Paris fur
nishes an interesting account Of the effect Of
the siege on the volatile Inhabitants. They
are e,sastied and wearicd, but they show no
sign of wish to surrender. Breadstuis are
plenty but meats are scarce; the cafes and
shops keep open and drive a 1ourishing bust
ness, and ammunition is abundant. The heavy
guns of the Prussians are nearly all In position,
and 1t is probable when the bombardment COM
mences that it will be persistent and stimuli
taneous rain of iron from all sides of the city.
Outside the immediate neighborhood Of the
siege operations the usual desultory skir
mishing between the uhlans aud the National
Guard is reported. There seems to have been
some strong opposition presented In the
neighborhood of Rouen, and the Prussian
cavalry at Gisors were repulsed in their
attempt to form the second Gordon about the
investing line at Paris. They are also said to
have been compelled to evacuate Epernay,
another of the links in the Gordon, and to have
been driven from the neighborhoood of Tours,
falling back on Etampes, town near Yer
5uAACo. Aucc0 CuccIAuS buCCoSb0b are dttrl-
buted to the National Guards and the Mobiles,
who are said to be rising enthusiastically.
The march on Lyons in the East is sorely
harassed by the Franc-tireurs, who hold the
mountain passes. These achievements give u
refreshing indication that there is life left yet
in the French people, but how they can help
retrieve the disaster pending at Paris is not
so easily seen Skirmishing will not assist
besleged Paris. Idle maneuvring in small
bodies will not retrieve the fortunes of France.
Nothing will do it but an overwhelming mass
Of Frenchmen, an army of the people, moving
on in solid column like resistless food, not
to be stayed or turned aside by few uhlans,
which shall roll itself like huge wave against
the wall Of Germans surrounding the city and
sweep it away. @s er- .ss~''
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-10-08
sssthcrn Agricultural Congress.

In the official monthly report OF the Depart
ment Of Agriculture we find the announce
ment that circular issued by joint commit
tee Of the Cotton States Mechanics and
Agricultural Fair Association and the
Augusta Board of Trade proposes to Southern
agricultlrists the formation of a central
organization or agricultural congress- for
the advancement Of their interests, including
the Improvement Of the labor system, the
encouragement Of foreign immigration and the
diversliication Of the agricultural products Of
the South. The initiatory meeting Of this
general association is appointed at Augusta,
Ca, Oct. 26, 1870, during the fair OF the
Cotton States Mechanics and Agricultural
Fair Association. State and county agricuI-
tural societies are invited to sond delegates.
This Is movement in the right direction.
We hope to see it successfully carried out. In
no better manner can the South secure the
position she is fast regaining as one Of the
most prosperous portions of the country. With
the untold resources at her command the
South Is entitled to that position, and what
ever tends to develop her wealth should DO
encouraged by every possible means.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-10-08
French Imperial Intrigues in England.

Frencl Imperial Intrisues in England.
1t is said that The friends and adherents of
Napoleon are very busy in England looking
after his interests, and that NJ. Rouher and
others are in almost daily communication with
the Empress Eugene at her retired home in
Chiselhurst. This looks, of course, to a still
lingering hope CT the restoration of the Napo-
leon dynasty out of the present mixed condi-
ton of things in France. Those who still
hope for such possibility are willing to
intrigue upon the slightest basis to bring
about that result, as the finale Of the ill-con-
sidered war, the disaster of Woerth and the
capitulation at Sedan. While there may not
be the remotest chance of such solution to
the vexed question Of how the war is to be
brought to an end what is to become of France
and how Germany is to dispose of herself in the
muster roll of nations when the war ID over,
it must be consoling to the man who smokes
his cigarettes and takes his constitutional
walks and looks quite at ease at Whelms-
hohe to know that he is not altogether forgot
ten in his regal prison house. We are dis
posed to doubt, however, that any serious
pottings are on foot in England for the
restoration of the imperial dynasty and we are
certain that the Bonaparists are only wasting
labor ii they are engaged in such intrignes.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-10-08
Miss WILSON in Opera--The Academy
Stockholders.


Miss WILSON in Opcra--The Academy
Stockholders.
An evening contemporary, the Mai, says
truly that in this community ''there is q grow
ing desire to hear Miss Nilsson in opera, that
''the glimpses which we get of her remarkable
histrionic powers are just sufficient to excite an
impatient curiosity to see her with all the
advantages OF costume and stage surround
ings" II further appears, from the same
authority, that ''Mr. Strakosch says he would
engage the Academy Of Music, but for the fact
that the stockholders insist on their old prfvi-
lege Of the best seats, and the HERALD calls the
stockholders by naughty names because they
will not magnanimously give up their legal
rights. But, continues our aforesaid contem-
porary, $50 far as they are concerned, we
should say that they had better pay for their
seats than to let the season elapse without
operatic performances in their splendid audito-
rum !" and to ''the HERALD and other critics
Of the stockholders we would say that it there
New York who will contribute as literally
towards the expense of the Italian opera in
this city as the much-abused stockholders
have done, there will be no further trouble
about Nilsson season."
This does not meet the case. Those two
hundred and fifty Of the best seats reserved by
the stockholders for themselves are tho Diff
Guilty. Here, too, lies the main secret Of the
many failures OF the opera at this Academy.
The public do not like the idea Of being invited
to the second table at first table prices. They
do not like to be distributed around in the
back seats, with the positive refusal of certain
front seats on any terms because they are re-
served to the stockholders. The public, in
establishment for the exhibition in its best
seats Of its two hundred and fifty stockholders
from night 70 night and from season to season
The reservation Of these best seats, or of any
seats, to the stockholders as their exclusive
property, in purely business view was a
blunder from the beginning Nor can the
Academy be turned to any profit in Italian
opera while this blunder is persisted in. Let
the stockholders, on the other hand, invite Mr..
Strakosch to a contract for Nilsson operate
season, embracing the absolute surrender of
those reserved seats, and the experiment, we
are sure, will not only be great success, but
the beginning of series of successes under
the same system. Let the public know that
there is no exclusive set in the Academy which
they must recognize, but that the public and
the stockholders meet there on the American
platform Of equality, and the hitherto unfortu-
nate Academy of Music will cease to be a
losing concern to the stockholders and the
house of ruin to operate managers
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-10-08

LITTLE BELGIUM deserves credit. She has
kept her soil sacred during this dreadful war
between her right and left hand neighbors, and
she has kept out of mischiefa good many OF the
soldiers on both Sides whom she disarmed. She
is now preparing to protect her borders from
the Prussians, who are moving to beslege
Meieres, and she is also engaged in quell-
ing mutinies among the French prisoners in
her hands. Altogether she is entitled to pre-
sent heavy bill of damages to the successful
belligeTSn'