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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-09-21

THE
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PUBLISHED for the benefit of young men and
L others who suffer from from Nervous Debility
etc. supplying the means of self-cure. Written by
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Ayers Cathartic Pills.
For all the purposes Of Laxative


trled 1t, know that it cured them; those WHO have
and all know that what it does once it does always
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following complaints, but such cures are known in
every neighborhood' and we need not publish them.
containing neither calomel any deleterious DINO,
they may be taken with safety by anybody. Their
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them pleasant to take, while being purely yeeetaHje
no harm can arise from their use in any quantity
internal vscera to purify the blood and Stimulate In se
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stomach, bowels, liver, and other organs of the
body restoring their irregular action to health and
by correcting, wherever they exist such derange.
ments as are the first origin Of disease.
Minute directions are given in the wrapper on
the box, for the following complaints, which these
For Dyspepsia or Indigestion, ListIess-
ness, Languor and Loss OF Appetite, they
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ach and restore its healthy tone and action.
For Liver Complains and its various symp-
toms, Bilious Headache, Sick Headache,
Collie and Bilious Fevers, they should be jul
ciously taken for each case to correct the diseased
acEon or remove the distractions which cause it,
For Dysentery or Diarrhoea, but one mild
oose Is generally required.
,, r9r stheumatisnl, Cont, Gravel, Esalpi.
Back and Han;n hseiart, Pain i'm the Side,
taen, rs required to change the diseased action II
tie system With such change those eomnioints
For HDropsy and Hsrops;c,,
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duce the effect of drastic purge. u'ses 70 pro-
For Suppression a large dose sho,,,,
as produces the desired effect by pc taken
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their cleansing and renovating effect on the dges.
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For Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Through tickets nay be had on b ard &c aJo,,
points. - '-
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Atlantic Wharf or ''
Nov o., JOHN PoRTEous, Agent.
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CEassoE 80 sha Puddle.
Every Intelligent snd thinking person must Know
nat remedies handed out for general should have
their efficacy established by well tested experiences in
the hands OF regularly educated physician, whose
preparatory studies fit him for al the duties he roust
fulfil; yet the country is flooded with poor nostruns
and curess, purIsst az to be tie best in the world
which are not ORE seless, but always injurious,
Tne unfortunate ski9 tie PARTICULAR in selecting
his physician, as 1t is amentable yet ineontroyaf.
bic fact that MANY sypbltc patients are made mis-.
ersbls with ruin'd constitutions by maltreatment
from inexperienced physaians in general practice
Itss point generally concsdsd by the best sy0bi.0e "a
dhera thst the study and management OF these come
daints should eDsToss the whole time Of those who
would be competent and successful Ia their trests
ment and cure. The inexperienced general practi-
toner having neither opportunity tirne maxi
h1Insef acquainted with their pathology, cornYa0u "
pursues one system Of treatment Ia most cases 2l-
Ing an indisorimtnate OF that ssscEsse md esx-
ssreus weapon, the Nsroary.
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MEDICAL.
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CAN BE FoyED 1T HIs
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Next the PreSte EsSwse,
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Impure connection the terrible vice of selab
Devoting his entire time to that particular branch OF
tne medical profession. he feels warranted ia GUAE.
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WANTED-AGENTs, $50 per day. to sell
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The New York herald., 1870-08-21
ANOTHER COLLISION IN TIE HARE0R.

A Schooner Instantly Sunk by a SteamsIifp-
Loss Of Life-ReckIess Navigation and its
Legitimate Consequences.
AT precisely twenty minutes past nine O'Clock last
evening the schooner Samuel q. Miles, laden with
brick, from CrOton Point to Williamsburg, while or
pier No. East river, was run down by an inward
bound steamship carrying blue light at her fore
mast head and red light on her bow. The steamer
made no signal and did not even blow whistle
At the time OF the collision the captain Of
the schooner, Henry Lancaster at the wheel and
had barely time to jump overheard when she went
down. The steamship struck her well forward and
cut clean In two, that she sunk In about haif
a minute. Besides the captain there were on board
two men and boy. They were all saved with the
exception Of the latter, who was drowned. The lad
was employed on board as cook he was nlteen years
City % n. any J. lii HIS aa.-'' hrst name % was $ Charles,
other name unknown. The schooner was
Brothers and was not insured. After the collision
the steamship drifted or towards the Buttermllki
Channel and did not lower any boat or make any
effort to save the unfortunate struggling in the
water. One Of the men named Mckay badly
injured having his arm broken and being hurt In
wardiy. He was sent to Bellevue Hospital
At the time the collision occurred Captain Taylor,
OF the schooner John w. Dodge, lying the OF
ms vessel In Conversation with his brotherin.law
Mr. Simmons. The latter, herring the crash, sprang
to the side and lowered boat, IN which with
Captain Taylor and two Others from ship lying
alongside, he pulled hastily to the scene Of the
disaster They saw the men jump overheard but
did not see the rescue which was effected by another
boat which put out from pier No. 8. They cruisedi
about In the vicinity for nearly an hour and then
returned to the Dodge.
From the accounts given by all parties the con-
duct of those on board the steamship was very
strange, to say the least and such as might
have been expected from the skeleton crew OF q
verltabe Flying Dutchman. This is the second
disaster Of the kind In the harb0r within week.
and one may imagine from the facts that reckless
sailing has become an epidemic In the waters ada
cent to the City, In the same manner that shooting
ana stabbng ahrays have reached fever point In
the streets on shore.
The New York herald., 1870-08-21

FALL OPENING AMONG THE THEATRES
We publish to-day, in another part of the
HERALD, complets summary of the musical
and dramatic features for the coming sea-
son. 1t will be seen that the prospects of
brilliant and successful season are very pro-
missing, and that the advent of the queen OF
song, Nilsson, and of the sovereign of the
dramatic stage, Seebach, will be marked by
general revival of all the branches of amuse-
ments. There is more attention paid to the
personnel of each musical and dramatic COM
pany, and thereby many of the pernicioua
features of the star system are removed. The
managers in every case endeavor to give their
establishments little more freshness and
brillancy, and have, with unwonted liberality,
called in the services of the painter and uphol-
sterer. The stagnant condition of the stage
in Europe at present, on account of the war.
will likely induce many leading artists Of all
kinds to visit America this winter. If 30, with
the numerous attractions already in the field,
we may look out for an Augustan age in music
and the drama here, and a large increase in
the number of theatres.
The New York herald., 1870-08-21

WAR BETWEEN THE TIoKET SPECuLAToRs
ticket SPECTATORS are an unmitigated
nuisance-and the theatre managers continues
to rage. But the public must suffer no less
than the INSCRIPTIONS ticket spectators if the
managers can legally repudiate their own
tickets, no matter to whom sold. 1t is said,
indeed, that they are acting under legal advice
in the premises. II is TO be hoped, however,
that they will ere long hit upon some better
plan for discomfting the enemy. At all events
the public will rejoice If the ticket speculation
nuisance shall be successfully and perma-
nently abated.
The New York herald., 1870-08-21
TRIPLE SHEET
New York. Sunday. August IL, 1870.
CONTENTS OF Te.DAY,s HERALD.
PAGE


acknowledgements.
3-Advertisements.
3-The War: Special kilograms TO the NEW YORK
HERALD; Desperate Fight Before Metz Yester-
day Morning; Marshal Bazaine Beaten Into
tGe Fortress After Three Hours Fighting;
count Palaiko's History OF Four Days Ac-
uon; reported Engagement Between the
Crown Prince and MacMahon; King williams
Despatch; Prussian Victory and Complete Dis
organization OF The French; City Tumult and
prussian "Risingn Imminent; A Dictatorship
Under Trochee In Favor: Napoleon to be De-
posed and France ITO Choose Her Govern
ment;' Royal English Letter TO King william:
Russian Messages TO France and the Prus-
slams.
f-Normonism The Great Discussion on Polv-
gsmy; Or. Newman and 0rson Pratt the Cham
pions OF Monogamy and OF P0lygamy; Open
Ing Of the Discussion in the New Tabernacle
at Salt Lake City; Great Crowd OF Male Saints
temale Saints and Genties OF Each Sex; Ar.
guments Theological, Rhetorical and Pro-
found.
-Pegious In elligence-Paris Fashions: Style as
II is in the Epoch OF War; Evening Revivas
ana Shelter for the Goddess-What DO Wo-
men Want P-AnneXation OF New Guinea to
The United States-OrganiZed Opposition to
John Chinaman in California.
6-Editorials: Leading Article on the Pope and
King william on Peace, the Revolution In
France-Anoiher Collision In the Harbor-The
lnallible eArmy-Amusement Announcements.
5-Tr graphic News from all Parts OF the World
Yachting aud Aquatic The President at Long
Brancn-News from Washington--The Ticket
Spectators War-Personal Intelligence-The
Weather Yesterday-Horribe Domestic
Tragedy -Ohituary-Busness Notices.
S-~MGsic and the Drama: Opening OF the Fall Sea-
son of Amusements-A Strange Snake Story
The Masonic Swindling Case-The Great Fire
in Canada: Reves Of the Fire Fiend in On
tario; Immense Forests swept Away-The Won
Peck Lunacy case: Major Won Beck as Duel
lst--lnlernal Revenue Returns.
D-Souh AmercG: Particulars or the Great storm
at Valparaiso; The Revolution in Uruguay;
Capture OF the Capital OF Entire Rios by Lopez
Joldan-New York city News-Arrest Of a
Diamond Broker-A Home for Artists-The
Ninth Regiment-The Vanderbilt Hoax-Army
and Naval ntelligence-Fnancia and Com
merclal Reports-Marriages and Deaths.
yO-The War Continued from Third Page)-A
Monster at Large-Fatal Railroad Accident
The Massacre In China Attack on the French
Catholic Mission at Tientsin-Shipping Intell
Observation-Disclosures
1.-THE Savans or 1870: Third Days Meeting OF the
Association for the Advancement OF Science
Advertisements.
IL Advertisements.
The New York herald., 1870-08-21
A GreHI Political Rlunder.

The laboring classes have finally resolved
to enter the political field, and are called upon
to enroll themselves in the ranks Of the ma
tional Labor Reform Party" The claptrap
which is to be the stock in trade Of the new
party is evinced in its high-souuding title.
The attempt to establish workingman's party
has been tried many times, and as often failed
ANONYMOUSLY. Such must be the fate OF the
movement started by the Cincinnati Labor
Congress, and the sooner the workingmen ca n
be made to appreciate this fact the better. IL
is impossible for any party to make great
Roadway without platform OF principles
which embraces all classes of citizens, and
has broad, national, not local interests, which
truths do not appear to have been considered by
the Cincinnati delegates. Another iatai oD-
stace to the success of this scheme ls the pro-
found ignorance Of the commonest principles
of finance, International right and justice
evinced by the fathers of the new party. Ii
the movement is to be engineered by such
demagogues the bantling may be considered
dead already; it cannot live under the charge
of such nurses. The affair is great political
blunder, and will undo most OF the good
already effected by the Labor Congress-
The New York herald., 1870-08-21

Broadway in gallant style yesterday on its
way to Camp Jay Gould, near the West End
Hotel at Long Branch. The regiment incud-
ing the band and drum corps, was full six
hundred strong. All seemed in the finest pos
sible spirits, although they had been warned
by their bellicose Colonel, Fsk-who might
have been mistaken either for a jolly French
marshal of the Bazaine type or for an equally
fat and jolly Prussian general-that they were
marching forth, not on holiday spree, but to
camp of instruction.
The New York herald., 1870-08-21
The Democratic Prosranas-A Change q
Base.

1t is stated that the delay In calling to-
| gether the Democratic State Committee arises
from the doubt whether it would not be best
to convoke the Legislature in extra session
and pass an act separatiny the State elections
from the Congressional elections. This point
Is under consideration by leading democrats,
with whom Mr. Samuel J. Tilden is now in
council at Saratoga. If the Legislature should
meet and postpone the State election till De-
cembcr there would be no necessity for State
convention to nominate till October, and
therefore it is assumed the State Committee
will not be called to meet till this point is
determined
At the last session OF Congress, it will be
remembered, several important laws were
enacted which affect the election probabilities
of nearly all the States, but especially of New
York. The law for the enforcement of the fif-
teenth amendment probably adds several
thousand votes to the republican party in New
York alone, and the law for uniformity
of naturalization throughout the Union
makes the frauds that have so generally been
practised previous to elections in this city al
most impossible These enactments the Dem
ocratic State Committee cannot combat, and
the effect of them rebounds inevitably for the
good of the republican party, especially in this
city. But one provision of the law, to enforce
the fifteenth amendment, was intended to SO
cure honest elections, aud this is the point
which the Democratic State Committee wish
to surmount--that is, if there is any truth what
ever in the statement. Although the provision
of course looks only to Congressional cleo
tions, still it would affect in some degree the
State elections held at the same time and
place, by force of example if not otherwise.
This is what the Democratic State Committee
would prevent. They do not want an honest
election. They prefer to carry things in their
own way as they have been doing heretofore.
AS they cannot do away entirely with Con-
gressional enactments they will take care
that they affect democratic interests as little as
possible. But the whole thing is almost ridi-
culous. The convention of the State Legsla-
ture in extra session and the passage OF sdch
an act would require time and expense, for
which the result, even in a democratic point
of view, would be no compensation. The
Naturalization law and the main propositions
contained in the fifteenth amendment law are
knotty points, which the democratic party
cannot get over, and they need not trouble
themselves to get the better of so trivial a
point as the one suggested, for the game will
not pay for the candle.
The New York herald., 1870-08-21

WAS He BETRAYED ?-The Emperor Napo-
leon, it is reported, cries out with maniacal
iteration that he has been betrayed. Doubt
less he has been in certain sense. He was
evidently led into the belief that he had an
efficient army ready to move, and f1attered
himself that he had greater force at his
command than the Prussians had. Upon
these two points turn all the disasters that
have overwhelmed his empire. He should
have moved into Germany fifteen days earlier
than the Germans entered France, but at the
frontier it was found that there was no COM
missariat. In the time taken to organize one
the opportunity for victory passed away from
him. and bv that error all was lost.
The New York herald., 1870-08-21
THE INFALLIRLE ARMY.

French Canadian Recruits for the Forces 0s
His Holiness.
On Friday there arrived In this city on the one
p. NJ train by the Harlem Railroad, a company OF
young French Canadans-fOrty In number-em
route. to join the Papa Zouaves in Rome. They
marched at once from tho depot to the steamship
St. Laurent, where they passed the night on board,
and they sailed yesterday. They pay their own ex-
penses to Rome; and the stipulated pay OF privates
in the Zouaves Is only two and One.haif cents per
day, In addition to their rations, Their parents.
VINO are In prosperous circumstances, are to prOyde
them with pecunlary contingent of $l09 per year
during their service In the Eternal City, They were
accompanied by Father Pehe, q young French
priest, OF some fifteen miles from Montreal and the
chairman OF the committee Five hundred more
to follow by the next French steamer. They
have all served in volunteer regiments, and severai
have participated IN the attempted Fcnian war
The New York herald., 1870-08-21
The Bois de BOu!ogne and the Bois d.
Vincenues.

The Bois de Bou'ogne and the Bois do
vincenucs.
The rumor that the Bois de Boulogne and
the Bos de Vincennes are to be destroyed
has been confirmed The people protested,
but the destruction of both these favorite
resorts was declared to be military neces-
sity. So extreme precaution is ominous of
the very great peril to which the capital
OF France has been exposed by the failure Of
the French armies to repel the Prussian
invader. Nor is it reassuring to remember
that ''the primitive trees which covered the
sandy soil of the Bois de Boulogne in the days
of the first French revolution were all cut
down when the allied armies bivOuacked on
the spot after Waterloo" Nothing but the
dread anticipation of second Waterloo
could have prompted the destruction of the
fine Glumps Of wood, with all the accessories
Of modern landscape gardening, the fruit Of
the pains and money lavshed on the two
thousand acres of this exquisite pleasure
ground since 1852 by Louis Napoleon. It's
promenades and roadways offered forty miles
CuCult W tnc huNob ihOuheo uhu
and to multitude Of pedestrians Its arti-
fetal lakes and cascades, its Swiss chalets
and Chinese pavi.ions, its facilities for walk
ing, riding, driving, skating, dining and
dancing, for picnics and for duels-in q
word, its innumerable attractions had made
it the daily rendezvous of the rank, fashion
and wealth, not only Of the gay metropolis,
but of the entire world. The Bois de Vim
cennes, at the other end of Paris, had also
been embellshed by the Emperor, chiefly
for the benefit of the shopkeepers and their
families in the Faubourg st. Antoine. The
improvements which had been planned were,
however, discontinued few years ago, and
the open spaces between the noble trees Of
this extensive park have since been devoted
to military exercises and maneuvres. In
view Of the threatening contingency of some
thing infinitely more serious than drill,
review or sham fight, the Bos de Vinceunes.
like the Bois de Boulogne, is to be levelled.
IF the siege guns Of the Crown Prince of
Prussia are soon. to be heard from the outer
I Notifications Of Paris the destruction of these
| charming pleasure grounds of the Parisians
| will prove to have been really an act of stern
military necessity