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below Norfolk, and then say good bye to them. Striped 

 baas scarce at twenty-five cents. Bheepshead not easy to 

 !lnd at twenty-five cents. This year they have never been 

 cheaper than twenty cents, 



From California comes now occasional specimens of big 

 crabs. Thcyjveigh three pounds, are eight inches across 

 the shell, and twenty inches from the tips of the claws. 

 Terrapins coining in from Georgia are worth $12. There 

 is an over-abundance of soft crabs, worth $1 a dozen. Lake 

 fish scarce. Market generally plentifully supplied. 



— "Snapping mackerel" are abundant at Glen Cove. 



- nyport has the credit of having the only vessels 

 which are engaged in the Labrador fishing from the United 

 States the present season. At one time there were si sty 

 pail from that port engaged in the business. Next yea?, so 

 ' says, the business will be among the things that 

 were. It is liot from a scarcity of fish, but the business 

 has ceased to nay, 



— M. S. Loman went fishing in the Stanislaus river the 

 oilier day. He was going to tish with ginn'. powder ear- 

 hut the first one exploded and^tore his hand to 

 pieces. Rightly served. — Portland Ait 



Maink. —Ruiiijricji Lakei. — The fishing in this redan 

 With 'he week ending September 19th, has been ranch 

 i it usual The long-continued hot weather has 

 prevented the irout running Up the streams to their spawn- 

 On the Kith ultimo a northeast storm com- 

 menced and prevailed for three days, cooling the air and 

 water so that from now until October 1st the fishing; will 

 greatly improve, ami will probably be the best of the 

 ,l,r poet John G, Wintrier, has been stopping at 

 "Camp Henry" at the outlet at Raugeley Lake, while 

 Baron Hayes and Messrs. Osborn and Preseott, of England, 

 havi been guests of the Qquossoc Angling Association. 

 Tin- "red hackle" still holds its Own, although the ".Maine 

 farmer" did well early in the season. A party of gentle- 

 men from Brooklyn and Connecticut passed down the entire 

 chain of lakes this week, and had no difficulty in getting 

 heavy baggage through to Carrol Dam, Umbagog Lake. 



New iTkrse*— Waretmcn, Septeuibur 26.— Sheephead's 

 fishing is not very good. The Barnegat fisherman have 

 lakena few, but no large catches. Capt. Nelson Soper, of 

 this place, a reliable fisherman, and who follows fishing, 

 going out every day, tells me that he is not going any more 

 after sheepshead. He tells me that he has taken a number 

 of striped bass each day during the week, about five on 

 an average: he catches every day a number of weak fish. 

 porgies, black fish and sea bass. ' A Brick. 



Barkegat ■ Ixi.ht- S ■■■'■■■ '36.— Sheephead, which we 

 thought had left our wafers, have commenced again; Chris. 

 (Trim took 11 yesterdary; Parke 5. At the em ranee buoy 

 C. E. Carman, of Carmansville, and some friends, have 

 good many weakfish with rod and reel, but none 

 .,i . I should judge they would average one-half 

 pound. Black fish still plenty and fair size. I hear of 

 good catches of Stopid bass. Blue fish, none since the 

 equinoctial storm. J. W. K. 



— Dad Parker, the veteran fisherman of Barnegat Bay, 

 naught a shark at the Inlet last Saturday. Dad saw the 

 shark sporting among the waves, ran for a line, and after 

 lying on a Shark hook, bailed it with a black fish, using a 

 cord" wood stick for a Horn ; he threw out his tackle, and in 

 less time than it has taken to tell it, had the fish hooked, 

 and was playing him, or rather the fish was playing Dad. 

 But by the aid of the spectators, the huge monster was 

 landed high and dry on the tawny sand of the beach It 

 measured upwards of seven feet in length. 



—Col. Bruce, of Turf, Field Mid Farm, went down to 

 Barnegat .last week, and caught a tine lot of black fish and 

 sea bass, some weighing five or six pounds. 



— Out correspondent, "T. W.," of Leeshurg, Ya , is a 

 strong advocate of fly-fishing for black bass. He writes: — 



I mean to let von know of some experiments with the fly 

 (for black bass) near Sewanee, Term., some reported suc- 

 cess near Knoxville. and some veritable cases near this town, 

 where Maj. Ferguson, Maryland Fish Commissioner, 

 catches them with the fly, often when no one else can 

 take them in any other way. 



SALMON ON THE Ml RIMICHI. 



St. John. N. B., September 10th, 1874. 

 Editor PoitRaT mv StiiBWi:— 



1 promised to furnish you with au account of our adventures on the 

 southwest Mirimichi. Well, J left St. Jehu Monday, Angus! 31st. at 4:15 

 P. M. Arrived at Frederlectiri ?:2oP. M., where I remained all ni"ht. 

 September 1st left Frede.rie.tun in company wii.h Bob On nil :: In, leu, 

 called Gabe, on the Kew Brunswick Railway for Banian.: m ■!-;,.,., ,,- 

 mile-? from Frederlcton, mid 22 miles from ihe headwater- ofthe Bouth- 

 wcsi Minmichi. We had two birch canoes with us. Here we procured 

 » wegpn, loailed our canoes and supplies, and left at 2:30 p. M. for 

 Gray's Mills. Itain had been aliening I .; rapine time, and just after 

 starting it oaniu down In torrents and continued till late in the night. 

 iVe arrived ar Love's Hotel. Glassville, about seventeen miles from Hart- 

 land, at 7 o'clock P. VL, when we had supper, and finding this hotel so 

 nice a place we concluded to remain all night. Arose September ad at 

 4 A. SI., bad breakfast, aud left for the stream about 5 A. St., and hud 

 our i sin writer and loaded at 8:10 A. St. Left iinmeJ:,.., |j and 



paddled and poled about twenty miles Ihis day; water- very low and 

 blaek, :Co si-us of fish, so we did not put our rods together until we 

 reached tire forks, when we camped. We found the river entirely dusU- 

 r irte of protection, and spearing and netting going ou everywhere. Sep- 

 tember 3d, up early. Gabe hid breakfast, ready in a short time. Put our 



rods together h< 

 Killed 1ms of benutimi 

 ways. The river here sbr 

 every stream and spring li 

 in them. an. I I lie sols i 

 that we were only too gla 

 birch we round that onr 



■I ' : V, .irk. QUI 1 



r handling 



■bed sc 



.id t: ■ 



ittiout raising a salmon tin 

 Gabe cooked tlieui in a variety of 



takable signs of netting and spearing, 

 marks of salmon having been kept 



1 these places smelt an fearfully had 



shoulders were somewhat stiff from 



not experts Ave ought to be In- 

 dians, lie had parr of the luggage in one eanoe.and we had the bal- 

 ance and ourselves in another about tive miles below the forks. Bob 

 tooked-a grilse and I another, both of which we lost. Bob however, 

 kUtedtwoIai tros bout three poancU each. We had a lunch at 



I I" - 1 :: :ii:1 " "' <'s peculiar style. He is certainly 



On pr'meeuf oookt and so jolly, S'iot several duck this afternoon, and 

 fished all the promising pools, but neither caught nor raised a salmon. 

 Indeed I doubt very much If the poachers have left a salmon above Burnt 

 Hill. We found lot, ot pitch wood, all of which we bnrned. About 6 

 P. M, to iluj tla. rain, which had been threatening some time, began to 

 tall, eo We looked .anxiously for a camping ground. Passed Otter Brook , 



and pushed on tit we came to the chain of rocks, and as we rounded the 

 point we eonie cp on to two men with ail the appliances for spearing. 

 We at once took arge of them, bnrat their pitch wood, and made them 

 promise to never ear again. After frightening them prctly thoroughly 

 \ve gave them their canoe and started them for home. We v\ ould have 

 confiscated all they bad, only we could not get tire things down to the 

 settlement, they being over forty miles above. This point is evidently 

 a great haunt for salmon in the right season. The fvnfei 

 rapid, and full of large rocks, but we could no t raise a tin. We pitched 

 our teal in the midst of a pelting rain, but succeeded in getting B good 

 tire blazing, which soon dried the ground under the tent, when we un- 

 loaded our canoe, and by 9 P. M. had supped snmprnonsly, had a smoke, 

 and were fast asieep, dry and hearty. Friday morning up and had hreak- 

 ished the chain all through again, bitt no success. Left atfl 

 A. M today. The signs of recent poaching ate so numerous that onr 

 hearts beat fast with indignation. Arrived at Two niid-a-llulf Slile Pond 

 about 6 P. M. Camped, and whilst Gabe got tea we tried this pool, 

 which has a grand reputaiiou. Many a salmon have we taken here on 

 other occasions. Ofcoursewe anticipated lots of sport now. but alas! 

 we found this pool also had been netted and speared ro death. We did 

 i-h. lint -aw seseral grilse jumping. Saturday morning got 

 off early, expecting to do something at Little Burnt Hill aud other pools 

 tor. arriving at Burnt Hill proper. But again we were doomed 

 be ' - jiirted. as we reached Burnt Uill without seeing a fin about 

 ■J:oi P.M. lire we met a party of three ladies and three 



■■•! ■■iiicnt. who were ou u blueberry expedition . They hav- 

 ing taken possession or our house here, we are again obliged to put up 

 ant-tent I'liis evening we have fibbed all the pools in thia vicinity, 

 raised several Salman and killed two grilse. There are evidences of a 

 great many salmon being here, bat tiie water is so low and black that the- 

 ti.-hdono! look lit to kill. We intended to remain here several dais, 

 but concluded ro-night. we bad better eo borne as soon us pos 



left Sunday morning about 9:31), went down about nine mil - ""l ' ,,, n 



at Gillmau's Brook. Monday morning left at. it A. M. for BcueStown. 

 abont twenty miles below, where we arrived at 7 P. M., having tilled 

 large basketful of beautiful front on our way. We are tneflxsl two 

 white men that ever accomplished, successfully, this route in a birch 

 canoe unassisted. We put up at SteKay's Hotel, where we were made 

 particularly comfortable. Left in mail stage at »i:3fl A. St.. and arrived 

 at Frederictou at 6 P. M.. rather tired, but feeling well. Left this (Wed- 

 nesday) morning at 8 o'clock A. SI., and arrived m St. John 11:20 A. 

 SI. Iris too bad that this river should be in such a s:ate now, us one 

 gentleman, Sir. W. F. Bunting, killed 68 salmon and 12 grilse in July on 

 thrs river in thirteen days, total weight of which was SOI pounds. 



Yours truly, S. R, 



Inditing nncl foaling. 



HIGH WATER. FOB THE WEEK. 



Ztafs, 



Bostm. 



A, icier*. 



Chu\k-ion. 





H. W 



H. M 



H. M. 



Oct. 1 



3 67 



eve 43 



11 Si- 



Oct. i 



5 3 



i W 



eve 53 



Out. 3 



U 12 



3 57 



i 12 



Oct.4 





4 2 



3 li 



Oct. 5 



8 15 



4 59 



4 15 



Oct. 6 



9 5 



5 50 



5 5 



Oct. 7 -- ... 



H 48 



tS 51 



6 48 



The Brooklyn Yacht Club— Fall Regatta. — The 

 course selected for this race was from an imaginary line 

 between two stake boats anchored off Long Dock to and 

 around buoy 5i, and back to home stake-boat, anchored in 

 Gravesend Bay. The prize in each class was a pennant, 

 the winner holding himself subject to a challenge for the 

 nest thirty clays. "The morning of the 21th did not promise 

 well for a breezy day, but the yachts after receiving the 

 guests assigned to each, made sail, and worked out to the 

 vicinity of the starting line. The following vessels finally 

 signified their iutcnlion to compete: 



SCHOONERS. 



Length. 

 HftUru. Ft. In. Own:,: 



Clio 7li Asten st Bradhurst. 



Sleta tin 10 G. A. Beliug. 



FIRST CLASS SLOOPS, 



Undine 51 Brasher * Fow lei. 



Kate.... 53 1 Robert Dillon. 



Sadie 51 6 M. T. Davidson, 



s&O.S-D CLASS SLOOrS. 



Kaiser 45" Greenleaf Or. Xurri* 



FIvingClond -3a 3 Wm, P. Small. 



Selene 41 C 11. s. Wood. 



Lizzie L — — 



Dudley 42 Edgar Williams. 



Sophia 35 2 Ohauucay M Felt. 



EmmaT.'.'.'.'.'.'..'.'.'..7-.'.\'."...' 43 ;'.".'* .'.'."'.' .".".'.'.'.". John T. Trcaduell. 



Recreation... — — Qeorze- Weber 



The steam yacht Emily, Mr. Theo. Meyers, carried the 

 judges upon this occasion, and at 9:45 the preparatory gun 

 was fired from her deck. At 10, the second gun gave per- 

 mission to cross, whicu was immediately accepted by the 

 schooner Meta, followed very shortly by the Clio.' The 

 i,' ■■-,■■. siarting were as below, Ihe judges being obliged 

 to -\n od Hie fifteen minutes margin, owing to the lightness 



b. it, a. n. u. s. 



Stetu 10 03 31 Uudlev 10 52 42 



Glio 10 05 BSlSophia 10 23 32 



Kaiser 10 11 lBlLrada 10 31 01 



Kate 10 18 08 Emma T 10 25 10 



Flvingcloud 10 in 08 Recreation to 20 i» 



Selene 10 20 22 Sadie.... ...1(1 35 08 



Lizzie I, 10 22 2fi Undine 10 4T 43 



The Meta, eoinc off wiih the lead, steadily increased it 

 in the light air then blowing, leaving the Olio a long way 

 astern. ' The Kaiser of the sloops also drew away from the 

 rest, and passing the Clio, became second boat. The race 

 at this lime, however, was merely a drift, and BO light was 

 the wind that abreast of Bay Ridge several of the" yachts 

 were obliged to anchor to avoid going ashore. Shortly a Tier 

 eleven a light breeze from the southward sprang up, and 

 the Meta catching it first, drew out her lead to nearly a 

 mile before it reached Ihe other vessels. The Undine now 

 began to make play and force her wav towards the front. 

 When the Meta reached Homer's beacon, she was leading 

 the entire fleet, with the exception of the Kaiser, over two 

 miles, but at this point she was becalmed, and the tied 

 ran down nearly the whole distance before they in turn lost 

 their wind. Shortly after one o'clock, however, the breeze 

 came out comparatively strong from the southeast, and now 

 the nail racing began, the Undine coming up rapidly on 

 the leaders. The wind now hauling to E. 8. K. , it became 

 a dead beat to buoy 5A, and with a lee going tide. The 

 Kate picked up ihe. Recreation and passed her, the Kaiser 

 being nt this time in the wake of the Meta, und about a 

 quarter of a mile astern. The following are the times of 

 rounding for all the yachts it. was possible to take, the 

 judges fearing the leaders might outruu them to the home 

 stake-boat. 



H. M. S. 



u v. a 



.3 01 3.1 Undine 



2 in SB 



■-' in '.''i M.-'c'Il 



2 18 0,1 



- '!' ■;:, -."i ma 



2 It to 



...2 10 lODlldlev... 



i It 15 



.3 10 45 Clra 



2 an DO 



Kaiser 



Kate 



Pecreation 



Emma T 



Off the wind Ihe pace of course increased, as did the 

 wind, and the Undine finally showed to the front of the 

 sloops. The Kale also passed the Kniser and became 

 second sloop. The Recreation was sailintr in vi 

 form, loo, and the Lurline, which had accompanied" the 

 fleet over the entire course, held her own remarkably well. 

 Eventually the home stake boat was passed, with the fol- 

 lowing result: 



Thru. 

 of Boot 



rr.M. s. 



.-, " I II 



5 33 51 



10 5 38 S 89 29 



ST CLASS BLOOfs, 



10 10 43 



10 IS fl 



10 3.3 S 



a ii ii 



.1 Is S4 

 Not timed . 



Kaiser 10 1 ! 16 3 14 02 4 "ill 45 



Hecreation in 20 19 3 IB 00 4 49 41 



EmmaT lu 85 10 3 18 41 4 63 31 



Fiyine Cloud 10 10 OS 3 22 35 S 03 2. 



Dndlej 10 22 42 3 23 28 ! 4 



Sophia ID 83 32 3 2-5 07 5 01 35 



Lizzie 1 10 22 28 3 30 23 5 07 57 



Selena, — ■„ m 80 v. 3 35 32 5 IE 00 



Uudtl t0 21 01 3 45 00 5 20 53 



The Meta consequently wins the prize for schooners, the 



Undine the prize tor first' cla-s sloops, and the Recreation 

 the second class sloop prize. The Meta has B possibility of 

 losing her's. however, as it is believed she will be chal- 

 lenged by the Clio and the Comet. 



— The Oneida Boat Club of Jersey City held their annual 

 fall regatta on Saturday. September 2<3th, on the North 

 River, opposite Pleasant "Valley, N. J. The first race was 

 in working boats, distance two miles, on the ebb tide. 

 There were three entries, of which C. F. Ockerhausen and 

 "W. Clarke, Jr., came to the startiug boat. The race and 

 handsome sold medal was given to Clark, owing to a foul 

 made by Ockerhausen. The next race was for" the siurie 

 scull chain pionsb in and a gold medal, and the entries wore 

 J. P Uardenlmrgli, Jr.," blue and red; J. IS". Gregory, 

 ihriry and while; V. D. Sehanck, blue; P, S. Jordan, 

 white. The rowing on the part of the men was spirited, 

 each one Struggling hard for victory until the latter pari of 

 the race, when Schanck, leading and polling a vigorous 

 Stroke, won by te„ lengths ahead of Jordan— the rest 

 nowhere and dropped out. The prize awarded to Sir. 

 Schanck was a gold medal. The third and lasl race was in 

 six-oared gigs for leather medals, and was entered bv the 

 two following crews: G. H. Ockerhausin, stroke; P. S. 

 Jordan, D. Henry, William Clarke. Jr., R. C. Vroom. J. P. 

 Hardeubiirgh, how; colors white; and E. C. JS'eilson, 

 strdke; V. IX Schanck, R. S. Jordan, C. P. Ockerhniwn, 

 P. C. Wolbert, C. P. Douglas, bow; colors, blue. Ntal- 

 son's crew led all ihe way, notwithstanding some good 

 spurting of the. Ockerhausen crew, and finally won 

 the race aud leather medals. This last race was rowed 

 on the first of the flood tide, and the following gentlemen 

 officiated. The referee and starter was Mr. E. t r Neilson, 

 and Dudley Gregory time keeper. 



—The Atlantic Boat Club of Hoboken held their seven- 

 teenth annual regatta at Pleasant Valley on Saturday last. 

 Tiie lii'.-t i, ace was Ihe single sculls, distance three ' miles, 

 with a learn. The entries were Robert Leffman and P. f. 

 Ackcrrnan. The latter won by about one length and a half 

 in 19:45. The second race was between Dixon. McQueen, 

 Charles Ellenkoetter, and John Devlin, in seventeen foot 

 boats. McQueen reached tbe home stake first, his time 

 being 32 minutes. Devlin came in second For the third 

 race between four-oared barges, the following-named crews 

 entered: Barge No. 1 — Bow, P. C. Ackermati; second, A. 

 Kiel; third. J. II. Allaire: stroke and Captain. J. Benson. 

 Barge No. S— Bow, .v. J. Dupignacj second, Geo. Headley; 

 third, Charles Ellenkoetter; stroke and Captain, John 

 Devlin. Over the first half of the course Ihe two barges kept 

 abreast. On the homestretch the crew in barge No. 1 

 gained on their competitors, winning by one length and a 

 half, iheir time being 41:15. Joseph Russell, Chairman of 

 the Hoboken Common Council, acted as referee. 



— The Atalanta Boat Club held its annual regatta on Sep- 

 tember 38th, on the Harlem River. The first "race was for 

 the single-scull championship, for the belt of Ihe club, dis- 

 tance' three miles. There were three entries. Hosee, With- 

 ers and Dtmby. Hosee was Ihe first to get off, and held Ihe 

 lead easily to Ihe finish, anil won Ihe race bv eight 

 boats length. The second event was the junior singlo- 

 sculls, distance two miles. George M. Young and E. Mills 

 Jr., were the only real contestants in this race, and afler an 

 exciting struggle Mills came in a winner by two lengths. 

 In the third race for pair-oared shells, distance two miles, 

 .1. E. Eustis, late stroke of the Wesleyau crew rind O T. 

 Johnson started against Dr. Withers and R. Ba'nbri.lge. 

 The former look the lead from the start, and won with 

 greal ease. The fourth race was for eight-oared barges, 

 distance one mile, J. H. Lindsay, G. T. Ackerson, J. T. 

 Fiver, c. Zachnian, P. C. Benjamin, II. B: Uopdricli, W. 

 J. "Worrall, W. If. vVagslulf. and E. Mills, Jr., coxswain. 

 were arrayed against W. C. Mainland, II. B. Leroy, 8, M. 

 Clark, George M. Young, A. R. Haddock, B. P. Kobbe, 

 W. A. Haddock. \V. G. Annan, and E. Blake, coxswain. 

 This was l,v far the tnosl closelj contested and best rowed 

 race of the regatta ; the Lindsay crew h inning after a final 



spun by a shorl length. The lasl race was tor four-oared 



shells, distance two miles. R. Bainbridge, W. Spear, 

 S Johnson and R. Withers wore red colors, and T. Blake, 

 H. B. Leroy, S. M. Clark and J. E. Eutis while. Withers' 

 crew led for the first quarter of a mile, when the Eustis 

 crew came up with ihem, and a bad foul occurred, which 

 caused bptll horils, lo slop. The race was finally WOO by 

 the whites. 



—James Bar! on of Brooklyn, and Richard Hall of this cilv, 

 rowed a race on September 28tb in nineteen feet working 



finals, on Gowanus Bay, for $200 a sitle. The ill - 



one mile and a ball to a stake boat and return. Both 

 men got away together, Hall verging slowly ahead, ft i . 

 when- within one quarter of a mile of the home sts 

 the row-lock of his boat gave way and he was , 

 Barlon rowed aerosb ihe line, winning the race. Hull wiu 

 much exhausted. 



