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Fairmount. was crushed to atoms by a canal-boat running 

 against it. No one was injured. 



—The single scull race between E. Losee, of the Atatlanta, 

 and Roche of the Nautilus club took place September 15th, 

 on the Harlem river course. Losee had the New York side, 

 and Roche the Westchester side. They both got off pretty 

 evenly, and it was very closely contested until turning the 

 stake boat. On the liome stretch, approaching McComb's 

 Dam, Losee spurted and forged ahead of Roche, which 

 lead he maintained, and finally eame in the winner, some 

 150 yards ahead. Time, twenty-three minutes and thirty 

 seconds. 



—All the requirements in the articles of agreement between 

 John Biglin, of this city, and George Brown, of Halifax, 

 N. S., have been complied with, and Biglin has left for 

 Nova Scotia. The race is to be five miles, for $1,000, to 

 take place at Halifax next Saturday, the 20th inst. 



^ — The Palisade boat club of Yonkers, on the Hudson, has 

 challenged the Vespers boat club to an eight-oared barge 

 race. 



— The following are the leading rules adopted to govern 

 the regatta of the "National Amateur Oarsmen," to beheld 

 at Philadelphia, October 7th. The expeses of the regatta 

 have been guaranteed by the Philadelphia clubs, with an 

 anditional donation of $200 to the prize fund. Clubs in all 

 parts of the United States will be represented. The prizes 

 to be awarded will consist of cups and money. 



First — No clubs but those which have subscribed to the rules of boat- 

 racing, and the definition of an amateur oarsman adopted by the National 

 Convention, and have agreed to recognize the decision of the Judiciary 

 Committee thereon, shall be entitled to compete. Entries of individuals 

 will not be received. 



Third— Any club intending to compete for any of the prizes, must give 

 due notice to the secretary of the regatta on or before the day appointed 

 for closing the regatta. Entries shall close two weeks before the date of 

 the regatta. In all eases of entiles for four oared races, a list of not 

 more than eight names, and in all cases of entries for four-oared and 

 double-scull races, a list of not more than four names shall be sent to the 

 secretary, and from those names the actual crew shall be selected. The 

 names of the captain and secretary of each crew or club entering for any 

 race, shall be sent, at the time of entrance, to the secretary. A copy of 

 the entrance list shall be forwarded by the secretary, to the captain and 

 secretary of each crew or club so duly entered. 



Eighth— Entrance money for each boat shall be paid to the secretary at 

 the time of entering, as fol.ows : Four Joars,;$15; pair oars, $10; double 

 sculls, $10; single sculls, $5. 



Ninth — : All races shall be mile and a half heats, straight away. 



Seventeenth— -The laws of boat-racing, established by the National Con- 

 vention of Amateur Oarsmen, shall be observed at this regatta, and the 

 definition of an amateur oarsman established by said convention shall 

 govern the qualifications of each competitor. 



We define an amateur oarsman to be one who does not enter into an 

 open competition for either a stake, pnblic or admission money, or en- 

 trance fee, or has not competed with or against a professional for any 

 prize, or who has never taught, pursued, or assisted in the pursuit of ath- 

 letic exercises as a means of livelihood, or who has not been employed in 

 or about boat3 or in manual labor on the water. 



— The following entries for the International Regatta at 

 St. John, had been made up to our atest advices. We shall 

 have a full report of the affair in our next issue : 



FIRST CLASS FOUR OARED RACE . 



"C. McCarthy"-- -Longshore Club, Portland. Me., blue. 



"St. John "—Paris crew, pink. 



" Xiphias "— Indiantown crew, white. 



• • John Goddard "—McLaren erew, red . 



FIRST CLASS SINGLE SCULL RACE . 



John A. Biglin— (no name). 

 AlexBrayley— "J. Clark, T. T." 

 George Lovett — " Robert Hewett." 

 Robert Fulton— "A. C. Smith." 

 Doyle— ' ! C. O'Harris." 



FOUR OARED INRIOOED RAGE. 



Logan crew—" Crown Prince ." . 



Lower Cove crew— "Dexter." 



Morris Boys—" Neptune." 



Pleasant Point crew—" Walter Brown." 



A. Harned— " The Volunteer." 



PAIR OARED RACE. 



"Robert Bustin " — John Loman and J. Till. 



•• Dexter "—Lower Cove pair. 



"Ben Lomond"— C. H. Wright and Robert Stackhousc. 



•' Brothers' Pride "—Hugh and Charles McCormick. 



" Katy Did"— R. S. Inch and D. MeKellar. 



"Isaac Craig " — Frank Nice and James Pollock. 



SINGLE SCULL RACE FOR PRIZES GIVEN BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR 

 GENERAL, AND THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 



" R. Dalton "—Hugh McCormick. 

 "A. C. Smith"— Robert Fulton. 



— The Oneida Boat Club, of Jersey City, held their fourth 

 annual regatta September 13th. The course was from 

 Peasant Valley clock to the dock of the Chemical works. 

 The first race, single shells, was for the championship of 

 the club and a gold medal. There were five entries, three 

 erf which came to the starting point. Henry took the lead 

 ;! ml maintained it throughout, winning in fourteen minutes 

 ami twenty seconds. Schanck came in second. The sec- 

 ond race was for the working-boat championship and club 

 [Kidye, over the same course. There were three entries, 

 lowing with a strong tide. Ockerhausen won in twelve 

 minutes and twenty-eight seconds; Gregory second, The 

 third race was an eight-oared race between the heavy and 

 light weights of the club. The start was good, the light 

 weights in the barge Oneida, a new boat built by George 

 llnishr, having the outside. Within the first mile they took 

 the Hudson's water, and gradually increased the gap until, 

 in passing the pier, at the finish, they were fully five 

 lengths ahead, the time being: Oneida, eleven minutes 

 and thirty seconds; Hudson, eleven minutes, tifty seconds. 

 The regatta was in every way well conducted and satisfac- 

 tory. C. A. McCready, of the Athletic club of New York, 

 and E. R. Pinkney, of the Harlem Rowing Association, 

 acting as judges, and C. A. Peverelli, of the Aquatic Monthly 

 as referee Fully 1,000 persons witnessed the race. 



— The Athletic rowing club single scull shell raee for a 

 gold badge, took place September 13th. Distance one mile 



The contestants were C. H. Cone and R. W. Rathbone. 

 They staited off well, but before going half the distance 

 Cone rouled Rathbone, Avhich was claimed and allowed. 



—The Portland Me., Yacht Club regatta takes place 

 to-day. They start from the harbor and return. In the 

 club they have twelve yachts, comprising four schooners, 

 aggregate, o. m. 160 tons; and eight sloops, aggregate o. 

 m. 120 tons. The club was organized in IMC*!), 



The Militia, or more properly speaking, the National 

 Guard of the various States, is an important auxilliary to the 

 Army, and it has long been .a matter of surprise, particu- 

 larly since the close of the war, that some measures have 

 not been taken by the several States to organize on a uni- 

 form basis or a basis similar to that of Canada, their militia 

 force. The late civil war truly showed the evil results of this 

 neglect, and the time may come again when the United 

 States will find its little army of some 30,000 men as inade- 

 quate for the purpose as it was thirteen years ago. The militia, 

 as represented in many States prior to the war, was in 

 in public estimation of little account beyond the annual 

 play-soldier displays, and the so-termed " training days" of 

 the Eastern States only tended to place them in a still 

 more ridiculous position before the public. The old time 

 militiaman with his poppinj ay-like uniform and gorgeous 

 trappings, was really, in appearance, no subject for war it 

 is true, but it was this very spirit and national pride, which 

 afterwards in the real service made many good soldiers. 

 The National Guard is to the country or its volunteer 

 soldiery, what West Point is to the army, and for that 

 reason should be organized by the various States on one 

 plan, as a school of instruction for citizen soldiers or 

 volunteers, upon whom the country in time of war 

 mainly depends. Why, the least knowledge of the drill, at 

 the beginning of the war, placed men forward as leaders of 

 the thousands of raw and entirely undisciplined roops, whot 

 at that time flocked from the farm and workshop. The 

 Seventh of New York, of course like many regiments of the 

 National Guard, was before the war, looked upon as first- 

 class " play soldiers," and there are some people still who 

 regard them in the same light. Yet be that as it may, the 

 records show that from the ranks of this very regiment, 640 

 officers were furnished to the volunteer and regular service 

 during the war. Let us then have a uniform militia law, 

 and let Congress see that this land is never again so entirely 

 unprepared for war, as it was in 1861. This alone can be 

 accomplished in view of the expense and popular objection 

 to a large standing army, by a good and somewhat capable 

 militia system similar to that of Canada. The National 

 Guard, as far as organized in many of the States, is superior 

 in discipline to the volunteers of either England or Canada. 



— The American civil war has, since its close, developed 

 perhaps more romance than any other war of modern times. 

 The peculiar character of the conflict was unprecedented, 

 and under the circumstances it would have been strange if 

 any amount of incidents and romance did not arise there- 

 from. A story from the South is to the effect that Mrs. 

 Buckner, wife of General Buckner, the Confederate Gen- 

 eral, has recently had returned to her a large amount of 

 property which, when the war broke out, she had conveyed 

 to her brother. At the time General Buckner joined the 

 Confederate service, and before his wife joined him, she 

 conveyed the property to her brother under a deed of trust. 

 The young man afterwards married, became a father, and 

 entered the Union service. The question now was, what 

 would become of the property; for in case the brother 

 should die, or be killed in the service, without making a 

 will reconveying the propertjr to his sister, his child 

 would inherit the estate. It appears, however, on the eve 

 of the battle of Sharpsburg, her brother made a will of 

 this character, and in that battle the poor fellow was killed. 

 General Burnsicle, who commanded the corps in which 

 Mrs. Buckner's brother served, knew of this will, and kept 

 the secret; and after the war informed General Buckner, 

 and the latter, by his aid, was enabled to recover the will, 

 and proofs being obtained, Mrs. Buckner's title was fully 

 established, the fortune saved and turned over to its original 

 owner. 



—The noise and bustle about those Alabama claims will, 

 thank Heaven, soon subside, now that the hard cash has at 

 last been deposited in our strong box. Fifteen and a half 

 millions dollars dont seem so much in these times of big 

 $figures, yet 15,500,000 in gold would be no light weight to 

 carry around loose in one's pocket. It took, however, but 

 a few minutes for the State officials at Washington to fix 

 this matter finally. We opine, however, there will be no 

 end df red tape before it gets into the hands of the owners 

 of the vessels destroyed by that great Confederate cruiser, 

 the Alabama. 



—The late civil war rather made us forget all other Ameri- 

 can wars as far as anniversary celebrations go. Revolution- 

 ary anniversary celebrations, as well as the more recent Mexi- 

 can war, have of late years become less, and the memories of 

 our late war and the many battles thereof are kept alive 

 only by army, corps, and regimental reunions, and these 

 too, we think, in time will pass from public view and new 

 events, war-like or otherwise, will take their places. Re- 

 cently, however, after many years of neglect, a disposition 

 has been shown to look after the fortune (no reference to 

 the large (?) Government pension) of the few survivors of 

 the Mexican war of 1846. Many prominent officers of the 

 army and navy, among them Generals McClellan, Hooker, 

 Cadwallader, Burnet, and Sweeney, and Rear Admirals 



Boggs and Stringham, took the matter in hand, and on 

 Monday, September 15, in New York city, celebrated the 

 capture of Mexico in grand style, by a military display and 

 grand reception of the veterans, etc. The whole matter 

 was pleasing in its inception, and the result will tend 

 doubtless to revive memories of our former straggles with 

 Mexico, as well as awaken new interest in affairs along the 

 Rio Grande. Who knows but that this resurrection of the 

 memories of a war almost forgotten among the younger 

 generations, may not result in a renewal of the contest. 

 The United States could do a little satisfactory business in 

 the direction of Mexico. A little skirmish in one part might 

 aid in settling some of the weekly revolutions in that direc- 

 tion. 



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Sparkles from Saratoga. By Sophia Sparkle. New 



York : American News Co, 



This book is emphatically just what its title claims— Sparkles— and it. is 

 full to the overflowing of " overtrue tales," or sketches of life at the 

 watering places. Every one, it is pre-supposed, is aware that every per- 

 son who visits the Springs goes there for other purposes than to drink 

 the waters. 



Our merry friend, Sophia Spankle, in her racy, truthful sketches of 

 Saratoga, lifts the veil, and allows us to "peep behind the curtain" of 

 this enchanted life. She speaks of Saratoga, and most graphically does 

 she tell us of what the bubble and foam of this aristocratic (?) society is, 

 in a measure, composed. 



At our sitting down to review this highly interesting and valuable mir- 

 ror of life at the Springs, we proposed to give some quotations from the 

 same for the benefit of those who have not seen the book; but we fee 

 that instead of doing this, we should recommend every lady of good 

 sense who has a great desire to go to the Springs, to read this book be- 

 fore she starts, and if she goes, put it in her "Saratoga trunk," as one of 

 the indispensable and necessary articles belonging to the same. 



Our own experience of the Springs bears testimony to the usefulness 

 of this work. How hard it is indeed to be a " fashionable " woman ? It 

 would seem that our superannuated belles of six s|pJons must have learned 

 wisdom by this time, but not so. Sophia says : "six years ago, the 

 Widow Dash was a belle of the beau monde of Fifth Avenue, and having 

 gently laid away her " old Latitude and Longitude," she is still doing Sar- 

 atoga with her six trunks, and is one of the vainest of the vain in this 

 great Vanity Fair. Chapter VI is devoted to the Widow Dash, and this 

 same Widow has many followers. The "Saratoga Droop" and 

 "Kangaroo Hop " and "Old Bachelors," as well as many other habitues 

 of Saratoga, are simple "lame ducks," and under the luminous and 

 scorching rays of Sophia Sparkles' pen, will be known hereafter as a 

 class whom it will do not the least harm in the world not to have an in- 

 troduction to, if they should visit the Springs. 



We hope to hear from Sophia Sparkle again. She has done a world of 

 good in her first attempt at stirring the "Foam." 



Police Records and Recollections ; or Boston by Day- 

 light and Gaslight. By Edward H. Savage. Boston: Jackson, 

 Dale & Co. *I. F. Riday, Subscription Manager, 147 Tremont street. 

 This is by no means a sensational story of events, as some might be 

 led to suppose from the title, but a sober, chronological history of the 

 principal events occurring in Boston from the time of 1630 down to the 

 later period of 1873. The work is^ evidently written with the utmost 

 truthfulness in all things, from its beginning to its end. The opportuni- 

 ties of Mr. Savage for seeing things just as they were, either by " day- 

 light " or "gaslight," were such as but few men have during their whole 

 lives. We arc quite sure such opportunities never should be had by a 

 great many men who, from some cause or other, wear the police uni- 

 form, and carry the police "locust." We do not mean the good police- 

 men. Oh no. Mr. Savage may be truly styled the type of what our po- 

 licemen should be in all instances — high-minded, honorable men — whose 

 reverence of truth-telling and morality should be synonymous with the 

 word " policeman." What should the word " policeman " signify ? 

 Guardian of the people, defender of the innocent, a man of integrity, high 

 principle ami honor. We are very sorry that we do not find on all the 

 "beats " just this standard of a man. 



Mr. Savage's work will be found very valuable as a work of reference, 

 as it goes back two hundred and forty years, and during this time many 

 strange events took place, all of which are faithfully transcribed. 

 Digestion and Dyspepsia. By Dr. Trail. New York. 

 S: R.Wells. 



Dr. Trail says, in his introduction, " We are a nation of dyspeptics." 

 Who can wonder at the assertion of this fact; how do we eat, drink, and 

 sleep, without great abuse of our physical nature ? Eat we do not, mod- 

 erately, taking time to masticate, in the most thorough manner, our food. 

 We throw the various edibles before us down, like corn into a hopper; 

 pork, beans, bread, meat, pickles, mustard, and— well, that will do for the 

 food department of any laboring man's dinner. Now, the drinking pro 

 cess is very much like this; cider, water, ale, tea, Or coffee, if not brandy 

 or wine, make a portion of almost every common laborer's dinner. This 

 he gets through in say, not one-half to an hour's time, as he should, but in 

 about fifteen minutes at the longest. 



Do you wonder that man has the dyspepsia ? If you do, we do not. We 

 should expect it as a natural consequence, or that he had an "India- 

 rubber stomach." 



One thing, as the Dr. says, is very true. " The American race must ar- 

 rest its dyspeptic tendency, or die out." 



Reader, get this book and read it. It tells you all about this distressing 

 malady. How to get it, and how to get rid of it, if you have it. Go and 

 buy this valuable treatise of life and its greatest blessing— health of body 

 —and by following the precepts laid down in its pages, you cannot fail of 

 having peace of mind. 



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 given, with illustrative facts, to prove that man has other duties to per- 

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