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FOREST AND STREAM. 
was running through the big seas with great ease, her lee 
scuppers scarcely wet. She passed the big Kate early on 
this course, so disgusting her us to cause her to give up 
the race and to join those yachts which had already 
rounded the lightship. The small sloops rounded the 
Kettle Cove stakeboat in the following order: Vixen, 
2.»0: America. 2.54; Mistral, 3.08.80. The yachts 
rounded the Hen and Chickens in the following order 
and time: Magic. 2.4.15; Tidal Wave, 2.4.45 ; Clio, 
2.14.80; Peerless, 2.18.85; Niantic, 2.19; Visio/n 2.20.15; 
Vixen, 2.34; America, 2.48; Mistral, 8.02J-. when the 
boats squared away for home they ran wing and wing 
and ballooned out all the canvas they could carry, Clio 
made a gallant struggle for the lead on the run home, but 
die was too far astern to catch her rival and crossed the 
line three minutes behind her. The yachts finished as 
follows: 
Name. H, M. S. 
Tidal Wave.2 62 00 
Magic.2 53 00 
Olio.3 08 00 
Feeiiess. ,. .3 11 00 
Ktenfic.3 15 35 
Name. H. Jr. s. 
Vision.3 15 14 
Azalea.3 111 00 
Vixen.....3 33 00 
Ameriea.8 61 24 
Mistral.. .. I 15 -11 
Thus the Magic, Niantic and Vixen were the winners 
in their respective classes. 
The next day. Aug. 14th, it blew nearly a gale of 
wind, and was decidedly the big schooners’ day. But few of 
the yachts carried topsails while on the wind. ’ Only fifteen 
out of the thirty boats started, many being deterred from 
doing so on account of the heavy weather, and others for 
various reasons. The Estelle had a good lead, and was 
first to Quick's Hole. Here she had to tack twice in 
order to get about the buoy, and so was passed by Dread- 
naught and Wanderer, "fire boats went through in the 
following order: Dreadnought, Wanderer, Estelle, 
Rambler, Phantom, Intrepid, Niantic, Dauntless. 
Clio, Madeleine, Vixen, Nettie, Vision, Psyche 
and Volante. Vision and Nettie soon after passed 
Vixen, and squared away for Oak Bluffs. The 
yachts arrived there in the following order : Dread- 
naught. Rambler, Estelle, Intrepid, Clio, Madeleine, Nian¬ 
tic, Vision, Vixen, Psyche, Volante. The Dauntless, 
Wanderer, Phantom, and Resolute ran on and anchored 
in front of the Bluffs. In rounding to at Holmes’ Hole 
Rambler carried away her masthead, and this accident 
put an end to the cruise. The next day the fleet started 
for Newport, but as they all, with the exception of three, 
started before the signal, the run is not worthy of men¬ 
tion, excepting the remarkably close and interesting race 
of the three schooners which started together, the Daunt¬ 
less, Intrepid, and Dreadnought. They came in theabove 
named order, passing Fort Adams at 5:25, 5:27, and 5:28. 
The fleet disbanded that evening at midnight. It was an 
unqualified success, and the runs were unusually ex¬ 
citing. The Dreadnought, Tidal Wave, Magic, Clio, and 
Estelle, Niantic, and Vixen carried off the honors in 
i heir r ■sportive classes. The. Dauntless, under the com¬ 
mand of Rear Commodore Waller, took the place of the 
flagship after the accident to Rambler, and Mr. Chester 
Griswold succeeded Mr. G. L, Haight as Fleet Captain. 
Most of the yachts left Newport Sunday morning, having 
been storm-bound Saturday by the bad weather. W. 
Tub Enchantress. —From the London Field we learn 
that this famous American schooner, one of "Bob” 
Fish's best productions, now the property of Col. Owen 
Williams, of England, and flying the burgee of the. Royal 
Yacht Squadron, has again been at her old tricks and 
astonishing even the experts of the Field with her “won¬ 
derful bursts of Bpeed ’’ during the match at Cowes, Aug. 
5 th, for the Queen’s Cup. Says the Field: "Nothing 
afloat in British waters could have shown the speed En- 
chantrsss did. * * * She sprung her luff in a way 
worthy of the Sappho. * * * Enchantress, with 
wind two or three points abaft the beam, was going 
along as upright as an ice-boat and traveling like one, 
too. It was the most wonderful piece of sailing we ever saw 
to see this rapid flight of Enchantress; and the only thing 
to compare it to was the flight of this same Enchantress 
four or five years ago in a match fro n Havre to South- 
sea. * * * In this ran of twelve miles she gained 
twenty minutes (II on Formosa, and we venture to Bay 
that such a performance was never before witnessed in 
British waters." * * * 
Pretty strong testimony this, coming from such good 
authority, too ; but it only confirms the opinion we have 
all along held of Enchantress, that with a fair system of 
measurement and an open course free from flukes, there 
is nothing afloat that can beat her unless it be Sappho 
herself. In the race in question the Queen’s Cup went 
to the English schooner Egeriu, of 156 tons (on time 
allowance), by the small margin of leas than a minute. 
It must not be overlooked, however, that Enchantress 
was rated at 840 tons by the one-sided pressure of the 
Yacht Racing Association Rule, wlulo in reality she 
measures only about 800 tons. Had the match been 
sailed on actual tonnage in place of a fictitious assump¬ 
tion. the cup would have been captured by the gallant 
Colonel and his smart American schooner in spite of her 
late and leewavdlv start and the splitting of her balloon- 
jit'' _ 
Fancy vs. "Water Witch —Editor Forest and Stream .- 
—Thursday August 14th. at Nahant, a match race was 
sailed for ‘§50 a side, between the Cat rigs Fancy, of the 
Beverly and Nahasset Y. C’s and Water Witch of the S. 
Boston Y. C.; distance. 14 miles. Wind very strong, 
southwest. Won by Water Witch. Goinses from judge’s 
yacht off new wharf, Nahant, leaving Winthrop Bar 
buoy on port band ; the sloop Alice of the E. Y. C. at the 
yacht anchorage at Nahant, on port hand ; Winthrop 
Bar buoy on port hand, to judge’s yacht, 14 miles. 
From Nahant to Winthrop Bar was a dead beat to wind¬ 
ward ; the judges, by the kindness of Coin. Peabodv of 
the Boston Y. C., occupied the steamer Adelita of that 
club, and followed the racing boats closely over the course. 
Preparatory signal was blown promptly at two, and the 
boats crossed the line as follows: Wafer Witch, 2h, 8m. 
27s ■ Fancy, 2h. 9m. 12s. Fancy seemed to stand up bet¬ 
ter than her competitor and to go through the .water much 
faster, though Water Witch sailed closer to the wind for 
at leagt two-thirds of the beat up. When the boats crossed 
for the first time, Fancy was seen to be ahead ; though 
her metal cutwater, on to which the forestay fastened, 
was seen to be broken short off. This made it necessary 
to send a man forward to repair damages, which of course 
hurt her speed ; still she gained steadily and rounded the 
buoy 2m. 35s. ahead of the Water Witch, as follows: 
Fancy, Sh. 14m. 5s.; Water Witch, 3h. 16m, 40s. Soon 
after rounding Fancy tried to jibe, but got a heavy puff 
of wind just at the wrong minute; the result was that 
the boom jibed but the gaff did not, and the patent jaws 
of the gaff were broken short off on one side and twisted 
off on the other. The sail was lowered, and every effort 
made to repair damages and continue the sail, but it was 
impossible, and on reaching Nahant, Fancy ran into the 
wharf, leaving the race to Water Witch. The latter low¬ 
ered the sail half way and jibed round the buoy ; then 
set mainsail and spinnaker and ran in very fast, rounding 
the Alice at 3. 48. 12. A very ugly-looking thunder- 
squall now began to show itself from the northward, and 
Water Witch put in two reefs before starling for her 
second beat ; she rounded the buoy at 5. 2. 50, and started 
for Nahant; but about a mile from the judges’ boat was 
caught in a calm, caused by the edge of the squall killing 
the wind, and lay almost motionless for some twenty min¬ 
utes, when the breeze came up again and she crossed the 
line at 6. 5. 14, winning the stakes. The judges were, for 
Water Witch, Mr. Wm. Morris, Sec’y of the S. B. Y. C. ; 
Fancy, Com. Jeffries of the Beverly Y. C. Referee ; Com. 
Peabody of the Dorchester Y. C. Skylight. 
The Greenport Regatta— Shelter Island, Aug, 24th. 
—The boat race for the 22d was postponed to the next 
morning, as the strong west wind was too much for the 
little craft. The morning of the 23d was very favorable 
for the start, with a light breeze from the southwest. But 
three shells took part in the three mile race, the first 
prize being won by Lee, of Newark, in 28m. 11s. Knotli, 
of Brooklyn, finished hiB three miles in 29m. 23s. The 
third boat, rowed by Ten Eyck, of Peekskill, was 
swamped on the return, and was picked up by a sail boat. 
The three prizes for this race were §100, §50, §15—one for 
each. 
But five boats out of fourteen contended in the second 
race for pah oars. Three prizes—§125, §75, §25. The 
first, prize was won by the Portland boat, 22m. 81|s. ; the 
second by the Godkins, of Boston, in 22m. 32is.; Faulker, 
of Charlestown, Mass., 22m. 47fs.; Brawley, 23m. 91s. 
The race was witnessed by a large concourse of people, 
who were greatly pleased with the exciting scene. We 
never sa w so big a crowd in Greenport on the 22d. The 
bay was filled with steamers, yachts and small sail boats. 
McL. 
Corinthian Yacht Builders. — From an exchange we 
clip the following : A very fine yacht was recently 
launched on Lake Iisgar by Messrs. F. B. and Geo. Till- 
son. of Tillsonburg, Out. She is a splendid model, was 
built and rigged entirely by the Messrs. Tillson and 
would do credit to a professional shipwright. Her 
measurements are 22 feet long, 6 feet beam, 30 inches deep 
and spreads 450 square feet of canvas. Her cockpit is 
beautifully finished in maple and black walnut, oiled and 
varnished. 
Columbia Yacht Club. —An open race will be sailed 
under the auspices of the club, Sept. 9th, for a beautiful 
silver challenge cup presented by the Derby Silver Plate 
Company. Club course, flying start, time allowance, 14 
min. to" the foot; crews limited to one hand for every 
three feet of length and fraction : open to yachtB from 18 
to 25 ft., cat-rigged ; entrance fee, §1. Particulars from the 
Secretary C. Y. C., Mr. John Frick, 21 Maiden lane, New 
York. 
To American Yachtsmen. —For complete records of 
all yacht races in England, as well for as for a great variety 
of other matter of interest, such as cruises and yachting 
tales, read Hunt’s Yachting Magazine, established 1852. 
Can be had of booksellers generally, or direct from Hunt 
& Co., 119 Church Street, Ed gw are road, London, E. C., 
England. Published monthly, one shilling sterling per 
number.—[Adi’. 
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FISH IN SEASON IN SEPTEMBER. 
a feeding ground for the black fish and sea bass and 
sheepshead. We have spent many an afternoon of fam¬ 
ous sport drawing up huge sheepshead from the hulk of 
an old schooner, sunken because she would persist in at- ij 
tempting to enter the harbor in spite of cannon balls and 
shells. We were younger then than we are now, but to¬ 
day, we confess it, the satisfaction of a good catch of big 
fish is not marred by untimely reflections upon the fate 
of the ship's crew and owners, over whose rained venture 
we have anchored our skiff. Every man to his trade. 
One half of the world lives from the misfortunes of the 
other half. 
The anglers of New York and vicinity are just now in 
good luck. Not that any ships have sunk in the Bay how¬ 
ever. Their good fortune is rather assured by recent 
summer resort improvements. The new piers at Long 
Branch and Coney Island will hy-and-by attract the fish, 
and new angling grounds will then be open to the cit'a 
line. 
The Second Presbyterian Fishing Club.—"As the 
twig’s bent so the tree’s inclined.” Send a party of small 
Presbyterian boys off year after year on Sunday-school 
picnics, and if, when they grow up, they do not organize 
Presbyterian fishing excursions, it is only because the 
unexpected always happens in this illusory and contra¬ 
dictory world. At all events, this reasoning will hold good 
with the Second Presbyterians of Philadelphia, who have 
just published the Log of their ninth annual cruise on 
Delaware Bay. The Log is a curiosity. From the wealth 
and grotesqueness of the illustrations we should imagine 
that every printing office in Philadelphia, from Ben 
Franklin’s time down to the present, had been ransacked 
for the cuts. That one, particularly, of the Whale may, 
for aught we know, have illustrated the shipping news 
columns in one of the Ninevah morning papers some 
thousands of years ago. The piscatorial Second Presby¬ 
terians, of whom there were fifteen, namely: J. L. 
Smith, Pres.; John Lammon, Vice-Pres.; 0. P, Allen, 
Sec. and Treas.; W. Monsley, H. J. Christ, G. W. Knight, 
G. S. Gandy, C. Mousley, A. Barber, W. L. Allen, E. Mc- 
Cready, W. Hazlett, W. Sixsmith, S. Currie, R. Gregory, 
purser, and C. Cooper, steward, embarked on the staunch 
schooner Emma Collins, July 8d, and returned to their 
families on the 14th of the same month. The adventures 
of the club, if put into heroic verse, would rival the 
Lusiad. 
We are not pleased to see the club array themselves 
against science, as they do in the regulation reading : 
" No shark, sucker, tadpole, smelt, or sea serpent shall, 
under any circumstance, be admitted on our lines.” The 
capture of the sea serpent would be an event of Buch 
signal scientific importance as to redound to the glory of 
any fishing club afloat-. Nor do we approve of 'the Second 
Presbyterian dub’s hostility to long-standing beliefs and 
practices of the craft set forth in another regulation: "Any 
member caught using charms, spells, &c., such as spitting 
on his hooks, using asafoedita on his bait, or making use 
of any superstition to draw the fish to his line shall be ex¬ 
pelled.” Such fallacies, obviously arising from the sec¬ 
tarian character of the club, are little ameliorated by their 
temperance platform as set forth: “The regular ap¬ 
petizers and brain exhilarants shall be lemonade, ice 
water, bilge-water, rain-water, salt-water, eye-water, 
dish-water, pump-water, blue-water, white-water, and 
—water.” We should be glad to hoar from the 
Third, and the Fourth, and the Fifth Presbyterian Fish¬ 
ing Clubs, and the Congregatronalists and Methodists 
and Baptists and Quakers ; for we hope they, too, all go 
a-fisliing. 
FRESH WATER. 
Trout, Salmofuntinalis. 
Salmon, Salmi Solar. 
Salmon Trout, Salma can Tints. 
Lainl-luckcd Salmon, Saimoylo- 
G ray ling, Thymallus tricolor. 
Muskalonge, Esor nobtUor. 
Pike or Pickerel, Esox lucins. 
Yellow Perch, Perea ftavescens. 
Black Bass, Mteropterus satmoides; M. nigricans. 
SAM WATER. 
Sea Bass, ScUmlcms ocdlatus. 
Shoepsheail, Archnsargus proba- 
tocephmus. 
Striped Bass, Ruccus linealus. 
White Perch, Mortmeamericana, 
WeakDsh, OgivmUm recalls. 
Hlneflsh, Pomalomus salta trie. 
Spanish Mackerel, Cybium mac- 
•ulatium. 
Cero, Oybium regale. 
Bouito, Santa peiamys. 
Kingtlsh, Mcnlicirrus nebulosus. 
Trolling for Salmon. — This is a favorite sport with 
some who fish in the Columbia River. An Astoria 
(Oregon) correspondent speaks of it as “a new sport, 
invented last year.” They are caught weighing from 
15 to 20 pounds, and some few big ones as high as 75 
pounds and upwards. The writer wonders why the Fish 
Commissioners of the Eastern States do not get their 
supplies of salmon eggs from the Columbia instead of the 
Sacramento, as they are much superior in size and 
quality. 
TROUT FURS Poll SETTEMBEa. 
GnAY COFLIN, No. 10 and H.—Body, silver-gray mohair tipped 
with orange silk; feet, light gray kanklo wound over peacock’s 
herl: wings and set®, hyaline. 
Brown Goman, No. 10 and 11.—Body, gray and bright claret 
mohair mixed; feet-, dark gray haeklo wound over peacock’s herl; 
wings and set®, gray hyaline. 
The gnat flies named for April. 
The Quaker for evening and moonlight. No. 7 and 8. Body, 
gray wound with honcy-yeUow hackles: wings, made of feather 
from an owl's wings. 
The white moth for dark nights. No. 6 and 7. Body, feet and 
whigs a pure white. 
The stone flics continue on the water until the close of the 
season. 
At this season use the small lies for day fishing and the large 
flies for evening and night. 
New Fishing Grounds.—I t’s an ill wind that blows no 
one good, even though it sinks a ship in the harbor. For 
while Antonio on the Rialto is reckoning up his losses, the 
fisherman is musing upon the time when that wreck shall 
become barnacled and covered with mussels and furnish 
Freezing Fisb. —The wholesale fish-dealers of Fulton 
Market, this city, have prepared a large freezing-house 
on Front street, where great quantities of fish are now 
being frozen and packed away for winter use. The 
design is to provide in winter such fresh fish as are other¬ 
wise to be procured only in the summer season. The 
Btorage wifi probably be about 100 tons. 
Movements of the Fishing Fleet.— Tbirty-two ar¬ 
rivals have been reported, with an aggregate of 544,000 lbs. 
codfish and 22,400 lbs. halibut, 
The mackerel receipts continue good, and the quality 
excellent,^but the market is dull and prices show no im¬ 
provement. Since our last issue 14 arrivals have been re¬ 
ported from Shore trips, bringing 1965 bbls. The number 
of Bay arrivals for the week has been 3, and the receipts 
750 bbls. One arrival has been reported in the Shore cod- 
fishery, and one from a Newfoundland squiding trip.— 
Cape Ann Advertiser, Aug. 22. 
Canada — Rice lake, Harwood P. O,, Canada, Aug. 
ICt/i.—Black bass angling and spoon fishing for nms- 
kiuonge are superb here just »ow. H. iL 
