The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1851-09-19

The Yacht Race between the q Amer-
lea - and ssTitania p--Great Excite
ment--The America still Victorious.
The Yacht America is all the talk in Eng
land. She is the subject Of general praise,
and has borne away laurels from vessals the
construction of which cost thousands Of
pounds and enlisted the whole national pride
and the personal feeling Of all English.
The great Race between the American yacht
America and Mr.. Stephensen's Titania came
off on Thursday, the 28th. We cut the fol-
lowing account from the London Sun:
Cows, Thursday morning, A. M.-The
Tilania and the America are just leaving
Cowes Roads for the Nab, accompanied by .
whole feet Of yachts. They are to run TWEEN
miles s. E., and to beat back TO the Nab.--
The Queen steamer, with the R. Y.-S. Com
mittee on board, is to accompany them,-
The Committee has kindly given permission
to the reporters of The Sun and Bells Life to
take passage. "
GRAND MATCH BETWEEN THE AMERICA AND
TITANIA YACHTS FOL, G200.
The Xarifa started the yachts at LII, from
the Nab Light vessel, there being strong
wind from the N. N. W., the run twenty
miles due S. K. for the Queen steamer, which
has taken position that distance from the
Nab. The America rounded the steamer first
by Am. lbs. They had to beat back against
q strong gale, as the wind had freshened, and
the America had it all her own way, and ar
rived at the Nab 50 minues before the Titania.
America 5h. 30m. l5s.
Titanic Oh. 22m. los.
From the Globe of August 25.
On the evening after the race there was
very brilliant and effective display of fire
works by land and water along the clubhouse
esplanade, at which six thousand or seven
thousand were present. A reunion took
place at the clubhouse, and the occasion was
taken of Mr.. Abbott Lawrence's presence to
compliment him on the success Of his coun-
trymen. His excellency acknowledged the
kindness in suitable terms, and said that, tho
he could not but be proud Of the triumph OF
his fellow-citizens, he still felt it was but the
children giving lesson to the father. If the
America was purchased here, they would
nevertheless try 10 build something better in
New York, SO as even to beat her. The last
remark Of his excellency alluded to a rumor
that an offer had been made 10 buy the Amer
lea, but that the sum was not considered suf-
ficient. We have been thus undeniably beat
en-, but we have been beaten with good
grace, and our conquerors are the first to ad-
init it. They speak in the highest terms of the
condescension and kindness of the aristocra-
cy they had been taughtto believe arrogant
and unbending and acknowledge in the warm
est way the affability and courtesy Of the
gentry and Of the various clubs.
From the Liverpool Times.
We are not sorry that the Titania is beaten
1t is one Of those manly defeats which will
leave no ranking feeling behind. If the Amer
leans have lost caste at the Crystal Palace
they have secured trumphs on the waters of
England, and while the result is calculated
for the moment to abash us, it will realize a
fine aphorism which Bulwer puts into the
mouth of Richelieu--'..T There's no such word
as fail"
Already, an English builder has thrown out
a challenge to produce in ten weeks yacht
which shall compete with the star-spangled
America but the challenge has been prudent
y declined, from belief, doubtless. that
another victory, with the experience which
our builders now possess of what the Ameri-
ca, constructed on new and ingenious prin-
ciple, can do, would be matter of consider
able uncertainty.
The Yankees are no longer to be ridiculed,
much less despised. They have compared
with ourselves, been equally enlerprizing-
they have been more skillful; aud, while we
pay willing homage TO genius, in whomsoev-
er manifested, it is a modification that in our
own waters, an American Yacht won the
prize from the yachts of all nations, and that
an American steamer accomplished the quick
est passage across the Atlantic.
The new world is bursting into greatness
walking past the old world, as the America
did yachts at Cowes, "hand over hand" She
dipped the star-spangled banner to the royal
ty OF Great Britainj for superiority is eve
courteous, and this graceful act indicates the
direction in which our inevitable competi.
tion should proceed. America, in her own
phrase, is "going AHEAD" and will assuredly
pass US unless we accelerate our speed.
From the Liverpool Jounal.
Events are daily occurring which will in
duce the enlightened British to look back with
shame upon the race of bookmakers who IL
belled the Americans, and were applauded
and laughed with to the echo in this country.
This year the United States have beaten Eng
land in two Of her per superiorities. 1t was
so generally believed that no Englishmail ev-
er thought Of doubt about il, that we built
the best yacht in the world, and constructed
the most useful agricultural implements. -
Yet the crack yachts of the crack English
yacht club have been out-sailed, with every
thing in their favor, by Yankee schooner !;
and Yankee implement maker has produced
an agricultural machine for reaping fields,
which excels every thing Of the same kind ey-
erattempted in England, and in wonder and
skill of construction is thought the ''clever-
est" agricultural piece Of machinery yet in
troduced anywhere. The yacht America
is an incidental contribution to the general
competition Of all nations with which we
have been bored in 1851 and, SO far, she has
won prize which it is disgracetul to the
English to hsye thus wrested from them.
The PARKERsBURGH RoAD.-We learn
from H. b. Latrobe, Esq, who has Just re
turnod frnnn q rarnn ~ 400 .oc tho n. Il