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YACHTING NOTES.

The yacht NImbus, flying the nag OF Rear Comma
dore Of the Atlantic Yacht Club, anchored in Cow
anus bay, Off the club house, on Friday afternoon.
The Nimbus has just returned from pleasant cruise
to the eastward.
The schooner yacht Sadie has been recently pur-
chased by J. b. Herreschon. OF the Atlantic Yacht
Club, and changed into soop. 1t Is reported that
she has challenged the Adde to race and she will
enter for the champion pennant at the next regatta
of the club.
The Jennie Cable, which won first class reputa-
tion few years since, when owned by Commodore
Whiting, has been bought by L. r. Grnlth of the
Atlantic Club and added to Its fleet.
The whitecap, the property OF Mr.. Livingston. has
boon added to the fleet OF the Atlantic Yacht Club.
The Martha and the Hermit have both been sold
out OF the Club the owner OF the latter having pur.
chased the Florence, much larger vessel.
Mr.. Schell has lately become the owner OF the
Marion formerly the property Of the secretary OF the
club.
On Thursday next there will be regatta OF the
Atlantic Yacht Club for champion pennants " I'M
the auspices OF the commodores. The judges will be
William McMonnies. Charles Condt and william ii.
Douglass. There five pennants to be run for and
1t is expected that all yachts having any preensons
to speed will be entered for this contest There Will
be no allowance OF time.
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particularly in certain portions of the West,
they are extensive holders of real estate. In
contradistinction to the Jews of Europe, taste
and elegance 60 hand in hand with the accu-
mutation of property. Regarding this country
as their home, they are no unwilling or mig
gardly contributors to the reHnements and ele-
gancies of life, and in not few of our cities
their princely mansions and gorgeous syna-
gogues attest alike their taste and their
munifcence We know no reason why we
should not, after our own fashion, wish our
Jewish fellow citizens all the compliments of
the season.
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Christian Bnrnums.

The quasi religious revival in Water street
and its surroundings appears to have assumed
an aspect which it is difficult to separate from
profanity, and perhaps we might go farther
without injustice to any one concerned and
say that it begins to touch very closely on
blasphemy. A low and vulgar traffic in the
name of the Christian religion and its Founder
has been naugurated in those dens of iniquity
without a probability of suppressing vice, but
with comparative certainty of making mon ey.
This is about the whole story. To suppose
That single convert to virtue has been made
by this absurd movement would be farther
from the real facts than that the products of
vice have been transferred from the dissOlute
frequenters of the Water street dance houses
to the use of the teachers and preachers of
morality who are pretending to work out Il
reform there The latest feature in this
wretched Barnumism is the engagement of
Allen to undertake preaching tour through
out the country at fixed salary for the con-
version of sinners and to the great profit Of
the saints who have secured his services. 1t
is said that he actually went forth upon his
mission in the direction of New England, but
upon reaching New Haven, Connecticut, the
door of godlness he stumbled upon a black
bottle, when unfortunately its contents and
his good resolutions evaporated at one and the
same time, and he had to return to
This was bad beginning for the Feejee Mer-
maid of the Christian Barnums who manage
the Howard Mission. 1t is to be hoped that
the woolly horse Kit Burns, the skeleton man
Johnny Slocum and the Jersey lightning calcu-
lator Tommy Hadden will do better when
they go forth, with staff in hand and cookie
shell in hat, to preach the gospel according to
Water street. If they do not succeed in get
ting beyond New Haven on chalked line we
fear that the enterprise may be considered as
exhibition is concerned.
However, if it be true that the saints have
hired Aliens dance house and Kit Burns dog
pit at moderate monthly rent for public wOr-
ship or practices of private vice, as the case
may be, perhaps the investment can be made
to pay after all. A metropolitan season of the
pious drama ought to rival Black Crooks,
Humpty Dumptys and op5ra bouGe and
drive them all out of the market. If it was
only for its novelty sanctity ought to be good
paying stock, and no doubt the Water street
philanthropists, converted and unconverted,
know this full well. If they would only keep
politics out of the pupits at Aliens and Slo-
Gums and stick to the preaching of the Word
they would soon make grass grow at the doors
of the churches. But the Christian Barnums
know their business well enough without any
hints from us.
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Napoleon,. Position and Critics.

The freedom with which the French writers
have come to criticise not only the system of
rule and policy, but even the every day per-
sOnal habits of the Emperor Napoleon in the
daily press of Paris, affords ample evidence
of the anxiety of the millions as to the political
future of the nation as well as of the fact that
the public mind appreciates either culmina-
ton of his power as to permanence or the near
approach ola governmental change. In contrast
to the assaults of the members of the legisla-
tive opposition in the Assembly and at the
election polls we have just now the extraordi-
nary utterance of his friend Girardin, who,
either in the shape of advice for reformation
or as an announcement that France cannot
thrive by his direction, states in his paper that
the Emperor is given so much to the use of
tobacco that he views the situation merely
through haze of smoke of the weed in
fact, that he has become dreamy and that the
empire is in great measure narcotized in con-
sequence
In an article published in the Li5ert9. which
we reproduced in our columns yesterday, M
Girardin says ITO smoke is to dream
awake. The Emperor smokes an immense
number Of cigarettes, and when he smokes
France appears to him as grand as it appeared
little to him under Louis Philippe. And be-
cause France seems to him to be great he per-
suades himself that she is great. Sincerely
believing that the greatness he is dreaming
about he has realized, he cannot understand
how there can exist minds sour enough to
prefer the shadow to the boOty-in other
words, individual liberty to national great
ness. This is not i'll meant on the part of the
Emperor it is simple delusiOR. The mo-
ment this illusion-which is kept up by the
drunkenness of tobacco-ls dissipated France
will become Free not partially, but wholly
Free" Considering that M. Girardin and
Louis Napoleon have been regarded as very
good friends hitherto, it is somewhat difficult
to arrive at feasible conclusion as to the
motive which prompted this publication. Was
it intended as an advice? Is the sentiment of
France tiding towards a current unfriendly
to the Bonapartes? When the great Napoleon
came to make military mistakes France
herself was the first to proclaim his errors
and thus hasten his fall. Can it be that her
people are to-day repeating the premonitions
of history and her journalists seeking either
to reform the Executive or render a transit
ton more easy?
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BEN BUTLER IN CLovER.-Of all the
politicians at work in this Presidential cam
paign General Ben Butler is, or ought to be,
the happy man. He has been spending the
summer at seaside clambakes and inland
Methodist camp meetings, and in the festivities
of his reciprocity mission to Nova Scotia, re-
turning to share in the delights of a grand
seaside festival of twenty-five thousand of his
Congressional constituents at Salisbury, Mass,
where he fought all his battles of the war,
from Baltimore to New Orleans, over again,
but had nothing further to say of the impeach-
ment of Andrew Johnson. Unbottled, since
he made his peace with General Grant, Butler
fourishes like green bay tree. Born with
silver spoon in his mouth, he is the happy
man,
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which the democrats are endeavoring to raise,
that is simply absurd. Grant is patriot and
good republican in the general and broad
sense of that term, and would not venture to
endanger the institutions of his country, and
If he were crazy enough to think of doing so
he would be utterly powerless. He has been
anxious all along from the day that he finished
the war at the Appomattox Court House to see
the South fully restored, and undoubtedly will
bring restoration and peace should he be
elected. Under all the circumstances he is
The man to solve the question of our sectional
difficulties and the people should elect him by
an overwhelming vote.
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The Bohemians know this too, and had they,
therefore, the good name of the woman at heart
they would have left her in silence. They
merely make this the occasion to glorify irregu-
lar life generally and sing the pean of their
particular histories in the hope to make us all
believe that there is nothing admirable but
scorn of the conventionalities of social inter-
course. This effort has been tried before.
The world has heard of such meteoric brillian-
ficiently indicate. and it has so little dread of
being convinced that it does not even plug up
its ears as did that simple old wanderer and
greenhOrn, Ulysses, when he pulled his boat
past the house of the syrens.
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There is a great pother making just now in
certain portions of the press over the genius
and other extraordinary qualities of the re-
Gently deceased actress, Adah Isaacs Menken.
and there is a volume in more or less circula-
ton bearing her name and filed with queer,
spasmodc poetry, Illustrated in vague and
would-be startling style All this is the work
of those irrepressible fellows, the Bohemians.
They made Menken in one sense, and in
another sense they made her what she was.
Now that she is dead and gone they cannot let
her pass away, giving her up to the rest and
the charity of silence and shadow, but they
must do what they find possible to make her
famous. Thus they cast upon her career the
glare of certain sort of glory, every little
ray of which betrays its artificial origin and
suggests the gaslght and rehectors of the Bo-
hemian apparatus. So vulgar and common
place are they in all this that they have gone
down to that stale dodge of the cheap book
sellers and presented the Menken poetry with
a commendatory letter from Charles Dickens,
as the sellers of ambitious pills print on the
boxes letters from old men who have never
used any other nostrum.
In this process of making Menken famous
what the Bohemans do-and mean to dds
to celebrate themselves, and they make her
| the sacrifice burnt on the altar of a mean
vanity. When the light is thrown on the ca
reer Of any woman with especial persstency,
and all socetyis called upon to take especial
| 40 ~ hot x,.;Il o;rI,y
in it what predominates there. II will not see
what the exhibitors desire and be blind to all
the rest, taking note only of this or that acct
dental point in the story. We need not say,
therefore. that every career will not stand the
process; and when the world is called upon to
give its attention to the history of Mistress
Menken because she was not an ordinary wo-
man-because she wrote verses-because she
committed to paper screeches of literary deli
rum, or because some Bohemian did the said
screeches to be sold in her namc-the very
prosy but important body in question sees so
little genius and so much else-so small part
to praise and so great part to blame--so lit
| tie of thought not theatrical and so savagely
fierce an appetite for the wilder Irregularities
| of Illicit life, that II must necessarily condemn
| all, not so much on account of Menken, who
is gone, as on account of the women that re-
main. There is no power more potent fol
drawing good enough women from the dull
but better course of domestic life than the illu-
sorry brilliancy cast around the career of such
a woman as this latest victim Of Bohemian
debauchery and brain rot. And this is the
sufficient reason why the world must put Men
kenJower than need be-because II is the only
way to silence voices that to sage to fame the
one dead would ruin a thousand living
There can be no other result but reaction
against even charity to- this effort ct apotheosis.
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which there has been some anxiety. arrivedat Cowes
on the 9th inst.
Inc property owners of Morrisania have unearthed
heavy fraud upon them in the laying out OF pub
Tic park A joint survey by two engineers disclosed
the TACT that $4,000 more than was necessary had
been claimed by the engineer employed for the work.
and he has consequently been suspended.
The examination in the late Broadway theatre
shooting affair was resumed before Justice Shandley
yesterday. The boy Chamberlain, who Is now fully
recovered, Notwithstanding having been shot
through the body, gave his testimony. and was fol-
lowed by Mr. Jacks the actor, who had not completed
his evidence when the court adjourned. The fur
Their investigation will not be resumed until the 10th
inst y,- T.~4
The stock market was active but irregular yester-
day. Government securities were strong. Gold
closed at 144h a 144H.
Trade in commercial circles yesterday was more
active than 1t is usually on Saturdays CotYee was
duh, but quite steady, while sugar and molasses
were in fair request and firmly held. Cotton
was in fair demand. principally for spin
ming, and prices were firm, closing weak
however, at 2616c. for middng upland. On Change
-four was moderately active and prices were gener-
ally steady. Wheat was in active demand, but
lower, owing TO the large advance In the rates OF
freght fair No. spring sold at 81 TO- fair to choice
No. do at 81 rs 81 So closing at 81 rs a 81 IT,
and No. do at 81 90 81 95. Corn was in active
demand and advanced 1c closing at 81 20 for prime
new mixed Western. Oats were in good demand
and lc. &C. higher, selling at re. 73c. ahoat
Pork was dun and unchanged. Beef and lard were
quiet, but quite steady. Petroeum-crude was dun
and heavy at 16c., while refined active and &c.
higher, closing at 3o}sc. Freights were active and
decidedly higher the closing rates for grain TO Lv-
erpoo by steamer being I'd. a 3d. Nava stores dull
and heavy.
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DON'T SEE IT.-Brick Pomeroy don't see
the glorious democratic victory in Maine as
figured out by Brick Barlow and Company.
Pomeroy unfortunately belongs to the old cop
perhead school, who believe that few more
such democratic victories as that of Maine will
leave Seymour and Hoffman high and dry. He
has not learned the new democratic double
rule of three
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THE BEST THING OUT-The congratulatory
address of the Democratic State Central Com
mittee of Pennsylvania over the glorious
democratic gains (over the Left in Maine.
Republican majority in 1867, 1900; in 1868,
only 10000! ''The Maine democracy have COW
cred themselves with glory" and Pennsylvania
ia expected to do likewise
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high hand. But even then we will back our
accomplished and keen city political wire
workers to force some sort of compromise
from the winning party. They will manage to
retain possession of their local twenty million
placer, even if in order to do so they should
be compelled to offer up another victim on the
shrine of madhOuse.
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SAFETY Or TINE STEAMSHIP NORTHERN LIGHT.

In regard to the steamship Northern Light, OF the
New York and Bremen line. OF which apprehenslons
were felt Of her safety, Mr.. Baby, the agent OF The
Pacific Mail steamship Company, yesterday received
letter from the purser, In which he says the vessel
arrived 10 Cowes on the 9th OF september, after Q
pleasant and prosuerous voyage.
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BLEECXER STREET UNIvERsALIsT CHI RCH.-REv.
DAY h. LEE Morning and evening.
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v.
DAY X. LEE Morning and evening.
BRooKEs' ASSEMBLY RooMs-LAY PREACHING
Afternoon.
CHAPEL OF THE HOLY APOSTLES-RYv DR.. How
LAND. Morning and afternoon.
CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION Dr. FLAoG
Morning
EVERETT ooMs.-sPIaruALrsrs. Morning and
evening.
EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE HOLY
TEiNlrY.-REv. DR.. KRoTEL. Morning and evening.
FIFTH AVENUE REFORMED CHURCH.-DR. Rogers.
Morning and evening.
FRENCH CHURCH DU ST EsPRIr.-RRv DR. YER
REM Morning.
FREE CHURCH OF THE HOLY LIGHr.-Rrv. EAST
BURN BENJAhIN. Morning and evening.
FoRTIETH STREET CHURCH-RE 0. B. FRornrNG
HAN. Morning.
FoRTy-sECoND STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHI RCu.-
kKv. DR. W. A. SCOTT. Morning and evening.
GRACE CHURCH.-Mornng and afternoon
GRACE CHAPEL, East Fourteenth STRENGTHENING and
evening.
HARLEM UNIvERsALIsT CHURCH.-REv W. t.
CLARKE. Morning
LAIGHr STREET BAPTIST CHURCH-REv S. A.
COREY. Morning and evening.
SEVENTEENTH STREET NJ. E. CHURCH.-REv. W.
T. CoRBiI Morning and evening.
ST. AIMS FREE CHURCH-DrAr Murxs.-REv. Tmos
GALLAUDET. Afternoon.
ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST CuURCH.-REv JOHN
WRIGHT. Morning and evening
TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH-REv Dr. HoLME
Morning and evening.
UNIvERsIrY-washington square. BISHOP Snow. AZ
ternoOn.
WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.-REv. DIR.
AAoAULEf Morning and afternoon.
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CHAPEL OF THE HOLY APoSTLEs-Ryv. DR.. He
LAND. Morning and afternoon.
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EVERETT ROOMs.-sPIRirUALIsrs. Morning and
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EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHI RICH OF THE HOLY
TRlNlTY.-REv. Dr.. kRoTEL. Morning and evening
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The Decentralization of Political Parties.


1t is one of the most deplorable phases in
our history that our political parties have
fallen into the deepest slough of demoralza-
ton. AS the country has kept in the van of the
worlds progress in all the marks and tokens
of advancing civilization, So in proportion,
have political parties been retrogressing,
throwing aside all pretence of that patriotism
which was once the pride of party struggles,
all decency in the debate of public measures,
all regard for private character, and ignoring,
with scott and a sneer. the very semblance of
public virtue. If we look at the speeches of
the politicians, with few honorable and rare
exceptions, we find personal abuse substituted
for argument. Language that would disgrace
the wranglers of a fish market is the finest
order of speech employed by the orators.
What, for example, could be more indecent
than the language Of republican member of
Congress Qgnatius Donnelly) in Minnesota the
other day, If we except the words of the same
honorable gentleman on the floor of the
House during the last session.? Then, if we
look to the party organs we are treated to
the very essence of vulgarity and vitupera-
ton. They seem to have learned nothing
from the lessons of the last forty or fifty
years. They have forgotten that the political
history Of that time teaches that personal
attacks always react upon those who indulge
in them, and that the best abused candidate is
most generally the successful one. But apart
from the bad policy of this kind of writing, the
public sense has right to revolt at it and pro-
test thai newspapers which are converted into
channels for the flow of vile and Infamous Ian
guage shall not enter their households.
One democratic organ, said to he controlled
by corps of Mantlinis vies with another
graced by the inclegant pen of Brick
Pomeroy" in the contest for such stained and
furnished laurels as may be won at a tilt of
vulgarity and vicious phraseology. The lead
ing organ of the other party, having exhausted
nearly all the offensive epithets which II could
heap upon the rival candidates, has become
stale in the repetition Of the obnoxious
phrases. The ingenuity of the writer's ap-
pears TO have run dry II is dsgraceful
that a political campaign involving so many
grave issues, which embrace the first inte-
rests Of the country, cannot be conducted in
a spirit that will not shock public decency and
bring discredit upon the country.
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A New Atlantic Cable.

The success of the existing Atlantic cable
and its temporarily defunct brother has given
ample encouragement to Atlantic telegraphic
enterprise. There is no reason why we should
not have ten cables in place Of one. 1t is a
simple question of enterprise. If the Atlantic
cables have paid-and all the world knows
they have paid-why should we not have more,
and why should not all European nations
having western seaboard exert themselves
to multiply connections between the Old World
and the New?
There is definite answer to these questions
Money is wanted in the first place, and enter
prise in the second. Great Britain is the
commercial centre of the Old World, and
Great Britain has very properly taken the lead
France, occupying the second place, has re-
solved to have cable for herself In the
course of another year France will be, in all
probability, in direct telegraphic communica-
ton with New York. This is as it ought to be,
and we rejoice in the prospect. 1t will not be
wonderful, if the Brest cable shall prove o
success, to find France becoming more than
rival to England. France has now her
line of ocean steamers of the first order
which are being amply encouraged, and
there is no reason why France should not
have her Independent line of communication
by telegraph. None of the Northern Powers
except Sweden has the advantage of seaboard
as France and England have but Sweden,
not being commercial country, lacks at once
needed wealth and enterprise. In the south
Spain and Portugal occupy favored positions.
Both have interests in the New World and both
have right to attend to these. Spain is for
tunately or unfortunately in the background.
and is sadly wanting in the enterprise which
once made her great. Portugal is altogether
more hopeful Power. Acting in concert with
her big son or aughter-which you please
Brazil she has been able to start and to main
tain highly respectable line of Atlantic
steamers. Steam communication, it appears,
is not sufficient to satisfy the progressive spirit
of Portugal; and we rejoice to notice that under
the name Of the peoples Cable" there is rea-
son to hope that fresh cable is likely at no dis
tant day to connect the United States with the
port of Lisbon. We need more lines. In time
we will have them. 1t is for our interest and
! for the interest of the Old World that we
should have them. At the present moment
Geographic communication across the Atlantic
is wholly inadequate to existing wants. We
need more cables, and as we wish the Brest 80
do we wish the Lisbon enterprise success
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more vehemently than over. The Attorney
General, Mr.. wilkins, declares that sooner
than coalesce with Canada Nova Scotia will
appeal for aid to another Power. or, in plain
words, will annex herself to the United States
This is the hest treaty that province could
make with this country, for then the reci-
procity OF interests would be complete. If
Buffers mission could succeed in bringing the
whole Dominion to this way of thinking it
might he of some value. In this connection it
may be stated that the rumors of negotiations
between Mr.. Seward and Mr. Thornton, the
British Minister, concerning new reciprocity
treaty with Canada, have no foundation in
fact The subject has not been preached at
all, and the British Minister is of opinion that
it will not be opened up during the present
critical condition of affairs in the British
colonies