The New York herald., 1868-08-27
The English Yacht Race.

The yacht race around the Isle of Wight be-
tween the American yacht Sappho and the
fine English yachts, the Cambria, Aline,
Oimara and Condor, which responded to her
challenge, took place on Tuesday. The Cam
bria was the winner, and the Sappho was dis
tanced by all of her competitors. The result was
such as might, perhaps, have been anticipated
in view of the superior familiarity of the Eng
lish yachtmen with every inch of the eighty
miles run, with all the currents and all the
winds of the narrow channel, and particularly
in view Of the fact that the Sappho entered
on the contest in very incomplete state of
preparation, experienced some perplexing ac-
cidents at most critical periods, and, as the
challenger, was obliged to conform to the
English regulations. According to these reg
ulations no square sails are allowed, and
the less expanded side sails of American
yachts leave them at disadvantage in such
contest with English yachts. Nevertheless,
the English are entitled to exult over the re-
suit, which was a pretty clean defeat of their
American competitor; although it must be
acknowledged that, as our cable report of
to-day proves, the Sappho did very we'll
under many difficulties. But the ultimate result
yet remains to be seen in the happy consequence
of this defeat in stimulating rivalry. Doubt
less American ingenuity and ambition will yet
succeed in establishing our ability not only to
compete with but to surpass our English
rivals in steamships, sailing vessels and yachts.
ARMINa FOR THE FRAY IN TENNEssEE-
Late advices from Tennessee embrace the in
formation that in the House of Representatives
at Nashville bill was ordered to its third
reading providing for volunteer force of one
more regiment of volunteers from each Con-
gressional district, to be composed of loyal
men, &c. The bill also gives the Governor
(Brownlow) authority to declare martial law in
any county and to quarter troops in such
county, the expense to be paid by q tax upon
the people of the county. From this and
from the frequent reports of bloody doings by
the Ku Klux Klan it is evident that Tennessee
as reconstructed by Andy johnson and Brown
low, and the first to be restored of all the rebel
States, is by far the most demoralized of them
all. Such are the workings of wholesale white
disfranchsement and universal negro suffrage
in Tennessee under Parson Brownlow.
GENERAL RosECRANs AND HIS RUMoRED vIR-
GINA MIssIoN.-General Rosecrans, recently
appointed and confirmed as Minister to Mexico,
in his letter of acceptance, says:-"T shall be
prepared to proceed to my post as soon as the
yellow fever shall have so far abated at Vera
Cruz as to make it prudent for me to leave my
family there, en- route to the capital--say about
the 1st of October proximo." Meantime the
General has been visiting the West Virginia
White Sulphur and falling in there with bevy
Of the leading generals of the late Southern
confederacy. The idea has got abroad that
this meeting had for its object sort of treaty
of peace with General Lee and company and
for the benefit of Seymour and Blair among
the soldiers of the North. We presume, how
ever, that the meeting in question was purely
accidental, and that General Rosecrans is salts
fed with one diplomatic mission at time.
A DEMOCRATIC SENsATIoN-Brck Pomeroy's
speech as reported in the HFRAID