New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-05-24
City Intelligence.


By Gard in another column it will be that this
vorte actress takes benefit on Wednesday evening next
The bill of entertainments is well selected. &
BULL AND BEAR FIGHT-Huyroh for .ft
takapas THE yesterday that fight woult
take place on the Bingaman Course, between genun,
grizzly Bear from California and wild Bull from Attaka
pas, brought together an immense crowd. The arena
fitted for the display intended to accommodate siz
thousand persons. This was entirely filled crowds
covered the truck in the vicinity of the and the
roof of the main stand the showed like cloud
Many hundreds of the fair crowded to the show with
children in their arms crying and bawlng get sight
The assembly of the juveniles-news boys, sculons
sweeps and precocous yagabonds marshaled in
bers, if the hosts Of Lilput had turned out
At early hour hundreds scornDg the antirepublica
custom of buying tickets broke through the enclosures
the Course and went in free Very the stagings
way, and crash after crash followed at short intervals
until five platforms had tumbled down, bruising many
breaking few legs and creating most jun
BILE and melee.
The platforms being all down bets were freely offered
that the main stand would be the next to tumble No
danger threatened In this quarter until after the
mencement Of the fight In the midst of the excitement
the crowd within the stand and the roof became panic
stricken and there was general rush Numbers rolled
off into the Of heads below and bold Juvenile
winged his flight from the sopost towering height Of the
roof distance Of about thirty feet and Lit in the mud
below las the Yankees have t) kerslump! There
much shouting, much screaming much fleeing hther and
yon, and a wild hubbub fearful to witness
At ten minutes past s o'clock the combatants were
Grizzly from the crags Of the Nevada and was said ID
| weigh twelve hundred pounds. The Bull was select
specimen from the wild herds that the prairies of thu
Attakapas black night, 1.-the Of four years
old with pair Of horns keen blades and eyes
like glowing GOALS. They brought into arena
three hundred feet in span The Bull fastened by
the fore foot to strong cord twenty feet in length
made fast to ring in the middle Of the circus The Bear
was tethered to the centre fastening, by chain
twice the length of the rope that held the Bull The Bull
hadn't half show for the Bear with his superior length
eher enabled to get out of the way whenever he
thought fit With equal chances Attakapas would have
iufn haiti Flo
no time
When the two brutes fairly face TO face there
awful pause OF seconds. Neither seemed in
cined to begin the attack. 1t evident the Bear
didn't like the threatening appearance of his black
IT was necessary to stir him up Some enterpsng ind
and he made an onset Ills ffst attempt failed Il Ii
horned antagonist rolled him over like ball Bfn
played shy and made his attack in the gaspna
the Bull by the thigh made him roar right Justify Next
he took hold by the and the cries of the tortured
animal made the blood cold 1t sight that few
beast stamped upon the grizzly brute and tossing him
on the points Of his horns, shu1ed him up like pack
It was plain If the Bull had had sufficient length of line
he would have made short work Of it. These onsets
renewed time after time with much the result thu
Bear invariably fastening the of his antagonist
whose pteous belowings heard above the shouts
the frantic crowd Some times for minutes the Bull
held still as iii vice, the Bear drinking his blood as
flowed in purple torrent from his acerated jaw The
excitement about this time to the highest pitch
The crowd rushed to the arena and tore the railing
",
cuous mass-men Bear and Bull.
The climate by this time began to tell Bruin and his
tongue hung out dishrag That he had enough
down at his tehers length and out of the reach of dan
ger to contemplate the There melancholy
expression in his that looked like the realization
Of disappointed hope His California pluck had oozed ou
through sundry holes made in his corporation by thu
bruiser from Atakapas It necessary to stir him vi
again Once at the work and the Bear missing hill
vorite hold the Bull caught him the tips Of his horns
tossed him up like bag Of wool and rolled him in tn.
mire, wounded and helpless heap. Bruin again acted
the lobster and backed out to the extreme length of hi
rope This re-enacted dozen times, and it
only by repeated STRINGS up that Brun could be brought
the scratch Every round showed like result and
the end Of two hours 1t evident that the Bear
fancy for any Of that kind Of fun The affair proved
one faethat whatever game people play at and however
Orleans and they will find their match. The position
true with regard to men, women, Bulls and Bears
AT sunset the battle was not at an end.
The crowd cried out for fair show for the bull
demanded that his tether should be cut was plain
pikestaf that this DONE he would settle bruins hash
The bull at length set foot loose and conscious
his freedom he plunged with promo forehead at the GROVE
and at the bear The masses scattered like chat befo
the wind and the gallant monarch of the Sierra Nevada
finding the too hot for comfort gathered himsel
up and "Samosed' with rush The chase shor
and feet and bruin found safety only within his cage
whittier he fled with destruction his tail preerring
nement within bars to unshacked liberty in such
wholesome company
The bet of thousand dollars unanimously awarded
Monsieur Honores bull Columbus and blast from tn
herald announced the close of this novel tourney.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS. democrat
nominated Saturday evening in their respective dis
trcts the following named gentlemen delegates to tn
State Convention:
FIRST Representatives Dstrict-The meeting adjourned t.
Wednesday evening next without making nominations
Second Representative Dsricf.-Henry w Palfrey Robt
Mott and u. Bonford i
Third Representative Observation-Disclosures Cannon John
Larue Jas. H. CALDWELL Miles Taylor, r. W Adams AM
w Bogart
Fourth Representative Dist,ict-A committee was ap
the of suitable canddatesfor the State Convention
FIFTH Representative Distric-F. Colongne, G. Schmid
and p. n Theard.
Siah Representative Dist,let.-John Sidel and A.
Baudouin
IN each Of the above mentioned Districts delegates wer
appointed to City Convention to nominate four Senate
rial delegates to the State Convention.
FIRST DISTRICT COURT --I,.dge Larue.-Th,
following sentences passed Saturday Geo Letch
err Thomas Igo alias Quinn, Richard Madison John viii
iams Thomas Brown, Thomas Campbell and VIM Reilly
for larceny each at hard labor the Pententary
Alphonse Dumont for larceny two years at hard labor IL
the Penitentiary William Carson. for entering in TIL
night time and years At hard labor in the Pen
itentary and Robert Robinson, for stabbing witt
intent murder ten years at hard labor in the Penen
tiary Robnsons counsel gave notice in his Of
Intention to appeal,
Judge Buchanan was next sent for to pass the cas-
Of Auguste Roger tried by him in Judge Larues absence
for the murder Of Theodore Champagne motion in
Of Judgment in this overruled Roger sub
mted long memorial the court setting forth his pre-
yous good character the provocatcn which he had
stabbed Champagne and praying for enency The judge
sentenced the prisoner to pay fine Of $1,000 and to ter
years. imprisonment at hard labor in the Pententary
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