The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-04-28
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From the New Orleans Crescent q
Sunday Amusement in New Orleans.

Sunday Amusement in New Orleans.
FIGHI BETWEEN JAcKAss AND THREE BULL
poGs.-festerday at Gretna, opposite the Fourth
district, was assembled, according TO previous
notice, one Of the largest crowds Of the season,
to witness the extraordinary exhibition Of a fight
between jackass and three bulldogs. All the
avenues OF approach to the field Of combat, were
at on early hour thronged with as motley n
crowd of unwashed republicans as had ever been
drawn together there for any purpose, either
good or bad. The ferryboats crowded to
overfowing, and plying backward with extra
head OF steam, in order to make quick time and
accommodate the rush. The cars of Lafayette
went loaded each trip, with men and women,
and snuff1in juveniles, shedding tears of anxiety
for fear of missing the fun. The omnibuses did
thriving business, and where they were una
bic TO accommodate the number, the streets
and thoroughfares were thronged with steaming
pedestrians, moving with coats off and hats IN
hand-going it with rush.
The vast arena, where this new Olympiad was
TO be enacted, and where four footed bestials
were to emulate the ferocity of their instructor,
man-was soon filed with its thousands. The
staid and sober denizens paid their quarter,
and walked IN right leisurey with wives, sweet
hearts and daughters hanging on their stalwart
arms, while ''YouDg Americ,' scorning the or
binary bars of gates and fences, and glorying in
the progressive principle, clambercd over the
walls, and wormed through the openings-going
il free. There was no lack of old men and wo-
men, youths and bright-eyed l0sses, though q
huge need, We wot we'll, of soap and water.
Tie combatant5 advertized to contend for the
crown of victory were live jackass from the
crab grass pastures in and around the rural
Gretna-small and checked in growth--bearing
the name of Rough and Ready, and three butch
dogs of the most savage kind. Rough he was
tho jack-as his coat indicated and ready with
hoof and heel, the skins Of his canine compe-
titors afterwards abundantly testified. The
dogs were savage looking trio-two of the bull
terrier kind, with ia ws fit to crush the bones of
giants, and the third--a blood hound, strong and
well built, with demoniac eyes that glared out a
fierce and lurid fire. The three had been bred
IN butcher stalls, and learned the taste of blood
10 lap it with fierce delight.
The animals were placed in circle two hun
dred feet in crcumference-the dogs being leash
ed and held by biped comrades-while the jack,
untethered, grazed around the arena, wandering
lat his own sweet will, - after the fashion of his
fathers from immemoral time At given sig
nal the dogs were let loose, one at time, and,
in turn, dashed at the jack, each one making
passes at his nose. Simple and stupid, as jack
asses are supposed to be-and of a surety they
are generation much abused and little appre-
ciated in this regard-the individual in question
was cup to snuff, and quietly raising his pro-
boscis to keep it out of harms way went to work
with his fore feet and heels with precision that
argued science at every blow. In little less
than no time the Fl rst dog was ''no whar," for
the jack, after sundry feints and lodges, and sci
entihc maneuvring, sent in a facer that took
Bose at the root of the neck knocking his shoul-
der out of joint, and rolling him over like a
ball. Bose would have 'thollered 'nuff' but
singing out was against the principal of his
Plucky breed, and he raised himselffor another
onset.
At this point second dog was let loose, and
then q third and the three went it around the
COurGl-IanE with his hpoI sfir
the CANNES with an energy that made them
howl At him they dashed, like wolves from the
Appenines, biting at his throat, making the hai1
fy and the blood flow like storm. As this
point 1t was apparent that tho jack had it all his
own way, and could lick up all his enemies like
salt; when an interesting crowd of the specta
tors, fraternizing with the CANNES, broke into
the enclosure, and laying violent hands on th'
jack, SO encumbered him in the free use of hi.
heels that the bloodhound got him by the throa
and brought him to the ground (as a red head
ed Hoosier expressed it) '"keriop!' This wa
too much even for the stoicism of the ass; anc
initiating the example of remote progenitor-
OF him bestride by Balaam-"openedhis his moutl
and spake" Jack 'gave tongue" and brayet
out a bray that startled the slumberng echoes
Then there was another rush of the mad crowd
and SO filled was the arena by bipeds and qua
drupeds that it was impossible to see. minut
afterwards, the crowd having cleared away, thu
dogs were again in leash, and the jack stoot
erect IN the midst of his enemies, unconcernet
and stupid, torn in hair and hide, and bieedin.
at every pore.
What further transpired, we were unable t.
see, for the great majority of the crowd, disgust
ed to heart-sickness, left the ground.
Whether dog or jack were declared victor W
judge is OF little Importance to the public as t
the parties concerned-the whole affair being
most savage and disgraceful exhibition and got
ten up with the express and only design of draw
ing dimes from too gullible community.
Take it all in all, the whole affair was of :
most revolving character, as cruel to the beast
that played therein their senseless and unwillin
parts, as to its originators it was disgraceful.-
Having to do with the affair only as a fact, W,
mention it-being responsible neither for tn
grosss Immortality of the exhibition nor for th,
consciences of the authorities who permit sue
ecenes, and on such day
ANY way, we would go our pile, at two to one
that turn the animals loos together and barring
biped interference and biped sympathy, tn
jack would ''fan out" the crowd ! Who'll
bet.
Horrihle Affair