Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-04-20
SUNDAY ANUS EMENTs IN NEW.


FROM the N CIV orleans CfeSCcnt, April 4s
Yesterday at Gretna, opposite the Fourth Dis
trict, was assembled, according to previous no.
tice one Of the largest crowds of the season, to
witness the extraordinary exhibition of fight
between jackass and three bulldogs. All the
avenues of approach to the field of combat, were
at an early hour thronged with as motley crowd
of unwashed republicans as had ever been drawn
together there for any purpose, either good or
bad. The ferry boats were crowded to overflow
ing, and plying backward and forward with an ex-
ira head of steam, in order to make quick time,
and accommodate the rush. The cars to Lafayette
went loaded each trip, with men and women, and
snuffng Juveniles, shedding tears of anxiety for
fear of missing the fun. The omnibuses did
thriving business, and where they were unable to
accommodate the numbers, the streets and tho.
roughfares were thronged with steamiDg pedestri-
ans, 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 filled with its thousands. The staid and
sober denizens paid their quarters, and walk
ed in right leisurely, with wives, sweethearts
and daughters hanging on their stalwart arms,
while 'sYoung America" scorning the ordinary
bars of gates and fences, and glorying in the pro-
gressive principle, clambered over the walls, and
wormed through the openings-going it free
There was no lack of old men and women, youths
and bright-eyed lasses, though huge need, we
wot well, of soap and water.
| The combatants advertised to contend for the
crown of victory were live jackass from the
crab. grass pastures in and around the rural Gret
na-small and checked in growth-bearing the
name of Rough and Ready" and three butcher
dogs of the most savage kind. Rough he was
the jack-as his coat indicated, and resdy with
head and heel, as the skins of his canine COM
petitors afterwards abundantly testified. The
dogs were savage looking trio-two of the
bull-terrier kind, with jaws fit to crush the bones
of giants, and the third-a blood. hound, strong
and we'll built, with demoniac eyes that glared
out fierce and lurid fire. The three had been
bred in butcher stalls, and learned the taste of
blood to 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
"at his own sweet will after the fashion of his
fathers from immemorial time. At a given sig
nal the dogs were let loose, one at time, and,
in turn, dashed at the jack, making passes at his
nose. Simple and stupid, as jackasses are sup
posed to be-and Of surety they genera
ton much abused and little appreciated in this
regard-the individual in question was cup to
snuff" and quietly raising his proboscis 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 a little less than no
time the first dog was emo whar," for the jack,
after sundry feints and lodges and scien-
| tiic manoyering, sent in facer that took
Bose at the root of the neck, knocking his shoul-
der out of joint, and rolling him over like ball.
Bose would have "hollered 'nuf," but singing
out was against the plucky breed, and he raised
himself for another onset
At this point a second dog was let loose, and
then the third, and the three went it around the
course-jja ck with his head erect, and stirring up
the CANNES with an energy that made them
[ ho1D doe hid tho frov,,t
Apprentices biting at his heels and clutching at his
throat, making the halrfy and the blood flow like
storm.
At this point it was apparent that jack had it
all his own way, and could lick up his enemies
like salt; when an interesting crowd Of the spec
tators, fraternizing with the CANNES, broke into
the enclosure, and laying violent hands on the
jack, so encountered him in the free use of his
heels that the bloodhounds got him by the throat
and brought him to the ground las red-head-
ed Hoosier expressed it, .kerfop !" This was
too much even for the stoicism of the ass; and
initiating the example of a remote progenitor-
of him bestrid by Balaam-s'opened his mouth
and spake % Jack ''gave tongue, and brayed
out bray that startled the slumbering echoes
! There then was another rush of the mad crowd,
and so filled was the arena by bipeds. and quadru
peds, that it was impossible to see. A min
ute afterwards, the crowd having cleared away,
the dogs were again in leash, and jack stood
and stupid torn in bair and hide, and bleeding
at every pore.
What further transpred we were unable to
see, for the great majority of the crowd, DISCUS
ted to "reminiscences, left the ground.
Whether dogs or jack were declared victor we
judge is of as little Importance to the public IS
to the parties concerned-the whole affair being
a most savage and disgraceful exhibition, and
gotten up with the express and only de-
sign of drawing dimes from too gullible COM
munity.
Take it all in all, the whole affair was of
lost revolving character, as cruel to.the beasts
that played therein their senseess and unwilling
parts, as to its orignators it was disgraceful.-
Having to do with the affair only as a fact, we
mention it-being responsible neither for the
gross immortality of the exhibition nor for the
consciences of the authorities who permit such
scenes, and on such day.
! Any way, we would go our pile, at two to one,
that, turn the animals foot loose together
and barring bped interference and biped SYM !
pathy, the jack would "fan OUT the crowd -
Who'll beta
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sort OF small magistrate in the neighborhood |
of Smyrna has got into a bad sorape all on ac-
count of locusts This insect had been of SD
much annoyance last August, owing to the eggs