The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-11-01

or physical powers of the other 10 our up.
country neighbors, whose ideas OLA clair light
will make these terms ''dropping" and pun
ishment" mysterious, the following explanation
will be acceptable. The English have adopted
by custom certain laws OF the ring, which are
held iuviulabl, by the roughest Doors. In that
country, as in all others, some method OF reg
ulating rerenge has been adopted, unlver-
sally and among the peasants the English
method of "stand up fight" is an excellent
substitute for the >tiletto of the Italian, or the
cruel wooden shoes or sabre fights Of the
French. Que of the laws, perhaps it may he
called the first law Of boxing, is never to strike
an enemy on the ground; and next to It, II
one knocked down does not come to IN one
minute, or is forced out of the ring he Is con-
sidered beaten and the fight stops. This is
humane provision, and perhaps the only re-
deeming one, as it enables the conquered to
withdraw at pleasure from the blows OF the
Avictor. Awaiting himself of this law, Sullivan,
after bruising his opponent severely, would go
own before he could bring his greater strength
b bear, and thus avoided at least as severe Il
(eating as he gave. By this method ot hight,
g, Sullivan succeeded in beating the head OF
orrissev into most horrible mass OF bruised
esh and blood, and after thirty seven rounds
duced him to such state that "hIs knees
hook, his hands were low and his mind be-
dered."
Once during the fight, the blood poured i'll
streams from the nostrils of Morssey,
his eyeds had to be iunced TO prevent
theie: swelling up so as to blind him. on the
close of the tenth round, "Morrissey presented
a picture that acas totally revotting," whilst be-
fore the eighth round Oft the fight even his sec
ouds had been covered with blood! Towards
the last, when Morrissey was so badly hurt as
to be only capable Of enduring what he could
not avoid, Sullivan kept, as he had done all
along, striking his adversary at pleasure, TIL
the desperate man would close upon him, when
he would "drop'' and thus get time to get his
breath and return to the attack.
Sullivan did not escape entirely, being much
bruised, and having one eye "shut up" and
suffering one blow (which made his side crack
like whip"
The description of the fight terminates thus ::
"It was fortunate that the fight terminated at
the time that it did, otherwise we might prob.
ably have had repetition of the Lilly and
Mccoy affair, Judging from appearances, as
the blood streamed from Morisscy's wounds,
and nearly choking hun at every instant, had
to be taken from his throat with an instrument
in a co-agulated state.
For fifty-ive minutes these two men beat
each other, and five thousand citizens of this
''model republic" looked on approvingy, Y, most
of them having, probably, within the preceding
ten nights, wept over the fancied sorrows of
Uncle Tom, exulted in the escape Of Eliza, or
cursed the brutality Of the Yankee Legree, and
the stupid mismanagement of the Kentuckian
Shelby! 1t is fortunate for the credit of New
York, that Governor Seymour has taken this
matter in hand, and we hope he will treat it
by legal authority, as Southerners would have
done the monsters of Uncle Toms Cabin, by
Lynch law at least, had such characters been
real. Fl.