New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-04-04
DAILY CRESCENT.


proach TO the field Of combat where at an early hour
thronged with as motley crowd of unwashed repub-
as had ever been drawn together there for any pur
pose either good or bad The fey-boats were crowded
to OVERLOOKING and plying backward and forward with an
extra head Of seam in order to quick time and &C.
commocae the rush The Lafayette went loaded
each trip with men and women and snuiling Juveniles
shedding tears Of anxiety for fear Of missing the fun
The omnibusses did thriving business where they
were unable to accommodate the numbers the streets and
thoroughfares thronged with steaming pedestrians
moving with coats of and hats in Thanksgiving it with
rush
The vast arena, where this new Olympad was to be
enacted and where four footed bestias were to emulate
the ferocity OF their instructor, filed with
Its thousands The stad and sober denizens paid their
quarter" and walked in right leisurely, with wives
sweethearts and daughters hanging their stalwar
arms, while Young America" scorning the ordinary
bars of gates and fences and gloryng in the progressive
principle cambered the walls and wormed through
the openngs-going it free. There lack Of old
and women, youths and brght.eyed lasses though
huge need wot well Of soap and water.
The combaants advertised to contend for the Of
victory live ackass from the crabgrass pastures
In and around the rural Gretnasmal and checked in
growth--bearing the name Of Rough and Ready" and
three butcher dogs of the most savage kind. Rough
he was 1.-THE jack his coat indicated and Ready
with hoof and heel the skins of his canine competitors
looking triotwo Of the bullterrier kind with jaws fit
crush the bones of giants and the third bloodhound
s'onB anu wen Knit win demohac eyes mat gared OUT
uro nre Inc tnree had been bred IN butcher
anu learned the taste Oh Dood 10 lap It with fierce
delight.
Inc animals were placed IN circus Two hundred feet in
oncuncfenee'h oogS oeihs iashed ana heid By bped
comrades-whi!e the Jack unethered grazed the
arena wandering at his sweet will after the fashion
Of his fathers from immemoral time At given signal
e were iet oose' one AT time, anu ID turn dasheu
" ''' 'aoh' n'A'"s passes " ms h"se' snnpe anu stupid
- '"oA"s' az '"Ppo'ea !" W. anu Vi surety they
e generation ueh ABUSED anu nttie appreciated IN
LUIS fFsaru) te ihuidua IN question was up 70 snuif
ana guety raising MS proboscls to Keep 1t out OF harms
way went TO Work WIN MS fore feet and heels with pre-
ehion 'at argued science at every blow In little les
than no time the hrst dog was no whar for the Jack
ef suhuy ie4hts anu uodges ana seienthc man1uvre-
ing sent III acer That took Bose at the root of the neck
knocking ms shoulder out Of joint and rolling him over
hke Dai' bose would nave hoilered null" but sing
ing out was against the principle OF his pueky breed and
ne raised himself for another onset.
'nrd ana the three went 1t around the conrse-Jack
with MS mead erect and stirring up the CANNES with an
.na' nade 'heii now. AT MN they dashed like
from 'ne APpenihes, png az MS heels and clutch
ing ae ms throat making the mar ny and the blood flow
ke stof' Az tnis point was apparent that Jack had
II all his own way and could lick up his enemies like salt
when interesting crowd Of the spectators fternizpu
with the CANNES broke into the enclosure and LAYING
violent hands the Jack encountered him in the free
Of his heels that the bloodhound got him by the
throat and brought him to the ground las redheaded
hooSer expressed IT. kerhop!" This was too much
for the stocism Of the and initiating the ex
ample of remote pro9entorof him bes,r;d bv poIoar
i ono,oa "a. - - ;, ,., ~ '"
Peneu his ihou'n ana spahe JACK gave tongue"
and prayed out bray that startled the slumbering
echoes There then was another rush of the mad crowd
and so filed vas tina .rera n, h,raa. 90 :, .,,s a..
:. w ~ W o'Peus anu luaurupeos tnat
was inposioe 10 see minute afterwards the crowd
having ceard away the dogs were again in leash and
Jack stood ar.ct In Tho ,,,ds, ~, ~. 49,, .
.rd s,,,n,a 49, e., ~. ~, - a'''noeineu
- ~ ~ W ao oeouine ~ Every
Pote.
What further transpired unable to for the
great majority OF the crowd disgusted IN
isft the ground '>''s'
Whther does or JACK were declared victor we Judges
Of little Importance to the public as to the parties
cerned-the whole affair beiny a most SAVAGE o5 az;
,rof,, h;hi,io, 81, 80 - -, y, ~ NC
e' "' ahu so''en up WIN tne express and
only design Of drawing dimes from too gullible
munty
Tats !. ali In all tha ,vho,a .e,.,, -
., ~ " VI must fe'o'-
as efuei 70 'he beasts mat played therein
their senseles and unwilling parts its orignators it
was disgraceul Having to do with the affair oplv as
fact we mention it-tsi,., r.spo,s,lls ,,hr a.. A.,
e ,,, 'e'Ie .e'p'N''io ne'her ior the
of the autbor;tiss Who permit snoh a,
dsv
Inv wav u,e wopIa co o,,r ,,a n, .,vo q. o a..
-. e., -. -. -. -, - ~ -a
urn Tue ahis iooe loose togeeher anu barring piped
interference and bped sympathy, the Jack would fan
ou' the crown "hoH oe''
LARGE FIRE.-About 10 o'clock on Saturday
night fire broke out on Robinson street in the Second
District among lot of small frame dwelling houses on
the square bounded by St Anne Dumain Robinson and
Where streets So rapid was the progress of the flames
that some persons asleep in the neighborhood with din
Guilty escaped with their lives some half dozen buildnes
burned among them stable containing five horses
and mules Three of the animals were burned on the
spot and their bodies almost entirely consumed In the
height of the conhagration a horse "a noble apimalO
made his way out from the burning mass and dashed
into the in the midst of the assembled crowd COW
with flames and plunged among the mass of lockers
on. neighng most piteously The agony of the noble
animal distressing the extreme lie was SO badly
burned that was resolved to kill him to nut an end to
his agony mule also escaped into the street dread
fully burned up 10 O'Clock yesterday morning was
observed standing n,the street alive Its whole body was
dreadfy charred and bleeding profusely Its ears tail
hoo were burned TO crisp and its ewes burned out
presenting most CHASTITY appearance The means Of the
poor animal as it stood there through twelve long hours
Of mortal agony presented scene of misery without
parallel 1t was still alive and dying by degrees up to a
late hour Yesterday
A report got afoat that a woman and two children had
been consumed in the flames but until the rubbish be re-
moved the truth or fasty of the surmise can not be
asctrtained
The pronery consumed belonged chiefly to the poorer
class who can i'll afford to lose il We learn that II was
partially insured
LOTION fREss ON flRE.-ADout IL O'CLOCK last