The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-04-13
sunday inusements Ia New Orleans.

FIGHT BETWEEN JACKAss AND THREE BULLDOGS.
IRON the New Oceans Crescent City, April 1
Yesterday at Grenl, opposite the Fourth district,
assembled according 70 previous notice, one of the lar
eest crowds of the sea n to witness the extraor nary
exhibition II fight bctwesn acass and three bulldogs
AL tbe of approach 10 the field OF combat
at early hour throngcd With motley Sd Of
washed republicans rs had ever been drawn together
there for any purpose, either good OF b!d The ferry
boats crowded to oyecho wing ard plying backward
with extra head or steam IN order % axe quck time
aud accommodate The rush. fhe cars TO Lafayette went
loaded each trip with men and women aud snuing ju
yeues shedding tears o anxiety for fear Of missing the
fun. The omnbuses dit thriving business, aud where
they unable accommodate tse NUMBER the streets
and thooughfares throDged With steamng pedestr
ans moving with coats oil and hats in Thanksgiving IL With
q rush.
enacted and where four footed be=tias 70 emulate
tie ierocy OF their instructor n-d with
it, Thousands. The tad and sober dsazens paid the IL
quarter" and walked in right eisurey, with wives,
veeearts hanging their sta wat arms,
while Young America scorning the ordinary bars OF
gates and fences aud goyng in the progressive principle
clamberec the walls and wormed through the open
ings-2oing It free There was no lack Of old men and
women, youths and brighteyed lasses, though huge
need we wot we'll of soap and water.
Tie combaants advertised TO contend for the Of
victory live jackass from the cab grass pa tures
in and around the rural Gretna-sma and checked in
growth-bearing the name of Rough and Ready y aad
three butcher dogs of the savage kind. Rough he
wasthe aekas his coat indicatei and ready with hoo
and heel the skins Of his canine competitors after
wards abundgnty testified. The dogs were a savage
locking trotwo OF the bull terrier kind with jaws t to
crush the bones of giants and the thirda blood hound
and lurd fire. The three had been bred in butcher
stalls ard learned the taste OF blood lap with derce
delight.
The animals we're placed in circle two hundred feet in
circumference dogs bsing lshea and held ~ Anel
arena wandering at his own sweet will atcc the ash
ion OF has fathers from imncmorial time. At given sig
nal the dogs we're let loose, at time and in turn
dashed at the Jack making passes at his nose simple
and stupid, jscEasses are supposed to be-and OF
surety they generation much abused aud little ap.
precated this regard-the individual question vas
and uuia ly raising his probl9sS keen
IL out OF harms way went TO work with mis- fore feet aud
heels with precision that argued scence at every bio
In little less Than lime tie first dog no whar -
for the jack after sundry eius and do ge ADD enthc
msnnuyering, sent facer that took Bose at tina root
If the neck, knocking his shoulder out of joint md
rolling him like bah. Bose would have 'holeTed
'nuH but singing out ag,nst the pruco pie Of his
pnckv breed and he raised himself fer another onset
At this point second dog was let loose, and then the
third and the three vent Il around the coursejack with
his head erect ad stirring up the CANNES with an ener
81 that MADE them howl. At him they dashed like
wolves frotbe Apprentices biting AZ his heel au cltchns
hs throat making the hair ~ and the blood aoy Ike
a At this point II apparent that Jack had it
all Lis way, aud could lick up hI enemies like salt
when interesting crosd OF the spectators raecnizng
vi II The capines broke into the enclosure and laying
violent hsnds on the jack encountered him in the
free Of bis heels that the bloodhound got him by th5
throat and brought him to the ground as red he det
for the stoicism of The and Initiating the
ample Of remote progenitor-of him hestrid BY Pa
lam" opened his mouth and spak5 - Jack gave
tongue and bayed out bray that startled the STUN
ber echoes There then auosher rush of the mad
crowd, and 50 filed The arena by bpeds aud ladru
peds that II impossible TO A minute after
wards, the crowd having cleared away, the dogs
again in leash and jack stood in the midst Of Ms
enemies unaoncerned and stupid in hair AMI hide
and bleeding AT evsry pore.
What further pred We we're unable to see for the
great majority OF the crowd disguised 10 heart sickness
LETT the & round.
Whether dogs jack decared victor we Judge Is
of little Importance 70 the public as TO the parties
commemorative rhole affair being most savage ami dis
graceful exhibition and gotten up with the express and
only design Of drawing dimes from too gallibe
nifty.
Take II all IN all the whole affair Of revolt
ing character cruel to the beasts that played therein
theit sen-eless and unwilling parts it. orignators
IL disgrsceful Having TO do with the affair only
fact, mention tbeug responsible neither for the
gross immortality Of the exhibition for the
sciences of Inc authorities who permit such scenes and
such day.
Any way, would 60 pile at two TO one that turn
the animals foot ooe together and barring ped inter
ference and biped sympathy the jack would ian OUT
the croMd Who'll pet2