New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-15

were all very sick, and especially enc james SHAW
who with an apparently bitter, though TO US unn'e,
eible, sarcasm is recorded 10 have thrown up INC
Hrenains Of the celebrated dog Jim,' and TO have
been "thus enabled - resppear upon the stage"
Somewhere or other, the Isle OF Thanet apparently
the party landed, but " beyy of blues appeared ana
they had 10 betake themselves 20 place vaguely
described as ian island" Here the ring was
formed, the spectators being mostly orderly,
except we are grieved 10 hear one Hebrew
| "rent,, n hacker of Tom Sayera whose taunts and
NOISY vocerations At the Old Slasher Disguised not
only the hackers of that worthy but also tue friends
Of Tom Ssyers, and every other person that card
" them" At about ) o'clock, notwithstanding the
blasphemirg jew, the fight began. The gist OF the
story is that Mr.. Perry was tho stronger and MI
after good deal of display OF their respective quail
ties the smaller won; bu. this bald statement is
EXPANDED by the poet of the ring into marvelously
splendid history 10 say nothing Of the number OF
when The men effected " exchanges-Tom the
:. souinter. Bill on the ribs-Tom the bran-pan
{. the Slasher ON the beak-Tom on the nozzle, the
Slasher on the mouth which flowers OF rhetoric
are common 10 all such fields Of battle we have sort
Of enc unity about the characters of the heroes. The
Slosber numbered in like large bear" he " swung
Lis great arms like the sails of windmill, and
| " made rush like a bull at a gate" and so forth
We have Sayers, the other hand, dancing about
4. him like wild Indian" stopping him prettily,
and apparently forming sort of graceful counterfeit
10 his huge but unweldy antagonist. After an hour
nd
Mr. Savers was declared the winner, and Immediately
sfterwerd the whole body Of gentlemen sportsmen
we chased on board their steamer by the police who
had at length succeeded in detecting the retreat Of
these pugilistic Crusoes.
Some Of Mr. Bells remarks on the battle are curious.
He feels that the fight tells its own tale lie con-
,ers that the loser should have " depended upon his
:. mowers as a counter.fitter to bring him through
and that the winner would have done better had he
Lrrn ouiet, and " Restrained bis perstatc energies
" within reasonable bounds" II appears that Mr..
Savers small stature gives Otfense to some members
of his profession, and the story concludes win eer
from MIR. Ben amin Caunt, offering to night the new
Champion, ia which he explains that, unaccustomed
n. lie is to public challenging, still, as an English
" man as a veteran pugilist-as Ben Caunt, IN TACT
he can no longer endure that middle weight should
" hold that proud eminence."
We feel that there may be come among our readers
who will think that we owe them an apology for de-
voting so much space to such curiously uncouth
story: hut surely the fact that five columns on the
snbiect of prize-fighng the most popular item in
The ne WIS OF one OF the most popular papers OF the cay
and that the style of which we have attempted 10 con-
yey come slight reflection to our own columns Is the
most popular vehicle for 1t, is worth noticing we
have often expressed opinion that prize.fghtng is
dscracefu practice, principally because it disgusts
decent people with athletic amusements but we must
saw that fi is BLACKBOARD trade, backguards might
do much worse than follow it. In rough clumsy
manner, il is meant TO do honor to great virtues
Much self denial and sturdy endurance are involved
in preparing for and in maintaining fight for more
than an hour and half; and inasmuch as We can
hardly expect to be rid ofthe generation of fast young
men il is far better that they should pass their time In
hardening their muscles aud a6mring Mr.. Sayeis,
than that their principal joys should be found IN DON'T
noes absinthe water and the novels of H. Dumas,
fIs Mumbo Jumbo is never exactly a beauty, but
We confess we prefer our own to some Continental
idols.