The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-11-04


Morrissey saw his danger and instant
q closed, but was thrown by lIcenan wi
G. perfect ease. This round astonished NJ
pit only Morrissey but all his friends. III,
~ had anticipated an easy victory, bl
x every one saw that Morrissey Vas eve
IN now whipped. This round lasted A
minutes, and is said by these who profes
to know, to have no equal'in the anna
/. Of The ring for powerful and persistin
Is hitting. Morrissey received at leas
. twenty-five tremendous blows in III
4 face, while Heenan was as yet untouched
n there probably never was man 81
5 completely astounded as was Morrisse,
! at this time, for when he had expected tl
q punish his adversary as if he had been
: child, he found his master. All the sci
. ence shown was by Heenan, Morrissey
not being able to stop single blow attel
he had received the first one. The bet.
, ting suddenly changed in favor of Hee.
nan.
The eleventh and last round is men
tiVhNb uc IpiIONS
| ElereaM Round.-The most careful
eXerllons OF the seconds were necessary
in order to enable the men to come up at
all. They finally walked to the scratch,
both very feeble. Heenan's blows all
rel short, and in aiming d heavy blow at
his opponents head, he fell and tainted
quite away. He was instantly carried to
his corner by bis seconds, who tried to
receive him for the next round, but were
unsuccessful. Time was called, and
MorrlSSey appeared at the scratch, but
Heenan was unable to stand. and Jones
threw up the sponge in token of defeat
and the reference declared that the bat
tie was won by Morrissey.
The ring was instantly filled with
Morrisscy's friends, who surrounded him.
yelling and screaming their coneratula.
tons in his ears. He was too far gone
to speak, but he made an ATTEMPT to
sihlle' which was most ghastly thing to
see. His eye was nearly closed his
mouth cut and Gps swollen his tongue
visible through the blood and his nose
literally battered flat to his face. Uee. .
IAN, save his swollen lips, from the severe ,
upper cut" he received, scarcely show !
a mark. His exhaustion was entirely
Tue TO his being out Of condition and to !
us own tremendous exertions, and NOT e
o any punishment he received from his b
dverSary.
The following relates the effect on the
We heroes: 81
Heenan Immediately proceeded to the D
loomer House, where he washed his If
zee, and then took supper with some b
lends His face shows no marks savn "
very slight dlscloraton under one eve i,
ID his lips are slightly swollen from -.
oW which cut his lips against his teeth -
Is 'eit hand Is bound up, the two knuck- co
$ being broken.
AT present the Feeling of all who rr
messed the battle is that Morrissev's - !,
hnlhg was solely due to his undoubted VI
nck and astonishing power of enduring Ii
we're punishment, and not in the least Hllu
gree to any science displayed by him.
the lighting was done by Iiccnan,
10 received not one blow to lIorrissey's
enty' and had he been in proper 50,
addition to fight, the result might have ~
en- very different. Within EIGHT hours 'o'
er the battle, Hecnen offered $1,000 WI
$500 that MorriSSey is not the better ma
n OF the, two the point to be decided de.
the ring within three months, but he are
nd no takers. '''>
And last, not least, here is in a few 'S
el words, an account of the character SAG
ne swell mob Of the occasion. LISA COZ
rmlng picture of-shall We call it . tina
them institutions: ra
'roabably no human eye will ever ia,
upon 50 much rowdyism, vilainv. w. w.
lndrellsm and boiled down yiciops, oef
$, concentrated upon so small a space tho
was compressed into the few feet Of {
ng room about the ring ofthc Nor. tplc
ey ana lieenan fight of Oct. 20, 1858 ;,n,
undrels Of every imaginable genus, IS
~ species, of every genius, and every mere
ETY. OF every species, were there as. of IL
bled; the characteristic rascalitios he ,
ach were ., devel ped and displayed in the
devlllsh perfection. While This
Oh feeling governs the prize ring, il a
never be considered otherwise than is CO
n Institution, savage and barbarian meet
u can never be countenanced in = o,r
stian land. OF the 1000 persono a.
ight on Wednesday last pr rn@hIi al and |
were armed with knives and pis- with
Th
> Tho Dr., day,
assage OF the Printers law, SAYS: w.