The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-11-18

/ The Man qfthe Hour.--Morrissey, th,
pugiist, is BOW in training in the ancien
town Of Lansingburgb, where his pres
ence produces an unprecedented degre,
of excitement. The Albany Argus give,
Morrisscy precedence of Gerrit Smith
and even of the Free Love "artists" al
Utica, as the " Man of the Hour" wht
has so long fitted through their dream,
and etherealized theirfancies. Wequote
The man 1--WE, and perhaps the ladies'
are less particular as to the hour) tC
whom all the doctrines and all the as
pirings Of the overcoming convention
point, is the self-disciplining, self-devel
oping Morrissey Morrissey, who is un.
dergoing that physical training upon
which, according to the ladies' theory,
all the hopes of p0sterity depend.
1t matters not that Morrissey is groom
ed for the field of Mars instead of that OF
Venus for is your war horse or your
racer less priced when his energies are
concentrated ON the domestic mission,
because he has snutfed the smoke Of the
combat, or won the race on the dusty
arenal On the contrary,
'Tis always the spirit most gallant in war
That is strongest and truest in love
And so with Morrissey For the pre-
sent, his thoughts are of fist combats but
the discipline to which he subject him.
self, will not make him averse to the
gentle enderments of love.
Did not Shakspheare's Sesalind love
the wrestler Orlandy, and lose her heart
on the first round Have we not heard
but few weeks ago, of an English lady,
who loved and bore away, from all her
Catalan rivals, the Matadore of a Span
ish bull fight?
Morrissey is fulfilling the whole duty
of Man. as expounded by the female
philosophers of Utica-the new Acade-
my, ever whose portals should be writ
ten:
No pent-up Utica contracts our power.
But the whole buuHdless incontinent is ours
He is subjected to horse discipline
is daily curyeombed by bis groom, trot-
ted out, fer, watered, dieted, exercised,
trained till his muscles have become
wires, his limbs iron, bis chest an anvil,
upon which blows will only rebound, and
has nerves as oblivious to pain If dipped
in Lethe.
Not is it exclusively in the view Of the
Il ar..h..1 III
men at Utica, that Mr.. Morrissey is the
exemplar and model of the age. That
whole tribe of modern moralsts, who
trace sin to dyspepsia, and regard all
evils as flowing from disordered stom-
ach or deranged nervous system; who
hold equally guilty the girl who vets her
feet through thin shoes, and her who
stains her hands with her own blood or
hat fellow creature; who would take
The catechism a0l the moral story book
rom the child, and would educate his
moral perceptions by teaching somer-
seults in gymnasium, and give tone to
,he "still small voice" of conscience
which dubs-bells whole tribe of
naterialists will accept the buffer Nor
'issey as the coming man. He is the
of their creed--he is one of
he first hermits, he is one. of the self
lenying stylites, one Of the aagellants of
he new dispensation. Whatever diet
IAN do for the divine essence of man,
whatever the care of the cuicle for the
conscience, whatever outward ahlutions
AN effect for inward purity, whatever
he development of the brachial and
rural muscles can secure of Christian
by 50 much is Morrissey made
'erfect lie is more careful of what he
rinks than the Apostles of Christianity.
nd we doubt whether the first martyrs
ould surpass him in bravery and Drawn