The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-07-07
THE JAPANESE PRIZE RING

NO spectacle in Japan is complete or even posi-
Die IN winch both spectators and performers do not
make several changes of costume. On the stage
this is matter of course with actors and actresses
but it is also extended to the audience Ladies who
go to the play are accompanied by numerous ser
wants and magnificent wardrobe: and in thn
course ofthe spectacle which begins in the morn
ing and ends late at night they retire several times
and when they return, it is in new and gorgeous
attire
The wrestlers are dressed and led out for show
and then they are undressed again; and space be-
ing prepared, and a ring formed they are divided
into two opposing parties. These two parties
stand IN the ring glaring at one another then they
tramp heavily backward and forward 50 as to show
their points, and enable spectators to make up their
betting books.
After this they retire, and all, with tho excep-
ton OF two, are again clothed in full dress and
take up their position the front seats round the
ring. The two who have been reserved now come
forward, with the simple cloth bound round their
loins, and walk with slow and deliberate steps into
the centre of the ring. They stand eyeing each
other with wary look, glaring with brutal fero-
city, each watching chance to catch his antago-
mist OIL his guard. And a savage nature comes
more and more to the surface thev assume the look
and even the movements of two wild, fierce bulls
AS tney continue to eye each other, they StamD
heavily on the ground, paving the earth, as it
were, with impatience, and then they stoop, grasp
handfus of earth, and fling it with an angry toss
over their backs. They crouch down low, still
keeping their eyes fixed one on the other, and
watching each movements then in a moment there
| Is sudden spring, great shock as the massive
| frames strike each other rebound and then the
two monsters become monster with many
limbs heaving and struggling. with great muscles
rising in distinct outline, with bloated faces and
gushes of purple blood.
Prize-tghting in Japan is very much like prize
hghtng in England. But perhaps il Japan they
recognize the nature of the exhibition more truly
than we do, and it is quite in character with the
rest OF the scene, and legitimate demonstrations
when the next antagonist lowers his head and rushes
at his opponent believing like bull. Let us
leave the wresters, they will all struggle in sue
cession, and with like result, and then the man
who can give and take most will stand painting and
victorious, and will be led off in triumph The
spectators meanwhile, instead of talking slang and
looking disreputable, like the frequenters of Eng
lish prizefghts, will go home to music, and poetry
and water parties.
Perhaps in the evening of the same dav we shall
tnd them in the company of ladies, sitting by
cool running stream or in shady grove, each with
book. The book may be of poetry, or CONTAINING
religious and moral apophthegms Household
Words.
BLUE FISH AND SWORD FsH.-EDGARTowy, Mar
tha's Vineyard, June 27.-The 'blue fish" season
has just commenced, and Edgartown and Nantucket
are the headquarters of this fishery. 1t is a very
exciting amusement. The blue fish, as you are aware
is a ve;y beautiful fish, weighing usually from four
to fifteen pounds each. 1t is caught by trailing,
with the boat under full sail 1t is very voracious
andis caught with the naked hook, having for bait
only piece of mother-oEpearl attached to the nm
per end of the hook 1t is attracted by the BRIGHT
Of this passes through the water and seizes
1t without waiting for any critical examination as
to its nature character, and before he ia fairly
aware OF it, finds himself prisoner beyond the hope
of redemption.
There is something very remarkable and peculiar
connected with the history of this fish Their al
most exclusive feeding ground, in the summer sea.
son, appears to be the waters about this island and
Nantucket Formerly, some hundred years apo
they were very abundant but about the close of the
last century they entirely disappeared. and were
unknown for many wears afterwards Those who
visited these Islands thirty forty years SINCE well
recollect the accounts given by the inhabitants Of
afamOus fish, called the "blue fish,, which formerly
abounded here, but which had become extinct
Some twenty years so since they reappeared, at
first of smallsh size and few in number but in the
course ofa year or two, they became abundant and
ofgood size, formerly, and have continued so to
the present time. They are strong, fierce and vo-
racOus fish, and while their lasts-from the
middle of June to the latter part of September
they destroy and drive away most OF the smaller
fish, and thus enjoy an almost entire monopoly of
the waters. The sword fish season Is at hand and
will be at its height in about month. MANY of them
are taken in this vicinity, and they meet ready
saen the market, being preferred for the table to
almost any other kind of fish, They frequently weigh
several hundred pounds each, and their capture is
often quite profitable to the fishermen.
The RAILROAD TRAGEDY-THREE MoRr BoDrrs
FoUND-FURTHER PARTICULARs.-Hon. SCHUYLER Col
n a.
cGte written in the cars that two bodies were taken
out Of the raVine where the accident occurred
Thursday afternoon. They were completely buried
in the sand. The first one was discovered by
the toe of his boot being noticed One of these
persons is named Campbell, the other is not
known.
This morning the body of Miss Regan was found
in the st. Joseph river, less than a mile below the
fatal creek She was identified by Mr. Whinery,
OF South Bend, (at whose house her mother died,)
By her dress.
Pieces of clothing have been found to-day by the
workmen at the wreck, but up to three O'Clock T.
Nj. bodies. The whole number OF dead
thus far discovered is fortv-one.
Before the work of rebuilding the cuvert Is
commenced, the people of Mishawauka have deter
mined ON excavating the ground, to see II more
bodies cannot be found. This course was deter
mined upon at public meeting held in that place
on Wednesday evening. Chicago Press, july I'd.
GEN. WAsHINGToN's BRDsTEAD.-We to-day,
at Green Bros factory, whittier it had been sent
for repairs (says the Alexandria Sentinel of last
Friday,) the bedstead on which Gen. Washington
died. 1t is very plain tester; the foot-posts of
mahogany, without foot-board and the head-posts
of sycamore, with poplar head-board. The posts
slight, and the rails inserted low. This inter
esting relic is the property of COL Lee, who married
a dang Ter of loko NJ Gr,sffo