New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-30
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Two Erenchnen are PLAYING Inc XMAS 10 "e-
lighted Western NeW-lork. Each has tight
rope stretched over q river beautifully garnIshed
with falls 10 himself thousands Of spectators, men,
women and children, t. cheer him on, and city 70
back him. one day NJ Blondin Crosses the Mag
ara IN the presence Of s the inhabitants OF Buuaio
and the sdsceut villages; the next d DE Lave
skips over the Genesee, all Rochester AID us en-
vjrous applaudiDg II n BlJnd'n turn sdmer'
sault upon bis rope, NJ De Lave must turn one
too; if Blondin carry man over toe tnmohns
river on his shoulders, De Lave must forthwith
promise, at least to perform the same iea''
and affirm that he has already gov
the refusal OF bis humau cargo which " Is ao'
:. Afraid 10 eo;" Il Bloudin cook omelets In
stoye poised ov 81 bis river Il becomes at once ne
cessary for De Lave 20 s1o" that he ais' eau
..k,epa botel"-since it will never answer for
Rochester to be outdoDe by Buffalo. Outdone'
Her champion performs narvels when WOMB
blancb TIVE check of the Buffalo hero. DE L.'es
rope i, stretched directly over our Faus eSultiogy
cries Genessee Journal while Blondin crosses
mile below the cataract The sister OF De- Lsve,
,bcuts another, vii soon shoa herself her brothers
eou. CD the rope; can Blondin say as much tor nis
sister,
Riyal,y epsendeIs lard feeling. PennsylSana
Vice does mt love La Mountain; nor does La
Mountain have On affection for Wise. Taey ara
rival balloouists. Virginia Wise doesn't love Hun
ter or Buchanan: nor has Wood tenderness for
sickles. They are rival polite ans. Boudin and
De Lave. the great ri,als have lot beea or speak
pg terms for year, as We learn from q Journal
of Western New.York How, where, why they
fell out is not stated.
That their respective adhercnts share their feel
ibgs, is evidelt. Current rumors impute deadly
designs On the port of each against the other
The guys Of Blondin's rope having been cut
who but a Rochester man could have cut II,
excsims Buffalo BIon6in's agent goes to
see De Lave make bis passage--"in the hope that
Re will fall" to intimdste him. " with prize
.. fighters at his back" cry Rocbestsrs many
voices; - at the imminent perl If his life ecuoes
Buffalo LAY Jour hands on my man, IT You dare
both cities shout in unison. The populace and more
than one local journal tsbe sides with n. Blondin
or with NJ De Lave. The great rivers, on the
other hand, without which the controversy could
not have been do not join in it, but serenely roll
Cd, looking up at the foolhardy acrobats with
one knows not what eagerness of expe 'tation; and
the proprietors Of hotels and public conveysnces
in both cities preserve their equanmity and
calmly fill their pockets.
Success in a new line of enterprise begets inila-
ton. Sam Patch made many leaps BY proxy, be-
fore his last Dadaus was the father of balooniss,
fnr
every BOYS efforts to cesve the sky and for the
Ayipg man, who is astounding the West. Dickens
has written many novels, and Tennyson many vol
umes of verse by the band Of men and women, who
are UNIV orthy to touch q pen. Young America
in Western New-York is to day given to Blondinol-
airy and De.Layesm. On clothes-lne, tOw-lne,
iron or wooden fence, the boys, even the girls of
Rochester and Buffalo initiate the men whose per-
forDarces their parents have taken Z to see.
One lad made his way in tue dark over the Gen.
essee on De Lsye's rope; another exhibits his
proves at siI pence head; another is adver-
tised among the attractions of a county fair.
Now and then an arm or leg Is
broken and the surgeon reaps mrs harvest
from the prevailing mania. Nov and then
serious newspaper takes the children 70 tack and
wants to know Why they do not show AZ much en-
thusiasm in study as 10 dangerous sports. But
boys will be boys ard the deeply interesting
Z" and besutiful performance Of De Lave, the co n
"p.titor of Blondin for hempen immortality,
continues to impress tie Impossible mind OF
young America" which cannot permit French
man TO Guido Yankee Some Journals which are
with the boys, some even Of our city coIempora-
ries. sIe kind enough TO explain the principle aud
the mOdus operandi of rope-waking, or to give
easy lessons TO the beginner.
Old America is also in the field and Female
America A woman has crossed, or is to cross,
Western river. Two men are walking the water
" in patent leather shoes, and Prof Sweet, % the
great American phenomenon" was to hold
great tight-rope carnival" at Phenix, Rhode
Island, on Saturday last, making /" terrific ascen-
sion across the Pawtucket River, striking " Pan
"cratical attitudes, performing Palliptan fests,
wearing 4" Grecian Calacos," giving splendid
slack wire performance on a wire so smau that it
" is scarcely perceptible.'
When such distinguished Americans are 10 the
field, We cannot join The ". I. E1Pnss 10 support
ing either of the two French acrobsts for Pres.
ident of the United States in l56O.