Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-05-01
dollars, while land ten times the value would
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rFrom the New York IIerald,l

hS new
If Queen Victoria had eloped with Napoleon
Ill, his Holiness Pope Plus IXth had COM
mitted suicide, the Atlantic Cable had been
resuScitated, or any other stupendous improb-
ability had taken place, the news could not
have created more excitement than that which
thrilled through our community on Saturday
last, conveying the intelligence OF the fight
between the British Champion and the Ameri-
can Benecia Boy.
A any time it seldom requires long for in
formation upon an important event to be CIR
cuated through the city to It's remotest
bound, but on the present occasion it seemed
to fly like the wind Hardly had the Wander
bilt appeared in the olling, in the carly dawn
OF Saturday morning, before an enthusiastic
boatman, who had probably dreamed OF moth
ing but the Benecia Boy for the past three
weeks, put off from Staten Island TO get the
news, and, characteristic of the all-absorblng
interest in the subject, the first question that
went ringing across the water 10 the 1T tnrn-
ing steamer from American lips was, WHO
won the fight!" and from that moment until
might had drawn her curtains and pinned
them with a star" the query was echoed and
re echoed, and the details rehearsed, until 1t
seemed as if every man. woman and child
within the precincts OF our metropolis must De
aware of the soulstrrlng fact.
Arriving at her wharf, though very early IN
the morning, the crowd that had gathered from
the rum holes and rookeres OF that part OF the
west side was immense. The air reSOunded
with heterogeneous and accamatons, and
question and answer flew back and forth from
the pier to the deck OF the steamer in a show
er. Passengers were unceremOniouSiy tackled
by the enthusiastic roughs; carriages on their
way up town were brought to a stand still,
while crowd would seem to spring out the
earth, and, levelling whole batteries OF ques-
tons through every aperture where sound
could penetrate, detain the occupant as long as
he would stay, and when he drove off he would
be sure so find one Or two sitting on behind
talking confidentially in his ear. Even those
industrious fellows, the hackmen, forgot for
the nonce their usual esprit da coppS and in
stead of "l1ave Il hack, sr-take yer up for
six shilling, it was Il say, mister d We see
the fight 2" And woe to the unlucky wight
who said yes He was instantly best, gtd.
Grape and canister of the most uncouth char
acter would pour in upon him at a rate that
was overwhelming, and in a jtfy he had an
audience which, ii not the most select in the
world, appreciated every word he uttered as if
it was piece OF gold. Sometimes the answer
to the question, "who won the fight" would be
"Heenan," and then hats would go up IN the
air, and cheers, shouts, tigers, yels, and cries
OF good boy, good boy" would mingle to-
gether in dsordant reverbcratiOns, becoming
the most enthusiastic PandemOnium ever con-
ceived. Occasionally, however, one would
say that neither had whipped, and then it
would DC the signal for doubt, wonderment
and curiosity, and the crowd would rush to
some other quarter to get the details.