The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-07-07

sucs spirit of justice and hammn nth
shews such an Ia innate aequain.aI noxar
the probable conduct OF tion -us, thai /,
IL he were not restrained by eV q, a. To the Of.
deser.ss ~ III Attempts 10 infiict injury by
gonginr or tearing the hesh WIN me nngers
ar nails and biting. shall De deemed iouL"
VI "si,,,,r al purfl from un educational point
t.io,,. he ia by no means sa tbs factory study.
JI,s saorts 70 sign his name to any given docu-
msnt are really q sorry sight; he perspires
more over that achievement, even IL he ulti-
,nately accomplish 1t, than during a run OF
three miles but his efforts are usually quite
abortive, and when successful, the result Is
bnt hieroglyphical His reading Is not exten
siye, nor is his library large, and he is not
well yersed in the spelling Of po'ysyllables--
As TO his arithmeticai requirements, 1t is not
easy to speak with certainty, buthe Is believed
to be just able to reckon up the number OF
times he has had his nose broken, and the
number of teeth he has involunta,ily swat
lowed and although he issues invitations to
the public to attend his harmonic meetings.
he is usually indebted to the musical accom-
plishrnsnts of a friend for the entertainment
OF his visitors. Nevertheless, he is sometimes
gifted with a natural power of eloquence,
though what he Gays is n little obscure 10 the
uDinitiated, by reason of its metaps pricai
character. Why, SIR" said pugri 70 Il gen.
tleman whom he was coaxiHg TO take boxirg-
lessons Z" the hart in itself is a fund a. I'm Sc
ment, and can be practised Almost any where.
You amt obliged q ave twenty -four foot
ring every time suppose; why, any crib III
do to spar in and then down in the couatry,
where you live, sir, there's plenty o. nice soft
turf TO fall upon and on fine day, when you
and your 'pal' might be walkjn' out together,
and you come to a sweet piece o. green, and
felt inclined to ave a quiet set-to, how lice it
'ud be TO know all about il, and be quite sure
you was a dom the thing proper ~
In a social point OF view, pugil Is decidedly
gregarious, but not a society man he dislikes
tea par ties, and his amnsements are taken in
places of public resort. He doesn't accept
many invitations, even if ne gets them, to
evening parties, and perhaps the man he de-
spises most on earth is the man who turns over
the leaves of ladies' music-b books. They look
very we'll, he says. b" a standin' at the pianner
with pink jersey under their shirts, to make
believe they're rose color, and their air parted
down the middle, and poker up their backs
but you inst get EN- down stairs on a little bit
o. green In the garden, and you'll see they'll
lose their 'eads directly. All you've got TO do
is to mind your distance, and then sling ont
yer LETT bang from the shoulder, and do what
you like with 'em. Lor bless you, that sort
never fights with their eads." 1t might be sup
posed that pugil alludes To butting as good
dodge but it is nothing of the kind, butting
being forbidden by The Nth rule of Fistiana
he only means that you are 10 keep your head
cool and your senses unconfusei.
The most praiseworthy trait III pugil's cha
racter is the strict equality with which he
treats black men, or as Americans would say,
''niggers.' Few abolitionists like to carry
their principles SO far as TO sit next to colored
per ION they like him to be free, but to walk
upon the other side of the road; the white pu-
gill however, "tps' the colored pugil "his fin
or daddle" sits next to hin, at dinner, or fights
him With the most perfect Indifference to his
complexion; and the little shoeblack who pol
ishes the boots of colored pugilist, looks up
to the Ethiopian with more unfeigned respect
than le testifies for the Angle Saxon beadle of
the parish.
Previous to 1910, scarcely anything which
can illustrate the growth and progress of the
species under consideration, appears to be
known but at that time one Mr.. t'igg having
trumphed over that famous historical charac-
ter, the Gravesend Pieman, ASST med the title of
Champion of England; from him it passed
through a series of "Jems," and Jacks" and
.sBilIsr until it was claimed by and conferred
upon the late lamented Mr.. John Jackson,
better known as Gentleman Jackson, who fos-
tered the poetical genius OF Byron, Is reported
to have been Il page at George ~ IS corona
ton, and who at last died full of years and
honors, at his residence, Grosvenor St, Eaton
Square. He alone of ali tistic WORTHLESS seems
to have had Mr.. always prfixed TO his name.
He abdica led the throne of pugilism, and Jem
Belcher re'gned in has stead. He was sue
ceeded by the gallant Pearce, so well known
in quiet domestic circles by the nickname of
the Game Chicken. After him an honorable
member; was called by reclamation to the Of
flee, but declined to accept il. 1t was then
held in succession by two ''Toms, - dRo fplmiaa
betti-Cribb the lion-hearted, and Spring the
scientific and at last, after many black eyes
and bloody noses on the part OF Jem Ward
Bendigo Ben Caunt, Harry Broome, and the
Upton Slasher, it fell to the lot of Mr.. Thomas
Sayers, whose late ovation on Change at Liv-
erpeol is described as unequalled to anything
since the welcome of Lord Cough after his
brilliant Indian victories.
Recent events have shewn that cool courage
and stoical endurance 1CW eXtort the admira-
ton of Englishmen, and have suggested this
slight sketch of the natural history of that
species to which many a man belongs, who,
had it not been his good-fortune to be born in
an age of civilization, would run great risk of
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