The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-05-25
THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT,

his hand" Ito use gamblers phrase,) and
never prepared to give or stop q blow with.
out relaxing from smile to fixed contrac-
ton of the mouth.
Sayers had another advantage over Hee-
nan, and one which actually told on him
during the first hour of the fight. Heenan
was in strange land ; it was the first time
he had ever been brought face to face with
a strange audience, and he knew the i'm
mense hostility that prevailed against him.
No sooner had the fight commenced than
they began their intolerable system 'chaf6ug;'
each time Sayers got in blow there went
up yell from the threats of the two thous-
and Englishmen present which made the
earth fairly quake-a yell so loud and so
terrible that Heenan several times actually
looked around in dismay, to see what it
meant. Then, when his face began to
swell, such monstrous insults were rubbed
into his wounds as would have maddened
any man not absolutely fixed in his resolu-
ton to keep in good humor. mo use to
bring that Yankee up-he can't fight ;"
snow, look at his mug!" "Oh! take
away your man-don't you see he's blind 3"
These were the cries that assailed Heenan
from all sides during the fight, and they
were intended to intimidate and then mad
den him, in which case they calculated he
would be likely to play foul and lose the
fight; for it was reported that he was iris
table, and would be likely to lose his tem.
per and play foul. do not pretend to say
that the few Americans in Heenan's corner
did not make respectable noise in backing
up their man but they had such frequent
occasion for their vocal chords in the early
part of the fight that their voices were soon
extinguished, and then the English had it
all their own way. But, Notwithstanding his
well-sustained command of his temper, Hee-
nan was intimidated and feverish during the
early part of the fight, as was seen by his
frequently likeing his parched lips and de-
manding water.
At first three policemen arrived on the
field and attempted to stop the fight The
leading one tried to get to the rope at the
point where I stood. I said to him, ''it's
no use to stop the fight now; Sayers is
knocking the Yankee higher than a kite,
and it'll soon be over" This evidently
Modified him, and be said in my ear earn,
estly, "ls Tom lickin' i'm ?" Of course l
replied in the affirmative, and then, perfect
ly satisfied with the result of his mission,
he was about to retire, when he reflected
that he had not gone through the formality
of asserting the majesty of the law. So he
turned around again, and you are prepared
to hear him call out, "Y GU, Tom Sayers, and
you, John Heenan, command you in the
name of the law to desist from your unlaw>
full proceeding !' or something of that kind.
But not at all. He cried out, "Tom Say
ers You Tom Sayers! Tom, do you
hear me? Now you know who's talking
to you! Poor Tom all this time had bis
mouth and ears full of blood, and of course
didn't hear.) "Now Tom Sayers, 1 tell you
to stop fighting that American" and this
latter unusual formula he elected three
times and then retired with his accompany
ing dignitaries, thoroughly satisfied that be
had done his duty, and especially that the
presumptuous Yankee would soon be knock.
ed higher than kite
Half an hour later twenty policemen came
on the field, walking slowly two and two
with sort of chief at their head. They
made an apparent attempt to get at the
ropes, but they were pushed back at all
points, and told that Tom was whipping
Heenan, which seemed to have the same
magic effect upon them as upon their pre-.
decessor, and after while they ceased to
push, and with the exception of expostula.
lions, actually became like the rest of us
spectators of the scene. Their presence was
therefore, simply a demonstration to save
appearances; at the bottom there was no
real opposition to the fight. Later on, how.
ever, when the fight was turning against
Sayers, their presence was put to good &C.
count,-it then became convenient to obey
them. MALAKoFF.