Daily gazette and comet., 1860-05-29
VERY SEVERE STYLE.

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public does not expect wordy de
fense from the party attacked
when his adversary is disposed of
| In this manner because IL is no
reasonable to expect an answer tc
language addressed in an unknown
tongue. The Crescent, does mol
understand the Comet. II SAYS
Everybody who ever read that
odd and whimsical little sheet. The
Baton Rouge Comet, IL aware ol
its chronic propensity for joking.
in small way. If Il sometimes
gets of iacetious article that il
somewhat unintelligible. the point
of v+i.knSa fact, is not quite so
plain ma aFpike-staH," no matter,
that is TO Ls expected where joe
ularily Is made n business of, an
, oceasionaAisilure is inevitable, for
u IL ~ impossible that y constant
and neverfs5ling flow Of funnyness
(if we~way' be allowed to coin a
word spprorsiate to this subiect)
sseuId be kept mp from one sourse
a. that small streams should CAB
ble ON uninterrupted in dry wealth.
er. We had supposed, however,
that II was out uf the question for
our eccentric contemporary NJ Red
Stick to take n serious view ot any
subject, and experienced y little
astonishment ON findiug in IL an
article occupying about a column
and half Of its valuable space.
and commencing In the following
portentous style
DlsHoNoRsD AND DtseRaeEp.-La
week most disgusting and beast
ly sight was tolerated in New Or.
leans, which we would raip pass
over as n foul strain and blotch on
the record, and dishonor TO the
State but from the fact that IL
thrusts itself upon MS, like the
blood stains on tho garments of the
murderer, and there il net water
enough in the heavens above, or
the earth beneath, TO wash IL out
we are forced to notice tit is
indellible. An English and an lr.
ish dog, walking each on their hind
legs and having the outward sem
bIance Of pobler beast, have been
permitted 20 fight for a purse Of
greasy dollars, in sight of the
authorities. and some
thousand men and women, in the
city ol New Orleans.
What q "foui strain and blotch"
may mean we wot not. but that
Nllows this mysterious aud no
doubt injurious attack upon the re.
pord is fearfolly significant. The
Comet man says that "a most dis.
yusting and beastly sight" toler.
sied in New Orleans" tbruats IL.
self upon us like the blood stains
,n the garments Of the murderer"
'tc., and then VIC learn that this
spectacle was fight
between ian English aud an Irish !
log, walking each on their hind !
egs." Curious how each could !
walk on his own and tho Others
lind legs, and fight in that singular
position, too.
We knew that there was dog eight
n a cockpit somewhere on 81. !
Charles street few days ago, and
hat greasy dollars were s,aked on the
csult, but we had no idea that they
walked into each other on their mu.
ual hind legs, nor did we dream that
he Comet man was present, or we
ertaiuly should have waited at the
|oor until he came out, at the con.
lusion Of The canine tussle, and prof.
cred him the editorial hospitaiitios Of
he Crescent Office.
No reference was made by us to
he fighting Of dogs in n cock pit
N Chartres street. Il was a prize
Ight, witnessed by about a thou
and people, women as well as men,
rith a feline loudest and most lus.
y with her vulgar mouth in urging
n the fighters. A thing wipked
by the model Police Authorities
{ the city, whcreat the Crescent
nd other city papers had reporters