The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-05-01
PUGILISTS AND PUGILISM.

The following extracts from an article in the
London Athen@un on this subject are at this time
of some interest Speaking of the countenance at
one time extended to prize-fghting by royal and
aristtoera rat nGrsn"S "a W the Ahengun SAYS:
The last Prince OF w ales once attended fight,
though he proessed to have stomach for its bru-
talities His very presence, however, was warrant
that the pastime was fashionable; and when the
Allied Sovereigns and generals came oyer to Eng
land, after the great "turn up on the Continent,
Lord Lowther could think of more acceptable
treat to those august personages than a breakfast
at his house in Pail Mall, followed by a series of
boxing-matches in his drawing groom. The picked
athletes of the day "set to" in their very best STYLE
and the Gar, with all the iustrious strangers, so
appreciated the exhibition that, within day or
two, it was repeated in their presence, amidst the
leudest demonstrations of applause. The graceful
and manly jackson so delighted the spectators,
who, for the first time, all the pugilisc quail
ties united in one man, that Jackson-ex cockney
builder, Surrey innkeeper, and prOtege of Col. Har-
vey Aston-became the hero of the day, gave les
sons to Byron, was painted by artists, was be-wrt-
ten by biographers, and pOcketed, professor of
the art, an amount of guineas from noble pupils
which could not have been acquired in ten times
the period by any ten professors of philosophy
The last interview between Pugilism and Royalty
when they may be said to have shaken hands and
parted-was at Coombe Warren, in February, 1877,
when the Gar Nicholas attended by Lord Yarmouth
witnessed thefght between Fisher and Bone. The
former was the conqueror and at the close of the
the Gar. Nicholas took off his hat to the bruised
| and bleeding victor, who held out a pulled hand
| which the Autocrat condescended to touch with
| and shake between his fingers. Since this grand
presentation pugiliss have been foreign the air
OF courts-except those of the county" 'ses-
| sions,' and ''assize." As point belonging to the
history OF this art we may refer to the method of
training. The methods have widely differed at
various periods, and only reached a cOmmun-sense
method when the art itsef was denounced as worse
than useless. In the days of Figg and Broughton
and indeed long after, English athlete in train
| ing was required to rise at five. He took gentle
! exercise till seven; breakiasted; walked; had wine
and rusks at eleven; and dined at one on dinners
composed alternately of stored real and boiled oos!
perhaps the two most indigestible and least nutr-
tious of all dishes that could be placed before him.
His "tea, at four o'clock, consisted of rusks and
chocolate; and his supper, at seven of rennet milk
or milk pottage. For drink, in the stronger sense
of that word, he allowed red wine and water
including half pint of muled wine, after glass
of Jelly, occasional lunch. Supper over mar
tla music till bedtime was considered good sani
tary course OF treatment. The time alluded to was
nine, previous to which. he was recommended to
place his feet and legs in warm BATH sponge the
upper part of his frame with cold spring water
and never to indulge in letting out blood, taking in
physlc or applying soap to the surface ofhis body
The process now
is different from the above. The modern svs-
tenn of training is healthy, simple, and perfect
| that it might have been drawn up by Miss Florence
| Nghtingale-ony for this, that when it has
| brought two men to such high pitch of health,
that it could neither be surpassed nor even long
maintained at the same height, the same men are
set face to face to undo ALL rapidly, violently inu-
riously; to mar the perfection, destroy the struc-
ture, and beat into bideous ruin all the strength
and manly beauty which it had taken so much time
and pains to achieve. To Judge from statistics, pu-
gsm, far from improving the race, destroys the
powers OF man. All boxers have had tendency
to run into dropsy or consumption. They speed
lily untitled for their calling, and their highest am
tr ha fha
A few have done well: jackson realized a fortune
and Guley, who was almost great in defeat as in
victory, became Member of Parliament for Ponte-
tract Thisis the highest condition ever attained
by pugiiist; but for the one who a senator
there have been scores who died paupers-mere
wrecks of humanity, stealing away to warehouses
or hiding in some back Stun, and there, UNDECIDED
or unknown, dying, in nine out of ten, long
before the allotted time of man.
MORE EMIGRANTs FOR HAYrI.-The bark Laura
capt. Plerce leaves this evening (24th) for Port
au-Prlnce, having on board seventy five passengers
free persons of color, who going to settle un-
der protection of President Gefirard's Government
They are all cultivators, from the parishes of St.
Landry and St. Martin, and possess more or less
means. They take along with them a full supply
of agricultural implements and farming utensils of
every description, and will be another valuable
acquisition to Hayt. We learn that another and
more important expedition will take place in June
During a few weeks past over five hundred of the
honest, industrious and sober colored people of
Louisiana have left New Orleans for Hayti. They
are now all settled in the northern part of the
island, and the Haytien Government has taken ev
cry measure to give them proper protection and en-
enlargement, and facilitate their arrangements
II this system of emigration is carried on as it has
been during the past twelve months, and the pres
ent Government of Hayti remains undisturbed, it is
probable that the rich agricultural resources of
that fertile soil will be reclaimed, and the trade
with the United States greatly increased.-New
Orleans Pioayune Of april a.
SINGULAR PHENOMENON IN A SNowsToaM- bout
two weeks ago terrible snowstorm ragged in Upper
Washable, accompanied Longston Beck and
Swinhope Fell by singular rolling noise in the
air. which resembled the noise of musketry. On
the morning of the 10th ult. many of the shepherds
proceeded to the Fell to look after their sheep,
when they were astonished to find the ground. for
the space of a mile in length and half mile in
width, covered with large pieces of ice, which had
evidently fallen from the clouds. 1t was as though
a mountain of ice had been suddenly shattered and
the fragments scattered over the earth The blocks
were OF such size that at little distance thew
resembled flock of sheep. ProvidentiaIly neither
sheep nor human beings on that part of the
moor during the storm, for to have been struck nv
one of these pieces of ice would have entailed in
slant death.-London Times, Apra7
Miss Sallie Mercer, the young lady who fiourad