Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-05-08
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FARTHER POINT, @. E., May 6.-Tbe steam
ship Bohemian, from Liverpool on the 25ih
via Queenstown on the 10Th, passed this
| point at 4.30 P. NJ to-day en- route for Quebec.
A report. which was current in London,
| hat Heenan had died of erysipelas, proved
10 be utterly unfounded.
Heenan, on the 22d, thus wrote to the
| Times: - E
/ Il see by your articles of Saturday that
| vou misunderstood my wishes, aud do me
/ great Injustice have no differences 10 set
| lie with Sayers except such as tried to set
] lie on the 18th. and instead of being call.
boy ought 10 be termed a baby. if, after
having come so far aud not having got set
| Element, should be willing to rrinquish my
| purpose for few good-natured pats on my
back and being told am fine fellow. have
received great many anonymous letters
| asking il | not ashamed of myself-a
| great big felle.y like me to come over here
10 whip a little man like Sayers Under or
| binary circumstances l should not think of
| sending challenge to man of Sayer size;
| but England thinks him hig enough to de-
| tend the belt. | want it aud cannot get it
except through him.
The enclosed letter. which sent to Bells
Life when I heard that they intended to call
the surgeon to name the day before which
Sayers could not finish the pending affair.
will show my position, and Bells Life has
not published it. you will do me a great kind
ness by letting the English people hear what
| | have TO say.
If the late battle is not to be resumed,
| and the belt is not to he sent to me for what
has already taken place. / claim to be first
on tile list to meet Sayers again for the next
chance to conquer it.
The following is the letter:
TO Bills Life: Not having been able TO Oh
tain from you. as referee. the final decision
| upon the fight of Tuesday last, / d. sire to
demand, through you, new meeting within
the present. month. l make this demand
from having been informed that it has been
suggested on your part that | should give
| Sayers sufficient time to recover from certain
injuries received by him.
Now sir, while l am willing to accommo-
date him in any proper way. must not he
.Tnmindful Of my own rights l also re-
ceived injuries, bat barganed for them. and
! | put it to you, as mau of honor. whet
if bad been deprived through the effects of
| the said fight, of my eysight or the use of
my arm. as IN the case of Brettle, when dis
abled by Sayers, you would have made Say
ers wait for me- for any length of time that
might lie die a ed by my private doctor.
When this matter was made, the date of the
battle was the 18th, or as soon as we could
get TO fight. and according TO the rules OF the
battle, should the battle be interrupted it was
my understanding aud believe il is the law,
u
meet according TO contract. The battle was
said to he unfinished. and l am prepared to
renew it at any moment, within lawful
limits. II Sayers is not, on account OF in
juries received from me, and cannot meet me
according to the rules q: manly opposition. |
demand and claim that he resign to me the
bell, hich he is not. according TO the rules
| of the p. X. entitled to retain.
Hoping to receive an answer from you be-
fore the week expires, stating your views in
full. | am. DC. &c.
p. S. You will please understand that l
don't wish to compel Sayers to fight because
he Is represented to he in disabled state.
but | wish to obtain the belt. winch / thiI K
| have already won, and which l will cheer
fully hand back whenever he or any other
person thinks he can take il from lie.
Two hundred pounds are said to have been
subscribed in Liverpool by American Cap
tains for the benefit of Keenan,.
LIvERPooL~-Cotton sales of the week 9I.-
600 bales of which spectators took l6 900
and exporters 1t. 900 bales. Market buoyant.
middling and lower qualities fully recovered
last weeks decline. Fair qualities firm but
unchanged. Various circulars report an adj
vance of Lie to /.
There are rumors of arrests in Paris on ac-
count of another Italian plot against the En-
| peTor.
LArEsT.-Liverpool, Saturday. = Cotton
sales to-day 10000 bales; closing firm; Con-
soils 945a95.
| Pony Express.
/ ST. JOSEPH. Mo-. May THE pony ex-
press from San Francisco the 9th has ar
| rived. Large immigration from China has
| commenced.
The bill giving a bonus to telegraph COM
uanies passed both houses OF the Legislature.
| Ii is estimated that seventy thousand per-
| sons have gone to the Washoe mines.
The Legislature adjourns on the 30th. 1t
| appropriated $4,000 to build wells in Colora-
do desert.
Business has manifestly improved. Money
| is more abundant. Frazier River news is
! favorable.
Fugitive slave Returned.
BosroN, May THE steamer S. K. Spaul-
ding with the returning Massachusetts
Charleston delegates had fugitive slave
a5oad. While on the pas age the slave was
transferred to the steamer DeFord aud car
ried back.
From Washington.
WASHINGTON, May 7.-HOUsE-Mr. Burlin-
games bill appointing full Minister to Sar-
DINA, passed.
SENArE.-Proceeding unimportant.
Fire.
BosroN. May 1.-THE Chemical Works Of
Hodges & Silsiy are burned. Loss 1000
insured for $50 .OOO.
Died.
Urea. N " May THE Hon. Samuel
Beardsley died to-day.
River News.
LOUISVILLE, May THE river is falling
with 81 feet water in the canal.
Markets.
New ORLEANS. May cotton sales to-day
1000 bales The steamers news caused great
er firmaess. Md Hing lotall; sugar frn
mess pork ls,00als,2 %; freights aud exchange
unaitered.
New York, MAY THE steamer Brazil
arrived at 81. Johns yesterday from Galway
the 29lh.
CINCINNATI. May Flour 5,60a5.65; Mes,
Pork l7.25; Lard firm l0l.
| EglgsE MANHOOD