The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-30
BALTIMORE.
MONDAY, APRIL 80, 1850

Prize 6ohts are very brutal exhibitions. Ev-
ervbodv saws ca and we do not dissent from any
hod,,, on;n;on on this point. They should be
d;soorroaod No one ought to regard the issue
= -, . combat-or champion the cause of
oi,hor pugiIist engaged in it-or pander to the
r,orbid appetite of the public by publishing its
cxciting and disgusting details. Of course not
No rational being can care to know at what
period of such an encounter THOMAS was ''all
abroad, or JOHN was 'groggy." All the
virtuous and respectable people unite in condemn
ing the 'big fight and we love virtue and are
tickers for responsibility. We protest, therefore,
that we take no interest in the affair-that we are
utterly ignorant of the qualities of the gadiators
and that we are Indifferent about the result of
the battle. But we are painfully conscious of the
existence of large class Of individuals who are
less vrtuous than we. We are compelled to ad-
nit that a vast number of persons have been very
much excited about the late event We were
really grieved to witness the anxiety with which
they crowded about the bulletin-boards on Satur-
day, and the avidty with which they read the
meagre account of the affair transmitted by the
telegraph, and discussed it in all its bearings
flour or stocks were up, so satisfied were they to
hear that SAVERS was down. Timd madens
cast inquisitive glances at the dispatches, and
hurried eagerly home evidently intent upon
cleaning the particulars from their rough and
reckless brothers. One or two of the reverend
clergy if we mistake not, slackened their pace
as they drew near our Office and strove to catch,
in passing, II struggling bit of information
from the takers npon the corners. And one of
our contemporaries, which had a few days before
spoken so Indignantly and contemptuously of the
flash papers that furnish us with the earli st
accounts of these dog-fghs," put forth a
modest little extra, in order that the community
might be promptly posted. We forced
moreover, to admit that among our numerous
readers, there are not few who are bent upon
knowing all about the fight nor do we doubt
that many good woman will lecture her
husband this morning for the interest he man
ifests about it, who will ne absorbed in the pefusal
of the incidents as related elsewhere, five minutes
after he has left her. 1t is unfortunate that we
cannot induce our friends to take the very proper
view of this business that we take, and we have
therefore no alternative but to publish for their
dement, long description OF Wnat the gentlemen
of the p. r. are pleased to call "this most gallant
Chill 1t is termed drawn battle by the re-
porter for BelFs Life, an English sporting paper,
which has manifested from the outset great hostil
tv to the dsinterested individ ual who has so kind
~ consented to act as our Champions while New
York journal, which has steadily predicted the
defeat of the American, insists that he was gain
ing Il brilliant victory when the mob interfered
with the proceedings Taking all the facts into
careful consideration, our own conclusion is that
the Boy" had decidedly the best of the battle
The friends of his antagonist mustered on the
occasion in overwhelming force, and had bet
heavily on the result, and if the British Champion
had seemed in a fair way to win, they could and
would have driven off the police, and thereby
given him chance to save his own reputation
and their money. But our readers must deter
mine this matter for themselves. We have con-
shifted what we believe to be the general wish in
presenting them, in another column, with an ac-
count of the fight. We would say we are glad
that the dear Boy held his own so creditably,
did we did not remember that we are both vrtu-
Gus and respectable.