Gazette and sentinel., 1860-05-12
PAQUEMINE, PARISH OF IBERNILLE. LA. MAY - 1860.
The Great Event of the Day Settled.
oyrl@EGow OF Tax BRITISH LION.


The Sons ~ SAINT GcDTyC. in this me
tropOils, should have postponed their
dinnsc for one woeh. ana then the p.si
PrandLa! Or2tIons might have been ! lit
tie more modest. Then, PERHAPS. the
Burgundy OF Uc,monico would have
Teen lusuilciyu; ~ excite the Ll.u, and
tail Of tire British Lion t. such az &l,i-
tuGiLous extent: for. distressing as il
must te 10 TIE solid Islanders, tie Brit
.sh Lion has been whipped. Worse
than all, he has tried 10 sneak out VI il,
II the most .EAomiuiOus MANNER
The grra, tight is over. As We sur
. render no small portion Of our space u
It's details, described by our own CORES
respondents and tie British sporting
papers. and as everybody, including The
parsons, will citlcr upcH.y or secretly
read it all, we do not intend t. rccapit-
ui.'r IA" detail here. >ufireiL 10 SAY,
that after alrn@thcned and sauguinary
cucuuuJcg-ul.c which was to the prize
ring what Salamanca, and Waterloo,
Bunker Hill, Balahlaya aud Luudy's
Lane are Il the annals OF aristDCratic
warlarc-thc fight was arrested bv q
mob, followed according 10 the London
Times, by the intervention Of the police.
The CuunprymeN of Mr.. Thomas Savers,
wh" claimed that he could whip Sir. John
{. l~iecnan with ease, will please take
notice that the British champion Was
Knocked down thirty times, and that the
Beulcia infant had tire advantage in the
end. The Britons, whose love Of TAI.
play Is universal stopped the fight III
order TO save their money. They claim
now that it is q draw game.
This Vii, not answer. so far AS the
money goes, never mind. Let Mr.. Ball.
who >eeIuS to bc growing old and sLa-
Ky about his pins, keep his five pound
nOtcs-wc arr rich enough 10 do with
L them We did not really want his
money, but simply desired to let him
know that we could whip him in i mat
ter of muscle as well as in Yachts, clip
per ships, >teamhoat,, India rubber
shoes and other things, city railways,
sewing machines, the electric telegraph.
reading machines, pretty women and
~unpickable bank locks That's all, Mr..
Bull You have been whipped again.
We have been regularly at war with
YOU twice, and have whipped you both
times. The last war turned out in the
same way as the Hccnan and Savers
ight-}uu claimed a draw, and we let
i 40 al that.
1t will be quite idle for the English
o., l.,,r 90. ..,,l.. .... - ii.
sillons-lirst mat the British Lion has
been whipped, and that the American
Eagle has u right to scream Ike halt a
dozen locomotives; the poor old lion,
the bully who has been roaming up and
down the earth for So many years, roar
ing at everybody, may go awayin some
secluded corner ami suck his bruised
paws, while all Continental Europe
will laugh at him, and is glad that
the United States has done it. Second,
that they, the -English, have made the
fight an international matter. The
champion Of England is u scmi-oficial
personage-une who Is veneratcd as
the head of his peculiar profession.-
Here we have no organized prize ring.
and no champion. The English accept
ed lIccnan as the American champion,
and put their best man against him.
The London Times and other British
journals call the contest The Fight for
the Championship" The Saturday Re
view looks at it as a trial Of muscle be-
tween the two countries. The Govern
mcnt, although very much pressed, re-
fuses To take any steps to prevent tile
encounter. The excitement about the
fight gradually rises until it attracts
the attention of all classes Oh both sides
of the Atlantic. On the continent, an
Englishmam and Ie lore are inscparablc.
Tell a Frcnchman Or a German that an
American can hit harder and quicker
than any Englishman, and the British
Lions stock goes down a hundred per
cent.
Altogether, the poor old lion has
come out of the matter So shamcfully,
he has been whipped SO shabby, that We |
really pity him. Poor old 10y? Be-
tween tie Manchester men and the En-
peror of the French, his claws have
been filed off as smoothly as a lady's |
finger nail, and his teeth are sadly in
want of a first rate American dentist.
AS for the proud representative Of the
American Eagle ON this suspicious occa-
sion, what shall be done for him ?
Would a crow Of laurel, presented by
thirty-thrce young ladies, all in book
muslin, white satin ribbons and inno-
cence, he agreeable to his feelings p
viii he object to being received by a
choice deputation Of the fighting mem