The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-07-18

TnE MUscIEMFS's CARNIvN.l "goTtrn-
lag Glasses" OF Nex York have been in
fever Of delight during the past three
days Their Jupiter Ammon. in the person ot
the Boy Of Benicia. has returned to them. and
temple for the joint worship Of muscle and
~hiskey has been set up in Broadway, within
pistol shot distance OF the statue Of Washington.
There, in che OF the most polite. wealthy and
refined districts of the metropolis, hard By the
fashionable churches the great public Libraries,
ana tine University Of New York, the hero OF the
hour receives his followers, who pay to him
more respect than is accorded TO any crowned
head in Christendom.
This is as it should be. The prime friend of
the pugillt. who has been especially called
upon to uphold the belligerent reputation Of
the Bird of Freedom in foreign parts-the AM
phitryon whose hospitality the Boy enjoys re-
presents the fastidious Fifteenth ward in the
Common Council, while his partner has made
for himself undying fame by breaking
an editors head. II Is very certain that
euch persons as the Champion and his friends
are the real governing classes otherwise one
would not be selected as the chosen exponent
Of the wealth, wit, learning and responsibility
of highly conservative district, while the
other would have been tried long before this
time on an indictment now hanging over him
in the Court of Oyer and Terminer wherein he
is charged with having committed most bru-
tai assault upon an unoffcnding man. As for
the Boy himself, it would be hardly possible to
say just now how high ne might climb, should
his desires lead him to seek Office. II he sue
ceeds in whipping his old antagonist, the cheer
ful Morrissey, Heenan will stand the acknow-
lodged king Of musclemen, and, as the muscle
mer rule in the large cities Of the North, the
round and top of sovereignty will 6nd its ap-
propriate place upon the hard head Of the
Benicia Boy.
Great is muscle, and Heenan is its prophet.
As we write be has invaded the newspaper dis
trict, and has attracted even more at
tenticn than the japanese when they investi'
gated the mysteries of the printers art
| II Is quite true that the Champion excites only
curiosity among the respectable classes-they
regard him as they would the biggest tiger or
| the most ponderous elephant. The enthusiasm
which be creates is confined entirely to the
! roughs and their friends. We do not find our
merchants or bankers receiving him as Sayers
was greeted on the London Exchange but it is
also fact that political power in this city is
given over to just such persons as those who re-
gard Heenan as only little lower than the
angels. His triumphant progress through the
streets of this great metropolis, proud of its
wealth, its vigor, its vast resources, its splendid
past and lite glorious future, its public and pri-
vate charities, its encouragement to the arts
and sciences, is a sad evidence that we have
not yet emerged from the barbaric era, and
that our civilization is more or less sham
| OF all the statesmen now in nomination for the
highest Office in the world, not one would re-
ceive such hearty cheers as those which rang
OF. from the crowd under our windows as
John C. Heenan's carriage rolled through Mas
| saa street.