Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1865-12-09
The F Fn.es VIE and "a e rs SsSeF

From the London News. Nov ISL
Soon after midday vast crowd assembled
in High street, Camden Town, where the ex
champion lived. and the main rosd and
pavement from the Mother RedcSp Tor sew
eral hundred Yards towards Hampstead vas
infested by what looked like an execution
mob The shops were nearly all cltsed. (
partly perhaps out Of respect 70 the memory
Of Savers, aud partly, there can be no qiles-
ton, ont Of Difference 10 the evidently prezx
datory instincts of the crowd. testing i
swearing and rough. chat, wishes that the
music wossld come, jossling and horse play,
were the occupations NEST IN vogue. All
the way from High street 70 the cewefry the
same class Of people, on foot, in cart
and on the roofs and inside Of oyerll
laden cabs, were TO be seen steadily |
making for the heroes grave. At the
cemetry itself the gates were rntried
by, whai seemed strong body Of peiice-
men, who only admitted people who either
"gave the number Of their somb," or ether
wise justified their claim 20 enter. AG2 p,
VI. this crowd was easily kept in order, but
half an hour later successful rush vas
made, and some hundred sturdy vagab0nds :
carried the gates by main force. amid the
wells and shouts of their companions. TheE
police succeeded in reelosing the gates. aId
in again exercising discrimination 81 70
whom they should admit. As il was the /
touibs and covered crypts were crowded with I
people who tiirbently jostleA and laughed, !
itrempled on the grass, and defiled the graves
with a. little reverence for the place they.i
were in as IL il had been an old prizs ring 7
The sueeeeding two hours were taken up ip9
watching the hand TO hand combat between
the police outside and the rapidly increasing
crowd Of roughs in the arrival and admis-
sion OF tavern celebrities, each admission
being the signal for a struggle on, the part
of thoae who wanted to force their way, and
in securing vantage ground from which 10
see the procession.
Soon after r. n. thesound OF drums and |
trumpets was heard, and the hearss and
mourning coaches struggled through the4
surzine. disorderlv mob. SayerS pony arr
and dog cart, with his magnificent dog,
sole occupant OF the latter, followed imiII--
diafely after the hearse. The police con
triyed to keep back the attendant mob ffr
few moments !; bat as soon as che coffin MS ]
taken into the cemetery chapel and bsfrE<
the carriages had fled in, the crowd OF thi=
and blackRIards proved too strong for tho
opposed 10 them, and the gates were ngain
stormed. The members Of The band, while
in the act Of PLAYING the Dead March, -
were scattered pell-mell, their instruments
flying overhead and themselves Ffinning ior
safety. Hundreds Of the foulest scum Of BE-
back courts ndEalIeys Of London. the q
turts who only come 10 light in the sgl
gate az an execution or race conrse, OF
illegal betting ground. rushed IN 20 M
saturnalia at the grave side. For a &
minutes the police were completely "A
come. They were mere handful Of
against the enemy, bat they subseqne
rallied, anu once more succeeded in clo'
the cemetery gates. Many Of the ron
were trodden down in the raid, and afte
was over, the gaping, specifies forDil>
stretched at no unfEequent intervals on the
grass, or reared by their luekier comrades
against the tombs, while neck-cIoths were
torn open and animation restored, spoke Of
the severity Of the conflict.
TOMS WILL AND MS CHILDREN.
From the London telegraph. Nov. 16.l
A will was read on The return Of the
friends from Highgate Cemetery, and thel
substanos OF il is that the E3,0S3 collected
for him after his fight with HeeHan, and in
vested 10 Northwestern Railway stock, via
be divided between bis two children. .oeesh-
er with an additional sum which, on the ~
alization of his estate, may be nearly aeother'
thousand pounds The sol, trustee - hr.
Bennett, who was also one Of the TRUSTEES l.5<
the management Of the money subscribed D
persons Of all ciasses for tbd benefit Of M
champion. To this same Ar. Bennett, aud
10 the Mr.. Menzley in whose HOUSE, Teslt
Savers died, the poor fellOs chung with al
almost childish affection, his last words -
consciousness having been addressed 70 tlit
fjrmer Of the two. -
lie had literally gone 70 the house u ~
MensIey---a boot and shoe raaker, ssh4
seems had made all Toms fighting bcofsik
him-to die. His two children had fesa
placed al school by Mr. Bennett : The 8H T
appears 20 be about fifteen or sixteen, n
bas face for which the face IL the Pufi.al (
maiden, in Millais picture VI the C0nca l'e.k'
Royaiist, might very well pass as a portrais
Her brother Is yesmger BY 4 year 90 fs1
and seems flank, Intelligent lad bud 10
were both % painfully affected thaf -:
nent Of character was for that time 6'Ir