Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1865-12-09


Tom Savers. the pugilist, was buried
on Wednesday at Highgate cemetery,
under circumstances which can only be
described by the word disgraceful. Soon
after midday avast crowd had assembled
i'm High street, Camden Town, where the
ex-Champion lived, and the main road
and pavement from the Mother lied cap
for several hundred yards towards lamp
4 stead was infested by what looked like
an execution mob. The shops were
nearly all closed, partly perhaps out OF
4 respect to the memory of Savers, and
partly, there can be no question, out Of
/ difference to the evidently predatory
| instincts Of the crowd. Jesting, swear
ing, and rough chaff, wishes that the
music would come, iOstiing and horse
play, were the occupations most In
vogue. All the way nom High street TO
the cemetery the same class OF people on
foot, In carts, and on the roof, and inside
of Overladen cabs, were TO be seen
steadily making for the hero's grave.
At the cemetery itself the gates were
guarded by what seemed a strong body
ofpolicemen, who only admitted people
who either "gave the number OF their
tomb" or otherwise justified their claim
TO enter. AT two, p. NJ, the crowd was
easily kept in order, but half an hour
later a successful rush was made, and
some hundred sturdy YagabOnds carried
the gates by main force, amid the yells
and shouts Of their companions. The
police, who behaved splendidly through
out most trying day, succeeded in re-
closing the gates, and in again exer-
cising discrimination rs TO whom they
should admit AS it was, the tombs
and covered crypts were crowded !
laughed trampled on the grass, and de- |
filed the graves with as little reverence
for the place they were in as If it had |
been an old prize ring. The succeeding |
two hours We're taken up in watching the /
hand -to-hand combats between the pO- /
lice outside and the rapidly increasing |
crowd of roughs, in the arrival and adj |
mission of tavern celebrities, each admis-
sion being the signal for a struggle on 1
the part Of those who wanted 10 force |
their way, and in securing vantage /
ground from which to see the process
ion.
Soon after four p. NJ, the sound Of
drums and trumpets was heard, and a
brass band playing the Dead March
feathers, hearse and mourning coaches
struggled through the surging, disorderly
mob. Sayers' pony and dog cart, with
his magnificent dog, the sole occupant of
the latter, followed Immediately after
the hearse. The police contrived to Keep
back the attendant mob for a few mo-
ments, but as soon rs the coffin was
tnyep into the cemetery chapel, and
before the carriages had filed in, I
the crowd Of thieves and blackguards
proved too strong for those opposed to
them, and the gates We're again
stormed. The members of the band,
while i'm the act of playing the Dead
March were scattered pell nell, their
instruments flying overhead, and them
selves running for safety. Hundreds Of
the fOulest scum of the back courts and
alleys of London, the creatures who only
come to light in the aggregate at an exc
cutiOn, or race course, or an illegal betting
stand, rushed in to hold saturnaiia at the
grave side. All this time the noble brute
in the dog cart looked on with stern COM
posture, as if to prove his superiority tOthe
degraded Wretches around him. For a
few minutes the police were completely
overcome. They were mere handful
of men against the enemy, but they sub
rallied, and once more sue
seeded in closing the cemetery gates.
MANY of the rogues were trodden down
IN the raid, and after it was over the
yasping, speechless forms stretched at no
infrequent intervals on the grass, or
-eared by their luckler comrades against
he tombs, while neekclOths were torn
Jpen and animation restored, spoke to
he severity Of the conflict.
Such were the last obsequies of Thomas
savers. and such the tributes of respect
laid by large section of his admirers-a
good tempered, unedueated man, whose
tout heart, mbOunded animal courage
inspired the respectable classes with such
that they subscribed to keep
lim in idieness for life, who became the
dol of p0thouses, and who died Of drink
ng, and whose funeral was a riot.
Ba. The discharge of thirty-three addi-
iOnal paymasters has been ordered.