The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-01-08
A SCENE TO GAZE UPON.
a Reporter Among the BrulHers-..
What he Says In Regard To Their
Heads, Faces, ami Performance.
From the Ncv YORK 1Ftbune.

AehOS, races anu Performances.
From, the Nel0 York Tribune.
The lovers of the so-called "manly
art" had glorious time at the Casino
last night. The Casino is hall where.
in festive people trip it upon The light
fantastic toe on ball nights. Erstwhile
1t was house of worship. Last night
it WAS receptacle of the brute
strength, the brute instinct of Manhat.
tan. Men came there to spar. Others
came TO look on and applaud. Mr..
William Tovee, "a young pugilist, was
the req comViVii, the symposiarch, the
master of ceremonies. The Casino ia
situated on the southwest corner o!
Mott and Houston streets, in district
sacred to several of the heather del
ties, and well known to the police.
There we're ], 200 people In the building
who had paid 81 apiece tor the privilege
OF seeing tull grown men handle each
other with gloves.
The audience was a picture which a
misanthropic physlognomist would
have delighted to study. There were
low-browed men, flat. headed men.
heavy.jawed men, men with we'll de.
velOped necks and tremendous muscle.
and great weight of bone; men whose
Bdh Va SOLHOdlIlNeu0SS was OQlY
equalled in size by their organ of se-
cletiyeness; whose reverence was ex-
celled by their acquisitiveness; men
with scars upon their faces indicative
of strife; man of oblique vision, and of
crooked noses. They were the bone
and sinew of the great metropOlis-the Q
voters, the controllers of a great city's
destiny. They were the men whom
politicians address as fellow citizens,
who elect Mayors and choose Alder.
men, and make Governors, and at the
polls reason from the omoplate after
the fashion of the ancient Grecian ath.
letes.
at 8 O'Clock the aged patriarch,
once known in the arena as Bill Tovee,
but now recognized as William Tovee,
Esq. introduced TWO semi clad, brawny
boxes-Gallagher and MAguire-who, o,
after smiling and shaking hands, at
once proceeded to pound each other
according TO the revised rules of the
prize ring. They struck out with what
is technically called the right duke
and the left mauler, banged each 9TH
er about the platform in a manner
highly gratifying to their intelligent
and appreciaLive audience, and, after
keeping up the instructive exhibition
for some minutes, shook hands again,
and retired amid storm of applause,
Mr.. ToVee then introduced two more
OF the Seml-Clad COIN batantS, who did
about as their predecessors had done,
whereupon a Jig dancer appeared. and
9stonished the spectators with his lu-
dricous movements, and then followed
n songster dressed IN the traditional
integuments of true Hibernian; and
then more pugnacious men of moderate
fame and light weight; and at last the
redoubtable and gigantic O'Baldwin,
with one Dunn, of Brooklyn. These
two shook hands, and battered each
others faces, and danced from one cor
ner of the stage to another, and backed
and filled like corvettes under bare
poles, and lodged like didappers, until
the roof echoed the general applause
evoked by their manliness and their
strategy; and when the last blow was
struck, the last graceful escapade exc
cuted, the last fall made, and the last
cliuch consummated, the nasty, brutal,
senseless exhibition was brought to t,
close, and the twelve hundred intelli-
gent beholders, with murmurs, shouts,
and yells of applause, left the filthily
scented room, and dispersed to their
several haunts, we'll pleased with the
entertainment of the evening,