Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-06-04
M'coole and coburn.

s% N~~ANN
The prize fight which was adver-
tised to come off near Cincinnati on
Wednesday, failed, to the great dis
gust, not only Of the blacklegs as
sembled to witness 1T, but of an
immense number of people in all
parts of the United States. The
report Of the proceedings in Gin
cinnati and along the route between
that place and the "battle gromd",
furnishes vivid and lurid idea of
the character of the immediate
hang ers-on Of the procession. The
gamblers were there to bet, and the
bullies and shoulder-hitters, the
thieves and pickpockets, the CARROT
ers and burglars, the roughs, the
amateur boxers, and the scomdrels
and rufIians of the country general
ly, We're all there, raving for the
sight and smell of blood. They
reached Cincinnati during Tuesday
by train, by boat, on foot, and
by all manner ofconveyance. They
swarmed through the streets and
slept on the curbstones, The clouds
opened and the rain fell in torrents
during the whole day and night, but
these braves took no shelter; they
prowled through the alleys worrying
honest citizens, and for want Of bet
ter victims knocked down and rob
bed one another. They entered
saloons and took whatever they
wanted. Scoundrelism was rampant
anticipating the carnival of the com
ing day, and the streets of the city
we're held that night by gang Of
escaped cOnvicts, in whose estima-
ton superiority Of brute strength
and dexterity in theft were the mo-
blest qualities of the human race
The dawn Of day found these
wretches at the railway depots on
their way to the fight-And such a
journey Seven or eight thousand
men, whose proudest distinction
was that they had served a term in
the State Prison; or had killed
somebody; or had been beaten to a
jelly by some other ruffian in q
prize fight; or had never done an
honest days work--all went down
the railway to that little town in
Indiana, clamorous for another
fight. Then, the advertised bruis-
ers not being present, a collection
was taken up for an extempore
fight. When this had proceeded far
enough to show that it was a mere
sham to appease the mob, attention
was diverted again from the noto-
'ious swindle by knocking an inno-
cent Hoosier boy into the ring and
it appear he was breaking
the rules of TIE p R., for which i'm
lginary offense he was assailed by
the infuriate mob, and beaten nearly
to death aa
But more melancholy than all this
is the amazing interest which the
public take in such affairs. The
fight between McCoole
and Coburn has excited nearly as
much discussion, not in the news
papers, but on Change and in the
as the nomination of Vice
President in the Chicago Conven-
Jion, and far more than the pro
oeedings of the Methodist General
The men who have
watched the gathering of the bruis-
ers with eager interest may not have
been so demonstrative us the vaga-
bonds at Cincinnati, but they are
hardly less disappointed at the fail
ure of the fight. For days past
there has beeen no collection of
business men in any Of the large or
small cities in which the fight and
its probable result have not been
discussed, The newspapers of this
city, on Wednesday, received large
additions to their orders, from the
country, in expectation that they
would contain the details of the af-
fair, The Cincinnati roughs and
their conferes all over the country
a depravity of taste and
brutality of feeling that are posi-
lively revolving; but the difference
between them and the lawyers, mer-
bankers and other persons
In respectable circles, whose ankle
by to know the result of the fight
induced them to hazard money on
Il, and who, by the failure of the
parties to fight, were disappointed
and disgusted, is o difference OF
degree only Chicago Tribune.