The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-07-26
Tho Champion Brothers In Arms.

Tho Champion Brothers In Arms.
Those fast friends, but eccentric fellows,
Jem Mace and Joe Coburn, met on Monday
and arranged for another fight with such cor
dial demonstrations of love and regard that one
is led to suspect they had never had thought
of personal differences and had never been in
antagomism, even through the agency ofnews-
paper communications. Jem fell upon Joe's
neck and Joe cordially embraced Jem. and
each proceeded to bind himself to the pre-
with cheerfulness and joviality that tskes
away half the terror of the battle. Thus, the
exceeding brotherly regard exhibited in the
Canada combat, when neither could bring him
self to the cruel task Of caving in his friends
facial shell, has preserved itself in the unim-
paired purity of the original, through these in
tervening months of apparent elimination and
recriminaton. The good lessons of that
aesthetic combat have borne other good fruit
besides The virtuous respect for the law
which these gentlemen exhibited upon that
discouraging occasion, when they so readily
obeyed the mandate of the Canadian Sheriff to
dispense, and ''scooped in" his watch in the
dispersal as kindly remembrance of him,
shone like glowing light at the meeting of
Monday; for, finding Unexpectedly, in the
very midst of their deliberations, that New
York law, with the deadly illiberality of old
Puritan fanaticism, forbade such arrangements,
they adjourned with discreet rapidity TO the
more generous shores of Jersey.
Here the brothers in arms completed all
their prelminares. They agreed to fight, on
the 30th November next, somewhere near New
Orleans, for five thousand dollars, and to
cinch the friendly bargain they put up
hundred dollars each. New Orleans is the
bruisers' heaven, or hell whichever they may
choose to consider it, for there these
redoubtable champions will be permitted
to pummel one another to their best
ability without any fear of the cooked
hats of Canada; and whether they consider a
place where such is the case aud there is no
escape from the consequences of their bar.
gain, except by fighting or making faces at
one another forever, heaven or hell, is
a question entirely Of pugilislic taste. If they
! don't fight near New Orleans they cannot
blame the Sheriff or the police. They will
doubtless have every assistance extended to
them by these liberal opponents of the law,
and it is even probable that the hospitality Of
the city will be extended to them as distiu-
guished guests. II the kindness Of these judi
cious officials permits the two worthless tc
pound one another beyond recognition or re.
covery New Orleans will have added another
laurel leaf to the crown OF glory she already
| wears.
In the meantime, the prcliminaries being
thus satisfactorily settled Nj. Coburn returns
to his cheerful gin mill and probably to the
congenial occupation of writing newspaper com
municatlons while he mixes his gin sings, and
Mr. Mace, who has more advanced intellec
tual temperam mt, will bctake himself to
| Europe, where he will fill theatrical engage
ment and get bis family together, preparatory
| to bringing them over to cheer his hearthstone
and witness his coming triumph