The New York Herald Newspaper, April 30, 1860, Page 4

fight, that I now deciare, whe bad bet om Sayers Those luctloss and discomtiod wore subjected during tno eatire ev-miag (@ dd still more cautious, and after much sparring sad ward- aimed g me like the other, The scene gradually beame case the money and the belt that Heeoam is the better mea, and thet if ho had been one f tavugat, beth the mont intone a di brutal exon ment. There wore shouts « tv permitted te remade ton miout© longer te the riag, it ing off on Intended blow with the coset, of taverti a. 4 7 joe ye isnwean |“ BO enernbls givom up to that gentleman, I shalt Goal have boom impeocioie for the gus to have wera LitUe reet they again sparred and cloeed, wuea Cheat Papen eoesa bo ra _ hos eal, one Chop Hr mg mone ro eh conse pode al. . ' te 4 oe ee, not im any other wre 8 Comariat coteal of a i ‘ \¢ spectacie ory g wied, eros pirouett gave his adversary some heavy body blows, acd gotdowm | 7 ae she og tie bots ware | Wet Mr Heepan is fully entived to tho trophies of ine | fire Sati thelr Oiiigured faces cose woven the Tan ne, ssat thet Hosaan, even ia this | Becasn's colere over tar Gar were the obj-ct of tre ood it ho set them Theness If @hab Wok place at Ash quent end dic upy ceogums eggy uaivite -. ¢ ho rr be fully his equal Ech was instantly attended by bis eeconds, who | reopect, with @ little practices would be fully his equal, careful Prpcased reach, » a his body add face, and rinced oat ais we ought to have more of it. We ought and ip Combivation with tic superior strongta and after coimly ourveyiog (hom for ao cold wat Again they aivanced. it at the Alhambra and else where for our shilling, see perfectly iovulmerabie. wo doubts beivg wspirod by ieatonee oe Stow nied tagecbt better; tae spar- | upoer the sanction of the law 4 Epeleb sporting men throughout the city generally re- | to the crowd end delivered himsnlt eperon Ting was quicker, and the huge mascular aramol Heenan | 16 | gotice ; but if it is bed, lt ovght gard the question im a national point of eed aro ua- tbe fol! went beck wards and forwards wish immense rapidity. ae, ene ie Oe cob teetintee || © EY en ed contrary, they place great stress upon the owes Three times he hit at Sayere, bat ou , y wih ber abotes fully departed. Respectfully, remark Foe es er ean a ‘atly as if to put the champion ol! Ns guard; at last he . AARON JONES. ope band, aad that im this condition he was darted forward like ligbtoing, aod deait Sayers a blow in bim reeliag. Tom, however, as if * Lis eppocest wherever he pleased, first Boe ot a ena cared for Jt, ah onos ventured close AN ENGLISH VIEW ON THE MORNING OF then the otber sige of his’ face. to big buge autagonist—too clove as it proved, for the loag THE COMBaT. ever, they are very fait . pluck, endurence and skill Ragtish: generaliy believed tbat the fight will be decided as & ‘draw’? Americans think that, having beea clearly , the belt ought to be claimed. THR EXCHANGE, NOT OP WALL STREET. Heenan wassbot out likes Gart,and with a heavy suet his forehead Tom was kaocked almost into hie | own corver. There were great cheers at this, aod tnough Heenan seemed very Pleased, Sayers took it as a matter of course, aod went back to his corner apparently uncoa- cerned. Here he was sponged for a minute, and re- | tarved with a deep red lump across his forehesd, and his | mouth slightly |, though with far less punish. | of mevt ip appearance than could have been expected, owing to bis skill in jumping back ere the blew reached, and thus weakeping balf its force. He was smiliog, and seemed the bead quite at ease as be again approached the American in his | was made,bug own corner, who was very careful not toloave it, in order to be struck in the heat of [From the London pee Seda A very interesting subject Of specuimtion is the moralist by ine ortracrdinary difference Roped At the cosciusion of this lacon'o epitoms of the life eed son of the American champion, the ore: “ "" amd the coavereation again became gonoral. JAKB ROOMR'S, IN UNRCHR STREET. ‘This well known revert of the lower orders of the “faa- cy” wea the acene of considerable excitement during the ‘His right eye otest; about ibe twenty Afth round bis loft gong toskeep He has aa awt at. Bis spout wi C4 wibin tbe range of vision, We strain at the gpa, whiet we bolt the most ease thas 1s truly wonderful; and 2 ourselves with the self-decelving belief that the which, Harry Hid, was present at the fight, and retara- ed im the Vanderbilt, It was our good luck to drop in while he was marrating some of tho incidents of the fight, and by the aid of short hand notes we are enabled Say eget The sented an opening, of which the Benicia Boy instantly | quick, Heonam almost as strong as availed himself, and with one blow dashed Saycrs to the | pareatly much distressed, trying THE FIGHT AMONG THE TRUTONS. ground. Again there were tremendous cheers for Hee- geese Be ene In the 38th roun ‘Whoa night bad eet in, burly and honest Haas, im ac. nan, and ironica! congratulations to the champion in the under bis left arm, and, supporting oy young povice he had met with, Those who had backed | the stake with bis right, beid bis oppoacat bent dows, as, cordance with bis usual custem, betook himself to the lager bier saloon, thore to indulge in the imbibing of his faverate beverage. The excitement of the day was cea- tagious, and the impertarbable Hans had caught it. The Sayers seemed rather depressed; the betting eadaany If be meant to strangle him, Sayers could no more free became even, Heenan being almostas much in favor as | himeecif than if a mountain was on him. At lest he got the champion. There were loud reaper “Time,” at | his lett arm free, e biows ea vanced, till the American again had the benefit of the higher ground and ann fare ace, over Se 2eeee h leant on tt sil his force. attempting outigbting with @ man of such enormous | would have been strangled ‘7 the 9pea ta that the rulen strength and length of arm asthe American; he there- ving previa Ler wees would sihereaie be Patel eomeraaetiany fore tried to daeh in and @alight blow at Heenan, | and loth the umpires caled mmultanemualy to cut th: ropes Who returned it with a very heavy one. which sent Tom | This was done at once,and both mem fell heavtiy te the staggering back, and alter some further exchanges, all | ground, Sayers mearty half strangled. The police new nee of the powerful young American; Sayers got | mace a determiveo effort to interfere, ea eer Again the men were attended to, and again Sayers came forth much marked, and with a heavy cut over bis eyebrow, to cope with Heenan in his own corner. This 5 time the sparring was 90 long ond cautious that at last both | and all were overwhelmed, and the whole thing became men put down ther hands and laughed. Again they began, | a mere close mob round the two men fighting. After this and after a few feints Heenan cashed out his left, and for | four other rownds were fought, im the midst of this dense the fourth time fairly struck Seyers to the ground with a | mass of partisans of etther side, who, however, allowed very heavy blow. Zhe effect of these repeated blows seemed | the men to figbt im the fairest way they could, consistent almost greater on the spectators than on Sayers. The latter | with their having bardiy apy room to (got atall. This, tried to treat them lightly, but around tbe ring a very dif. | however, was, ov the whole, untair to Sayers, whose ou\y ferent ‘Was entertained, and Heenan was backed | cbance now lay in aveiding tbe,tremendous blows of his to win, and was cheered and epcouraged to the utmost. | antagonist, against whom be contended with oaly one Both men were duly wiped down, and Sayers’ bead and | band, aad who, though now as blind as a bat, was still face, which were now smeared with blood and heavily | posrcssed of nearly all his immense strength, aad, to a bruised and bumped, was held close pressed botwoen cold | Little man like Sayers, very pear'y as formidable as ever. fee to keep down the contusions, which had now al. | Im theee rouncs eometimes Sayers got awful blows upom tered hie deep saliow hue. the bead and booy, and someumes be managed to give Shouts now went round the ring that Sayers had vir- | in retaru bis tremendous lupges full in the disfigured tually atready lost, avd indeed the punishment he had re- | face of his antagonist. At one time caps icere thrown up ceived was 80 mush more severe than that bestowed upon | and cheers given for Heenan as having won when he his tall, wiry antagousst, who seemed always amiling and | knocked down Sayers, who would soring to nis feet al freah, that matters really began to look sertous | and give the American such saggering blows that he for the Champion, and a!most to warrant the belief that | in turn was hatled as conqueror. At length the po- “the belt was going to Troy.” Apparently roused by | lice forced their way to where they were fighting, these shouts to stronger efforts, Sayers came on again, | in a epace not much larger than an ordinary dining and, watching his man cautiously, stepped back froma | table, and the referee ordered thom at once to discon dreadful blow aimed at him, in before the American | tinue. To do them juatice, both seemed very willing to could recover himself, and ‘Henan @ terrific smash | leave off, and Heenan was 80 biiod thet im tne last rouad Full in the eye, splitting up the cheek and sending his huge | he could net sce Sayers, but hit his unmuspecting second a antagonist reelerg like drunken man back into his corner. | tremendous blow in the face, which knocked him head owr ‘The effect of this blow was 0 tremendous that even Uefore half | heels. Bath men thea left what bad been the ring, Sayers, @ munute had elzpsed Heenan could scarcely be recognized | though much blown and distressed, walking firmly and @s the same man, 30 swollen, disfigured and Wood stained | cooliyaway, with both his eyes open andclear. His right were his features. There were loud cheers for Sayers, who | arm. however, was helpless, his mouth a1d mose were ‘went up to Heenan’s corner and peered into his face with a | dreadfully beaten, and the side of his bead and forehead and curses both loud aad dosp wore breathed agains: the “cowardly Eoglishmen” by the governing classes whe bealtby, moral, apa invigorating effect upon she natonal ebarac Tms wes tbe argument of the Saturday Be view, alter eulogimng the tendency of bo: wel serengiben * the armas’ sok Courant ® |, If Quoen Victoria bed eloped with Napolesa TIL , hie eens that shinpereme sobernens, ‘and opes- | Holiness Pope Pies Ninth had committed euloido, the At uly’—three prime virtues Christian code |) Iantic Cable had been resuscitated, or aay other stapend- —tre the dation of all good training amd |’ tbe tet articles of «prize ghtor's Belief. very wheee Gus tmprobabiity had: taken place, tho mews ould net emcog the Pearse bed Ley AAD mph | have created more excitement than that which thrilled sitioe to upou the matter tO through our community om Saturday last, conveying the , EXpect the iadies to care much about it—aad ro Criueptthe Gletky eed the megutraoy (volh Of weal are” intelligence of the fight botwees the British Champion comprtien.to misaneld iheiz ones. spcrobe ten) aay and the American Benicia Boy. tbat there are many who remem! vs At apy time It seldom require: leng for infermation upon th, their sparring bouts at college, their triamohs ig pe maerd get ge Twoutd be more than half dig | @® important event to be ciroulated through the city to its poved, were the baitle to come off in their meighborheod, remotest bounds, but om the presemt eccasion it seemed to 10 act nke a schoolmaster of our acquatutance, who, fly like the wind. Hardly had the Vanderbilt appeared be enw a good, fair Ognt likely to come off among his | 1. wn, ong, im the early dawn ef Saturday morning, bo- tore am eathusiastic boatman, whe had probably dreamed Of nothing but the Benicw Boy for the past three weeks, put off from Staten Isiand to get the news, and, cheracter- i boys, turned bis head aside and walked im the oppoaite: aur: ection. ‘Abd yet, with all this private disposition tolet the af: fair pase quietiy off, whet have been the public demoa- trations iu the matter? What have the police and the What has curious, half 3 expression, as if he too was astounded | much pumisbea leenan was almost unrecoguizable as a | megttratcs been about? been done ia the | istic of the all-absorbing interest im the subject, the first the effects of his oun work. era now let no | buman being. so dreadfu! hea been his‘puaisnmont about | House of Commons? To the last question we may Fe- | question that went ringing soross the water to ine atte but catching a most formidable blow of Heo- | the face ana neck. Yt he was still as strong oa hislegs, | Ply—littie enough One gentleman did, indeed, taveke | retarning steamer from American lips was, nap’s on his right arms, again dashed in, and gave in re- | apparently, as ever, thanks to his perfect training, and, | the interference of the Home Secretary, but he wasvery ait » turn a still worse blow to the American, foliowing it up | after leaving the field of battle, he ran as nimbly as any | quietly sneered down The police, it was said, were | “Who won the fight! and from that momeat y with another, which seemed to smash his nose, and al- the spectators and leaped over two small hedges. Tale, | thought sufficient to prevent any serious breach of anti! “night had drawn her curtaine and ptaned thom very non most krocked Heenan off his legs in turn, so thet he re- ever, Was @ fical effort, and be almost tastently after | peace, abd it would not be nece: to use the ith ootar,” the pay a tg that he quired the most careful attontion from’ his seconds to | became so tticrly Lind that he was obtiged to be led by the | power specially for that purpose. ‘ss for the polio | with a star, query Sette tine teteheedy throw make him fit tor the next round. hand lo the train. . ano the magwtraces, their activity has been mostunusual | the details rehearsed, unti] it seemed as if every man, ‘The betting now changed again, and if Sayers was not How the fight would have terminated but for the inter- | Eggea on by those busybodies who are ‘woman and child within the precincts of our metropolis £ a decided favorite there at least seemed nothing to choose | ference of the police it is now literally quite impossible to | ou the siert as when excited by a spasm of jintermit- fs that Say: between the two. All the rounds had been long and cau- | say oreven speculate. At any moment Sayers might | tent virtue, these worthies have been hunting Jona | mist be aware of the soul stirring fact. coneeds the fight Beonan, tho Benicia Boy, from. bailiwick to wick, end from county to '. by I 29 made hem run bezore the constables until the stomet hts barefeet, and havecarriedham before the Derby magistrates, who have bound hem over in to keep the peace to- E Arriving at her wharf, theugh very early in the morn- tpg, the crowd that had gathered from the rum holes and rookeries of that part of the west side was immonse. The alr resounded with interrogatories and acciamations, aad qviestion and answer few back and forth from the pier to the deok of the steamer in ashewer. Passengers were ‘unceremoniously tackled by the enthusiastic roughs; carriages on their way up town were brought to a stand still, while a crowd would seem to spring out of : tiously fought, but the hitting had been dreadtul, and { bave gota blow which would have struck bim almost both Then began to show signs of fatigue, and ater long | senseless; while if Heevan could have olosed with him the sparring, in the seventh encounter, paused, rested, | Champion’s chance would bave been, perhaps, a poor and at lest retired to rince out their mouths, which were | one. On the other hand, Sayers was carefully avoiding very bloody, with water. As they came up again Sayors | thie, and Heenan’s sight was so far gone that in two or at once dashed in and gave another terrific b.ow to Hee- | three minutes more be would have lain at the mercy of a nan, which sent the blood pouring down over bis broad | child. As matters now stand, tho fight djourned sine chest, and ecemed to make his huge form tremble ike a | die, and the only impresicon is one astonishment child's, Heenan paused for a moment and then darted | that Sayers, with one arm, 3) have $0 H in, but Sayers got under his gaard, closed, and, after giv- | with success. with sucha formidable antagonist, and that ing him some heavy body blows, both fell, Sayers ander. | Heenan should have borne his terrific punishment without fe baa been noticed in the last two rounds that Sayers | his strength or cowrage to fight giving away. F : i 3 z i is ee. 5 & A_I don’t believe there’s aman in the world can tell, ‘Dut I believe if the fight had been kept up ten minutes Jonger one or the other would bave been whipped. They were both worse of than I ever want to be; and they both fought to win. They were game all the way » made not the least use of his right hand, with which, in all 4, levelling Whole watteries of questions ihren Fe ogette dye cells Te eeten trek tectine equally the object polite attention, we cannot Baas Vidi ate cases Woes Goad 'peast and no man can grumble for losing his money on punishmest that a full blow from it may almost be said to PRIVATE LETTER FROM A SPECTATOR. regretting that a protext has been given to the Americans | i 'Q. How do you think thefight will be decided? A. As decide the fate of @ battle, The reason of this was now Moutsy’s Horst, Lospox, for complaint that their man has not been treated, | detain the occupant as long as he would stay, and when . ”. you ‘You can’t get in The tals painfully apparent on bis again stepping intothe ring. In Tosspay AYTERNOON, April 17, 1860. copecialy ap these Provesdings have been applauded W7 | le drove off he would be sare to find one or two sitting | Yas crowdoa out of the ring by those in it, in the latter sopping one of eae eee, pay ee Sowpal dows. Visieun padi Gaxeplipmaiaeliaee {6a behind talking contdentially im his ear. Even those Part, and 1 don’t believe he will make any other decision Cortain 1 is that tho Liab was frightfally swol- | Ihave just returned from the great fight, and as the word, however, as to the truth of the |] Industrious fellows, the hackmen, forgot for the nonce oo Will they Sght egeiat sa ag ae ek Jen, Sik 20 Dagparlans iat bs cot ay manage to SUP | Vanderbilt steamer leaves Southgmpton to-morrow, I pcre py meg Darema ane r || Caete anual esprit dai corps, and tastead of “Have a hack, at Fors Racrens bin. chest, roms thie tue, theredoce, Sayers The sport enurely, but we deny bot the chargesiand the | fir—take yer up for six sbillin,”" it was, ‘'T may, mister, ght the reas of the batile with his left hand, only seek- will try to give you some account of it. ny eve to ease the evident pain of the in- ‘We were mot informed till last might when the train | Tiebt- the root and cause of all | |, 1d 70 see the fght?”? And woe to the unlucky wight who aged vert ete LLY vip would start, or whore to get tickets, in consequence of the ea ternty ie wer beg tn He Gad you. Hid’ was instantly besieged. Grape and canis. |, hough the feaiaret of the latter wore go dis- | hostility of the police. I obtalned the necessary infor- torted and swollen that it was hard to what he was | mation about nine o'clock, and elmost immediately after sey Going. Sayers, notwithstanding the loss of hie right | reured, leaving orders to be called at.two o'clock, as the arm, still pushed in, the American 1, . Fe, which Tahave | tram was to leave London bridge sation at four o'tock, | fis may x those a Sayers, | a distance from this hotel of nearly three miles. arrived | *°eP Power their own Ses piece .. Sometimes the answer to the question, fs Cs there in time, and found two long trains filed with nearly | Of, Puuling the law in, force ss thelr” plesgure Tanne Wes the Set” would be ‘*Heeasa,” aad thes , seemed to have no effect on th @ the gaunt, tron | 1,000 people, composed of the wealthiest and most re ter in the alr, and cheers, sh x rere * goad oy, good boy, would mlogis h which now in poor Sayers seemed all knocked | but this morning I heard very few offers, and those nearly of the Amervoan, was quickly out, and aiter some | spectable in the country, with plenty of the nobility. The | e Aight for championship to take place in hig er aeas, Nesoaiing the mncet (our ‘launched forth his powerful arm, and striking own park, adding that he would ‘‘aquare every magistrate Pandemoatum ever con: Occasionally, Sayers onthe nose with a blow that was heard’ all over the | kets to go and return wore £3 10s., which kept off the | within twenty miles;” but it is a state of things that must | however, one would say that meither had and meadow, he felled him like am on. Th‘s round lasted thir- | ‘“‘roughs’’ and persons they didnot want, Wo started at | met with the disapprobation of those who wish tosee an | then it would be the signal for doubt, wonderment and 4eon{minutes, and the men seemed so distressed at its close | half past four, and in about an hour and s half brought ap equal law for all. We maintain that a prize fight is not | cu: , and the crowd would rush to some other quarter that each man bad to be carried to his corner. The #8- | a: 4 nisce called Farnboro, in Suri tr: “a breach of the peace”’ the sense of | to get the details. conds bad much to do with eponging their faces and wash- spl jarabore, TY, forty ‘om | the new Police act. If it take place in a public highway, BOENES AROUND THE neat ing over the marks of their wounds, though some of | London. They soon drove the stakes aad made the ring | or ins public place, it is a breach of the Queen’s peaco— OFFICE. ‘Heenan’s seemed too deep tofbe meddledjwith this way. | and at balf past seven Sayers threw in his cap, which ‘® Constitutional mystery of be it sald, we never In the meantime the news bad got up town. Tho ‘Time was loudly called by the umpires, and the Amori- | Va. ¢oliowed immediately b; niger) yet mot with a satisfactory exp! But if it takes | English papers had beem quistly brought te the can instantly rove; Sayers was much hoger coming up, ly by Heenw’s, then the | Diace in « secluded ‘where passers by cannot be ex- the ail he seemed almost fresher of the two, but not | men themselves stepped in. They greeted eaoh other very join in the “‘ronk,”? nor un spectators be | Huma office, mail packages opened, ‘90 strong. As soon as Sayers was in reach Heenan | cordially, and then retired to their corners tostrip. The bet offended by the sight of acts of violence,’ it ism misuse of | in a few moments a thousand busy fingers were gare hime heavy blow over the eye, and almost imme. ting since Ihave been here has been two toone on Sayers, terms to call t a Drench of the peace, Thi has been al: | ying to and fro in the wervice of the public. A Hately after a atill more fierce one on the mouth and nose, | and tor the last three or four days has beea three to one; ee el a Megs Wasetn wasee, , mamed simple notice on the bulletin board of Himmaip aa- y imto cone, There was slight sparring, and both looked Brandt; and we wonder that the puglists and exchanged bts, all the were in ic unpleasant Saye che nite Rom mets ton eae eee have ot tried eoactaiions ‘ith the police “upoa the ee et ees Pare rae species of barter on the side of the American. x pared forth. calls Sayore drew back me spit et blood from his pe eens ‘Gu tine belag called thor Ereach of ee once, and we never heard thal" ple Jem, and hon sae top tht ot i eee in poe gy Wh sans es RG y some of Hee. | were both very prompt, and for the first two or three | Cver alter * those gatherings of stalworth | Couoting over the chickens before - syn aa nan’s foupporters—an imprudent ebullition, inasmuch a8 | rounds tious, each seeming! “4 athietes which take place in the dales of Cumberland and they were hatohed, cpmed snung ty the taunts of he amencar and | foende, were iy ayers ted. off got horse ou Eicenan'e to assert thas more | Exchanging opinions with their comrades and. waiting for jaan springing im, gare ITeenan a Wow which sent him tot- | tace, and drew the first blood. About the firth or sixth dering back, following u up with ancther and another, anda | round, Sayers hit him a tremendous biow under the rigat ourth tremendous one in the mouth. Heenan seemed stag- | eye, and five minutes after it was completely closed, and gered by these fearful visitations, and reeled like a drunken | al that side ot hisand face head was as big as @ ‘pucket;”’ man, leaving himself so unguarded that if Sayers had had } and from that time to the end of the fight, which lasted the useof his right arm the jigh: would have ended there and | wo hours and a quarter (forty thee rounds), he bad put then. As it was, however, Sayers dared not trust himself | one eye. Still, up to the thirticth round ur 80, he looked in the grip of an antagonist so immensely his superior in | to me like a winner, knocking Sayers down nearly every height, weight, strength and length of arm, and he could | time he hit him, and alwa;s throwing bim, and fighting only foliow up his advantage by giving another heavy | in the gamest and most determined manner. The fieah biow with his left in the mouth, and a most tremendous | on Sayers’ face must be a sort of cast tron, for, with smash into the American's nbs, which sounded all over the | the exception of bleeding profasely, the territic’ left- ‘meadow as tf a bor had been smashedin. In a minute after, | handers of Heenan made scarcely any visible ic. however, Heenan came up trying to laugh, but only | pression ; though I believe all his front teeth were to receive a still worse blow in the face, which covered | knocked out. His lips were not in the least swollen, bim with blood and sent Sayers himself reeling back | while Heenan’s looked hike @ wasp’s nest, and were from the force of his own blow. There was @ short | swelied soasto hangover his mouth. During all this pause, during which om, as usual, soanned curiously the | time tne Englishmen were very confident, offering all dreadful effect of his hxttung, and both went at it again, | sorts of odds, bantering and making all sorts of fum of each exchanging heavy biows, till both were covered with | tho “Big Yankee,” as they called him, and I myself be. iN ‘the Helds of Cornwall; yet we venture from all the prize ghia Unt have taken plage m r ve taken pi an ‘ccetab waistiorica yeaa. ‘Tne nouon ia that, becatge there | toa multitude, and Fulton atroct ‘almost impas- ts battery, that consti utes a breach of the as there can be no battery without some one to complain fight. Uf course, in the event of a fatal aczident, charge of a has to be abo’ where a wrestler kil's his an’ yy pi tae rowé inersonens ao pri Raene eh g Nge oe fost that has been | jquirm around among people like 60 many eels; « fow i if stop progress of evangelization. They wouldn’t hear to it. One or two gentlemen were present during the day and evening wno saw the fight, and, like the example above referred to, were through a course of interrogatories which tired both lungs and patience. Whatever may be the decision of the referee, his friends will claim that he is the best man, and already a number of individuals who favored Sayers, whose wagers are emall, have been 80 bly disappointed in the American, that they bave cl ‘ally paid their bets, and arrayed themselves under his colors. Aaron Jones, the trainer of Heenan previous to his fight with Morrissey, | ‘History of England,’’is dispored to deny that the famous told our reporter that he believed the decision of the re- | ictter to Mr. Randall on American institutions, was a fair feree would be in favor of Heeran, but if it were not | expression of his opinions. Mr. Snow says: he should regard it as a downright robbery of the | 1 do not mean to imply that tho letter is not genuine; Benicia Boy and a disgrace to Eaglish sporting mon | butthis Ican safely say, that, whatever in 1857 may ; ‘expectant, Pon P tbat go long a8 men’s parsions continue to inspire them to | heard in motion below, throwing off the sheets at the rate personal combat, boxing seems to us the least objections, of twenty been an hour. a miaute more and a pile bie form for their pugoacity to take. It a less fatal then | Comes up. Whata ecramble! How the papers go out! apy other mode of combat, and {s really moro manly. It | “One,” ‘iten,” ‘‘twenty,”’ “one hundred” —down goes is objected to it tbat the match can eeldom be rendered | the money and away go the boys. They stop a second equai; but with what weapon can it? You bave your | ‘Tread the heacing and see thas it’s all right—for your dead abot and your skilled sabreur, as well as your prac tte 3 . ush, screaming as they run, with a mixture of patriotic blood, especialiy the Benicia Boy, who in the end rallied } gan to inink that unloas some great ‘change took placo | {ited boxer. So long as the institution of the ring serves | Toi: SCTPAMINE a8 Shey Fin, Wy ‘extra 'Erald,”” generally. have been the opinions of his lordship on American in- and hut out fercely, knocking Sayers down with an awful | speedily in Heenan’s favor, his chances for winning were fra A at nth alah essere ir ‘hole ety, from the’ Baltory to. Harlem, ‘resounda’ with am WEST So eee those exproased ia teat smash. The powerlessness of Sayers’ right arm was | sight, as his other eye was rapidly closiug. D es SIDE. letter. At lenet, T kpow that more than ever manifest in this round, which lasted | {lis time, and up io avout the thirtyeeveith eric, favor. It only for the fact that the rules of prize fighting | the information. And now every corner is alive. The ES: E : <7 me tee pore canes sentiments come what different; and the reason of it was During his stay in by ae York, previous to his departure | nig. tn 1850.4 Thad been a year in the United States, for England, Heenan’s headquarters were located atthe | having previously bad the gread pleasure of much make it unfatr to bit a man below the chest or when he is | fortunate possessor of a newspaper is the contre of aa down—modes of offence which are not prohibited to com- | 'duisitive crowd, and those too poor or too moan to in. batants in avy other country but this—there is ome good | Veet the six or tem cents charged by the sharp witted nearly twenty minutes. ide seomec unabie even to move | Heenan bad fought on the defensive, always waiting for it from bis side, and it was fortunate indeed for him | Sayers to come at him. The spectators behaved in the that Heenan bimsolf makes very little use of his right. | most quiet and orderly manner, all scemingly confident ( “ Malta’? saloon, corner of Broadway and Thirteonth | close communication with his lordship, while ea- Both men now seemed much distressed, and Heenan pre- vorite’s of + in it. newsboys, are content to stand on tip toe, aud, with eyos ” y + sented an awiul sight. His face wes’ gushed wih ap- | sqpeared’on the growal aimvst Inaohatelh ater tne |, Those who object, to prize fights on the ground that | Si#knded, and necks, protraded, cose ‘what they can | street. When the newsboys on Saturday morning rush- | S48¢¢ by him to transcribe and rewrite the two parently very coep flesh wounds, and the whole of the | Qght commenced, made very (ew demonstrations, and | ‘hey are too often the scenes of riot and ontrage, should aaa oe poi — cate such a state of excite. | © through the streets, crying their “ extries” containing | uniform kindness, his enlarged Tight site of his face, eye, nose and mouth was simply | were alwayscriven back by the crowd: in fact, the P. <ee bags Vino Tamp, “Sayers, 00, was, badiy, (oe R, hed everything thelr own way. | Bat Hoonan’s seconds 5 ; ° + now instructed him to torce the lighting, and pretty soon pay [es geen ger eae | iy almost | the mistake they had made in the begidning became evi- bo en were om Se a call Pat | dent. Heenan rushed at Sayers, caught bim in his arms, "The Benicia Boy was first out. Sayers then came out, | Wayne nies round his (Severe’) ‘neck, punished and and Heenan at once, bringing iis gaunt muscular lett {oto | Wilh Mr. Sayers UM 1 Was @pparently all over i ae yep x Loy . Cenehiog: Vghtning poems But now [ most tell you of the most disgraceful and sut- Sayers was out, though weak, and Heenan roshed to foros | hetteftn: de als cei a eaty of mem who must the fighting; each bit thoother hard, and afer asiight | who toe ca Remrcaly Dante bee a phe De struggle Sayers got down, laughing. Another round \ol- | No sooner did the backers of Sayers and the spectators jowea with much the same result as to hitting, but inthe | generaiy see the turn mattors had taken, than thay lose Heenan lifted Sayers from the Ground with ease aut | rushed into the ring. broke down the ropes, struck and flung down heavily. ers was evidently «lis- | kicked Heenan, extricated Sayers, and seomed determined tressed, and had not the least chance in closing with | tobreak the fisut up in a row rather than loeo thelr his powers ul antagonist. Again there was a little | money. The umpire and reveree, Mr. Dowling, editor of eae ss at Pea hy ie Ball's Iefe, ran away, and whee tine Sas, clea. forthe 01 » m4 | next round Sayers never lef socond’s knee. Heenan’s he could now see, recetving in return a blow in the chest. | friends then claimed the Ogbt, but could flad no umpire. _— heen nny Estate ena Seek ene oe t sem ieee hoary corner, tom gegen ag he coming ain, 1 ing | rose struck him, caug! im again under his arm, and usual, wich his face to the €un, seemed dezzied; again the | wonid py obably have killed bim (as he was complctely in wat boosh doom ond apparetdy half turned. “tie rs: | eaaberice W was bard eure bor ce Tile eta meee h y ork not meci- quired much care from seconds before he came up uh Heenan to bring him off. Sayers then again, though when he did so it at onco seemed to revive | r rather was pulled out—for 1 don’s think all his vigor, for he made straight a! Henon and dealt | heir conduct; and Heonan’s friends find- him a Low in the face that was heard all ovr the field. hance of fair play, dressed him, and ali His antagonist seemed nothing loth to close for all this, swiion. He was comparatively quite fresh and gave Sayers almost as bai a biow in return, tilltney | » webtihe Orst three rounds as he foogur both closed, when Sayers haa jl dest of it, and, for | would bave been in his favor, provided the first and only tame, threw Heenan heanily. alowed bim to win. In a miqute both, though distreased, were at it again, | to say at present what the result will and Heenan, with a fearful blow, knocked Sayers halt { wling will probably decide ft a “draw,” across the ring. Another round ended, after a fow ex. or ay to continua it. George Wilkes saw changes, with the same result, except that Sayers was | the wi and will give an account of it in his “"Gtrange iosay, after ewe tresoendous rouada Sayers | Wii divribution, Wy tomorow’ seater ° There ol a ’ u e | for deer ion, b, ‘0. rrow's er. re still came up fresh, and showed not half the awful marks | probably, be an extra from Bel’s Lafe, giving the Eaglish Gaptaling joc ia aN Sand Gan wus avalon ad | Kerrie ‘break oy’s tothe poten Ch, Tome nee pally, and bis left oye was fast threatening to close as | police ‘never entered the ring til'the mon were dressing iS ring ir conduct of ese Englishmen was mos) nl ay Sayers by closing with him, fs tne latter could disgusting; and they have not the excuse that it was done jad did nob ecem ts ike the look of rumieg fate | theamecives gontlemen, and belonging to we beter, it mek Sayers, whe, slays. cont ud wary, never now threw a | the best, clase in the land.” We 3 a . rounds were fon A . . a shoua cer teorweinee, en this | “Tshail leave for hone by the next steamer. Yours, &9. ivi heavy blows, ana ith ‘ed | c o Brin such comtortums as might ass for emies’ tn sa) | LETTER FROM AARON JONES ON THE FIGHT. and @n account of the fight, a copy was immediately pur- | ™ind, and his farseeing judgment, always led me to submit my own humble writings to his criticism and chased at this establishment, and an eager and anxious | frienaiy suggestions. During my stayin America I had throng at onoe gathered around the one upon whom the | collected materials for atwo volume work on the social duty of reading it had fallen. As the reading progressed, the | ad political character of our transatlantic brethren. alternate successes of the “+ Boy’? were most yociferously Sere, ee eae still by me, and partly the reasea lished was owing to what his lordshi cheered, and when the thirty-seventh round was reached | said to me bout it. Liberal and jase as I then thougut one enthusiastic individual mounted a chair, and offered to | My views to be, I found that they were less so in refe- bet a ‘hundred against anything upon Heenan.” It is Derictce Lua Winfont penser Ouro’ mart almost nocdless to state that he bad no takers, and the | Well dol remember almost his very wor reading of the paper continued. The betting by the habitucs | 0 the United States and the mighty fuvure ly that republic. Even as I stron; recall to Of this eatablishment had all along been even, with the ex- | markg ‘when, ‘on the day of the ception of one or two cases, where the odds of a 100 to | on coming from the Council, he gave me 80, or 5 to 4, had been offered, but without takers of that event. In both cases hs seemed With a due deference to the titulary saint of the lo- aa botog o sunare Tread no aero cality, licenan’s colors, neatly gotten up in silk, were | at ail such as the letter toMr. Randall displayed over the bar. At the lower end of the apart. | That he may have altered his mest eer greg td inal nave | SO a gE of the greatevent. The “Boy” and Tom Sayers were here exhibited, side by side, in all tho glory of red, waite rT ks from a feeling of and blue paint, while over their heads were | ahy'avderire to, show that, certainly, at one thee bond hung the rival prize fiags. Beneath the moped Macaulay was at heart a fervent advocate of the rights of tation of the quondam champion of England were | the le. enumerated his successive victories and his singlo defeat 1 Behe ‘add that during the monthe I wasengazed upon bis great work J had numerous opportunities for closely by Nat Langham—to all of which some ardent admirer of the ‘‘Boy’’ bad added, with a pencil, ‘Beaton by John C. | seeing into and understauding his wondorful mind—even oy ‘more S0, perbaps, than many others had—and sau pe have preg : ef Lape a ‘s ered Lea 4 ed ment over @ similar event. Streets, omnibuses, cars, bar- Lease pony tar seraka, lis SeenBlcmye' om | rooms, reetaurants, counting rooms, and, in fact, wherover a a ee mace | twa tars woul gue logue et exciting to the persons who attend ihem respect the faw it fs clear, | Polite precincts of the parlor iteelf, the fight was tne from the fact that the appearance ot a mere handic! of nap so of conversation from Lenin tll night. police is always enough to disperse an immense srowd of — Sent ge Leto eee — ae and powerful fellows who could srush in a moment the myr- eo i a att fe porate ape i. cg roidons of the law. The light fingered gentry, of courss, preees adele eee i aeae muster thickly—as where do they not when there is hitie | oat ing, - sympathy 4 agli chance of mecting a policoman? Bat if a detachment of | Ti poley gs uci ‘omen pel pees rt fool- the A Givision were allowed to be present at the fight for bs cuea bar Thepaery x hiee the champlonahip—not for the purpose of interruption one ry dub a ee _ ts from these “the they would presorve order betler than even the redoubta- | Tourer, m mould ne WO! gore Leberg fr bie officials of the Pugilietic Benevolent Association. << ent yeas res Ra vt 's beard. Fam fi qially, as to the great event which will oosupy tho | she y! toot nas ale: pond i ail blood,” bee pad *0 many to cay, we have neither the intention | (1) kr ene 17 achat di whe pluck, ive- hor the desire of being preseut, for we have no stomach for } 1.07.6 smellers, nob, ogles, day lights, kc) &o pre. uch epectacles, however much we may admire the skill, ie ck ‘ot the courage and the endurance which they cuspiay. Ibis amyrtgd exclusion of the weightier subjects of doi- not likely thatthe apprehensions of official inverference conta. which Bave been entertained will prowe well greunied, | ,, The Presidential pocnaiicn Taae marnere, nd ibs Gis for itis well known thas there is a strong priva'e feeling, | distors and sbotleholders, of 1D, Cuarleston prize ring even among our legislalors, in favor of the ‘ight. tne | awind a Sonny roaprene y ie view Prime Mimsier lumself is known to sympathise with all. | Owed arly 4 ane a Saath oe ae Z manly sports, and t» belong to tne “muscular” schoot of | British rad nthe as lust. Christiant’y; 'and it probable that his strong common | ven the telegraph was al be on homes ~ excite- sense may overbear ibe Baingburg Heview notions jast | Mesh | Business men found it impossible to send or re. now catablished at the Home Ollice. We hope, therefore, | ceive ae eet so prtomger shila latelivar. a tkerce, that if It is to comeeff, there will bo o fair Geld and no | deprived of the news due in fon pe 2 even- favor) and—to use & phrase common on #uch occasions — Zs ae oh Se alii ay, ad by ue gE ea nerve in the country will have pulsated with the thrill- AN ENGLISH VIEW AFTER THE FIGHT. pe Regret ga ae Saturday threw the metropolis {Frot the Loadon News, April 13.) ‘We trust thay the most fastidious of our roaders will OPINIONS ABOUT TOWN. pelted pr arc n! Mpc Prize yh pe which we re- To learn how the nows was received and its goneral (UMaOs. 8 not as “ faith- ful chroniciers,” a8 the members of our profession are | *Mect, we despatched several of our reporters through the some oc aa ea $e account of te contest city. “Extra Heralds” abounded like snow flakes, over ween Hon: A ve Dever mr wing been sold, and by three 0’ Iecigod, and we never will acknowledge, the obligation of oni Scat catty Mantis te inate st hears ~ conductors of newspapers to become the sympathetic re- | ‘e afternoon oe corders of whatever takes place, just because it happens | Pictures of the rival herocs, and pictorials with represen- to find a considerable measure of Support amongst the | tations of the fight, that must have been drawn by tele- public, While eo much of the good that is done every | graph to insure their correctness, hung in hundreds of day is Commonly held to de “ unsuitable for the columns | windows, while in many of the sporting houses and res- of a“ newspaper,” jt would be hard indeed ii we were | taurants the respective flags of Sayers and the Benicia bound to ri ow — jo of human uatare. There ss ape pon nly the ayes It wae ov: are times, however, when the sensitivencss of qu jent ata glance stock gone up a hun- going soy etgecr ico be col and we ¢ ue that drea — saga Lge ghee ‘dunes Engiash society, which, forewarned for weds, peru becaine enthusias! ey Was rei eahalntum at ash yesterday, -_ no Fight to « oman at being | to be ah be caren Neto whip any publ fighter ia confronted with ie hideous deiails. if there | the world, and occasionally one wou! ar @ remark con- are any of our bonged as peruse it Kote prowess so oon ba it could et only without regret we confess we cannot print it without | eman from ® twost prinfolly spiritual delusion. shame. ‘This brutal dispisy would not haye takeu place | Tuis is no wonder, bowever, for tho quantity of but for tbe connteaanoe the fight has received from per- | Uquor drank in honor of the Bouicis Boy was, S008 better instructed than the classes whic’ are goneraliy | to use & Common expression, “enough to float uadersicod to support the prize rig. We live mtimes La frigate.” The impression gomerally prevails Boas for the part he had taki al i ¢ feeling against Morrissey part en | several instances in confirmation of what I in the affair was violent in the extreme. The indignation | written; but I need say no more at present excapt of some was vory great. At the portion of the establish- The style of the letter to Mr. Randall is partly such as ment above referred to, there was, among the prints, one | belongs to lord Macaulay and partly not. Henoe I infor containing a tableau of likencases of distinguished pugilists | that it may have been written hastily, or under that ill- of this coi and in which, of course, Morrissey was ) noes from which he was recoveriag just about the time it presented. Saturday evening, and when the | is dated. indignation that individual was at its pitch, one of those present walked deliberately up to the engraving, and with a knife hacked and cut the features of the like- ness, until was impossible, interspersing his operations with juent oaths and curses. Later in the evening a groat number of the “ fancy” assembled at this place, and to tell the readers that the great “ mill’? was the all engrossing and al!-absorbiog topic of conversation would be about as useless as to in- form him that » prize fight took place on the 17th instant, between John C. Heenan and Tom Sayers. The account of the fight was read and re-read and each particular round came in for ite due ebare of comment, while various and profound theories were advanced on all sides in ra- to the whole affair. As each new comer made his appearance he was warmly greeted by those present, the modo of exiutation for the tima being ‘he words, “Your hend ou the Boy,” accompanied by a hearty grip. Among those assombled were a couple of indiyiduele ACCIDENT 10 THR STRAMER KNICKERBOCKER —The steamer we Knickerbocker, says the Albany Journal of the 26th inst., which left New York last evening in company with the steamers New World and Hendrik Hudsoa, became crip- pled this morning when near New Baltimore. The aoot- pre dent was caused by the breaking of the cennecting rod near the crank whon passing over the upper centre, ow piston breaking the top ana bottom of the cylinder and severing (i eonesting rod close off by the beam. Tho * accidest ocsurred about five o’clock this mornmg, and nv aitbongh unattended with lors of life or even bodily inja . ries, caused a corgiderable commotion on the boat. A feartal crash followed the breaking of the consecting rod, ’ ‘and in almost an instant after tho crash the boat was en- oe veloped with steam, Being in shallow water there was at Hitle if any danger to be apprehended, and the passen gers, finding that the engine was only broken, wera =‘ quickly quieted, ro ‘the closes Heenan’s immense strength prevailed, and ho TO THE EDITOR THE NEW YORK RERALD. threw the champion eagily till in both the twenty first New York, April 28, 1860, ‘and twenty second rounds Sayers wae Knocked off hu t legs Sill came upeaily,thoughcarcfully,and geasre, | From the various newspaper accounts of the recent ly managed in most of the struggles to give one or more fight between John 0. Heenan and Tom Sayers, of his heawtest biews on Heenan’s Weft cyt, which was nw \ aoa so shoroughly convinced that Mr, Heenan wou this