THE PEIZE RING IN CINCINNATI.

Southland Times, Issue 1001, 10 August 1868, Page 2

THE PEIZE RING IN CINCINNATI.

(Cincinnati Gn ette.) One of the lowest, most debasing, and disgraceful scenes that ever polluted the fair face of nature, might hare been witnessed yesterday within the lovely and embowering hills of Deerborn County, in our neighboring state of Indiana. About one mile from Cold Spring Station, on the Ohio, and Mississippi Bail road, was the appointed rendezvous where the cream and qu' itescence of all that is corrupt in society, degraded to baseness, the scun" excrescence, and offscouring of the community were to hold high carnival r^id witness scenes of proafnity and bloodshed. Thanks to the law-and-order loving people of Deerborn, the schemes of the foul assembly were, to a certain eztent, frustrated. The blackguard, the sneak-thief, the cracksman, the burglar, the confidence man, the gambler, and likely enough the murderer, were aU there. . . . The ring was getting momentarily smaller, as the two fighters commenced to square off to each other, and after a few moments a scene of confusion ensued that baffles and defies all description. The whole mass roared, jumped, shoved, swayed to and fro. Hats were knocked off, coats torn, and over 20 persons were knocked down. The ringkeepers, with their clubs, laid on to the heads of those nearest them. One man waa knocked down and kicked badly, almost to death. Horses were frightened, and at one time the whole mass gave way and rushed in the direction, when away, [>ell mell, went the whole' crowd towards uhe convenient woods, men falling over each other as they ran. The whole crowd seemed for: the time to be turned into wild beasts!, They yelled like hyenas, they swore every oath in the swearer's lendar. This waa all done with design, as the thieves now robbed every one that had anything to be robbed of" They stole the gambler's watch and the turfman's pocket book. For about 20 minutes they kept the wild fury 'up to the highest pitch, dv -mg which vime the plied thei» bus ncsa industriously.