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Show Pafillistic. Just as night began to spread its sombre mantle o'er this queen city oi the interior basin, last evening, there I was war desperate, bloody war on , tho Broadway of our metropolis. An officer of the law, to wit, a deputy marshal, and a man grievously crip-plod crip-plod in bo much that his fiet no longer dwelt with him, but were gone from him for ever, that only the ends of bis legs remained being full of wrath, engaged in a conversation, which was both loud and forcible, i At length tho law's executive minion ' became exceeding profuse with high- j sounding words and pugilistic sentiments, senti-ments, and said in substance tuat if he had a ten dollar government or r national bank note, with which to j pay a fine for so doing, he would ad- I minister unto the foot-less foe a sound floggiug. The latter came to the ) front and ofiered to pay that $10 fine if the officer would do the whipping. And so they struck, they clinched, 8 they loll, tho cripple above, tho dep- r. uty below, and the latter considerably damaged, physically. Then it was c that a fellow dep. rushed to the rescue, and a spectator, who hud a horror of triangular fights, collared t officer No. 2. Then the crowd inter- ft fered, and put a stop to tho unequal j? contest. Later in the evening the spectator tl who squared the triangle, was arrest- -;d by the police, and a warrant was nit for tho pugilistic cripple- i |