Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1841-03-30
TUESDAY, MARCH 30 1S41.

immense hall was filed with ganIesiers and spectators
Those who kept tho bank and managed the affairs OF
the establishment, were distinguished 10y the green /
shades which they preserve their ewes, 10y cf
silent and grave demcanor, and by the paioncsS lher
countonances, exhausted 10y their constant Ngi's-
There was no distinction OF persons nor any passport
required for entrance that of decent exterior
and on the long tables which covered with pod'
an arzan liberty TO hazard his weeks earnings
or a noble his whole estate. Youth and age were a.
qually welcome, and any one who chose to play WIN
IN the limits of triting sum, had only to accuse hls
own weakness if he was drawn Into more dangerous
hazard Every thing appeared to be conducted with
perfect fairness The only advantage possessed by
the bank (which is, however enormous Is the extent OF
funds by which enabled TO sustain any reverse OF
fortune whereas most OF the individuals who play
gans the bank in circumstances to he ruined Ivy
the first succession Of i'll luck so that, Ultimately the
small merge in 'the stock OF the principal adj
yenturers as rivers into the The profits Of
the establishment must indeed be very large TO sup
por, its expenditures Besides a variety Of attendant.
who distribute refreshments the players gratis, there
is elegant entertainment, with expensive wines pre-
pared about O'Clock in the morning for those who
choose 10 partake of it, With such temptations around
him, and where the hazardng OF an Insignificant sum
seems at first innocent II is no wonder that thousands
feel themselves gradually involved in the vortex, whose
verge is so little dsling until they swallow
ed up with their talents time fortune, and frequently,
also both body and soul
This is vice with her fdrcSt Ui>ard; but the I'M
hallowed precinct fontains many secret cell for the
hldCOuS
open rendezvous of miamy, and many den of usuTy.
and treason the whole mixed with vanity fair OF shops
for Jewels, tinkets and baubes that bashfuness may
need preoXt for visiting the haunts OF iniamy. 1t
here that the preachers of revolution found amid
gamblers, despeTadOes and prostitutes, ready auditors
of their doctrines, and active hands to labor in their
vineyard 1t here that the plots Of the Bonapart-
lists were adjusted and from hence the seduced sol
diers, intiamed with many bumper to the health OF
the exile of Elba dismissed TO spread the news OF
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of Acheron, in which are openly assembled and min
gled those characters and occupations which, in all
other capitals driven to shroud themselves in sep
and retired rccesses from tins focus Of vice and
treason have flowed forth those waters Of bitterness Of
which France has drunk 50 deeply"
The state of marriage in this country is likewise the
fertile Of immortality and crime. Marriage is
| little else than legal state of conCubnage--a mere
temporary connection from which the parties can loose
themselves when they please; and females a spe
cies OF mercantile commodity. Illicit connexions and
Legitimate children, especially in Paris, numerous
beyond what is known in any other county The fol
lowing statement OF affairs of the French capital fol
the year ending 22d Sept 1903 given by the Project
the police TO the Grand Judge presents a most revolt,
ing idea OF the state OF public morals. During this
year, 400 men and l67 women committed suicide 81
men and 60 women were murdered, Of whom So met
and SO women foreigners GIi divorces; lj5 mur
derers executed; 1910 persons condemned to the gal
levs &C. 1926 persons TO hard labor, and Ga marked
with hot irons; ten thousand and ScrcntySr puJc pros
these wretChed creatures who We're made TO pay iron
to 10 guneas each, monthly according to their rank
beauty fashion, 1852 kept mistIesses were note,
down by the police, and $50 brothes licensed by thu
Project Among the criminals executed were fathers
for poisoning their Children 10 husbands for numbering
their wives, wives for numbering their husbands,
10 children who had poisoned otherwise destroyed
their parents.
The glazing PROCLAMATION Of the Sabbath is anuthe
striking Characteristic of the people of France espe
cialy displayed in the capital. Entering Paris OF
the Sabbath, Bron is shocked at bcholdlng all tina
reverence and soemnty with which that day is gen
orally kept in Chr san countries, not only set asi9
bu, ridiculed and contemued and whole people mp
parently lost TO every impression of religion. TIA
shops all alive the gaming houses filled, the thea
tres crowded. the streets deafened with ballad singer
and mounebanks; persons of all ages from the hoar
headed grandsire the child OF four five years,
gagged in balls rou,s and dancings the house Of Go
alone deserted, and the voice Of God alone unhear
and despised.