The North-Carolina standard., 1844-10-16
From the New York News.

Jou1nalof Tuesday:
ANOTHER LOCO Foco "RooRBAcK FORGERY"
"The Democratic Campaign one of the nu-
nerous LInco Foco newspapers that have sprung
strangely into existence since Fund was raised
in England 10 print and distribute Free Trade
Tracts, contains the following paragraph:
Political Brag.
@Mr. Clay is undoubtedly sgreat hand at
the game of Brag-(indeed in CowelPs " Thirty
Years among the Players" he is said to have
been its nvcntof,aas also of the other kindred
game, known BY the inapsPicOas name of Potk-
er)-but It requires ratIer steqdier nerve than his
present trembling energies fer The great stake en-
ablrs him TO maintain, n
"The pretended extract from Cowelrs "Fhrty
Years amonglhe Players" is Forgery. There
is no such charge-a gainst alluson TO Mr.. Clay,
in Cowel's Book"
The Express Of this city copies and adopts the
above as its own-gvfng it cditoriaIly as its own
assertion We commend to their pprusal the fol-
lowing extract from "CowelPs Book" in which
they thus assert that "there is no such charge a.
gaimss or aIlusion 10 Mr.. Clay" Its title is,
"Thirty Years passed among the Players of Eng
land and America: Tntcrsperscd with Anecdotes
and "reminiscences of variety Of persons direct
Iy or indirectly connected with the drama, dur
ing the Theatrical Life Of Joe Cowcll, Comedian.
Written hv hImsFlf N. York: Harper & Broth
crs, 81 Cliff street. 1914 Price Twenty-Five
Cents"
"Onc night while I was getting instructed in
the mysteries of uker, and Sam was amusing him.
self by building houses with the surplus cards at
the corner of the table, close by Us was party
playing at poker This then exclusively IL
high-gamLlng Western game, founded on brAsg,
invented, as it is said. by Henry Clay when
youth; and if so, very hunanely, for either to win
l.. 1of lloT1N
ty than by the older operation. Chap. xV, p "a.
1t is not qnile unrqnivocaE here which of the
two games, Brag or Poker. is meant as " izrent-
rA Il is said by Henry Clay" 1t is probably
Poker, which, as decided progressive improve
ment ON Brag, ITO say nothing of its expeditions
"humanity,") is the worthy of his genius.
highly cultivated as that is known to have been in
this valuable department of science. Poker may
be snid indeed to nclude.Brag, on the old logical
maxim that "the greater includes the less; }" or il
may be said to bear the same relation to Brag that
a North River steamboat docs to an Albany sioop,
or a locomotive to an old four-horsr post coach.
On the testimony of that common report on
the Western waters from which Cowell speaks
among the gentry whose vocation is to deal in
UGer and Poker, this interesting point may there
fire be considered settled. The Journal and the
Express will have the goodness 10 " back out" as
gracefully as may be. Mr.. Clay has certainly,
therefore, conferred some brnrft on his ungratrful
country. He gave it Poker and that, too, such |
was the prccocity of his genius, when ga youth !"
Though he never be President of the United
States Mr. Clay has secured at least one title
to Immortality
&c Non onis moriaT: multaque para moi l.
Vtabt Erycinam"'
as Horace exultingly exclnims, which may be
thus translated, for fear the Erenine Journal may
have grown rusty in its Latin :" shall not hol-
" die, and be buried ont of memory by that Knave
of Spades, the Sexlonp
Beneath the high nltar OF the Cathedral al
Havana, sleeps the glorions dust of him whose
tomb bears the grand inscription: To CASTLE and
Leon, Columbus gaze q ncw sCorld." A still no.
bl-r epitaph, is reserved to grace the tomb in
which MIR. Clay (many years hence. we trust,) is
destined 10 find his last repose-" And to0IGt ncw
1co,Ld Henry Clay gaze PoKERl" Washington !
gave 1t Independence. Jefferson gave it the i'm Q
mortal Declaration. Franklin gave it the Light !
ning-Rod. Fulton gave it the Steamboat. Clay
gave it Poker!
If We had properly rcArctrd on this ground of !
claim, we probably should not have devoted the G
Net0s and Campaign to opposition to Mr.. Clay 4
At this late hour we fear that we are too deeply a
committed to retreat. Far from ever having been G
capable of inVeHting Poker-that every humane"
mode Of getting " sooner relieved of all anxiety t
than by the older operation, ,'-we do not believe
Ito his shame confess it y that Mr. Polk even T
knows what Poker is-and that too, though he n
NAV almost be said 10 have been named after it 4
However, as well for his enlightenment as to !
give Mr. Clay the full credit for the briIIiancy off
the invention, we add from Cowcl the follos-
ing description Of what Poker is:
'For the sake of the uninformcd. who had bet t
ter know more about it than shall tell them s
must Cndeavor to describe the game when play
ed with twenty-five cards only, and by four per- d
sons G
"The aecs are the highest denomination: then
the kings, queens Jacks, and tens; the smaller
cards are not used: these | have named are all
dealt out, and carefully concealed from one-an- d
other; old players pack them in their hands, and
peep at them if they were afraiad to trust even
themselves to look The forr aces with anv 9th !
er card, cGnnot be beak -Four kings, with an
ace, eaHnOt be beat. because then no one can have
four Gces and four queens, or Jacks, or tens.
with an ace, are all inferior hands to the kings.
when so attended But holding the cards have
ins'anced seldom occurs when they are fairly
deGH; and three aces, for example, or three
kings, with any two of the other cards, or four
queens, or Jacks. or tens is called full, and with
an ace, though not incinci5Le are considered very
good Dragging hand. The dealer makes the game,
or value ofthe beginning bet and called the anti
IN this instance 1t was dolar-and then cvcTv J
6ody stakes the same amount, and says, I'm up."
Chap XIV, p. 90.
I'm UP F"-or 'ther "ifs all up ,0iM me r. =
IS precisely what Mr. Clay may say now in his :
Ill