Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1847-10-08
VOLUME l3....NUMBER 3.

! Se'cIal udys ond evenings were occupied in a
similar manner. lie then determined 10 conrip.
ue his journey, which he did, by taking passage
+ in one of the lines for Pittsburgh. On apDear.
ing al the depot the next morning, he was delight.
ed TO find his two companions. They also had
business west, and they regarded it as pleasure
TO have so agreeable companion. Alter ey.
hausllng the ordinary topics Of the day, the game
/ OF whist was again thought Of and renewed
They first played for the cards, then for liouor.
and hnalIy for small sumso Of money. The youth
became excited, aud ere they reached the iron
/ clIy, he had lost every dollar thar belonged 10
him, with the exception Of sum just sufficient 10
| pay his passage from Pittsburgh 10 Louisville
But again the strangers made their appearance
on board an Ohio river steamer, and in The hope
OF recovering what be had lost, thedeluded Young
man played again, when his gold watch was the
sacrifice. Onarrving al Cincinnati he was near.
ly mad. He then belhought himself Of pack.
age which his mother had coniidcd 10 him for his
sister, lie sought for il in his trunk, found and
opened it. 1t contained necklace as love gift,
and an unsealcd leuer, in which was enclosed a
bank note for one hundred dollars.
/ Still tempted BY the demon Of gambling, and
still anxious to regain what he had lost, he re.
'NAhOh W ulN vic companions uIlu WHIST lie
played hour after hour, lost The money, and then
saked and lost the necklace. Al this point, the
horrors of his situation were indescrbable.-
Louisville was at hand, but how could he meet
his sister! How could he explain his folly, his
inlatualion, and his crime! He had left home
with good name, on mission of sacred dutv,
and he was now thief and a robbcr. He had
mlsemIloyed funds given under halowed circum.
stances, aud his condition was indeed desperate.
! Confused and perpleXed, he at last determined
/ 10 rush from the boat, leave the rfcd package al
| the house Of his sister, return and follow the for
tunes Of the gamblers who had tempted and be.
rayed him, in the hope that they would not be so
hearlless us to throw him off. But this hope was
of short duration, for they were among the party
that leltthe boat US above described in consequence
! IoIthere beingtoo many of the fraternity on board.
| 1t was while they were returning that he was
noticed by Green, and that hence tear forced
itself To his eye, when he realized the loneliness
aud wrGtchedneSS of his condition. lie was an
oulcast aud a robber-had become so in a few
days, from having ventured upon what he called
an innocent game of whist, and thus be truly
said, in reply to The question that had been put TO
him, that he knew not whittier he was going
Green advised him to return to his sister and
make frank confesson-bul his heart failed
him-he had not the moral nerve. lie could
not meet the being he had SO bitterly wronged.-
lie gratefully accepted slight loan from Green,
and soon after departed.
Two years rolled by. Green wasogain on the
| Mlssssippi.a passenger on the steamer Medherra.
mean, on her way from New Oreansto Louisville.
An accident happened by which she was induced
TO stop near PIaquemino. While there, fellow
passenger remarked that he had just Witnessed a
horrible sight upon the forward deck of the boat
"Ah!" exclaimed Greenland Immediately
proceeded to the spot designated. He there be.
held five men in chains-convicts, on their way
from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, where the
State Penitentary of Louisiana is located
Among them was the wreched youth whose un.
fortunate journey from Boston to Louisville, we
have here so hastily described! He had but 1t
few days before been convicted of forgery, and
sentenced 10 the State Prison for five years!--
This genre reader, is no fiction, bat a true Story
and the moral 1t conveys as to the danger Of
gambling, cannot be mistaken.