New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-17
Gambling In Cincinnati.
From the Cincinnati Chronicle. ION.

GREAT HAUL OF G4NBLERs-EXTEST OF GAM
BLING ~ his CITT.-During the last week the
police OF this city were in the receipt Of inorma
ton in relation to extensive gambling operations
beng carried on in certain large and popular
Coffee Houses and Restaurants. With view to
their owp personal satisfaction OF the truth OF this
Information and for tue parpose OF better arrsng
ing descent upon the gamblers, Mr. Hopkins,
the Chief of Police and Nj Rutln. the City Mar
sba, visited II disguise, many OF the places de.
sisratef. and found the report which had reached
them most fearfully true. In the course OF thelr
peregruatlous. continued through severa- evenings
OF last week they discovered between forty and
fifty different houses and rooms for gambling IN
fun operation and counted between four hundred
and i've hundred persons. mostly young men OF
the industrious laborinr classes, surrounding the
tables AID staking Their small and hard earnings
on the game OF Quino
Many OF these young men who We're seen by
the officers IN disguise, deeply engaged IN this
perniciOus and deadly Wee, are known to nave
been OF late unable TO pay their board bills,
and have forfeited their clothing and other person
al effects to their landlords, that they might use
I'll tlieir ready cash in gaming Some heads OF
families were seen there also, whose wives aud
children were suffering for the common necessa-
RES OF lIte because OF the losses at the Q1iuo
table OF those who should be their natural protec-
tors Indeed it is impossible to conceive the eE-
tent to winch this practice Of gaming has grown
within the very heart OF this community. and that
too without the knowledge, and scarcely the Sns-
picion OF any one not Immediately affected by or
engaged in it. 1t has lnsiduously fastened Itself
upon the vitals OF society, corruptng tue young
men who are soon or ought soon TO be its active
and influential members Even the officers who
made these discoveries, accustomed as they are
10 the unfolding OF the vice and crime OF this
great and wick ed city, We're bewidered with as.
constituent at what they saw at, and learned OF
these moral pesthouseS.
We'll, toresume our narrative direct the officers
above named, having more than satisfied them
selves OF these facts, made immediate arrange
ments for sudden descent upon the principal
houses. These arrangements were well planned
and efficiently carried out
Sunday night was fixed upon as the time oil &C
ton, and upt0 that evening every particular OF
the plan Of operations was kept as secret as pos
sibe. But Notwithstanding the precautions taken
to insure surprise to the offenders, many o. the
keepers of the gaming tables got wind OF the
movement 10 time to close their rooms before the
arrival of the officers. There was glory enough
for one night however achieved the arrestot the
keepers OF three or four of the principal establish.
ments who were 'caught in the very act. Capt.
HOPKINS arrested Jam NJ Rhodes and IohnSeotti
vbopresided overthe Quino Globe AZ the American
Eagle Restaurant on the corner OF tlghth and
Main.sts Marshal Ruliu arrested William SIIis'
who kept Quino Table and apparatus IN room
Of the Gait House Building on the corner OF Main
and Sixthsts Charles Joseph Ray was arrested
as the proprietor of like establishment on the
south west corner of Fifth and w aln7s SITS. Chas.
Kline and Joseph Smith were also arrested.
Smith is the proprietor OF the Garrison house on
Fitth-st between Main and sycamore. w dl1
not learn were Kline operated.
Yesterday morning all Of these worthless were
brought before the Mayor. Rhodes ana Scott OF
the American Eagle, were examined on the charge