Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-16
orr Rev York Correspondence.
.baI45 New YoRK, Aug. 6, 1851.

| -lRf4 90 NEW L okk5 aug. ., Ao04'-
EDIToR of the FREEMAN, s5.s..s. $500.
/ The law for the suppression of Gambling
went into effect on Friday the lst inst.
have no idea, stringent as are its provisions
that it viii wholly eradicate the great moral
evil which it seeks to destroy. The policy
Office backers'' have loo long revelled in then
Iil-gotten plumber, wru.1g alike from the pro
ducts Of haggard poverty and supefabundani
wealth, to abandon. witho Ut daring and des-
perate effort, tie niquitou.s traffic by which
they have been enriched. The risk, however,
being great, no small sums will be laken
none but the daring adventure 7, who can play
| for his hundreds or thousands, will be allowed
/ by the policy hackers to purchase the chances.
| rejoice at this prospect limitet as 1t is
For few years past, have seen the conse-
1quences ofthe wholesale gamblingin this city,
particularly in the upper wards. Doctors,
lawyers, servants, male and female, Coz pred
people Of all sorts and descriptions have ru slI-
ed to these marts of plunders unconcioas of
lanything save the uncertain chances of sue
cess, fascinated by a phantom which was ev-
er eladiug their grasp, and the pursuit OF which
was unremittingly continued, amid the most
TIMETABLE horrers of poverty and the total aban-
donment Of all moral feeling. ! have seen
children of the most tender age trafhcing for
their penny policies, initiated BY their parents
and friends intothe mysteries of policy playing
The ignorant and supersticious are peculiarly
the victims of this vice. Every dream is in-
Iterpreted for them. by the policy seller, into a
(avorite number, or an omen of success, until
Cupidity allures her victim, and ignorance
seals his doom. l know policy Office keepers
in the upper wards who have acquired COM
parative wealth, by the mere per centage of
twelve and a half cents. What must be the
gains of the hacker. in these cases, and the
amount of money wrung from the pockets of
the duped afs.4t .a2-
have Just learned, that on Friday, the
household furniture of the gaming house, next
door below the Broadway Tabernacle, was
sold at public auctioS, and the place closed.
is to be reopened in Jersey city The house
in PARK Place, long known as Jack Harrison's,
was closed at II O'Clock, on the night of the
|3lst, July, and win not be reopened. Sam
+Suydam has sold his furniture, and, report
says, is about to leave for Europe. The house
where the young Bavarian lost his money,
which induced him to commit suicide, few
days since, in Hoboken, is also closed, as well
as some Of the other houses in Broadway
Up to yesterday afternoon, the players in
Park Row we're as busy as usual at their vo-
cation; but it was announced that the Chief
Of Police would give them but few hours
grace. saga @ es4 f.. .a.5ue
trust that the law will be rigidly enforced; !;
and that no exceptions will be made in favor
of wealth, or party influence.
The insurrection in Cuba begins to assume
a serious aspect; but with Moro Castle in tile
possession of the government, there is not
much prospect of the speedy establishment of
republican government for Cuba. The
guerrilla varefare, although harrassing 10 the
troops, has yet made but trifing, if any i'm
preston on them. The former may indeed
f1y to their mountain Businesses; but it is up
on the plains, that the battles must be fought
which viii either peFpetuate the present con-