New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-13

refer IT, public to their last Animal Report assuring Al
who may be interested 10 know that many mug
led rs 10 EXPECT and hone for better results "a tue
fhe authorities beginning 10 be avail TO the EVIL OF
bling in the farmsr In the more quiet ana
part Of their work that of personal efforts to reclaim
men, and especially those in business, from gAnho ns
practices TIE Association have silently accomphsned An
amount Of good upon which Is grateful 10 1908 oN
II is Il cir past success in this department. rstner n
sny other that stimulates them TO future endeavoss Auu
nerves them 10 bear the Of bitter and wicked %
posers and that infection the ooldneSs and Ind
terence OF pretended friends
Encouraged by what God has already wrought by ana
tropg their humble ami feeble endesvOr the Association
has continued hitherto. and purposes to go forward
while there Is a demand for such an organization and
generous public sustain them by their pecanary and moral
support The Executive Committee in presenting their
third report find many matters of rejoicing IN gAncng
over the Geld of rerospection and although they nave
been At mes sadly disheSrtened by the strength ana Or
midsbleness Of the gambling vice and the apparent uncon
ce Of many Of the people and even OF the sworn conser
ators Of law and public morals they no sufficient cause
for the Cessation of hostilies.
In the execution Of existing laws. regret know aud
feel there but little occasion fer congrstulSou MOI
few gambling are however IN course oil pro'ecuuoo
and must soon be decided.
In the prosecution of these cases there has been serious
difficulty in procuring witnesses who may be relied upon 90
testify in ali stages ofthe trial This Inconvenience VIII
never be entirely removed until some more speedy course
Of trial Of criminal cases is adoptedln our State
Those persons whose principles Tor lack OF prncple)
allow tn IN to buy lottery tickets policies hsbtusly or
frequent gambling houses, So possessing themselves OF
facts are not the best witnesses we could desire Espe
cially is this when they sctated m mling com
plant, by higher motive than retaliation for res or
imagined wrongs, when they can be cheapy bought or
more cheapy frightened The trial day comes round and
they missing from the stand The inevitable delay IN
most instances of trials readers il impossible for certain
witnesses 10 be at Cou except at the most ourdensome
self sacrifice.
Several important have been lost fro the
ssry absence of witness from the city on business OF ms
OVID ignorant Of the day fixed for the trial To pre-
defeat from such absence of testimony police justices
in certain require the witness to give bonds for APP
peaance which he be not poor and not Literally blessed
with moned fri, nds generally results in his being locked
up for safe keeping .
This may be the sures way of cenvctng the offender
but really made the instrument of cruelty aud injustice,
and doubtless deteTs many well informed and rightly dis
posed persons from testfylng At all
woman, who far ovecsme her scruples IN this re-
spect as to become witness against policy gambler,
was held to BAIL and for Of the needed amount
kept in Jail 81 days. The young gambler was chlrged
with selling policies as under the new law Tor wh'cn
the penalty H. may be- fine Of thousand dollars and
imprisonment from ten days TO ive years IN penitentary
or State prison. when broug out to trial the caprt plead
guilty charge which the witness had never made or
intended to make nsuring numbers, as under the old
law, the penalty Of which is patry hne OF ten dollars
which the honorable Judge enforced and turned the poor
woman pennyless beggared and lame from long con
fnement in that dubious stone paradise the rombs.
without fsrthngs compensation for loss OF time nor
was ANYTHING done for her relief till Secretary had
repeatedly written to- visited the judge to urge the mat
fer upon his attention Finally after long delay ten dol
lars paid TO the woman who was likely to become
City charge.
corning swindlers and law breakers, be much
than for Acknowledged crime who will consent to be
witneSsl
Ii NAV be needfu in certain hold the witness in
custody but never for society the State to commit the
double pusce shut the in prison and rob them OF the
value Of their time.
gamblers and policy dealers but in the brief abstract
give To night we omit most of them.
We cannot however withhold an expression OF our sur
prise that so large cloud of witnesses as our nine hun
drd policemen can long remain blind and dumb con
corning the existence of lottery vending policy playing
and gambling OF all kinds Policemen OF The severa wards
are required by the rules of the POkce Department g9
"o make complete returns OF all policy and gam
blers in their several beats and make no question: do
quite generally obey Instructions but to what purpose
Where are the arrests, trials, and convictions
We have no desire complain of the nehicency OF our
police system there enough TO do that The d!hcuy
lies back the policeman n the power that created them
and finally rests with the people who il they do not love
to have So but tay desire any thing better must sui
fer 1t is time for the people to feel that on e rests tne
responsibility of bad laws and the open violation OF good
There is machinery enough. and very good machinery
to close every gambling hell in this metropolis IN SIX weeks
if the mass Of the people do but demand II.
The Police know where these dens located, and can
identity guilty keepers and half the zeal manifested IN
the arrest OF some fugitive counteeter would smut their
fatal doors.
The rules generally agreed upon in the Police Courts In
gard evidence in Policy cases render worse thn use
less most the testimony furnished by the buyers OF Po
ces themselves To give any general Information TO the
public removing this difficulty would only stimulate the
artful mber and policy vender TO resort TO new expe
dient eysde the law and the ends Of justice be defeat
ed All the essential information could be communicated
to few competent and willing men-and sucn there are
from the great body Of the Police force and they could
safely 90 about the business Of bsDshng from among Us the
appliances and agents of gambling The work seems IN
deed to be begun by the action Of the District Attor
Dey who deserves the thanks and support OF the puDc IN
his recent arrest Of lottery offenders
MEANS TO ADVOCATE THE CAUSE.
These are various Private correspondence with those IN
the habit Of gambling has done efficient service m saving
youpg men; one of whom in sending contribution says
81 feel myself under infinite obgaonto your ASSOCIATIONS,
for had continued the was pursuing must nave
been ruined both in estate and character -,
Many clerks confidential agents young merchants ana
few old onesl with mechanics and abOrers,not lew,
have been thus reached, and we believe saved
Occasionally reach the errng with the most com
pete through their employers IL our last rePoi'
The report spoke Of gambling in hotels and boarding
houses rapidly the increase spoke OF me Pohcy
business and influence in producing poverty and
crime of the lottery and lottery certificate ohces spoke OF
the alarm we may well feel at the increase OF gambling
and kindred vices with the opening OF the Cryst Fai~ce
and the gathering of the nations with their curious and
beautiful wares and works Of art Dwe on the connec'
ton OF gambling with politics as source OF corruption
and danger and the alliance Of temperance with gGnong
making more sure the ruin Of the victims OF both Men
tons the various depended upon to advance he
cause tracts sermons, lectures essays the daily press up
pesls 10 legislatures, constitutional conventions the prose
uon of offenders and the early OF means 10 save the
Young and rescue those likely to be yictmsed
The report goes speak Of the state OF the cause IN 9th
er places ~
Mentions new interest in the cause in Boston and Wor
cester and the efforts made arrest gamblers speaks oil
the sermons preached gambling in various parts OF mas
sacbusetts Audes the consequences that have come
upon the States past yesrs up to the present time rom
gambling and lotteries and recalls the name OF DAVID
Ackers the highminded the intelligent and beloved, bui
unfortunate and deuded the type and representative Of
thousands who ike him have islen-whose epitaph might
be written TO his last dying words "Oh, wretch lotteries
have been thy ruin" -
The ruin Of several business Of the highest seem
ing integrity Is made subject Of remark and painful re-