The Evansville daily journal., 1855-03-21

viie.@All the curiosity -mongers in the room
and their names was legion--had thronged
up to the spot where the shot had been fired, !
to see as much as possible of the anticipated
row. Even the counter was deserted for a
second or two-but no longer. AT this mo- |
ment, roo, shouts. laughter, and noise were
heard from the other side of the-room. What
occurred there!
"Bravo!-that was pitol-hurrah!" the
mob shouted and the shrill voice of a man,
who was energetically protesting against
something or another, was continually drown
,ed'in noisy bursts of applause. "A ipeculiar
circumstance had taken place here, in which
the mob speedily performed the, functions of
judge and jury, and gave its verdict. q
A man in black tai-coat and dark trousers
very clean and respectable, had come for
seven evenings in. succession TO the same
table, had watched the game for awhile, un-
ill at last he produced a small canvass bag
from bis t-pocket and laid it on a card.
The card won on the first evening, and he
emptied the bag on the table to count the
money. 1t contained twenty-eight Spanish
dollars, which the banker quietly paid him,
and the "gentleman' quilted the table with
his earnings, without deignng to tempt Dame
/ Fortune again. On the second evening he
returned, staked, and the card lost. With
the greatest GOODNESS he opened the bag,
seized the corners shook out the money
and it contained precisely the same sum as on
the previous evening-and quilted the room.
On the third, fourth, fifth aud sixth evenings,
the same story. The banker began to know
the man, and amused themselves about his
strange behavior: as usual, he lost, took up
the..bag and walked away.
/ The seventh evening arrived. II was just
a minute after eight, and the one banker said
laughingly, to the o,her-"We have treated
him too hardly. and frightened him away"
when his cOmrade laughed, and the man in
the black coat, without altering feature, or
paying any attention to the whispering and
laughing, took his usual place. quietly watch
ed the progress of the game till quarter past
eight, and then laid the bag all knew so well
upon deuce that had just been turned up.
4 A couple OF cards were turned Up without
the two making its appearance. At last the
three fell to the right-a scarcely perceptibie
smile played on the bankers lips-the two.
The stranger turned deadly pale, but without
utterng asyllable about the change in his
luck, he stretched out his hand to the sack,
, and was on the point of opening it, in order
to count the dollars, when the banker said,
lauehingly: 80 ..u h1easal
! "Let it be; know how many are in it
. eight and-twenty. Am | not right"
"Not exactly!" said the man. calmly, and
) shook the silver out on the table. He then
shook the bag still more, and roll of bank
4 notes, slightly wrapped together, fell out.
5 "What's thatl' the banker cried in a la.m
: and the audience pressed curiously round
my stalker" the man said, with apparen,
indifference, as he unfastened the thread tha,
\ bound the notes. .-.l.,. i. ,--....-. 3.
: "Stop, that will not do!" the banker cried
n as he threw down his cards: "that's false play
e You only paid eight and-tweniy dollars OF
the previous evening""
p "False play!" The man shouted, and hi,
d eyebrows were menacinglv contracted. =
s "Prove it, you shutters! Did not lay ths
: bag just as it is on the card-and have yo,
1 ever refusedto pay itunopenedv' aiElWFpI
e "No! that's all correct-quite right" sait
J., those around, who are always glad TO oppos,
the banker, because they are firmly convince,
/, that he does not play fairly, although the,
$ continually throw away their money. "H,
s,aked and won, and must be paid" other
:, shouted. ,.
!, "Count your money-how much is it!" sal.
{ the banker, who had hurriedly exchanged
few words with his confederates seated op
n posite-"how much is it!' Ll
2 '.In the first place twenty-eight dollars il
J.. silver" he said calmly, while the bystander
laughed heartily. "Then here in bank note
y two, three, four, yes, eight hundred dollars
i and then"
e "What more!"
IS ga small bill oil Dollsmith. Brothers, a
It good as silver, accepted and all--ihe none,
i, need only be fetched-for-three thousand
,f "Three thousand!" the banker yelled, start
ing in d.smay from his chair. "Why tha
(, would make nearly four thousand dollars al
ID together! Are you mad! Are you mad! D.
is you expect me to pay that!" .fo. as
e "Don't I!''t stranger asked in surprise
I'Would you not have taken it il had lostl
r "Of course he would-of course. Do yo,
esk whether they would take it! Everything
ii they can get, and little more too" shoute
is the voices round the table. "He must pay !!
ot "Gen,lemen!" the banker protested, in tn
d poor prospect Of turning their hearts-"Gen
s. slemen, this person staked every evening 70
ID the entire week-"ru3
ic Sand lost every time" another interrupte
him. II have been present several times
y and have heard so from others, and he neve
a made the slightest objection" "'th
ID "But that was only eight and twenty do
!" lars"
4 "And lift had been SO many thousand, a
m the same." +.
r., "But do let me fnish." the banker shrieket
S, with aspen lips and furious glances; she onI
p shook out twenty-eight dollars on the iabl,
d, and kept the paper back"
! "Prove that ever had cent more tha
twenty-eight dollars in the bag,' the strange
in exclaimed contemptuously; "you won't get o
ii. by such excuses"
"Why did you not keep the bag as wei
ne companion" laughed Spaniard, who sioo