Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-09-25

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| But II that eagle, which was seen,
Once On q time, BY Bdwelrs Ferry,
Would lend its golden wings, ween
This dropping heart would soon be merry.
Oh! swihcr than his swiftest fight
i Cleaving the calm or stormy Heaven
Regardless Of tho day or night
| unmindiul of the morn or event
! Like to the lightnipgs vivid fash,
Like to some wild, thing, driven frantic, u.
la ding me, at o single fash,
! Across the broad storm-yexed Atlantc
From this dark land would away,
And, flying each enchanted pnion,
Swift as the suns descending ray
| Alight within the old Dominion.
Scene ID d Rambling House in san Franz
cisco.
The following characteristic scene, which is,said
to have occurred in the public saloon Of El Dora
do, San Francisco, some time during the year 1852,
is taken from q late English Magazine
'sBrayol that was capital hurrah!n the mob
shouted, and the shrl voice Of a man, who was
energetcally protesting against something or other
| was continually drowned in noisy bursts Of ap-
plause. peculiar circumstance had taken place
here, 10 which the mob speedily performed the
functions Of Judge and jury, and gave its verdict
a man in black coat and dark trowsers, very
clean and respectable, had come for several eve
nings in succession to the same table, had watched
the game awhile, until at last he produced small
canvass bag from his breast 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 mo-
ney. 1t contained twenty-eight Spanish dollars,
which the banker quietly paid him, and the "gen-
teman" quilted the table with his earnings, With
out deigning to tempt Dame Fortune again. On
the second evening he returned, staked, and the
1 IN Inst fbo
the bag, seized tho corners and shook out the
money; IL contained precisely the same sum as on
the previous evening, and he quilted the room.
On the third, fourth, ifth and sixth evenings the
same story; the bankers began to know the man,
and amused themselves about his strange beha-
yior; as usual, he lost, took up the bag and walk
ed away.
The seventh evening arrived II was Just min
ute after eight, and the one banker said to the
other: eve have treated him too harshly, and
/ frightened him away when his comrade laughed.
and the man In the black coat, without altering a
feature, paying any attention to the whispering
and laughing, took his usual place, quietly watched
the progress Of the game till quafterpast eight,
and then laid the bag all knew so wen upon deuce
that had just been turned up
| A couple Of cards were turned up without the
two making its appearance at last the three fell 10
the left and 70 the right-a scarcely percephble
smile played on the bankers lips--the two The
stranger turned deadly pale, but, without utteriug
syllable about the change in bis luck, he stretchi
ed out his hand TO the sack, and was on the point
of opening il, In order to count the dollars when
the banker said laughingly;
Let It be; know how many are in it--eight
and twenty. Am / not rightg"
"Net eractyp said the man, calmly, and shook
! the silver out on the table. He then shook the
bag still more and a roll Of bank notes, slightly
wrapped together fen out
Whats thatf" the bankers cried in alarm, and
the audience pressed curiously round
"My staker the man said, with apparent in
differences, as he unfastened the thread tsat bound
4 the notes.
.sstopl that win doln the banker cried, az he
threw down his hands, that's false play; you
only paid eight and twenty dollars on the previous
evening"
False playl" the man shouted, and his eye
| brows we're menacingiy contracted.
"Prove II you shufilers did not lay the bag
Just as It IL on the card and have you ever rcfus-
ed to pay Il unopened y
| mo that's all corrcct-quite right" said
those around, who are always glad TO oppose the
banker, because they are firmly convinced that he
does not play fairly, although they continually
throw away their money.
"Hc staked and won and must be paid, )" others
shouted
"Count your money--how much Ia tSp said the
banker, who had hurriedy exchanged few words
with the confederate seated opposite.
How much Is It "
| ain the first place, twenty-eight dollars IN sil-
yer, he said calmly, while the bystanders laughed
heartily then there are bank notes, one, two,
three four, yes, eight hundred dollars and then
"What more"
a small bin on Goldsmith Brothers, as good as
silver, accepted and all-thc money need only be
fstched--for--three thousandp
"Three thousand y yelled the banker, starting
in dismay from his chair.
"Why, that would make you nearly four thou
sand dollars altogether Are you mad 7 DO you
expect me 70 pay thatf'
{" Don't ~ said the stranger In surprise.
"Would you not have taken it II lost|
"Of course he would--of course" Doyou ask
whether they would take itY
"Everything they can get, and a little moro
too" shouted the voices round the table.
He must payp
"Gcnuomen n the banker protested, in the poor
prospect Of turning their hearts--gentlemen this
person staSed every evening for the entire week
81" And lost every time, another interrupted him
| have been present several times, and have heart
80 from others and he never made the slightes
objection
"But that was only eight and twenty dollars"
And Il Il had been 80 many thousands, all th'
samen
But do let me finish the bankershriekcd will
aspen lips and furious glances; he only shook ou
Itwentyeieht dollars on the table, aud kept th
paper back
'sProve that ever had AGENT more than twenty
eight dollars IN the bag the stranger exclaimed
conienpiuously; "you won't get oil by such ex
cusesn