The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1858-11-23
NO. 63I.


:, corrsspondsucs Of III ressh A9wass.
The AscsiSn cf Peodls1g2,s oaxeslax
gvess at the Faro Tab16s fe :, t-@
! y o-ss wAsursoiss6n, Nov. IL.
: The auction at the well known gambling
house Of Pend Teton, lstely dsesased. at.
tracted q large crowd yesterday, among
which was liberal proportion Of criuoline.
The house, itself, stands conspicuously
on Pennsylvania avenue, within two squares
of the Capitol and on the frequeuted side
of the street. 1t is as well known to citi-
Gems and strangers De The White House,
and yet has mystericusly escnped the optics
Of the police for years. bia
1t is impossible that this report, as seen,
could have presented any temptation but
for those swayed by the passion Of gaui,
bling, or that other, ard il possible, worse.
class, who are willing to be pimps and dc.
pendents upon these hells. Tho notoriety
which the house acquired was reflected on
tirely by the character Of its visitors, too
many Of whom were in public life, aud
from the hold which the proprietors neces:
sarily obtained upon his victims, through
The published accounts concerning tue
success Of the chief character Id this Pan.
demonium.like description Of the concern
itself, were exaggerated in every respect
He is said to have died, leaving $4,000
of other peoples money as the bulk Of his
fortune. As artificial display was nearly
as much a part of the game as cards, bis
winning were approp lated mainly to that
object, and hence he Haunted gay equip.
age on the avenue which excelled all rival
ry in decoration, and nay bo said to have
defied competition. Those who claim TO
be we'll informed, say that "bat luck" had
followed him for several years, and that
other establishment" carried off the pro.
fits, while he strutted along with little else
than pretensions, assumed from a Rame
which belongs to come Of the best blood
in Virginia, but with which he had no con.
nee; ion whatever. H
These gambling resorts have increased
fearfully at Washington wi hin the last ten
years, and it Is notorious that they have
done more to demoralize legislation than
all the other debasing and corrup.ing iD-
fluences which have been brought to boar
upon weak, venal or needy members of
Congress. was deeply impressed by the
silent but eloquent witnesses of this fact,
when the drawers of Pendleton's desk were
opened yesterday, and numerous bills re.
lating to tho schemes before Congress,
were exposed to view. The misery and
degradation and wretchedne inflicted up.
on men and families by these hells arc sp-
palling, and even the imperfect disclosures
which have reached me accidentally, ex-
hibit a sta'e Of morals in Congress which
would astoni,h the country, il exposed.
Some of these gamblers, and Others who
are concerned as capitalists with them, are
openly employed as lobby agents, from
their supposed ability to control votes
through obligations incurred by members;
and the fact is one of common town talk,
and their tables are the daily resort Of
large class of such votors, in preference to
the hotels:
Strange as it may seem, their influence
was so ramifiod that it was feared, at ono
timo, in the early stages Of the Kansas
struggle, last session, when the House waa
nearly equally divided, that the scale wo'd
be turned by turn Of the screw upon
particular m ,mbars who were known to be
in the power of the gamblers. It may
well bo asked whore We are drifting, when
such things can be, and 90 uurebukedi