The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1863-03-08
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III CHATIAhOO0A...s.ss... SATURDAY Evening" r. n
E The rain has got to be a chronic thing j
0 this section. Nevertheless. it interfeTes it'll
with the wires. IN underground dispatcl
reached me about an hour ago, Of seVera
Baltimore beauties cr9sing the blockade Of
= tbeirWay South to Join their husbands an,
brothers-and-swe maybe. On
lady had seven pairs of CATERS, FIVE pairs 0
boots, five pairs morocco slippers, three pair
Of dancing slippers Of white kid, fsur pairs 0
india rubber overshoes, and pair of me long
est legged cavalry boots, with donbe soles
studded with good spikes, heels tapped wit
shoes Of iron, and tops splendidly ornamente'
with an abun lance of patch work of waxe
lends on groundwork of patent leather.
How about these, madam! said the officer
as he politely insinuated the cavalry into he
astonished gaze; if you will put them on an,
wear them on your trip to Richmond, you cal
take them, but they can 60 with you under n,
other circumstances" "Done-I'll do it" sale
the heroine and grasping the heavy leather il
her hands, she retired behind the friendIy
crinoline of group of sympathizers, anC
pulling her pretty feet-gaiters and all--intC
the depths Of that monstrous foot harness. re
turned and awkwardly displayed them double
cased to the gaping eyes Of the this time as
tonished official. He kept his word. These
boots went to somebody in the Confederate
army.
The last dispatch received from my aboli
ton friends up North, was to the effect that
the Cook Gambling Affair" is creating con.
siderable excitement up about Cleveland, and
has led to some important disclosures in the
affairs of the sporting fraternity" Cook was
quartermaster in the Yankee army; went
| in to-
eight the Furious Tiger"
at the rooms Of one Conlisk, who succeeded
tn fleeing his visitor out Of several thousands
of the Governments Greenback's Conlisks
rooms were en- the third floor Of Parsons
block, weA-known to every Southern "fast'
who remembers Cleveland, and is famous
resorts" and in the apartments where the
gambling was done, were sitting-room and
bedroom. The sittinG-room was furnished in
the usual manner, and had faro,table near
the windows, and draw poker table in the
center of the room, with chairs placed to each
The walls and ceiling of the room papered,
with white paper of star pattern.
A portion of this flooring has been removed
in che room Immediately over the gambling
room, and small hole bored through the
ceiling of the room below, above each of the
tables. AS the holes come directly through
the center of a star pattern in the paper, they
are scarcely dstinguishable from below
Each hole is so placed as to enable person
applying his eyes to it, to look directly in the
hand Of the player seated in the chair below.
An ingenious telegraphio signal machine
was discovered communicating between those
holes in the room above and the chair Of tho
gambler in the room below A wire, having
ahandle near the hole, passed along between
the flooring Of the room above and the ceiling
of the room below to the corner Of the gam
bling room and bedroom. 1t enters the bed
room and passes down in the corner, being
concealed by strip of board nailed up and
papered over II then passes under the floor
Of the gambling room to the table, where a
small piece Of the flooring has been ctit away
close by the table leg, where the left foot Of
the gambler would be placed while playing.
There it terminates in spring and hammer,
concealed by the carpet.
The method Of working this invention fer
robbing by machinery seems to have been as
follows: The victim to be operated on finds
two chairs drawn up to the table. In enc Of
these the gaming thief seats himself at once,
placing his foot over the telegraph hammer.
The victim is obliged to take the other which
is placed in aproper position for playing. The
gamblers accomplish in the room above
stretches himself on a Inattrass, with his eye
90 the peep.hole, and one hand grasping the
telegraph handle. The hole is SO placed that
| no can look directly down into the hand Of his
victim
Az soon as he secs the cards he telegraphs
their description, according to an arranged
cOdc Of signals, by pulling the handle when
the hammer strikes the number Of raps on the
sSle of tho gamblers boot or sippof, the
sound being muflsd by the carpet. OF course
il is easy to see that the man who sits down
to play with auch a gambler is robbed as
surely, completely aNd Systematically as il he
bad been bound hand and foot and delivered
over to the highwaynon
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