The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-07-01
Ass { FOstmnsttr UtntIHI
TO H. \. BARBER, Esq
Postmaster, St Adams, Vt.

THE STOCK GAMBLING MANIA.--lhe
New York Correspondent of the Bos-
ton journal, "Burleigh, writes as
follows
The wild gamblings in stocks and
gold have thrown to the surface a
new set of men. Formerly the
Board Of Brokers and men who dealt
in stocks were men of character and
fortune. Entrance fee TO the Board
guaranteed responsibility. But now
barriers are of no service Desperate
and reckless men have taken to the
street. Any man who can raise from
( fifty to hundred dollars set up stock
gambling on his own account These
men know no hours and no rules.
They are on the ground early and late.
They fill up William st so that it is
/ impossible for teams. They yell and
scream like madmen and can be heard
for blocks. Men unacquainted with
them would them imagine from their
outcries that pestilence had broke
out that the enemy had, landed at the
Battery A new Board made up OF
this class have opened room on
Broad street, near the Custom House
1t is open day and night. The for
tunes that are lost in and around
Wall street, every week are marvellous
No romance can equal the reality o
reverses of fortune which daily trans
pire. No gamblers are more reckless
desperate, 9vrator.Iy siostr~57-i
Many man leaves his palatial resi-
dence in the morning a fancied mil
lionaire, and he goes home at night
ruined man. His elegant equipage
| in which his beieweled wife and prouC
daughters whirled the dust of TIN
, Park the day before in the eyes o
well-to-do citizens plodding their wa.
, on foot, is sold-the residence aband
, oned the man, seedy and forlorn
= appears on the outskirts of the crow,
Of Jews and brokers, and the famil.
go into "the country to spend tn
, summer with their friends. - The
ars seen no more in the fashionabl
e world.
The fact is, gambling is gambling
e called it by whatever name you vii
! Fortunes are made now, as they eve
/ have been made, in the good old-fash
$ toned way. Permanent success wait
K on diligence patience and integrity
Our reckless style of living, extravo
: and dissipation follows the wild spec
:. ulations that mark the the trade Q
r New York to-day. 1t affects all class
e es-women, men, merchants, minis
V tiers buy and sell stocks | have tn
n names of of over a dozen clergyme
e who respectable brokers tell me, hay
If "a line Of stocks. know one of tn
G number. He is IA good specimen {
V the power of the gambling mania
), The demon has got possession of hin
e He is an ignorant Of it as tn
n lunatic is of the spirit that dictate
r, his fantastic array. He has made
q little money. He started to make fly
l. thousand He has moved his fglli
=. ahead to the little sum of quarter
n a million. He is a transformed maj
IS His face is haggard--eyes dilated-ha
" disheveled- he docs not sleep nights
V buys all the editions of the papers
IS rises nights to buy exsras-chases ii
is boys round the corners for the late
l. news-is early at the stockmarket, m
n is among the last that leaves the FIT
e Avenue Hotel nj night when ii
N Board closes its late session. Whetl
n er quarter of a million is worth whit
il it costs, this gentleman can tell whe
rs he gets it. But he is only specimen