Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-13
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We, copy the following from the Tros
Times, to which, paper Geo. Alfred Town
send is contributing a series of articles:
If YOU win stand before the Astor House
at high noon, you will see picture of me-
tropolitan energy, q concurrence of wheels
aud multitndes, the hurry of ten thousand
Individual purposes beneath achievement:
in marble and iron that make the sky seem
eoniy structure of gauze, the impressment
sof steam and beast to industry, the meth
o liZfng and electrifying of life, fifty years
Hof Europe in wihkftilt You have no no.
hbler pufp0se than to look, feel sense o
physical danger out of your own inertia
hSlream of ambition. Insensibly you exclaim
hssMarveleus city and menio - af's' p
Now, turn short around, and walk down
Barclay street. One half minute from
Broadway finds you in the second story OF
a handsome building where the furniture
lis ofeYaiRut, and velvet, massive and ar
mortal, reproduced in mirrors which might
be priced, like diamonds, by their carats.
fThe,gas is burning as If it were midnight
the heavy curtains are folded close, the
sunshine world of business might be twenty
miles away, yet here is business of its
kind, grave and anxious, which we may
look upon. ~. K ssa.4.af. 5 7if s. e ro-a-.--
the place. Upon its green surface there
are embroidered the thirteen cards that
make upa suite. At each end is a space,
colored respectively red and black. Be-
tween these spaces, opposite the thirteen
embroidered cards, sits man shuffilng a
pack of 'fifty-two cards, supported by q
second man, who keeps tally and rakes
lin and out checks and money. There are
chairs facing, and on either side of the
dealer, and these are filled by men who
place; money or ivory blocks upon the fif-
teen spaces, and the spots of red and black
when the man. in the middle has shuffied
and cut the pack of cards, he places them
with their faces mp, in q silver box that ex-
-actly contains them. hsl sTsf & ~ q, g
Nov, gentlemen" cries the dealer, brisk
ly, make your BETS" 1aa, 9lqsci l.ss tsHs
o. This, then, is q day gambling house, and
the game to be begun is called Faro. ~
4 If you are not familiar with cards, you
may like to Know that pack is composed
of fifty-two, divided into four kinds of suits
of thirteen cards apiece. Two of these
suits are red, and two blaak. The philos-
ophv of Faro, which is supposed to be the
fairesJ gambling game. is, that the host o.
banker bets against his guests proIniscu-
'ously, upon either the denomination OF
color of the alternate cards, as they are
successfully pushed up by a spring at the
bottom of the silver box. To compensate
him for the cost ofthe entertainment rath-
er more than an equal chance is accorded
him, andvthis is variously estimated at from
three to fifteen per cent.
You will see at this midday game strange
people around the board. Here, bending
with a laughing face over his cheque is tht
chief salesman of great mercantile house
near by, who has come out to saunter into
Delmonico's for lunch, and, trade being
quiet, has stepped here to trya stake. Be
side him is the customer whose note he tool
yesterday for twenty thousand dollars a
six mouths. Speaking to both familiarly
is man vi no has worn the uniform of Sins
Sing, and can, il he dare, tell how for th'
one time he suffered shame; there were
hundred that he escaped it. Here is boy
cigar between his teeth, known by hi
fathers name among these abandoned
ones, while the old man in Wall street hold
his gray hairs high in the conscientiou
satisfaction that his home life is without;
spot.
There are patties of goose lines for lunch
and brandies distilled from the mobiles
Burgundy; bananas and pine apples Il
make flavor, and all the while the money
falls to stolid or eager countenances sur
veying, and those who are ruined dare no
for their guilty vanity show despair. anC
those who win are lure6 te come to NOR
row. Here the eKtremities of social lifi
meet; the pick-pocket and the detective
ready to turn upon each other like hyena
as soon as they have passed their portal.
1T you willpass FROM the rear of the Fiftl
avenue hotel AT night, down Twenty-fourti
street, you will see all around you theipal
aces of gamblerss They pay. the best rents
if you scraple to let your house to then
theyw pay down the full years rent il
advance, and bring you police assurance
that you will suffer no blame. Here ha
long resided celebrity in his "profession. 1.
He possessed by nature the gamblers tw,
great qualifications, boldness and plausibil
ity. So glib and ideferential is he that yol
do not heed the eoarseness of his English
Inshis stalwart role of the frank and cour
ageous host you barely mark his bruise,
countenance, and the low curveless fore
head. Among these mirrors and Turke,
carpets and plush chairs how can you re
call the giant in cropped hair, blackene
knuckles, and desperate scowl, shaking tn
heart of his adversary, while he shook hi
hand with the cool assurance that he mean
to kill him at the ropes. Strange that sue
men possess almost the friendship OF th
sage and potent citizen here who are q
venerable descents, while all the day thei
associates are the "cappers," " "strippers,
ssropers,s and " SINNERS who walked th
margin of the penitentiary.
do not believe that among the more re
spectacle classes gambling is so universs
as in European cities, but the America
plays more desperate game. Among th
lower orders, however, gambling is the on
great vice.. There are four thousand polio
shops in New Y ork. and six thousand der
and cellars and crazy tenements where ns
kednesS stakes the penny that it begged
Five thousand is the estimated number
professional gamblers of the first carat
New York, but this probably includes tn
gamblers parasites, who are anxious
pass for his rank. These professionals q
not acquire more income, upon an averag
than $4,000 year, and must exc out a liz
ing by some other dishonorabie cours,
$40,000a night Is the estimated sum lost
the city at games of chance, but the fasl
ionable clubs, for the most part, perm
gambling. Broadway, after midnight,
dimly illuminated by the lamps of gan
blers in the second stories, and yet ell I'll
games that are played, however fair ostel
sibly, are nightly made dishonorabl
Holes are cut in the ceiling, where sp
reads, the Snand', and telegraphs the resu
to his opponent. Braces" or false doub
boxes are used in faro. What gambler ca
be honest and consistent
THE Cincinnati Commercial thinks it
strange that Colonel Cockerill was Colon
of the 10Th Ohio. 1t is not a bit strang
When cowardly rscoundrels of .''Union
procliyities were sneaking and skulkin
around the rear, Colonel Cockerill, a Dem
crat. stepped boldly out and led the galla
old 10th to where his abusers and vile d
famers were never known to 90. 1t nas
be strange, but if it had not been for sus
men as Patterson, Cockerill, and few oti