Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-08
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Some one,u under this signature, in the
local columns of the Avalanche yester-
day, uses language which we should not
have permitted any one to use in our
columns, in regard to the AValancbe.
He charges that a brief article pub
Iished in the APPEAL a few days since,
Introductory Of a paragraph from the
report Of the Grand Jury of the Crimi-
( nal Court, was intended" to white
wash S. B. BEAUMONT and the other
thieves assisting him in his infamous
conduct in this city," The writer Of the
paragraph made a mistake in adopting
VEEIrAs as his signature, if he mean to
charge any such intention on the AP-
PEAL.
We know little of and care less for Mr..
BEAUMONT. Finding in the Avalanche s
positive, particular, precise charge, Of the
division Of stolen money, by the police,
with q thief, at s given time and place,
we republished it, as q matter Of public
interest. If the charge was true, it was
a EIALLEuhl EAtEutB AAAA was NGAAAAANAEAa
The Grand Jury reported that they had
Investigated sl such charges, that were
brought before them, and we published
that paragraph of their report, as a sim
pie set of justice, because We had invited
Mr.. BEAUMONT, when we published the
charge, to exeulpate himself from it.
The Chief Of the Police is nov charged
with conniving at the existence of gam
i~ng-houses, and collecting a monthly tax
from them. That charge was not made
before, and We did not allude to it. We
do not doubt that a regular revenue is
realized by the Police fund, from gam
bling houses and those of iIl-fame; and
we know of no means Of raising money
that can be more discreditable. Has it
not always prevailed ? These vices
are sources of revenue and fees. Last
year, we remember, a person who had
made a hundred bets of q check each, 1t
faro, was indicted a hundred times, and
a hundred capiases took him. Then he
was allowed to compound by confessing
IN twenty-five, perhaps, at a fine of a
dollar each but when he came to pay,
he found the costs, going TO District At
torney, Clerk and Sheriff, in each con-
fessed case, ten dollars, and in each Of
the other seventy-fve, seven dollars and
a half.
Where VERITAs has e Colonel
BEAUMONT, we cannot say, or where he
has been. If he eOnnives at the exis&
teuce Of gaming-houses, ne ought to be
exposed but we Day be allowed to
doubt whether n anonymous cOmmuni-
cation in the AuHldnche is calculated to
effect that. 1t is useless TO make char
yes unless they are sustained and the
community pays very little attention to
anonymous ones. We have already
COPIED one that has not been proven.
This second one, we are pretty sure, can
be, to this extent at least, that the ex-
istence of gaming-houses is connived at,
and immunity from arrest paid for, with
perhaps quite The regularity Of money
paid for licenses. It is so az eUeTy city.
II VERITAs knows the facts, he can
have every proprietor indicted and the
houses broken up. They are nuisances,
by law, every where, prohibited every
where, gambling punishable every
where; and every where they are toler-
So much the worse. It has been
shameful, for a year, to read the monthly
Of the sums levied on keepers OF
gambling houses but it was so old a
matter, and q practice so well established,
when the conducting Of the APPEAL
into our hands, that We deemed it
useless to protest against the abuse.