, 1867-09-27
DaE eambIlnr in Neu York.

hikH uooei yod VIII see picture OF metropolitan
energy; aconcuTence Of wheels and multitudes,
the hurry Of ten thousand individusI purposes
beneath aehieyements in marble and iron that
make the sky seem only structure Of gauEe,
the impressmeut Of steam and beast to industry,
the meihodizing and electrifying of life, ffty
years OF Europe In Q wihkfull You have DO
nobler purpose than TO look, feel q sense Of ply
sical danger out Of your own inertia. This is .
giant's nightmare to your best dream Of ambis
ton. Insenslbly you exelaim;
''Maryelous city and men !"
Now, tnrn short around, aud walk down Bar
clay street 0ae-balf minute from Broadway
6ads yoa ia the second story of-a handsome
building, where the furniture is Of walnut and
velvet, massive aud armorial, reproduced in
mirrors which might be priced like diamonds by
their csrats. The gas is burning, as if it were
midnight; the heavy curtains are folded close /;
the sun shine world Of business might be twenty
miles away, yet here is business, Of its kind,
grave and anxious, which we may look upon.
A table, narrow and long, reaches across the
place. Upon its green surface there are en-
broidered the thirteen cards that make up a suite
At each end is q space, colored respectively red
and black. Between these spaces, opposite the
thirteen embroidered cards, sits a man shutting
pack of ffty-two cards, supported by a second
man, who keeps a tally and rAkes in aud out
checks and money. There are chairs facing.
filed by meH who place money Or ivory blocks
upon the fifteen spaces and the spots of red and
black.
When the man in the middle has shufled and
cut the pack Of cards, he places them with their
faces up, in silver box that exactly contains
them.
"Now, gentlemen" cries the dealer, briskly,
"make your bets ~
This, then, is day gambling house, and the
game to lie begun is called Faro.
You will see at this midday game strange peo-
pie around the board. Here, bending with a
laughing face his cheques, is the chief sales
mau of a great mercantile house near by, who
has come out to saunter into Delmonicos for a
lunch, and, trade being quiet, has stepped here
to try stake. Beside him is the customer whose
note be took yesterday for twenty thousand dol
lars at six months. Speaking to both famiiarly
is a man who has worn the uniform of Sing Sing,
and can, if be dare, tell how for the one time be
suffered shame there were a hundred that he
escaped it. Here is boy, cigar between his
teeth, known by his fathers name amoag these
abandoned ones, while the old man in Wall street
holds his gray hairs high in the conscientious
satisfaction that his long life is without spot.
There are patties of gooseles for lunch, and
braudies distilled from the noblest Burgundy
bananas and pineapples, to make flavor, and ci-
gars that are in every roll of the rich leaf
dream of sensual content folded away. And all
the while the money falls to stolid or eager couu-
tenances surveying, and those who are ruined
dare not for their guilty vanity chow despair,
and those who win are lured to come to- morrow.
Here the eXtremeties of social life meet the
pickpocket and the detective, ready to turn upon
each other like hyenas as soon as they have
passed their portal.
Ifyou will pass from the rear of the Fifth AV-
enue Hotel at night down Twenty fourth street,
you will see all around you the palaces of gam>
blers They pay the best rents if you scruple
to let your house to them, they will pay down
the full years reut in advance and bring you
police assurance that you will suffer no blame.
Here has long resided celebrity in his profess
ion. He possessed by nature the gamblers two
great quali6catious-boldness aud plausiblity.
So glib and deferental is be that you do not
heed the coarseness of his English. ln his stall
wart role of the frank and courageous host you
barely mark his bruised countenance, and the
low, curveless forehead. Among these mirrors
and Turkey carpets and plush chairs, how can
you recall the giant in cropped haIr, blackened
knuckles, and desperate scowl, shaking the heart
of his adversary while he shook his hand with
the cool assurance that be meant to kill him at
the ropes Strange that such men possess almost
the friendship of the sage and potent citizens
here who are of venerable descents, while all the
day their associates are the "cappers," "strip-
pers" "ropers, and 'sklnnersi VINO Walk on
the margin of the penitentiary.
do not believe that among the more respect
able classes gambling is SO universal as in Eu>
ropeau cities, but the American plays the most
desperate game Among the lower orders, how
ever, gambling is the one great vice. There are
four thousand policy shops in New York, and
six thousand dens and cellars and crazy tene-
meuts were nakedness stakes the penny that it
beoged. Five thousand is the estimated num-
ber Of professional gamblers of the first carat in
New York, but this probably includes the gam
blers' parasites, who are anxious to pass for
his rank. These professionals do not acquire
more income, upon an average, than $4,000
year, and must exc out living by some other
dishoD orable course; $40 900 night is the estis
mated sum lost in the city at games of chance,
but the fashionable clubs for the most part, per-
init gambling. Broadway, after midnight, is
dimly illuminated by the lamps of gamblers in
the second stories, and yet all the games that
are played, however fair ostensibly, are nightly
made dishonorable. Holes are cut in the ceiling
where a spy reads the ''hand' of the dupe aud
telegraphs the result to his opponent. "Braces"
or false double boxes are used in faro. What
gambler can be honest aud consistent?
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URGENT CAsE-AN ENTERPRIsING LAEDLoRD.-
The Poughkeepsie Eagle tells a story about a
Clergyman in that city, who was recently arous-