The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-03-24
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE,
[FRoM THE APPEALS SPECIAL CONTRIBUTOR.

New YORK, March LIST, 1868.
THE TYING TRIAL.
The trial of Rev. Stephen H. Tying, Jr., i
finished. 1t has made a great noise. Ii
point of fact, the church bells have done no
thing but tying, tying, tying a ling, ling fol-
weeks, summoning the public not to church
but to the church's bout at mental fsticuG:
with too liberal member of the sacradota
order. 1t may be all right to try an Epis.
copal preacher for going off in a tangen,
into Methodist pulpit, but it seems to us
that it smacks a good deal of religious can,
and hypocrisy, this attempt to degrade a
man for trying to save other mems souls
| from perdition in less ostentatious wav
| than the canons Of his own church allowed
We remember the time when it was quite a
| common thing to sing :" Old Hundred I'M
der persimmon tree, out of the same hymn
| book with ones sweetheart and nothing YVES
| thought of it. Then there was the good old
parson, whose father g 1T inter the revolu-
| ton )" there was no scandal when he took
| a drop of Jersey lightning, on a bitter cold
day, just to warm him up a little for his
sermon. How he used TO give it tous In
those days, too, the chap that could blaze -
a deer's tail at hundred yards, with a rife
ball ride twenty miles to church in a snow
storm. and had the loudest pair of lungs,
was generally made leader of the choir and
collector of the internal revenue. All this
is done away with now-our churches are
made to look like so many gorgeous tenn
plies, with satin decorations, gilded pulpits.
operate music, Italian artists to relieve the
INDECENT congregation from the efforts of
singing psalms of praise Oh Figh-and elab-
orately, bedizzened clergymen, that weak
kneed christian in seedy clothes would be
ightened away from the sacred presence
In all probability he would be prompted BY
the glitter and dazzle of the surroundings, to
go and steal something, if only to get even
with his neighbors in trying to keep up
respectable appearance.
PHARAoH's HOST.
The latest bulletin from the club houses
informs us that the followers Of King Faro
are bewildered over the discovery of " sys-
tenn" so called, recently introduced in this
city by sporting man named Pettibone, by
which the king himself can be impeached
and rendered powerless for harm hereafter.
The secret is only known to a few persons,
and these have succeeded in winning several
hundred thousand dollars in as many weeks,
% breaking banks "and creating dismay and
among professional blacklegs
Already many OF the poor dupes who fIe-
quent these "hells," tempted by his seeming
success, the noise ofwhich is spread abroad
are irving the new device. 1t is only the
same igniS fatuus in another aspect, Turing
them to destruction. Most of the Broadwa |
and uptown club-hoases
have closed their games against the discov
arers of the :" new SYSTEM" and under no |
3retense whatever will they allow them to
enter their doors. Several leading houses in |
he trade are doing nothing. Among others
nav be mentioned that one i'll the region |
IF Fifth avenue, known as MOrrissey's old
,lace 1t saw its best days before an Fx-
Hon. quit $4,000 winner at one nights
citing, besides recovering $50, 900 lost a
ew nights previous. A bank is some
lines owned by several " sports" who d.
ide their interest in shares proportional
o the amount of capital they put in. Every
month they declare dividend-after de-
ucting running expenses. Sometimes the
ank breaks, like other moneycd institu-
ions. but - defalcations 4" are not very COM
aon Rents in this line Of business range
rom $4,000 to $4,000 per anuum. we'll
nown gambler owns a house near Union
lace, on which he could realize the hand
ONE profit of Sl25, 900 over its cost a few
ears since.
THE POOR or NEW YORK.
What a melancholy sight it is to witness
ne thousands Of poor unemployed people
len, women and children, focking in droves
, the various station houses and prisons of
he city daily, to keep from starving. At
,ese places they are furni .hed BY the author
les with warm breakfasts from to ii AM,
nd dinner of bread and meat from to P.
:, gratuitous!y. They are not of the class
,lled paupers, bat most of them hard work.
g people, VIII lind it impossible to obtain .