The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-05-15
4 Gamblers Fate.

Among innumerable incidents related
of the ruin of persons at play, there is
one worth relating which refers to Mr..
Porter, an English gentleman, who in
the reign of Queen Anna possessed one
/ of the best estates in the county of Nor
cumberland the whole Of which he
/ lost at hazard in twelve months.
According to the story told of this
mailman, for we call him nothing else
/ when he had just completed the loss of
! his last acre at gambling hOusein Lon
/ don, and was proceeding down stairs to
/ throw himself into his carriage to carry
/ himself home to his house in town, he
| resolved upon having one throw more
TO try to retrieve his losses, and immedi-
I ately returned to the room, where the
/ play was going on.
Nerved for the worst that might hap
pen, he insisted that the person he had
been playing with should give him one
chance of recovery or fight with him.
His proposition was this that his car
riage and horses, the trinkets and loose
money in his pockets, his tOwn-hOuse,
plate and furniture-in short, all he had
left in the world except the clothes on
his back, should be valued in a lump at
a certain price and be thrown for at
single cast. No persuasion could pre-
/
threw and lost then, conducting the
winner TO the door, he told his coach
man that there was his master; and
marched forth into the dark and dismal
streets, without house, home or any one
creditable means of support.
Thus beggared, he retired to an obscure
lodging in cheap part of the town, sub
sisting partly on charity, sometimes ac
ting as the marker at a billiard-table,
and occasionally as helper at livery
stable. In this miserable condition, and
with nakedness and famine staring him
in the face, exposed to the taunts and
insults of those whom he had once sup
ported, he was recognized by an old
friend, who gave him ten guineas tOpur-
chase necessaries. He expended five in
procuring decent apparel. With the
remaining five he repaired TO a common
gaming-hOuse, and increased them to
fifty. He then adjourned to one Of the
higher order of houses, sat down with
former associates, and won twenty
thousand pounds
Returning the next night, he lost il
all, was once more penniless, and after
sUbsisting many years in abject perjury,
died ragged beggarat penny lodging
house in It. Giles's.
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THE INDIANs.-An officer of the Gov
eminent, who has reached Lawrence,
Kansas, from the Indian country, brings
favorable reports as to the animus of the
red men. He says: 1.-The five great
tribes with whom the Government Com
missiOners last Fall made treaties. are
perfectly quiet and peaceabIe. The XII
Owas and COmanches have mostly gone
South, and are mostly in the vicinity of
Fort Cobb: The Apaches, Arrapahoes,
and Cheyennes never were more peace
ably inclined, and if the Government
carries out its treaty stipulations, he
thinks no apprehensions need be felt of
difficulties with the Plains Indians this
season