The Portland daily press., 1869-10-02
Down with the Gold Gamblers.

There are laws for the suppression of COM
mon gambling-h houses, which the police and
the courts occasionally enforce. If the civil
authorities have the power TO shut up the
places where faro and roulette lure men to
ruin why should not the same principle apply to
the Goid Room, where not alone the fortunes of
the participants are staked, but where the
peace and prosperity of the Commonwealth
are daily imperilled? In the gambling 'hell,"
as The place where games of hazard are played
is very Justly termed, the welfare of indivd-
uals ony is jeopaidized, The risk is well de-
fined. There are certain chances in favor of
the "bank," and the player stakes his own or
somebody else's money with his eyes open.
No respectable gambling -house keeper now
adays resorts to marked cards or loaded dice;
but content with the percentage in hts favor,
"plays on the square" and, it he loses, pays
his money with the same seeming ind ference
with which he would rake in his gains
Ordinary gambling may lead John Jones,
CLERK, to rob his own employer, or beggar his
family, aud blast his own reputauon, and
there is the end of it; yet the law deuounces
the practice as immoral and criminal, and
society makes war upon the common games
ter, ard consigns him to the common Jail.
But when brokers, bankers and capftalits, men
occupying leading positions in the business
community engage IN colossal gambling opera
tions, by which monetary values may 6e so
deprecated as to bring thousands to ruin;
when the national securities may tall in price
SO seriously as to obstruct the whole course of
| may be enhanced in cost, and the value OF his
| labor be lowered; when all the necessaries of
| life are appreciated, all the essential elements
| that make up q well. ordered state OF society
| are disorganized and overturned, and there IS
| no assured stability anywhere, are we to be
| told that there is no remedy to reach the
| case? Gambling conducted on so gigantic
| scale becomes legmate and respectable, for-
| sooth, no matter how disastrous its conse-
| uuences to the community at large!
Out upon such canting stuff! The men who
| conspire to corner" gold are no more respec-
! table than the men who play across the green
| table. The latter, if they be not utterly des-
titute of the "honor," that is said TO obtain
even "among thieves" scorn to take more than
the chances of the game, while the former re-
sort to deliberate fraud. Knowing that they
hold the game in their own hands, that mo-
where but of them can the commodity they buy
OF their dupes be obtained, they go on inveigi-
ing men into tleir tolls, and, having secured
an artificial scarcity of the article they sell,
pnt up the price to any fabulous figure their
| want of conscience may dictate. This, il it is
not gambling, as its votaries assert, it is GER
| tainly downright swindling. BY superior
| cunning, and the power of combination they
| get their victims into "corner, and then
| offer them the alternative of being ropoed UT
| ruined. -.r. ttt L u.i y
We have TO sympathy with the bulls or
| hears They are alike Indifferent to US, as in
4 lividuals whether they lost or won IN the late
encounter. and were the consequences OF
1 these transactions visited solely upon them,
| tbe;r nractices might perhaps be tolerated.
| Rnt their Vaccinations are prouuctiVe OF sucn
| Du. !,aad sn disaster to innocent parties all
WIZ lie country, that they assume the mag
otude ofa public evil which demands sup
| ,ressiep. 1t is a conspiracy against trade and
| Commerce in which they are engaged and our
| statutes provide fof the punishment of such
| conspiracy. The law OF conspiracy has been
repeatedly invoked against laboriDg men
seeking TO uphold the price of their labor;
why should it not be applied to these consplra-
'~rs upon grander scae?-New fore sun,
27m i,s'
Official returns of passengers
IMMIGRATION. ed States during the quar-
arriving IN the Unl.~ "a 1869, shew an extra
ter euding with june ~, : .'..-. r.- . .
ordinary increase. -as 177 seo nj
The whole number arrived " 90, VI
whom Ill, ,674, were males aud 6590o @oited
OF these 1882 were citizens of the u.
States, a5l being males, 2531 females; also,
3613 foreigners not intending to remain in the
United Stases, of whom $3.50 were males, To- 70
females, making an aggregate OF II, 595 passen-
gers not immigrants. The total number of
immigrants was 165 9S7, of whom there ware
under fifteen years Of age 1858 males, u ,5l2
females; between fifteeu aud forty, "a 4G
males, 81 901 females; OF forty years of age aud
upward 10 52S males 6911 females; making
total o, 1903 663 IN lies anu 90 324 females
| The occupation OF imm grants W. 70 as ioi-
lows: Clergy ymen, 60; ysicianS, 90; Trrsis,
| ~: mechanics (uf ira Isrs not specined'l oolSi
| bankers. 1888; hutcLe ;, 233: seamslress,, ~;
| sboemakrrs 1888; Ia lors, 7J6; in,sons, l0oS; OF
| miscellaneous traders, 1918; clerks, o6Oi tarm-
| ers 1858; laborers, 46Zoo; traners, i543, NIL
ners, 3IOs; mariners, 4S6; servants, 0699;