Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-02-27

out Will be JUST SumclenI 1Or nedlIHy uiSes'
ton. If the condition of either organ be i'm.
paired, the gastric juice secreted may be
either deficient in quantity or vitiated in quail
ity.
Let us study ourselves, that we may under
stand ourselves better. The proper study Of
mankind is MAN.
GAMBLING IN WASHINGTON.
Washington for many years had been a
hot bed for gamblers of high and low degree.
There we're q dozen faro banks on the Avenue
within stones throw of Gadbys on the cor.
ner of Sixth street. Many of these establish
ments had club rooms attached, where men,
bers of Congress and others amused them.
selves with brag, vingtet-un, and whist. Draw
poker came into vogue at later day. Gam.
bling, and for large sums, was common, par.
ticularly among southern and western mem.
bers. Some Of them from Ohio, Indiana,
Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Gulf States
squandered their modest per diem, then eight
dollars only, at the gambling table, and some
impaired their private fortunes by the same
indulgence. S. S. Prentice was reported to
have lost thirty thousand dollars the first
winter ne was IN congress-
The most notorious and dashing gambler Of
the day was Edward Pendleton. He came
from Virginia, where he was we'll connected,
his family being of the best blood in the State,
and he married most respectable and
accomplished lady, whose father held q re-
sponsible office under the government. Pen.
dleton gave sumptuous entertainments at his
clubhouse, which were we'll attended by some
of the most eminent public men of the district.
Mr.. Mangum, then President of the Senate,
John ]. Crittenden, John M. Bolts, John B.
Thompson, of Kentucky, and Linn Boyd,
Speaker of the House, and others of lesser
note, we're frequently his guests. Congress
had enacted stringent penal laws to prevent
gambling, but they were dead letter, unless
some poor devil made complaint Of foul
play, or some feeced blackleg sought ven
geance through the aid of the grand jury and
then the matter was usually compounded by
the payment of money.
Whist was favorite game with the foreign
ministers and the elder statesmen. Mr. Clay,
General Scott, Mr.. Bodisco, and Mr.. Fox
nephew of Charles James Fox-who represen.
ted William the Fourth and Queen Victoria,
often played together hundred dollars being
the usual stake. They generally played we'll,
as Hoyle taught the game; but many Of the
members of the fashionable clubs of New
York play with more skill than was dreamed
of forty years ago. Governor Marcy was
great lover of whist but he would never bet
money on the game. There were always in.
veterate whisters in the Senate A story was
current at one time of a protracted sitting at
the card-table, at which Governor Stokes, of
North Carolina, and Mountjoy Bailey, SER
geantat-arms of the Senate, were two of the
PLAYERS. It ran in this wise: the Senate ad.
iourned from Thursday over to Monday. The
party sat down to cards after dinner Thursday
evening. They played all mig hit and ali the
next day, only stopping occasionally for re-
freshments. The game was continued Friday
night and Saturday, through Saturday night
and all day Sunday and Sunday night, the
players resting for snatch of sleep, as nature
became exhausted. Monday morning the
game was in full blast; but at ten o'clock
Bailey moved an adjournment, alleging that
his official duties required bis presence in the
Senate chamber. Stokes demonstrated, but
the sergeant-atarms persisted, and rose from
the table. The Governor grumbled and scol.
ded, but finally gave it up, swearing that if
he had suspected Bailey would break up the
game thus prematurely he would have seen
him-any where before he would have invited
him to join the party.
Mr.. Webster played whist, but Indifferent
ly only. The Virginians were addicted to that
stupid game known as shoemaker loo. Pres.
ident Tyler was fond of loo, and on a
rainy day, when there was no great pressure
of public business, he has been known to
make up game at the White House, and
play all day, having dinner in his chamber.
His companions were usually William Selden,
Treasurer of the United States, Carey Selden,
his brother, storekeeper at the navy yard,
and sometimes Governor Gilmer, of Virginia,
with now and then another favorite. The
amount played for was always small, but Mr.
Tyler was as much delighted at taking pool
as if he had won hundreds.
Public opinion was not so averse to gaming
in Washington as most of the northern cities
Probably the tone of public morals is no more
elevated now than it was then, but there was
then less pretence and ostentation of purity.
At large party given by the wife Of a cabi-
net minister, Mrs. Clay, chaperoning young
lady from the North, passed through room
where gentlemen were playing cards, Mr..
Clay among the number.
"Is this common practice ?" inquired the
young lady.
EYES," said Mrs. Clay, they always play
when they get together"
Don't it distress you to have Mr.. Clay
gamble?"
"No, my DEAR" said the good old lady, com.
posedly, "he almost always wins"
In the winter of 1841, Gen. Scott Mr. Clay,
Mr.. Fox, and Mr.. Bodisco played whist once
week for some time, the stake, as usual,
being one hundred dollars They played a
match game, Scott and Bodisco against Clay
and Scott. They were we'll matched, and for
long time the game was pretty even. At
length fortune favored Messrs. Clay and Fox,
ID they were ten or twelve games ahead.
"Gentlemen," said the Russian minister, rising
from the table, "the game has closed for the
season. The appropriation is exhaust" And
sure enough not another game would he play,
much to the disgust and vexation of General
Scott, who, of course, was a considerable loser.
COVERING CoRN.-I have tried all known
ways of covering corn, the hoe, the plow, the
harrow, and the foot of the dropper, but
have found none so good as the board, just
such as is commonly used for covering cotton.