The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-05-01

week, besides sc servants at s. week,
and 4O5 horses at, at IS week. His
receipts were 5000 a week. The
place was full Of faro-banks. Persons
Who 20 to Berkeley nowadays, and zee
the auietness and Sabbath solem-
nifty prevailing in that pleasant vale
will find it almost impossible to real
ize such a degraded society as trst-
class hotel OF national renown, kept by
q gam ester ard his mistress.
Meantime the profession OF gamblers
Was paying him 800 for the use oil h's
patent faro box, and he rigidly exacted
the money, for he could whip any man
in the country, and had the ferocity OF
q tiger. At this time Of life he Was q
man with q high head, rather narrow
forehead, enormous nose disposed to be
aqulline, and large and coarse in the
region OF the nostrils his upper lip was
square, like stone wall, and the jaw
beneath it was like Gen. Washingtons:
A look OF royal dignity was imposed
upon his rather vulgar countenance !;
the swagger OF magnanimity and humor
was expressed in the poise OF his head.
He wore a standing collar, with q
white stock, and with a rutfied shirt
bosom. His hair was invariably pow"
dered, That stamp of man still exists
among the gamesters Of Baltimore,
Richmond, and New Orleans.
THE swEDIeH MINISTER,
Mr.. Dasehoff, disputed his bill at Berk-
| lev, when Bailey took from his carriage
his trunks and locked them up.
Resolving to open a large hotel in
Washington City, Bailey put his 3o0
beadsteads, ETC., on two fatboats, and
started down the Potomac. This sud-
den cruise gave some of his creditors
in MARYLAND the idea that he was run.
ming away, and they pursued him to
Harper's Ferry, where a pitched battle
nearly happened in the middle OF the
Potomac.
The second session OF the Thirteenth
Congress was near al hand, and Bailey
rented one OF Daniel CAROLS fine
housee, opened a splendid hotel, and
promised that no gambler should ever
play on his premises. The stages
stopped at his door; his cooks and
servants were the best; members Of
Congress took day board at his table ;
aud he finally had 10 rent and furnish
as many as six houses, with eighty-slx
beds. He imported his own wines,
and, when the season was done, the
furniture was transferred 10 Berkeley
Springs, and poor people lodged in the
City Hotel gratultously.
GOOD COMPANY.
Amongst his boarders in WashingI
ton were the Chief Justice Of the United
States and the Associate Justices. Some
old creditors pursuing him daily, the
Supreme Bench advanced him 500 for
their board. just at this time, after
many years of prohigacy, the gambler
lost his luck. lie took the benefit OF
the Insolveut act in Virginia, and at
tempted to do so in Maryland; when
his creditors in the latter State closed
around him. and tied him fast. Yet,
in this position, when they put him on
s.horse, he started off at a gallop,
knocked a man down with his arm
half free, and escaped to Virginia. His
bail surrendered him at Washington,
and he was committed to jail. At that
time the schedule Of his properly con-
tanned four farms, mills. and distillery,
lots in different towns, slaves and judg-
meuts. Amongst his creditors were
Thomas Law, Daniel Carroll, Richard
Coutts, Elisha Riggs, William Worth-
ington, William Thornton, John
Strother and Gales d Seaton. Put in
the debtors cell, his companion was a
Methodist preacher named Jones, at
whom he cursed and swore at protane-
| ly. His account Of mining through the
Jail and escaping is a. interesting as
anything in Robinson Crusoe.
| DEFIANCE.