The Republican journal., 1877-05-10
The Wrong Passenger.

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Forty years ago, the Tippccanoe steam
er, then coasting packet plying between
| Point Chicot, Arkansas and Natchez, on
the Mississippi river, was owned by Colo
mel Anderson Miller and commanded by
his eldest son, Simon. Colonel Miller was
a high-toned Nirginian by birth, and
withall Il thoroughbred Wag. The Tip
pecanOe was Il pleasant and safe craft and
Simon Miller an agreeable and shreWd
young man, and his father, during the
winter months, preferred the boat as Il
home for himself and wife to their fine
dwelling at Louisville. The cabin Of tn"
Tlppecanoe, though not spacious, afford
ed ample room for dancing and social
amuscments. Cards and other games
were fashionable at this date on all steam
ers running upon the Southern AiiSsiS-
sippi, and all men played Poker on Bragg,
or "Old Sledge" (Seven Up or All Foura).
Sportsman was then the softer title for the
| gambler, and there were few who travel
ed up and down the Mississippi to whom
the title of sportsman might not he hon
estly applied. Gambling was considered
at this period a legitimate business in
every Southern State. The women, TOO,
| would Join in games al cards for money,
until a disgraceful scene was witnessed on
| the Lexington race-cOurse between two
OF the most fashionable ladies OF Ken
! lucky, in which a regular fist and skull
| fight was the issue. Ladies Were us great
gamblers upon the race as the toughest
sporting man; but that fight caused re
| form IN Kentucky, and after the year lS;H
only one class OF females was ever seen
with handful OF money offering to hcl
upon the winner of Il purse.
The Tippecanoc left Natchcz late in he
afternoon in the month Of january, lc;3.
| Cards We're soon introduced. Colonel Mil
| Ter, General DiSheroon, General William
Montgomery, and General Elias Rector
made up the party, and betting ut times
ran high. DiSheroon and Montgomery
won, and after several hours play Colonel
Miller and General Rector not satisfied
that all was on the square, closed their
| game This left the old Frcnch planter
! Dishcroon and General Montgomery, ut
| AI0ntgOmeY'S Point, Arkansas, to :. sill
| gle-handed game. But this did not suit
! them. They wanted some one whom they
/ could, by taVOring each others play, ed,i-
| ly victmiZe. The trick of passing the
size of each others cards tu the one on
the other, Colonel Miller An, Rector had
detected. They would place their feet
together unier the table and telegraph
| by the number of kicks, SiguitNm4 thus
one kick, one pair two kicks, two pairs
| three kicks, threes four kicks tuurS five
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