; 1 5 THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PH IL ADELPHI A, WEDNBSDA ST, JUNE 1, 1870. I! THE GAMING TABLE. "It Is possible that a wise and Rood man may be prevailed on to game; bat It is impossible that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man." Ixnatrr. There appeared many years ago, in a quaint old English publication, an allegory giving the imaginary origin of gaming. It ia Raid that the goddess of fortune, onoe sporting sear the shady pool of Olympus, was met by the gay and captivating god of war, who soon allured her to hiB arms. They were united; but the matrimony was not holy, and the result of the union was a misfeatured child called Gaming. From the moment of her birth this wayward thing could only be pleased by cards, dice, or counters. She was not without fascinations, and many were her admirers. As she grew up she was courted by all the gay and extravagant of both sexes; for she was of neither sex, and yet combining the attractions of each. At length, however, being mostly boset by men of the sword, she formed an unnatural union with one of tbem, and gave birth to twins one called Dueling, the other Suicide. These became their mother's darling, nursed by her with constant care and tenderness, and her per petual companions. The goddess Fortune ever had an eye on her promising daughter, Gaming; and endowed her with splendid resi dences in the most conspicuous streets, near the palaces of kings. They were magnifi cently designed and and elegantly furnished. Lamps always burning at the portals were a sign and a perpetual invitation unto all to enter; and, like the gates of the Inferno, they were ever open to daily and nightly visitants; but, unlike the latter, they permitted exit to all who entered some exult ing with golden spoil, others with their hands in empty pockets; some led by her half witted son Dueling, others escorted by her malignant monster Suicide and his mate, the demon Despair. "Religion, morals, virtue, all give way, Aud conscience dicB, the proBtitute of play. Kternity ne'er steals one thought between, Till suicide completes the fatal scene." Such is the allegory. From the day that Esau "went short" on "birthright," Jacob having "cornered" him, and called in all the "pottage" there was on the market, the passion of gaming has pre vailed in all nations, with the single excep tion of the Mohammedans, whose religion prevents it. The determination of events by "lot" was a practice fre quently resorted to by the Israelites; as, by lot it was determined which of the goats should be offered by Aaron; by lot the land of Canaan was divided; by lot Saul was marked out for the Hebrew kingdom; by lot Jonah was discovered to be the cause of the storm. l'lutarch tells a pretty Egyptian story, that Mercury, having fallen in love with lthea, or the Earth, and wishing to do her a favor, gambled with the Moon, and won from her every seventieth part of the time she illu mined the horizon, all which parts he united together, making up five days, and added them to the Earth's year, which had pre viously consisted of only a;0 days. Cards, which are commonly supposed to have been invented for the amusement of Charles VI of France, were really invented ages ago by the Chinese, who have always been eager gamesters; indeed, they play night and day, and frequently, having lost all they are worth, go and hang themselves. Going northward to the regions of ice, we ! find the Grecnlanders gambling with a board, which has a finger-piece in it turning round on an axle, and the person to whom the fin ger points on the stopping of the board, which is whirled round, "sweeps" all the "stakes." The old Romans those grand old fellows what gamesters they were ! In their "lotte ries" were often prizes of great value, as a good estate and slaves, or rich vases; others of little value, as vases of common earth. The Spaniards, as a people, are said to be more addicted to gaming than any other na tion. A traveller says: "I have wandered through all parts of Spain, and though in many places I have scarcely been able to procure a glass of wine, or a bit of bread, or any of the first conveniences of life, yet I never went through a village so mean and out of the way in which I could not have pur chased a pack of cards." Voltaire, however, Bays the Spaniards were formerly very gene rous in their gaming. "The grandees had a generous ostentation; this was to divide the money won at play among all the bystanders, of whatever condition." In England gambling prevailed during the reign of Henry VIII, the king being himself a gamester of the most unscrupulous sort; and the practice was equally fashionable during the reigns of Elizabeth, James I, and especially in the times of Charles II. Writing on the day when James II was proclaimed king, Evelyn says: "I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and prof aneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday even, ing), which this day se'n-night I was witness of : the king Bitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and .Mazarine, etc., a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other disso lute persons were at basset round a large . table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections of astonishment. Six days after, all was in the dust." The llarleian Miscellany, of 1CC8, has the following curious allusion to the gaming of that day: "Betwixt twelve and one o'clock a good dinner is prepared by way of ordinary, and some gentlemen of civility and condition oftentimes eat there, and play a while for re creation after dinner, both moderately and most commonly without deserving reproof, Towards night, when ravenous beasts usually seek their prey, there come in shoals of heo- tors, trepanners, gilts, pads, biters, prigs, divers, lifters, mill kens, piemen, decoys, suop-imers, loners, Dancers, droppers, gam. biers, donnakers, cross-biters, etc. (a goodly vocabulary!), under the general appellation of 'rooks; and in this particular it serves as nursery for Tyburn, for every year some of this gang march thither One of the largest gambling transactions on record is the Hindoo mateh between Durvodbana and Yudhishthira. Whatever the latter staked was met by the former; but lndhiHtithira lost every game; first a very beautiful pearl; next, 1000 bags each contain irjg 1000 pieces of gold; next, a piece of gold so pure, that it was sou as wax; next, cLariot set with jewels and hung all round with golden belli; next, 1000 war-elephants with golden nowdaus set witn diamonds; next, a lack (100,000) .of slaves, all dressed in good garments; next, t lack of beautiful slave girls, adorned from bead to foot with goldea ornaments; next, all the remainder of his goodx; next, all his cattle, and then the whole of his Kai, or kingdom, excepting only the lands vLich Lad been granted to the Brahmins. This was done with dice. ' The nnformity villi v Lien our frieud Yndhishshira lost sag. ikiu to lilt l aiikte muiU that it was not "square game." As they phrase it "on the Hissisfiip "them dice was loaded." Speaking of dice, it ia known that that species of diversion was usual and fashion able at the Persian Court in the times of the Stranger Cyrus (about four hundred years efore the Christian era). Among the ancient Roman Emperors gaming was fashionable. Augustus was greatly ad dicted to, and even gloried in it. The Cm ears indulged in it. At the gaming-table Caligula stooped even to falsehood and per jury. On one occasion, after having con demned to death several Gauls of great opu lence, he immediately went back to his gam bling companions and said, "I pity you when I see you lose a few sestertii, while, with a stroke of the pen, I have just won six hun dred millions." (Thirty millions of pounds sterling.) The Emperor Claudius played like an imbecile; Nero like a madman. The latter would stake four hundred thousand sestertii (20,000) on a single throw of the dice. Claudius played at dice on his journeys, having the interior of his carriage so arranged as to prevent the motion from interfering with the game. Seneca, in his play on the death of Claudius, repre sents him as in the lower regions condemned to pick Bp dice forever, putting them into a box without a bottom. Caligula was re proached for having played at dice on the day of his Bister's funeral. Domitian gamed from morning to night, without excepting the fes tivals of the Roman calendar. The day on which Didius Julianus was proclaimed em peror, he walked over the dead and bloody body of Pertinax, and began to play at dice in the next room. Finally, at the epoch when Constantino abandoned Home, never to re turn, every inhabitant of that city, down to the populace, was addicted to gambling. In France, during the reign of lltfnry IV, gambling became the rage. Many distin guished families were utterly ruined by it. The Due de Biron lost, in a single year, more than 500,000 crowns (about 125,000). "My son Constant," says D'Aubigne, "lost twenty times more than he was worth; so that, find ing himself without refources, he abjured his religion." It was at the court of this king that was invented the method of speedy ruin by means ef written vouchers for loss, which simplified the thing in all subsequent times. One can scarcely form an idea of the extent of gaming at this period. Bossompierre de clares, in his Memoirs, that he won more than 500,000 livres (25,000) in one year, and his friend Pimentello won more than 200,000 crowns (."i0,000). Late in life Bassompierre won 50,000 at a single sitting from M. de Guise, Joinville, and the Marechal d'Ancre. But, like most gamblers, he died so poor that he did not leave enough to pay tho twentieth part of his debt. Henry IV was finally cured of gambling. Having lost an immense sum at play, he asked his Minister, the great Duke of bully, tor the money. The latter demurred, so that the king had to send to him several times. Finally Sully took him the money and spread it out before him on the table, exolaiming, "There is the Bam!" Henry fixed his eyes on the vast amount. It is said to have been enough to purchase Amiens from the Spaniards, who then held it. The king thereupon exclaimed: "I am corrected ! I will never again lose my money at gaming : Fouche, the minister of police, derived an income of 128,000 a year for licensing, or 'privileging," gaming-houses, to which cards of address were regularly furnished. Be sides this, the keepers of the houses were compelled to hire and pay 120,000 persons employed in those houses as croupiers, or attendants at tho gaming-table, from half a crown to half a guinea a day; and all these 120,000 persons were spies of Fouchel There were no gamestresses among tne Greeks, and the Roman women were always too much occupied with their domestic affairs to find time for play. What will our modern adies think when we state that the Emperor Augustus scarcely wore a garment which had not been woven by ms wiie, nis sister, or granddaughters! ("Veste non temere alia quani domestica usus est, ab nxore et filia nepotibusque confecta. fouet. in ViUc Cmarum. ) In France, women wishing to gamble were at first obliged to keep the thing secret; for if it became known they lost caste. In the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV they became bolder, and the wives of the great engaged in the deepest play in their mansions; but still a gamestress was always denounced with horror. "Such women." savs La Bruvere. make us chaste; they have nothing of the sex but its garments, men, as now, tne vice led to other crimes. The Countess of Schwiechelt, a young and beautiful lady from Hanover, was much given to gambling, and lost 50,000 livres at Paris. In order to repair this great loss Bhe planned and executed the robbery of a fine coronet of emeralds, the property of Madame Demidoff. She had made herself acquainted with the place where it was kept, and at a ball given by its owner, the Hanoverian lady contrived to purloin it. Her vouth and rank in life induced manr Dersons to solicit her pardon; but Bonaparte left her to the punishment to which she was con demned. This occurred in 1804. Of English gamestresses Goldsmith men tions an old lady in the country who, having been given over by her physician, played with the curate of the parish to pass the time away. Having won all his money, she next proposed playing for the funeral charges to which she would be liable. Unfortunately, the lady expired just as she had taken up the game J A lady who was desperately fond of play was confessing herself. The priest repre sented, among other arguments against gaming, the great loss of time it occasioned "Ah !" said the lady, "that is what vexes me so much time lost tn shuffling the cards!" A curious case is reported in the London papers of 1820 of James Lloyd, who practiced on the credulity of the lower orders by keep ing a Little (Jo, or illegal lottery. He was brought up for the twentieth time to answer for that offense. This man was a Methodist preacher, and assembled his neighbors to gether at his dwelling on a Saturday to preach the Gospel to them, and the remainder of (he week he was to be found, with an equally numerous party, instructing them in the ruinous vices of gambling. The charge was clearly proved, ana tne prisoner was sen tenced to three months' imprisonment with bard labor. The celebrated Mrs. Crewe, whose husband was in 180G made Lord Crewe, was as remark able for her accomplishments and her worth as for her beauty; nevertheless, she, like most of the grand ladies of the time, was a gamestress, and permitted the admiration of the profligate Charles James Fox, who wrote on her the following lines, which were said to be not exaggerated: "Where the loveliest expression to features is Jola'd, lit Nature's most delicate pencil ileslga'd ; Where blushes unhidden, and smiles without art, bpeak the aoltueea and feeling that deU lu the heart; Where in manners enchanting no blemtnh we trace, bat the soul keeps the promise we had from the face; fcnre pMlonophT. reason, and enHneM nmt prove Dvlclteta kittiUtU eiuelU Urn iluui iwic. ' Nearly eight yean after the famous election at Westminster, when she personally can vassed for Fox, Mrs. Crewe was still in per fection, with a son one and twenty, who looked like her brother. The form of her face was exquisitely lovely, her complexion radiant. "I know not," Miss Burnev writes. any female in her first youth who could bear the comparison. She uglifies every one near her." During the last half of the last century many titled ladies not only gambled, but kept gaming-nouses. Une of these actually appealed to the House of Lords for protec tion against the intrusion of officers into her establishment on the plea of her peerage ! The following record of it is in the Journal of the House of Lords: "Die Luna; 2'Jo Aprilis. 1775. Gamuto. A bill for preventing the excessive and deceit ful use of it having been brought from the Commons, information was given to the House that Mr. Burdus, Chairman of the Quarter sessions for the city and liberty of Westminster, was at the door. He was called in, and gave an account that the claims of privilege of peerage were made and insisted on toy the Ladies Mordington and Cassehs, in order to intimidate the peace officers from doing their duty in suppressing the publics gaming-houses kept by the said ladies. And the said Burdus thereupon deli vered in an instrument of writing of said Lady Mordington, containing the claim she made of privilege for her officers and ser vants employed by her in her said gaming house, as follows: I, Dame Mary Baroness of Mordington, do hold a house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, for and as an As sembly, where all persons of credit are at liberty to freqtfent and play at such diver sions as are used at other Assemblys. And I have hired Joseph Dewberry, Wm. Horsley, Ham Cropper, and George Sanders, as my servants or managers (under me) thereof. I have given them orders to direct the management of the other inferior servants, (namely) John Bright (!) John Hill, John Van- denvoren, as box-keepers, Gilbert Richard son, housekeeper; John Chaplain, regulator; William btanley and Henry lluggins,' ser vants that wait on the company at the said Assembly; W llliam Penny aud J os. Penny, as porters thereof. And all the above-men tioned persons I claim as my domestick ser vants, and demand all those privileges that belong to me as a peeress of Great Bri tain appertaining to my said Assembly. M. Mokdington. Dated 8th Jan., 1774." But the House declared against her. Proceedings were. also taken against the a notorious famous Lady Buckinghamshire, gamestress; who, at tne close of the last cen- tury, actually slept with a pair of pistols at her a blunderbuss and side to protect her faro-bank. On the 11th March, 1 7'J 7, her lady. ship, together with Lady E. Luttereil and a Mrs. bturt, were convicted at the police court and fined 50 for playing at faro; and Henry Martindale was convicted and fined 200 for keeping the faro table at Lady Buckinghamshire's. This fellow soon afterward "burst up," and went into bankruptcy, owing 3:28,000, besides "debts of honor amounting to lo0,000. Goine up" for an odd $2,500,000 far surpasses any "blackleg failure that has yet occurred in this republican country. His assets yielded about seven cents on tne dollar. Beau Nash was in his palmy day a noted player, but in his last years abandoned it. When the Earl of T was a youth he was passionately fond of play. Nash undertook to cure him. Conscious of his superior skill, he engaged the Earl in single play. His lordship lost his estate, equipage, everything! The generous Nash returned all, only stipulating for the payment of 5000 whenever he might think proper to demand it. Some time after his lordship's death, Nash's affairs being on the wane, he demanded it of his heirs, who paid it without hesitation I be corporation ot Jiatn so nigniy respected Nash that the Chamber voted a marble statue of him, which was erected in the Pump Room, between the busts of Newton and Pope. This caused Lord Chesterfield s stinging epigram concluding with these lines: "The status placed these busts between Gives satire all Its strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Fully at full length." George Selwyn, one of the remarkable En glishmen of a hundred years ago, marred an otherwise exceedingly fine character by his passion for gaming. He had another peculiar characteristic a morbid, interest in tne details of human suffering, and a taste for witnessing criminal executions. When the first Lord Holland was on his death-bed he was told that Selwyn, Mho had lived on terms of the closest intimacy with him, had called to inquire after his health: "The next time Mr. Selwyn calls," said he. "show him up; if I am alive, I shall be delighted to Bee him; if 1 am dead, be will be clad to see me. When some ladies ban tered him on his want of feeling in attending to see the terrible Lord Lovat'a head out off "Why," he said. "I made amends by going to the undertaker's to see it sewed on again. And yet this was the same man who delighted in the first words and in the runny looks of childhood; whose friendship seems to have partaken of all the softness of female affec tion: and whose heart was never hardened acainst the wretched and oppressed -The following are some of Selwyn 's jokes relating to gambling One nioht, at White's, observing the Post master-General, Sir Edward Fawkener, losing a larce sum at piquet, Selwyn, pointing to the successful player, remarked, "See now, he is robbing the menu On another occasion, in 1770, observing Mr. Ponsonby. the bpeaker of the Irish House of Commons, tossing about bank-bills at a hazard-table at Newmarket "Look! be said; "how easily the Speaker passes the money bills! On one of the waiters at Arthur's Club, having been committed to prison for a felony "What a horrid idea," said Selwyn, "he will eive of us to the people of Newgate'" When the affairs of Charles Fox were in a more than usually embarrassed state, chiefly through his gambling, his friends raised a subscription among themselves for bis relief. One of them remarking that it would require some delicacy in breaking the matter to him. and adding that, "he won dered how Fox would take it?" "Take it? interrupted Selwyn: "why ouarterly, to be Gibbon writes to Lord Sheffield in 1773 "You know Lord Holland is paying Charles Fox s debts. They amount to 110,000 This was mobtly the result of gambling, and principally by losses at faro. Before he at tained his thirtieth year he had completely dissipated everything that he could either command or could procure by the must ruinous expedients. He had even undergone many of the severest privations incidental to the vicissitudes that attend a gamester's pro gress; frequently wanting money to defray the common daily wants of the most pressing nature. Of the Jews he borrowed great sums at exorbitant preminrus. His brother btephen was enormously ijl, George Selwyn said he was in the right to deal with Shylocks, as he could give them pounds of nefth ! Un the deatn of Lord Holland he left Charles 154,000 to pay his debts; it was all "bespoke, and Fox soon became as deeply pledged as befere. Amidst tne wildost excesses of youtn, even while the perpetual victim of his passion for play, Fox eagerly cultivated his taste for let ters, especially tne Greek and Itoman tns torians and poets, and he found resources in their works under the most severe depressions occasioned by losses. One morning, after he had passed the whole night in company with lopbam Beauclcrck at faro, the two friends were about to separate. Fox had lost through the night, and was in a frame of mind ap proaching to desperation. Beauclercks anxiety for the censequenoes which might ensue led him to be early at ioxs lodg ings; and on arriving be inquired, not without apprehension, wbether he had risen. The servant replied that Mr. Fox was in the drawing-room, when Beauclerck walked up stairs and cautiously opened the door, expecting to behold a frantio gamester stretched on the floor bewailing bis losses; but he was astonished to find him reading a Greek Herodotus. On perceiving his friend's surprise Fox exclaimed, "What would you have me do? I have lost my last shilling." Fox's best friends are said to have been half ruined in annuities gi ven by them as securities for him to the Jews. 500,000 a year of Buch annuities of Fox and his society were advertised to be sold at one time. Walpole notes that in the debate on the Thirty-nine Articles (a religious de bate !), February C, 1772, Fox did not shine. No wonder ! He had sat up playing at hazard, at Almack's, from Tuesday evening, the 4 th, till 5 in the afternoon of Wednesday, the 5th. An hour before he bad recovered 12,000 that he had lost; and by dinner, which was at 5 o clock, he had ended, losing 11,000! On Thursday he spoke in the above debate; went to dinner at past 11 at night; from thence to White's, where he drank till 7 the next morning; thence to Almack's, where he won G000; and between 3 and 4 in the afternoon he set out for New market. His brother Stephen lost 11,000 two nights after, and Charles 10,000 more on the 13th; so that in three nights the two brotbers tbe eldest not twenty five years of age lost $1G0,000! On one occasion Stephen Fox was dreadfully fleeced at a gaming-house at the West End He entered it with 13,000, and left it with out a farthing. Mr. Fox died at the age of fifty-seven. Probably no public man, of the highest intellectnal, social, and political rank, either in England or in any other coun try, gamed so largely and desperately as Mr, Fox. This was the great defect of his char acter. In all other respects he was delight ful. The pleasantry, perhaps, of no man of wit had so unlabored an appearance. It seemed rather to escape from his mind than to be produced by it. He had lived on the most intimate terms with all his contemporaries distinguished by wit. noliteness. nhilosonhv. learning, or the talents of publio life. In the course of thirty years bo bad known almost every man in Europe whose intercourse could strengthen, or enrich, or polish the mind. He was the most Demosthenean Bpeaker since the days of Demosthenes. "I knew him," said Edmund Burke, "when he was nineteen; since which time he has risen, by slow degrees, to be the most brilliant and accomplished debater the world ever saw. liotn wubertorce and rut were at one eriod of their lives gamesters. Pitt onco ost 100 at the faro-table at Goosetree's; but soon after, perceiving the fascination of gaming, abandoned it forever. uberlorce s own case is thus recorded by his biographers, on tke authority of his pri vate journal: "We can have no play to night, complained some of the party at the club, "for St. Andrew is not here to keep the bank. "mlberforce, said Mr. Bankes. who never joined himself, ,"if you will keep it I will give you a guinea." The playful challenge was accepted; but as the game grew deep, be rose tne winner ot 000, Alucn of tms was lost iy tnose wbo were only heirs to fortunes, and therefore could not meet such a call without inconvenience, The pain he felt at their annoyance cured him of a taste which seemed but too likely to become predominant. Sir Philip Francis, the supposed author of "Junius," was a gambler, and ithe convivial companion of Fox, who made him a Knight of the Bath. Une evening Koger Wiibrabam came up to the whist-table where bix Philip, who for the first time wore the ribbon of the order, was engaged in a rubber, and said, laying hold of the ribbon, "So this is the way they nave rewarded you at last; a bit of red ribbon for your services; and that satis fies you, does it ? Now, what do you think they will give me, Sir Philip ?" The newly- made knight, wha had twenty-live guineas depending on the rubber, and who was not very well pleased at the interruption, sud denly turned round, and, looking at him fiercely, exclaimed; "A halter, and be " eto Captain Dennis u lveiiy was called tbe Ad mirable Crichton" of the turf. A bet for a large sum having once been proposed to him. the proposer asked u Jveuy wbere lay his estates to answer for the amount if he lost, "My estates:" cried O'Kelly. "Oh, if that's what you mane, I ve a map of them here, And opening his pocket-book, exhibited bank notes to ten times the sum in question, and ultimately added the inquirer's contribution to them. Crockford's, which was opened in 1827, was the most famous of modern London gambling-houses. It was fashionable. Wei lington, who was an original member, did not play, being in this respect unlike Bluoher, who repeatedly lost everything he had at play. Crockford was originally a fishmonger. In 1840 he retired, a million aire, much as an Indian chief retires from a hunting country when there is not game enough left for his tribe, and the club tot tered to its fall. Turf-gambling has long been one of the most conspicuous of English immorals. Lord Foley, who died in 17U3, is supposed to havo lost 1000 on the turf. The last grand sensation and explosion ia the English Bporting world was in 18U7, when the late young Marquis of Hastings lost 100,000 on Hermit. When rapid decay and a premature death put an end to his suffer ings, many felt that he had atoned for his errors and indiscretions, while all united in considering him another unfortunate victim added to the long list of those who have sacrificed their fortune, health, and honor to the gambling Moloch presiding over the turf of England. Among tbe notauie suicides mat nave re suited from gambling that of Lord Mouutford is conspicuous. He had lost money; feared to be reduced to distress; asked for a Govern ment appointment; and determined to throw the die of life or death on the answer re ceived from court. The answer was unfavor able. He consulted several persona, indi rectly at first, afterwards directly, on the twtwt iuotie of hniuhing life: iavited a din ner-party for the day after j supped at White's, and played whist until 1 o clock of the New Tear a morning. Lord Robert Bertie drank to him "a happy New Year;" he clapped his hand strangely to his eyes. In the morning he sent for a lawyer and three witnesses, ex- . . tn , ii , i l : ecuteu ms win. uinuo vueoi rnau it uot iwiuo. paragraph by paragraph, asked the lawyer if that will would Btand good though a man should shoot himself. Being assured it would, he Baid: "Pray stay, while I step into the next room;" went into the next room and shot himself, placing the muzzle of the pistol so close to bis bead that the report was not heard. In concludin g these cupous facts and aneo- dotes relating to gambling, it may not be in appropriate to quote a paragraph from a ser mon of the good Bishop Latimer, preached in St. Edward s Churcb, Cambridge, on the Sunday before Christmas day, 1527, in which discourse he may be said to have "dealt" out an exposition of the precepts of Christianity according to the terms of card-playing: "Now ye have heard what is meant by this 'first card, and how you ought to play with it. I purpose again to 'deal unto you 'another card almost of the same suit,' for they be of so nigh affinity that one cannot be played without the other," eto. "It seems," says Fuller, "that he suited his sermon rather to the time being about Christmas, when cards were much used than to the text, which was the Baptist's question to our Lord: 'Who art thou ?' taking occasion to conform his dis course to the 'playing at cards,' making the heart triumpb. 'The sharp, the blaclc-leg, and tho knowing one, Livery or lace, the self-sarae circle ran: The same the passion, end and means the same- Dick and his Lordship diner but in name." tlarptr't Magazine far June. LOMBERi 1870 BPRUUB JOIST. 8PKTJCB JOI8T. H KM LOCK. HEMLOCK. 1870 1870 8 SA SON ED CLEAR PINS. SKA HONED CLEAR PINE. CHOICE PATTERN PINK. 1870 SPANISH CEDAR, FOR PATTERNS RED CEDAR. 1870 FLORIDA FLOORmG. FLORIDA FLOORING. CAROLINA FLOORING. VIRGINIA FLOORING. DELAWARE FLOORING. ASH FLOORING. WALNUT FLOORING. FLORIDA STEP BOARDS. RAIL PLANK. 1870 1 Q7A WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK-1 Q7A 10 I U WALNUT BOARDS AND FLANK.IO I U WALNUT BOARDS. WALNUT PLANK. 1870 UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER. UNDERTAKERS LUMBER. RED CEDAR. WALNUT AND PINE. 1870 1870 SEASONED POPLAR. SEASONED CHERRY. 1870 ASH. WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS. HICKORY. 1 QTA CIUAJR BOX MAKERS' 1 Q17A 10 I U CIGAR BOX MAKERS 10 4 U bPANlHU OKUAJt BOX BOARDS. FOR SALE LOW. 1870 CAROLINA SCANTLING. CAROLINA H. T. SILLS. NORWAY SCANTLING. 1870 1870 CEDAR SHINGLES. CYPRESS SHINGLES. 1870 u k tit IP TiTr kTiJ irxy rvi 115 M n f l r" iiiu a. it uit vm wj No. 8600 SOUTH Street OANEL PLANK, ALL THICKNESSES. X 1 COMMON PLANK. ALL THIOKMBStUCS. 1 OOMHDN BOARDS. I and SIDE FKNUK BOARDS. WU1T-K PINK VIA ORINU BOARDS. YKLI.OW AND SAP PINK KLOOU1NUS. IM and 4U. BMIl.UUK JU1ST, ALL. B1Z.KB. PLA8TKKINO LATH A BPKOIALTT. Together with a Keoera) iMortroent of Building Lumber for sale low "r mh. T. W. 6 31 nm Ho. 1716 K1DUK Avenue, nottn ot feplar t. United States Builders' Mill, FIFTEENTH Street below Market ESLER & BROTHER, PROPRIETORS. 4 29 8m Wood Mouldings, Brackets and General Turning Work, Hand-rail ttaluHtera aud Newel Posts. A LA HUH. MliH' ALtVAlo Ui U&iXU. BUILDING MATERIALS. It. B. THOMAS & CO., SBALEB8 IN Doors, Blinds, Sash, Shutters, WINDOW FRAMES, ETC., M. W. CORNER OF EIGHTEENTH and MARKET Streets 4Ht PHILADELPHIA. ROOFING. READY ROOFIN Q This BooflnA-U adapted to aU buildings. It can be applied to DrrrTT d-d nn nm nnniM at one-half the expense of tin. It is readily pat on eld Shinttle Roofs without removiur the shingles, thus avoid in the damaging of oeilin-s and faraitare while under- going repairs. (No gravel naea.i PKKSKRVK Vodr tin roofs with WKLTON jLLiAryi iu riu'i. I am alwava nraoared to ReDair and Paint Roof at sho notice. Also. FAINT 1UK BALK Dj the Dane J or cslion the best and cheapest in the market. I 17! Ke. 711 R. NINTH Btxeet Above Ooatea, A. c. fM i r IE CO. TIN, COPPER, AND IRON ROOFERS, No. 1624 SOUT H Street and No. fr-'l RIDGE Avenue. Patentees of tbe SPIRAL EXPANSIVE CONDUCTOR SPOUT. This spout bas by a two years' trial proved to be a success, having put np some 6U0 stacks, every one of which has given entire satisfaction. It is a spiral ooil, thus dispensing with the upright soam, which invariably breaks first in the spout. We guarantee it to be Arm, more durable, to bear more freezing, aud cost less than any other good spout. Rooting and Guttering at reason able prices. Old Roofs Repaired and Painted. 6 21 lm T H) BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS. We are prepared to furnish Rnifligu imported in quantities to luit. Ttiie rooting wu used to corer tbe raria tmiuiuou in iww. MERCHANT A CO., 6 13 lm Koa. 617 auij LeWMJNOUJHreetv. STEAMBOAT LINES. FOR CHESTER. HOOK. AND WILMINGTON.-Tbe ateamer 8. M. KKfj. TON leaves OUKbNl'T&l'KKlL'r 11 A it r at lu A, M. and 3 60 K M. : leavea WILMINGTON at 6 40 A. JM aad U'60 P.M. Fare to Wiluitnirton 15 oerta Kxuuruon Ticket, 26 ceuta. Cheater or Hook W cents; Vxuureioa Tickuta, IB cent. 6 61m QENT.'S FUHNI8H1NQ OOOD3. pATKNT HHOULDEK-8KAM SHIRT MANUFACTORY, tKO GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE. PERFECTLY FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWERS made Iroin measurement at very gtiort notice. All other arUult ot GENTLEMEN'S DRESS GOODS la fall variety. WINCHESTER CO., tl 9 No. To4 CBEaNUT Street MEDICAL. ix i i: u r u ii! FOX'S I RAMP AND DIAKRIKl'A MIXTUKK bas never failed. It has saved the live of tuouaanda. All it needs is a fair trial Mo family ahouii be without it, whether at home or at the aa etiore. "It's worth its weiK't in sold No core bo pay. Prepared only l fPl'KR P. K)X, Ayotbeonr. 1 WKVl'Y TUIKU and bi'iiti is eueti's, Diuiigists. l'luld'pliiat cud for ! lv hU eiaisui OORDAOE, ETO. WEAVER & CO., norG MAXITFACTUIIERS AND SHIP CIIAItILKU8t No. 29 North WATER Street and No. 83 North WHARVES, Philadelphia. ROPB AT LOWEST BOSTON AND NEW TORS TRICES. 4 1 CORDAGE. Manilla, Sisal and Tarred Cordage At Lowest New York Prices and Freight EDWIN II. FITL.ER de CO Factory, THHTH Bt, and GKRMANTOWH Aran, Store, Vo. S3 V. WATER St and 82 II. DELAWARE SHIPPING. ftffft LORILLARD'S STEAMSHIP LINE FOR NEW YORK are now receiving freight at 5 rents per 100 ponnds, 3 cents per foot, er 1-t eent per callon, ahln option. INSURANCE M OF 1 PER CENT. Kztra rates on small packages iron, metals, eto. No receipt or bill of lading signed for less than SO oenta. The Line wonld call attention of merchants general! to the fact that hereafter tbe regular shippers by this Una will be charged only 10 cents per 100 lbs., or 4 oenta per loot, anting the winter seasons. For farther particulars apply to JOHN P. OHI, 1888 PIKR 19. NORTH WHARVES. fffK PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN ihlO. mil KTKAMSHIP (JOMPANY'R RIM.tr. LAU bKMI MONTHLY LINE TO NEW OK LKANS, La. 'ii.- .nuir f vg 11 ii r.. niA.H at & - iud vy. i.i". -j ..... . u. .10. viiMUl UllVCh DB Th nrsday, My a, at 8 A. M. 1 The YAZOO will sail from New Orleans, via Havana, on M ay Through bills of lading at as low rates as by any other route given to Mobile, Ualveeton, Indianola, Lavaoca, and Mrasos, snd to all points on the MiBsissippi river between 1 fc. . 1 I. . ... at New Orleans without charge of commissions. WEEKLY LINE TO SATANNAH, OA. Tbe TON AW AND A will sail for Savannah on Satnr. diiy. May 31, at 8 A. At. The WVOM1NU will sail from Savannah on Satur. day. May 21. Tbrouuh bills of lading given to all tbe nrineinal towns in Georgia, Alnbama, Florida, Miasisaippi, Louisiana. Ar kaatas, and Tetmexsee in connection with the Central Mniircaa m ueorgis, Aiianuo ana uuit Kaiiroad, and Florida steamers, at as low rates as by competing lines. BKMI MONTHLY LINK TO WILMINGTON, N. O. The PIONKKK will sail for Wilmington ou Fririav. aoth inst. Returning, will leave Wilmington Friday, SlTtb innt. Connects with the Cape Fear River Steamboat (lira. nany, the Wilmini ton snd Weldon and North Carolina Railroads, and the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad to all interior points. rciguts tor Columma, a. v., ana Augusta, Ua., taken via Wilmington, at us low rates as by any other route. Insurance effected when reoneBted by ehinnnra. Tiilla of lading signed at Queen stroot wharf on or before day of sailing. ... w LLiL.iA.il Ij. iiAinr.9, uenerat Agent. 61 No. VM South THIRD Street. PHILADELPHIA AND CHARLES TON STEAMSHIP LINE. This line is now composed of the following flrat-elaaa Steanmhips, sailing from PIKR 17, below Spruce street on FKHA Y of each week at 8 A. M. : AsnLniJ,B wins, iapi. uroweii. J. W. EVK.RMAN, &H tons.Capt. Hinckley. PROMETHEUS, Hl tons, Oapt. Gray. JUNE, im. Prometheus, Friday, June 3. J. W. Kveiman, Friday, June 10. Prometheus, Friday, June 17. J. W. Kverman, Friday, June 24. Through bills of ladins given to Columbia. H. O.. the in. teriorot Georgia, and all points Sooth and Southwest. rreignts lorwaraea witn promptness ana aespatoh. Rates as low as ly any other route. Insurance one half per cent., effected at the office in ilrnt-cl89 companies. no treignt receivea nor Dins 01 laamg signea alter g tr M. on day of sailing. . . . HOLDER ds ADAMS, Agents. No. 8 UOtJk Street, OrtoWLLLIAM P. OLYDK CO. No. 13 8. WHARVES. WM. A. COURTENAY, Agent in Charleston. t i U rfftfK FOR LIVERPOOL AND QUEENS . .T.IHjTnwi. t iin9 ot Uaii Steamers are an. pointed to aail as follows; City of Baltimore, via Halifax, Tuesday, May 31, 1 P. M. City of Rrooklyn, Saturday, Jane 4, 9 A.M. City of Brussels, Saturday, June 11, at 1 P. M. Etna, via Halifax, Tuesday, June 14, 1 P. a And each succeeding Saturday and alternate Tuesday from Pier 45, North River; RATES OF PA88AGH. BT TBI af AIL STaVajsUU tAUJXa EVKBT lATtTKDiT. Payable in Gold. Payable in Currency. FIRST CABIN 8110 I STEERAGK t To I.o mi on. lut I To London.. 49 To Paris 116 I To Paris 41 PABBAGl BT THE TUTXVAX tnAXXB, TtA HAUVAX. ITURlSa Payable in Gold. FIRST CalJIN. ' Parable in Onrranee. LWerDool .S80 1 Liverpool CM Halifax ft HaJifa....... 14 bt. John's, H. F., n. r.. 1 .r 1 du vuuu 17., c as Dy rtranon B Passengers 1 -s also forwarded to Havre, Hamburg. Bremen, Tickets can be bought here at moderate rates) by persona r1 ah in a tj unit fn t h AIT friendS. For further paxUoulars apply at the Company's Office r further Particular. YjTiWge No. IS Broadway. N. Y. to O'DONNELL A FAULK. Aitnta. . Or 41 Wo. 4u OHESMUT Street, Philadelphia. TJTTTT k riTT'T TT7T k TJTr'TTVrvvrr. 4 TC I VnPPfl..kr MTU1! UUIITD ITVD l HKOUt.II FREIGHT ALU LINK TO THE SOUTH INCREASED FACILITIES AND REDUCED RATES FOR 1H7U. Steamers leave every WF ON KSDAYand SATURDAY at 12 o'oluck noon, from FIRST WHARF above MAR KET Street. RETURNING, leave RICHMOND MONDAYS and THURSDAYS, and NORFOLK TUESDAYS and SA TURD AY 8. Ne Bills of Lading signed after 13 o'clock on tailing d THROUGH RATES to all points in North and South. Carolina, via Seaboard Air Line Railroad, connecting at Portsmouth, and to Lynchburg, Va.. Tennessee, and the West, via Virginia and Tennessee Air Line and Richmond and Danville Railroad. Freight HANDLED BUTONOE, and taken at LOWER rates than any other line. No charge for commission, drayage, or any expense ol transfer. , riteamshipt insure at loweat rates. Freight received daily, atata Room accommodations for passengers. fcUtelloomatoiuiUwij LlAM p OIA?1)1 4 No. 12 8. WHA RV KB and Pier 1 N. WHARVES. W. P. PORTER. Agent at Richmond and City Point. T. P. CROWELL A CO.. Agents at Norfolk. 1 1 F O R NEW YORK, I fiiAV r? va Delaware and Raritan Oanal. sfi 11 11 m -ir'rp" steamboat company. 1 tie Mum Propellers of the liae will oommenoo load ing on tlie Mb. imttaot, leaving daily as usual. " THKOUGH IN TWENTY FOUR HOURS. Goods forwarded by all the lines goine eut of New York North, East, or VN est, free of oommiasion. Freights received at low rates. WILLIAM P. CLYDE ft Co., Agents, No. 12 South DELAWARE Avenue. JAMES HAND, Agent. No. 11H WALL Street, New York. 8 41 FOR NEW YORK. VIA DELA- 1 ware and Raritan Oanal. 1 bWUTbURE TRANSPORTATION COM- DESPATCH AND SWIFT8URE LINES. Leaving daily at U M. and 6 P. M. The steam propellers of this oompany will 00mmencs oaaing on ths Bill ot March. 'J hrough in twenty-four hours. Gtxls forwarded to any point free of commissions. . F reights taken on accommodating terms. Apply to WILLIAM M. BAIRD A CO., Agents, No. V.U South DELAWARE A venae. M lf-9 DELAWARE AND CHESAPEAKE Ld"V STEAM TOWBOAT COMPANY. Bargee) mrnt m im rt towed between Philadelphia, Baltimore. Hasre de-Grace, Delaware City, and intermediate points. Vv 11X1 AM P. CLYDE A CO., Agents. Captain JOHN I.Al'Gh LIN, Superintendent. Ouice. No. la South Wharvee. Philadelphia. 4 118 ft NEW EXPRESS LINE TO Ct -T Alexandria, Georgetown, and Washington, aaail). U.. via GheaanajtlfA n ,t h.i...ra 1 with connections at Alexandria from the moat direct route for Lynchburg, Bristol, Knoxville. Nashville, Dai tun, and the Southwest. bteamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon from tbe lirot wharf above Market street. Freight received daily WILLIAM P CLYDE A CO., ,T... . .No. 14 North aad South W 11 AR VES. HYDE A TYLER, Agents at Georgetown; M. ELD1UDGE A CO.. A -Att Alexandria. li COTTON BAIL DUCK AND CANVAS, of all Bombers aad brands. Tent, Awning, Trnnk and Wagon-oover Dock. Alao. Paper Manutaotarwrs Drier Felts, from thirty to seveAaraU wiUi Paulina, belting, bail Twine, eto. a W CslUkUHtUres-llOitf htanu