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THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PH IL ADELPHI A, WEDNBSDA ST, JUNE 1, 1870.
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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