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JONATHAN Htl. GREEN;         (THE "REFORMED GAMBLER.")
TO WHICH 1 ADDEDr
A COMPLETE AND FULL EXPOSITION
OF THE
GAME OF THIMBLES; DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND, OR THE GENTLEMAN'S
GAME; DEAD OPEN AND SHUT; CHURCH GAMBLING; FIVE ACES BEATEN;
LOTTERIF:'. ",ST OFFTCE GAME; POUND CAKE, OR RING GAME;
THE PREACHER AND THE GAMBLER; GRAB LOO, ETC., ETC.
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.
It commences by showing how he became a Gambler-why he resolved to Reform
-Destruction of his Gambling Instruments-He makes Restitution-The Question of
Reformation-His Conversion-Unites with the Methodist Church-IHis Determination to Lecture the rest of his Life throughout the United States, and Expose the
Tricks of Gamblers, together with a full Autobiography of his Life up to the present
time. Beautifully embellished with illustrative engravings.
.VI)it abtt[I)ia:
T. B. PETERSON AND BROTHERS
306 CHESTNUT STREET.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by
T. B. PETERSON,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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PRE F ACE.
FROM the commencement of my labors against the vice of Gambling, an unfeigned curiosity has been manifested by all classes of
people, in regard to the cause of so mnarked a change in the life
of one hitherto thoroughly steeped, as he freely confesses, in all
the "mystery of iniquity," associated with the deplorable profession of a Gambler.
Such inquiries as the following, are constantly being made:
What induced Mr. Green to break off from his Gambling business? Was it the result of the workings of a truly awakened
conscience!  What was his character as a Gambler!   Was he a
drunkard? Was he an adroit and successful player? Did he
ever possess much wealth during his Gambling life? What did
he do with the money he had in hand, (if any,) when he relinquished the business? Does hlie not make as much money by his
" Reform" movement, as by his Gambling? Is he a professor of
religion, and with what Church has he associated himself?  Such
questions as these, relating to my personal experience, will be
answered in the pages of this book.
Another object also is sought by its publication.
I have now been engaged in this Reform for eight yearm I
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have travelled through our country-found many acquaintancesmade, I trust, many friends. I have daily evidence that these
friends are anxious to know what I have accomplished during a
campaign of eight years. Hence, I propose, in this volume, to
present not only the leading facts of my life as a Gambler, and
my Reformation, but also a view of the work in which I have
been since engaged.
I shall also subjoin a history of my twelve days' incarceration
in the Tombs of New York, during the month of Feb. 1850. This
was, indeed, one of the most remarkable incidents of my life,
and will, I trust, add another proof of the assurance, that " He
maketh the wrath of man to praise Him."
Like my other books, this tale is told in a plain, simple manner,
without rhetorical point or literary polish; but I trust it will be
read in a generous and Christian spirit, and meet with that warmhearted response from my many friends, which they have so
nobly given to my previous works, and for which, if I know my
own heart, I am deeply grateful.
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
PAGM
How I became a Gambler-The Question of Reformation-Scene on board a
Mississippi Steamer-A Game of" Old Sledge" broken up-Preaching on
board by Rev. George Lighlt-Arrive at Cincinnati-Burn my Cards and
Gambling Implements-Employ a Teacher-Visit a Methodist Camp Meet ing-Become a Probationary Member of the Methodist Episcopal Church Make Restitution, so far as in my power, of the Property I had made by
Gambling-A Philanthropist Furnishes me with Necessary Means of going
to School-A Term in the Augusta College-Write the "Arts and Mise ries of Gambling"-The Excitement it Produces-Life Threatened by Cap tain John Howard, the Notorious River Robber..............                9
CHAPTER II.
Resolve to Reform-Destroy my Gambling Implements-Make Restitu
tion-Unite with the Methodist Episcopal Church-Determine to Lecture
and Expose the Tricks of Gamblers-Call a Meeting in Cincinnati-Lec ture in Baltimore, Washington City, New York and Boston, and Organize
Anti-Gambling Societies-Visit Albany, Utica, Syracuse, Cazenovia, Ro chester, Buffalo, Cleveland and Detroit-Address a Large Assembly in the
Public Street-Lecture in Dayton and Return to Ohio..-............. —-- -.. 18
CHAPTER III.
Return to Cincinnati-Persecution Commenced-Arrested for Debt-Swin dled-Lecture in Cincinnati, Maysville, Kentucky-Columbus, O.-Secure
the Passage of an Anti-Gambling Law for Ohio-Gamblers greatly Excit ed-Life Threatened-The Gamblers demand my Body of the Landlord                                                      V 
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In Debt-The Ladies come to my Rescue-Publicly Present me with Bible
and Hymn Book, and give me a Benefit-Further assisted by Hon. Mr. Pert
kins-Return to Cincinnati-Presented with a Gold Medal-Visit Lawrenceburg and marry Miss Bullock-Visit Eastern partof Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia-The Baker Family-Visit Indiannapolis and St. LouisDifficulty with Editor of" Reveille"-Return to my Family at Lawrenceburg......,.................................................a!.81
CHAPTER IV.
Visit Harrisburgh, Pa.-Secure the Passage of an Anti-Gambling Law-My
Property Destroyed by Fire-Generosity of tihe Citizens-Visit Philadel phia-Presented with a Silver Goblet-Visit Washington City, Richmond,
Va., Petersburgh, Va.-Gambling in Petersburgh-Good men Ruined-Ef forts to Suppress Gaming by R. R. Collier, Esq.-Visit Lynchburgh, Va. Perilous Adventure on the Road to the Sulphur Springs-Break up the
Gaming at the Springs-Return to Cincinnati-VisitFrankfort, Ky.-Secure
the Passage of an Anti-Gambling Law-Visit the Eastern States-Visit
Washington, D. C., Newport, R. I.,"Fall River, Mass., New York, New Haven,
Ct., Bridgeport, Ct., Binghamton, N. Y.-Return to New Haven, where I
Locate Permanently..........................................40
CHAPTER V.
A Digression-Publication of" Green's National Guard"'-Form the acquain tance of Dr. D. Francis Bacon-My Association with him and his Paper Move to New Haven-Reform Party Organized-The War upon the Gam blers, Rum Shops and Dance Houses Commenced-Billiard Tables Seized Stolen and sent to New York-Ransom and Upsom Arrested-Their Trials
before Justice Bennett-Eloquent Speech of the Rummies' Counsel-Final
Defeat of the Reform Party............. ——..... —----—.....-............... 47
CHAPTER VI.
East Rock-Murder of the Smith Family-Discovery of their Bodie -Prompt
Action of the Authorities, and Vigilance of the Police-McCaffrey the
Suspected Murderer-Pursue to Canada-Use my own Funds-Send to
Mayor Peck for money to Prosecute my Search-The Money Refused Enlist the Sympathy and Services of a Noble-Hearted Canadian-Out of
Funds-Supplied by a Generous Citizen of New Haven-Return Home McCaffrey Caught, Tried, Convicted, and Sentenced to Death........-...  568
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CHAPTER VII.
My Sojourn in Washington City-Pause to Procure an Office under the
General Government-W.  W. Wick-Receive an Appointment  as a
Secret Agent for the Treasury Department-Visit Fall River-Become
Acquainted with Silas W. Spaulding-Business Arrangements with him Deceives me-His Baseness and Hypocrisy-Resolve to Return to Canada
in Pursuit of McCaffrey-Visit Albany-Efforts in Behalf of an Anti-Gam bling Law for New York-Arrested by A. M. C. Smith-Taken to the New
York City Prison-Life in the Tombs-Examined and Acquitted-Return
to New Haven-Kindness of the Citizens, &c........................ 64
CHAPTER VIII.
Arrests and Trials.............................,                 76
CHAPTER IX.
The Defaulter...............................................10
CHAPTER X.
The Gambler's Cabin.......................................................107
CHAPTER XI.
The Game of Thimbles; Dr. Bennett, the King Thimble Player-The Young
Man with two such Piercing Eyes-Best Two in Three....................114
CHAPTER XII.
The Preacher and the Gambler, a True Scene on Board a South-Western
Steamer.................................................................. 118
CHAPTER XIII.
The Man of the Mountains; or Hypochondrias Cured.................. 122
CHAPTER XIV.
Patch Coat; The Gentleman's Game; or Diamond cut Diamond.............. 126
CHAPTER XV.
Dead Open and Shut; or the Way they Play in Arkansas.................... SO
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CHAPTER XVI.
The Saw Mill; or the Honest Man Ensnared.................................139
CHAPTER XVII.
A Youth Victimized by Gambling.................................148
CHAPTER XVIII.
Church Gambling; Lotteries-Post Office Game-Pound Cake or Ring Game
-Grab Loo-Fast Driving on the Lord's Day-Church Fairs, &c............154
CHAPTER XIX.
Captain John Howard-Steamer Smelter-Captain Harris and H. Roberts Strange Conduct Satisfactorily Explained-Five Aces  Beaten-Spurlock,
the great Western Bogus Maker, in the Character of a Horse Drover-De feat of Captain John Howard, the Notorious River Robber, and his Clan. Roberts' Ironical Remark..............................................16
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CHIIAPTER I.
How I became a Gambler-The Question of Reformation-Scene on board a Missi sippi Steamer-A Game of "Old Sledge" broken up-Preaching on board by Re?.
George Light-Arrive at Cincinnati-Burn my Cards and Gambling Implements Employ a Teacher-visit a Methodist Camp-Meeting-Become a Probationary
Member of the Methodist Episcopal Church-Make Restitution, so far as in my
power. of. the Property I had made by Gambling-A Philanthrophist Furnishes me
with Necessary Means of Going to School-A Term in the Augusta College-Write
the Arts and Miseries of Gambling-The Excitement it Produces-Life Threatened
by Captain John Howard, the Notorious River Robber.
THiOSE who have read the history of my gaming career,
will recollect that the absence of all parental restraint, and
the entire neglect of my moral and intellectual education
led me, when a boy, to form vicious associations, which,
finally resulted in my becoming a professional gamester;
and for twelve years of my life I pursued the business of my
choice with an untiring energy, which would have triumphed over more than the ordinary obstacles in the pursuit of
wealth or an honest fame; but when, in the height of my
career, when I had reached in point of knowledge the acme
of my profession, I became deeply impressed with the idea
that the business of gaming was most nefarious and wicked,
and that if I would avert a ruin, which it was certain to
bring upon me, I must, immediately and forever, abandon it;
but when I entertained this thought, my evil genius pre.
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sented a host of reasons why I should continue as I was.
I was young, in perfect health, and gloried in my superior
skill as a player, for which I was distinguished, as it was
generally conceded by my gamnbling companions that I had
few equals, and no superiors; which, together with the fact
that I had for several years been engaged in the manufacture
of playing cards, were urged as reasons why I should not
abandon a profession which had, and always would continue
to yield large annual profits; besides this, I was hedged in
by the vices which strew the pathway of the gambler, and
the barrier which society has erected between him and it,
seemed to be almost impassible; but, as the thoughts of reformation pressed home upon my heart, I involuntarily
asked myself-" What am I to expect from society, if I do
reform? Will I receive the greetings of warm hearts and
extended hands, and be welcomed to its bosom as was the
prodigal son by his good old father? Or will I instead receive cold looks, suspicious glances, and impertinent rebukes?  Can I, who have done so much towards treading
down virtue and building up vice, hope, if I throw off my
evil associates and associations, to mingle on terms of
equality with the virtuous and good of this world? It
seemed unlikely though not impossible.  Again, if I reformed, what could I do towards sustaining myself? I had
no education, and was entirely unacquainted with the usual
business pursuits of men; and besides this, wherever I went,
I must encounter the fiercest opposition and hostility frommy
old associates and friends against whom I was about to set
my face, and whose devices I contemplated to expose; and
then the question would arise-can I reform?-the experiment is a novel one, few have tried it, and they have failed
and returned to their old habits; have I more power over myself than they' Is it possible to give up old habits and as
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sociations, the business, pleasures, excitements and excesses
of a gambler's life, in which I have so long indulged? I
knew it would be a difficult task, but I encouraged myself
by remrnembering the care with which, from childhood, I had
kept my temperance pledge, despite the many temptations
of my gambling career. I had done thus much, as it seemed to me, of my own strength; could I not now, by the
grace of God, disenthral myself from the perils, dangers,
and wickedness which, from childhood, had beset my
path? At last I resolved, that sink or swim, live or die, I
would make the experiment, and renounce, at once and for
ever, the life and pursuits of the gambler.
I was at this time, in June, 1842, on a gambling tour on
the Mississippi. I had taken passage from St. Louis to
Cincinnati, on board of a boat upon which I had hoped to
find some persons from whom I might win enough money
to meet a special emergency. Not long after the steamer
left her moorings, a scene occurred that settled my resolution to reform, and terminated at once my gambling career.
Among the passengers on board was an elderly gentleman
of the name of George Light, a minister of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and at that time stationed at Louisville,
Kentucky. This good old man, took the liberty of distributing tracts among the passengers, and having made the circuit of the boat, returned to the cabin and placed a number
of them upon the table. Soon after this, a company of
broken gamblers gathered about the table, and brushing off
the tracts, substituted a pack of cards, one of them remarking, with a contemptuous sneer, "now that we've scattered
the devil's books, let's have a social game of' Old Sledge'
for something to drink."  The proposition was accepted,
and the gamblers prepared to proceed with the game. I
had witnessed the whole movement, and resolved to spoil
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their amusement, and forthwith, without the least ceremony,
walked up to the table, took up the cards, and threw them
out of the cabin window into the river, and then replaced
the tracts upon the table, accompanying the act with the
remark that I would chastise any man who should, for an
evil purpose, again remove them. The men about the table
knew me to be a gambler, and therefore looked upon the
act with astonishment and not a little chagrin, whilst many
of the passengers, who knew the character of the despera does who were the actors in this curious scene, were prepared to witness one more hostile and bloody.
All along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, I was distinguised for deeds of desperation and violence; and as I was
well known to the party whose game I had broken up, they
wisely concluded to withdraw to the " Social Hall," where
they freely indulged in heaping profane epithets upon me
for my interference with their gaming operations.
The cabin being cleared, I retired to my state-room, where
I gave myself up to reflection, reviewing the scenes of my
past life, and strengthening my resolution to lead a new one.
I had promised my mother on her death-bed, when I was
but seven years of age, that I would never use intoxicating
drinks, and whenever I was tempted to violate this pledge,
the emaciated form of my dying mother would seem to appear to me and deter me from the act.  Thus I had been
enabled, hitherto, to keep my pledge; and I still hold it
sacred as life. And now, although twenty-eight long years
have elapsed since that melancholy separation, nothing affords
me so much pleasure, though mingled with sadness, as the
remembrance of the tenderness and care of my dear Christian mother.
Her image was now before me, and served to give poig.
nancy to each pang that my sad reflections created within
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my tortured bosom. I indeed had kept my temperance
pledge; but I had lived the life and practiced the crimes of
the gambler.  I thought of the innocent and lovely families
to whose ruin I had contributed; of the unmixed villany
of the gambling profession; and of the ruin it must ulti'
mately bring upon myself. In the midst of these distressing thoughts, I opened my trunk in order to arrange its contents, when my eye fell upon a small family Bible, in which
were recorded the names of departed relatives.   These
names called up associations which greatly increased the intensity of my feelings, and still more deeply impressed upon
my heart the sinfulness of my life and profession.* It was
then that the question came home to me —" Will you live
and die a gambler, or become an honest man?" To which
I replied-" By the help of God, I will never again play
another card, or any other game of chance; but from
this time forth, will expose the vices and tricks of gaming,
to prevent by my warning voice the ruin of others."
I had no sooner formed this resolution than I felt a new
life-spring gush up within me, sending its refreshing and
exhilarating streams through every channel of my soul. I
went out of my state-room conscious of a strength that I
had never had before; a strength always attendant upon a
return to the paths of virtue from a course of profligacy and
sin.  That strength has stood by me, having always been
sufficient for me, so that in the midst of all my trials and
temptations, I have been able to maintain mny resolution to
the present hour.
Shortly after I left my state-room, I located myself where
1 could hear the half-drunken gamblers mingling their
curses with my name, and denouncing the " devil's books,"
- Gamblers are generally superstitious, and a majority of them always carry
the Bible safely deposited in one corner of their trunk.
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as they called the tracts, that had been the occasion of their
wrath.  This made me feel like carryiing my  work  still
farther. I therefore resolved upon getting the old minister,
as it was Sunday, to preach us a sermon.  I accordingly
made  the proposition to Mr. Light, which he  readily accepted, and having obtained the consent of the captain of
the boat, I proceeded to make the necessary arrangements.
The cabin being cleared and the seats prepared, the doors
leading to the " Social Hall" were closed, inside of which I
took my stand, for the purpose of keeping the gamblers from
disturbing the meeting, as well as to let them know the interest I took in the services, which proceeded without the
slightest interruption, and at the close there was a general
expression of satisfaction among the passengers in regard to
the sermon and the talents of the minister. But for myself
I must confess I had paid but little attention to the sermon,
having been whtiolly occupied with keeping order among the
gamblers, and, indeed, having no particular interest in the
services farther than- carrying out my purpose of annoying
my old companions.
After the sermon, I was standing upon the after-guard of
the boat, reviewing the scenes of the last hour, and while
thus absorbed in my reflections, I felt the gentle pressure of
a hand upon my shoulder, and upon looking round, beheld
the old minister, who, after some commonplace remarks, referred to the interest I had taken in getting up the meeting,
and inquired to what persuasion of Christians I belonged?
I answered that unfortunately I was not a member of any
Christian Church, (which I deeply deplored,) and fearing
that he might press other, and more unpleasant questions, I
was inclined to retire; but before I could do so, he interrogated me as to my occupation. This was a more annoying
question than the other, but I replied promptly that I was
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a travelling speculator.  which was  true in one sense,
though it was, in effect, as I designed it should be, an evasion. With this reply I turned upon my heel and hastened
to my state-room; and from that time kept myself aloof from
all persons till I arrived- at Cincinnati.
Upon my arrival at Cincinnati, I secluded myself from
public observation for some days, until I had decided upon
the course proper for me to pursue towards carrying out my
reform intentions.   Many  of my former associates  pronounced me insane, whilst others declared that it was only
a ruse, and that I would soon re-appear when I had matured some new plan for cheati(ng them. It had formerly been
my practice to spend much of my time in my own room, for
the purpose of studying and practising devices with cards,
so that when it became necessary to put them in practice, I
would be so perfectly familiar with them, that I could deceive the sharpest and most acute professional player.
But this time, my tho Liughts took a higher and nobler range;
yet I knew not how to proceed, or what to do. I had a
livelihood to obtain, and I knew no other business but
gambling, and that I had renounced.  In these perplexing
circumstances, it was suggested to me that first of all I
should give myself to Christ, and he would guide and protect me. But I was a sinner of the deepest dye, and needed counsel and guidance.  While reflecting upon my condition one day, it occurred to me that as the Methodist Church
received persons upon probation, I would offer myself to
them.
About this time I learned that a Camp Meeting was
soon to be held in the vicinity of Cincinnati, and I resolved
to attend it, and offer myself on that occasion for probation.
The time came, and I went to the meeting, where I remained some days without being favorably affected, but rather
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hardened; yet as I had come for the purpose of joining the
Society, I was determined to carry out my resolution, and
accordingly on the sixth day of the meeting I offered myself and was accepted.
On returning to the city, I kept myself secluded as much
as possible, and occupied my time, for some days, in burning
up and otherwise destroying my gambling implements.
This I did both to prove the sincerity of my reform, and to
remove temptation out of my way.
I was punctual ill my attendance at class meeting, though
it was a cross to me in my then present state of mind. I
also felt it my duty to study, as my education had been
almost wholly neglected. I accordingly hired a private preceptor, of whom I took lessons in reading, writing and
arithmetic. I pursued these studies about three months,
and made some progress in the branches that I was pursuing.  But my  progress in religious matters was  more
slow. There were many difficulties in the way. One especially was, that I had in my possession property to some
considerable amount, which I had obtained by gamingc, and
I knew that no man could be a Christian without making
restitution as far as he could. This was in my power, and
I resolved to do it, although it would leave me without
funds, and, so far as I could see, without friends to assist
me; but I longed for salvation, and was therefore ready to
trust in God, and yield the bauble of wealth for the crown
reserved for the righteous.
As there were persons near at hand from whom I had
won money, the work of restoring it was easy. I soon gave
up my last dollar, and thus broke the only remaining barrier that lay between me and the Cross. On the very night
that I and my gambling treasure parted, Jesus manifested
himself in pardoning peace to my soul. I then loved my
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church meetings, and Christian society, and often visited
tbe Methodist Book Concern, where 1 met in conversation
Messrs. Wright and Swormstead, Rev. Charles Eliott, and
others, who gave mne great encouragement to press forward
in the path of reform upon which I had entered.
In the spring of 1843, Arthur Vance, a philanthrophist,
who had known me previous to my reformation, furnished
me with the means of pursuing my studies and enabled
me to spend one term at the Augusta College, in Kentucky.   During  my  stay at that  place, I wrote " The
Arts anod Miseries of Gambling," which was revised and
corected for the press by the president of the college, for
which  he charged  me  three hundred  dolUars!* which
was about twenty-five dollars a day for the time occupied
upon the work. The appearance of this book created much
excitement among the gamblers, some of whom threatened
my life; but as the work was published, I determined to
scatter it, regardless of threats or consequences. (See Appendix, No. 1.)
One of the gambling desperadoes who felt himself particularly aggrieved at my exposures, and who threatened
hardest, was Captain John Howard, who was recently shot
in the streets of St. Louis, and whose wife, a short time
previous, slew his mistress in Cincinnati. Hie was a hardened wretch, of whom I shall speak in some subsequent
chapter.
- "I will only add, that the task of the reviser has been a comparatively light
one; the work having been fully written out before it was placed in his hands
for examination; and thinking, as he did, that it would be much better to let the
writer tell his own story in his own way, he has done but little more than correct such grammatical errors, and verbal inaccuracies, as occasionally occurred
in the course of the manuiscript."-Extract fron the Reziser's Preface to " Green
on Gambling."
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CHAPTER II.
lResolve to Reform-Destroy -my Gambling Implements-Make Restitution-Unite
with the Methodist Episcopal Church-Determine to Lecture and Expose the Tricks
of Gamblers-Call a Meeting in Cincinnati-Lecture in Baltimore,  Washington
City, New York and Boston, and Organize Anti-Gambling Societies-Visit Albany,
Utica, Syracuse, Cazenovia, Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland, and Detroit-Address a
Large Assembly in the Public Street-Lecture in Dayton, and Return to Ohio.
HAVING now commenced a thorough reformation, by resolving never again to gamble, or in ally way to countenance or support it; by destroying the implements of my
profession, by making restitution as far as I could, and by
uniting with a Christian Church, it occurred to me that I
could be of more service to society by exposing the tricks
and villainies of gamblers and of the gambling profession
than by anything else that I could do. I presented this
thought to my friends at the Methodist Book Concern at
Cincinnati, and they concurred with me in opinion that I
ought to devote myself exclusively to the business of arresting the progress of the gaming spirit which manifested itself
in various forms in all parts of the country. My resolution
being taken, I commenced by calling a meeting of the
citizens of Cincinnati, which was held in the College
Hall.
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This meeting was respectable in size and character, and
was principally occupied in the consideration of the pro priety of organizing an Anti-Gambling Association, which
was finally agreed upon, and a committee appointed to
draft a constitution for its government, after which the
meeting adjourned for one week. This novel movement
was the subject of much conversation during the week, and
when the second meeting convened, the house was densely
crowded. On this occasion the opening speech was made
by Mr. Thomas M. Gally, of Wheeling, Va., a young man
of fine oratorical powers, and of great moral worth. Mr.
G. having finished, there was a general call for Green!
Imagine my embarrassment, to be called upon to address so
large an audience, composed of all grades of persons, and
among whom were hundreds of my former companions, who
were full of the bitterest animosity towards me, for the attack I had made upon their business. Besides I had never
attempted a speech in public, and was in no way qualified
for such an effort, except my familiarity with the secrets of
the gambler's trade.
But I answered the call, determined to do the best I
could. I made but a few remarks, in the course of which
I took occasion publicly to pledge my eternal hostility to
the gambling profession, and every other species of immo.
rality, and promising to address them again at the next
meeting I took my seat, with the satisfaction that, though I
had said but little, I had nevertheless publicly committed
myself to this reform, by which I seemed to have received
strength for its further prosecution.
Before the next meeting, the gamblers, with a view to
intimidate me and prevent me from appearing again in public, sent me several threatening letters, and not a few of
them ridiculing my previous speech. But this only stimu
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lated me to follow up my determination. The next meeting found mne at my post; and many speech on that occasion
was made with less embarrassment, and I trust with better
effect than my former one.
I continued these meetings some thirty nights in Cincin
nrati, and then visited Lexington, Kentucky, where I was
well received by the citizens, who paid my expenses, and, I
hope were profitted by my visit. [See Appendix, No. 2.]
I likewise visited Harrodsburgh, Danville, Frankfort, Kentucky; Madison, Indiana, and Louisville, Kentucky. [See
Appendix, No. 3.] Froin Louisville I went to St. Louis.
Here I soon stirred up a nest of hernets among the gamblers. But nothing daunted, I formed an Anti-Gambling
Society as I had in other places, and added Twenty-seven
hundred  names to my Anti-Gambling pledge, making in all,
some fifteen thousand since I began the enterprise in Cincinnati.  [See Appendix, No. 4.]
My expenses up to this time had been about two hundred and twenty-five dollars, the most of which  I had
derived from the sale of my book, but little having been
contributed at my meetings to assist me in my work of reform. But I had made many good friends as well as
many desperate enemies.
I left St. Louis for Cincinnati, on a steamer bound for
Louisville, and as the Louisville races were to come off the
following week, there were many gamblers on board, bound
for the races. The boat had scarcely left the wharf before
the gamblers commenced their work of fleecing the passengers of their money. I thought this would be a good opportunity for me to try my hand at exposing their business.
Accordingly I commenced showing in various ways how
the gambler deluded and cheated his victim. In a few
minutes I had a large crowd of earnest gazers gathered
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around me. The gamblers were much annoyed, and their
games were broken up.  They made some threats against
me, but though I gave five lectures on board during the
trip, I passed unharmed.
After arriving at Cincinnati, I concluded to attend the
great Whig Convention at Baltimore, which was to be held
preparatory to the presidential election of 1844.  On arriv ing at Baltimore, I found the city crowded with visitors of
every grade and class.  On the morning of the Convention,
the grand procession moved  majestically along Market street, with bands of music, and the banners of the different
States floating in the breeze, while the ladies fronm the ad jacent windows cast their wreaths of flowers upon the ban ner-bearers and officers of the day, in such profusion as to
fill the air with their fragrance and beauty. It seemed like
a scene of enchantment, and as I was but little acquainted
with politics, I expected to see, on this occasion, none but
the purest patriots and the best men of the land taking the
lead in the proceedings of this great national gathering.
What was my surprise then, when I saw that one of the
chief men of the occasion, and around whom the flowers
were falling the thickest from the hands of beauty, was a
consummate villain of the gambling fraternity!
At an exhibition so unsuspected, I could not suppress my
indignation, and felt that the party which received such a
man within its pale deserved to be defeated, and that if the
wretch who disgraced it had been treated according to his
deserts, he would have been contemptuously driven from
the procession, and brickbats substituted for roses.  But
this was not the only villain I saw in that procession. There
were several other notorious gamblers whom I knew, who
took a conspicuous part in the proceeding of that day.
I felt then, and feel now, that gamblers should not be allow
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ed the right of suffrage, and that their oaths should not be
taken in a court of justice. [See Appendix, No. 8.]
I remained in Baltimore during the summer of 1844, and received much assistance in the work in which I was engaged,
from Rev. Adam Miller, Abram Hyam, and others. But not
getting money enough to pay my expenses, I fell into debt during the summer some seventy-five dollars. Ill the month of
June I was solicited to visit Washington city to give some
lectures on my novel subject in that place. I went to
Washington, having received a letter of introduction to Dr.
Sewel from Christian Keener, an eminent philanthropist of
Baltimore. The doctor assisted me in obtaining a place for
the lectures. The meetings proceeded, and considerable interest on my subject was awakened. On Sabbath afternoon
I lectured in the Wesleyan Chapel to parents and children.
The house was crowded, and though there were some eight
or nine ministers present, not one of them had moral courage enough to come forward and pray for the success of
my cause. I was obliged, therefore, to go forward without
the assistance of the clergy, as I have often done since.
After the lecture some of the ministers apologised for their
coolness, by pretending that they did not understand my object in lecturing on such a subject, but since they saw the
bearing of my enterprise, I might rely on their aid hereafter. [See Appendix, No. 9, 10, 11.]
From  Washington  city I returned to Baltimore,  where
I lectured several times more, and, as usual, coming off
minus a large proportion of the expenses   During my stay
in Baltimore I made many warm friends.
From Baltimore  I  took passage  for New  York  city.
Here I found much to do, and a desperate set of villains
to resist and expose; but I pushed forward in the teeth of
the enemy, and soon effected an organization for the fur
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therance of my reform. [See Appendix, No. 12, 13, 14,
15, 16, 17.
After lecturing three weeks in this city, and paying out
one hundred and thirty dollars more than I received, I proceeded to Boston.  [See Appendix, 10.]  HIere I formed an
Anti-Gambling Society, and obtained many names to the
pledge.  After laboring here some time, without receiving
money enough to pay my expenses, some of the citizens,
amnong whom were the werl-known philanthropists Deacon
Grant, John Augustus, Rev. E. II. Chapin, John B. Goug,h,
and others, determined to get up a large and enthusiastic
meeting, with the view to give me a benefit. For this purpose the Marlboro' Chapel was obtained, and filled at twelve
and a-half cents a ticket. This yielded me two hundred and
twenty dollars above expenses, which was the first time,
since I commenced my public labors, that I had received
enough to meet my necessary expenditures.   In relation to
my meetings and labors here, the following notices appeared
in the Boston papers.   [See Appendix, 18,19, 20, 21]
I remained in Boston from October till about the 10th of
January, having given in that city and vicinity more than
fifty lectures.
I now returned to New York, where I lectured fifteen
nights, losing thereby about  one  hundred  and twenty
dollars. [See Appendix, No. 22, 23, 24, 25, 26.]
I then left, with a view of lecturing throughout the
State. I spoke first in Albany, and then visited Utica
and Syracuse. In the latter place I found more garmbling than  in either Utica  or Albany.   I gave some
twenty lectures in Syracuse, and after havingt paid out
about eighteen dollars more than I received, for want of
funds I was obliged to leave, owing a debt of ten dollars to
the editor and publisher of the " Star," who has made this
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bill the occasion of much personal abuse. I mention this
to show that a reformer may work for nothing, and bear, in
good part, his own expenses, and then, after having ex hausted all his own funds, if he shall leave a small debt,
contracted for the good of his cause, unpaid, he will be tra duced and villified by those whose opposition to his efforts
have been the very cause of his small collections, and of
his consequent inability to meet his expenses.
While in Syracuse I had a special invitation to visit
Cazenovia, a very beautiful country village in Madison
county. My expenses were to be fully met if I would go.
I went; and lectured three times to large audiences, who
seemed much pleased, though this was not largely testified
in the collection taken to redeem their pledge to pay my expenses, the whole amount taken being a dollar and sixty
cents! while my bare expenses, (including my bill at the
rum tavern,) were about five do/llars.' One of the gentlemen who took up the collection remarked, as he handed me
the box, that Cazenovia was always ready to do her part in
sustaining every good cause, and though he had had his fears
on this occasion, yet from the weight of the collection, he
should judge they had done something extra. It happened
that of the one dollar sixty cents taken up, all but thirty-five
cents were in pennies.  On taking my leave of the friend
who made the collection he said, "He trusted the citizens of
Cazenovia would long remember the Reformed Gambler."
However this may be, it is certain the Reformed Gambler
will " long remember them."
I returned to Syracuse, and continued my lectures there
and in the adjacent towns for awhile, and then went to
Auburn, spending some days there and in the small places
contiguous.
I next visited Rochester, where I met with a cordial re,
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ception. The mayor, ministers, editors, and all the most
influential citizens of the place gave me their hearty cooperation.  We  formed an Anti-Gambling Society.  [See
Appendix, No. 27, 28, 29, 30, 31.] This formation, together
with eighteen lectures that I had delivered, gave the cause a
very promising beginningi in that place.  At the close of my
lectures, the citizens insisted that I should be remunerated
for my labors, and accordingly they raised me fifty-six
dollars, besides all the expenses of the meetings.   The
citizens also gave me a public testimony of the interest they
had in my labors and enterprise, by presenting me a silver
cup and twelve silver spoons.  An account of the presentation, together with the speech made on the occasion by
Wm. C. Bloss, Esq., will be found by referring to the Appendix as above.
I left Rochester in good spirits, and with a feeling of
gratitude to the good citizens of the place for the enconrageinent they had afforded me in so new and unpopular a
cause; and after lecturing in several towns between that city
and Buffalo, I reached the latter place, and immediately
opened a fire upon the enemy's works, which was kept up
through a course of twenty-one lectures.   The result of
which was the formation of an Anti-Gambling Society, to
which many names were given, and the way prepared for
the addition of many more. [See Appendix, No. 32, 33,
34.]
Like the people of Rochester, those of Buffalo also proposed to evince their sympathy both for me and the cause
by presenting me a gold watch. This was done at a public
meeting, the funds being raised by the sale of tickets of admission.
Notwithstanding the generosity of the people, and espe
cially of Mr. Bennet, at whose temperance house I was sojourn
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ing, who charged me but about one-half of his usual prices,
still I found myself deficient in funds to meet all my bills
I made known my condition, and soon several ladies of Rev
Mr. Hopkins' Church, undertook the kind task of raising
the necessary funds. They called on Elder Tucker, where
they found, in company with the Elder, an old pensioner,
who they supposed was friendly to my ol)bject, and therefore
presented him their subscription paper. Hie, however, de clared me an impostor! said he had seen a gambler some
days before with me in my room, and, no doubt, we had
been having a game together.  The Elder seemed ready to
believe him, and exclaimed, "Horrible! horrible! I must, I
will, publish the impostor, it is my duty;" and then open ing the door, told the ladies to go! he would not assist me.
The ladies made good their retreat, and hastened to inform
me of the rebuff they had met with, and seemed quite discouraged.
I called upon the Elder, and explained to him the circumstances of the gambler's visit; that I had sent for him to
persuade him to restore several hundred dollars he had won
from a young man, and that I had succeeded; and that
while thus engaged with the gambler, the pensioner, who
had raised the alarm, called upon me, and declining an interview until disengaged, and subsequently seeing the gambler in company with me, he became suspicious that there
was something wrong, and had thus converted an innocent
and humane matter into a high crime.
The Elder having heard my explanation of the transaction, called on the old pensiolner, and informed him of the
error he had fallen into; but he was not man enough to
make any acknowledgment.   I again saw  the Elder, and
he assured me he was entirely satisfied, and I might rely
on his friendship.  But this did not pay my hotel bill and
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other expenses for which I was still indebted. I was there fore obliged to borrow small sums of several individuals, a
part of which, I am sorry to say, I have not yet been able
to pay.
1 left Buffalo nearly three hundred dollars worse off than
when I commenced the tour which I had prosecuted now
some six lmonths.
From Buffalo I took a steamer for Cleveland, and on the
passage lectured several times.  Thle passengers very generously paid my passage.  In Cleveland I found a good state
of feeling in relation to my enterprise. The clergy and
editors, with the exception of the Hgerald, took ground in
favor of my reform, and gave me decided assistance. The
Herald showed its opposition by frequent attacks in its
columns, though neither the editor nor his correspondents
had the courage to place the articles over any r-esponsible
nanze.  The opposition of this paper, no doubt, grew out of
its opposition to the Plain Dealer, which had given me a
very warm reception, and had entered earnestly into the
cause.  Had the Heeralcl had opportunity of taking ground
first, it would probably have takei a differenlt position.  So
much for the spirit of party.  [See Appendix. 35, 36, 37.]
At the conclusion  of my  meetings in Cleveland,  the
citizens very generously gave me Jfifty dollars, and Mr.
Butts, the landlord of thie American Hotel, presented my
bill for board fully receipted, a thilng I never  ha(l done for
me before. The amount of his bill must have been some
forty dollars. The philanthropic landlord of the American,
I believe, is now proprietor of the Mlurray-street Hotel, in
New York city, where, if the reader of this should ever
call, he will find himself entertained by a family distinguished for their kindniess and hospitality.   I have referred to
Mr. Butts, as anl act of gratitude to him and his amiable
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lady, from both of whom I was greatly encouraged and as
sisted in my work. Rev. Dr. Aiken, John A. Foot, Esq.,
and many others afforded me their sympathy and aid. I
left Cleveland in good spirits and took passage for Toledo.
Captain Whittaker, of the United States, presented me
with a season ticket. In Toledo I also met with a good
reception; the clergy, editors and municipal  citizens, and
others, co-operating with me in my work. Among those
who afforded me special asssistance, were Rev. William
Beecher and Salter Cleaveland,  Esq., together with  the
Editor of the Toledo Blade, who introduced several favorable notices of my labors into his paper.
But everything was not in my favor. Rev.! O. E.
Morrell saw fit to make an attack upon  me in relation to
Wyatt, the murderer, at that time confined in the Auburn
(N. Y.) State Prison, whom I have spoken of in my book entitled the " Secret Banld of Brothers," which the reader is
requested to consult.
I next visited Detroit, where I met with a reception
similar to that I met with in Cleveland. The newspapers
generally spoke in mny favor, and the ministers of the place
were also ready to lend their influence to the cause; especially Rev. Dr. Duffield, Pastor of the  First  Presbyteriau
Church, and Editor of the Evangelical Observer, then published in that city, whose heartfelt interest in my behalf,
shall ever be remembered with gratitude. [See Appendix, No. 38.]
My order of proceeding in Detroit was first, to give a
private lecture to editors, ministers, and the official members
of the different Churches; then a public lecture in the city,
and after that, a lecture in the several churches in a specified
order.  When  the turn came for me to lecture in the Methlodist Church, on repairing to the place T found it locked,
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and a large number of persons standing about the door
waiting for admission. The rabble, who were opposed to
my lecturing, were quite elated at the prospect of the disappointment.   But being determined  to disappoint  the
enemies of the cause, I commenced my lecture to about a
thousand people from the steps of the church.  Just at this
moment singing(r was heard firom one of the church class
rooms, but almost  immediately  ceased.   In  a  minute
more the leader of the class interrupted me by requesting
me to desist, as I was breaking up his meeting, and he
hoped I would not break up a class meeting for the sake of
lecturing on gambling. I told him as his meeting was
within the house, and mine in the street, that I thought
mine would not disturb his, and I should therefore proceed.
I did so; but whether he was able to get his members
back into the class roam is quite doubtful; at least we
heard no more  singing in that direction.  I  afterwards
learned that this leader was also a trustee, and that he had
interfered to prevent the house being opened for nme, merely
to allow him to proceed with his accustomed meeting.
My next lecture was given in the Baptist Church.  At
this meeting the Methodists apolog(ised for their church not
being opened on the previous evening, and assured me that
it should be at my service on the following night. I accordingly spoke there the next evening to a large audience.
On the following Sabbath, Dr. Duffield gave me the privilege of speaking from his desk to a large and attentive
audience. This being the last public meeting that I was to
hold in the place, a collection was taken up for my benefit,
which was sufficient to meet my expenses while in the city.
I left Detroit for Cincinnati by the way of Dayton.
After I left, I received from the generous friends of my en
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terprise, a letter expressing their faith in the course 1 was
pursuing.
In Dayton I occupied the Methodist Church. In the
course of my lecture here, I took occasion to speak against
the practice of betting on elections.  I knew several, both
at Dayton and Cincinnati, who had made themselves rich
by this mode of gambling, and had ruined many a worthy
young man by the influence which their success had exerted. What I said on this subject gave great umbrage to a
certain class. At one of my meetings a Dutchman, known
among the gamblers by the name of " Seahorse," ordered
me to "shut up my mouth," and created quite a disturbance,
so much so, that my friends were alarmed for my safety.
In the midst of this excitement, I called on Mr. "Seahorse"
not to bite himself if he did others. When he found that
I knew him, he yielded very readily to the control of an old
gentleman who took him by the shoulder and led him out
of the meeting. The following morning, I saw my old
friend "Seahorse" on board a canal boat, bound for Cincinnati, Dayton having become too hot for him.
Having finished my lectures at Dayton, I returned to Cin.
cinnati, after an absence of eighteen months.
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CHAPTER III.
Return to Cincinnati-Persecution Commenced-Arrested for Debt-Swindled-Loo ture in Cincinnati, Maysville. Kentucky-Columbus, Ohio-Secure the Passage  of
an Anti-Gambling Law for Ohio-Gamblers greatly Excited-Life Treatened-The
Gambtlers Demand my Body of the Landlord-In Debt-The Ladies come to my
Rescue-Publicly Present me with a Bible and Ilymn Book, and give me a Benefit Further Assisted by Hon. Mr. Perkins-Return to Cincinnati-Presented with a
Gold Medal-Visit Lawrenceburg and marry Miss Bullock-Visit Eastern Part of
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia-Thbc Baker Family-Visit Indianapolis and St.
Louis-Difficulty with Editor of the "Reveille"-Return to my Family at Lawrenceburg.
HAVING performed my first reform tour, I returned to Cin cinnati poorer than when I left it, but conscious that I had
done some good. My friends gave me a warm reception,
but my enemies thought proper to give me a little foretaste
of the annoyances and persecutions I was occasionally to
endure. Soon after my return, a dentist, named Madeira,
presented for payment, the balance of a bill, purporting to
have been contracted by me some four years before; the
amount was about twelve dollars, and, as I knew it to be
unjust, I refused to pay it, whereupon a writ was issued, and
I was taken before a magistrate of the name  of E. V.
Brooks.   This man  had, during my   gambling  career,
swindled me of some two thousand dollars worth of goods
that I had confided to his trust, and about which we had
formerly had some contention. On this account he was by
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no means the man to do justice to me on this occasion.
Consequently, when Madeira came into Court with his bill,
the Justice asked hini if he had any person to testify to the
account? Hle replied that there were several persons who
knew I had become responsible for the debt, but he had
brought no witnesses, as he supposed I was willing to confess judgment. This I refused to do, whereupon the viagistrate said, that although there was no evidence except
circu)2stantial, yet he would give the doctor a judgment
for thirteen dollars and costs, which amounted in all to
eighteen dollars and fifty cents.  Brooks then ordered  the
constable to take me into custody.   I insisted that the constable should take me to the commLissioner's office and permit me to take the insolvent debtor's oath.   But he in pretended friendship, advised me to give bonds and take an appeal, assuring me that no other court would give the doctor judgment for one cent.  Knowing  that he could not
succeed in an impartial court, I concluded to give the necessary bail, and accordingly deposited in the hands of a
friend, who became my bail, an amount of money sufficient to indemnify him.
When the time came for me to attend to the trial, I called
on my bondsman to talk with him in relation to the suit,
when, to my surprise, he stated that the constable, Alexander
D)elzell, and Brooks had told him, that it was my request
that he should settle it for me, and that he had done so, and
had paid over the money! I had no redress, for Madeira
had moved to Pittsburg. and the impossibility of bringing
Delzell and Brooks to justice was apparent, so I yielded to
the swindle, being fully satisfied that the whole thing was
the fruit of a conspiracy. [See Appendix 39-44.]
I lectured several times during the fall in Cincinnati and
vicinity. In December,'45, I lectured six times in Mays
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ville, Kentucky.  Fromn Maysville, I went to Columbus,
Ohio, where the State Legislature was then in session.
Columbus was at this time in a state of great excitement.
A revival of reilgion was goiing on among the Methodists,
and the politicians were fiercely discussing the " hard" and
"soft" currency question, which, together with the ruffle I
made among the gamblers, caused the little city to heave
like the waves of a troubled ocean. At that period the
Baptists and Presbyterians were the most energetic in pro moting reform, and had it not been for the Christian in fluence I received from these two churches, I believe the
gamblers  would have prevented the passage of the law
against gambling. I speak thus of those two denomina tions because I met with decided opposition from  the Methodist minister. His reasons for opposing could not have
been other than jealously of my large meetings, fearing
they would interfere with his protracted efforts to keep up
his revival.
After I had lectured several weeks, and obtained the passage of the Anti-Gambling Law, I found myself, as usual,
without money, and in debt for my board, with one hundred
drunken gamblers throughout the city, threatening my life,
and even venturing so far as to come to the house where I
boarded, and fiercely required the landlord to deliver me
into their hands. I had no means to get away, and the
mealiness of the citizens, who had daily visited my rooms,
was beyond parallel.
The ladies-God bless them!-made an effort which succeeded. They, by subscription, purchased a very neat Bibie
and Ihymn Book, and proposed to hold a meeting, at which
the presentation of the Bible was to take place, and then a
collection taken up for my benefit.
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This meeting was held in the Methodist Church, whichli
for me was most unfortunate, as the house was crowded
with revivalists, who  left their coppers at home, or kept
them close in their pockets. The collection amounted to
seven dollars and eighty cents.' and this from an audience
of over fifteen hundred persons, being about one-half cent
per head! [See Appendix, 45.]
Subsequently the Hon. Mr. Perkins, Senator from Erie
County, collected the necessary amount, and presented it to
nie; thus the Senators and representatives of the State
finally assisted me in getting away several days after the
presentation of the Bible, dutringc which I was exposed to
the insults not only of the gamblers and their associates,
but by the city authorities, who, (with a very few exceptions,) were worse than the gamblers.
I left Columbus, thinking if there was any place where
reformation was needed more than all others, Columbus,
Ohio, was that place.
Cincinnati was the next scene of my labors. I arrived
in that city in a few days after leaving Columbus, where I
found great excitement prevailing among the gamblers and
their well tried allies, the city police, with very few honest
exceptions, among whom was his Honor the Mayor, H. E.
Spencer. Through his philanthropic efforts, together with
those of young Mr. Denison, of the "Denison House," the
youngl Messrs. Goodman, of " Goodmlan's Banking House,"
Mr. Shropshire, and a few others who felt interested, a
meeting was called, at which it was resolved that a gold
medal should be presented to me for my efforts in obtaining
the passage of the Anti-Gambling law.  [See Appendix,
No. 46, 47.]
Notwithstanding  the benevolent efforts of the abovenamed gentlemen, and the presentation of the medal for the
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purpose of giving me a benefit, the proceeds of the evening
did not pay the expenses by twenty dollars, ten for the
house and ten for the music; thus I had a fine medal, but
not sufficient money to pay the expenses of the presenta
tion!
Fromn Cincinnati I went to Lawrenceburg, Indiana, where
I was united in the bonds of matrimony to Miss Bullock,
grand-daughter of my old friend the Quaker, who provided
for me after the death of my mother.
This was the fulfilment of an engagement entered into
the first year after my reform.
It might here be well to mention a very strange circumstance in relation to this marriage.
While I was living with John Bullock, the grand-fathez
of my wife, his only son presented him with a grand-daughter. That daughter was taught by me (then a boy of
eleven years of age) how to walk, and the first words she
ever lisped was my name.  I had been separated from her
eighteen years; twelve years of that time a gambler, three
years a reformed man.
During the months of March and April, 1846, 1 completed and published my work called" THE  SECRET BAND
OF BROTEIERS." This mysterious work caused quite a disagreeable sensation among one-fifth of the population of
Lawrenceburg, who felt the lash, but did not know that
mercy was one of my strongest principles of reform, and
that in my exposition I did not wish to do anything unjust.
But my reform to me was paramount to every other consideration, and for its safety, I was forced to let the secret
band in that town know that they were known, and that
the good of the better portion of the citizens demanded
either their silence or their exposition.
The offspring of some of these old robbers were much
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exasperated for a time; but a few whispers silenced them,
and all the noisy opposers I have now in Dearborn county,
Indiana, are of that class.  But of the SECRET BAND I have
no more expositions at present to make so far as Lawrenceburg is concerned; they are gradually dropping off the
stage, and their offspring are taking their places.
During the summer of'46, I travelled through Ohio,
visiting Portsmouth, Marietta, Zanesville, Putnam, &c. At
Portsmouth, I lectured twice, and paid my own expenses;
at Marietta I lectured several times, and had about as much
given me as would pay my expenses.
This town is one of the most beautiful as wvell as moral
in the State of Ohio. A general good feeling prevailed
throughout the town, and the kindness of Mr. E. Emerson, and others, will ever be gratefully remembered  by
the writer of these pages. The Rev. Messrs. Lewis and
Corwin, generously gave me the use of their churches, and
their Christian influence, which, among the Methodists and
Baptists of that town, was very extensive.  Mr.  Lewis
was a young minister of the Methodist Church, raised and
educated in Cincinnati, Ohio; he had heard of me while I
was a gambler, and had always been a warm friend to
movements of reform.  His kindness to me and  my family
will ever be remembered by me. I will here mention the
fact, that the hospitality of these two servants of God, in
offering their houses for the home of myself and wife,
although we did not accept the offer, will long be treasured
as the promptings of warm and generous hearts.
From Marietta, Zanesville was my next place of destination. In this city I delivered several lectures. The Methodists and Baptists threw open their houses of worship, and
my audiences were very large. The Presbyterian minister
in charge at that time, took a stand against my reform, and
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gave notice that he would deliver a lecture in opposition,
which he did to an audience of about fifteen persons; while
I, the same evening, addressed as many  hundreds.   The
newspapers gave me favorable notice.
After delivering several lectures, I made all attempt to
raise sufficient funds to pay my expenses, but as usual failed,
although the amount would not have exceeded twenty dollars. Part of the amount was given me, and then I left
the dilapidated town of Zanesville, and crossed the river to
the beautiful village of Putnam, where I delivered one lecture; and the citizens having heard of the swinish treatment I had received at Zanesville, immediately gave me
sufficient to pay my expenses at both places; and the even
ing before my departure, I received a present of twentyfive dollars from a Mr. Buckingham, a young gentleman of
wealth who resides in Putnam, and whose family contributes more for benevolent purposes than one-fifth of all
the city of Zanesville. From Zanesville I went to Wheeling, Va., where I lectured several times, receiving about as
much as my expenses for my services. From that city 1
went to Pittsburgh, where I lectured several times, and
although I was much opposed by some of the professors of
religion, I found many warmi friends.  W. W. Wallace and
his friends and acquaintances gave me great assistance, and
were the first to propose and contribute for my services in
the State, to effect the passage of the Pennsylvania AntiGambling Law.
Too much praise cannot be bestowed upon those philanthropic individuals who co-operated with me in my re.orm movements, during my  stay in that city; the newspapers also gave much aid. The ministers of the Gospel
likewise extended their influence. And here I will, with
great respect, speak of those charming singers known as the
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"Baker Family," comprising four brothers and two sisters.
This benevolent family have ever been the friends to reform, and their contributions for my benefit have amounted
to at least one hundred dollars. While many of the strolling bands of music murderers are imposing themselves
upon the community for the sake of a living, the virtues of
the "Bakers" ought to be known, and to this end I write,
that Christians may be assured that they never desecrate
any house of God in which they ate permitted to warble
their sweet notes.
From Pittsburg I returned to the State of Indiana, visiting Madison and Indianapolis.
At the latter place I delivered several lectures, and received good encouragement from the most prominent
citizens. I was much pleased with the respect shown
me by the good portion of the people; and likewise the
manifestation they made towards eradicating the vice of
gambling from the city. The ministers and public organs,
all gave me every assistance, and I left Indianapolis highly
gratified, and well paid for my labors. [See Appendix,
No. 48, 49, 50, 51.]
Having  finished  my  work  at Indianopolis, I left for
St. Louis, Mo. Here a slight difficulty occured between
the editor of the Revilee and myself, growing out of a controversy I had with him on a former occasion. I procured
the lecture-room of the Fourth-street Methodist Church,
and commenced my labors; whereupon Mr. Field, the
aforesaid editor, opened his battery upon me-declaring
that my lectures had an injurious tendency, and that I was
a humbug! Knowing that these opinions were founded in
ignorance, I endeavored to have a general  meeting of
editors and clergymen, to whom I would explain my mission and exhibit some of the gamblers' tricks; they promptly
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accepted the invitation, and all of them, except young Mr.
Penn, of the Leporter, and Mr. Field, of the Revilee, gave
me an audience.  Instead of visiting my room, as invited,
Mr. P. sent his bill for publishing the proceedings of one of
my meetings, which his deceased parent, and all the other
editors had published without charge. Upon my first visit
to St. Louis after my reform, certain resolutions, complimentary to myself, were passed by the citizens, at a public
meeting, and which, of course, appeared next day in the
newspapers; and for this service Mr. P. desired to be paid,
and when I called at his office to pay him, he so far forgot
the rights of hospitality as to permit a ruffian to assail and
abuse me in the grossest manner.
Mr. Field, for some reason, declined to witness my manipulations with cards, and boldly assailed me in his paper
as the reader may see by referring to the Ap. 49, 50, 51.
After receiving these shots from the enemy, his brother
editors desired a suspension of hostilities, until I should, by
occular demonstration, convince Mr. F. that he was doing
me injustice. He valiantly accepted the proposition, and
we met, having settled upon the following preliminaries:
we were each to have a certain number of personal friends
present, when I was to exhibit the tricks of the gambler
and explain the object of my labors; the result to be published in a card signed by the parties present. We had a
pleasant mneeting, and which resulted in the publication of
the following card. [See Appendix, No. 52]
This interview appeared to satisfy all parties; and having finished my labors, I found I had made above all expenses the sum  of twenty-five dollars.  I now  left St.'
Louis for Lawrenceburg, Indiana, where my family were
residing, and for a brief season enjoyed the society of the
loved ones at home.
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CHAPTE R IV.
Visit Harrisburgh, Pa.-Secure the Passage of an Anti-Gambling Law-My Property
Destroyed  by Fire-Generosity of the  Citzens —Visit Philadelphia-Presented
with a Silver Goblet-Visit Washington City, Richmond, Va.,  Petersburg, Va. Gambling in Petcrsburgh-Good Men Ruined-Efforts to Suppress Gaming by R. R.
Collier, Esq.-Visit Lyichburgh, Va.-Perilous Adventure on the Road  to the
Suliphur Springs-Break up the Gaming at the Springs-Return to Cincinnati —
Visit Frankfort, Ky.-Secure the Passage of an Anti-Gambling Law-Visit the
Eastern States-Visit Washington, Pa.; Newport, R. I.; Fall River, Mass.; New
York; New Hayven, Ct.; Bridgeport, Ct.; Binghamton, N. Y.-Return to New
Haven where I locate permanently.
HAVING completed my South-Western tour, together with
my  wife  I now  proceeded to Harrisburgh, Pa., for the
purpose of attempting to secure the passage of an AntiGambling Law, the legislature being then in session, in
which I finally succeeded; a copy of which may be seen by
referring to the Appendix, No. -58.
The citizens of Harrisburg were much pleased at my
success, and very generously paid my expenses, and presented me with a handsome Bible, notwithlstanding which
I left the place poorer than I entered it, as the house in
which we boarded was consumed by fire, and with it the
wearing apparel of my wife.  Mr. Bular, the proprietor of
the hotel, treated me with great hospitality, and the ladies
of the city were exceedingly kind and attentive to my excellent wife.
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Leaving Harrisburg, we repaired to Philadelphia, where
e remained five months; during which time I delivered
fifty lectures. As a token of the estimation in which my
labors in that city and State were held, the citizens of Phi ladelphia publicly presented me with a silver golbet, and
gave me a benefit which paid all my expenses and left me
one hundred dollars besides.
During my stay in this city much kindness was extended
both to myself and family. The Rev. John Chambers, the
great apostle of temperance, and the friend to all moral re form, gave me his influence.  Dr. James Bryant and his
energetic and estimable lady, were greatly interested in us
during our stay; and here I must acknowledge the kindness
of that eloquent temperance advocate, John B. Gough, who
for the sole purpose of giving me his influence at my benefit
left his profitable field of labors in Southern Virginia, and
volunteered to address the citizens of Philadelphia at my
meeting in the Chinese Museum. Mr. Fletcher, of the
Morris House, was also very kind. The Morris House is
one of the first class hotels, and is kept strictly upon temperance principles. The clergy, in general as well as the
press gave me their influence. Wm. J. Mullen, Philip S.
White, Esq., Dr. Gibbons, Editor of the Pledge and Standard, and many others rendered me much assistance during
my stay in the Quaker city.
I left Philadelphia for Washington City, where 1 lectured
several times and then left, as I had on my former visit,
without receiving sufficient funds to pay my expenses, notwithstanding I lectured to full houses. I left Washington
City for Richmond, Va., where I lectured several times, and
had the co.operation of the clergy and Press, and although
my audiences were large I barely made expenses. Fromn
Richmond I visited Petersburg. This city has been as
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much cursed by gamblers as any city in the Union.  There
I found many who had been injured by this accursed vice;
among whom were men of the highest order of intellect,
anid who had once ranked with the first men of our country
now living upon the cold charities of the ganiblers who ba-d
caused their downfall and disgrace.  And what wvas still
more lamentable, their wealth and its influence had contri buted to give importance to these vampires, for when I vi sited Petersburgh in 1847, I found some of the most envia ble offices which government could bestow in the hands of
gamblers. Of one great philanthropist of Petersburg it is
my duty here to speak, as he has been battling with the
vice of gambling and its supporters for several years, spending both time and money in the cause, and his labors have
added much to the morals of that city. Notwithstanding
he had a hard battle to fight his moral courage and Christian
zeal have brought him out more than conqueror. I refer to
R. R. Collier, Esq., well known throughout Virginia for his
moral courage in attacking vice. Mr. George Phillips I
found a thorough-going reformer in the temperance reform.
Messrs. Collier and Phillips gave me much assistance while
at Petersburgh. I left that city after lecturing one week
fifty dollars better off than when  I entered it.  My  next
move was for Lynchburg, Va., where I delivered several
lectures free, to crowded houses, and then had to leave, paying my own expenses, without receiving for books and lectures half the amount of my bill.
Having now determined.to visit the Sulphur Springs, I
bargained with James M. Boyd to carry my wife and myself to that locality in one of his stages, by way of the Natural Bridge. Accordingly, on the morning of our departure,
we were called up at four o'clock, the usual hour for the
departure of the stage, and, upon entering the coach, found
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two persons already seated, and in a few minutes we left
Lynchburg at a brisk rate, and with a fair prospect of a
delightful ride. In a short time the driver informed us, no
doubt to prepare us for what happened, that the "break"
was broken, for which reason he would be compelled to be
exceedingly cautious in driving down the mountain steeps,
until we arrived at the tavern where we were to take
breakfast, where he would get a chain to lock the wheels
when necessary.
After a ride of ten miles, we found ourselves upon the
summit of the Katesbery mountain, where we alighted to
take breakfast. Having finished our repast we once more
resumed our seats in the stage, and were informed by the
driver that he had secured a log chain, as a lock, and that
his private opinion was, that Mr. Boyd had not treated us
well; but his opinions were little heeded by us upon hearing
the sound of his whip and the rattle of the wheels as we
descended the mountain, which is said to be one of the most
dangerous descents in Virginia. Of this, however, we were
ignorant, but before we had proceeded half a mile the log
chain broke, and the horses not being able to check the
speed of the heavy coach, became alarmed and dashed down
the mouitain at a fearful rate; the affrighted driver added
to the catastrophe by managing to overturn the coach, from
which the horses broke loose, carrying with them the forward wheels of the vehicle. By the fall, all the passengers
were more or less injured. An old lady was so badly
crushed, that a week after, when we left her, her life was
despaired of; a young man had his shoulder dislocated, and
was otherwise injured; my wife was very much bruised,
and I was so much injured that for half an hour I remained
insensible. Upon our return to the hospitable mansion of
Mr. Perrow, on the summit of the mountain, we learned that
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Mr. Boyd had placed us in an old coach, which had been
condemned and out of use for two years! That two of the
four horses had been in the habit of running away, and that
Mr. Boyd was celebrated for his recklessness and disregard
of the comfort or life of his passengers.
We remained a week at the hospitable manision of Mr
Perrow, under the medical care of Dr. Bolling, whose as siduous, kind and gratuitous attention will ever be gratefully
remembered. My arrival at the Springs caused great excitement among the blacklegs, who have made it their rendezvous for a quarter of a century. They thought it impertinent in me to interfere in their business-but I thought
differently, and so did the proprietor, Mr. Caldwell, who gave
me the privilege of lecturing in his hall, whenever I saws
proper; but much to my regret, my health did not permit
me to give a public lecture; but such was the anxiety to
hear and witness my expositions of the gambler's trade, that
some two hundred of the boarders came to my rooms, to
whom I clearly demonstrated the folly of attempting to win
money of gamblers. Thus I completely broke up the business of gambling at the Springs, although a house, elegantly
furnished, is especially devoted to gaming, which the proprietor rents for $1,500 the season, which usually lasts about
eight weeks.
Leaving the Springs, I returned to Cincinnati, lecturing
on my way at Lewisburg and Charleston.
The Legislature of Kentucky was now in session, and,
emboldened by my success in Pennsylvania, I determined to
visit Frankfort for the purpose of attempting to secure the
passage of an Anti-Gambling Law  for that State.   This
was effected, and after sojourning two weeks in Frankfort, I
visited Lexington, and several small towns, in all of which
I lectured some twenty times, and received about enough to
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meet expenses. Having accomplished for Kentucky, all the
good in my power, at that time, I resolved to leave her, and
once more wend my way to the Eastern States.
After leaving Kentucky, I made  my way to New  England, stopping occasionally to address the people on my
favorite subject. In Washington, Pa., I lectured several
times, without any pecuniary remuneration; as was also
the case in Newport, R. I., where I gave free lectures and
paid my own expenses. At Fall River, I had several meetings, and received about enough to pay expenses. I then
went to New York, where I gave ten or fifteen lectures,
and received about twenty-five dollars. At New Haven,
Ct. I lectured six times, and received about one hundred
dollars more than my expenses. I next visited Bridgeport,
Ct. where I gave two lectures, and received ten dollars short
of my expenses, although I found the people very generous
and received the co-operation of the Press and the clergy,
with the exception of an old doctor of divinity, who had
been prejudiced against- me, and could not be prevailed upon
to visit me publicly or privately. He had been informed
that my lectures were immoral in their tendency, and that
some of his friends who had heard me in New Haven, had
since become gamblers! I have no doubt these falsehoods
had been told the old gentleman, and he was weak enough
to believe them. He had also arrived at the sage conclusion that intemnperance was the only vice worthy of his reform efforts, and, therefore, he would have nothing to do
with any other. I had come in contact with so many clergymen of his description since my reformation, that his opposition gave me no alarm, although I was grieved that he
should throw any obstacles in the way of the anti-gambling
reform in his own city, where it was so much needed.
I next visited Binghampton, N. Y., a very pleasant and
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thrifty place. Here I was well treated; lectured several
times, and received twenty dollars over my expenses. Quite
a lively interest was here manifested in my reform operations, and the ladies generally of Binghamton, are reformers
in spirit and in practice, and they, together with the clergy
and the Press rendered me much good service. I again re
turned to New York, lecturing on the way, and in March,
1849 went to New Haven, where I concluded to locate myself permanently.
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CHAPTER V.
A Digression-Publication of "Green's National Guard"-Form the Acquaintance of
Dr. D. Francis Bacon-My Association with him and his Paper-Move to New
Haven-Reform Party Organized-The War upon the Gambler's Rum Shops and
Dance Houses Commenced-Billiard Tables Seized-Stolen and sent to New York Ransom and Upson Arrested- Their Trial before Justice Bennett-Eloquent Speech
of the Rummie's Counsel-Final Defeat of the Reform Party.
PREVIOUS to entering upon the history of my operations in
New HIaven, I must ask the reader to permit me to trouble
him with a brief digression. The great object of my life
since my reformation, has been the suppression of gaining,
and the more fully and completely to accomplish it, I determined upon my last visit to New York, to publish a newspaper in which I could spread far and wide my peculiar
information; and accordingly I commenced the publication of a weekly newspaper, entitled "Green's National
Guard."   It was a large weekly, and was so mnuch more
expensive than 1 had anticipated, that it soon exhausted all
my available means, and involved me in some pecuniary
difficulties, from which I have not yet been able to extricate
myself. When it became apparent that my paper must
stop, I made the unpleasant fact known to some of my
friends, who advised me to form the acquaintance of Dr. D.
Francis Bacon, then editing and publishing the " The Day
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Book," a smart little daily, fast gaining in popular favor,
and already enjoying a very respectable patronage. I had
formed a very high estimate of Dr. Bacon's learning and
literary attainments and had read with pleasure and surprise, his celebrated " Mysteries  and Iniquities," etc., in
which he attempted to show that Mr. Clay's defeat was the
result of an extensive combination of gamblers for that purpose.  Whatever may now be said or thought of that matter, I fearlessly assert, and of my own knowledge, that such
a combination did exist, and for the purpose charged; and,
furthermore, that whenever the gamblers of the United
States see proper, they can, in the same way, defeat any
presidential candidate. In Mr. Clay's case, they knew that
the Whigs were sanguine of success-that Mr. Clay was
the idol of his party- that they had plenty of money, and
were not afraid to stake it upon the result of the election,
and that, if Mr. Clay could be defeated, more money could
be won than by electing him   therefore, the leading spirits
among the gamblers-entered into certain systematic arrangements, embracing the entire country, and when  all things
were rigat they made their bets, and the reader will recollect that there was more betting upon that election than
upon any other before or since. Besides the immense sums
privately bet, the newspapers in all parts of the country
teemed with proffered bets on the result in the different
States, and on the general result. All this was the visible
working of the great scheme, and deeply-laid plan, by
which the beloved sage of Ashland was to be defeated. In
all this matter, the conspirators had but one object, viz., to
win money.  They knew little, and cared less, about the
political doctrines of either party; but they knew that an
immense amount of money could be made by combining
against the favorite candidate-and they did it, and wero
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successful.  But Dr. Bacon was said to be insane for b.
lieving and promulgating these facts. To me, however,
they established not only his sanity but his wisdom,- and I
resolved to see him, and secure, if I could, the aid of his
powerful pen in behalf of my cause. Accordingly we met,
and after a pleasant interview, I agreed to merge my paper
into his weekly, so that my subscribers should receive their
paper up to the time paid for. I found the doctor at all
times ready and willing to forward my reform, and my asso ciation with him will long be remembered with pleasure
and delight, and was only interrupted by my being com pelled to attend to other duties in New Haven.
When I made my first appearance before the citizens of
New Haven, I was greeted by a large, respectable, and in tellectual audience, among whom  were a majority of the
faculty of Yale College, who, from the first, appeared to
manifest the deepest interest in my reform efforts. I was
also well sustained by the press and the clergy, who gave
me their sympathy and their influence. In all my visits to
this delightful city, I was treated with the highest consider ation and hospitality; and finally, a proposition was made
that I should become a citizen of the place, in order that I
might, if possible, do something towards arresting the growing vices of the town, which, it was feared, might  ultimately injure the business prospects of the college. I saw
that there was a ripe field for my operations, and accepted
the proposition; and in the spring of 1849, I left the city
of New York, with my wife and child, for our new home.
We were kindly received by the citizens, who enabled me
to hire a house, and furnish it with everything necessary to
our comfort and convenience.   This being done, several
attempts were made to organize a system by which I should
be supported - but in this my friends entirely failed, so that
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at the end of the year I found myself in debt to the amount
of two hundred and fifty dollars.
Preliminaries, however, being satisfactorily arranged, I
was anxious to commence the battle, and began recoilnoitering the enemy, by way of ascertaining his strength
and power, and the best mode of attack. I soon discovered
that in a fine, large, public edifice, known as the "Temple,"
there were four billiard-tables, doing a good business, and
were patronized by the citizens generally.   Now, the law
of Connecticut is, that billiard-tables and ten-pin alleys
must be licensed, and if found in use without this legal
sanction, the tables are to be destroyed and the alleys closed.
The four billiard-tables aforesaid were not licensed, and,
therefore, were subject to the penalty of falling into the
spoiler's hands. There were also several ten-pin alleys in
full and constant operation. These, however, were licensed
although  the licenses were subsequently revoked.   The
drinking houses in the city were also numerous and un.
licensed; and the friends of temperance asserted with truth,
that the parent of all vices was making fearful havoc in
their midst.   Prominent  among the places of resort, for
intemperance and licentiousness, were the dance houses at
the head of the principal wharf. These houses were all
kept by colored men, and some of them rivalled in splendor
the far famed dancing saloon of " Pete Williams," at a certain classic locality in New York. In these houses nightly
assembled the vicious of both sexes and of all colors, where
they would frequently pass the whole night in revelling and
debauchery; nor were the actors in these scenes all low
and vulgar-students, clerks, officials, business men,  and
gentlemen, young and old, married and unmarried, were
not unfrequently mixed up in the same quadrille, or drink
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ing at the same bar with the grossly licentious and abandoned.
Such was the character of the enemy I was to contend
with. I was expected to cause the destruction of billiardtables, to close the ten-pin alleys, to put an end to the
rum traffic, and to silence the music in the dance houses,
and cause the dancers to perform a gallopade or a promenade towards the watch-house. The reader will at once
perceive that this was a great work-one which required
an iron nerve, an unyielding firmness, and a heart not to be
subdued by the powerful opposition which the assailed
would organize. As a reformer, I was to strike at the inclinations, habits, tastes, pleasures, and interests of a large
class of men; but as I was to be sustained by law, by the
police, and by the wealth, intelligence, and virtue of the
city, I entered upon the duties of my mission with energy
and confidence.
By way of investing me with something like legal authority, the city council made me a special constable-an office
which conferred a vast amount of honor, but no profit, as
special constables receive no pecuniary reward for their
official services. It may be well to state in this connection,
that the law of Connecticut requires that six grand jurors
shall be elected annually for the city of New Haven, and
these men are, in all cases, the public prosecutors, or to
whom complaints must be originally made, and then, if in
their wisdom, the case justifies further proceedings, they
appear before a magistrate, and enter a complaint. The
grand jurors, for 1849, had mutually agreed that Mr. Hollister, one of their number, should receive and act upon all
complaints. To that gentlemen, therefore, I went with the
news that there were four billiard-tables in active operation
at the " Temple," and that they were used contrary to law
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He received me and my complaint with great courtesy, but
although it was a plain case, hlie required timie to consider
the matter.  I had counted upon the prompt co-operation
of the legal authorities, and could not brook delay; therefore, I immediately repaired to Mr. Buckingham, another of
the grand jurors, and made my complaint to him, and
through his instrumentality legal proceedings were instituted
immediately, and in a few hours thereafter the sheriff had
possession of the tables, had them taken apart, and snugly
stowed away, and locked up, in an old barn.  Now, the
owner of the property had no desire to see his beautiful
tables, mnaces, and cues burned in the public streets, so he
conceived a plan to save them from destruction, and the
city from any further trouble or expense, and during the
night after the capture, by some ingenious device, the tables
were stolen, and conveyed, as report says, to New York, by
the earliest conveyance; and this was the end of billiard
playing in New Haven.
The result of this first movement caused much excite
ment. The gentlemen who had spent their time and money
at the " Temple," inow were compelled so seek some grosser
amusement, or remain at home, while the rum sellers and
ten-pin alley men thought they foresaw certain destruction
to their business, if the reform progressed.
Having now rid the city of the billiard-tables, my next
effort was to close the ten-pin alleys. They were licensed,
but, proper representations being made, their licenses were
revoked by the city council, whereupon a number of them
were immediately closed, and the others were used only
occasionally, and as secretly as possible.
The rum traffic was the next in order; and in New
Haven, as in all other places, it was a powerful enemy, and
notwithstanding that the friends of temperance have most
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valiantly contended with their adversary for more than a
quarter of a century, very few victories have been obtained.
A few out-posts have been carried, while the main army is
constantly being reinforced by the addition of whole regi ments of rum sellers, moderate drinkers, and drunkards.  In
New Haven the temperance reform was comparatively dead;
there was no efficient  orgamization, and, therefore, it was
necessary to awaken a new interest in the cause.  I found
the clergy ready and willing to do anythiig to assist me
and the JournaZ and Coumeier-a daily paper, then edited by
W. T. Bacon, and published by J. B. IHotcljkiss, Esq., assured
me that I might rely upon its warlnest support, and nobly
redeemed its pledge.  Having secured the clergy and a por tion of the press, I next conferred with some of the staunch
friends of temperance, and among them John G. North,
Esq., Deacon G. F. Smith, and Jas. Gallagher, who promptly
and zealously entered into the spirit of my operations, and
rendered me most efficient service. By way of commencing, Mr. North at once called a meeting of a few temperance friends at his office.  At this meetingi some preliminary
steps were taken, when they adjourned to meet again.
They met a second and third time, each time increasing in
zeal and numbers, so that on the fourth occasion the meeting
convened in Dr. Cleveland's lecture-room, when a series of
resolutions were submitted, but referred back to the committee to be reported at some subsequent time, after which
the meeting adjourned for one week, to meet at the Orange
street Chapel. The city was now thoroughly aroused, and
the meeting in the chapel was densely crowded. Those
who actively participated in its proceedings were Professor
Goodrich, ]Frof. Silliman, Dr. Leonard Bacon, Dr. Croswell, Rev. Mr. Love, Rev. Mr. Dutton, Rev. Mr. Phelps,
Rev. Mr. Strong, Dr. Floy, Rev. Mr. Smnithl, Rev. Mr.
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Ketchum, Rev. Mr. Eustis,  Rev. Mr. O'Reiley, Catholic
Priest, Rev. Mr. Cleveland, with many other good men of
the city, Mayor Peck, two of the select men, eight of the
city council, three of the grand jurors, the city and town
clerks, the editors of the Journal and Register, one constable and four night watchmen, all of the aldermen, and,
upon one occasion, if not more, Thomas Bennett, Esq., acting justice of the peace, for the town of New Haven, condescended to give countenance to this great and important
movement. The absence of the other officials, including
some of the select men, and one council man, may easily
be accounted for, from the fact that they were rum
sellers, or the victims of a rum organization. At this meeting Prof. Goodrich presented a series of resolutions explaining the objects of this reform movement, its necessity,
&c., which were adopted by acclamation, and a committee
appointed to carry them out. These resolutions, together
with the names of the gentlemen composing the committee,
were published, so that the public were well advised of
the proceedings and intentions of the reformers.   (See Appendix, No. 59.)
I now commenced active operations against the rum
sellers, informing against a number of them, among whom
were Ransom and Upson, who kept a fourth-class hotel, or
victualing house. They had no license, and therefore were
amenable to the law. As this was regarded as a test case,
it was therefore a very important one, and for some days
before the trial the rum party were actively engaged in
preparing for the event. At length the day arrived, and the
parties were arraigned for trial before Justice Bennett. A
number of witnesses were examined, who established the
fact that they kept a victualing house, (which means that
they sold alcoholic liquvrs,) and it was admitted that they
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had no license.  With these stern facts staring him  in the
face, the learned counsel of the rummies opened his defence. He dwelt with unsurpassed eloquence upon the
villainous prosecution of honest and respectable  citizens,
whom, he said, had been dragged before the public by
class of self-constituted reformers,  who had found  instruments base enough to be hired, and he had reason to be.
lieve, bribed to prosecute his clients, who were known as
two  highly respectable gentlemen.   " Yes, your honor,"
said he, " who but a miscreant could be found to prosecute
that gray-haired old man," pointing to one of the deeply
injured firm, who, at the same time, to heighten the effect
of the speech, dropped his head, wiped his eyes, and sobbed
as though his old heart was breaking; and this being the
signal for a general sympathetic manifestation, several other
rum sellers followed suit. Those not having pocket-handkerchiefs substituted their sleeves or coat-tails. It was a
very feeling time; and as the learned counsel saw the effect
of his pathetic eloquence, lihe seemed to catch a fresh inspi.
ration, increasing the tone of his voice higher and higher,
until he reached a pitch beyond which he could not go;
and now his strained voice began to sink lower and lower,
until it degenerated into the most comical wheezing, compared by one of the auditors to the breathing of an asthmatic elephant, and by another to the braying of a superanuated donkey, whose will lasted longer than his breath.
This splendid effort was brought to an abrupt conclusion by
the eloquent and pathetic speaker, who begged for time to
refresh himself, which being granted, the court adjourned,
and the rummies repaired to another bar to congratulate
each other upon the success of the niorning, and to imbibe
more spirit to enable them to pass through the trying scenes
to follow.
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Upon the re-assembling of the court, the learned counsel
having partially recovered from the effects of his recent
effort, rose, and to the infinite delight of his clients, opened
his tremendous batteries upon the Reformed Gambler,
whom he accused of being the cause of all this difficulty,
and who was sustained in New Haven by a set of old
grannies, for the  purpose of making  trouble.   Having(r
finished his tirade of abuse, the court was again adjourned
until the next day.
The principal witnesses for the prosecution had been ex amined, and as the writer's testimony was the most posi tive and conclusive, it was, of course, necessary to impeach
it; and for that purpose several persons were brought upon
the stand, one of whom was James M. Welch, who testi fied that he had known me for four or five years, alnd
thought my character for truth was below par. Upon his
cross-examination, he confessed that he had had a difficulty
with me during the summer;  that I had threatened to
prosecute him for selling liquor, and for some other misdemeanors. To the question, " Who have you heard speak
of Mr. Green as a man not to be believed?" he answered,
"Lucius Gilbert, Wm.  Dickerman, and Hoadley B. Ives."
He was then asked what business those gentlemen followed? when, after a little hesitation, he reluctantly said that
they were engaged in the "liquor business!"  Whoever
feels any interest regarding the truth of the testimony of
Mr W'elch, may refer to Mr. James Bennett of Buffalo,
formerly proprietor of the Bennett Temperance Hotel of
that city.
The next witness called to the stand was Mr. F. E. Ives,
who swore that he believed Mr. Green's reputation was
bad. He was not personally acquainted with him, but he
had heard Newell C. Hall, Jeremiah A. Bishop, Judson
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Canfield, and Andrew L. Kidston all give it as their opinior;
that his word was not to be believed, and them was hi}
sentiments. He further testified that he was a"  rum seller,"
and that each of the gentlemen named as doubting Mr. Green's
word was pursuing the same respectable business. Mr.
Benjamin Beecher, jr., Augustus Smith, and a few other wit
nesses for the defence, were called-all of them rum sellers,
and all personally hostile to me, and therefore they were
"bound to go it strong;" but, notwithstanding the noble and
superhuman efforts of the rummies' counsel, and all their owi
hard swearing, Ransom and Upson were convicted, before
Justice Bennett, but the case was carried up to the County
Court, where, by some hook or crook the judgment was reversed, and in this court all the other rum cases were similarly disposed of; and the whole affair ended in the entire
defeat of the reform party, and now everything in the drinking,
dancing, licentious, and gambling line, goes on as gloriously as ever.
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CHAPTER VI.
]ast Rock-Murdler of the Smith FamilyDiacovery of their Bodies-Prompt Action
of the Authorities, and Vigilance of the Police-lMcCaffrey, the suspecte. Murderer
-Pursue to Canada-Used my own Funds-Send to Mayor  Peck for Money to
Prosecute my Search-The Money Refused —Enlist the Sympathy and Services of
a noble-hearted Canadian-Out of Funds-Supplied by a Genervus Citizen of New
Haven-Return Home-MeCaffrey Caught, Triei, Convicted, and Sentenced  to
Death.
IN the vicinity of New Haven, there is a mountain
familiarly known as "East Pock." It is a lofty prominence,
overlooking a vast extent of country, and has ever been a
favorite place of resort for pleasure parties, for artists, and
for the lovers of grand and beautiful natural scenery.  On
the summit of this rock lived two old people-an Englishman named Smith and his wife; they lived alone, and as
they had few neighbors, little was positively known of their
private affairs, but as they kept a ten-pin alley, and supplied
visitors with refreshments, it was generally believed that
they had accumulated considerable property. One day, in
October last, a neighbor called at their house, to pay them
a morning visit; he found the door closed, the table in the
middle of the floor, apparently set for dinner, with an extra
plate upon it, as though  they had expected a guest; the
cooking utensils, with the food partly boiled, was still hanging in the fire-place, although the fire was entirely extinguished. All appearances seemed to indicate the sudden
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suspension of culinary and other domestic operations. The
visitor awaited the return of the occupants, but they came
not; he called, but received no answer; he searched, but in
vain, and finally left the premises surprised at what he had
seen.
The  next day another neighbor called, and found the
house still untenanted, and thle same appearances were
presented as on the first occasion. He searched the house,
and from certain indications concluded that' it had been robbed, which gave fearful evidence that the aged pair had been
murdered, and he at once gave the alarm. The citizens
promptly repaired to the spot, and instituted a search, which
resulted in the discovery of the murdered and mangled
bodies of the old people in a little wood near the house. It
appeared that the bloody deed had been perpetrated upon
the spot where they were found, and where they had remailled some four days.  It was a cold-blooded, premeditated murder, and undoubtedly committed for the purpose
of robbery.
The affair created great excitement, especially amongst
the select men and other officials, some of whom were seen
riding about the city in all directions and in great haste,
armed for deeds of desperation, presenting the most satisfactory evidence that the police of New  Haven,  on all
great occasions, are most active, chivalrous, and vigilant.
For certain reasons it was supposed that an Irishman of
the name of McCaffrey, was the murderer. He was a
stranger in New Haven, and was known to have been with
Mr. Smith during the day of the murder, and that he had
suddenly disappeared after its perpetration. According to
an affidavit of Newel C. Hall, and others, McCaffrey, on
Sunday, the 28th day of October, visited the Rock, and induced the old people to believe that he intended to purchase
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the good will of the place, and proposed that Mr. Snmith
should meet him  the next morning at the liquor store of
Newel C. Hall, when, if evry thing was right he would
enter into bonds to purchase the fixtures and good-will of
the lease.  Accordingly, the next day they met at the place
designated, and after some conversation, the parties left
Hall's liquor store for the Rock, the old man  being intoxicated-McCaffrey observing that he would return on the
following Wednesday. On their way to the mountain, they
stopped at another drinking establishment kept by McIllvany, where they again drank and departed. In a couple
of hours thereafter, McCaffrey returned to Mclllvany's
said he had purchased the lease-exchanged his coat, and
took the cars for New York, for the purpose, as he said, of
procuring the money to consummate his bargain.
On Thursday the remains of the murdered pair were
found, and as McCaffrey had not returned according to
promise, he was at once suspected. The city authorities
promptly offered a reward of one hundred dollars for the
apprehension and conviction of the murderer, being all
they could offer without the sanction of a public meeting
of the citizens.  Soon after the State offered an additional
reward of one hundred, and then the search began. Several
public officers visited New York, and it is said that the St.
Charles Hotel was most thoroughly searched; but as
McCaffrey was not a fancy ganlbler, he was not found
there. The theatres, dance-houses, and other houses of bad
repute, and all the disreputable localities were also visited;
but all to no purpose. Chicopee Falls, in Massachusetts,
known to be the residence of McCaffrey's wife, was also
explored, but nothing could be seen or heard of the suspected murderer.  These unsuccessful efforts appeared to
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cool the ardor of the police, and in a few days the affair
was scarcely mentioned, except by his honor, Mayor Peck,
and Mr. Hollister, the prosecuting grand juror, who were
constantly engaged in endeavoring to ferret out the perpetrator of the bloody deed. As it was apparent that no further efforts to arrest McCaffrey would be made, several
citizens proposed that I should follow him, and promised to
furnish me with the necessary means. Accordingly, on
the 13th of November, I left New Haven with a few dollars, for Chicopee Falls, where I learned that Mrs. McCaffrey
had recently received a letter from some of her relatives in
Canada West, post-marked, "Port Rowan, Nov. 2." This
gave me the idea that Canada was the place to search for the
supposed murderer, and I immediately addressed a letter to
the Mayor, requesting him to send to my address at Buffalo
the necessary official documents, that I might be fully empowered to make the arrest. I then borrowed at Chicopee
funds sufficient to pay my expenses to Buffalo, whither I
hastened, and where I remained five days before I received
the Mayor's documents. Being again out of money, with
a tedious and expensive journey before me, and not being
disposed to wait for funds from New Haven, 1 collected a
debt due me, amounting to about seventy-five dollars, and
left for Canada West, and arrived at Port  Rowan, on the
evening of the 23d of November. Here I ascertained that
McCaffrey had several relatives living at Port Rowan, and
that he had left the place some days previous; that he had
not changed his name or his clothes; and that lie was on
his way to Toronto, by way of Port Dover and Hamilton.
The next morning after my arrival, I secured the services
of Mlr. Killmaster, a young gentleman of wealth and respectability to assist me in my search. We pursued McCaffrey
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day and night until we arrived at Toronto, where I again
found myself without any funds, but still on the trail of the
murderer. I had previously published handbills describing
MIcCaffrey's person, and offering a reward for his apprehension; and as these had been scattered over a large district
of country, in which he was known to be, I felt certain
that his arrest would be effected; but I was powerless without money, and therefore I sent a telegraphic despatch to
the Mayor of New Haven, that I was within " two" days'
travel of McCaffrey, and needed one hundred dollars to
prosecute the journey, but by some mishap the telegraphic
despatch read " ten" days, which subsequently became the
subject of some ill-natured newspaper remarks.
Mr. Killmaster had become greatly interested in the pursuit of the murderer, and proposed that we should at once
proceed at his expense, presuming he would be repaid out
of the expected funds. Accordingly we left Toronto, and
in three days reached a little village, and a large settlement of Catholic Irish, where McCaffrey had a brotherin-law residing. Here we learned that the object of our
search had been two days before our arrival; that he
had attended mass, and left for a distant part of the settlement. Mr. Killmaster's means were now nearly exhaust
ed, and we returned to Hamilton, where I expected to
receive the money from New Haven. In this we were
badly disappointed, for, instead of the funds, I received
i letter from the Mayor, expressing his regret that he was
,ot authorized to send them; that he and Mr. Beecher, the
elect man, and Mr. Elias Gilbert, wished the money sent,
X,t that they were opposed by Mr. Nicholson, and one
otik.- gentleman whose name is now forgotten; and that I
woui',')e compelled to do without it, but hlie hoped I would
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not give up the chase.* [In explanation of Mr. Nicholson's
opposition, it may be as well to state that he was engaged
in the rum traffic, and, of course, was personally hostile to
me; and when appealed to by a respectable citizen, to give
his consent, as a select man, to send the money, hlie replied
that he " would as soon send it to McCaffrey as to Green!"]
This unexpected communication from the Mayor, was
leeply mortifying, as it sadly reflected the injustice and illi berality of my favorite city, and must have given those
with whom I was associated a very contemptible opinion of
the New Haven authorities.  My own situation, too, was
exceedingly unpleasant. I was without money, among
strangers, and anxious to return to my family. With my
mind filled with the most disagreeable reflections, I was one
day examining the register of my hotel, when, to my surprise, I discovered the name of Mr. Joseph  Deming, of
New Haven. He was an entire stranger to me, but I immediately sought an interview, and explained to him my
situation. He candidly told me that he disapproved of my
reform operations in New Haven, but that I had not been
well used, and that his purse was at my service; and with
a generosity I shall never forget, he immediately supplied
me with money enough to reach home, where I arrived,
after a tour of more than two thousand miles, during which
I fully realized the severity of a Canadian winter, and what
was worse than all, failed in the accomplishment of my object, because I was not sustained by those whose duty it
was to protect the lives and property of the citizens.
'  Profiting by information received firom me after my return as to McCaffrey~a
whereabouts, the deputy-sheriff of New Haven was despatched to Canada West
in search of the murderer, where he was found and brought home. He was tried,
convicted, and sentenced to die in October next.
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CHAPTER VII.
3[y Sojourn in Washington City-Pause to Procure an Office under the GOneral
Government-W. W. Wick-Receive an Appointment as a Secret Agent for the
Treasury Department-Visit Fall  River-Became. Acquainted with Silas W.
Spaulding-Business Arrangements  with him-Deeives  me-IIis Baseness and
TIjpocrisy-Resolve to Return to Canada in Pursuit of McCaffrey-Visit Albany
Efforts in Behalf of an Anti-Gambling Law for New York-Arrested by A. M. C.
Smith-Taken to the New York City Prison-Life in the Tombs-Examined and
Acquitted-Return to New Ilave —Kindness of the Citizens, &c.
IN the spring of 1848, I was in the city of Washington,
where I had been directing my efforts mainly against lotteries and lottery gambling, with very little advantage to
myself, which, with me, has ever been a matter of secondary consideration.  There was, also, at this time in Washington city, a Mr. Norton, a very wealthy gentleman of
Lexington, Ky., who was one of my earliest and warmest
friends. He had watched my movements since my reformation, with great interest, and always regretted that I was
so poorly sustained. Wrhen we met at Washington, he
proposed that I should make an effort to procure some
secret government agency, from which I might derive some
pecuniary advantage, and suggested that I should call upon
Gen. McCalla, also of Lexington, Ky., who also knew me,
and who was President of the Anti-Gambling Society in Lexington. Gen. McCalla was Second Auditor at the time, and
was highly esteemed for his rare excellence and many virtues.
Acting upon the advice of my friend, I called upon Gen.
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McCallIa, who warmly approved of the plan, and at once introduced me to Mr. Gillet, the Solicitor of the Treasury
Department.  At this interview, Mr. Gillet promised his
co-operation, and we departed.  Stubsequently Hon. W. W.
Wick, member of Congress from Indiana, and one of niy best
friends, heard of my application, and to second my efforts
went with Mr. Gillet to Mr. Walklier, the Secretary of the
Treasury, and recommended my appointment.  Mr. Walker
thought favorably of the matter, and in a few days I re
ceived a note from Mr. Gillet, announcing my appointment
as secret agent for the detection of counterfeiters, &c
whereupon I repaired to his office and received the follow
intr document
To the United States -District Attorneys and Marshals
"This Office has arranged  with  Mr. Jonathan I-1
Green, to aid in detecting violations of the laws of the
United States, and particularly those relating to the forging Treasury Notes and counterfeiting Coins.  You are requested to act in concert with him in detecting those who
are guilty.  Full reliance can be placed upon such information as lie may give you.  Whenever circumstances may
warrant it, you will promote the welfare of thie Republic
by taking all proper measures to secure the apprehension
and conviction of all who are believed to be guilty. To
aid in these objects, Mr. Green is hereby specially commissioned by this Office, with the consent of the Treasury
Deparment.  IIe will, from titne to time, make a full report to this Office of what transpires in relation to this sub
ject.
"Given under my hand and Seal this Twentieth day
of June, 1848.
"R. II. GILLET, Solicitor."
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Upon receiving my parchment, Mr. Gillet also gave me,
for purposes of comparison, two $500 cancelled Treasury
Notes, and also five thousand dollars of spurious money,
in notes of different denominations upon banks in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Kentucky, which were  to be used
officially and at my discretion. This appointment I still
hold.   Upon leaving  Washington city,  I went  to Fall
Piver, Mass., where I became acquainted with Silas W.
Spaulding.  He and his family were boarding at the Exchange Hotel, and he represented to me that he was a retired merchant, having abundant means, and intended to
spend the summer at the fashionable watering-places; but
by way of makingr expenses, he proposed to take an interest in my affairs, to sell my books on joint account; in
consideration of which he was to furnish the necessary funds
for their procurement  or publication.  Hie was  a very
plausible man in his manners and conversation, and so entirely won my confidence that I accepted his proposition,
and together we went to Saratoga Springs. Here there
was a demand for my books, and I wrote to my publisher
in Philadelphia, to send me five hundred dollars worth at his
earliest convenience  upon which  Spaulding advanced his
part, being two hundred and fifty dollars, for which I gave
him my due bill. The books soon after arrived in New
York, when I immediately placed the whole of them in
Spaulding's possession, to be disposed of as he thought
proper. Being active in his business operations, the books
soon disappeared, but he failed to give me a satisfactory account of them.  This, together with the fact that I detected him in a falsehood, somewhat abated my confidence in his
integrity.  Soon after this, I discovered that he was endeavoring to obtain goods under false pretences, and not wishing the merchants to be deceived by him, I gave them cere
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tain hints, which caused them to refuse the goods, although
they were packed and ready for delivery.  Shortly after he
introduced himself to me, he would occasionally exhibit
remnants of dry goods, and on several occasions persuaded
my wife to purchase them. These goods became so numer ous, that I began to suspect that all was not right, and gave
orders that no more purchases should be made.  It subse quently appeared that he had failed at Manchester, N. H.,
and that these goods were a portion of his stock, which
rightfully belonged to his creditors, and that, before leaving
Manchester, he had been arrested for stealing, which fact lie
reluctantly acknowledged when on oath before the United
States Commissioner.
Up to the time of my leaving New York for New Haven,
Spauldinog uniformly told me that my books were unsale able; that he could not realize any money for them; and
that he was in need of funds. Believing his story, I frequently gave him money in sums varying fromn three to ten
dollars; and after I was located in New Haven, he and his
wife paid us a visit.  They both professed the warmest
friendship, and remained with us some ten days.  During
this time he proposed that inasmuch as he was not likely
to get his two hundred and fifty dollars for the books, he
would return them, and that I should board them at a certain weekly rate, until the debt was cancelled; to which I
agreed, and made my arrangements accordingly-but they
never came.
Shortly after their departure, I ascertained that while he
was enjoying the hospitality of my  home and family, he
was consorting with my New Haven enemies, and that the
real object of his visit was to ascertain whether he could
not strip my house of its furniture, to satisfy the debt he
claimed, and which he then knew was unjust.  The legal
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opinion of a New  IHaven lawyer satisfied him that that
plan to injure me would not do, and he left with smiling
face and outstretched hand, shlowering a thousand blessings
upon my head, and  wishing me unbounded prosperity arid
happiness!
The baseness and hypocrisy of this heartless villain
grieved and annoyed me; and I forthwith wrote him a letter, revealing to him my impressions of his character and
conduct, and desiring no further intercourse with him, except an immediate settlement of our accounts, whlich has
not yet taken place, and probably never will, as I have
recently ascertained that my books were all sold, so that for
the two hundred and fifty dollars, and a few dry goods, he
received fifty dollars in money, and five hundred dollars
worth of books, and still holds the original due-bili, which
he claims as unpaid.
It was about the middle of December when I returned
home from my Canadian tour, and found that there was
little interest felt on the subject of the East Rock tragedy;
but, as I was not disposed to yield without another stru(Tggle, I procured the signatures of a large number of the
citizens, praying, the select men to call a public meeting for
the purpose of considering the question of offering an adequate reward for thie arrest of the murderer.   The meeting
was called, and convened in the Court-house, and after being organized by placing M;Ir. Nicholson, the select man,
before mentioned, in the chair, a motion was made, that inasmuch as there were but few persons present, the meeting
should adjourn for one week; whereupon Mr. Justice Bennett moved, as an amendment, that the meeting adjourn
sitjze die, which prevailed, and in less tl-han ten minutes after
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About this time I received private information from
Canada, that McCaffrey was in the vicinity of Brocklville,
and I resolved that, when the Spring opened, I would again
pursue him at my own expense. and that, in the mean time,
I would visit Albany, where the Legislature of New York
would soon be in session, and present the subject of gam ing to that body, urging the necessity of a uore stringent
Anti-Gambling Law, and do what I could to procure its
passage.  With this determination I again left New Haven,
and reached Albany a few (lays after the commencement of
the session for 1850.  I took immediate measures to have
the matter placed before the Legislature, and devoted most
of my time ill conversing with the members ou the subject,
giving them ocular dem-onstration that the gamblers' business was based upon fraud and treachery, and that to suppress it, a law was necessary; and had I not been interrupted in my operations, such a law would have been
passed; but we must hope for better luck next year.
As I was one morningl sltting in my room at the Delevan
House, I heard a gentle rap, and bidding the stranger walk
in, he opened the door, and A. M. C. Smith, a New York
police officer stood before me. He observed to me in a
very gentle and kind manner, that he had some disagreeable intelligence for me, but he hoped it was not a very
serious matter, and, at the same time placed in my hands a
warrant to arrest me on complaint of my old friend Spaulding, who had now sought his revenge by swearing that
had obtained goods and money of him under false pretences!
Mr. Smith told me I might consider myself under arrest,
but that he would call for me the next day, when, if convenient, we would go to New York together. This was
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agreed to, and the gentlemanly officer bade me goDd morn ingr.
The news of my arrest soon spread throughout the city,
and during the day mnay room was thronged by members o
the Legislature, and other friends, all anxious to hear my
version of the affair.  The persecution was so apparent tha
it created for me a deal of sympathy, and numerous offers
of money, and every assistance I might require, were freely
proffered.   In the evening a large party of gentlemen
visited, and remained with me, until a late hour, when, after
a day of unusual excitement, I retired to my pillow, won dering where I should sleep the next night.
At the appointed hour, Mr. Smith reported himself, and
we left Albany for the city of Newv York, where we arrived
about seven o'clock in the evening. The police office being
closed, I could have no hlearing, that day, and was conducted to the far. famed Tombs, inii which I was to pass the
night. The keeper's office being closed, I was introduced
to Miss Foster, the matron of the prison, who, having some
personal knowledge of me, expressed great surprise at my
arrest, but she said she had seen so many curious things
about the Tombs, that she was prepared for almost anything;
and after a few words of kindness and encouragement, conducted me to the main prison through the female department; and when the doors of this hated place were fairly
closed upon me, she inquired if I had been to tea? Replying in the negative, she hastened away, and in a short time
reappeared with an excellent supper, which I discussed
with a thankfutil heart.
I was now in the hands of the "night watch"-Messrs.
Lindon and Daly, who had charge of the prison during the
night.  Throughout the whole of my confinement, these
geiitlemen treated me with marked attention and kindness,
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which was the more to be appreciated as I was poor, and
had no montley to pay for prison favors, even if they could be
bou,ght.
The internal view of the cells was somewhat  ievoltin',
but by way of mitigating the horrors of the place, the night
-watchl generously permitted me to occupy their private cell,
and to sleep in their own bed, upon which 1 enjoyed a
sound and refreshing sleep.
Early the next morning, I was greeted by the noblehearted and humane warden of tile prison, Mr. WVm. Edniondlcs. He was personally acquainted with me, iad always
sympathised with my reform movements, and was one of the
first in iNew York to sign my anti-gambling pledge, which he
keeps with as much fidelity, as his temperance pledge. Just
previous to leavingo Albany, Hoji. Albert Gilbert, a member
of the legislature, and son-in-law of Mr. Edmonds, waited
upon me, and unsolicited presented me with a letter to Mr.
E., commending me to his care and attention.  A brief explanation of my  case satisfied MVr. Edmonds that I was
falsely accused, and unjustly imprisoned, and his natural love
of justice together with his warm  feelings for the wronged
and oppressed, made him a better friend than ever. As an
officer, he is proverbially prompt, vigilant and faithful, but
my case presented a little difficulty-he was at a loss to
know how best to dispose of me, so much had been said, and
well said, on the subject of the proper classification of prisoners, that he was in doubt where to place me. If I was
guilty of the offence charged against me, I would be sent to
the State's prison, and therefore if classified according to the
crime charged, I must be placed among burglars, high-way
robbers, counterfeiters and murderers; but this was mauifestly wrong, for I was no criminal, and such men had
fever been my associates. It was equally wrong to place
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me on the corridor with the miserable, petty larceny thieves
and vagrants, who are usually found there in swarms, and
to put me with the poor, diseased and filthy drunkards, was
still worse, so he finally concluded that I should enjoy my
own society, without coming in contact with any other pri soners, although confined within the same walls. By this
arranrgement, I was confined upon the ground floor, or first
corridor, and slept in a fine double cell, used when occasion
requires, as a hospital for sick prisoners, but after a few days
confinement, I discovered that in reality, I was not as plea santly located as the gentlemen on the second corridor;
which is occupied by the higher grade of criminals. The
floor was damp, and some of my companions in the hospital,
had the delirizum tremens, and others were sick, from whom
I could not withhold my sympathy or succor, and besides
this, the idiotic jibberings, and ravings of the poor, half
crazed drunkards, who were nightly confined in cells opposite and adjoinirlng mine, were so novel and painful that I
found it difficult to sleep, but a word from Mr. Edmonds
disposed of all these annoyances, by placing me on the next
corridor, among the " aristocratic criminals," who are under
the care of that excellent and efficient officer, Mr. Alexander
Jackson, (whose disinterested kindness I shall ever gratefully
remember,) who gave me the only cell at that time vacant,
which singularly enough, was the identical one in which
several murderers had been confined; among the most distin,guished of whom, were Gibbs, Babe, and Dunlap; it was
also the cell in which Colt, the murderer was confined, and
ill which hlie was married and committed suicide.
I)Dtring the first day of my confinement, numerous friends
visited me, and among them Horace Greeley, of the Tribune;
and on the next day, Mr. W.  Goodwin, of New  IHaven,
called to hear from my own lips the nature of my difficulty,
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that he might carry the information to my New Hlaven
friends, who were so anxious to hear from me, that he had
been despatched by them to see me. Being assured that I
was in no serious trouble, he gave me, unsolicited, a few
dollars, and returned.
After several days' vexatious delay, I was brought before
Justice Mountfort, for examination, which, however, was
conducted by Sidney H. Stuart, Esq., one of the police
clerks.  The charge against me  was, that I had obtained
the two hundred and fifty dollars, and the few pieces of dry
goods before mentioned, by representing that I was a government agent, and that the Treasury Notes in my possessionl, were genuine, and that they were mine. These were
Spaulding,'s charges, and he was now called upon to sustain them, which he attempted to do by his own testimony,
but which was so vague, unsatisfactory, malicious, and contradictory, that the case was dismissed as trifling and unworthy of consideration. Foreseeing defeat, Spaulding had
procured another warrant for my arrest, charging me with
having in my possession certain forged Treasury Notes,
which I had attempted to pass! Upon this charge I was
re-arrested, and again taken to the Tombs. In a few days
I was brought before the United States Commissioner, Mr.
Gardner, for examination.  I was accompanied to the court
room by Rev. Wm. T. Bacon, of New Haven, Judge
Drinker, who had taken a lively interest as my counsel and
friend, in both cases, and by several gentlemen connected
with the New York press.  A day or two before my second
examiilation, I received a letter from nmy wife, informing
me that shortly after my first arrest, Spaulding reappeared
in New HIaven, and with a couple of officers went to my
house, inquired for my wife, and told her that I was in the
Tombs, but, that if she would agree to certain propositions,
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I should be released; if not, her house should I. strippec
of its furniture, her home desolated, and her husban   sent.:
to the State's Prison for twenty years!  HIe finally pro
posed that he would compromise the whole matter, if she
would give him her watch, and other valuable jewelry
which hlie knew she highly valued, as presents of some dis
tinguished friends of Washington City. All his proposition
were treated with scorn and indignation, and the offieer,,
sympathizing with her, refused to act, whereupon the fiend
to search for the jewels, ransacked the whole house, opening drawers, trunks, &c.; but being unsuccessful, retired.
I had also received a letter from Manchester, N. H., giving
the particulars of Spaulding's arrest in that place, for stealing, and with these new illustrations of the character of my
accuser, I repaired to the court for examination.   Spaulding was again the principal witness, but entirely failed to
sustain the charges; and after a brief investigation, the
Commissioner, feeling that he had been trifled with, indignantly dismissed  the case; whereupon  Judge Drinker
moved that Spaulding be committed for perjury, but he had
made good his retreat, and the police have not yet been able
to discover him.
Being now released from custody, I returned to the city
prison, to take leave of the officers of that institution, from
all of whom I had received such marked attention and kindness, and which will ever be treasured in grateful remembrance.
My imprisonment, together with the excitement incident
to it, had worn upon my health, and I was now weak, feeble, and quite ill, although I had received the careful medical attendance of the prison physician, Dr. Cove], a most
excellent and worthy man.
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I had all the premonitory symptoms of brain fever, and
found myself rapidly sinking under them, and know not
that I could have reached home in safety, had not my esteerrmed New Haven friend, Rev. Wnm. T. Bacon, taken me
under his care and protection.  HIe conducted mne to my
home, where I was once more warmly and affectionately
received by numerous friends and the partner of my joys and
sorrows. The disease, which had commenced its ravages
in prison, still progressed, until my life was despaired of;
but thanks to a kind Providence, and the careful attention
of my physician and friends, I rose from my bed of sickness
in a few weeks, and again resumed the business of my life.
When I had so far recovered as to be capable of enjoying
the pleasures of the social circle, the citizens of New Haven
gave me what is familiarly called a"  donation party," by way
of presenting me with a public testimonial of their regard and
confidence, as well as to sustain me in future efforts, which,
together with the many favors I have received at their
hands, will ever be remembered by the grateful hearts of
those who were made happy in this, one of the darkest hour
of mv life.
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CHAPTER VIII.
ARRESTS AND TRIALS.
THE following notices of my arrests and trials appeared in the
New York and other newspapers at that time:
FIRST ARREST.-A. M. C. Smith returned from Albany yesterday, having in custody J. H. Green, better known as the
"Reformed Gambler," on a charge of obtaining money under
false pretences. We doubt whether there is anything criminal
in the transaction on which this arrest is based, so far as Mr.
Green is concerned. More likely it is a plot got up by his
enemies to injure his reputation and usefulness.- Tribune.
SEcOND ARREsT-FORGED TREASURYNOTES.-Justice Mountfort committed yesterday Jonathan H. Green, better known as
the "Reformed Gambler," on a warrant issued by the United
States Commissioner, Mr. Gardner, on a charge of having in
his possession two counterfeit treasury notes for $500 each.
These notes are alleged to be in the possession of Green, with
the intent of passing the same. The case will be heard before
the Commissioner after the decision of the case of false pretences, on which an investigation is now pending against Green,
before the magistrate.-Herald.
The history of this new arrest may be told in a few words.
Spaulding, who was formerly Green's agent for the sale of his
books, &c., not long since quarreled with him, and a few days
ago had him arrested for obtaining money and goods under
false pretences, which case is now under examination, and will
probably result in Green's discharge, as the investigation shows
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day had a warrant issued, charging Green with having forged
treasury notes in his possession; and very likely, before all is
over, will attempt to prove that he tried to pass them, but this,
like the first charge, will result in nothing but shame to his
persecutors. What the next move will be remains to be seen.Mlerchants' Day Book.
DISCHARGE OF GREEN THE REFORMED GAMBLER.
U.  S.  COMMISSIONER'S COURT. —Before Alex.  Gardiner,
Esq.-Feb. 19.-Alleged extensive Forgery on the TreasuryThe United States vs. Jonathan Green, for attempting to pass
forged Treasury Notes for $500 each.-A lengthy investigation
took place, which, after the examination of witnesses, resulted
in the acquittal of the accused.
The principal testimony was that of a man named Silas W.
Spaulding, but this evidence did not go to the identification of
the notes, nor to prove that the accused ever attempted to
utter them.
It was admitted by the defense that the notes were canceled;
and the counsel for the prosecution having asked what explanationI could be given for the possession of them, Mr. Green,
the defendant, said, that at Washington he made application
for a "secret office," and received an appointment from Mr.
Gillet, the Solicitor of the Treasury, that he obtained the notes
for the purpose of his "secret office," viz. to detect forgeries.
Mr. Evarts said, that under the circumstances of the case,
and as there was no evidence that Mr. Green attempted to
pass these notes, he would not ask to detain him on the charge.
The defendant was therefore set at liberty.-N. Y. Herald.
After my arrest and discharge, the New -Haven Palladium
published the Herald's account of my arrest in its editorial
columns, without a word of explanation or comment, whereupon
the Merchants' Day Book remarked:
As the New Haven Palladium has published in a very conspicuous manner, the arrest of Mr. Green on the charge of
obtaining money and goods under false pretences, and of attemupting to pass counterfeit money, but has not had the
honesty or fairness to publish the fact that he had been honorably acquitted on the first charge, we call that paper's special
attention to the above from the Herald-The Palladium has
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meanly sought to wound the feelings of Mr. Green's family,
and to injure him in his own city, where he is eminently usefulnow let it be imagnaninmous enough to do him justice by publishing the Xesfit of both examinations.
The examination before the Police Magistrate, on the first
charge, and  befoie the United  States Commissioner on the
second, was most  rigid and searching, and in both instances the
charges were not only not sustained, but were shown to be malicious and too tri-fling to be entertained.   Mr. Green has passed
through this ordeal with honor to himself; and his friends here
have renewed confidence in his integrity and uprightness of
character.
And now our object in publishing this article is not to call
the editor of the Palladium to a sense of honesty and decency
alone, but to comment briefly upon the tendency of newspapers
everywhere to publish evil aguinst individuals.  When  Green
was arrested in Albany, and brought to this city, the Herald
published the fact, together with the nature of the accusation
made against him by Spaulding.  Straighltway, every newspaper, far and near, took it up, and we think we can safely say
that there is not a paper in this State that has not published it.
"Arrest of Green, the Reformed Gambler, for Passing Counterfeit iMoney," has been the heading of more than a thousand
newspaper articles.  lMost of the papers in this city published
it with a sort of diabolical chuckle, as if they hoped he was
guilty.  Well, he had an examination, and nothing appeared
against himl; hle was dischlarg(red —honorably.  He had been in
prison nearly a week, unable to refute the charges, or in any
way defend himself against thle accusations brought against him.
The AIrchants' Day Book did say something in his defense,
because the Editocr knew that the charge of passing counterfeit
money was malicious and withiout foundation. He emerged
fromn his cell broken in spirits, sick in body, and discouraged.
Did the newspapers apply any balmtn to his wounded spirits?
Did they offer a word of consolation, or try to repair the injury
they had done?  Not a bit of it.  Some few published the
fact that hlie was discharged fromi custody, and some went so far
as to say that he was acquitted honorably.  One Editor, when
asked to publish the fact of his acquittal, refused to do so on
the ground that it was of no importance.
Bat Green's case is not the only one which will bear comment. Similar ones are of every-day occurrence. Since our
connection witl the press, we have been astonished to notice
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the avidity wittf which the newspapers catch flying rumors de rogatory to the character of individuals, and transfer them to
their columns.  So ready are the papers in this city to publish
scandal, that we will venture a small wager that we could be fore Saturday night get the most absurd story about any re spectable man or woman, published in nine-tenths of all the
papers in town. We will go farther, and will bet a year's sub scription that if a man would go to the police office and offer
a reporter twenty shillings to publish that DOCTOR SPRING was
arrested for bigamy, it would appear in half the daily papers
to-miorrow; and that is not all, the country papers would copy
it;s quick as a hungry dog would swallow a piece of roast beef.
Alat'k, with what perfect gusto the newspapers have devoured
poor Ms. MIiller.  Who would have supposed there could have
been so much written upon the mere guess of a Buffalo news paper reporter? Notice the rumors in reference to Professor
Webster, published one day and contradicted the next; many
of them so silly and absurd that none but fools would think of
noticing them.  See how Drury has been "hauled over the
coals!" Why if one might believe a tithe of the newspaper
reports, Drury has robbed every District Attorney's office in the
three counties.  Yet the District Attorneys never hear of the
robberies until they see the account of them in the newspapers.
A few weeks ago the Tribune published an item, stating that
one Mr. Avery had run away with a female companion, " leaving his creditors in the lurch."  Now then it was of so much
consequence whether Mr. Avery had run away or not, that
every paper from Maine to Texas was bound to publish it,
female companion and all.  Of course the Tribune the next day
took it all back, but the country papers could not do that; it
was too good to be killed so soon, and they have kept it
ag,roirng till now.
\Ve believe that this is all wrong, and have given directions
to our foreman not to print any charge against any individual
if it is found in a newspaper, or if it comes from a police reporter.  In four cases out of five the charge is false, and one
man is as liable to be arrested as another if currency is given
to the rumors that are ever floating around the drinking-dens
and gambling hells where policemen, ward-consta-bles and reporters most do congregate.
The case of Green is a fair sample of a large number of
these cases. Here was a respectable man, pursuing an honest
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calling; he has a family whose happiness in the world depends
in a great measure upon his good name and reputation.  He is
seized by an officer, dragged to the city, and thrown into prison,
for what? to gratify the maliciousness of a fiend.  A  miscreant commits perjury to gratify his revenge, and an innocent
man falls before the fierceness of his fury. Instead of waiting
the investigation, the newspapers throw up the victim as boys
do a ball, and then all go at him and keep him in the air as
long as possible. Now if such things are to be, who is safe?
Where is the man who can lay his head upon his pillow and
say, I can rest safely under the protection of the laws of my
country? True, you and I never have suffered, but we do not
know how soon we may; and if we remain silent and unconcerned
when we see our friends and neighbors struck down  by this
powerful arm of the press, who will speak for us when we feel the
blow? If Green was the veriest scoundrel that walked the
earth we would demand justice for him; and we never will,
if we know it, give currency to newspaper reports of arrest and
charges of crime against any respectable individual, however
plausible such reports may appear. In conclusion, we would
say to every reader of newspapers, you may safely set down as
false everything you see in the daily papers of this city when
the character of an individual is assailed.-.Merchants' Day
Book.
The Day  Book's editorial was then replied to by the New
Haven Palladium, as follows:
We find the above in the New York Day Book, for which
paper, Green, the Reformed Gambler, as he styles himself, has
sometimes acted as agent.  We presume, therefore, that it was
published at his dictation, as have been several other articles in
the same paper, glorifying Green, and reflecting censoriously
and slanderously upon the town and city authorities of New
ltav en. In regard to this recent arrest, we gave the statement
as an item of news, just as other papers had done, adding not
a word of comment; and as soon as he was acquitted of the
"first charge," we noticed that fact, stating, in the language of
the New York Tribune, that "it was fully demonstrated that
the charge was instigated by malice, and was entirely without
foundation;" and a day or two after, we stated, that he was
discharged from custody, there being nothing proved in relation to the counterfeit treasury notes in his possession. What
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more or what less could we have done as faithful chroniclers of
the news of the dav? Therefore, Green, in the above asser  tion, that we have "not had the honesty or fairness to publish
the fact that he had been honorably acquitted," is guilty both
of slander and falsehood upon us-but we presume he will not
grieve very sadly over that fact-The fellow's spite toward us
is founded simply upon the fact that we have ever shunned him
as a humbug, whose career as a pretended reformer is mis  chievous.  Fromn the day of his first visit here, to this hour,
our opinions of the man and his a' eminent usefulness" have been
unchanged. If better men than ourselves have had confidence
in the honesty of his pretensions, time will show whether we
have been uncharitable or they have been duped. We have
heard good men deplore his lectures on gambling as full of mis chief; and for ourselves, we never doubted the fact, from the
day we saw his mission announced.  Experience, as far as we
have observed, has shown that these apprehensions were just.
To one gambler reformed by his influence, we doubt not that
he has been the means of adding ten to that army of the worst
and most heartless of knaves that prey upon the best of man kind.
If he were a man of proper sensibilities, and had the right
sort of mind and conscience for a successful reformer, he would
appreciate the difference, which he does not comprehend, be tween a reformed Inebriate and a reformed Swindler, such as
hlie professes himself to be. He would see that the former be came very intemperate chiefly through physical infirmities,
which, in their gradual progress, induced a blindness to tlie
nature and consequence of his habits. Men, changing such
habits, may show, by their own experience, with good effect,
and without a harlot's or swindler's shame, how deceitful were
the patis they trod, and point with profit to the dangers which
beset all vwhio walk in them. A reformed swindler is a different
being. He wants watching constantly, and the less parade
and show he makes, the better his influence. The sincerity of
his penitence is shown by the extent of his humility-by the
sack-cloth of the anchorite rather than the plumes and epaulettes of the haughty leader.
When such men attempt to regulate public authorities, rebtke the press and misrepresent it, and to degrade themselves
to the condition of hired spies and informers, which are deemed
odious in every civilized land, they deserve public rebuke instead of public confidence. The ends of virtue cannot be pro
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moted by such men or such means. If Mr. Green is truly a
reformed man, he should be encouraged to persevere in keeping from all evil, and he should be patronized in the pursuit of
some laudable occupation, so that he can see that the ways of
virtue are pleasant and peaceful, and that the good among his
fellow-mea rejoice with the angels above over his repentance,
if it prove to be that which is not to be repented of. But this
should be all that he should claim of society-while society
can have no claim upon him, except a continued example of
humility and self-reform.-New Haven Palladiunm.
In answer to this article, the 31'erchants' Day Book thus
replied:
The above is published, not because we care either to refute
the assertions of the New Haven Palladium, or defend J. H.
Green.  The extract credited to the New  York Day Book is
from this paper; and if the Palladium means to say that
Green was ever the agent of the Mlerchants' -Day Book, or in
any way connected with it, it says that which is not true. As
to the articles glorifying Green, and reflecting censoriously and
slanderously upon the town and city authorities of New Haven,
if any have appeared in this paper, we have not seen them.
We  did condemn  the city authorities of  New Haven  for
leaving Green-their special deputy police officer, whom  they
had sent away on business-in the lurch, and compelling him to
borrow money to pay his expenses home. But of this we care
nothing. It was a private matter, and has been settled, we
doubt not, before this time.
Those whlo have read the history of my career in New York,
will recollect my association with the Day Book, edited and
published by Dr. D. Francis Bacon. It was for that paper
that I acted as agent.  The Merchants' Day Book was a different paper, edited and published by N. R. Stimpson, Esq.,
for whom I never acted as agent, or was in any way connected;
and the articles which appeared in that paper I neither dictated
nor saw until I read them in the paper; and the editor of the
Palladium knew the difference between the two papers, and
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that I was in no way connected with the Merchants' Day
Book.
Again, the Palladium says
"We have heard good men deplore his lectures on gambling
a full of mischief; and for ourselves, we never doubted the
tact from the day we saw his mission announced."
In answer to this, it is sufficient to say that the editor of the
Palladiumn was invited to attend my private lectures or exhi
bitions, that he might be able fully to understand the character
of my mission; but he refused to attend, and therefore his
strictures upon the character and results of my work are based
upon gross and unpardonable ignorance.
[From the New York Tribune.]
JONATIHAN H. GREEN.-While Mr. Green was in Albany,
urging upon our Legislature the passage of an act more effectually to suppress gambling, he was arrested  and brought
down to our city, here imprisoned for a week or more, before
he had a hearing, on a chaige of obtaining money by false pretences. As soon as a hearing could be had, the magistrate
dismissed the charge as unfounded, taking the prosecutor's own
statement as the truth. There was no need of any defense.
Green was at once re-arrested on a complaint of having forged
Treasury Notes in his possession, with intent to pass them;
and that was likewise proved a gross fabrication, and he was
again triumphantly set at liberty on the testimony trumpeted
up) against him.  We believe this charge was not merely baseless-it was vindictive and malicious.
Where Green now is we know not, having lost sight of him
since his release; but he ought to be located and supported
in this city. We greatly need his services here, to watch the
operations and defeat the snares of the gamblers, who are here
numerous, daring, and most pernicious. We believe that not
less than five millions of dollars are annually won from fools
and shallow knaves, by blacklegs, in this city alone; and that
not less than one thousand young men are annually ruined by
them. The money is mainly wasted on harlots, strong drink,
and extravagant living. Gamblers are all libertines, and add
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largely to the list of annual victims of seduction; while those
they lure into their dens, and plunder, are generally good for
nothing thenceforth, but become drones, sots, and (ift they have
brains) shavers and villains.  There is no other vie so devastating in its consequences in proportion to the number addicted
to it.
Now, law can go but part way in extirpating this vice. But
our present laws are very defective, and our police either bribed
or powerless. We have not a doubt that our Chief of Police
knows at this moment, where at least five hundred "hells" are
in nightly operation; the captains of police know where they
are perfectly well; the policemen know; yet nothing effectual
is done. Ought we to rest satisfied with this?
We trust the Legislature will amend the existing laws against
gambling, so as to render them more efficient; and then we
would like to bear our part with a number in enabling Mr.
Green to devote his time entirely to the extirpation of gambling
from our city.  What  citizen of known integrity, and some
time at command, will take the lead in effecting such an arrangement?  By so expending five thousand dollars in five
years, we shall save at least five millions to those who honestly
earn it-a good part of which is now stolen from employers, to
be squandered in infamous resorts, while the wreck of morals
and of prospects is a still more appalling evil. How long shall
we passively endure it?
We observe in a late NYew Haven Palladiium some strictures
on Green, which seem exceedingly wrong-headed. The idea
we especially allude to wos substantially this-that Green ought
to be restrained by shame fonl  coming forvard as a reformer
of public morals, because he was once a gambler. Now, we
hold that he is under the greater obligation to labor for the repression of this crying evil, because he has aforetime been its
minister; and we see clearly that if such men are to be repelled
and frowned down because of their past iniquities, thei'e never
can be an effectual repression of gambling. Who can tell
what changes in our laws will render them effectual to suppress
gambling as well as a repentant gambler?  Who else knows as
well as he how to trac(k the human spiders to their haunts and
scare them from their prey? We, certainly, should be  but
children at this business; so would most of our citizens. And
we venture to affirm that Green can accomplish more in one
month toward the suppression of gambling than the editor of
the Palladium could in a year, each doing his best. Then why
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should not the former be encouraged to attempt the work so
necessary to be done, yet to most of us so repugnant as well
as impracticable?
[Front the New Havcn Josurnal; Courier.]
We have read an article in the Palladium of last night, the
tone of which, in its allusions to this journal, as well as oni other
grounds, has given us great pain.   Not that we feel at all con scious of having wounded the feelings of its editors, or of having
done it injustice, but because we regret the temper it has chosen
to exhibit on so slig-ht a provocation, to this paper. Its strictures in respect to Air. Green, as well as on our own course in
regard to him, would  never have drawn from us a serious explanation as to our views, which we now propose to give, had
not there been dependent upon it a question of far more importance than the clharacter of the person attacked, or of the
editors of the Palladium, or of any single individual.-Though
we seriously regret that a paper engaged with us in the advocacy of the great principles of the Wbhig cause, as well, as we
hope, in the defence of the same great principles of public
morals, should see fit to speak of this Journal as yesterday's
Palladium does, yet we cannot regret that the opportunity is
offered us of saying' distinctly what our views of the duty of
a public journal are, as well as indicating to our enemies, if we
have such, as well as to our fiiends, the course we intend to
pursue. A public journal is not the mere work of its publishers
and editors, as the Palladium seems to indicate-it is almost
as much a paper of tiLe public as it is a paper for the public.
Its object is, in addition to thie publicity it may give to what
is properly called "the news," also to express, on local or general topics, all opinions  and  all feelings decorously worded,
which the individual patrons of a paper may see fit to communicate-subject of course to such limitations in respect to
length and mode of expression, as a judicious publisher of
a newspaper may see fit to exact.
But when a paper like the Palladium sees fit to use the language of censure, because we have such a degree of respect for
those gentlemen who have made our paper the organ of their
views in respect to Mr. Green, as to publish their communications, we can only say, we do not believe the Courier and
Jcurnal, whatever may be true of the Palladium, would commend the support it does, did it refuse to express all opinions
hostile to those of its conductors.
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Not only do we willingly give publicity to the notions of
those whose views differ from our own, but we expect in the
future, as we already have done, to put in print the opinions
of those who think lightly enough of our own views. What
then? Are we, or ought we, to be so thin-skinned, that however much intelligent and virtuous men may differ from us in
regard to persons or policy, therefore we are to take every
such opinion as a personal wrong?  We do not know what a
paper like the Palladium might do,-but we do know, that
with our present views, we never will shrink from expressing
in this paper any opinions dictated by regard to public morals
and honestly held, whether in accordance with or hostile to our
individual opinions.
We are at a loss to know what we ought to say to the language this paper has seen fit to use in respect to us-whether
to pass by the jealousy it exhibits with the contempt it merits,
or to reply in detail to the false charges it brings against us.
The Journal, anxious to provoke a quarrel with the Palladium?
interfering in a quarrel with which we have nothing to do?
sneaking behind anonymous correspondents? Are these charges
true? Every man who has read this paper since the recent
change alluded to by him, knows these charges are not true.
We do not court, we certainly do not dread, a controversy with
him. But, if necessary in vindication of our rights to publish
whatever decently expressed communication may come from
any of our subscribers, we will willingly meet the issue.
We only ask the Palladium to say whether their paper is
published merely to express their individual wishes, and to advance their individual interests, or whether they wish it to be
considered the organ of the community in which they dwell.
As for the dispute between the Day-Book and Palladium, we
have nothing to say, but between ourselves and our fellowlaborers in the Whig cause, if they choose to find fault with us
for giving publicity to the feelings of their subscribers as well
as of our own, we will willingly meet them, and in whatever
reply we may make to their bitterness of expression, we shall
not feel bound hereafter to consult decorum more than we do
our own right and justice.
[From the New Haven Courier.]
J. H. GREEN, THE REFORMED GAMBLER.-We were confident from the first that the arrest of this man in New York a
few weeks since, was an infamous proceeding, got up by his
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enemies the gamblers.  And it is an act of common justice,
which has now by the present condition of Green become one
of humanity, that the present public statement is made to
this community of the late dastardly assault on Green's liberty and rights in New York.  We chanced to be in New York
a day or two since, and ourselves heard his examination before the U. S. Commissioner, and the facts we give are derived from the authorities there, not from Green, and are
published neither at Green's request, nor with his knowledge.
The facts are, briefly, these
Green was at Albany, attempting to push a law against
gamblers and gambling, through the Legislature, when he
was arrested at the instigation of one Spaulding (a scoundrel
by his own showing), brought to New York, and shut in the
Tombs " for nine days.  When brought out for examination,
nothing dishonorable was found against Green, but against the
other party-the  witness in the case-and Green  was  at
once fully discharged. But Green's pocket-book had been
taken, on shutting him in prison, and in this were found some
old spurious Treasury, and one or two other notes ( the same
the writer of this, and others here, have seen wadded up in a
corner of Green's wallet), and this Spaulding again has him
arrested, on the charge of attempting to pass these notes, and
Green was remanded to his felon's cell four days longer. His
next examination was before the United States Commissioner,
(this being a higher offence), on Tuesday last, which examination, as before stated, the writer attended. On this examination, this same Spaulding (Green having no witness) swore
almost point blank opposite to what he had sworn four days
before, showed he had himself been threatened with arrest for
larceny some time since, in New Hampshire, showed an assassin's disposition and an assassin's impudence, and the thing
proved against Green was, that two old Treasury Notes we,-c
found in his wallet (!)  The prosecuting Attorney, William M.
Evarts, Esq., said nothing was proved, and stopped the examination, and the United States Commissioner said to the
writer that the case was frivolous, and should not have been
brought before them. Green was instantly discharged.
But another thing-Green was sick, could hardly sit in hii
chair during the examination; he came to New  Haven that
night, and is now sick with a nervous fever in this city. Never
was a more cruel, scandalous piece of conduct than this
whole procedure against a poor, and, we trust, honest man;
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and when a perfect yell of exultation is going up in the hells
of New York and elsewhere, against a man proved innocent by
his enemy, men of another character and honest minds, as it
seems to us, should give to the injured their countenance. As
to Green's general character we have nothing to say. It is
believed he is laboring for an honest name. A double responsibility lies orr the good, therefore, if the Devil is suffered to
wrench that name away.
W. T. BACON.
[For the Journal and Courier.]
J. H. GREEN.
MEssRs. EDIT'ORS:     The article in your paper of Friday morning, signed W.
T. Bacon, was read with great pleasure by many of our citizens, and yet all was not said that should be. Mr. Green
came to New Haven some months since, and after making the
acquaintance of some of our best citizens, indicated a disposition to take up a permanent residence among us. In this
purpose he was encouraged by those whose acquaintance he
had made, and assurances were given him, that if he was willing to devote his time in aid of the efforts of our citizens to
ferret out and break up the gambling and drinking hells among
us, he would be reasonably compensated for his time thus
spent. It was believed that, from the experience he had been
through in everything appertaining to their evils, he could
make himself highly useful in our community; and, although
there was, as there ever should be in such cases, a hesitancy
in reposing implicit confidence in his professions, there was
nevertheless believed to be sufficient evidence on his part of an
irntention and desire to effect an entire reformation of character
and life (which from his own confession had been very bad for
years), to warrant the encouragement which  was proffered
him.  He therefore decided to locate among us, and to do
what he could in aid of the object to which  reference has already been made. For six months, or thereabouts, he devoted his time more or less constantly in gathering facts and preparing the way for efficient action in the sequel; but during
this time he was under no definite engagement, and depended
for his compensation upon the generosity of those who approved of his efforts.
It should be remembered, however, that during all this time
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he was constantly encouraged by many of our most respectable and influential citizens, with the assurance that he should
be suitably rewarded.  But that reward he has never yet received, except to a very limited extent; on the contrary, he
has been denounced and tr.aduced-not only by gamblers and
the keepers of grog-shops, but by many from whom different
things might have been expected. It is not pretended that
Mfr. Green is free from faults; but it remains to be proved,
that since he came to New Haven, he has not been honest and
as consistent as could reasonably be expected, after having led
the life he has; but very many of our citizens, favorable to every good object, have, from the first, regarded Mr. Green with
distrust, and freely reproached all who have been disposed to
encourage him in his efforts to establish a character, and obtain
an honest living; and in his recent troubles in New York,
brought upon him by malicious and unprincipled enemies, there
has been a general feeling of exultation in certain quarters, because, as was supposed, Green had been detected, and his true
character exposed. His friends here, of course, come in for a
large share of ridicule, at the apparent caving in of all their
hopes in regard to Green. But he has been honorably acquitted, and has returned to his family, poor in flesh and purse, and
suffering from severe illness. He is now at his residence, in
West Chapel-street, under these circumstances, and it is gratifying to know that there are some who have shown their sympathy for him in his sorrow, and it is hoped and believed that
many others will do so, and perhaps it may hereafter appear,
that in so doing, they have as truly copied the example of their
Master (who, when on earth, distinguished himself especially
in encouraging the guilty to reform), as those who have so unscrupulously and constantly denounced him.
L.
[From the Journal and Courier.]
The following communication from a most respectable
source, will doubtless receive the approbation of many of our
readers. We give it place simply as a matter of justice, without knowing anything of the merits in the case, and without
assuming any responsibility one way or the other.  Our object
is to give all a hearing.
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THE CASE OF GREEN.
The Palladium, forced at last to take an open stand in regard to our persecuted fellow-citizeni, Mr. J. H. Green, has
confessed and boasted of its outrageous prejudices, and shamefully belied an honest man. Last Saturday, in an exceedingly
bitter article, it directly and unequivocally charged  Mr. G.
with "slander and falsehood "-contemptuously  calling him
the fellow "-broadly hinted (in the words, "he  will not
rieve over the fact,") that Mr. G. delights in slandering and
ying -charged him with teaching and letting loose, by his
lectures and expositions, tea of the lowest acid mnost heartless
knaves for one reformed-called him a "humbug "-by a sly
"if "-covertly  called  him  an unreforned  " swindler'"coupled this appellation with " harlots "-for what purpose
the writer of that article and He who knows the heart, alone
can tell-charged him with attempting, out of his place, to
regulate public authorities, to rebuke the priess!-(strange
audacitv-rebuke the Palladitm/!) —and branded  him as an
odious hiired spy and informer.
Now why, and with what foundation, is all this said? B]3ecause, for some reason undivulged, the Palladiot.i, to use its
own words, has ever shunned Mr. G. as a hcrmnbig; has not
changed its opinion from the day he came. Without waiting
to consider this their fellow-man's circumstances, his aims, his
true character, and the difficulties in his path, crowding on him
from every side, from the "first time his mission was announced," the Palladium, judging zntuitively, set him down as a
rogue-a rascal.  Noble company has the Palladlium in these
suddenly formed opinions,  and  these denunciations, in the
crowd of gamblers and desperadoes who infest our land! This
hasty prejudice, and subsequent systematic persecution, is bolstered up by the assertions that "good men-(if the Pa,l/adium meant all, or even a majority of good men, we deny the
assertion), deplore Mr. G's lectures, as calculated to produce
evil results, and ilthat the Palladioinm never doubted this to be
their tendency. We dare the counter assertion, that by far
the greater part of "good men " in this country,  who l)ave
heard these lectures, have given their testimony to the good
influence exerted by them, and to the fact that Mr. Green is
the only prominent and thoroughly active and efficient laborer
in this field of reform.
The Palladiuin says that " time will slhow  whether or not
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Mr. G. is honest.   Will show!  How long a time, pray, may
be required for this purpose?  Time  has shown.   For eight
years has this man been struggling against poverty and reproach, amid distrust and the matchinations of enemies; yet,
desperate as are these enemies, never have  they yet fastened
the stigma of dishonesty upon him —never can they. When
has he been known to gamble?  How signally failed the late
dastardly attempt of Spaulding, the tool of the New  York
gamblers, to convict him of certain crimes. True, Mr. G. has
faults-glaring ones, too-he sees, feels, deplores them; but
they are faults of judgment, not of the heart.  These  the
Palladium has not touched upon. It has passed his only vulnerable point (his defects as a mere business man; a calculator of dollars and cents), to give currency to falsehoods when
truth failed to subserve its purpose.
We leave the presumption, amounting to an assertion, which
the writer of this knows to be utterly false, that Mr. G. had
any, the remotest, agency in diclating the article in the New
York Day Book, which provoked this assault, to be attended to
by the Day Book itself.  We know the writer of that article
as a man of large heart and independent spirit, and not to be
dictated into saying aught in this matter but what his own
conscience settled as the truth, and nothing else.
Mr. Green now lies dangerously sick in this city, unable to
speak for himself, and purposely kept ignorant of this gross
assault. The writer has felt it his duty to notice it, at no dictation of Mr. G., but only as an act of humanity and justice.
A. B.
[For the Journal and Courier.]
MESSRS. EDITORS:
I beg leave to thank your correspondent "A. B" for his
defence of a man who, as I believe, is entitled to the respect
of honest-minded citizens. If hlie is a reformed man, (and I
believe him to be so, and not without evidence,) surely he is
all the better for that-and in a world where a large proportion of its inhabitants (editors and all) are in the devil's clutches,
do not let us scorn the man who has had the courage and success to break away from his grasp. Probably there are few
men among us whom it may not be well to have reformed if
possible, in some respects at least. And even the accusers and
persecutors of those who have escaped from some of the
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stronger snares may be even yet in as dangerous entanglements
of some other sort.  I do not know about this, but I say it may
be so, There was once a splendid Pharisee who could turn
his eyes upward toward heaven, and at the same time turn
his nose up at a poor reformed Publican-a.nd that Pharisee*
may have been even an aspirant for a place in the Sanhedrim
of the nation, but after all he needed to be a reformed mal.
Messrs. Editors, let us not despise reformed men.  It is due
to ourselves-to the great interests of our commonwealthand it is due to the greater cause of public morals and of religion
itself, that a reformed man, whose character is well accredited
by suitable evidence, should be received and welcomed back
to the circle of honest citizens.
Yours,                                 PHILO.
The Nrew EEnglqand Fountain says
It may be proper to add that the counterfeit bills, and the
Treasury notes which were not counterfeit ones, but old canceled notes, were furnished to Green  "by authority."  He has
for a year or so held and still holds, a commission from the U.
S. Government to detect counterfeiters, and rogues who defraud
the government in any of its departments, being paid from the
secret service fund fo)r services actually rendered; and the counterfeit bills and the notes-were furnished him for that object.
We visited Mr. Green last Saturday, and found him quite
low, with a nervous fever, but evidently gaining the victory over
disease. It may seem a good joke to the black-hearted scoundrel who concocted this scheme to lie in the Tombs twelve
days and nights, incarcerated in the cell where Colt, the murderer, committed suicide, and Gibbs, the pirate, spent the last
weeks of his existence-and a much longer incarceration would
hardly atone for his crime-but we are sure that it has been a
serious matter to poor Green; for although his persecutors,
backed as they were by the Satanic press, have failed utterly
in their attempt to destroy his reputation as an honest man,
his health has received a blow from which it will take some
time to recover, and he has suffered in his pecuniary affairs.
We are happy to believe that his friends in New Hlaven will see
to it that neither himself or family s1a11l be the worse, so far as
* The allusion to the Pharisee of course is intended to remind the reader
of thie desperation of the Editor, James Babcock, when he was defeated as
the Rum and Tar candidate for Congress.
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dollars are concerned, and hope that he will soon be at work
again troubling the whole fiaternity of blacklegs, whose hatred
he has earned in doing his duty.
[From the Tribune, Dubuque, Iowa.]
Most of our readers, doubtless, are familiar with the name
of "Green the Reformed Gambler," and a portion, at least, we
presume, have read of his recent arrest in Albany, on a charge
of false pretences, and that of attempting to pass counterfeit
Treasury Notes. A gentleman of this city, who knows Green
well, and takes much interest in his success as an opposer of
vice, has requested of us the insertion of the following article,
which we concede with pleasure.
TIlE REFORMED  GAMBLER. —The  notice of the arrest of
Green, the reformed gambler, a few days since at Albany,
under the charge of obtaining money and goods under false
pretences, and of being engaged in passing counterfeit Treasury
notes, and his being taken to the city of New York, our readers
will remember was given by our New York correspondent.
On reading the account, we remarked that it was a piece of
persecution by gamblers, and so it has turned out, as the following articles from the New York Tribune and Journal abundantly
show.
"Mr.  Green, better known  as the'Reformed Gambler,'
was yesterday examined on a charge of attempting to pass
counterfeit Treasury Notes; but after a brief examination the
complaint was dismissed."
The Albany Eveniny Journal adds the following addition:
"Green had been previously honorably discharged from arrest under a charge of obtaining goods and money under false
pretences. The prosecution is said to have been purely malicious-induced by the efforts which Mr. G. was making to
secure the enactment of a law to prevent and punish gambling.
The Baptist Register then gives the following just editorial.
The Editor having watched the movements of Mr. Green during
his reformation life, a term of eight years, says
"We could not think that a person who had given such satisfactory evidence of his being a reformed man as Mr. Green, and
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has labored for eight years to expose the odious vice of gambling,
and to put it down, could be guilty of the charge alleged
against him.  If one man more than another demands the sympathly tnd protection of the moral portion of the community, it
is this J. IH. Gieen.
In several of the Western States he has secured the passage
of most stringent laws against gamblers.  He  has received
public honors in the States of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky, for his meritorious labors, and his very name has been
the terror of blacklegs in all parts of the land.  He has been
familiar with their villanies, as he was one of the most accomplished among them until his reform; and hesitates not to tell
them what they are both in public and private. He has exposed himself by his faithfulness to the bitterest persecution;
and numbers, even in high life, would be glad to see his reputat,ion blasted.  The groggeries which have their private gambling(r apartments, and there are many such, utterly abhor him.
Hils life has been repeatedly threatened, dangerous assaults
have been made upon his person, and he has barely escaped
with his life; and his character has also been grossly assailed.
It is a wonder that he has not been killed or ruined before this.
Bat in no case have the efforts of these wretches been successful against him.
Had he not been a man of the most undaunted courage, and
deeply impressed with-duty, he would long since have retired
f 1o  the conflict, and left the community to take care of itself.
This, however, he could not do conscientiously, and he has
maintained his uniform course against the army of blacklegs,
whether in high life or low, —and no doubt has done much to
check the flood of ruin that has been desolating our land.  But,
poor man, he has had to labor very much alone; with all the
weight and management of a host of villains, the most desperate
in the world,-the keepers of gambling-houses groggeries, and
brothels,-and with a scanty pittance obtained from his lectures, and it has been an up-hill business. Had men of influence and moral worth everywhere seconded his noble efforts, he
would long ere this have spread consternation among the ranks
of these abandoned wretches; and the cities and villages of this
and other States would not groan under the burden of them as
they now do.
This very moment the whole land groans under the burden
of blacklegs; the city of New York is crying out in her public
journals in torment against the insupportable load of corruption.
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If the Legislature does not do something effectually for its relief, it will become as dreadful in regard to gamblers as London
or Paris. It is rather unfortunate that Green is not a man of
education; he has strong native powers for a lecturer.  The
Legislature, however, should not fail to improve the information he is abundantly able to furnish. No other man can tell
them what he can of the giant vice of gambling.-Baptist Register.
[From the Independent.]
J. H. GREEN, TIIE REFORMED GAMBLER.-It is quite obvious that this man has been the victim of a base conspiracy, and
that the gamblers have pursued him with unrelenting malice.
Mr. Green was lately at Albany, it seems, trying to get a law
against  gambling  through  the  Legislature, when  he  was
arrested at the instigation of one of the fraternity, and confined twelve days in the Tombs, in New York.
Upon an examination Mr. Green was honorably acquitted, and
Silas W. Spaulding, the gambler, who caused lis arrest, was,
by his own confessions, criminated, not only for having Green
maliciously arrested, but that he himself had been arrested for
theft, and had made his escape firom the officers, without giving them a chance to settle the ends of justice upon his head,
which he so richly merited. That his charges were wholly
unfounded was quite evident to the government officers, and
disinterested persons who were present at the examination,
that the prosecution originated in sheer vindictiveness, and that
Green  was wholly blameless in  the matter.   It is almost
enough of itself to establish the innocence of any man, to
know that he is pursued by gamblers with so much ferocity.
[From the New York Observer.]
J. H. GREEN, THE REFORMED GAMBLER.-On the 7thof Februtary, Mr. J. H. Green, well known as the reformed gambler,
was broughlt to this city from Albany, in the custody of A. M.
C. Smith, and lod(ged in the Tombs. He had been arrested
on a charge of obtaining money and goods under false prett-nces. On examination before the magistrates the charge
proved to be entirely unfounded, and he was honorably discharged.   He was  then arrested and committed to prison
on  a charge of having, with the intent to pass, spurious
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money, knowing it to be counterfeit. On the 19th he was
brought before Alexander Gardner, Esq., U. S. Commissioner, and  W. M. Evaits, U. S. Prosecutingcr Attorney. Judge
W. W. Drinker kindly proffered his services as Mr. Green's
Council. The examination, which was long and searching,
resulted in his acquittal. No reliable evidence was presented
to sustain the charge, and so utterly groundless was it, that
after the examination of witnesses, the case was dismissed
without any legal argument being required.  Mr. Green was
at Albany when arrested, laboring for the enactment of a
stringent law for the suppression of gambling, the breaking up
of lottery policy offices, and all other gambling dens of this
city and State, when he was arrested, through the malicious
and false swearing of one Silas \W. Spaulding, who confessed
upon the stand, while testifying against Green, that he had
been arrested several times under the charge of thieft.
[From the New York Evangelist.]
J. H. GREEN, THE REFORCED  GAMBLER.-On  the 7th of
February, Mr. J. H. Green, well known as the "Reformed
Gambler," was brought to this city from Albany, in the custody of officer A. M. C. Smith, and lodged in the Tombs.  He
had been arrested on a charge of obtaining money and goods
under false pretences. - On examination before a magistrate,
the accusation appeared to be entirely unfo)unded, and he was
honorably discharged. He was then arrested and committed
to prison on a charge of having in his possession counterfeit
treasury notes, with the intent to pass them.  On the 19th he
was brought out for examination before Alexander Gardner,
U. S. Commissioner, and William M. Evarts, U. S. prosecuting
Attorney.  Judge W. W. Drinker came forward,  and proffered his services as counsel for Mr. Grieen. The examination,
which was long and searching, resulted in his acquittal. No
reliable evidence was presented to sustain the charge; and so
utterly groundless was it, that after the examination of the
witnesses, the case was dismissed without any legal argument
being required.  Mr  Green was at Albany when arrested,
laboring for the passage of a stringent law for the suppression
of gambling and the breaking up of gambling-hlouses, when a
blackleg, known by the name of Silas W. Spaulding, to defeat
his success, had him arrested, and brought to this city.
It is not difficult to discover the connection between his
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generous philanthropic efforts for the suppression of a tenrrible
vice, and this malicious prosecution. But the gamblers will be
obliged to use some less legitimate means than the strong arm
of the law for the crushing of their bold antagonist.   Mr.
Green is now residing at New Haven, where he has been
laboring for the legal suppression of the sale of liquors, and is
sustained in his efforts by the law-loving and vice-hating
portion of the community.
THE NEW HAVEN PALLADIUM AND ITS EDITORS.
Those who have read the preceding newspaper articles have
not failed to remark the decided hostility of the New Haven
Palladium, not only to myself but to my reformatory movements.  As this may appear enigmatical to those unacquainted
with the facts, I will briefly explain.
The NVew Haven Palladium is an old and established and
somewhat respectable Whig journal; the editors and publishers
being the leaders of a clique of Whigs, who, like themselves, are
jolly, good fellows, and not afraid of fun or frolic, even when
heightened by the artificial aids of good wine, &c. It is also
said that they were sorely grieved at the removal of the Billiard
Tables from the Temple, as they afforded rational and refreshing amusement after the editorial labors of the day were over.
These things considered, it could not be expected tha't they
would very deeply sympathize with my reformatory movements.
Again.  The (New Haven) Journal and Courier, an ablyconducted and spirited Whig paper, edited by Rev. W. T.
Bacon, always sustained my movements; and its editor, who is
one of the excellent of the earth, not only recorded my reform
efforts, but became one of my warmest personal firiends; and
as the two Whig journals controlled different political cliques,
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the Journal's friendship for me was an additional reason for the
Palladium's hostility.
It so happened that during my operations in New Haven
the Whig party of that city divided, and the Palladium clique
(better known as the Rum and Tar party) succeeded in securing the nomination of one of the editors of the Palladium
as the Whig candidate for Congress. The nomination was
stoutly opposed by the Journal; and although it was a Whig
district, the Rum and Tar candidate was defeated by a very
large majority.
As my efforts were directed against all Rum parties, it is
not strange that the Palladium was not my friend; and as his
right hand wire-puller was a man who dealt largely in Rum
as well as Tar, of course the Palladium had to stand up to the
interests of their chieftain.
The foregoing articles from the Journal and Courier were
written without my knowledge, and during my illness, by gentlemen who had as carefully watched my movements as those
of the Palladium since it became the organ of the Rum and
Tar Whigs.
With this explanation, the reader will more fully comprehend
the force of the articles from the Journal, Merchants' Day
Book, and Tribune, in which they are so essentially "used
up." So far as moral principle is concerned, however, the
principal editor we hear is whetting up his Rum and Tar
friends for the purpose of making another (abortive) run for a
seat in Congress. That he may, through his leader, the Tar
trader, and Rumites, secure the nomination there is no doubt;
but for him to be elected to an office which he is neither
morally nor intellectually qualified to fill, can never be while
he is a citizen of as intelligent a city as New Haven. But we
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hope to see even such men as the proprietors of the Palladium
reform, and become, if possible, not only honest, but men of
moral worth. But we will leave Messrs. Babcock and Wildman to the lash of a few honest citizens of New Haven, who
represented the sentiment of seven-eighths of that moral city
respecting the mean and cowardly stand taken by those two
individuals to crush one whom they well know was not an
enemy to mankind, and was striving only to prevent such men
as they were feeding the pampered appetites of, with their
Tar and Rum organ, from carrying out the basest designs, of
which all but gamblers and their abettors are wholly ignorant.
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CHAPTER IX.
THE DEFAULTER.
How many men, who have held high and respectable
offices under the American government, have disgraced
themselves, and brought reproach upon their families and
friends by the embezzlement of funds received in their
official capacity. Few months, or even weeks, pass, without the attention of the public being called, by the newspapers, to some new case of defalcation. It is also well
known, that among the number of defaulters are found men
who, up to the time of defalcation, have been regarded by
community as proverbial for their honesty. Hence it has
been generally asked by many, "What  could have been
the cause of error so gross and damning, in men hitherto so
decidedly and eminently upright?"  This problem might
be more easily solved, if we could gain an insight into the
occasion and circumstances by which the powerful influences of vice were brought to operate. The crime committed in the land can never be accounted for by mere
speculation. Let us try to open a few of the many causes
which lead to the commission of such flagrant outrages of
public justice.
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During my gambling career, I have had the curtain
lifted ill many an instance from such a scene; and the
machinery by which the result was brought about, clearly
exposed to my view. I have seen the most skilful at loss
to account for the stealthy and dexterous manceuvres of
vice. I have seen a prominent man become a stupendous
defaulter to government, by schemes and plots concocted
and brought to maturity by the very persons who were his
security for a faithful performance of the duties of his
office. Through their instrumentality he received the ap
pointment, and through their base means he became a
large defaulter. He was a gentleman of a pleasant aspect,
very prepossessing in his manners, and with a heart full of
grateful and generous emotions. He received his office
through the special influence of those whom he believed to
be his friends. Immediately on his appointment, five of
these persons (there were eight in all) formed a compact
for the purpose of plucking from him, not his salary alone,
but the deposit of the office, and his own private estate.
I was a garnbler at that time, and was thought by his
friends shrewd enough in the black art to have the secrets
open to me; and in order that I might play my part in the
matter, if it should  be necessary.   Another  part  was
assigned to a lottery dealer; and a number of parts were
assigned to a fashionable liquor seller.
Everything proceeded in perfect order for several weeks.
The official became possessed of a large amount of money.
Parties were now introduced-balls, wine parties, card
parties, in short, any species of social amusement. The
The lottery scheme was a failure. He refused to touch it;
but he was fond of wine, and partial to the game of
,' bragg," which he played sufficiently well to lose.  Yet he
played on without suspicion, never acknowledging himself
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to be inferior to the bragg players with whom he contended.
The party met several times with alternate winnings and
losses on the part of the officer.
At this juncture of the business, there happened along
one of his acquaintances, upon official business, which, he
stated, was very urgent, and required the immediate atten
tion of the officer. The business was transacted, and the
acquaintance only awaited the arrival of a steamer to bear
him away from his friend. During this interval he was invited to take a hand at the now favorite game of " bragg,'
which he declined doing, stating as his reason for declining,
that lie might miss the steamer. Immediately one of the
party assured him that his servant should watch for the
boat.  He then consented to play.  The game began with
small betting.  The cards run in small hands.  The stranger
lost several ten dollar "braggs," the officer winning, and,
at the same time, tantalizing him in a genteel way, saying,
he could not play' bragg;' was it his favorite game?"
and other remarks of a similar kind. The servant now
gave the intelligence of a boat approaching. The stranger
settled the game, being about five hundred dollars minus.
As he was about to depart, the office-holder invited him to
take a glass with him before parting, which he did. They
shook hands, and he departed for the boat. Buit, to his apparent astonishment the boat had passed.  He immediately
returned to the room, where he found the party still at the
card-table. Hle was welcomed by the winner, who assured
him he did not wish him ill luck, but that his company was
so agreeable he hoped he would not get off for a week. To
which his acquaintance replied, (true assertion,) " I will
make you pay dear for it."'
The party now began to play high, the cards running
low. A bet of fifty dollars was made by the office-holder
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and hib visitor, which would win thle first fifty dollar bet
It was proposed by the other players that each nian put up
an additional hundred, and that the winner of the first fifty
dollars should take the whole.
This proposition was accepted, and the cards dealt. The
visitor sat the first man to the left of the dealer, the officeholder second to the left. Before raising his three cards,
he signified he was in for the "' ante," (the bet which is required in all bragg games to be put up before the cards are
dealt;) the others passed, and without betting. The dealer
asked tile " ante man" if he wanted any more cards. lie
said he wished two. They were served. The same ques.
tion was put to the office-holder.  He took two, at the
same time remarking, " You shall not have any advantage
of me as to numbers."   The hands filled each two "bullets" and a "bragger."  The visitor bet fifty dollars, which
bet would enable him to claim the whole amount staked by
the party, provided he woni.  The officer bet him one thousand dollars better. The stranger bet him nine thousand
better.  The former would have declined, but was urged
by his supposed friends to call.  The money was stakedhe lost. The game grew desperate. Five persons generally play the game of brag. The office-holder had four
against him, any of which were far his superiors.  Hle rose
the loser of twenty-eight thousand dollars. He became so
drunk, that they carried him  helpless to his bed.  The
visitor took boat the same day.
WThen the former was made sensible of his losses, he
wept, and said he was a ruinied and disgraced man, unless
he could have immediate assistance; that government had
drawn upon him for a large amount; and that he knew not
where he was to receive assistance. I can tell you, said a
security; I have the amount at your disposal.  Of course
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the offer was accepted.   In a few Hays after this affair, another  step  was  taken towards  his ruin.  lie  required an
assistant as a book-keeper. A gentleman in appearance
was introduced as a good accountant. iHe was employed.
False entries were made, causing the books to balance.   In
less than one year he was a defaulter to ten times more
than the amount of his bond.  He was displaced.  He applied to those in whom he had placed so much confidence
for assistance, that he might, in time, if possible, redeem
his credit, and regain his standing. His friends consulted
by themselves, and came to the conclusion that it would be
best to prevail on him to go to Texas, where they promised
him aid. At that time Texas was fighting for her independence with Mexico. They persuaded him to offer his services to the Texan government. He did so, expecting
through the aid of his friends in the States to head a large
force. The time arrived, but he waited long ill vain for the
promised means. Time passed on; he grew sick, and
more sick, at the hope deferred and opportunity lost. No
assistance, no means arrived. Becoming now absolutely
desperate, he abandoned himself to excessive drinking.
During a fit of intoxication he joined a scouting party, and
left for the frontier, and was taken prisoner and put to
death by the Mexicans. The supposed friends of the unfortunate man I knew well.
The casual visit, and the pretended delay by the leaving
of the boat, it is needless to say, had been arranged by the
men he supposed his best friends, and the very persons who
were on his bond as security to the government. They
mutually did their best to keep their victim and his relatives, and his real friends, from all suspicion of their abominable villany.  " Stool pigeons" is the phrase by which this
class of persons is designated. It is absolutely impossible
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to imagine anytning more unequivocally and meanly villain ous.  It unites perfect hypocrisy to the worst form of rapa city-a rapacity which, under the name and guise of friendship, buries its clutches in the bosom of his victim. Yet
there have been those engaged in these practices who
should be, nay, ought to be, above suspicion. I have often
had connection with men who were apparently above suspicion of the most trivial act of dishonesty; and yet, would
condescend to the meanest acts of deception. If we could
truly ascertain the causes of the bankruptcies of our coulntry, we should discover that they were not all chargeable to
mutations and misfortunes in trade, nor extravagant outlay.
I have known men in good circumstances and standing
made bankrupts in a single night.  1 have known the same,
persons adding perjury to their weakness and crimes, swear
they had been feloniously robbed.  Others have  cut out
their own pockets after losing their money; some commlitted forgery, and even arson, to conceal their guilty practices. This is not an uncommon thing. The young man
or novice who frequents gambling houses, or associates with
gamblers, has always at his elbow (though he knows it not,
although he may feel assured of the contrary) some "stoolpigeon." His only safety is a total abstinence from all
games of chance. This is all experience teaches. And the
man who would refuse to make this sacrifice, could never
count my money.
In conclusion, I would remind the reader of this sketch,
that the unfortunate defaulter had never indulged ill the
use of cards, except for amusement, until a few weeks before his ruin. I have seen and conversed with the friends
and relatives of the ruined man, since his misfortunes and
death. They told me that for some time before his last departure from home, he had become completely fascinated
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with certain men, believing them to be his best and truest
friends. How deadly fatal was his error, has been already
seen. IHIis name is now seldom mentioned by his mourning
and ruined family. His crime is registered ill the criminal
records of our country, a lasting reproach to his posterity.
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CHAPTER X.
THE GAMBLER'S CABIN.
NEAR the mouth of the Yazoo River, in the year 1833
stood a small log cabin. The furniture consisted of a bedstead, a table, several rude benches, and a few common camp
cooking utensils. It was by accident that I visited it, and
learned the facts of the following tale of sorrow. The
steamer Walter Scott was running at that time, as a packet
boat between Yazoo city, (now known as Manchester) and
New Orleans.  Upon one of her upward trips, I took passage. After she had passed several miles up the river, one
of her steam-pipes exploded, which event bade fair to cause
us several days delay. The captain made known the facts
to the passengers, stating that he must take the yawl and
return to Vicksburg, and would be happy to carry as many
,f the passengers as his accommodation and their convenience would permit. Among those who concluded to remain
in the steamer, were several gamblers. One of them, whose
same was Seth Sumpter, proposed to me partnership with
him in gambling during onr delay in the place, which proposition I readily accepted. He told me that he had frequently remained here several days at a time; and although
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the place had the appearance of a wilderness, there were
many raftsmen who were settled within a few miles, and
they all gambled. During our conversation, we were approachling a large cane-break, near the edge of which stood
the cabin above referred to. The door was ajar, out of which
we discovered smoke pouring in volumes.   We entered, and
found an old mattress burning, which we carried out of the
door. On the bed-stead, in the back part of the room, as the
smoke cleared away, we espied a human form, which upon
examination, proved to be an old man, whose appearance
indicated the age of sixty-five or seventy years. I-His countenance was highly intellectual, but bore indubitable marks
of crime and wretchedness. Our efforts to awaken him appeared hopeless, until after some two hours, when there
were some indications of returning life. Upon opening his
eyes, as he looked around, he apeared much surprised, but
calmly asked whence we came and what we meant by such
an intrusion. I told him that we were passengers of the
Walter Scott; that curiosity led us near his cabin, and as
we approached it, discovering the smoke, wve came to his
rescue. He then fixing his eyes upon me, remarked that it
would have been as well for me and the world too, had I
not paid the visit to his cabin, which 1 seemed to think was
fortunate for him;-that the fire would soon have finished
his probation and the world have suffered no loss. He then
directed to my companion an inquiring look, at which the
latter seemed uneasy, and remarked that we had better leave
for the boat. The old man gave a significant nod, and said,
"No! y-e-s! of course! ha! ha! it suits you better!  Yes,
young man," said he, "go along with him; this cabin don't
suit him."
I perceived that there was some fearful mystery in which
my companion seemed involved.  As we turned away from
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the old man's abode, Sumpter remarked, "I know that old
villain. They call him Old Charley."
"What does he do for a living?" I inquired.
"Oh he's an old"-(here he paused)-," he is an old brokendown gambler, that's all.  Pity we had not left him and his
cabin burn up together, for all the good he is to himself or
anybody else."
Such is the gambler's estimate of his own calling, and the
verdict he pronounced upon his own character. To the remarks of my companion, I made no reply; but perceived
that he was very uneasy, and that he endeavored to make
the impression that there was no importance to be attached
to the old man's insinuations in respect to him. We had
barely reached the boat, when another steamer, on her
downward passage made her appearance, which was hailed
by Sumpter and companions. She rounded to and took
them on board. As soon as I was rid of their company, from
motives of curiosity, I resolved upon another visit to the
gambler's cabin. As I approached the door, I observed, the
old man sitting upon the step, caressing a large dog. The
latter manifesting his displeasure at my visit, his master bade
him be quiet.
"How do you feel, sir," said I; "have you recovered?"
"Do you think I look any better?" he replied with a
fiendish grin.
"I do, certainly think yo must be much better.'
"I could tell you," said he, "if I thought proper, a tale
that would change your mind. But what have you done
with that villian Sumpter? Have you got him hidden somewhere? If so, you might as well bring him out. He will
find no person here that fears him, and you can tell him so
for me.' Old Charley' fears no man, least of all, him. I
will prove that to him yet." I assured him that Sumpter
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was a comparative stranger to me; adding by way of inform.ation, that he had just taken passage ill the boat that
arrived a few minutes before. This last remark seemed to
arrest his attention.  He rose immediately, entered his cabin,
drew from under his bed a large rifle, putting on his powder
horn and shot-pouch, then stepping to his pillow, he took
from under it a large knife, some sixteen inches in length.
Then turning to me he said, " Now, young man, I will accompany you to the steamboat, if you have no objections."
I assured him that I had none. He walked on board,
into the cabin, and thence to the deck, his keen, black eye
narrowly scanning every spot as he passed. Disappointed
in hlis search, he went ashore and sat down.   Shortly after
he had taken his seat, I approached him, and we entered
into conversation again.
You seem to feel somewhat concerned about me," said
he.
"I do, for you appear to be unhappy," was my reply.
".And you," said he, " cannot comfort me either."
I remarked that I was very sorry; that I would be glad
to do so, if it were in my power; and asked him why he
had searched the boat so narrowly.
" To find Sumpter,'" he said.
" Your conduct towards that man," I remarked, "indicates some mystery pertaining to you two, that I should like
to have solved."
" Well, then, if you must know," said he, surlily, "I
went on board on purpose to give Sumpter a lead pill,"
(meaning a bullet.)
I felt alarmed when I perceived that he was determined
to take his life, and remarked that I should be sorry to get
into trouble for such a miserable fellow
He started, and exclaimed
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.Do not feel alarmed, young man, it would not trouble
me in the least.  I have passed the rubicon, and am  yet
unscathed."
There was something in his manner that indicated in the
manl unusual taleut, and every development of it served only
to increase my curiosity to hear his history, especially that
portion of it which seemed some way mysteriously colnnected with Sumpter. In the course of a protracted conversation that ensued, I elicited the following particulars:
Ile had been a resident of the South about six years;
was a native of Virginia; lost his wife there, who left him
with a son, his only child; the father, being a man of
wealth, indulged freely in dissipation and gambling; the
son unfortunately copying his example, they together soon
squandered a large estate. Discovering their approaching
destiny, and feeling the necessity of some provision for
future wants, they gathered up their little remnant of property, which consisted of fifteen negroes, and left for the
wild lands of Mississippi, where they, on a pre-emption
claim, built the cabin which was still the home of the old
man. Soon after their arrival, they floated to the New
Orleans market a large timber raft, and sold it advantageously, making a large profit. They then returned to their
wild home, where they had left ten slaves in the care of an
overseer, and found that during their absence all had decamped. Tile old man and his son immediately hastened
to Vicksburg for assistance, carrying the remaining five
slaves with them.   They had no sooner arrived at that
place, and made known their misfortune, than Sumpter
offered the aid of his services in recovering the lost property. Some of his acquaintances did the same, and in a
few hours a party was enlisted and equipped for the pursuit. As they were on the point of starting, it was discov
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ered that the old man had become unable to travel, in consequence of sudden illness. It was thought best to leave
him in the care of the remaining five servants and pursue
the fugitives, with the son alone to lead them. The party
started for the upper part of Arkansas, where they were
successful not only in capturing the renegade overseer, but
also in getting, on condition of releasing him, a large compensation for the lost negroes. The party then took the
first downward  boat for Vicksburg.   The boat, like all
others at that time in the South, was crowded with dissi
pated passengers. The young man, highly elated at his
success, joined the common revelry. Cards were proposed
by Sumpter. Some of the party, with the young man,
seated themselves at the table, where, in a few hours he lost
not only the money that he had received for the ten slaves,
but the proceeds also of the raft, which was several hundred more. When they arrived at Vicksburg, they found
the father very low. The young man, infatuated as ever
with the spirit of gambling, was led again by his professed
friends to the gaming-table, where he soon lost his remaining five slaves.  It was some months before the father recovered. During his illness, one of the party was arrested
in Vicksburg, carried to New Orleans, tried, and hung for
murder, While under sentence he stated that Sumpter,
himself, and others, were cognizant of the loss of the
slaves; that the money paid to the young man was counterfeit; that they were determined upon securing it, or
throwing him, money and all, overboard. As soon as the
improved health of the father permitted, he, with his son,
returned to the hut they called their home. Two years
had passed away. The son became sick and died. The father
ever after lived a solitary life in the pre-emption cabin. Just
at the time of my visit to him, he had come to the deter
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mination to put an end to his weary life, and for that puipose had taken opium-as he supposed, a sufficient quantity
to accomplish his design. He then placed a larger amount
of the same in an old mattress, and set fire to it. Closing
the door, he lay down, never expecting to rise, as probably
he never would had we not accidentally, as above narrated,
visited his cabin. The door had probably been forced open
by the dog that tile master, I suppose, had shut out. After
the gambler had been revived in the manner I have described, chance brought Sumpter once more before him;
and the old man, looking again upon the author of his misfortunes, felt burning within him such vengeance as the
ruined gambler only knows. This constrained him to defer
the purpose of self-destruction, until he should, by his own
hand, inflict summary punishment on the head of his hated
foe. Two years elapsed when, as a boat was passing by
one night, the hut was discovered to be on fire; and upon
a visit by some of the raftsmen the next day, the bones of
the old man, the iron of his rifle and cooking utensils, which
they found, left it beyond a doubt that the unfortunate man
had perished in the flames of his cabin. Such was the
gambler's life and the gambler's end.
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CHAPTER XI.
THE GAMIE OF THIMBLES.
Dr. Bennett the King Thimble player-The young man with two such piercing eye Beset two in three.
WHO has not heard of the game of Thimbles? For the
edification of those who have been so fortunate as never to
have seen it, we will briefly describe it.
The sporting gentleman produces three common sewing
thimbles and a small ball, and placing them on his knee or
some smooth surface, commences operations by rolling the
little ball by his third finger under each of the thimbles,
which are in a row, lifting first one and then another, as the
ball approaches it, with his thumb and forefinger, and playing it along from one to the other.   When all is ripe he
suffers the ball to stop, half disclosing, half concealing its
resting place. Hands are then lifted, and the easy dupes
make their bets as to the identical thimble under which the
ball may be found. The strength of the game lies in the
legerdemain by which the gamester removes the ball and
places it under any thimble he may choose, after the bet is
inade.
Thousands of dollars have been lost at this game. Some
years  ago, I took a trip upon one of the fine Southern steam=
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was a large number of passengers on board, among them
the celebrated Dr. Bennett the inventor of the game of
"Thimbles!" The Dr. frequently amused the passengers
with several games, particularly one called " Calculation,"
which seemed to be his favorite, and brought him quite a
revenue during the trip. The Doctor himself was quite a
subject of curiosity and study to us, having heard so much
of his unrivalled shrewdness as a "sportsman," and the vast
amount accumulated by him by the little game of Thimbles.
Indeed, it was said that he was the moving cause of several
penal statutes, in regard to gaming on Thimbles, having
been enacted in the states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi
and Tennessee.
One evening after supper it was insisted by some of the
passengers that the Doctor should exhibit the game of
Thimbles, which with his usual modesty he declined to do,
protesting among other things that he had no thimbles. This
difficulty was easily remedied, a messenger was dispatched
to the ladies' cabin, and soon returned with the required
number. The Doctor made him a little ball of paper and
commenced his performance. At first he was quite unlucky-but he paid up punctually, and consoled himself with
a favorite expression of his, that "sometimes I am very severe, then again not quite so sly."
Among the lookers on was a young gentleman from the
good old state of Connecticut, on his first visit " South"
He was on his way to the head of navigation with a pretty
little stock of groceries, by way of trying his fortune in the
great West. Hie soon manifested much interest in the
game, declaring he knew the thimble under which the ball
might be found.  The Doctor gave him a knowing wink
and told him in a whisper not to tell. But so often did our
friend " guess" right, that he laid aside all scruples of con.
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science, and desired to be permitted to bet a few dollars
To this proposition the Doctor at first objected, declaring
"he did not like the young man's eye, it was too keen,"
that he saw the ball, &c. This seemed to please the Connecticut yankee very much, and made him more anxious to
bet.
After much parley and a good deal of reluctance on the
part of the Doctor, it was at last agreed that Connecticut
might bet a few dollars, "just a few," if he would allow
the Doctor a little chance against two such piercing eyes as
he had, by betting two to one. This being at length settled
our young friend put up his twenty dollars against the
Doctor's ten.  Hands off and all being ready, he lifted the
thimble and sure enough there was the ball. The Doctor
gave up the money and all enjoyed a hearty laugh at his
expense. This was the largest bet that had been made that
evening.  The  Doctor observed, " sometimes he was not
so sly."  The ball and thimbles were again put in motionagain all being ready our lucky friend proposed to bet-but
the Doctor declared he must have some chance against such
great odds as "yankee eyes," and insisted on three to one,
or thirty dollars to ten being made.  This was also accepted:
again the thimble was raised, and sure enough there was
the ball. Our friend again pocketed another ten, and again
the "social  hall" rang with laughter, at  the  Doctor's
expense.
The thimbles were again arranged; this time we observed
the game closely, as we thought from his repeated losses the
Doctor was hardly entitled to that great reputation for cunning and sagacity which hlad ever been attributed to him.
Now, in the moving of the little paper ball, we thought we
discovered the source of the Doctor's misfortunes, for becoming a little unrolled, a portion of the paper of which it
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was made, stuck out from under one of the thimbles. This
our Connecticut friend plainly saw, and we presumed the
Doctor, through old age, (now about 70) had his sight so
mnpaired as not to be able to see it, and could not, therefore,
play his game with his accustomed adroitness. But the tale
kvas soon told.  Our "Yankee friend" proposed to double
the bet, "h laving the thing so dead."  The Doctor impa tient of repeated losses, told him to makle it hundreds instead
of tens. This was done, and our friend bet three hundred
dollars against one hundred dollars, (just here I thought it a
shame to take advantage even of a professional gambler's
blindness, for the location of the ball was evident.)
The money up, " Connecticut" was all impatient to realize
his expectations, and in great eagerness he again raises the
thimble-and sure enough, it was not there! He had
reached the climax of the Doctor's expectations in regard to
his ready cash and willingnless to bet, and he could not win.
We have seen many pictures of disappointment, but the appearance of that young man's countenance we can never
forget.  The laugh was now uproarious.  As much as you
have pitied the poor dupe the laugh was irresistible-but
the poor fellow, " like the boy the calf run over, saw nothing
to laugh at." He was a statue of amazed misery. The
Doctor coolly pocketed his cash, while our friend stammered
out his astonishment with the declaration that all was not
right, that he had never bet before, and had surely been
taken in.
" Never mind," says the Doctor, "what's a few hundred
dollars to a young man with your eyes? The ladies all
admire them-I heard them speak of them to-day-and you
won twice out of three times-that's the best two in three
any how."
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CHAPTER XIL
THE PREACHER AND THE GAMBLER.
A TRUE SCENE ON BOARD A SOUTH-WESTERN STEAMER.
PERSONS of these two antagonistic portions of society are
frequently thrown into intimate fellowship and association
with each other, especially travelling on the steamers of the
southern and western waters.
Some years since, a number of gamblers, with two or
three clergymen, happened to be among the passengers on
board of a  steam-boat bound from Cincinnati  to  New
Orleans. The company on board was numerous; but as
something uncommon and extraordinary, from whatever
cause, extra morality or otherwise, there was little or no
gambling practiced by the passengers on the trip downward.
Several days had passed in this way, when a gambler-a
wild, reckless, dare-devil sort of a character, began to grow
impatient of the tedium of the voyage, and anxious for a
chance of making his passage money by victimizing some
of the " green ones" in the crowd.  Going up to one of the
clergymen alluded to, (whom he was not aware was of that
profession,) a smooth-faced, good-looking, affable, young
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man, he slapped him on the back, and somewhat familiarly
accosted him  " Say, stranger, dull music'board, I reckon! Come, take
a drink, and let's have a little life'mongst us."
"Thank  you, my  friend, I'm  a teetotaler, and never
drink."
"Oho! you are, eh? Let's have a hand at cards, then."
"There, I'm again at fault.  I don't know one card from
another, and can't play."
"Scissors! I never seen the like! Here, young man, let
me show you how."
"I'd rather not, sir, if you please."
"Brimstone blazes! can't we get up some little bit of
deviltry or'nother? I'm sick on't pokin' round in this'ere
way. Wonder if we can't get some old hoss to give us a
preach? That coon over there with a white'neckerchief,
looks like one o' them gospel-shop men. Suppose you ask
him to give us a sermon?  I'd like to hear one,  by
jingo!"
"That gentleman, sir, I presume to be a preacher, and
its quite likely he'll accommodate you."
"You know him, don't you?  Just get him to give us a
snorting sarmint."
"I will ask him," replied the clergyman. He crossed
over to his friend of the white cravat, and stated the wish
of the gambler.   Returning, however, hie remarked " that
the preacher declined preaching till a more convenient season."
"The deuce, he does.  Well, I'm bound to have fun
somehow or'nother.  Can't you spout a bit, my  young
sapling?'Spose you try it on any how."
"My friend, if I should preach, I should try to give you
soiie uneasiness!"
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"Then you are just the man for nie.  Git up here and
gin us a sprinkling of brimstone; stir up these old ironsides
on board-give'emn an extra lick, and come the camp-meeting touch; will ye? Here's an old chap here, who's got a
hymn-book, and I can sing first-rate when I get agoing, if
the lines are given out; and mind ye, neighbor, give us a
jam-up prayer; and blow and strike out as loud as ye can,
and make'em think that a pack of well-grown prairie
wolves are coming, with a smart handful of thunder and
lightnin', and a few shovelsful of a young airthliquake. By
the gracious Moses, we'll have a trifle of sport then-won't
we?"
The gambler then helped the preacher to arrange for the
sermon; borrowed the hymn-book, and sat down with an
expression of mock seriousness in his countenance.
By this time a crowd had gathered round to witness the
proceedings, wondering what would be the upshot of the
business. The preacher smoothed his face, selected a
hymn, and then lifted up his hands and eyes in the attitude
of prayer.   Waxing warmer and warmer as he proceeded,
he appealed to God in the most spirit-stirring and solemn
manner.  He alluded to the gambler in a very pointed manner, and prayed for his salvation from the ruin to which he
was so recklessly tending. Such was the force of his appeal, that a burning arrow seemed speedily sent to the gambler's soul.  The prayer was followed by an excellent sermon by the young clergyman, who afterwards said that he
never felt more impressed in his life with the awful responsibility of his mission, or felt a fuller inspiration from on
high to proclaim the wrath to come to dying and helldeserving sinners.
The gambler "squirmed" under the gospel truth; yet
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uneasy as he was, he contrived to sit the sermon out, but he
couldn't wait to participate in singing the closing hymn.
Shortly after all was over, and going up to the clergyman, he said,
I say, friend, you are a preacher, aint you?"
"Yes, my friend, I have the honor to be an unworthy
ambassador of Christ, and hope to be made the means of
converting many souls to God."
"Well, I thought as much. But, I tell you, I never had
the sand so knocked from under me before in my life. If
you preach in that way, there wont be many of us gamblers
left on this boat, I tell you. But I suppose it's all right;
my good mother used to pray, and I couldn't help thinking
of her when you cut me all up in little pieces, and put my
singing pipes out of tune. I'd ha' giv' fifty dollars to have
that'ere saddle put on another horse."
I suppose it is needless to say that the gambler required
no further preaching on that passage. His own conduct,
and that of his confederates, was such as to be a matter of
no little animadversion on the part of the clergymen and
passengers, while they pursued their voyage.
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CHAPTER XIIL
THE MAN OF THE MOIJNTAINS;
OR, HYPOCHONDRIAS CURED.
THIS dreaded disease, which has caused so many premature deaths in our land, and which has put so many of our
professional men at defiance, has, at last, in one case, if not
more, been conquered by the most simple remedy imagin
able. Such has been the cure in the person of a huge
mountaineer in the north part of Alabama, who had for
years been subject to this affection of the nerves.
This man had visited Huntsville twice or three times
each year for several years, andl as often had been fleeced by
the gamblers out of his hard earnings, which never failed to
close the victim's visit with a drunken spree.
Hie was a man about six feet two inches in height, rawboned, weighing about one hundred and ninety pounds, and
apparently about thirty-five years of age, and, to say the
least, in size and appearance almost a monster. Several
days had this powerful man of the mountains been loitering
about the town, a laughing-stock for some, a subject of pity
and compassion for others. At times he fancied he was a
burning mountain, and insisted that a fall of water from a
town-pump, the stream of which was very large, was the
the falls of Niagara; and for hours each dl, he could be
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found near the pump, soliciting the visitors to pump water
upon the burning mountain. The singular notion that he
was a volcano, it was presumed, was caused by having
drunk too much liquor, which may have occasioned symptoms of delirium, if not the delirium itself. But every disease has its time for its onset and departure as well as its
ravages, though it may be at the expense of the life of the
victim. It was in the parching month of August, while
the writer was dealing out a dose of Seidlitz powers from
the two papers of blue and white, that " the Man of the
Mountains" drew near, and with much anxiety watched
how the sparkling mineral boiled, and how soon, when
blended, it was drunk appearently with a cooling satisfaction to the drinker. From all appearances, as indicated
both by word and action, he was impressed with the belief
that such a beverage would have the much-desired effect of
cooling his burning mountain, or at least assist in " daml)peninrg it down."  Approaching the drinker, he very earnestly made inquiry about the " stuff" he had just drank.
"It was a Seidlitz powder," the drinker replied.
" What do you take them for, should I be so bold as to
ask you the question?"
" I take them, sir, as medicine. I take them, in short, to
cool my stomach."
"Indeed!" said he.  " Well, I declare, I should like to
take something that would cool my stomach-that I would.
I, sir, am a burning mountain; nothing can cool my
stomach."
Here the drinker discovered that the speaker was a vic
tim to hypochoudrias, if not something worse.
Withl every evidence of candor and of a fully determined
aud positive belief, he affirmed that he was then burning
up, and begged the owner of the Seidlitz to administer him
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d dose, imploring him, if he had any compassion on a fellow
mortal, to make it manifest by thus contributing to his
relief.
" Certainly you shall have a dose," replied the owner;
help yourself."
Whereupon the subject stepped to the table, and took the
box into his hand, carefully surveying it, and then casting
his eyes to the owner, he remarked as follows  "I say, Mister! how shall I fix them so that they will do
the most execution in the shortest time."
At this juncture the owner felt somewhat amused at the
ignorance of his patient; and the thought struck him that
he might have some sport. He, therefore, replied,
"There are different ways, sir, of taking them; but I
think it would be about as well that you should take two
blue papers and empty them into one glass, two white
papers in the other glass, then dissolve each with about
one-fourth of a tumblerful of water. You then will drink
the one, and follow immediately after with the other."
To which the " Man of the Mountains" replied  "Bless my conscience! how simple when you once understand the thing. Oh, yes, I can do it myself. It's all
as plain as day."
Having done as instructed, all was ready, he drank the
one and then the other. But here the burning mountain
apparently became a roaring whirlpool, or rather a waterspout; for, as soon as the powders came in contact, they
caused a very powerful  effervescence  in  the patient's
stomach, in consequence of which the froth flew at once
several feet from the mouth of the drinker; and such was
the force of the re-action, that for a few minutes it appeared
that there was some danger of his jerking his bullet-like
head from the brawny shoulders which gave it support; and
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no sooner had the nose and mouth ceased "putting forth,'"
than the man was taken with a most marvelous sneezing.
He sneezed almost without intermission nearly ten
minutes; and when permitted to catch his breath, he
would remark, "Smartest dose of physic I ever took," the
prescriber comforting him at the same time by telling him
that his stomach must have'been in an awful state.
As soon, however, as the subject regained his erect
position, and gathered his hat, which, with the violence
of the first twitch, had been thrown some twenty feet
from his head, he made straight for the door, neither looking to the right nor left, but bent his way to the stable,
where he mounted his horse, and putting spurs to him,
made a rapid departure, without bidding farewell, or even
thanking the polite gentleman who gave him the cooling
powders; and nothing save an occasional sneeze gave the
most distant suspicion that the medicine had ever taken
effect. But many a time has he visited that same village
since the "smart medicine" was given him, and he now is
as ready to acknowledge its efficacy as he is that he was
then a hypochondrical victim to intemperance and gam
bling.
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CHAPTER XIV.
THE P A T C H-COAT;
THE GENTLEMAN'S GAME, OR, DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.
"Sure they are statesmen, met for public good,
For some among them boast of generous blood."
THE game of " loo" is a favorite one among the persons
employed in the management of iron forges in Pennsylvania.
There, too, as in other places, are found men of whom better things should be expected, entering into plans by which
the unsuspecting may be fleeced. At one of the most extensive forges near Pittsburg, the proprietor was one of the
first to " shave" any stranger that might be so unlucky as to
fall in his way. Among the principal victims, was the subject of this article, known by the sobriquet of " Patch-coat."
This name he took from the fact that large patches of different colors, covered the principal part of his coat, or, what
had been a coat.  "Patch-coat" was the order of the day;
and "Patch-coat," at the loo-table, was the victim at night.
Several months had the party fed themselves at the expense
of  "Patchcoat. Patch-coat'was such an one as would
naturally make a man suspicion him for "knowing a thing
or two, providing he could think of a."  But the time had
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now come for some evidence of his sagacity to put forth.
Mr. Mc, the owner of the forge, and some others of
the same stamp, had learned that  " Patch-coat" was in
funds; and accordingly, that night Mr. Mc         declared to
him he would have a gintlemanly game of loo at the par
,or of Mr. O'Donoho.  "Patch-coat" gave his consent to
make one of the party. At the hour appointed, the party
met-five in number.  " Patch-coat" had several hundred
dollars; and the gentlemen knew it. The game commenced at one and five; and soon a large amount was on
the board.  "Patch-coat" had stood his hand for several
" deals," by which means he subjected Mr. Mc          and his
party to a severe loss.  Mc         was much excited, and
offered to bet two hundred dollars that he would " loo the
board." " Patch-coat" signified as though his antagonist
had better not banter too much; for, if he did, there was
no knowing what might occur.  Mc -  still boasted upon
the honor of an Irish gintleman, that he could bate any
man that wore patches on his coat, that would play his
game; and that was the gintlemanly game, trusting to the
cards for the first three tricks.  About this time " Patchcoat" noticed the honest Mr. Mc        drop three cards, and
before the deal, proffered to "bate any  gintleman prisent, if clubs were trumps, and that he would' loo the
board.'
"Patch-coat" gave him a significant look, as much as to
say, " Don't push the banter at me too hard," at the same
time casting a wishful look at the money on the table,
which had increased to several hundred dollars. He re
marked,
"Mr.  Mc, I will try you a three hundred  dollar
bet, that you don't win the first loo, if clubs comes
trumps."
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"Down  with  your dust," said Mc-,  "before the
dealer turns trump."
" Patch-coat" drew from his pocket the money, and placed
it on the table-Mr. Mc-  followed.  In the meantime,
"Patch-coat"  gently  raised  the three cards  from  Mr.
Mc -'s lap, and placed the three given him by the dealer
thereon. This was done without the least suspicion of foul
play from Mc, or the O'Donoho party.  The trump was
turned, and showed itself a club.  Here the eyes of Mcbrightened, as well as those of " Patch-coat."
"It's meself that stands," said Mr. Mc, strikiing his
hand upon the table, and, at the same time, cautiously taking from his lap the three cards.
"I stand, too," said " Patch-coat."
"You're a brave lad,' Patch-coat,'  was the quick response of Mr. Mc, laughirng at the same time at what
he supposed would be the result.
"It is your first draw, Mr. Mc,"  said the dealer.
"How many will you take?"
And sure it's meself that will stand, on the faith of the
trump, that I am bountifully supplied."
"I will stand, too," said "Patch-coat." "I think this
hand will answer my purpose this time.  So, Mr. Mc-,
give us a lead."
"Thin play to that, rmy lad," said Mr. Mc-, at the
same time throwing from his hand a card, which fell face
upwards, and proved to be a diamond. There the scene
changed.   The  astounded  Mc-'s eyes opened, as it
were, to the magnitude of saucers, as "Patch-coat" played
the ace, king and queen of clubs, and gracefully pulled
down the stakes.
Mr. Mc       sprung quick to his feet, and as soon as he
could give utterance, said, " Gintlemen! I'll quet.  There's
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chating about the boord. I sat down here to play a gintleman's game."
" Patch-coat" gathered the cash, and left Mr. Mcand the trio, to settle their losses.
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CHIIAPTER XV.
DEAD OPEN AND SHUT;
OR, THE WAY THEY PLAY IN ARKANSAS.
THERE are few, who travelled much on the Mississippi at
an early day, but have heard with dread the name of General William Montgomery; and but knew of the landing
called " Montgomery's Point," which for its location and
peculiar advantages, was hard to be excelled. Montgomery
himself, was a shrewd, quick.witted, low-bred fellow, who,
in roguish exploits, was seldom, if ever, equalled. He was
the terror of the South, to all who knew him, and as a
sportsman, gambler, &c., was as notorious as the celebrated
Captain Kidd for piracy, The general was said to have
many redeeming qualities in his gaming transactions, which
might be classed as follows:
First; If hlie found a man, naked, he clothed him; if he
was hungry, he fed him,
Second; If he was thirsty and poor, he gave him to
drink, and advised him to leave for some more salubrious
clime.
And last, though not least, if he was thirsty and rich, he
made him drunk and then robbed him.
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I-is notorious life was the occasion of all gamblers yielding to his nefarious designs, who chanced to fall in with
him; and whatever the general said must of course be
right, as none dared to gainsay him.  It was about the
time when his notoriety was at its height, that a French
gentleman, accompanied bya huge Yankee servant, arrived
at the " Point," on their way to the head waters of the Arkansas river, and as there was no other hotel in the place,
put up with the general. Application being made to him
for conveyances, he advised them to defer their journey
some few days, as he thought the prospect of high-water
was in their favor. This proposition was by no means a
welcome one to Jonathan, who had heard more than once
of the desperate character of their host, and he declared he
would rather walk, and make a pack-horse of himself, than
remain. The Frenchman aasured him likewise, that his
business was very urgent, that he must go on foot even, if
there was no other conveyance.   The general was no,
pleased with the determined obstinacy of the two, but could
not well hit upon a plan whereby to detain them, with their
own consent, so hie finally agreed to take them through on
horseback as far as Fort Smith.   The horses were accordingly equipped, and the general, with his negro servant, the
Frenchman and the Yankee, at length set out, making quite
a respectable looking caravan for the Arkansas wilderness.
Ere they mounted, however, the general began running
his "soft-sawder" on the Yankee, about the many advantages he possessed over multitudes of the Southern people,
which were no other, than that, being sufficient in strength
to answer as his own packhorse, though he might have
bushels of wooden nutmegs and horn gun-flints, to pack
throughout the State, he could always accommodate himself.
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The Yankee felt somewhat chagrined at the general's insinuation, for fear that the Frenchman might consider him a
man of that character. After their leaving, the general
still caused Jonathan no small uneasiness, by his continued
attacks upon his nativity, &c.  The Frenchman soon discovered the annoyance the general was giving the Yankee,
and remarked that'he was too hard, in accusing his honest
friend of having to do with anything of so base a character.
At this the general laughed, and told him his accusations
were no ways erroneous.
The Yankee ground his teeth and remarked: "It's tarnal
well for you, that I aint at hum, for if I was, I'd give it to
ye, darn quick, tew."
"Don't you see," said the general turning to the Frenchman, with an insinuating glance, "Monsieur believes it too
true to be a joke." At this the Frenchman assured the sixfoot down-easter, that he, the general, only jested.
"You are as much mistaken," replied the general, "as if
you had burnt your finger. I never accuse a man, but what
I am willing to back my accusation with my money; and 1
will bet you one hundred dollars that if you search the
Yankee's saddle-bags, you will find, at least one hundred
horn gun-flints, and as many wooden nutmegs."
"I bette you five hundred dollars," said the Frenchman,
"that my friend carry no wooden nutmeg, nor no gun-flint
in his von leetle seddle-bag."
"I take all such bets," replied the general, turning to
Cuffy-who was showing his ivory, and placing the above
named sum in his hand. This was immediately covered by
the Frenchman, while the Yankee dismounted, and prepared
to settle the matter by unloading his saddle-bags.
For some moments all gathered around in breathless
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silence, when the Yankee, to his great astonishment, drew
forth the above-named articles.
"W"ell, you see I have won,' continued the general,
while Cuffy roarded and capered about with delight, showing the whole breadth of his whites —his eyes opening to
an extraordinary magnitude, and his nose flattened like a
viper-crying  "You didn't catch de gineral dis ar' time, gosh a-mighty!
wid dem ar' horn gun-flints."
" What have you to do with it, you tarnal black nigger
you?" cried Jonathan, turning to him with a furious look.
"Why, you see I is de ginreral's aid-de-camp, in holding
de stakes, in dis ar' special game; at the same time he
handed them over to his master with a chuckling  laugh
The losing party saw the deception of the trick, and appeared doubly anxious to facilitate their journey. The general was none the less merry for having won their money,
and occasionally laughed over it, saying he had merely made
his expenses, whereas he had thought to have made some
several thousand dollars.
The Frenchman sighed, and said he thought it "von vaire
expensive countree."
The general, however, assured him that he should have a
chance to win back his money, so soon as he should feel
disposed, by any other game he or his down-east friend
should think proper to select, Monsieur said he only knew
one, which was the French game of Vingt-un, or twenty
one.
The general replied that was one of his strongest games,
and that so soon as they could make themselves comfortably
situated as to their lodgings, they would have a friendly
touch of it.
Arriving at a hotel where they intended to pass the night,
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the Frenchman and his companion having determined not
to proceed any farther with the general, made their intentions known to him-stating as a reason that the friend
whom they sought was on a tour to the South, and that on
the first opportunity they should embark on a boat for
Natchez.
The general said he thought they would have a very
pleasant trip, and that he would dispatch his servant home
with his horses, and accompany them. This was certainly
anything but agreeable, but as there was no help for it, our
travelling friends thought proper to assent.
The water at this time being low, it was proposed by the
general, that a small flat-boat should be procured, which
would be very advantageous, as he and the Frenchman
could play at their favorite game of twenty-one, while the
down-easter and the landlord, whom the general persuaded
to go along, should manage the boat.
This, accordingly, being acceded to, the boat was soon
on its passage to the mouth of the river. Scarcely had
they left the shore, ere the general, eager for the game,
gave the Frenchman a hint, and they were soon in full
blast, the Frenchman taking the deal, the general betting
high and losing.  Night setting in, they concluded to lay
to, and dispense with the game until morning.
The next day, while lying at the shore, they resumed
their play, the general still losing the most important bets,
At last lie proposed to change the deal.  Monsieur assured
him he could only play his game one way, and that was to
deal. Again they played on for a time, when the general
appearing to get out of patience, insisted the game should
be changed, as he was over a thousand dollars the loser.
Monsieur said that he thought it an unfair request, as he
nad frequently said he knew no other game.
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The general still pressed his suit, and said he was willing
to leave it to their host whether or no it was not right that
lie should give him a chance to win back his moiev. The
host being a staunch friend of the general, of course decided
in his favor.
By this time all was ready for their morning departure,
and monsieur, thinking he might come out second best, was
anxious to leave; but the general declared that his game
must be played without any further delay.
" My game," replied the general, "is' dead open and
shut.' "
"Vot you say, general?  Me  no understand you, sare.
Is it von dead open and shut vith von card? Eh?"
" Open and shut with everything else but cards," said the
general, with a coarse laugh.  " I will give you an example." Hie then placed himself in an attitude to explain his
game, which was done, by placing his hands behind him,
and requiring the Frenchman to say whether they were
open or shut.
Monsieur, hardly knowing what to make of it, said,
Open."
How much will you bet?" asked the general.
"Suppose me bette you von leetle hundred dollare."
"Done," said the general, at the same time showing the
astonished Frenchman his closed hands.
"I am very sorry to inform you that you have lost," and
a smile of peculiar meaning played around his mouth.
" Ah! sacre! me shall never 110no understand von such
game, generale!"
"Must understand it, by Jupiter!" thundered the general, once more placing his hand behind him.
The Frenchman guessed again, and lost, of course. This
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was repeated several times, until monsieur declared he
could no longer play.
"Produce a substitue, then!" cried the general; "by
thunder! this nmust be played!"
Monsieur then referred him to his worthy friend, the
Yankee, who, being called upon, proposed that he should
be, alternately, entitled to the privilege of secreting his
hands. But the general soon gave him to understand that
this game could only be played one way-at the same time
telling the landlord he might as well station himself on
shore with his rifle, as he intended there should be very
little equivocation in his gaming transactions.
The Yankee finding that he was determined not to give
him a fair chance, proposed that the other should bet two
to his one. The general laughed at his simple proposition,
and readily consented, provided the Yankee would agree to
allow him to name the amount, which was also con
ceded.
To a Northern traveller this scene would have been
highly interesting.  About  thirty yards from the boat,
perched upon a stump, with a long rifle in his hands, was
their worthy host, ready to obey the slightest command of
the general.  At the stern of the boat stood monsieur, with
a pale cheek, and feelings that can better be imagined than
described, as he thought of the termination of a game,
which would in all probability end by leaving him and his
heirs several thousand dollars minlus. A little distance in
front of him stood the general and the Yankee-the former
cool and collected, the latter exhibiting much uneasiness,
which was particularly perceptible in his bloodless, quivering lips; and he seemed half ilnclined to "back out."  A
few oaths, however, from his dreaded antagonist, finally
nerved him to the "sticking point," which was made mani
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fest by his saying, "I guess I am just about as ready as I
ever will be, general; so, how much do you think I ought
to bet? Don't be gittin it tew high, now,'cause you see,
gineral, you'll have to bet me the tew to one."
" 0, that matters not, my dear fellow," said the other,
"we Arkansas generals only play for amusement; and so,
merely to make the game interesting, my larkey, I will try
you with two thousand dollars."
"Wal, gineral, seein' it's you, and only for amusement,
tew, jest lay down them are four thousand of yourn, and
and I'll try and raise the half on't."
The general accordingly laid down his four thousand on
the boat, while the Yankee placed his two thousand in
companionship.
" Now, mister general," said Jonathan, "jest hide theta
are hands of your, and speak it all right out, plain, so I
shan't make no mistake."
The general cast his eyes towards the landlord, winked,
placed his hands behind him, and then in a low, distinct
voice, said, " open or shut?"
The Yankee looked at him steadily for some  moments
without mnoving a muscle of his face, as though, by some
intuition, he was about to define the certain position of his
hands, when, with a motion quick as lightning, he drove his
brawny fist full between the eyes of the other, which had
no sooner taken effect than he was lying prostrate upon the
deck.
"Open! by gosh!"  cried the Yankee, as he saw the
other's hands flying through the air, at the same time
snatching the money, cramming it into his pocket, and
hustling the straightened body of the general on to the
shore; then giving the boat a sudden shove by means of a
pole, he and his French companion-to the great discom
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fiture of their  enemies-were  soon  gliding  down  the
stream.
Fire!" roared out the general, at the top of his lungs,
as soon as he could regain his feet and turn to his host"fire! I tell you; you stupid fool, blaze away! blow out
that infernal Yankee's brains; he's not fit for dog meat."
The frightened host endeavored to obey, but it was no
go; the more he tried to shoot, the more he couldn't;
while, to complete their chagrin, and add to their vexation,
the voice of the Yankee, in the real nasal twang, was
heard calling out  "I say, general, this'ere's putty considerable kind of a
slick game of amusement, ain't it? Tell that are chap on
the stump to blaze away; keep telling him so: horn gun
flints are real slick things to shoot with, ain't they,
general?"
"I give it up," said the general, with an oath; "that
cussed Yankee has beat my game,' dead open and shut,' by
loading my gun with wooden nutmegs, and putting in a horn
gun-flint by way of a priming."
"I say, genera]," called out the Yankee again, with a
hearty laugh, placing his thumb to his nose, and giving his
fingers a few extra flourishes-" I say, general, just give
my respects to that are nigger of yourn, and don't get to
playin' none of your' dead open and shuts' with a Yankee
again;" and he added to the flourish of his fingers, by giving his other arm the motion of turning a crank, and keeping time by moving his right foot up and down as long as he
was in sight.
Until the day of the general's death, no greater chastisement could he have inflicted upon him, than to simply say
"horn  gun-flints," "wooden  nutmegs,"  "big Yankee,"
"French gentleman," or, "dead open and shut."
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CHAPTER XVI.
T.HE SAW-MILL;
OR, THE  HONEST  MAN ENSNARED.
"Like cunning fowlers, lay the alluring snare,
And glory when they pulek a pigeon bare."
GAMBLERS are, assuredly, a most deluded class of men
on the subject of honor. The gambler affects not to believe
that he and his miserable fraternity are isolated. He is so
gullible as to be under the impression that all mankind
would imitate his vile conduct did they know how, or were
they placed in a similar condition to himself, thus proving
himself to be a leveler in precept and a villain in practice.
During my gambling career, I too had gradually fallen
away from the faith of my fathers, and adopted the skeptical sentiments and fallacious reasonings of the sporting
class. I thought that honesty was simply stupidity or
cowardice; and in this faith I remained until the following
incident awakened me to my folly.
While a gambler, I was feared and hated by the brotherhood; and for this reason, I always made it a point of viewing and treating them, even in private life, as highwaymen,
liars, and assassins.  In truth, they do not trust each other,
for obvious reasons.  But as I was a "temperance man," I
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had considerable advantage over my dissolute and rascall/
companions.
In the year 1834, I had, by industrious mancauvres in
the gambling profession, accumulated a considerable sum of
money. In the month of June, T took passage in a steamer
from New Orleans for Louisville. The boat was crowded
with gamblers from Natchez-under-the-Hill, Vicksburg,
New Orleans, and all parts of the South. I soon discovered that the greater portion were spunging their passage.
They had been driven from their various localities by the
sickly season. Everything on board was in a state of glorious confusion, until the shoal water in the Ohio caused us
to re-ship.
This was  an  unfortunate  event for  my  professional
brethren who were in want of the " root of all ev,:l."
Fresh arrangements must be entered into with another captain. What were they to do? Despair was depicted Ln
their countenances, and an icy coldness froze their hearts.
Adopting a very desperate alternative, they appealed to the
generosity of the fortunate gamblers. But the proverb was
verified most aptly in this instance, "Put not your trust in
the wicked," as the monied portion of them took passage
in different boats bound for different destinations, and left
the others to shift for themselves.
Among the many left, there were three who had money.
I was one of these. The other two gamblers were willing
to stake funds for the poor ones to play upon shares. This
only amounted to a matter of cigar and grog money. I
had but one object in remaining with this motley crew, and
that was, to win the money from these two, and then leave
them all in the lurch, and exult in saying that I had broken the
crowd. At the town where we landed, the citizens were
so sick of gamblers, that we were denied shelter in the
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hotels. The two monied gamblers leased and fitted up an
old saw-mill, one portion of it a as grog shop, and another
as a card room-which last they nicely papered. Lastly,
they contrived a number of sleeping berths to harbor the
whole party. The house was called the " Kangaroo." I
thought the "crocodile" would be a better name for it.  It
certainly was a den of outlaws. Hearing a few of the
citizens one day deploring the fact that the place was being
crowed with gamblers, I took part in the conversation, and
remarked that it was annoying that honest men should be
thus imposed upon.
"Indeed!" said one individual, "it becomes you to sympathise with us, who are not only the most daring and unscrupulous of the gang, but the one who has the principal
captial, and is the main-stay of the ruffians."
I averred that I never had assisted, nor did I intend to
assist them in any way, but should feel a pleasure in dispersinig them.
" Well," said the plain-spoken man, "if you leave, doubtless the others will follow."
I assured him I should go, as soon as I had accomplished
a design in view, namely, enticing the two monied gamblers
to play with me, that I might win their money. I knew I
could beat them in cheating had I the chance.
Two days after the conversation with the citizens, I was
surprised by an invitation to visit the " Kangaroo," and
take a game at twenty card poker, at which I was an adept
To me it was a sure game of profit. I accepted the invitation at a single-handed game. We played an hour, and I
found myself a considerable loser. I lost all the large bets.
I was utterly at a loss to conceive how this fellow could
beat me. Something must be wrong. I closed the game
for that evening, promising a renewal next morning. I left
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for my hotel, smarting between the twin feelings of hatred
and revenge at the way I had been cheated.  It was  tihe
biter, b)it."  I could not sleep.  Knowing that the card
room of the " Kangaroo" would:.e vacated, I determined,
by means of false keys, to enter it and examine the premises.*
I easily found my way into the den, and commenced a
diligent search for marked cards, and my eye ran carefully
over the figured and printed backs of them, but to no purpose.  I was becominig desperate, when it occurred to me
that there might be some trickery in the arrangement of the
room overhead. Yet I could no see how, as it was simply
a garret. My curiosity must be satisfied. There was only
one entrance to this attic, and that was by a trap-door from
the roof, which was to be first reached  by a ladder.  By
the aid of my dark lantern this was accomplished, and I
stood inside of the apartment. It was a dark, dismal, and
gloomy hole, and did not bid fair to reveal much.  After a
careful examination  of the place, nothing warranted suspicion, save a cralck throL,ugh the paper, large enough to permit a man from this garret to recognise the cards of each
player below.  Now, I was puzzled to know how  this informration could be made available without detection.   I
was almost hopeless of the solution, when my eye detected
a mysterious-looking coil in a corner of the room, which,
upon examination, proved to be a good-sized ball of twine,
just thie thing for tile openinog in the ceiling over the cardtable.  It was managed thus-at the turn where  the line
went from the garret it crossed a pulley, thence between
* The gambler is punctual in paying a gambling debt.  To deny it, with him
is highly dishonorable, and hlie would be expelled by the brotherhood.  But any
species of cheating in the winnilng of imoney is considered right, even if it
snoutld be felolli(,usly enteling a hlouse mith false keys to ace~plish it.
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the weather boardings and the inside ceiling over a second
pulley, which led to the table, and was there made fast to a
spring, which, in turn, was made fast at one end to the
underside of the floor; the loose end having a pin, two
inches long, passing through a half-inch augur-hole immediately under the table, where a carpet concealed it from
the eye. W\hen the cord was pulled, it made the pin come
in contact with the foot of the player which was the
hint of recognition; and in this manner had these jugglers
contrived to "do" me.
Mly whole mind was now bent uponl revenge; and how
to accomplish that most effectually, became my intense
study.
1 thought of a scheme, but it required an associate in
in whom confidence could be reposed.  It was no easy task
to obtain the confidence of any body when following such
an occupation as gambling. Our hand was against everybody and everybody's hand was against us. This was my
plan to entrap the fraternity:  I should find, if possible,
some one to stand upon the ladder outside, and intercept
the pulling of the rope, while I was playing inside.  Previously I had marked the cards, and would be able to tell
when my partner had a good hand.  This plan was  all
matured, the line or curd arranged, the cards marked and
replaced in the box; but, like Diogenes, I had yet to look
for an honest man  to assist me.   I could  not trust the
"hard-up" gamblers, as I knew every one of them would
have sold me for a dollar to my two opponents. For once I
felt how lonely the evil-doer is in the world, and I almost
despaired of accomplishing my aim.
The merchant, who had in my hearing bitterly denounced
the atrocity of gamblrr)ing, I imagined might be enlisted in
my scheme, if he saw that the town would hbe rid of the
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crew by that means. Next morning, after a night of anxiety, as I was returning from a bath, I met this identical
merchant. I bade him good morning; he nodded, and
hastened his step.  I, however, addressed him as follows
This is a very pleasant morning."
Somewhat so."
"You appear to be pressed for time?"
"I am."
"I wish to have a brief conversation, if you can afford
time."
"Let it be brief, and I will hear you."
"It is concerning the nest of gamblers that infest your
town."
" Ah, you are the last person that I suspected would
speak to me of such a hateful tribe; as you certainly heard
my sentiments regarding them a few days since."
" I did, sir, and felt their force, too; and now say, that if
you were sincere, I can assist you in routing the vermin
from the place."
"How, sir?"
" You know that two individuals and myself are the only
capitalists among them; and I have a scheme, by which,
with your assistance, I can secure all their funds; and when
the queen-bee is gone, they say the swarm soon scatters.
" Sir, you have mistaken me. I trust I am an honest
man, and no honest man would take a part in gambling;
for I view gamblers as the vilest of the earth."
"You are quite right so to do," said I; "but you misunderstand me. I would not propose to you to enter their
den, but intend only to show you the machinations of these
wily men."
i Well, sir, proceed."
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I then described the whole of the snare laid for me, so
that when I was "broke" they could commence an indis criminate sally upon the citizens. As I laid my plan be fore him, he seemed to approve of it, and I wished to bind
his acquiescence by offering a part of the spoil.
He scorned the offer, but agreed to assist me if 1 would
instantly leave the town on its accomplishment. Night
came. I stealthily fixed the step-ladder on the outside,
where, by means of a hatchet I removed a board and exposed the cord as it passed from one to the other. I then
placed the merchant on the ladder, with orders to listen attentively for my coughing three times without intermission,
when he was to take a turn round his hand of the cord leading downwards, from where he stood, and thus intercept the
pull from above, while I, by the marks on the cards, could
tell when it was safe for me to bet. Everything was arranged; the night was dark and dreary; the game went on,
and an opportunity soon favored me. I discovered my
partner had three kings. I raised my hand so cautiously
that the gambler in the garret overhead could not scan my
cards; and when I found myself with three aces, I knew I
could beat.  I coughed three times; the merchant took a
turn of the cord round his hand. I then exposed my hand
to the gambler overhead, who instantly pulled the line sufficient to caution his partner had it not been intercepted.
But the player felt confident that his three kings were some,
and I bantered him until he bet all he was worth-near one
thousand dollars; he, meantime, in eager expectation of information from above, but receiving none, hastily threw up
his all. At this juncture, the now frantic partner overhead
pulled with all his strength, and terribly strong he must
have been in his desperation, as he skinned the knuckles of
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my poor merchant so unmercifully that he could not free his
hand from the cord, and scarcely avoid shrieking.
I had pocketed the money, when the astounded gambler
from above made his appearance, quite breathless, shouting,
"What's out'? Something's wrong, by Jove! Something's
wrong! I won't stand tnis-I won't that, Charley," addressing his partner, who stood petrified, and his cheeks the
color of anthracite coal ashes, or the last leaves of autumn.   Charley, supposing that Bill had cheated him,
promptly and passionately replied,
" Zounds! I will have my money back, Bill!  You and
Green can't come a swindle over me like that. I'm too old
a soldier to be treated like a recruit."
I rose and bade them a happy night's rest, and left for my
hotel. Having lost much sleep the two preceding evenings,
I luxuriated till morning, comfortable in the reflection that
I had "done" two brother rascals.
In the morning the town was all alive discussing the
affair of the old saw-mill. The occupants were now gone,
and numbers went to see the gamblers' snare. I hastened
to the merchant to learn how he was pleased at the trick.
Hlie was on the look-out for me, and as no one was in sight,
he beckoned me in.
Well," said I, "how do you feel?"
"Indifferently well, sir.  Why, Green, that unhanged
wretch nearly pulled my hand off, but I could not get away,
and so had to take it."
lie then showed me the hand, bound up in a bandage.
" This, sir, is why I was forced to tell that my hand got
jammed between some boards.  But do tell me what were
your gains'?"
I replied, " Seven hundred dollars more than my losses.
How much shall I give you?"
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"Not one cent," said he; " but leave town, per agreement. Your friends, the gamblers, have mostly gone, some
ill the night time, some this morning, along with the two
you have just fleeced, who feared the people would rise,
en masse, against them."
I declared that it was my intention to leave by the first
boat. Expressing my great obligation to him, he assured
me I need say nothing on that head, as he viewed me, and
all who followed my dishonest calling, in precisely the same
light as before he " was caught in the snare."
I left, satisfied that I had met and acted with one honest
man in my reckless career, but sorry and regretful that it
was for so short a period.
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CHAPTER XVII.
A YOUTH VICTIMIZED BY GAMBLING.
" Among all knaves there are none more base,
Than he who steals with a smiling face."
IN the year 1S40, in company with several others of the
gambling fraternity, 1 took passage at Louisville, Kentlucky,
on board a steamer bound to New Orleans. The boat was
crowded with passengers, but there seemed to be very few
which gave promise of being profitable to me or my companions. It was therefore determined that seven out of the
party should return and await the departure of another
steamer. I went to tihe hurricane deck to observe their departure. As the boat left the steamer, I discovered a very
young man anxiously gazing upon the party in tlhe boat.
He maintained this position till the boat returned to the
steamer, when, turning on his heel, he exclaimed, "I am
ruined! I am lost!" and hastened into the cabin, wholly
unconsciou.s of observation.  I followed him into the cabin,
and renewed my observations. He was apparently about
eighteen years of age. His countenance was pleasant and
his features delicate. As he abstractedly walked backward
and forward in the cabin, agony was depicted on his countenance in marks too decided to be mistaken.
1 approached and addressed him as follows: "Are you
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bound for the South?" He replied, " I do not know where
I am bound;" and turning away from me, resumed his
walk.
I approached him a second time, and remarked that he
appeared to be in ill health.  " I am, sir-I am sick," he
replied, turning upon his heel, and walking into his state
room.  In a few moments he approached me and said it was
strictly true, that he did not know where he was going;
and if I would hear him, he would give me a full account
of his troubles, and his reason for answering me in the manner he had.  We sat down, and he gave me the following
narrative.  " I am a native of one of the Eastern States; my
parents now reside in an Eastern city.  I have a sister residing in Louisville, Kentucky, whom I have never seen.
She married and removed to Louisville, before my birth.
Her husband died a few months since. Shortly after her
husband's death, my sister wrote to my father, requesting
him to send her eldest brother to live with her.
"The request was granted, and he fitted for the journey.
Before his departure, his parents gave him strict caution
concerning the vices of the day. He received sufficient
money for the expenses of his journey, and permission to
spend a few days in any of the larger cities on his route.
" His first delay was in Philadelphia, where he spent
some ten days, during which he formed some very pleasant
acquaintances, among whom were two of those gamblers
who but now left the steamer. Shortly after his acquaintance with these persons, he was invited to a card party,
where whist was the game introduced. This was a game
taught him by his parents, and their strict cautions had not
interdicted it. He was induced to make the small bet of
twenty-five cents a corner during the evening.  The party
hlad several similar meetings.  At the latter of these meet
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ings he made known his intentions of leaviing the  next
morning.  The two persons before referred to, immediately
proposed to accompany him if he would remain one day
more.  He  readily acceded to their proposal.  On the day
appointed they left by way of Pittsburgh on the canal.
They had scarcely left, when cards were introduced  they
played for small stakes, until he found himself minus some
twenty-five dollars. He became excited, and enlarged his
bets, with a hope to regain what he had lost.  He continued to lose, and on his arrival at Pittsburgh, had barely sufficient money left to pay his passage to his destination.  He
paid his fare immediately on going on board for Louisville,
and the boat had scarcely left the wharf, when the two
gamblers proposed a game that he might make himself
whole.  When they found he had no money, they proposed
to stake money against his watch; still hoping, he agTain
played, losing his watch. His breast-pin, rings, etc., were
disposed of in the same manner. Becoming desperate, he
sought his trunk, where he had a package in charge to carry to his sister. He forced open the casket, which contained a bracelet, with a beautiful gold chain, sent as a present
by the mother to her daughter. He discovered an unsealed
letter which contained a hundred dollar bank note. The
letter was from his father to his sister, directing her to give
the money to the brother when she should deem it proper to
do so.  He seized upon the note, and soon the gamblers
fleeced him of that.  He again resorted to the casket and
lost the jewelry it contained. Desperate in every respect,
when he arrived at Louisville, his destination, hlie called at
the door of his sister's house, rang the bell, and leaving the
package he had robbed on the threshold, hastened on board
the boat where the two villians who had robbed him  had
taken passage. They appeared glad that I came on board,
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said hlie. "and I felt confident that I should be assisted by
them. They both left in that yawl, without even bidding
me farewell; and that, sir, was what caused me to weep."
I looked at him-desperation was painted in every feature
I was then a hardened gambler, and had been for eight
years; but this tale of sorrow made me feel that if the
curse of heaven ever fell on wicked men, it would descend
and rest upon the gambler.
" What did you expect to gain by the course you have
taken?" I said; "why did you not go to your sister-tell
her freely what you had done, and ask her forgiveness and
protection?"  " Oh! sir," said he, "I can never go to her
until I am able to replace what I have lost." Poor deluded
youth! thought I, as I discovered the slender point on which
his hopes were suspended, you can never recover the money
or property these gamblers have swindled from you; far
better if you could think the same.   " Where do you ex
pect to go?" I asked.  " I don't know, sir," was his reply.
"I have no money-no friends; I am here, and what to do.
1know not."  " I think, sir," said I, " you had better return.  I will loan you sufficient money, which you can replace when convenient."  "You are very kind indeed, sir,"
said hlie, "but I cannot return-no, never.  But, sir, I will,
if you feel safe in loaning me sufficient to carry me to St.
Louis, accept it as a great favor."  I loaned him  twenty;ve dollars. When we arrived at the mouth of the Olhio,
B,e left the boat for anothler bound for St. Louis. Iu 1841
J was passenger on another steamer, on her upward passa,ge
from Orleans to Louisville. Not far above the city we broke a
shaft, which caused several hours' delay.  I had been ashore
and as I was returning, a gentleman informed me that he
had just witnessed a revolting sight-a number of convicts
on the deck of the steamer, under the charge of an officer,
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who was conveying them to the Baton Rouge State Prison.
I went to look at them for a moment. As I approached I
recognized the face of the unfortunate youth. He turned
his head, and attempted to evade my notice. He had large
irons upon his ankles, and handcuffs upon his wrists. I
inquired of the officer what 9Hfence he had committed; he
said " forgery," and added that he was under five years' sen tence.
In 1845, I was lecturing in one of the principal cities
east of the mountains, where I gave this same incident,
mentioning, as near as I could remember, the name of the
unfortunate youth. After my lecture closed, a young gentleman came to me and asked my address. I gave it, and
on the following day he called with a carriage, and invited
me to accompany him. I acceded, and we shortly drew
up at the door of a handsome house. I entered a parlor
richly furnished, where the family were assembled, consisting of the father, mother, two sisters, three brothers. They
were silent; the brother who had accompanied me addressed me as follows: " Sir, you may think this a strange visit;
last night at the lecture, we learned something of the fate of
the son of this old gentleman and lady. We are the brothers of that ruined youth. Five years have elapsed since
he left this house, gutzltless. The strange deposit of the box
could not permit us to hope anything but his ruin. Now,
sir, could you tell us how to learn if he is living?"  I suggested that they should write to the agent of the Louisiana
Penitentiary, giving the name the young man had assumed
at the time of his conviction. They followed my suggestion, and learned that in eighteen months after his incarce
ration, he had died of fever.
To the moralist, this incident should teach a lesson. To
the grey-headed fathers and mothers, this young man's ruin
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and premature death should teach the danger of innocent
games of whist. This his unhappy friends acknowledged
to be the primal cause of the ruin of one of the members of
their family, and their own lasting reproach. We call upon
all friends of religion and morality, to decide whether it is
not wrong to indulge in any amusement which carries in
its train misery and death! May we not safely challenge
any man to produce the first instance where one single in
dividual has been benefited, in a moral point of view, by
such amusements?" Then cast forever from your parlors
those gaming implements which, step by step, lead on so
many youth of bright promise and high hopes to dissipation,
disgrace, and premature death.
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CHURCH GAMIBLING.
Lotteries-Post-office Game-Pound Cake or Ring Game-Grab Loo-Fast Driving
on the Lord's Day-Church Fairs, &c., &c.
THIS remarkable species of gambling, has of late been practised to an alarming extent in some of our professed Christian congregations. The writer looks upon this condutct of
the members of Christian Churches, as an oversight-not
as a wilful disposition to substitute or encourage evil, that
good may come therefrom; for surely it would be a sin of
no ordinary character, to encourage one of the most,ig,antic
gambling schemes that ever his Satanic Majesty invented,
and, with the revenue thus collected, to build fine churches,
in which to ask the blessings of Him who hath said, "Woe
unto them which decree unrighteous decrees, to turn aside
the needy from judgment, and takle away the righlt from the
poor, that widows may be their prey, and that they may
rob the fatherless. And they covet fields, and take by violence, houses, and take them away; so they oppress a man,
and his house.  Hlear this, I pray you, ye heads of the
house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel that
abhor judgment and pervert all equity; they built up all
Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.  The heads
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thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for
hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money; yet will
they lean upon the Lord, and say, is not the Lord among
us? no evil can come upon us."  This language is too forcible not to be understood by professors of religion, and thus
they are left without a shield to cover the sin which they
have encouraged in the introduction of so glaring an evil as
lotteries, for the promotion of the Gospel.  The writer will
here give the dates of the game of lottery as far back as lie
can find any historical account of them.
The first public lottery was held in England in the year
1569. The second of any importance, was for the British
Museum in 1753, for the sale of Cox's rare and valuable
jewelry. In 1774, for the Leverian Museum. In 1784, foI
the Poet's gallery of pictures. (Thais lottery was something
like the Art Union gamne played lately in the Taber'nacle
of New York City.) In 1798, for the great Pigot Diamold.
In 1801, (if the writer is correctly informed) the first scheme
was licensed in America, after which they became very
common, until their influence had well nigh ruined some of
our most valuable institutions, when several of the States
put their veto upon them, and made their continuance misdemeanors. But the system has since been introduced more
vigorously in some of our Southern States, and agents from
these strongholds of the evil one, are sent throughout all
the States seeking whom they may devour. These agents
are among us in different capacities, some taking subscriptions for literary works, some  with patent rights, some as
patent pill pedlars, &c., &c. These agents have great encouragement to travel through any State, to visit any city,
town or borough where the churches of Christ encourage
their craft. This is done in various ways, viz: In the lotteries of a church we generally find some trifling, prize to
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the lucky purchaser of the ticket. These small lottery
games are more generally played by the females who expect their church to give them great praise for the amount
they so ingeniously manage to win. The numbers are
made, tickets sold, lottery drawn, and the prizes called
alternately, until some novice is gratified at being announced the lucky player at the expense, or chagrin and
loss of money to the other brethren and sisters who have
been drawn into the snare. But as it is all for the good of
the church, the players will say, "Is not the Lord among
us? no evil can come upon us."
Now, here the seed has been sown which has eventually
caused the ruin of many a happy family. Becoming acquainted with the process of lottery-drawing, the victim is
led to believe all is fair, and through the persuasion of one
of the travelling lottery ticket pedlars, he purchases a
chance to draw a prize in a Southern lottery; and thus he
is led on from step to step, until it inflames his imagination,
crowds his brain with visions of affluence and pleasure
never to be realized. And thus is the credulous and unthinking seduced from he pursuits of honest industry into
a vortex of wild adventure and excited passion, creating a
constant, vicious excitement, which ofttimes, leads to
poverty and despair, insanity and suicide, furnishing strong
temptations to fraud, theft, and drunkenness, and, in many
cases a permanent depravation of all moral principle and all
moral habits. This picture will be owned as just by many
a bereaved widow and forsaken wife, who may trace all
their woes to the games introduced in Christian churches.
Then, again, how often have the professors of Christianity violated all moral principles in the Poundcake game,
where so many small pieces are sold for a hundred times
their value, to the novice, for the purpose of getting the
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gold ring which the manager of the lottery has pledged his
or her honor to be in some piece, and will be awarded to
the purchaser.  Or the game of Post-office, where we find
stationed some beautiful sister as post mistress, whose duty
it is to write the name of those from whom she thinks she
can secure the postage.  Or the late game of" GRAB Loo"
which is one of the small order of games, said to be very
.nodest in its pretensions.  This game may be termed a lottery, and not be called out of its true title.   The way it is
played is this: The managers who are selected to raise the
funds-be it for the building of churches, purchasing of
lamps, carpets, ol what not-are authorized by the committee to spread the net which will be most certain to
catch, as well as to secure their victims, The " grab loo"
is generally managed by one of the most impudent of the
committee, either male or female, who supply themselves
with a large sack, in which is placed the various pieces of
worthless property, e ch piece containing its respective
number, and when they have sold out all the numbers, they
proceed to the grabbing part, which consists in one person
being permitted to thrust his hand into the sack and draw
therefrom the article he touched first, to which he is entitled as the prize awarded for the price of grab. This kind
of games, with various others, with the lottery principle,
have become common throughout our Christian churches.
These games practiced at fairs have given the lottery agents
more encouragement than the race-courses kept in many of
our Christian communities for their hopeful youths to try
the speed of their horses upon the Lord's day. Hiere the
lottery-ticket vender beholds the working,s of the young
man's mind when he makes his grab and finds himself
looed, or takes his chance in the pound-cake lottery, or with
haste purchases the letter with a hope of hearing something
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from his dearly beloved, breaks the seal, and is surprised at
beholding the note to be a blank!  The  lottery gambler
loves such Christians. And thus have the Christian part of
community perpetuated the game of lottery by not putting
down with a voice of censure all games for the benefit of
the chureh.
llow Christians can justify holding the ordinary FAIRS to
support the gospel, is an enigma to the truly conscientious
and watchful of God's people. They see in it, doing evil
that good may come. Their Father's house made a house
of merchandise, although the Saviour solemnly forbids such
abominations. These market-places for vending worthless
trinkets are made fashionable, and outwardly sanctified by
the holy ground whereon they are held; and they tempt all
classes to attend, and procure a good name among Christians
for liberality and goodness, by paying the exhorbitant prices
demanded for varieties set up for sale. The gamblers, of
all grades, lavish their ill-gathered gains, thus laying deep
plans to shake the church to its very centre.  How shortsighted-how rash, to say the least, is this opening a temple
for the pure worship of the meek and lowly Jesus, that
gamblers and other knaves may cast unholy gains as gifts
into the treasury of the Lord, under the sanction of unthinking Christians! Ah, too frequently are such offerings wrung
from the widows and ophans of the very congregations receiving them from the munificent donors. These fairs are
more common in the Eastern and Northern States than in
the South and West. The reason is obvious. In the East
and North, wealthy, independent congregations abound;
and when a dissension and separation occurs, the broken
limb must take care of itself by some means or other; and
not content with this, ere long we see it planted, taking
root, and aspiring to outstrip the parent stock. In the
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struggle unchristian passions and practices are seized upon
as means  of success.  Churches  thus situated are often
liberally aided by other Christian churches. The ground
and building are thus paid for, perhaps. But these are not
:ll now-aid is the cry.  Extra efforts must be made-all
right enough, if rightly made, and by means not involving
the taking of pay for no value given. The industrious of
all classes are called upon to give labor, if not money,
which they cheerfully do in such a good cause.   And now,
with a fine building, well, though plainly finished, fully fit
for the worship of God, are they satisfied? Ah, no; there
are the gilded lamps and chandelier, turkey carpets, plushcushioned seats, handsome organ, marble pulpit, in the first
church,; and the second must eclipse that. Ministers seeking aid elsewhere, perhaps in some sister State, have some
success, yet still more is to be done. Then the cry goes
forth, afair.' a fair.'  Now  the doors must be open to
catch the Pharisee's mites or dollars, as the case may be,
for gilding God's house: some holiday is devoted to a fair.
It is heralded far and near, through press and pulpit. The
day arrives. All kinds and conditions congregate. Gamblers of every grade are hail-fellows. It is a fair-who has
not the right that can raise the mighty dollar? Here we
find worthless trifles are spread in glittering array on tables,
under the clerkship of some of the prettiest sisters, who,
with boldness, verily like that of the Philadelphia female
fish-pedlars hail all who pass their stands, and solicit their
assistance, their generosity, for the good of the church, declaring the goods to be cheap and very valuable, though
knowiong the contrary to be true.  Here the false principle,
that the end justifies the means, comes in most opportunely;
and thus, lundei the pretext of serving the Lord, are great
injuries done to his cause. Christians should see to it, that
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such abominations should be done away, and that the fire
of true piety be kept burning at their hearts and altars, so
that Christians may undertake nothing more than they are
able to do in the strict Christian character, and may have
the heart and will to do all that is necessary, without resorting to such unchristian means as have now been exposed
to view; and if fairs are necessary, let them be conducted
upon Christian principles, for other purposes than ornamenting and perverting the house of God. These remarks are
offered by one who has witnessed sufficient to satisfy him
of the evils resulting in fairs made and held in Christian
churches, for the support of the gospel, and speaks what he
is sorry to have cause to say he has known by sad experience.
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CHAPTER XIX.
CAPTAIN JOHN HOWARD;
OR, FIVE ACES BEATLN.
Steamer Smelter-Captain Harris and H. Roberts-Stra-nge (;ndu  Satisfactorily
Explained-Five Aces Beaten-Spurlock, the Great ~fes (era vog.s Maker, in the
Character of a Horse Drover-Defeat of Captain John H,wa A the Notorious River
Robber, and his Clan-H. Roberts' Ironical Remark.
THE steamnier Smelter was a fine boat, and Captain Harris
was  a fine captain.   She made quick trips, could crawl
over shoal water as well as the next boat, carry as much
freight, and make as much noise, and clear as much cash,
as any other craft which  ran  between  Cincinnati and
Galena during the year 1837.  The  plain, honest manner
of Captain H. had made him a great favorite in that trade;
besides, he always carried such pilots as Harden Roberts,
and, of course, the Smelter was never found in shoal water
if any other kind was in the channel. She was always
crowded with passengers, and freighted to the guards; and
it had become a general belief of a certain portion of the
travellilng community, that you might as well try to catch
a streak of forked lightning on a greased rail, as to catch
Roberts sticking her head where there was not sufficient
water for her hull.
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During one of her crowded trips, a rich gambler, who
resided in Cincinnati, with some of the most shrewd, broken
gamblers, took passage in her for the purpose of fleecing the
passengers. This gambler had been honored with the title
of " captain" for some of his renowned villany, and his
name was John Howard. He was a man of affable malnners, had been a bar-tender for several years at Natchezunder-the-Hill,* and, upon the whole, was well versed in
the black art. He had passed as a river captain for several
years, but now was a wholesale whiskey dealer. This did
well enough for the " green'uns," but he could not come it
over such men as Captain Harris and Roberts, no way he
could fix it.
The boat was crowded; but on inspection Capt. Howard
found the signs against his party. He made their situation
known to each other for their mutual benefit. He, beirng
the only man of the party who had funds, had no notion
of footing the bill to which their several passages amounted,
and the Smelter was a standard boat, and they might wish
to take passage again-that had to be taken into consideration. Besides, Captain Harris was hard to fool while he
was on watch; and when he was off, there was that " old
coon," Hardin Roberts, the pilot.  No one could fool him
easy.
"It is a desperate case, indeed, boys," says Capt. Howard, as he addressed the five blacklegs, in a state-room
where he had summoned them for the purpose; " It is a case
without parallel-three hundred passengers, and no show
to mnake our passage money. Not one of them will even
talk about a game.  This is mysterious-I cannot account
for it-there must be sognething wrong!"
Natches-under-the-H-ill is that part of the city which has ever been noted for
its doeds of darkness.
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It was finally decided by a majority, that it was more
misfortune than design that they had been without game,
and they came to the conclusion to take the chances; and
when they arrived at the mouth of the Ohio, a place at
which the Smelter generally stopped to take both passengers and freight, they would be among the passengers she
would leave.* This was the easiest course to pursue, as
each one could carry his baggage in his hat. They were
then near Golconda, at which place the boat was hailed by
a party of men who bade fair, from appearance, to be a
party not only susceptible of being fleeced, but one that
would pay for the pains. This party was soon on board,
and the boat was underway, when an old man dressed in a
brown jeans coat and pants of same dye, and who appeared
to be chief of the squad, called out in an authoritative tone,
'Bullies, your presence on the after guard!" The command was instantly obeyed, and the captain was heard to
address them as follows:
" My bullies of the sucker state, we are once more on
our scouting duties, and your captain thinks it most proper
that you should take a deck passage in preference to the
cabin, for the sake of the distinction which is due all chieftains!"
The party gave their consent to his suggestion, with the
understanding that he should take cabin passage and make
good their passage money. The sucker captain soon made
his way to the clerk's office, where he gave in the number
of passages he was responsible for, paid over, and was
about to retire, when the clerk remarked  "As I live, I believe this is-"
Our oldc sucker!" replied the passenger, taking the
~ It is customary among gamblers, when they fail to swindle some passenger,
to slip offi the boat, leaving their fair unsettled.
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words from his mouth, and supplying those that suited him
better.
"Yes-well, yes!" replied the clerk, somewhat astonished at the ready wit of the old man. " But I can't understand your meaning of entering your name falsely."
Oh, all is O. K.!" replied the sucker captain, placing
his fingers upon his nose.  "I am a captain at present.
Did you not see my men? Have I not paid their passages
for the deck? That's all!"-finishing the sentence by a
request for the clerk, Roberts, and Captain Harris to keep
dark."
After this the old man turned upon his heel, and called
the barkeeper to give him a glass of old " Bourbon whiskey,"
and to send a quart down to his men on deck. This done,
the sucker's tongue soon got nimble. He was very sociable.
Every man had to drink who would drink. Captain Howard kept his eye upon him from the time he came on board.
more particularly, however, after he discovered him take
the first " horn." The boat was now nearing Paducah,
which place the old man remarked he had great respect for
"from the simple fact, gentleman," said he, "I made two
thousand dollars in one night in that lovely little village,
playing the-" Here he hesitated.
" Tell it all! tell it all!" cried Howard, and his party.
The old man called for another glass, and then he gave
the  close  of his  sentence,  by  saying,  "full  decked
poker."
"Good as wheat!" cried Howard. " I am glad of it.
These same Paducah men beat me-"   Here he paused.
" Speak it out!" cried the sucker; " speak it out," said
the Howard party.
"Well, gentlemen, they beat me  out of three thousand
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dollars! But I am determined to have it back; my luc,k
cannot always go against me in that way.
"I should think not," said the sucker.   " But you must
take one thing into consideration, captain; us drovers are not
apt to know much about cards!" The captain looked surprised at the word drover, not thinking at the time he was
working on a man that had over fifty dollars, which he
hoped to win, to relieve him of the expense of five passages, if his party could not effect the slipping-off game at
the mouth of the Ohio.
"Are you a drover?" asked Howard, suspiciously.
"Yes, sir, I am a drover, sir! a gentleman drover, sir.  I
have monley enough to singe a canebrake.  Yes, sir, enough
of Uncle Sam's thousand dollar blankets (meaning one
thousand dollar notes) to  make  a  carpet for a steamboat!"
The party then came to the conclusion to take another
drink and adjourn.
Howard and his party concluded that the drover was the
passenger for them, as there was some mystery about the
distant treatment they had all along received from the pas.
sengers, they were determined to "skin" him, without giv
ing any further opportunity to those who might be inclined
to prevent their designs.
"Well, gentlemen," said Captain Howard, " let us have
a little "snap" of porker! What say you?" addressing the
old drover as well as his own clan.
"Agreed!" said he.  "Agreed!" said three of the Howard party-enough to make up a five-handed game."
"Well, gentlemen," said the drover, " I am satisfied that
you are the clear girt, and, therefore, we five shall play, and
not admit any others for fear of imposition."
This was the very thing they wanted, and, of course,
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readily assented to. A table and cards were ordered. The
sucker was mirthful, and bet freely uutil he lost some fifty
dollars. His luck was bad, as he thought, and the cards
ran low. It was finally Captain Howard's deal, and he
had been, to all appearances, loser. A new pack of cards
had been ordered, and were then laid upon the table by the
waiter..e
"I deal this time," said Captain Howard, "with the new
cards."
"Then, I hope," remarked the drover, "you will give
me a good hand."
"Certainly; you shall have but one thing short of what
you require," said Howard, and, at the same time, he gave
his right hand man the nudge.
The cards were cut and Howard commenced the deal.
The sucker raised the edge, slightly, of his four first cards,
without the apparent notice of any of the other gamesters,
and discovered four kings. This is a lucky hand thought
he.
Howard closed the deal by turning the top card, remarking, " There is the ace of clubs for trump."
The drover knew that his hand was the next to four
aces, and seeing one of the denomination turn up on the
pack, remarked,VWell, if the ace of clubs is trumps, I will bet five hundred dollars I will win this' pot!'"
"You will bet five hundred dollars you will win this
pot?' " cried Captain Howard.   "I'll take the bet!"
"Talk enough," said the sucker. " There is the' rhino,'
at the same time throwing upon the table a thousand dollar
note.
" Well, really, you almost scare me, but I'll take the bet,"
said Howard, pulling out five one hundred dollar bank
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notes, saying, at the same time, " Take that, and the thousand dollar note is in stake!"
The drover placed the five hundred dollars in his pocket,
and he remarked that he would bet five hundred dollars
more. Captain Howard said that he had bet all that he
felt willing to risk, but hoped one of the other gentlemen
would accommodate him.
"I will try you, said one."
"Down with your dust and I will cover it."
Howard slipped the five hundred under the table to his
partner, who laid it up, saying, " My money is staked,
sir!"
The sucker, apparently unconscious that anything was
wrong, laid down another thousand dollar note, and placed
the other five hundred dollars in his pocket. Howard, by
this time, had slipped another five hundred dollars in the
hands of his other accomplices, who proposed to bet five
hundred dollars each that the sucker would not win the
present " pot." He hesitated some time to determine the
wisdom of his course, then he called for another glass, after
drinking which he exclaimed, "That gives me nerve."
"Then I suppose you take the bets, do you?" asked one
of the blacklegs.
"I am considering if I dare to offer you  a chance to
double," said the sucker, as he beheld the ace turned up on
the top of the pack, four kings in his own hand. This
finesse produced a great anxiety among the bystanders, who
felt a deep interest in the sucker's welfare, but dared not
utter a syllable for fear of gaining the displeasure of Howard and his party.
"Yes, gentlemen," he at last replied, "I bet each of you
five hundred dollars that I win the' pot.'"  They posted up
five hundred dollars each.  The  sucker took  it up and
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placed it in his pocket. leaving the four one thousand dollar
notes to be taken up by the winner. " Now, gentlemen,"
said he, " I am one hundred dollars loser already, and I bet
that amount for the pot!"
"I will call it," said one of the party.
"Signify it by laying up the money," said the sucker.
"Certainly, certainly, sir," said the other, as he began
feeling in his pockets, knowing all the time he had not a
dime.  " Oh, I forgot; I left my  pocket-book in another
pocket. Captain Howard, please lend me the hundred
until I go to my trunk."
Howard pulled out his purse, which contained about one
hundred and fifty dollars, and passed him the amount, which
was posted. The sucker took the money in his hand, and
turned his cards over, remarking, " As you and I are the
only ones contending, I will show you a bad sight!" putting the two hundred dollars in his pocket with one hand,
and turning up his cards with the other, showing four kings.
He then added, " I win all, my boys, this time."
"Hold!" cried the gamblers, as one of them turned over
the four aces. They all seized their thousand dollar notes.
";I am swindled." cried the sucker.
" You are robbed!" vociferated the passengers, who  had
awaited the result, hoping to see the sucker win.  The
game broke up by the sucker declaring they were not entitled to the money, five aces being one more than he had
ever seen in one pack before. Captain Howard tried hard
to console him, by telling him that it was very seldom that
it was the case; but whenever it was, the loser had to submit.
" Well, I am nothing but a poor drover!" said the sucker.
' You certainly do not think I ought to lose my hard earnings?"
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But," said Howard, "you remember that sweet little
village, Paducah?  That will make all right!"
I was only joking," said the old man.    I never won a
dollar at that town in my life. I said it merely for pastime;
and, at any rate, if I had, you ought to sympathise with me.
Captain, you said you lost three thousand dollars."
" Oh, it was all a jest!" said Howard, "I was only joking; I never play, sir, other than for amusement."
By this time there had a great sympathy arisen among
the passengers, and a move was made to elicit favor from
Captain Harris, to make the Howard party refund the
sucker his money, and a committee was appointed to wait
upon him for that purpose. The boat was then nearing
the mouth of the Ohio. The captain was standing on the
boiler deck in close conversation with Roberts. As the
committee approached, Roberts withdrew. The chairman
addressed the captain in a manner which he thought ought
to have great'effect, stating that they had witnessed the
whole transaction. It was a case of villany without a
parallel.
" I am very well aware of that," said the captain; "but
I can't take any action concerning it before to-morrow
morning!"
Here the chairman made another appeal. He said the
old gentleman was a drover; that he had some ten or fifteen
hands employed; that he wanted to get off at a place, but
a short distance from the mouth of the Ohio, on the Missouri side, and he wanted his money back that night.
" I will attend to it at eleven o'clock to-morrow," said
Captain Harris; at the same time he rang the bell to ap
prise the passengers of their arrival at Cairo.*  The com
- The town of Cario is built at the juncture of the Ohio and Mississippi on the
Illinois side.
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mittee returned to the cabin, astonished at the coolness with
which Captain Harris had treated the subject.  The boat
was soon again underway, and the committee waited upon
the old man, and informed him that five of the gamblers had
gone on shore, three of whom had five hundred each of the
man's money, and that the chief scoundrel remained; that
they wished to informal him that they had waited upon Capt.
Harris in his (the old man's) behalf; that Capt. Harris told
them that he would not act upon the subject before eleven
the next day.
"And I get out to-night!" replied the unfortunate old
man.
"Which we have told him," said the speaker, as he drew
a long breath.
" But we can't help you, my friend," said another passenger. " If we could we would with great pleasure. We
shall always bear Capt. Harris in mind for his indifference
in this case. The old man looked first at oie of the committee, and then upon  another, and then  remarked-" I
suppose Capt. Harris thought, as each of you may think,
after the old man has gone ashore, that Howard might as
well have won as the' old sucker.' But what did he say,
when you asked him to help me?"
"We did not get a definite answer out of him, more than at
eleven o'clock to-morrow he would decide.  Then we went
to Roberts to see if he could not be moved. He heard us
give the whole transaction, verbatim, and then turned off,
after saying he felt about as the old lady did when her husband had made an attack upon a huge bear. First, the
bear would have the husband down, then the husband the
bear, while the wife was laughing herself nearly into fits,
saying, it was the first fight she had ever witnessed in
which she had not felt more or less interested as to which
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should whip. So you know the interest the two principal
officers take in the matter."
I feel satisfied, gentlemen," said the old sucker, "that
you would not better my condition if you could.   I am an
old soldier  I have seen men before you!" insinuating, at
the same time, their previous knowledge of Howard's arrangements.
This was too insulting for honest men to bear, and they
bade him good night. The old man and party were landed
at their place of destination, without any more efforts in
his behalf. The passengers retired to their rest, wondering
at the mysterious conduct of Capt. Harris as well as
Roberts, in their refusing to aid the poor old sucker. In
the morning there was great anxiety amnong the passengers
to know how Capt. H. could, or would, try to justify his
conduct. Eleven o'clock, the specified hour, arrived. Capt.
Harris had the cabin bell rung, and the passengers summoned to the cabin. HIe then remarked that his conduct,
to some, might seem strange. It was strange; yet he
hoped he could justify himself.
" My coolness to those gentlemen, was, I considered, best
for all parties."
"I know Capt. Howard, and know  no good of him!"
cried fifty voices.
Here Howard arose, and pointing to the captain, cried   He knows me to be a gentleman!"
"I knew the other three, who were his friends, and knew
them to be scoundrels!" said a passenger.
"Capt. Harris knew them to be gentlemen, sir!" said
Howard, sneeringly.
"Well, gentlemen, you interrupt," cried Harris; "I wish
to proceed."
"Hear him! hear him!"
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"Be it so!" continued Harris.   " Capt. Howard  pro fesses to be a whiskey speculator. He has made several
trips from Cincinnati to St. Louis. We, in this trade, un derstand him, knowing that the speculation of whiskey was
a mere blind for his villainous profession, and we were de termined to foil him this trip, and for that purpose the pas sengers whom  we  were fearful would be victimized, we
made acquainted with the character of the captain and his
gang."
"For  which  you will long be  remembered,"  replied
Howard, with a sneer; then, for the first time, understanding the reason why he and his party had failed in the early
part of their passage.
Capt. Harris then mildly continued, by stating that he
had noticed that a disposition prevailed among the blacklegs
to slip off, with the exception of the captain, without settling their fares, and he had intended to put the captain,
"freight" and all, on an island, had they attempted it.  But
when he saw the old man, who got in at Golconda, and
them seated at cards, he stood by, trying, if possible to detect the greatest knave.
An indignant passenger now said to Harris  "You,  sir, I suppose, was pleased to see the old man
lose, merely that you might secure the passage money. You
see, gentlemen, how far Captain Harris' sympathy ex.
tended."
Howard echoed this idea. Harris turned upon him, and
said  "  believe then, sir, according to that tale, the old man's
money paid the passages of those men that went out at the
mouth of the river? No sir; it was the money they got
from you, that paid their passages. I would not have taken
the money you got from the old man!"
sm
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"Why not, sir?" asked Howard, somewhat surprised.
Because it was good for nothing- spurious, sir."
"Spurious!" echoed every body around.
"Yes, the basest kind of counterfeit."
"Do you mean to say that man was a counterfeiter, Capt.
Harris?" cried Howard.
"Yes, sir; and I say nothing but what I know.  That
old sucker was Spurlock the counterfeiter! He and his
clan have been waiting several trips to catch men who
know how to play five aces, and finding that you were
shipping your whiskey on the Smelter, a few days since, as
one of Spurlock's spies was at Cincinnati, he took another
boat, and by the time the Smelter arrived, they were waiting in readiness."
Then turning to his passengers, Harris said  "Gentlemen, now you understand my reasons for not interfering. Spurlock has, it is true, made about twenty-one
hundred dollars by beating five aces!"
The committee then understood the sucker's meaning,
when he told them he had no doubt but they wouldn't care
if Howard had got the thousand dollar notes.
Howard, upon hearing the sad news, fairly frothed at the
mouth with anger, and swore he would have satisfaction
if it cost him his life. Captain Harris ordered him to be
silent, or he would put him and his freight on the first
island he:came to.
At this stage Roberts remarked that the Smelter could
boast that four blacklegs and five aces had been beaten on
board of her by one sucker.
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APPENDIX.
PROSP E CTUS.
1. We, the undersigned, believing that Mr. J. H. Green's proposed publications will be eminently useful in counteracting one
of the most pernicious and demoralizing vices of the age, take
great pleasure in recommending them to the patronage of the
public.
REV. CHARLES ELLIOT,
Editor of the Western Christian Advocate.
REV. L. L. HAMLINE.
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
D. K. ESTE,
Judge of the Superior Court, Cin. Ham. Co., Ohio.
REV. J. P. KILBRETH,
SAMUEL WILLIAMS,
JOHN MCLEAN,
Judge of the U. S. Court.
REV. W. H. RAPEIR,
TIIOMIAS J. BIGGS,
President of the Cincinnati College.
SAMUEL W. LYND, D.D.
Pastor Ninth street Baptist Church.
HON. JACOB BURNETT,
REV. JOHN F. WRIGHT.
H. E. SPENCER,
Mayor of Cincinnati.
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From the Le.ington Observer, December 20th, 1843.
2. Pursuont to a cal] contained in Saturday's paper, a very large
and highly respectable audience assembled at the Court House, for
the purpose of taking some measures to discourage the pernicious practice of gambling.  Mr. Robert Wickliffe, Sen. was called to the Chair, and Mr. W. King appointed Secretary.
Mr. Gally, now here from Cincinnati, was called upon to state
the objects of mneeting, which he did in a brief speech of much
power and eloquence. The vice was depicted in faithful colors,
and some of its terrible effects delineated in a vivid and forcible
manner.
Mlr. J. II. Green, whose work on gambling we noticed a few
days since, then related some of his adventures and experience
while a " sporting gentleman." He exposed some of the arts and
tricks of these gentlemen (?) which the uninitiated could never
have thought of. Having had no little experience in the fascinating but ruinous, destructive vice, and being thoroughly convinced
of its deplorable effects, he is well prepared, in a plain, unvarnished style to do thle subject ample justice.
The Chairman, Mr. Wickliffe, favored the audience with some
very appropriate remarks. when an invitation being given, eightyseven subscribed a pledge to "abstain from participating in any
game of chance, where anything can be won or lost."
A committee was appointed to draft a Constitution, to be reported this evening at the Court House, at 7 o'clock, to which time
and place the meeting adjourned.
The Anti-Gambling Association will meet at the Court House,
this evening at half past 6 o'clock. The object of the meeting is
to form a constitution for the Society, and on which occasion
there will be several addresses. It is expected that every citizen
who feels an interest in the suppression of this vice, will attend
this meeting.
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3. LEXINGTON ANTI-GAMBLING AND MORAL TRUST
SOCIETY.
In pursuance of a resolution of the society, we publish below a
list of the officers elected for the ensuing year. About five hundred persons have already enrolled their names, and we trust that
much good may result from the organization.
OFFICERS.
ROBT. WICKLIFFE, President.
W. H. RICHARDSON, Vice President.
T. B. PINCKARD,   "
N. L. FINNELL,    "
HON. GEO. ROBERTSON,   "
GEN. J. M. MCCALLA,   "
JNO. T. LEWIS, Recording Secretary.
J. C. DARBY, Corresponding Secretary.
SAM'L FITCH,              "
W. KING,                  "
ORTON, Treasurer.
ecutive Committee.
hairman.  PROF. ROBT. PETER,
L,        G. L. POSTLETHWAIT,
HKE,     C. KENRELL,
G. EVANS,
D.  H. BOSWORTH.
Committee of Order.
WM. WILSON, Chairman, Jos. GEORGE,
L. MARSTON,             G. W. GORDON,
J. L. WILMOT,           E. MCMURRAY,
P. GAUGH,               E. C. GARNER,
WM. PULLEN,            JAMES MANN.
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ELIHU HOGAN, C]
J. W. TRUMBUL:
H. H. TIMBERLA
W. C. BELL,
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4. A CARD.
Louisville Journal, Feb. 12, 1844.
The undersigned, the Executive Committee of the Louisville
Anti-Gambling and Moral Trust Society, in behalf of its officers
and members, and pursuant to their resolution passed at its meeting
on the 16th inst., tender to Mr. J. H. Green their cordial and most
grateful thanks for his timely, ardent, and very efficient labors in
our city, within the last ten days, in the cause of the anti-gambling
reform. Already, by his efforts, have more than one thousand of
those principally exposed to the vices and ruin incident to the practice and passion of gambling, been induced to take the pledge and
become members of the Society, and we take great pleasure in asking for him the kindest reception wherever he may go to prosecute these noble labors.
THOS. J. READ, Chairman.
J. T. GRAY, JR.
GEORGE G. FETTER.
SAMUEL K. RICHARDSON.
W. N. CARTER.
5. A CARD.
Louisville Journal, Feb. 19, 1844.
The undersigned having witnessed Mr. Green's exhibition of
the frauds practiced by professional gamblers upon the unwary,
have no hesitation in certifying to the importance of his disclosures, and of the very salutary influence which must result to the
community from their development. They feel persuaded it is
only necessary to witness Mr. Green's illustrations of their foul
practices to deter even the credulous from participating in any
game with which a gambler may be connected.
W. N. CARTER,
WILLIAM SINTON,
J. D. SWIFT,
A. THROCKMORTON,
12
HD.D. NEWCOHIMB,
HENRY LAZARLUS,
JOHN JOYES,
ROBERT K. WHITE,
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S. S. KENNEDY,
N. HAYDON,
W. N. HALDEMAN,
J. T. GRAY, JR.,
H. W. COOD,
ISAAC EVERETT,
T. F. VANMETER,
JOHN M. MONOHAN,
B. H. HORNSBY,
J. I. JACOB, JR.,
GEO. D. PP.ENTICE.
HENRY C. POPE,
H. BRIDGES,
L. A. PRATT,
WM.  BOGGS,
JNO. R. THROCKMORTON,
SAMUEL BEAN,
C. F. VERNON.
6. A CARD.
Louisville Journal, March 3, 1844.
MR. GREEN-SIR-Being well apprised of your villainous designs against our profession, we feel it a duty not only to the
gambling fraternity, but to the public at large, to make them
acquainted with you, by proving to them by some means that
your motives are based upon rascality; and no other intentions
can, as a villian as you are, have in view. Sir, do you not
remember that all gentlemen of our class held you at bay? and
can you mark out an instance in your life when you had dealings
with any of them that you did not swindle them-yes, worse than
steal from them? This, sir, was one reason among many that
made gentlemanly sportsmen despise you, and talk about you, and
despise your name as they would naturally despise as d-d a villain as you proved to be to them. You not only injured trade
with them by transacting your villainies throughout the world,
but afterwards turned traitor, and wish to redeem yourself at
their expense-that is, you wish to satisfy the public, by your reformation, that all gamblers are villains of the deepest dye; and
you make no difference in comparison from the sporting gentleman
that plays the honorable game of "faro" alone, or the No. 4, as
you style them, in your "GREEN ON GAMBLINGC."  Sir, I would
wish you to understand our intentions towards you: if you stop
where you are, well and good for you, as many gentlemen of the
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sporting fraternity have come to the conclusion that you shall
stop; and you know they are honorable gentlemen, too; and if
they cannot convince you of the fact, they feel themselves justifiable in shooting you down as they would a dog. But, as they
have learned, by yourself, that you are bound for the South, they,
perhaps, will send a delegation along with you, whose duty it will
be to feed you to the catfish. With these few compliments we
leave you to reflect.
MANY SPORTING GENTLEMEN.
ANSWER.
Having received the above communication from a set of men
who style themselves "sporting gentlemen," I think it my duty as
well as my privilege to make public its contents, as well as views
respecting such communications. Sporting gentlemen, as you
style yourselves, permit me to assure you that your intentions have
miscarried. You flatter, greatly flatter yourselves if you think to
intimidate me. You have assumed a name by which the public
may not know you. Black hearted murderers, midnight assassins,
are names that suit the history of your fraternity, and the particular and declared intentions -of my skulking correspondents.
No doubt'"gentlemen," your intentions are good to assassinate
me; and you would put your threats in execution did not your
coward hearts shrink from your purpose.  "Gentlemen,' do not
deceive yourselves, and think my career is at an end.  I have at
this time visited only Cincinnati and a small portion of Kentucky;
but I yet intend to expose your profession with unrelenting hand,
from the frozen bosom of the North to the dew-dropping South,
and purge the earth of such a wicked and abominable profession.
"Gentlemen gamblers, let this suffice.
J. H. GREEN.
P.S.-As I know not the persons who are immediately interested in this communication, they will excuse me for addressing
them through the medium of the public press, as this is the only
way I can hope to address their vision, and to give their honors a
better chance.-J. H. G.
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7. A CARD.
From St Louis Papers, March 18, 1844.
ST. Louis ANTI-GAMBLING SOCIETY.-In pursuance of a call of
" many citizens," a meeting was held at the Court-house, on Monday
the 18th instant, for the purpose of forming an " Anti-Gambling Society"' in this city. This meeting being of a novel character, all
the better part of the audience appeared to stand waiting for each
other to make a move for a chairman to preside over the meeting.
This did not suit the gamblers, and they tried to suppress the
meeting by nominating men from their own ranks. The impudence here manifested by that fraternity to prevent the object for
which the meeting was called, produced quite a sensation among
the better portion of the citizens.  Several  calls having been
made for a chairman by the citizens without effect, great excitement prevailed throughout the house, and many harsh epithets were
bestowed upon Green by the " sporting" fraternity. The citizens
then made a general call for Green, who came forward and took
the stand, amidst a confusion of cheers and hisses. Mr. Green
then called on the meeting to state to him, if they knew, the purpose of so large a concourse of people. He was answered by
many that it was for the purpose of suppressing gambling. Green
then remarked that the citizens certainly had sufficient occasion to
justify them in their ]audible undertaking, that there was sufficient proof within hearing to satisfy any man of common sense.
Here the speaker was interrupted by hisses, and a general
cry to put the "night hawks" out (meaning the gamblers.)  This
seemed to quiet the matter, and a call for a chairman was made,
which proved successful, in the selection of Mr. A. P. Ladew to
the chair, and Hugh Miller: secretary; the chairman, after restoring order, called upon Mr. Green to address the meeting, who
commenced in a mild and easy manner; stating that although there
seemed to be some excitement prevailing among the citizens and a
portion of his former companions, concerning the present meeting, wherein the latter appeared very much displeased, he would
wish them to understand that he had not visited St. Louis for the
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purpose of fighting men but their vices.  Here the d-d lie was
given by several different individuals, some of which moved at
the same time towards the speaker, and several of the citizens
made towards them, while others cried, "put them out, put them
out," (meaning the gamblers.) Here the speaker requested the
honest portion of the audience to be seated, and not let a set of
villains alarm them in the least, so far as he, G., was concerned;
that he knew the party that was causing the disturbance; they
knew him; and he knew that any of them would prefer stealing
a well-lined pocket-book to that of dragging him, as they had
threatened, from the stand.  Here order appeared to be restored,
when Mr. G. gave a brief statement of his mission, and the purpose of the present meeting, when a motion was made and
seconded for the formation of an Anti-Gambling Society. A
committee was appointed to draft a constitution and to nominate
officers.  The following gentlemen were appointed                                     OLIVER  QUINETT,
W. E. BRUSH,
R. M. SHREEVE.
The meeting here adjourned to meet at the Court House on the
following evening, when it was called to order by the chairman.
The secretary then read the report of the committee, and the constitution was adopted, and the following gentlemen were chosen
officers for the ensuing year:
RICHARD B. DALLAM, President.
A. P. LADEW,  Vice-President.
RICHMOND CURL, 
V. ELLIS,
EDMUND FLAGG,'4
THOMAS H. WEST, 
J. B. CROCKET,             4
JOHN M. WIMER, 
HUGH MILLER, Recording Secretary.
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R[CHARD M. SHINN, Corresponding Seec.
GEO. A. HILL,
ALBERT TODD,
SAMUEL KNOX, 
JESSE SEYMORE, Executive Committee.
JOSEPH S. HILL, 
MARTIN SIMONS, 
OLIVER QUINETT, Treasurer.
The meeting was then addressed by Mr. Green, and the pledge
was offered, and over two hundred names were taken. The meeting then adjourned to meet the next evening at the 4th Street
Methodist Church.
At the close of Mr. Green's lecture last evening, at the 4th
Street Methodist Church, in behalf of the St. Louis Anti-Gambling Society, a warm feeling was generally expressed by his
many attentive hearers, and one hundred and fifty came forward
and signed the pledge, when the following resolution was offered,
and a highly commendatory card presented  Resolved-That the thanks of this meeting are hereby tendered
to Mr. J. H. Green, for his efforts in the city of St. Louis in exposing the arts and practices of gambling, and in the formation
of an Anti-Gambling Society of upwards of two thousand members.
Unanimously adopted by the meeting, April 2, 1844.
HUGH  MILLER) Rec. Secretary.
The following card was given to Mr. Green by the citizens of
St. Louis:
The undersigned having witnessed Mr. Green's exhibition of
the frauds practised by professional gamblers upon the unwary,
have no hesitation in certifying to the importance of his disclosures and the very salutary influence which must result to the
community from their development, they feel persuaded it is only
necessary to witness Mr. Green's illustrations of their foul prac
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tices, to deter even the most credulous from participating in any
game with which a gambler may be connected:
J. B. THOMAS,
JOHN C. EVANS,
RICHMOND 3. CURL,
CHARLES E. ALLEN,
CHARLES COLLINS,
GEO. E. BRICKETT,
R. S. HIGGINS,
CHAS. TODD,
GEO. H. JONES,
SAMUEL B. BULLOCX,
E. C. EADS,
A. HAWLEY,
E. A. MORE,
MOSES PERVIN,
JOHN SIMMONDS,
JAMES MCDONOUGH,
WM. H. SMITH,
J. NEWHEAD,
L. F. RUCKER,
C. J. CARPENTER,
A. GUELBRETH,
JAMES PATTELSON,
JAMES  HIsE,
G. B. INGERSOLL)
T. CAMPBELL,
JAMES H. MALONE,
O. FORD, JR.
H. REA,
Jos. S. HULL,
J. B. CLARK,
JOHN T. LATIMERF
HUGH MILLERt
CHARLES A. WALTONP
CHARLES D. PRIDDY,
L. R. CONNEUR,
WM. VAN DEVENTER,
ALBERT JONES,
A. P. LADEW,
OLIVER QTJINETT,
DAVID MOOIRLE.
8. EDITORIAL.
From a Baltimore Paper, May 10, 1844.
ANTI-GAMBLING REFORM.-A  reformed gambler, Mr. Green,
has lately arrived in our city for the purpose of forming an AntiGambling Society, and exposing the frauds of gamblers: this we
consider a laudable enterprise out of which great good must ultimately crown his labors. This subject cannot but possess interest
for all, yet we think that if those who have been victimized
in our city by gamblers could be collected in his lecture  room,
they would be far more interested than any others. However,
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this is not important. Mr. Green comes before the community as
a repentent man, anxious to repair, as far as possible, the mischief
which he, in company with others, has done; and he goes into
the business of gaming, and minutely details all its frauds and
devices, and shows what immense advantages the professional
gamblers have, in every known game, over the unsuspecting, un
initiated, and excited player. It is said that no one can hear him
for an hour, without being convinced that every gaming house is
clearly, in the literal meaning of the word, a swindling shop
that the keeper, with his confederates, control the game with ease,
winning or losing as they judge to be expedient. All this is made
so clear, that the most infatuated man that ever held in his trembling fingers a playing card, dice box, and staked upon the throw
his last dollar, cannot entertain a doubt. Now, we are curious to
know what influence these revelations of systematic fraud will
have upon the many elegantly furnished gaming houses in
this city. Do our readers know that some of these establishments
are furnished in a style of royal magnificence; that upon the
elaborately carved and gilded sideboards, the most costly wines
are to be found; that the supper tables vie with those of the Astor
House, New York, and- that all the P.':pense necessary for the
support of such a house, and for the enriching of its keepers,
comes out of the pockets of the deluded men who rush to it to
tempt again and again their "fickle goddess-fortune."
Well, it is so. These gamsters are dexterous pick-pockets, who
rob men to their face, as Mr. Green proves. Can it be that they
will longer flourish? Are there idiots enough in town to support
a single faro table or roulette board? Remember it is now an
exposed system of cunning knavery-of robbery; that no "good
luck" need to be looked for; that if you stake your money on a
game of chance, you do it with the full assurance that you will
be cheated. We hope that Mr. Green will meet with much encouragement while in this city.
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9. EDITORIAL.
From the Baltimore Visitor, May 16 1844.
REFORMATORY MOVEMENTS.-Mr. Green continues, at suitable
intervals, to urge the importance of his anti-gambling movements.
He addressed the pupils of the Sabbath School attached to the
Fifth Presbyterian Church, on Sunday, and also the inmates of
our state prison. His address there was a very successful one,
and the whole scene interesting in the extreme. We had designed
to describe it, but had forgot it until our space was more than filled. We must, however, find room for the statement of a vote
which Mr. Green was kindly allowed by the gentlemanly warden,
A. J. W. Jackson, to put for the purpose of ascertaining, as far
as might be, the comparative influence of the vices of intemperance
and gambling, on the early career of the prisoners. The result
was this: whole number of white prisoners present, 175; addicted to gambling, 10; to intemperance, 18; to both, 38.  Whole
number of colored prisoners present, 85; addicted to gambling
17; to intemperance, 14; to both vices, 12.
The above comparison, so far as it went, fully confirmed our
previous impressions as to the extent to which gambling of various grades is indulged in by the colored population. Let these
facts serve as an awful and salutary warning to those, of whatever color, yet enjoying that precious liberty of which their imprisoned brethren have been deprived, as the result of a life of
crimes thus commenced.
10. EDITORIAL.
From the National Intelligencer, May, 13th, 1844.
GAMBLING.-It must be gratifying to every friend of morality
and social order to know, in view of the horrible effects of gambling and its destructive tendency, that a laudable attempt is now
being made to organize a society on the pledge principle to lessen
the number of gamblers, and to extinguish the spirit of gambling
throughout the land. Mr. Green, known as the reformed gambler,
is the prime mover of this noble and laudable work. His lecture
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on Sabbath afternoon in Wesley Chapel, to the Sabbath school
children and parents, was deeply interesting, and fraught with
many valuable lessons to the Sabbath school children as well as
to the adults present. It is impossible to give any description of
the solemn interest which pervaded throughout the audience during the whole of his remarks upon this awful vice, Mr. Green
speaking from sad experience. He gives the profession which
caused his ruin no quarters. He says they, wh.o, like wheted
vultures, stalk  abroad  clothed in  broadcloth  and  fine linen
throughout our city, faring sumptuously every day. though so
bland and accomplished here, when they migrate south (if straitened) are not a whit too good to turn counterfeiters and pickpockets.
While listening to this discourse, we could not help drawing a
comparison between physical and moral courage. Some of the
elite youths of our day are ever ready to fight duels on slight
offences; but how few have the moral courage to stand up before
the world to rebuke any prevailing or secret vice like gambling.
We hope that Mr. Green will receive (which he certainly deserves) the support of all friendly to the suppression of vice.
His appearance indicates that of a man  possessing great physical
and moral courage. We should judge he was about thirty years
of age from the dates given occasionally in his lecture, but not of
any indication of his looks or actions; judging from them we
should not have taken him to have been more than twenty-five;
he is a young reformer, but if he be honest (which we firmly
believe he is) we wish him great success in his noble work of
reform.
11. EDITORIAL.
Baltimore Paper.
We have heretofore stated the result of an examination by a
Mr. Green, into the practices of gamblers and the facility with
which he enabled the gentlemen present to designate cards. Happening to call at our office yesterday, we tested his knowledge of
cards by their backs, by borrowing a few packs for his inspection.
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He satisfied us in a few moments that no matter what pattern might
be the figure on the back, he could assort and know them; and
he proved to us further, that the game of "faro," at which the
bank is supposed to have the advantage of about 15 per cent.,
can be so played by a person conversant with the marks of the
cards as to render it next to impossible to win. We have always
heard "faro" pronounced a fair game, but Mr. Green convinced
us that it is one of the most infamously cheating games that can
be played; and we therefore recommend to all admirers of this
game, who feel incredulous in relation to the truth of our statements, to call upon Mr. Green, who will satisfy them if they be
possessed of common sense and honesty, that these are undeniable
facts.
We understand by Mr. Green that he will leave our city in a
few days for New York, where he again will resume his labors.
We are sorry that Mr. Green had not formed a more general acquaintance in our city, that he might have brought his valuable
labors into notice: this would not only have enabled our citizens
to have known his moral worth, but done that which would have
been their bounden duties to have done-assisted him in his pecuniary embarrassments.  We  wish him great success wherever
he may go.
12. EDITORIAL.
From the New York Tribune, Sept. 3, 1840.
THE MYSTERIES OF GAMBLING.-Mr.  J. H. Green, who  has
created considerable excitement in various parts of the country
by his disclosures of the rascality practised by professional
gamblers, in connection with certain manufacturers of cards, and
other aiders and abettors in swindling, is now in the city, and we
understand intends continuing his war upon the gamblers in what
may appropriately be called their headquarters. We have been
assured by persons whose official relations give them every opportunity for knowing that the extent to which gambling is carried in this city, is perfectly appalling. The details of the scenes
which are nightly enacted at the fashionable gambling houses,
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where silly young men are seduced to their temporal and eternal
ruin, are indeed frightful; and if anything can be done to introduce a general reform of this most deplorable vice, it will be a
work not second in importance to society and the cause of virtue,
to the great temperance reform itself. Although we have little
doubt that the vision of justice, when turned in the direction of
these rich and thriving establishments, is too often obscured or
dazzled; yet legal restraints, be they never so stringent or so
thoroughly put in practice, are impotent to check the growth of
the epidemic vices, such as intemperance, gambling and licentiousness. Nothing but public opinion, acted upon by some great, irrisistible moral force, as of aroused national virtue, can be of much
real service here.
Whether Mr. Green be the man qualified to set on foot and
guide aright this great Anti-Gambling Reform, we know not. We
hope he is. From his own showing he has been pretty deeply
involved in all its mysteries, and a sharer of its abominations.
This, however, is nothing to his disadvantage, provided his repeiltance be sincere, and his determination now to repair his faults, by
exposing the nefarious devices of gambling, so that they may be
avoided by the young and inexperienced, be earnestly carried out.
The testimony of those who have become acquainted with Mr.
Green in Louisville, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Baltimore, and other
places, is altogether in his favor; and we hope his efforts here,
should they be discovered to be of the right stamp, will be cheerfully and efficiently seconded.
13. EDITORIAL.
From the New York Organ, August 22,1844.
GAMBLING AND rrs KINDRED VIcES.-The present is truly the
age of moral reform, and we cannot but indulge the hope that the
world is becoming better. A few years ago we heard but little
said against slavery, or the slave trade-against the demoniac
spirit of national warfare-against intemperance or licentiousness;
but now we find the best men in the civilized world combined together for the purpose of arresting the progress of these great
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national evils. Not only is this true, but the spirit of reform
appears to be abroad over the world, pervading all ranks and circles; and we hestitate not to say that the Washingtonian organization has done more towards infusing and extending this spirit
than any other event which has occurred during the present century.
We have been led to these remarks by a desire to notice the
new and important moral movement just beginning to claim the
attention of the public, and one which will stay the hand of the
suicide, and dry up a great fountain of tears, by arresting the progress of a vice which has for centuries contributed to fill the
world with crime and human misery. We allude to the antigambling  movement commenced  and carried forward by J. H
Green, the reformed gambler.
The exposures made by this gentleman are beginning to create
a sensation in this city, which will finally result in the suppression of public gambling and the closing of the numerous hells
with which this city abounds, and which, for years, have been
exerting a powerful and pernicious influence upon the public
morals, to say nothing of the disastrous effects of this vice upon
private individuals, and upon honorable men in high and official
stations, whose sudden fall has created so much astonishment.
Men never gamble without the hope of winning; and if this
hope is destroyed, the gaming table will be deserted, and the pro
fessional gamester compelled to earn his bread in some more
honest way. We therefore hail this movement with joy, because
the exposures of Mr. Green destroys all hope of winning from
professed gamblers; and when the public understand this matter,
the business of the gamester must cease, for the want of victims
to feed upon.
At the age of seven years death deprived Mr. Green of his
mother, and his father being a victim of intemperance was incapable of rearing him correctly; and thus, at an early age, he was
thrown upon the world without a friend or adviser to keep him
from the dangers which everywhere beset the path of the unsuspecting youth. By a train of circumstances he became a pro
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fessed gambler, and being naturally smart, he soon excelled in his
profession; and the fact that he has been engaged in the " manu facture of cards," and as such in league with the most knowing
gamblers in the United States, gave him a thorough and complete
knowledge of the arts and mysteries of gaming, so that his pro fessional experience, combined with a good intellect, and a fearless,
noble, and generous nature, makes him, perhaps, the very best
man of all others for the enterprise he has undertaken. Although
circumstances made him a gambler, they did not entirely destroy
his moral feelings;  and when the  Washingtonian movements
burst upon the world, he saw the good that reformed drunkards
were doing, and he at once resolved to abandon his profession and
benefit the world by his experience as a gambler, which, while it
was great pecuniary sacrifice, rolled from his heart a heavy bur then, which has been made still lighter by the glorious conso lations of religion.
When he resolved upon this course, he was in the city of Cin cinnati, where he made known his intentions. This was the
starting point; and from that time to the present, (a period of one
year,) Mr. Green has devoted himself exclusively to the cause
has organized societies in Lexington, Louisville, Frankfort, Har redsburg and Danville, Ky.; Lawrenceburgh and Madison, Ia.;
*St. Louis, Mo.; and Baltimore, Md., and has received about
20,000 names to his anti-gambling pledge. He is now about
thirty years of age, and prepossessing in his appearance, uneducated, but of extraordinary natural talents, and is altogether a
remarkable man, which is shadowed forth in all his acts and conversation. We hope he will be sustained in this city, and that a
society will be immediately organized, having for its object the
entire suppression of gaming, by which the cause of temperance
and good morals will be greatly benefitted.
14. EDITORIAL.
From the New York Organ, August 29, 1844.
THE ANTI-GAMBLING SOCIETY.-The anti-gambling operations
of Mr. Green in this city, are likely to be productive of great good.
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The exposures of the various tricks by which gamblers rob their
victims have been so clearly demonstrated, that a number of gentlemen who played, and some of whom are minus large sums of
money, have resolved to forever abandon the gaming table. During his lectures, Mr. Green exhibited some of the gambling implements used in the game of "faro," and which appeared perfectly fair, but which were so artfully constructed that the
gambler had entire control over the cards, so that he could make
them win or lose as he pleased. He also explained the manner of
manufacturing cards-showing that all, or nearly all cards are
marked by the manufacturer, some of which were so strongly
marked that he told the suit at the distance of twelve or fifteen
feet by gaslight. One of the auditors, at the last lecture, passed
Mr. G. a pack of cards of the common star back, (just purchased
of a dealer, who said he would bet $1,o000o they could not be
known by the backs,) which he read, face down, without the least
hesitation or mistake. These facts have created a sensation here,
which will result in the suppression of the vice in this city; and
as a commencement, a public meeting  was held on Thursday
evening last, at Clinton Hall, which was attended by a large and
highly respectable audience, and was one of the most spirited and
interesting meetings we have attended for a long time.
The meeting was called to order by Mr. J. R. S. Van Vleet,
who addressed the house in a very animated and eloquent manner upon the evils of gaming, and concluded by nominating our
old friend, Sandy Welsh, as chairman, who, upon assuming the
chair, made one of the best, most interesting, and effective addresses we ever heard him make on any subject. Mr. Green followed, and his remarks riveted the attention of the audience,
until he took his seat amid thunders of applause; the following
was adoped and signed by fifty gentlemen:
"We do hereby pledge ourselves, as gentlemen, to abstain from
every species of gambling or banking games, or other games of
chance, for any purpose of gain or profit whatever."
Amonog those who signed the pledge was a poor, broken-down,
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miserable-looking man, and whose dress indicated extreme poverty. As he took the pen to subscribe his name, he held up his
hand, observing that he could write with difficulty as he had lost
a finger in a gambling row-that he had often lost more than fifty
dollars a night, and that a passion for play had reduced him to
poverty, and kept him there; but that he would now sign the
pledge, and keep away from the gaming-table.
On Monday evening next there will be another meeting at Clinton Hall, which will be addressed by Mr. Green and others. We
hope the ladies, as well as the gentlemen, will attend. A most
interesting meeting may be anticipated.
15. EDITORIAL.
New York Paper, Sept. 12, 1844.
FORMATION OF THE ANTI-GAMBLING SOCIETT.-On Monday
evening last a large audience again assembled at Clinton Hall, to
hear more of the secrets of the gaming house revealed, and to
complete the organization of an Anti-Gambling Society. The
meeting being called to order, Mr. Van Vleet reported a constitution for the government of the Society, which, with the previouis pledge, was unanimously adopted.
The following gentlemen were nominated as candidates for the
officers of the Society, all of whom were elected by acclamation
ALEXANDER  WELSH, President.
R. L. SCHEFFELIN, Vice President.
ALD. MOTT,                     "      9th Ward.
ASSIST. ALD. U. P.  WARD, "           3rd Ward.
ASSIST. ALD. JAMES WORN, "    10th Ward.
J. R. S. VAN VLEET, ESQ., Secretary.
JOSEPH WILLOUGHBY, ESQ., Treasurer.
A. D. WILSON,  M.D., Executive Committee
PROF. JOHN WALSH, 
WM.  EDMONDS,
G. Y. JOHNSTON,                   9
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Mr. Welsh was then introduced to the audience as President of
the New York Anti-Gambling Society, amid enthusiastic cheers.
He addressed the audience in his usual happy manner, relating
several personal anecdotes illustrating the dangerous effects of
gaming, and of associating with men who are in the habit of
playing.
He was followed by Mr. Green, the reformed gambler, who addressed the meeting at some length, in his usual original and
graphic style. In the course of his remarks he was particularly
severe upon the members of his old profession, charging them all,
without discrimination, with being cheats, and worse than high
way robbers; because, said he, a robber comes up boldly and demands your purse, but the gambler insinuates himself into your
confidence, pretends to be a gentleman and your friend, anti scorns
the idea of cheating-all of which he assumes, that he may the
more easily rob you of the last dollar.
He said that when he commenced playing he trusted to luck,
but soon found that to be a successful gambler he must cheat, and
being an apt scholar, he now knew as much as his masters, and
perhaps a little more. He earnestly entreated young men to keep
away from gamblers and gambling-rooms, because these men were
bad associates; and to play against them with the hope of winning, was perfectly ridiculous, as no novice can win unless the
gambler permits him.
At the close of the meeting Mr. Van Vleet offered the following resolution, which was passed with acclamation and cheers  "Resolved-That  the  thanks of this  Society, and of  this
audience, be hereby tendered to Mr. Green, for his visit to this
city, and for his philanthropic efforts in endeavoring to suppress
the vice of gambling."
Thus is a society formed for the suppression of gambling,
at which we greatly rejoice; and we feel assured that the gentlemen who are engaged in it will not cease their efforts until the
laws of the State are sufficiently strong to close the hells in this
city.
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16. EDITORIAL.
New York Paper, August 30, 1844.
TiHE REFoRMED GAMBLEPR, GREEN.-Mr. Green, the "Reformed
Gambler," about whom we have heard so much, is a fine, healthy
looking, self-educated man. He followed gaming as a profession,
for twelve years; but about two y3ears since he became convinced
of the wickedness  of his calling, and set to work and wrote his
book exposing the " mysteries" of all the various games played
with cards, &c. He lectured at the same time on the subject, and
up to the present period has continued to do so without accepting
any emoluments. He finds it necessary now, however, to ask anl
equivalent, such as he has a right to receive, for his services in
the cause of virtue. He intends to give lectures to the people of
this city-he means to form anti-gambling leagues among our
youth, and rout the gamblers by destroying their prospects. They
have, it was yesterday rumored, threatened his life. This we
doubt. They will cheat and swindle; but we do not think they
will murder. That they would break up Mr. Green's meetings,
and inflict personal injuries of an unpleasant nature if they could,
is more than likely.  The pious and well disposed of the commau
nity must, therefore, countenance Mr. Green, and support him in
the performance of his arduous task. The authorities, and all
disposed to advance the aims and views of moral reformers, must
attend his lectures and protect him from annoyance. This is a
matter of right and justice. In his lectures Mr. Green intends to
show by what means gamesters fleece the uninitiated, and he will
demonstrate, beyond a doubt, that no chance whatever exists for
the novice to win, however good a player he may be. The makers of cards are leagued with the gamesters. Every card has a
mark known only to the manufacturers and the professional knaves
who live by gambling. We certainly think Mr. Green will spoil
all ",sport" in this quarter.
17. EDITORIAL.
From the New York Herald.
FLARE-UP AMONG THE GAMBLERS.-The lectures of Mr. Green,
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he reformed gambler, have raised a hornet's nest about his ears.
We are informed that the sporting gentlemen intend to put him
down, stop his mouth, or silence him in some way. The following correspondence has been handed us for publication: 
ANONYMOUS LETTER
addressed to Mr. Green by the "honorable" fraternity of "sporting gentlemen."
New York, Sept. 7, 1844.
J. H. GREEN-SIR-An old adage we here see proper to use,
that a'hint to the wise is sufficient without a kick.' Sir, we
wish to inform you that your intentions to prevent a class of gentlemen from amusing themselves, and accommodating others who
may think proper to call on them, are of too low a character to
be believed or sustained by an observing community. We feel
inclined to deal plainly, although you will excuse the liberty we
have taken to deal with you in a manner not altogether as open
and frank as we would think proper to, providing you were sufficiently respectable for gentlemen of honor to notice as their competitor, being on an equality with them; and plain advice you
perhaps will find in this case to suit you.  The game of "faro'
you pronounce worse than highway robbery. Sir, such assertions are ridiculous to set forth among men of honor, and will not
be submitted to. We admit that the game, although based upon
high-minded principles, has been abused, and, in fact, by many
States declared worthy of penal conviction. Yet we never fear as
long as the noble principles of the game can be set forth, but what
they will be sustained as they are at the present day in this great
empire city. By whom has this game lost its reputation. We
will inform you, not but what you already understand. It, sir,
has by no other class of men than that which you belonged towhich were no other than what might be termed strolling faro
dealers and midnight assassins, that can only boast of scars and
difficulties of a dishonest kind. You must know that the New
York sporting men are not so low and contemptible, nor will their
friends who know them of old allow the supposition to rest, that
the sporting gentlemen with whom they have long amused them
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selves, shall, by one who, in all probability, does know and has
practiced these villanies, which he asserts are played, to be placed
upon an equality. No, sir. We who sport have a reputation not
to be shaken by such an unprincipled villain as you have proved
yourself to be to the honorable sporting gentlemen; and as for
the repectable rooms in our city, you will understand there are
many of ancient date, which have ever been sustained by honorable citizens; and, sir, you may well suppose what will be the
consequence if you undertake or insinuate anything against their
honorable occupants. Your braggadocia manner of expressing
yourself will, perhaps, not cover the deeds of darkness and villainy which you have ever kept concealed by intrigue. There
are sporting gentlemen whom you have put confidence in, who
are now in our city, and wish to carry out principles of honor so
far as secrecy is concerned, unless forced to expose you by your
villainous conduct towards our profession. Sir, let this suffice.
MANY SPORTING GENTLEMEN,
To J. H. Green.                  and also residents of this city.
ANSWER.
The above is one of a number of anonymous communications I
have received from the gambling fraternity since I deserted their
ranks, and commenced exposing the systematic villainies by which
they have successfully plundered every community where they
could get a foothold. Somes of these missives implore me to
stop, and not to ruin a business by which so many are now gaining a livelihood; others threaten personal chastisement, and even
broadly hint at assassination; and within a few days, some of the
desperadoes, whose business I have greatly affected, have openly
manifested a disposition to attack me publicly in the streets. To
all this I have but a few words to say. As a gambler, I exerted
a pernicious influence in society, but having seen the error of my
ways, and deeply repented, I am now making the only restitution
in my power-that of endeavoring to exterminate the gambling
lace, by exposing the tricks of their profession, by which alone
they live; and I shall not cease my exposures, should God spare
my life, until I induce the legislature of each State to enact laws
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sufficient for the entire suppression of the vice of gambling.
Such being my purpose, I shall persevere despite every annoyance the " honorable gentlemen" may see proper to inflict.
J. H. GREEN.
18. EDITORIAL.
Boston Mail, Sept. 15, 1844.
We are happy to state that Mr. Green's operations in our city
have thus far met with the hearty approbation of the good citizens
of this metropolis. On Friday evening of last week, he gave his
first lecture at the Marlboro' Chapel, to a very respectable and intelligent auditory. He also delivered an address before the
Washingtonians, at their hall, on Sunday evening, on the subject
of temperance, and again lectured at the Marlboro' Chapel, on
Monday  evening.  His speech, at the Washingtonian  Hall, is
highly spoken of by those who heard him, not as a specimen of
oratory, but as being of that nature which is calculated to do
much good.
After Mr. Green had finished his first lecture at the Marlboro'
Chapel, a large number of gentlemen waited upon him with a request that he would test in their presence his knowledge of cards
by the private marks upon their backs, and his power, by the
numerous other tricks known to professed gamblers. One of the
gentlemen sent out for a new pack of cards. They were brought
in, and the maker's name upon the wrapper was printed Krehore.
They were laid with their faces down upon a table. One of the
company then took the cards from the pile singly, showing to
another the faces of such cards as Mr. Green requested him to do,
Mr. G. only seeing the backs. A minute was made of such cards
as was selected, and after the whole pack had thus been gone
through, they were shuffled, when Mr. Green, from the backs
alone, selected every one that had thus been minuted, eighteen in
number. He then told the names of the whole fifty-two cards by
the backs alone.
Mr. Green, for the purpose of showing the overwhelming advantages which a professed gambler or " patent" man has over all
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others by marked cards, "palining," stealing cards, false shuffling,
dealing from the bottom, slipping the cut on top, " stocking" tht
cards, illustrated his skill by playing a game or two. In the
game of "brag" Mr. Green dealt out the number of hands requisite for imaginary players, and stated to the company which hands
should have the advantage cards. In every instance it was as he
wished, and had there been any playing that particular hand must
have beaten every other. In "all fours," or the game of "old
sledge," as it is called, he illustrated the frauds which the "patent
gentry" have over those who play depending on their own judgtnent. Mr. Green dealt two hands-one for himself, the other
for an imaginary partner; although the dealing was quick as
thought, his antagonist had all the game cards, while he held
everything, and turned a Jack. In case he should beg, said Mr.
G., which he would surely do on such a hand, I will deal three
more. He did so, and turned another Jack; and having all the
trump cards in his own hand, he must have got the game.
The exhibition was truly amusing, and showed conclusively
the dreadful frauds of gamblers, and the inevitable ruin which
must ensue to all who indulge in the vice.
19. EDITORIAL.
From the Boston Daily Mail, Sept. 30, 1844.
ANTI-GAMBLING  SOCIETY.-On Saturday evening, agreeably to
previous notice, a public meeting was held at the Marlboro' Chapel,
for the purpose of forming an Anti-Gambling Society,  Mr. J. H.
Green, the reformed gambler, called the meeting to order, when
Mr. Moses Mellen was chosen chairman, and Capt. G. W. Taylor, secretary.
Mr. J. H. Green was then called upon by the chair to address
the meeting, which he did in his own quiet, yet truthful and convincing way. He spoke of the formation of the first Anti-Gambling Society in Cincinnati, and of the exertions of that noble
philanthropist, George Redding.   He also spoke highly of the
Baltimore movement, and of the independent and high-minded
Pourse of Dr. Snodgrass and A. Hyam, in sustaining it. He next
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related a heart-rending story of the ruin of a young man from this
city or vicinity, who had been made the victim of gamblers.
Deacon Moses Grant next addressed the chair in relation to the
very important and fearless step which Mr. Green had taken, and
the zeal he manifested in carrying out his measures against the
vice of gamblilg.   The  reformer, he remarked, possessed  not
wealth or eloquence, but he was evidently actuated by an honest
purpose, and ought to be sustained by all who had the well being
of the community at heart.
Mr. F. R. Woodward then proposed the following resolutions,
which were unanimously adopted.
Resolved-That the thanks of this community are due Mr.
Green for his efforts to suppress the vice of gambling, by un.
masking its secrets.
Resolved —That by calling public attention to the extent of
gambling in this city. he has conferred upon us lasting benefits.
Resolved-That we will individually and collectively sustain Mr.
Green in his efforts to do away with the vice of gambling.
The Anti-Gambling Pledge was offered several times in the
course of the evening, and was finally returned with fifty-eight
signatures.
Pledge.-We, whose names are hereunto annexed, desirous of
forminga society for our mutual benefit, and to guard against a
pernicious practice, which is alike injurious to ourselves and
families, and prejudicial to the moral and political institutions of
our country, do pledge ourselves, as ladies and gentlemen, to ab stain from every species of gambling or banking games, or games
of chance, for any purpose of gain or profit whatever.
It was then moved that a committee of three should be appoint ed by the meeing to draft a constitution to govern the society, and
nominate officers to be elected at the next adjourned meeting.
The following gentlemen were appointed for said committee:
MR. MOSES GRANT, Ckairman of Corn.
MR. MOSES MELLEN,
CAPT. G. W. TAYLOR.
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Mr. Green then asked the privilege of adding one to the above,
which was granted.
Mr. F. R. WOODWARD was then proposed and accepted.
Mr. Grant moved that the secretary be instructed to furnish a
copy of the proceedings to the city papers.
The meeting adjourned to assemble again on Saturday evening
next.
20. EDITORIAL.
FORMATION OF THE BOSTON ANTI-GAMBLING SOCIETY.-At an
adjourned meeting of the Boston Anti-Gambling and Moral Trust
Society, held Oct. 5th, at Hall No. 2, Tremont Temple, a consti tution was adopted, and the following persons were unanimously
elected for the ensuing year:
MOSES  GRANT, President.
MOSES MELLEN, Vice-Presidens.
R. W.  BAILY,
H. A. NORRIS,
F. R. WTOODWARD, 
C. BASSET,
A. K. ALLEN, Recording Secretary.
WM. B. FOWLE, Corresponding Sec.
HENRY PLIMPTON, Executive Committee.
E. S. PRICE,
JOHN AUGUSTIS,
J. R. JORDAN,
The meeting was then ably addressed by Samuel Ellis, J. H.
Green, and Mr. Gore-the latter a man who has been victimized
by the Boston gamblers, but is now a reformed man.  He will address the meeting on Tuesday evening at the Tremont Temple.
The meeting adjourned to this evening.
21. EDITORIAL.
Boston Post, Oct. 24, 1844.
The Marlboro' Chapel was crowded last evening at an early
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hour, and large numbers were unable to get in. It was a most interesting meeting, opened with prayer, and conducted with the
utmost solemnity throughout. There was also singing by Prof.
WToodbury and choir; he also sung with fine effect " The Gambler's Wife."  Addresses were made by Dr. Jewett, M. Grant, J. B.
Gough, Mr. Green, and Rev. E. H. Chapin, tending to show the
extent and iniquity of gambling and intemperance in this city,
and the intimate connection there is between these vices. Mr.
Chapin argued that the sale of marked cards was as bad as that
of intoxicating drinks, both being the means of great iniquity.
A very touching letter was read from an orphan sister of a
young man ruined by gaming, whose parents both died with grief,
occasioned by his bad habits, but who has now taken the pledge;
and to show her gratitude, though in humble circumstances, she
enclosed two dollars for Mr. Green. The feeling on this subject
is increasing; for such developments as have been made astound
those who have heard them, and it is to be hoped will result in
great good to the young men of our city.
13. EDITORIAL.
Boston Post, October 31, 1844.
GAMBLING AND DRINKING.-The Marlboro' chapel was crowded
on Sunday evening last to listen to the "Reformed Gambler," Mr.
J. H. Green, and the eloquent Washingtonians. Deacon Grant,
Dr. Jewett, J. H. Green, Mr. Gough, and E. H. Chapin made addresses, and Prof. Woodbury sung the "Gambler's Wife" to a
great acceptance. The speakers were eloquent, and the audience
were with difficulty prevented from breaking out into enthusiastic
applause.  Gratifying results have already attended Mr. Green's
labors-young men of this city have broke themselves from the
chains of this monster-habit, and some will labor, after the
Washingtonian manner, to put down gambling.
Undoubtedly this vice prevails to a great extent in this city and
vicinity, in hovels as well as saloons-with the dollar-a-day laborer, as well as the extensive merchant. What can better open
the eyes of the many who frequent these gambling dens than a
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bold exposition of the gamnbler7s cheats? Mr. Green exposes
these boldly. He is able to convince the amateur gambler that he
stands no chance whatever with the gambler by profession-the
villian who robs by slight of hand in preference to the mouth of
the pistol. The iniquity of the latter is almost incredible. Mr.
Green understands perfectly its depths, and ever has his weapons.
He can satisfy the most incredulous of the deep damnation of the
gambler's deeds. But this is not all. Mr. Green's statements implicate card makers.  If he is to be credited, the cards in the market have private marks, greater or less in number according to the
games they are intended for. These are placed there by the manufacturer, and are of such a character as unquestionably to stamp
design upon them, and are so arranged that practised eyes can tell at
a glance suits and spots by looking at the backs as well as by the
face. With this fact before him, the respectable player (if the
term is not a paradox) who falls in with these business gamblers,
can see that there is absolutely no chance for him. But this is
not all. The tricks, slight-of-hand, in gambling are legion. Mr.
Green exposes these with the skill of a Potter, or Signor Blitz.
To thosewhodoubt we say, go and hear him.  If you doubt still,
call on him in private with packs of cards in your hand fresh from
the stores. Hear his story through and give him a God-speed in
the good work of opening the eyes of the community to the evils of
gambling.
22. The  " ANTI-GAMBLING  SOCIETY'  meeting on Thursday
evening, Nov. 16th, in Faneuil Hall was a triumphant one. Deacon Grant, President, presiding.  The hall was well-filled —we noticed in the crowd some of the regular " cut-throat" gentry, and a
somewhat rowdy disposition was manifested among them, but we
presume that they discovered that they would be taken care of, and
their mothers fully informed that they had been out, and were
speedily taken in, and concluded that discretion was the better part
of valor.
A person in the crowd by the name of Ashton, said he had a
pack of cards, which were of foreign manufacture, and had never
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been opened in this country, and if Mr. Green would, without
running through the pack first, tell the cards by their backs, he
would be satisfied. Green took the cards, and at once proceeded
to read by the marks on the backs, the faces of the cards. The producer of the pack, after some thirty cards had been told, declared
he was perfectly satisfied that Mr. Green understood his business.
Considerable fluttering now-a-days among the stool-pigeonsGreen shoots close, and has within a few weeks bagged a sportsman,
who will publicly give his experience in a few days.
Ashton, after this plain exposition published the following card.
E. V. Ashton & Co., Washington street, have English playing.
cards, which are not marked, and the faces of which no one can
tell by looking at their backs. This has been tested thoroughly,
they are a beautiful article.
23. EDITORIAL.
From the New York Organ, Jan. 27, 1845.
THE ANTI-GAMBLING ENTERPRISE.-Mr. J. H. Green, the Re
formed Gambler, addressed the large meeting at the Broadway Tabernacle on Monday evening last, being for the benefit of the
Boston Quartette Club; on which occasion he exhibited some of
the tricks and villany practised by the gambler. In the course of
his remarks, he stated that there were persons connected with our
police, who for a dollar would guide strangers to the different gambling establishments which infest this city.
On Tuesday evening Mr. Green had a meeting at Clinton Hall,
where he made farther developments as to the mode pursued by
the light-fingered gentry to swindle unsuspecting men out of their
money.   ie stated that places in this city kept persons employed
to " rope illn" strangers. If they manifest no desire to play, they
are invited to supper-wine and segars are in abundance. Thus
they are drawn into the game of faro, and seldom go away without getting filched. In New Orleans, last year, forty gamblers
were sent to the penitentiary for playing faro. A change of the
law in relation to gambling is loudly called for-as at present they
only serve as a license.
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Mr. Welsh also made some forcible remarks, urging the people
to enlist in this movement. Ile stated that he knew gentlemen in
Wall street who lived ill great style and made large pretensions to
respectability; who were in the habit of robbing by playing with
marked cards.
We see by the New England Washingtonian that a Ladies'
Anti-Gambling and Total Abstinence Society has been organized
in Boston.  This it is thought will prove a valuable auxiliary to
the cause, by affording assistance to those families who have suffered from the prevalence of these vices.
Mr. Green proposes to spend some time in the city, and any letters-addressed to him at the Croton Ilotel will be attended to. His
expositions will do more to prevent gambling than any means
heretofore used.
24. EDITORIAL.
From the New York Tribune.
MR. GREEN, THE REFORMED GAMBLER.- We had the pleasure
yesterday of visiting Mr. Green, who is well known by the title
of the "Reformed Gambler," and of witnessing "some tricks at
cards," not displayed on account of the dexterity required to play
them, but to show the most extraordinary power professed gamblers have over those unfortunate men who are led into this
wretched vice. What was still more remarkable, Mr. Green
showed to those present, including Hon. Aaron Clark, Alderman
Hoxie, Mr. Purvyance, from Baltimore, and other gentlemen, that
playing cards are undoubtedly marked, not only in suit, but in size.
He exhibited seven distinct packs of cards, on each of which he
could tell any card, including a pack not printed on the back; not
only could tell them, but showed the persons present how to effect this themselves.
In the city of New York, at this very hour, there are some forty
faro and roulette establishments-regularly visited by professed
gamblers, of whom there are at least twenty-five hundred here, and
by their dupes, men of the best families, and who might have been
of the best characters, if public attention had been drawn to the
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extent of this vice, and the means of its reform. Mr. Green
proved satisfactorily that faro is, of all games, that in which the
gambler has the greatest advantage over his deluded victim; he
also showed conclusively that the roulette table is a mere mechanical contrivance, by which the owner can win anybody's money
who will play with him.
These facts, we believe, will be new to many. All know some
something about gambling; they have heard the word; they have
heard about the insanity of play, and how many noble spirits have
been made mere wrecks on their voyage over the sea of life, by entering into this pernicious practice. This is what they have not
heard, that all cards which gamblers use are marked, that by
many tricks which require years of study and practice to effect,
the victim is completely, utterly beyond all hope, under the thumb
of the gambler, to be cheated, to be defrauded as regularly as the
movements of the hand in the game. Let all those who have sons
just entering into life, at the age when they begin to take care of
themselves, let them examine into this matter for themselves.
We were perfectly astonished ourselves, those gentlemen who
were present were confounded, several of them men of great experience and judgment, when they saw the complete power of the
gambler over his victim.  It was something as unexpected as it
was deeply, sadly, to be deplored.
Knowing then, this fact, knowing the temptations which exist,
how gambling-houses are connected with dram-shops, and how
one vice leads directly to the other, knowing, in fact, that gambling is, of all vices, at once the most tempting and the most dangerous, the question arises, how shall it be put down? Mr.
Green has answered this question With a moral courage which
reflects every honor on his heart, and a perseverence that must
command the respect of all, he has come forward to expose the
whole art of gambling, to narrate his own experience, and to ask
a moral and enlightened community to sustain him in this philanthropic effort. In Cincinnati, in Boston, and wherever he has
been he has secured the sympathy of the best portion of the community, and has been the means of rescuing thousands from the
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dread fascinations of this modern Circe.  Mr. Green is lecturing on
this subject amongst us.  We trust he will receive, as he mnerits,
the countenance of the community. His aim is excellent, and hs
should be generously encouraged.
25. EDITORIAL.
From the New York Broadway Journal, March 1, 1845.
GAMBLING BY EDGAR A. POE.-Of the evils of gambling it is
needless to say a word. All the world is agreed that it is one of
the most disastrous of vices, surpassed, perhaps, in the deplorable
character of its results, by  drunkenness alone.   The  crusade
waged against the latter, found its most effective weapon, not in
dissertation on the iniquity, but in exposition of the physical ill.
llen who listened to sermons on intemperance, as to matters that
mnight or might not be worth thinking about at some future indefinite day, were startled at once into good resolves by a simple inspection of the coats of a drunkard's stomach.   The books and
lectures of Mir. J. H. Green, the reformed gambler, are, upon the
upon the same principle, the most effective remedies for the vice
he is endeavoring to overthrow. It is all very well to say ill our
pulpits, "' do not gamble, for it is a heinous sin -' but it is far better to demonstrate to the public satisfaction that the man who gambles, without being himself a sharper, is at the absolute mercy of
those who are. Let it be once clearly shown that there is really
no chance in the matter, and that all is an absolute certainty in
favor of the swindler by profession, and we put an end to gambling in general by removing the inducement to gamble.
Now, MIr. Green proves all this in a manner which must satisfy
the most incredulous. In his books he gives a full exposition of
the various rogueries practiced by the gambling fraternity; and
the man who reads these books and gambles in any shape again,
is little better than an idiot.  But more than this: Mr. Green will
have no objection to convince any one who may feel interested
to convince him by ocular demonstration of the absolute mastery
held by the gambler over his victim. He will show that he (Mr.
Green) can tell any card by the ordinary marks on its back; that
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it is in his power, in dealing, to give himself a hand to suit his own
purposes; in short, that in all games at cards, what his opponent
shall win or lose is entirely at the option of himself (Mr. Green.)
He will show, also, the deceptive mechanism of the faro-boxes
and roulette-tables, and explain in the clearest and most irrefutable manner, that the usual system of lottery drawing is only a
more comp)rehlensive method of picking the public pocket.
Now, we maintain that the press has the victory over this vice
within its own  hands.  If Mr. Greenfails, the press only is responsible. Hle has done his part with a courage, with an unflinching resolution, to be estimated by those alone  who have opportunities of knowing  the desperate animosity of the class whose
profession is thus to be overthrown. If the press now come to
his aid-if it give publicity to his efforts, gambling will be more
thoroughly suppressed than ever has been intemperance through
the exertions of its opponents.  It may be said Mr. Green's object
is merely to make money. And what then? We have nothing
to do with his private object; nor will the public object be one
iota the less attained because, in attaining it, the public puts
money in the pocket of Mr. Green. He has been at much trouble,
and encountered great danger, in effecting a purpose which cannot
fail of being highly advantageous to mankind. He has labored,
and is worthy of his hire.   This, altogether independently of
his immediate motives, which, nevertheless, we believe to be commnendable. He seems actuated by a sincere desire to render the
public a service, and by a very profound, and certainly a very
natural disgust to the fraternity he has abandoned. We call, therefore, upon our brethren of thle press to aid _ir. Green in his efforts.
His books are "Gambling Unmasked,"  "The Arts and Miseries
of Gambling," and " The Gambler's Mirror"-the latter a serial
work, of which only the first number is as yet issued. They are
to be obtained of all booksellers.
Independently of their value, as affording not only very full,
but the sole existing expositions of all the arts of the blackleg,
these publications have the merit of presenting numerous vivid
pictures of the wretchedness wrought by the vice in question.
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These pictures are clearly from nature-from life. They bear
with them distinct internal evidence of their truth.  The volumes
have often, too, a less painful interest, and are- sometimes exceedingly amusing.
But there is a gambling principle which lies deeper than the
plummet of Mr. Green's experience has sounded, and which requires exposure by some stronger hand. There are other gamblers than those who shuffle cards and rattle dice. Nine tenths of
our leading politicians are gamblers, who make a business of calculating the chances of success in nominating men for office, and
then bet and speculate accordingly-not always for the love of
money, the love of power or of office, but from the love of excitement: never, however, from the love of good principles. A
very great part of our politicians gamble in more ways than
politics. Wall street operators are nearly all gamblers. The
subject is too notorious to require more than a hint; but if any
one would like to see the gambling principle in full play, he may
find as perfect a development of it among the outside brokers of
Wall street, who cluster about the doors of the Exchange just
after the adjournment of the "board," as can be witnessed at any
of the hells  in London  or  Paris.   Merchants  are generally
strongly  imbued  with   gambling   propensities;  there  are
but few mercantile adventures which are not undertaken in a
gambling spirit. One of the chief causes which influenced the
legislature in abolishing lotteries, was the frequent development
of frauds committed by fiduciary gents to cover their losses in
lottery gambling. But such frauds were not diminished in the
slightest degree by the abolition of lotteries. Gambling was
never carried to such an extent as in 1836, when the whole nation,
from the priest in the pulpit to the President in Washington gambled in land.  There are many innocent people in New  York,
who read with great horror accounts of gambling in Paris, New
Orleans, and London, and are quite familiar with Crockford's and
other houses in St. James's, who never dream that they daily
walk in the shadow of hells quite as brilliant and quite as black
as any in those cities. Young gentlemen are enticed to such
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places at first by a gratuitous supper, when all the elegancies of the
table are spread in lavish profusion, and afterwards they are drawn
into the alluring maelstrom by hope of gain and a love of excitement, or some other similar motive.
Excitement of some kind all men (excepting only a few human
sloths) require, and they will seek it as they will food-without
any thought of consequences.   The  chief aim of the reform
must be, to give this love of excitement a proper direction. Mr.
Green is, himself, doubtless, as favorable an illustration of our
principle as could be afforded. If his motive could be strictly
analysed, we have not a doubt that it would be found that his former gambling, and his present exposures of the acts of the gambler, result from one cause. It is for this reason that the greatest
sinners always make the greatest saints, as St. Paul and others.
26. EDITORIAL.
From the Albany Evening Journal.
Mr. J. H. Green, the reformed gambler, has been spending a
few days in this city and vicinity, and by his lectures and illustrations has been exposing the arts and frauds of the gambling
fraternity. For twelve years he vwas an accomplice and a victim
with them; and it would be very strange if, in that time, he had
not become familiar with their frauds. For a few years past he
has proved himself to be a reformed man, and has been engaged
to prevent, or rescue others, from the vortex of crime into which
he had been drawn. Although he has been apparently singlehanded in undertaking this work, he has not labored in vain.
Some who were well nigh ruined, have been reformed, and nearly
30,000 have been induced by him to sign the Anti-Gambling
Pledge. The writer of this, with a few friends, by special invitation, were permitted, more privately than in the public lectureroom, to witness Mr. Green as he exhibited some of the common
frauds practiced by the adept gambler.
I cannot, of course, describe the manner of these frauds: but
on my mind, and, I doubt not, on the minds of all that were present, they produced the conviction that the bird in the fowler's
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hand is not more surely a victim than is he who ventures to contend with the practiced gambler. I am not one of that number
who believe that every change is necessarily a reformation. But
I am convinced that the extent and evil of gambling, in its various forms in the land, demand an extensive and thorough reformation. It may be truly said that the danger from this vice is
eminently in the apparent simplicity and innocence of the surface,
but deep, complicated wickedness of the interior. A man with
little experience may gamble, but it requires long practice and experience to become an adept. Like all the roads that lead to ruin,
it is progressive. It is the honest man, in the social circle, that
begins; but it is the rogue, surrounded by all the arts and ma.
chinery of his den, that concludes. Many may think that this
practice can effect but little the character and prosperity of this
country; that it is confined alike in practice and result to the
secret gaming-room, or the popular card party. But the laws of
mind and the power of habit will have changed, if, to the same
extent in which gambling is there practiced, it does not affect the
political, social, pecuniary, and religious interests of the land. The
politician that gambles, receives by it the virus that affects his
whole political constitution. It will not only incline him to bet
on elections, but to determine the policy of his country by the
throw of the dice, or the turn of a card; his principles, if he have
any, are the success of a party game. The business man who
gambles, by the spirit that induces him to stake his money at the
card-table, will be led, in hope of success, to hazard all he has in
doubtful speculations in trade; and the same influence that dis posed him to intrigue in gambling, will incline him to repudiate, to
false pretence, to defalcation and to perjury.
Gambling must make men skeptics. The very basis of it is
fraud or chance; and he who adopts either of these in heart or
theory, must be disposed to skepticism.
Some have feared, from mistaken notions, we think, lest the
exposure of the vice to community, should lead more to the prac tice of it than it would reform. To this we need only answer,
hat if the objection is good, the Bible, that so plainly exposes all
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manner of sin, and to which we are indebted for our morality, be.
comes a book of questionable benefit to community. If this objection has force, we have no hope of reformation fromnt evil until
wickedness reforms itself, and virtue yields herself to dreams.
27. EDITORIAL.
From the New York Baptist Register, Utica, 1845.
THE  REFORMED GAMBLER.-Mr.  J. H. Green, the reformed
gambler, has been lecturing in Utica for several evenings, and all
that the papers at the east have said of him has been fully sustained. He is manifestly sincere-a manl truly reformed, and, we
trust, by the grace of God; and as twelve years of his life have
been devoted to the dreadful vice of gambling, he is resolved now
to make all the reparation he can for the mischief he has done to
society, by showing its enormities and warning those not confirmed in the villany to abandon it, and as far as possible to guard
the rising generation against its influence, and preserve them
from the ruin of morals, of character, and property, its practice
entails.
Mr. Green is a young man of superior native abilities, and
though without early advantages, gives his thoughts with  clearness and force, and to the full satisfaction of his audience. Having been for the long period of twelve years just mentioned, engaged in gambling, and six of it also in the manufacture of cards,
and possessing a keen discriminating mind, his proficiency in the
science of villany has been equalled by very few. Though he
says there are those altogether his superiors, the dexterity and
skill he exhibits, leads one to exclaim-what, indeed, must be the
extent of depredations committed by men of keener practice than
himself! He evinces the utmost frankness and candor in the confession of  his wickedness  in  the  practice of deception and
cheating, in every way that his artifice could lead him; and he
makes not the shadow of an effort to palliate or excuse his conduct. He avows himself to have been as bad a man as could bea cheat and a thief, as hard-hearted as a stone, and utterly destitute of human sympathy; and this, he says, is the character of
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every proiessed sportsman or gambler. Every one is positively
"'a thief and a villian." It is impossible, he says, for a regular
gambler to be an honest man.
28. EDITORIAL.
From the Rochester Daily Advertiser, May 15, 1845.
ANTI-GAMBLINO MEETING.-At an adjourned meeting of the
citizens of Rochester, for the purpose of forming an Anti-Gambling Society, held at Monroe Hall, on Wednesday evening, May
12, 1845, the meeting being called to order by the chairman, the
committee appointed to draft a constitution and by-laws, and to
nominate persons to fill the several offices for the ensuing year,
reported a constitution and by-laws, which were taken up separately and adopted.
The committee also reported the following names as candidates
to fill the different offices for the ensuing year, who were unanimously elected:
F.REDERICK WHIITTLESEY, President.
ARISTARCHUS CHAMPION, Vice-President.
THOMAS KEMPSALL,                  CC
HlIRAM BUMPHERY,
E. DARWIN  SMITH, 
WM.  C. BLOSS, 
EPHRIAM  B. WrHEELER, 
DAVID PR. BARtTON, 
ADDISON MOORE, Recording Secretary.
ISAAC F. MACK, Corresponding Sec.
JOHN H. BABCOCK, Treasurer.
NEHEMAH OSBORN, Directors.
CHARLES A. JONES,    "
SETH C. JONES,
HitRAM BANKER,
SANFORD J. SMITH, 
PARDON D. WRtIGHT,"
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On motion of the Rev. Mr. Brooks, the following preamble and
resolution were unanimously adopted:
Whereas, Mr. J. H. Green is devoting his time for the purpose
of diffusing knowledge which we deem of importance to the public, in which meritorious efforts we think it our duty as well as
our privilege to sustain him; therefore,
Resolved-That Mr. Green be requested to demonstrate the evil
effects of gambling, and the deceptive practices of the card-table,
by such illustrations as he may deem advisable in a lecture, on
Monday evening next, at the court-house; and that the citizens
have an opportunity, by the purchase of tickets to the lecture, or
otherwise, to aid Mr. Green in his laudable efforts to suppress
this most detestable vice.
On motion
Resolved-That a committee of six be appointed to make the
necessary arrangements for the lecture.
The chairman named J. Hawks, L. B. Swan, A. Moore, D. M.
Dewey, E. K. Blythe, and Wm. S. Falls as such committee.
Resolved-That the proceedings of this meeting be published in
all the daily papers of this city. 
On motion, adjourned.
E. B. WHEELER, Pres. pro tern.
A. MOORE, Sec.
29. EDITORIAL.
Rochester Daily Democrat, May 14, 1845.
GREEN, THE  REFORMED  GAMBLER-HIs  EXPOSITION  OF  THE
TRICKS OF TiE TRADE, ETc.-The world has, for centuries, been
deprecating the evils of gambling. The pulpit and the press have
fulminated their anathemas against the vice. The law has raised
its iron arm to crush it; and individuals have labored, singlehanded, to check its progress. But all their labors, separately and
combined, have failed to annihilate it, or check its progress. It
has gone on increasing, accumulating power to work ruin as the
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chance, and as new means of rapid locomotion have enabled the
desperate men engaged in the vice to spread themselves over the
face of society. Almost every other vice has had the combined
efforts of good men directed against it. Infidelity, skepticism, debauchery, heathenism, intemperance, &c., &c., have each been
assailed by the concentrated hosts of philanthropy. But gambling has only been assailed in general, as one of a multitude of
sins, beyond the pale of efficient concentrated effort. This has
not been because the vice is venial. Its effects have been, in
every community, made palpable as light.  The father, the son,
and the brother have been ruined. Fortunes have been lost, and
character destroyed.   Dissipation, robbery, suicide and murder
have followed like stalking fiends in the train of the gambler, and
all this the world has seen and acknowledged. If, occasionally, commumnities have been startled by the development amongst them of
somre harrowing tragedies connected with the vice, and a few
whose sympathies were excited by the event, have declaimed,
wi;th unusual vehemence, against the system,  the mass  have
looked on, deploringly perhaps, but with no permanent resolution
to act, and the few have sunk back into their usual listlessnesstbeir consciences satisfied with their feeble and ineffectual demonstrations. There have been many such moral flurries in our city
-spasmodic throes amongst good men, which only tended to excite the ridicule of the gambler, without accomplishing a particle
of good. This has resulted from no lack of good intentions, nor
because there were not men enough amongst us willing to do all
in their power; but because they did not know how to carry out
their good intention. It was, and is, now with men desirous of
staying the vice of gambling, as it was a quarter of a century
ago with those who mourned over the vice of intemperancethey do not know how to go to work. It is singular, perhaps, with
the example of the efficiency of temperance organizations before
them, that the idea had not been, at once, generally adopted, that
gambling, being a kindred vice with intemperance, could best be
reached by kindred means. But it has not, and probably now
many will scout at the idea. But, in our humble opinion, this is
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one of the processes by which this vice is to be reached and cured.
There must be a combined effort against it. It must be aimed at
as a distinct vice. Hostility to it must be made the exclusive ohb.
ject of a separate and distinct organization. It must be individu.
alized. This is in accordance with the spirit of the age. It is
the process by which the great moral war must be prosecuted, and
the triumphs of morals achieved.  System-system-direct effort
-concentration against a distinct vice-this is the great discovery
of our day. It is the moral steam-engine of the age. It is the
system by which the present outstrips the past. Generalization
was the moral corduroy turnpike of other days-the four-milesan-hour process.  Concentration is the moral railroad of the present-the twenty-miles-an-hour mode of journeying.  The rnew
mode has been applied to almost every vice save gambling.  It
must be applied to this if we would secure its ultimate extermnnation.
But it was not our intention, when we  commences  this atic.e,
to do more than say that Mr. Green bids fair to accomplish against
gambling what the Baltimore reformers (immortal honor to thrim!)
accomplished against rum. No man, who believes in an overruling Supreme, can hear his thrilling recitals without being impressed with the opinion, that Providence has  had  something to
do with the direction of his mind, if, indeed, he is not to become
the apostle of reform in this department of vice.   His movements
chime in with the spirit of the age. It is a part of it. It is to
be seen to what extent our citizens will aid in making a practical
application of the startling developments which he has spread
before them.
Mr. Green has already given several lectures inthiscity. They
have been listened to by thousands. He will still continue
amongst us; and we hope, before he Jeaves, that every man,
woman, and child in the city will have heard him-not because
he possesses any of the attractions of the brilliant orator, for he
does not.  His attraction consists in the importance of his subject,
and in the simple truthfulness with which he relates startling
facts.
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During the forenoon of yesterday, we had the pleasure, in com pany with the Mayor and other citizens, to witness some of the
exhibitions which Mr. G. makes of the villany practiced with
cards by expert gamblers. We cannot now give a minute descrip tion of the developments, and must content ourselves by merely
saying, that he showed how cheating is introduced in the game of
faro, not only by the adjustment of the cards, but by the ingenious machinery introduced into the box used in the game to distribute the cards. Also, how cards were marked, and marked so
distinctly as to enable the gambler to read their backs as readily
as the novice could their faces. And also, a great many modes
by which the gambler cheats at card playing, by shuffling, dealing, cutting, &c., &c. It seems impossible that any man with his
senses could be so deluded, after witnessing such an exhibition, as
to trust himself at a game of cards for money.
But we must drop this subject for the present, and hope that all
our citizens may hear Mr. Green, and that, before he leaves
something effectual may be started with the view to the extermination of the vice of gambling from our city.
30. EDITORIAL.
From tlie Rochester American.
Last evening a large audience assembled at Minerva Hall to hear
the lecture of Mr. J. H. Green, and to witness the presentation to
that gentlemen of the present of plate from the Temperance Societies.
The exercises commenced by the singing of several temperance
songs by Messrs. Currier and Burbeck, formerly members of the
Boston Quartette Club, in a style which elicited the warmest applause. Mr. Green proceeded to lecture upon the wicked mysteries of gambling, and exhibited some of the tricks of blacklegs, by
which they make an easy prey of their victims. He vindicated
himself from the objection sometimes made, that youth were influenced by his revelations to enter upon a career of vice, and explained the manner in which a knowledge of the dangers of game
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bling must operate to deter novices from a pursuit of the fatal
practice.
At the conclusion of Mr. Green's lecture the presentation took
place. The goblet bore the following appropriate inscription:
"Presented to J. H. GREEN, the Reformed Gambler, by the
Washingtonians of the City of Rochester, May 29th, 1845."
The elegant silver spoons, twelve in number, presented with the
goblet, bore the following inscription:
" To J. H. Green, by the Lady Washington Society of Rochester, N. Y."
The presentation address was made by William C. Bloss, Esq.,
as follows:
Citizens of Rochester, You are called upon to witness and cheer
the efforts of a reformer. A new era has arisen in our city, in
our country, in the world. As in the world of nature, so in the
moral and intellectual world, a great change has great opposition
to encounter. Whoever undertakes a reform, whoever makes
war on established vices, will soon find that he has disturbed the
quiet of society and excited its opposition. Men love to rest in
their established courses. He, therefore, who starts a new reform
has the whole world to act aggressively upon him. It is no
slight thing to start a new reform. The reformer must have a
lion heart, and an abiding trust in Providence to maintain his ardous position. And not only has our friend maintained his, for
three years has he resisted alike the seductions of vice, once so
powerful over him, and the oppositions and persecutions of the
abandoned and depraved. Who are they who object to his labors.
Are they the mothers, the fathers, the daughters of our land.
No! These acknowledge that gambling is the great vice of the
age-that it is wholly evil, and that continually, and earnestly
bless his efforts to save their sons from its dire perdition.
In those scenes through which our friend has passed, of friend
lessness and destitution, with no restraining or guiding hand to save,
how fascinating beyond the power of resistance, to a youth left at
a most tender age must be the seductions of this vice. In his
wanderings up and down the Mississippi, surrounded with evil
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men and deadly influences, how could he be saved.   What influ.
ence had potency to work his eventual reformation? For that
saving power you must look to his MOTHER.  She it was wLo in
his early youth consecrated him with the Col/d Y.faler Sa-tl.'sm.
He stands before you a monument of the salvation of that ball tism.  God took care of him through every trouble!  Tle in cov ered over with the scars of tiat warfare thiough which Fe nit
passed.  But now he stands before voi fi'ee and disenthralled!
He went through the South a.ion.g gamesters, and made by the
evi] courses he has akaindined thousands upon thousands.  And
yet therre now exists the meanness which can say that he is labor irg in the cause of reform for morety! Base aind untrue aspersion
I rejoice to see him before yout this night-you who have sustained and cheered him.  I rejoice to see this large assemblage
here.  You have an opportunity to see it demonstra.ed that no
honest man can be a gambler and succeed. Therefore the whole
science is infamous.  No man can play and win un.less he is a
knave and a thief.
Does not all that is lovely and true and of good report, rise up
and cheer on this man in his good work?
Rochester has no treasures to bestow, but.-;e will present to our
excellent friend, as a slight testimonial of esteem for him, and of
regard for his cause, a goblet of beaten silver, together with those
elegant other implements, both designed for beverages which cheer
and comfort, but do not deprive of reason. I arm honored by the
Washingtonian Societies to present them to him, which I now do
with pleasure and with pride.  And should any of you vis;t hi.s
residence he will be happy to give you from this cup a draught of
that cold water to which, in obedience to the dying precept of hii
mother, he ever adhered through the manifold temptations which
beset his early way.  Once more we  beg the accep)tance of our
gift.
Mr. Green replied as follows:
"Sir-I can say but a few words, and I heg they mai be understood by this assembly.  Language I have not, to thank t, C
Lady Washington and the Washingtonian Societies for this ele
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gaor  anid gratifying gift-the first public present I have ever recei,ved. I will give them my solemn promise, that with my cons.nt no intoxicating drink shall ever pollute this beautiful cup
And now being about to leave your beautiful and friendly city, I
take occasion to tender my heartfelt thanks for the kindness with
which I have been greeted.  I offer my grateful acknowledgments
to the Methodist and other churches for their politeness extended
to me, and to the press of thie city for the favorable notice I have
received.  I thank you again, citizens of Rochester.  I gratefully
appreciate this your beautiful gift, a-.d will strive never  to dishonor it, or the kindness which has conferred it upon me as a
reformed man.  It has been stated that I hleave been paid.  Such is
not the case.  I have had none to furnish me  money.  But God
has sustained me, and I have the satisfaction everywhere to believe
that I do some good.  The Washingtonians took me as a brand
from the burning.  That Society in Cincinnati first took me  by
the hand and cheered me on. Since then I have traveled far and
labored much.  But all my trials have been nothing to those of my
gambling life. And in conclusion, I would say that if I have, in
any remarks of mine, injured the feelings of any person, I humbly ask forgiveness. My prayers, whether I am present or ab.
sent, shall always be with you.
31. EDITORIAL.
DEPARTURE.
Mr. Green: the Reformed Gartibler, after having lectured in our city
nineteen times, will leave to-morrow for Batavia, where he will be on
Sunday. He will then go to Ithica, which place he expects to visit on Tuesday, after which he goes to Buffalo. Mr. Green, in his
labors here, has made mna.ny friends, and by his exposures of the
mysteries and frauds of the gambling profession has unquestiona.
bly done much good. His manner of lecturing is ingenuous and
unaffected. We com-nmend him to those whom he may visit elsewhere.
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32. EDITORIAL.
The Bttffalo National Pilot.
ANTI-GAMBLING SOCIETY.-A meeting was held, pursuant to a
call, at the Pollard Rooms, on Saturday evening, the 14th inst., to
take into consideration the subject of the formation of an antigambling society. The meeting was called to order by Mr. J. H.
Green, the Reformed Gambler, who has been lecturing in the city
during the past week, who stated its objects. W. S. George was
appointed chairman, and T. S. Hawks, Secretary. The chairman
having made some appropriate remarks, Mr. Green was called upon
and addressed the meeting at length upon the subject for which it
had assembled to consider, and in conclusion read the following
pledge:
"We, whose names are hereunto annexed, desirous of forming a
society which is alike beneficial to ourselves, our families, and to the
community at large, pledge ourselves, as ladies and gentlemen, to
abstain from every species of gambling on banking games, or
games of chance, for any purpose of gain or profit, or amusement
whatever."
The pledge being offered, and a call made by Mr. Green for
signers, and for remarks from those who saw proper, a young man
came forward, put down his name, and gave a heart-rending experience which occurred in Blffalo-admonished the youth to take
warning from the lips of men who had passed the dread ordeal.
He stated as the result to which his gambling practices had led him
that he had been sentenced to five years imprisonment inr the Auburn state prison, from which he had been liberated by a pardon.
The relation of the experience of this young man brought tearl to
the eyes of many.
One hundred and fourteen came forward and signed the pledge,
and a committee was chosen to nominate officers for the society.
The meeting then adjourned to the 18th inst. at the same place.
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33. EDITORIAL.
From the Daily National Pilot, June 18, 1845.
BUFFALO ANTI-GAMBLING SOCIETY.-J. W. George called the
meeting to order, and took the chair; and as an introductory exercise, Mr. Green read the " Pledge."
Mr. George, from the committee appointed at last meeting, reported as follows, which were accepted and adopted by the meeting.
CONSTITUTION.
Art. 1. This Association shall be known as the Buffalo AntiGambling Society.
Art. 2. No person shall be admitted to membership in this Society, unless he sign the following "pledge."
Art 3. The officers of this Society shall consist of a President,
five Vice-Presidents, a Recording and Corresponding Secretary, a
Treasurer, and four Directors, who shall take their respective
offices for one year, and until others be elected.
PLEDGE.
We, whose names are hereunto annexed, desirous of forming a
society which shall be beneficial to ourselves, to our families, and
the community at large, do pledge ourselves, as ladies and gentlemen, to abstain from every species of gambling on banking
games, or games of chance, for any purpose of gain, profit or
amusement whatever.
BY-LAWS.
Sec. 1. It shall be the duty of the President to preside over the
meetings of the Society, and to enforce a due observance of the
Constitution and By-Laws of the Society. In case of his absence
or inability, either of the Vice-Presidents shall preside, and be
President pro tern.
Sec. 2. The Vice-Presidents shall assist the President in the
discharge of his duties.
Sec. 3. The Recording Secretary shall keep a fair account of
the proceedings of the meetings.
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Sec. 4. The Corresponding Secretary shall assist the Recording
Secretary, and attend to the correspondence of the Society.
Sec. 5. The Treasurer shall keep all moneys paid into the Society, and collect all dues, and keep the same for the use of the
Society, rendering to the Society a just and true account of his
doings.
Sec. 6. The Board of Directors shall meet as often as once a
month, and shall have a general power over the acts of the Society, and report their doings once a month for approval.
Sec. 7. The Society shall have the power to fill all vacancies,
and amend this Constitution, by giving one week's notice, and a
vote of two-thirds of all the members present, and to add to all
such By-Laws under this Constitution as shall be deemed advisable.
Sec. 8. This Society shall meet as often as semi-monthly, and
at such other times as the President shall direct; but the Society
may change or alter the time of meeting at pleasure.
After the above were adopted, the same committee reported the
following list of officers for the ensuing year, who were unanimously elected:
DR. CHAS. W. HARvEY, President.
J. W. GEORGE, Vice-President.
DR.  C. C. BRISTOL,         "
11. H. MATTESON,            "
E. J. BOND,
AARON BEAN.
G.  F.  NEEDHAM, Recording Sec.
Wm. B. WILLIAMS, Corresponding Sec.
JAMES BENNETT, Treasurer.
REV. MR.  HOSMER,  Director.
REV. MR.  SEAVER, 
R.  G. TOWNSEND, 
GEORGE BURCHARD,             C
A. H.  GARDINER, 
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After some happy remarks from Messrs. Hashtings and Green,
and the pledge had been circulated, the Society adjourned.
G. F. NrEDHAM, Rec. Sec.
34. EDITORIAL.
From the Daily Buffalo National Pilot, June, 1845.
MR. GREEN's  BENEFIT.-On  Monday  evening a meeting of
citizens was held at the Methodist Episcopal Church, as a complimentary benefit to Mr. J. H. Green, the Reformed Gambler, who
has been lecturing in this city for some time past. C. C. Bristol
was called to the chair. and T. S. Hawks appointed secretary.
The meeting was not large, but was highly respectable.
Mr. Green related his experience since his reformation, going
into an interesting detail of facts and  circumstance,  connected
therewith. After he had concluded, the Rev. Levi Tucker, D.D.,
Pastor of the Washington Street Baptist Church, on behalf of the
citizens, presented a gold lever watch, accompanied by an appropriate and feeling speech, in which he remarked "The citizens of Buffalo are ever ready to appreciate worth where
ever found. They have heard of you, sir, and of the noble
stand you have taken against one of the most fearful, extensive
and ruinous vices that ever cursed the earth, or poured out its
oceans of woe upon human kind.  Gambling, woven up as it is
with kindred vices, has clothed our land in sackcloth and mourning-filled the dark store-house of mortality with our brothers and
,ons, and brought down the grey hairs of our fathers with sorrow,
and our mothers with broken hearts, to the grave, over their
ruined sons. It has disgorged the most accursed leprosy upon the
world that ever afflicted the family of man, and connected with
every species of fraud and villany, it threatens the peace and
security of our country, and endangers all our institutions.  You
have battled this terrible monster single-handed and alone, and
hitherto you have gone to this warfare at your own charges. You
have periled your life, sir, in this noble cause-a cause none but
one like yourself can appreciate, for you have felt the weight of
a gambler's curse upon your head, and the indignation of insulted
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heaven upon your soul. But God's hand has raised you up out
of that horrible pit, and snatched you from that chamber of death
where your feet had well-nigh slipped, and from which so few
return to the paths of life, for some noble purpose. You have
come to this city, we believe, on an errand of mercy and good will.
Our citizens have received you-they have given you crowded
houses-they have listened with deep emotions to your thrilling
narratives-they have felt you were doing good, andl throwing a
strong and powerful restraint around their young men-they have
desired to present you a public testimonial of the deep interest
they feel in your unrequited labors-they have procured for you
this watch, this beautiful watch, which, on their behalf, they have
desired me to present you. It is an impressive emblem of human
life, as it measures time in its flight, and moments as they passit admonishes you that what your hand finds to do, you should do
with all your might. Take it, sir, and wear it near the heart as a
memento of your friends in Buffalo. Many a prayer will ascend
for your safety by sea and by land, that you may be saved from the
dagger of hate and the knife of the threatening assassin, and that
your head may always be covered in the hour of danger-that, as
you expose the mysteries of iniquity, and warn the young and
unwary of the danger that awaits them in those halls from which
you have fled forever, and counsel them, from your own fatal experience, to avoid the gambler as they would the pestilence that
wasteth at midnight, that you may have the co-operation of the
benevolent and good wherever you journey.   The  prayers of
many will ascend to heaven, that God may prosper your way, and
make you eminently useful in exposing the crimes, and frauds, and
dangers of gambling, and in warning men against them. And,
finally, as a reformed man, and a reformer ot others, your age may
be clear as the moon, and as a morning without clouds-that you
may be blest with an approving conscience and the smiles of an
indulgent heaven-that you may close a useful life in peace; and
then, amid the beaming of immortality, ascend to the divine assembly of the first-born above."
We are unable to give a full report of this speech. Mr. Green
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briefly replied, saying that he had not words to convey his grati.
tude for the kindly manner in which he had been received in
Buffalo. He had been told by Wyatt, the murderer, in the Auburn
prison, that he would be in danger of the assassin's dagger; but
instead he had been cordially met, and had this evening received a
substantial testimonial in the shape of a splendid watch just pI)re sented him. He returned his thanks for the different churches
which have been opened to his lectures, and to the press who had
seconded his efforts in the cause of virtue and good morals.
The Rev. Mr. Judson offered the following resolutions, which
were unanimously adopted:
Resolved-That we have listened with the most thrilling interest
to the astounding developments of depravity given us by Mr.
Green, in his exhibition of the perfection to which the art of gambling is carried, and the extent to which it prevails in the country.
Resolved-That we cordially approve of the course he is pursuing in publicly exposing the arts and deceptions that are practiced, and tender him our prayers, our influence, and our co-operation in furthering his important work.
Resolved-That we recommend Mr. Green to the friends of
morality and reform throughout the land, and hope he may be
sustained and encouraged to extend his labors until he shall have
visited every city. and as many of the important towns as be consistent, believing that the result will be the prevention of many
from entering this vortex of ruin, and the redemption of multitudes who are already on its fearful eddies.
The meeting closed with a benediction from the Rev. Mr.
Leaver.
35. EDITORIAL.
Cleveland Plain Dealer, July, 1845.
GREEN, THE REFORMED GAMBLERP.-This gentleman is in town,
and proposes giving a course of public lectures. Mr. G. has been
for twelve years a gambler and card maker; has studied and prac-,
ticed the secrets of the iniquitous profession. By the politeness
of Mr. Green, we were invited, with others, to attend a private
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meeting at his room, in order to explain to us what could not so
well be exhibited in a public lecture-" the mysteries of iniquity,"
or the secrets of the gambling-table. The disclosures were astonishing. We did not before know that the highest order of talent,
and the most consummate skill in mechanicism, were made subservient to the arts of the professional plunderer.
He exhibited a faro bank, and showed the secret springs, which,
in the hands of the banker, could be made serviceable for robbery;
and also, a variety of cards, which, by the manufacturer's mark,
were understood only by the professional gambler, and by which
the noviciate could be taken in.
It appears not to be the game of gamblers to make their money
of each other, but to seek a grade of young men, uninitiated into
the mysteries, and are incredulous as to any superior skill to their
own.
Mr. Green must have stood high in the line of his profession,
judging by his superior arts, as exhibited yesterday.
Mr. J. H. Green delivered his first lecture at the Baptist Church
last evening, to an overflowing house.  Ilis remarks were mostly
preliminary to the lectures which are to follow; but he gave some
incidents of his gambling life, which were harrowing indeed.
36. EDITORIAL.
GrEEN, THE REFORMED GAMBLER.-This gentleman spoke again
last night to a large audience on the square. He was followed by
the Rev. Dr. Aiken, who stated his entire satisfaction with the
course of Mr. Green, and believed he was doing much good for
the cause of morals.
There was a crowd at the Baptist Church last night to hear Mr.
Green, and we are informed that an Anti-Gambling Society was
formed, and two or three hundred names obtained to the pledge.
Mr. Green shows himself a thorough-going reformer.  Success to
him.
Mr. Green has delivered ten lectures in this place, to crowded
houses, yet his subject remains fresh, and his gambling incident8
seem as endless as they are dark and diversified.
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Mr. Green will lecture in the court-house yard, on the Public
Square. The churches have been found too small to hold his
audiences.  We  bespeak for him a cool, moon-shining evening,
and two thousand listeners.
37. EDITORIAL.
NOTICE OF THE LAST ANTI-GAMBLING LECTURE DELIVERED BY
THE REFORMED GAMBLER IN CLEVELAND, OHIO, JULY 31, 1845.
-A large and intelligent audience listened in almost breathless
silence to the heart-rending and blood-chilling narrations of J. H.
Green, the Reformed Gambler. The ball is in motion, and it has
already received a momentum more than human; and we trust it
will move on with accelerated velocity, bearing down all opposition, until the heart-rending scenes consequent upon the atrocious vice of gambling shall be viewed only in the past.
At the close of the meeting John A. Foot, Esq., presented the
following resolutions, which were unanimously passed:
Resolved-That we tender to Mr. Green our sincere thanks for
his efficient labors in this city, in exposing the enormity of the
dreadful evils consequent upon the practice of gambling.
Resolved-That among all the startling revelations of this reformed gambler, none of them have more painfully affected or
more highly excited this community to commence a system for the
suppression of gambling, than the fact which he has made so apparent, that the great and dreadful army of gamblers are almost to
a man recruited from among those who indulge in games of chance
at the fireside and in the social circle; and we earnestly entreat
every Christian, philanthropist, and patriot to discountenance these
practices.
Resolved-That we cordially recommend Mr. Green as a most
efficient laborer in the anti-gambling cause, and bespeak for him
the countenance and support of the good in every community.
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38. EDITORIAL.
From the Detroit Evangelical Observer, Edited by the Rev. Mr.
Dttffield, D.D.
MR. GREEN, THE REFORMED GAMBLER.-Mr. J. H. Green, some
what extensively known as the Reformed Gambler, has recently
visited this city, and lectured some five or six times, in the Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian churches. Mr. Green has given,
we think, abundant proof of his sincerity, and of the reality of his
reformation from this vice. He possesses power and skill to attack it in a way that none else can do it so successfully. We
have had occasion to know that his visit has been attended with
good. His disclosures astonished even the most inveterate card
players who were not professional gamblers. No one can hear
his statements without being satisfied that there is no such  thing
as luck, which so deceives and fascinates the ignorant and unwary,
it is all fraud, fraud, downright robbery, from beginning to end.
The virtuous, philanthropic and religious should unite in their attempts to expose and counteract the evils of this baneful practice.
Some of the incidents related by Mr. Green, of what fell under his
own eye, were of the most thrilling nature. Instances of ruin
under circumstances fraught with horror, could be traced to the
influence which had been exerted in producing a taste for gambling, by playing cards and other games "for amusement in the
family."  We have always felt it to be, not only inconsistent'for
persons making any pretensions to Christianity and morality, but
also disgraceful, and at war with all just claims to true politeness
and gentility of conduct, to introduce cards as a means of amuse.
mentinto the parlor, or to allow them in the house.  So great has
been our abhorrence of this thing that we should never have
thought of repeating a visit to, or suffering our children to fre quent a house where such " amusements" were sanctioned and in troduced. We cared not to be thought and called puritanical;
nor whom we should offend by such conduct; but we have more
than ever been convinced, from Mr. Green's revelations, that every
sober citizen, every person that makes any pretensions to respect
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ability, not to say every moral and virtuous man, should act in re.
lation to the misnamed amusement, the evil of card playing, in the
spirit which Paul has enjoined in reference to other crimes, " let
it not be once named among you as becometh saints."'
39. EDITORIAL.
Cincinnati Commercial, Sept. 11, 1845.
GREEN, THE REFORMED GAMBLER.-This extraordinary man has
arrived in our city from the north, having made the entire circuit
of the east and lakes, creating wherever he has gone a sensation
scarcely equalled by any reformer of modern times. Green has
proved a fact that all should know, and that is, that gambling has
long since been reduced to a system of swindling; that men, instead of playing against chance, as they have innocently supposed,
were contending against utter impossibilities, entirely beyond
chance; that they had no show, and if they played, so sure they
lost. Did people know this, they would never risk money at
gambling-better a good deal open your pocket at once, and let
your swindling opponent help himself. To satisfy our curiosity,
we visited yesterday Mr. Green's room in the Dennison House.
He first introduced the operations of the " faro table," then followed marked cards and tricks of various kinds made use of by
gamblers, not to be believed unless seen.
The Faro Bank with all its beauty was exposed in a way to
satisfy even the most incredulous, that the inventors of such patent
machinery cannot be compared to any other in justice than the
blackest-hearted villians of the present age; the beautiful silver
box is one of the most ingenious pieces of mechanical art we ever
have seen. Its secret springs cannot be described by any other
than one who has been initiated an adept complete in the felon art.
Trhe beautiful ivory checks, and velvet " lay out," also help to
Drnament the faro table; their cards, too, are prepared in a manner to carry out their wily schemes. Green says the game of
faro is one hundred per cent. stronger than stealing! We heartily concur with his views of the game.
Playing cards of all kinds he reads readily, and can tell any
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playing card, whether printed or embossed backs, by looking at
the backs alone! He explained cards of different makers-L. I.
Cohen, George Cook, Abott & Ely, Caleb Bartlett, Thomas, Crehore and other makers, whose names we have forgotten, in a way
to satisfy any honest man that the manufacturers are a party connected to assist the gamblers to ruin all mankind that may fall
within the snares of the blackleg tribe.
We hold community has it in their power to put down the vice
of gambling, which is a hydra-headed monster. Green has done
much good, and is still fighting the dragon. No other reformer
ever has done more. Our citizens should awaken from their
lethargy and sustain such men.
40. EDITORIAL
From the Ohio Temperance Organ.
We here insert an article written by S. F. Carey, Esq., the
great temperance apostle of Ohio.
GREEN, THE REFORMED GAMBLER.-We met this great reformer
in Buffalo, on our way to the eastern cities. He had been lecturing
to crowded houses for some two weeks, and doubtless has done
great good. The citizens presented him with a fine gold watch,
as a token of their regard and as an evidence of their estimation
of the work in which he is engaged. He has spent some fifteen
months in the eastern cities, lifting tip his voice against the monster vice of which he has been for many years the victim. He has
everywhere been cordially received, and has received many evidences of the public favor. I am sorry to say that hlie has not been
well supported in his labors of mercy. " The laborer is worthy of
his hire," is an old and true saying, there is, perhaps, no man living better calculated to expose the arts and miseries of gambling
than Mr. Green. His knowledge of the various games and his
familiarity with cards is almost incredible. We saw him tried
with some twenty different packs of cards; those of every variety
of figure as well as those that were perfectly white on the backand he would tell the denomination of the card with  the same fa
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cility by glancing at the back as most persons would by looking
at the face.  His adroitness at shuffling them, so as to give himself the best possible hand, is also truly wonderful.  His auto-biography has recently been published in the city of New York. It
seems that his first lessons were learned in the Cincinnati jail when
a boy. He places some of the former police of our city in no
very enviable position. His book should be read by the young
as a warning.
41. EDITORIAL.
Lawrenceburg Register, Sept., 1845.
GREEN, THE REFORMED GAMBLER.-This gentleman has within
the last ten days delivered several lectures in this place on the
vice of gambling to very large and highly-respectable audiences.
The one delivered on Thursday evening we had the pleasure of
hearing. And having been acquainted with Mr. Green's early history, and knowing the truth of his painful narrative, we were
deeply interested in his subject. Mr. Green has felt the gambler's
curse and speaks on a subject with which he is well acquainted,
and testifies what he has felt and seen. He assumes what is
doubtless true, that gambling is the parent of every vice-that it
stimulates the growth of every evil propensity, and deadens every
virtuous and generous sentiment. This served him as a text, and
he illustrated and enforced it with facts and incidents from his own
experience and observations, such as might well blanch the cheek
and sicken the heart of every virtuous man. In listening to him,
we no longer doubted the strong expression  of Dr. Nott: "the
finished gambler has no heart-he would play upon his brother's
grave or his father's coffin."
Is it not time for public sentiment in this town to array itself
strongly against this detestable vice. Perhaps there never was a
time when it stalked among us with so unblushing a front, or was
followed by so long a train of dupes and victims.
42. GAMBLER'S ARREST-A Row, &c.
Since the above was in type we learn that Mr. Green's lctur"
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have caused the arrest of Josiah Reynolds, proprietor of the Rey  nolds Hotel, on a charge of keeping a gambling house. lie was
brought before his honor, Mayor  Crosby, and after some jarring
among the parties a clhange of venue was granted, and the case
taken before Justice Wm. T. Harris, of Aurora.
Immediately after the decision for a change took place there
was a very amusing scene transpired, which caused much sport
for the lookers-on. Among the witnesses who were summoned
by the marshal in behalf of the prosecution, one by the name of
George B Dennis, a low-bred bully, took it union himself to abuse
the mayor, and for this offence the marshal attempted his arrest,
when Dennis resisted, and nothing but a few licks over the head
with a stick, which brought him to his knees, appeared to quiet
him. This severity caused Dennis' friends to interfere, when
Marshal M'Neely drew a revolver; this unexpected as well as
unwelcome instrument of war happened to come in contact with
the eye of one of the most worthless of Dennis' friends by the
name of Strange Dunn, better known in Lawrenceburg by the title
of " One man in."  Here was a scene for a painter fully illustrat ed.  " One man in," with both hands raised, first implored the of ficer not to shoot, but if he must and would shoot, for mercy sake
give him a chance to run for his life, upon which  M'Neely turned
his eye upon another, wthen Dunn, or " One man in," gave a sample of the tallest walking we have seen this many a day.  The
whole  row transpired under our window, where we had a fair
view. The matter is now fairly commenced, and we hope it will
not cease until the system of perpetual gambling is broken up.
The Reynolds House has been a den for gamblers for some time
past that would  disgrace Vicksburg.  We hope he will be  punished well for the harboring of such a low set of villains. Mr.
M'Neely deserves much credit for his vigilance; no other officer
has dared to offer to arrest this band of desperadoes.  The ball
is now in motion, and we hope that our worthy marshal will be
sustained in his efforts to keep if possible the town of Lawrenceburg free from gamblers and gambling. We know this will be a
hard task for the authorities, for the seed of early days are hard to
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root up. Many of the river characters, who have spent their days
in gambling and licentiousness, and who are only respected for
their services as expert watermen, spend their summers in our
town, and this vice has always been kept in a constant blaze. We
hope our worthy mayor and marshal will repeat their efforts until
the located gamblers as well as the river gamblers will be driven
from their nefarious calling to something which has to them ever
been a stranger-that of living a life of respectability.
43. EDITORIAL.
From the Cincinnati Gazette, Dec., 1845.
THE REFORMED GAMBLER.-Mr. Green's second lecture at the
Tabernacle, on Monday  evening, was well attended.  The audience was respectable and very attentive while the speaker gave
most thrilling incidents of wicked deeds by the professional gambler. A friend expressed to us the desire he felt at the time for
parents generally to be present to see for themselves, that they
might use all necessary means to save their children from so
blighting a vice. He did not, he could not doubt the sincerity of the
speaker in his endeavors to arrest the tide of vice arising from gambling.
We are informed by the Lawrenceburg papers that Mr. Green's
Lectures at that place last week, where he was raised till his
sixteenth year, were highly appreciated.
His next lecture, he announced, would be illustrated with cards
and other gambling implements. When will it be, and where, is
the inquiry of many well-wishers to the good morals of the city.
We shall state this as soon as advised.
44. kEDITORIAL.
From the Cincinnati Chronicle, Dec., 1845.
RETURNED.-Green, the Reformed Gambler, we notice, has returned to this city, and contemplates visiting Columbus at the
sitting of the Legislature. His object, we understand, is to effect,
if possible, some change in the laws to suppress the vice of gambling, which, he says, are at present of no importance whatever,
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and give no security to the citizens who oppose gambling. He
has been engaged of late in writing another work, exposing the
wily tricks and impositions of the craft.
45. EDITORIAL.
From the Cross and Journal, Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 19, 1845.
J. H. GREEN.-This gentleman, generally known as the Reformed Gambler, is now in this city, lecturing on the subject of
gambling. Mr. Green has been lecturing for the last two years in
the principal towns and cities in the Northern States, and his
labors have been considered generally beneficial. The vice of
gambling is more prevalent and more injurious than is generally
supposed, and Mr. Green is the only reformer who devotes his
time to the destruction of this vice. An apprenticeship of some
twelve years in this business, some portion of which was spent in
the manufacture of cards, has given him a thorough knowledge
of his subject, and supplied him with an abundance of incidents
to illustrate its effects. In company with several other gentlemen,
we called at his room, and witnessed his exposition of the secret
mark placed by the manufacturer on the back of every card, by
which the professional gambler can distinguish each card as easily
by the back as by the face. If these facts were generally known
" pigeons" would be far more scarce in the gambling market. Nothing like chance is known to the professional gambler; with
him the business is regularly systematized, and sure in its results
as any mathematical calculation.
The ceremony of presenting a beautiful Bible, mounted with
gold, to Mr. Green, the Reformed Gambler, was then witnessed
with  general  satisfaction by those  present.   Mr.  Tipton,  of
Guernsey County, presented the Bible, and also a beautifullybound Prayer Book. His remarks were exceedingly appropriate
and happy. Mr. Green made a brief response on accepting this
mark of approbation of his labors, tendered by the ladies of Columbus.
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46. EDITORIAL.
From the Watchman of the Valley, Cincinnati. Feb., 1846.
THE ANTI-GAMBLINa LAW.-Mr. Green, the Reformed Gambler, has done the State a noble service in his recent labors at
Columbus. His exposures have had the influence to procure the
enactment of a very stringent law against gambling, which, it is
thought, the blackleg gentry will not easily escape. In doing it
he has stirred up a hornet's nest there, which has demonstrated
the power and extent with which the evil had fastened itself on
that community. The business of not less than thirteen coffeehouse keepers in that city, Mr. G. informs us, will be prostrated,
if the nest of gamblers which support them be broken up. None
but one who is familiar with the craft, has any idea of the extent
to which this evil is preying upon the morals of the community.
Mr. Green was presented, by the ladies of Columbus, with an
elegant, gilt, velvet-covered Bible, as a testimonial of their high
appreciation of his services. But personal necessities require
something more than tokens-of esteem.  He subjected himself to
great pecuniary inconvenience in going to Columbus for the object he has so happily achieved, for which he has received no remuneration. He is now in this city, ready to prosecute his labors
of love, with the concurrence and aid of the citizens.
GOLD MEDAL FOR MR. GREEN.
Since the above was put in type, a meeting of several of our
citizens, with the Mayor, have taken measures for presenting to
Mr. Green a GOLD MEDAL, as an expression of their appreciation
of his services in procuring the enactment of the law abovenamed.
A subscription paper was accordingly put in circulation to secure
the requisite funds, and arrangements made for a meeting at
the Universalist Church, Walnut street, next Tuesday evening, at
which the medal is to be presented with appropriate addresses.
The Anti-Gambling Law will be read on the occasion, and ad
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dresses delivered by distinguished speakers, among whom the Hon.
Belamy Storer has pledged his services.
WVe hope this may be the commencement of a vigorous and
effective onset upon the vice of gambling in this city. Mr. Green,
we have no doubt, is able to render an inestimable service to the
morals of our city, if properly encouraged. The vice which he
attacks, is one of those works of darkness which cannot thrive
under the light of his exposures. That such a service is greatly
needed among us, every one at all acquainted with the subject is
ready to admit. The Mayor, whose position gives him the best
opportunity to know, expressed, in the meeting above-noticed, his
deep conviction of the necessity of vigorous measures to counteract
the vice. The city, he said, was overrun with gamblers.
47. EDITORIAL.
Cincinnati Chronicle, Feb. 4, 1846.
PRESENTATION OF A GOLD MEDAL.
Last evening was the time appointed for the presentation of a
medal by the citizens to Mr. Green, the Reformed Gambler. The
meeting took place in the Universalist Church. It was highly respectable.   The  object of  the meeting  was declared by  Mr.
Churchill. Mr. Green made a short address, to which Bellamy
Storer, Esq., replied in his very happy and eloquent style.
The presentation address was made in a brief but appropriate
manner by J. Cox, Esq., to which Mr. Green replied as follows:
"Sir, in accepting from you, in behalf of the citizens of Cincinnati, this splendid testimonial, as a token of their regard towards me, for the feeble efforts I have recently exerted in advocating the passage of a law for the suppression of gambling in
the State of Ohio, I feel deeply the inadequacy of my tongue to
give utterance to the gratitude which this moment springs fi-omn
my inmost soul. For a man whose life has been so checkered
as mine, to receive from those who have seen most of the dark
and debasing shades of my career, so rich a proof of the price
and pearl of returning goodness, is a reward too great for me to
sternly face. The manner in which this trophy comes, and the
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language you have seen proper to employ in presenting it to me,
1 cannot return; but they will keep their undying impress upor
my heart. And believe me, sir, when I say to you and those who
now surround us, that through my future career, should [ encounter the persecutions and bitter hostilities of those who may seek
to crush me in the stand in which a guilty conscience has placed
me, that the proudest consolation I could desire will be to wear
this as my breast-plate, and gaze upon its inscription as my recorded verdict of innocence."
The medal is a plain but a very beautiful one, manufactured by
Hazen and Collins. On one side is an inscription that it was
"Presented by the citizens of Cincinnati to J. H. Green, the Reformed Gambler, on the 3rd of Feb., 1846, for his efforts in procuring the passage of an' Act to Prevent Gambling,' passed, January 10, 1846."  On the reverse is " Perseverando."
After the ceremony the Rev. Mr. Thomas arose and testified to
his strong feelings in favor of so good a cause. He gave notice
that on the next Sabbath morning, in that pulpit, he should enlarge
his remarks on this subject.
The following resolutions were passed by the meeting
Resolved-That we heartily approve of the course of J. H.
Green, in exposing the nefarious practices of gamblers, and the
demoralizing influences of gambling; and that we sympathize
with him in the trying difficulties which he encounters in pushing
on this most important moral reformation.
Resolved-That Mr. Green is entitled to the thanks of every
good citizen of Ohio for his exertions in obtaining the enactment
of a law by the Legislature of this State, by which the vice of
gambling can be, if the citizens enforce it, utterly destroyed in
our State.
Resolved-That in our opinion, a course of lectures by Mr.
Green, would have a most salutary effect in driving gamblers from
this city; and we therefore invite him to give a course of lectures
upon the subject of gambling, at such times as will suit his convenience.
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48. EDITORIAL.
From the Indiana State Journal, Indianapolis, Nov., 1846.
MR. GREEN's LECTUtRES.-Mr. Green, the Reformed Gambler,
has delivered three lectures on that vice in this citv. Mr. Green is
a plain man, making no pretensions to scholarship, and his lectures are mere recitals of incidents which have occurred under his
own observation. This fact renders them more interesting, and
better calculated to make a lasting impression, than the most elegant declamation of one who speaks without personal knowledge
of the enormity of the vice.
49. EDITORIAL.
From the St. Louis Republican, Dec., 1846.
GAMBLING.-Yesterday we were present when Mr. Green, the
Reformed Gambler, gave to a number of persons, who had been
invited for the purpose, some evidence of his ability to expose the
arts and tricks of the professional gambler. His audience, which
was chiefly composed of the reverend clergy of the city, were not
so well informed as some who might have been selected for such
an exhibition.  Nevertheless, Mr. Green demonstrated to the satisfaction of all present, that the professional gambler is neither more
nor less than a trickster.  That his advantage consists in knowing
the marks put on the back of the cards by the manufacturer,
sleight of hand in shuffling and dealing, and other acts of mere
professional skill and labor, for the accomplishment of which
time and close application are required.  To the amateur player of
cards, who knows not, and often does not suspect, the tricks of
the professional gambler, Mr. Greeit's expositions of the marks
and brands, and of the tricks, by sleight of hand and otherwise,
are very interesting.
Mr. Green, if we  understand him  correctly, professes to be a
Reformed Gambler, and  laving witnessed the evils which result
to the gambler, his victims, and society, from the pursuit of this
practice, he has been induced to expose the vice, and warn the
cottimunity against it. For some years he was engaged in the
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manufacture of playing cards; and this gave him intimate know.
ledge of the marks put upon them by the manufacturer. Alterwards he followed gambling, and whilst he learned enough to betome himself an expert player, he does not pretend to know all
the tricks to which the craft resort. He only makes these exhibitions of what he knows, to show what may be done by those
who fo'low gambling as a constant study and pursuit; and whilst
hlie is vehement in his denunciation of the professional gamnler,
admits the rationality and honesty of the amateur players. In the
light of a reformer, or as a safe-guard against the tricks of the
corrupt, the information he gives is equally important and valuable.  To the uninitiated he can give a true and faithful description of the consequences of such a life. To those who play for
pleasure, and with no other object in view, he can give valuable
idea of the tricks which may be practiced upon them when they
least expect it. We understand it is his purpose to give a course
of lectures in this city. The first will be given about Monday
next. and should be well attended.
50. EDITORIAL.
From the St. Louis Daily Reveille, Dec., 1846.
We hear that Green, the Reformed Gambler, with the ingenuity of his tribe, contrived, on Monday evening,. whilst care.
fully avoiding to commit himself, to vent his malignity upon ourselves and the Reveille. We cannot continue to add to this man's
notoriety, and assist his vile interests by our notices; but we
thought it proper to call upon the Rev. Mr. Parsons yesterday
morning, to make a few inquiries. M. P. informed us that the
renting of the lecture room of his church, is entirely in the hands
of the trustees; that the body of the church, over whica he has
control, never would have permitted Green to enter as a lecturer.
The trustees see, then, that in spite of the honesty of this man's
professions, on the first opportunity offered he avails himself of his
tricks of low and malignant cunning. Through the editors of the
Repuolican and the Organ he has sought to make to us what he
terms "explanations."   We know these to be founded upon bare
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faced falsehood; but finding our loathing not to be overcome, he
resorts to his older arts. It is truly an edifying business this, altogether. But we would simply say to the really well-meaning
people who countenance this reformed one, that if his system be
correct; if it be truly a benefit to instruct " amateur card players"
how they may rival the regulars-Green's tricks, we are told, are,
comparatively, lacking in interest to the uninitiated, whatever his
stories may be-then let them invite to their reading-desks the reformed Cyprian, and let the virtue of our females be fortified by a
relation to them of the anecdotes and the mysteries of the brothel.
The cases are parallel.
it appears from the Republican that the editor of that paper was
the only one of the press present the other morning, at the exhibition offered by Green. Our neighbor recommends a knowledge
oi the tricks he witnessed to "amateur card players."  He may
be right; but our conscientious belief is, that such acquaintance
would  chiefly tend  to  convert "amateurs"  into professionals.
Poison is poison, and, knowing its effects. why  taste it?  We
neither believe in the useful tendency of Green's revelations nor
the purity of his motives in making them.  It is in this respect
that we consider him a humbug.
51. EDITORIAL.
From the St. Louis Daily Reveille.
The undersigned were present at explanations made by Mr. J.
H. Green, at his instance, to Mr. J. M. Field, in relation to a difficulty existing between them, originating in a slander on Mr. Field,
which appeared in the Detroit Free Press, in September a year
ago. Mr. Green gave explanations of his agency in the publication, which was satisfactory to us. It evinced that Mr. Green
did not intend to assail Mr. Field, of the Reveille; that he did not
know him, but spoke of another and entirely different person of
the name of Field. Mr. Green wholly and freely disclaimed any
intention, wish, or purpose to detract from the character of Mr.
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Field in any manner.   The interview was  satisfactory to the
parties.
A. B. CHAMBERS,                  C. C. CADY,
G. H. SILVERS,                   A. P. LADEW,
J. R. FISHER,                    B. R.  MITCHELL,
C. A. LORD,                      F. KNOX.
The above disclaimer is a repetition of that which Green published in Cincinnati a year since, unaccompanied, however, with
the offensive insinuations with regard to the Reveille being sustained by gamblers, &c., which justly excited our indignation. We
have never considered this repetition as being necessary at all, satins.
fied that any calumny which might be circulated with regard to ourselves or our paper must necessarily defeat itself; but it has been
urged upon us, that, by denouncing Green, while we, at the same
time declined listening to his explanations, we gave those who
think well of his efforts a chance to talk of persecution. We,
yesterday, met Green; and we are free to say that we left him
with a clearer and better opinion of his doings. For instance, he
excused himself for his insinuations with regard to this paper, by
stating that gamblers, generally, about the country, taunted him
with the Reveille; that they dared him to visit St. Louis, &c., as
if we, forsooth, were fighting their battles instead of honestly exposing, as we supposed, imposture.  Again: Our argument has
been that the tendency of Green's lectures was to instruct the
evil-minded among his auditors in the art which he denounces.
We must, in justice, say, that if that which he showed us in his
room was a fair sample of his public exhibitions, he certainly
does not teach his tricks. He surprised us, with the rest of the company; but no one present was the wiser of his means. In conclusion we publish the original slander ourselves, in perfect contempt;
and nothing but the malicious attempt which was made, by an illwisher, to turn it to our disadvantage, ever roused us to a farther
notice of it. Time is the test of all things. Green, by making
use of his knowledge, could undoubtedly do much evil; if he be
sincerely engaged in doing good, the fruit will be apparent.
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52. EDITORIAL.
From the St. Louis Republican
At the close of the lecture of Mr. Green, the Reformed Gambler, on Wednesday night, at the lecture-room of the Fourth
street Methodist Church, the audience expressed a desire that the
lectures should be continued another week, under the belief that
the disclosures of the hideous character of gambling, and the
disgusting frauds practiced by those engaged in that vicious pursuit, will benefit the community. An organization of the meeting was called for.
Gen. Learned was called to the chair, and Dr. Silvers appointed
secretary.
The following resolutions were then proposed, and unanimously adopted:
Resolved-That this meeting duly appreciate the benefits of Mr.
Green's lecture to this community; that his exhibitions expose the
vices of gambling, and the gross frauds that are practiced to
carry it on; and do publicly request him to continue his lectures
for another week in St. Louis.
Resolved-That a committee of three be appointed to procure a
suitable lecture room, and make all necessary arrangements for the
contemplated lectures.
Dr. Silvers, Mr. A. P. Ladew, and Mr. Humphreys were appointed the committee by the meeting.
Resolved-That the papers in this city, who feel friendly to this
object, be requested to publish these 7roceedings.
The meeting then adjourned.
GEo. H. SILvXRS, &C.
53. EDITORIAL.
From the Philadelphia Saturday Courier. April 3, 1847.
THE NEw REFORM-FIRST NOTICE.-This is emphatically the
age of reform, so much so that scarcely a vice or evil habit
escapes tne probe of examination and rebuke. The temperance
movement has achieved wonders, and attention is now being di
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rected against many things wvhich in times gone by have been
looked upon as conditions and institutions of society. Fifty years
ago, the card table was a prominent feature of the entertainment
of every drawing-room, and the dice-box was not unfrequently
clasped by feminine fingers. This is no longer the case; we are
at the end of a social revolution, and a movement is now taking
place which bids fair to expel the gambler even from the purlieus
of society. This was peculiarly called for, as the vice of gaming
is the fruitful source of other indiscretions, and though insidious
in its approaches, is destructive, and peculiarly liable to become
engrafted on the morals of man almost as a natural passion.
Against this vice, constant strife is waged by a person already
well-known to the community as Mr. Green, the Reformed Gambler.
Any man who can break off from the entanglements of vice
must have nerve. Virtues are easily laid aside, but even in the
silence of ones own resolution to say, "I have sinned, and will
do so no more," to persuade ourselves of the fact, demands the
exertion not only of moral resolution, but of a yet rarer virtueself-sacrifice.  But to come before the world, and say, "I have
sinned-I have lived by plunder and crime, the burthen of which
is too heavy to be borne, and I now confess my guilt, and wish to
atone for it," recalls to us almost the words of the apostle when
he recounted his errors, and impresses on us the truth that the
voice which cried, " Saul. Saul, why persecutest thou me?" is not
forever hushed, but still speaks to us. This Mr. Green has dared
to do; he has broken the trammels of evil association, and seeks
to reform and correct the vices of those who, like himself, have
been led astray, and to save others from a similar error. He
comes to reveal the secrets of that fearful fraternity, the bond of
association of which is that which attracts vultures to their prey,
and is a denial of all commands of that great law common to all
creeds, which commands man to act as he would have others treat
him. He comes to reveal some of the consequences of that vice
which has carried dismay into happy families and blighted the
prospects even of the innocent.  Surely to do this-to unfold
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these mysteries, demands a degree of moral courage far beyond
mere physical daring, and which all will commend.
To do this, however, not merely moral courage, but physica.
daring, has been required. He who denounces his evil associates
to society, who wishes to unfold their villany, must expect to
brave the incredulity of the world, and not unfrequently the personal violence of the confederates he has abandoned. Mr. Green's
biography will afford more than one instance of this kind. It
must also be remembered that he denounces the tricks and frauds
of the gamblers, from the purest of all motives-the good of
his fellow men. He comes, not waging war against any one, but
to protect the happiness and prosperity of the community-which
is made up of that kind of individuals who compose it-from the
designs of conspirators, who, were society pure, would have no
existence, and who exist but by its vices. The highest boon conferred by the Roman people on its soldiers, was a coronet of honor
to whomsoever preserved the life.of a citizen. The mural crown,
the naval chaplet, all paled beside it into insignificance. If this
was right-if the preservation of the life of one citizen be of
such value, (and undoubtedly it is the case,) how much more esteemed should be the palm he merits who should preserve and protect the moral existence of a generation. Mr. Green will receive
his reward; the good of all sects and sexes-of the affectionate
aid pure of heart, and most especially the contrite, and those who
have purchased the bitter experience he would lay at every one's
door, without money and without price, will appreciate his efforts,
and he will have the satisfaction of knowing that by thousands
of hearth-sides throughout our broad land, parents, wives, and
children thankfully remember him who struggles so earnestly, and
we will not doubt, successfully, for the weal of those who
were dear to them.
There are men who bring to whatever they undertake the prestige of talent and success; and others, who bring the not less exalted qualifications-zeal and sincerity.   The latter Mr. Green
has; and we are sure they will sustain him in the more than
Augean labor of the purification of our country from those dens
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of iniquity not inaptly known in all European languages as
hells.
Being fully convinced of the pressing necessity of this great
moral crusade, and having full confidence in the integrity and intelligence of Mr. Green, whose history, character, and peculiar
knowledge we have studied, we feel alike a disposition to fling
down the gauntlet as a pioneer in the cause, and a duty to devote
our best energy and widlest influence for the new reformation.
We shall resume the subject with some developments of the gambler's moduts operandi.
54. EDITORIAL.
SECOND NOTICE.-We  took occasion, in our last number, to
refer in general terms to the developments of the mystery of gam bling, being made in our city by Mr. Green, and to-day purpose to
refer more particularly to some of the various tricks he has convinced us are a part of the professed gambler's business.  After
carefully watching the exhibitions of Mr. Green, we have become
satisfied that if the gambler knowns his instruments, such a thing
as fair play is impossible. For this there are many reasons: first,
all the cards usually in vogue are marked, and in so multifarious
a manner as utterly to defy the scrutiny of the uninitiated.   When
Mr. Green made the exhibition to which we refer, some twenty
packs of cards were carefully shuffled and presented to him.  He
dealt them out in hands, as is usual in whist, one card after another,
and read the cards as easily and rapidly from their backs as others
would do from the face.  To  ren(ler this more obvious, he explained the process. Taking up the usual cards marked on the
back with stars, ie pointed out that in some a star was at a given
corner divided into two portions. On a scrutiny thirteen were
found to be thus distinguished, and of one suit. Other marks,
uniseen by the casual observer, discovered the aces, honors, etc.
The calico, or checked back cards, were similarly marked. The
recurrence of a particular check or stripe at a corner, designated
the suit and individual card.  It will be perceived the immense
advantages possessed by one capable of reading these marks with
facility in all the games technically called bragging games, where
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the bet is made after the hand has been dealt out. But in addition
to all this, the gambler is able to produce in his own hand, or that
of his antagonist, any combination he pleases. This he is able to
do in the following manner: the cards appear to be all of the
same quadrilateral rectangular figure. This is not, however, the
case.  The professional faro gambler does not deal his cards from
an open hand, but from a silver box, into which the cards will not
pass until somewhat reduced. If you hand him a pack which he
has-never seen, he expresses his disposition to use them, but regrets that they will not suit his box. Indeed they will not-and
why. The gambler has a plate or knife prepared for the purpose,
by means of which he is enabled to make the edges of his cards
concave or convex, and by which he can produce an infinite
number of variations sufficient to mark every card in the pack;
and the touch being, with him, educated to a point rarely surpassed by this sense in the blind,'he is able to read his cards without seeing them, and will deal hands to his antagonist and partner;
the latter, of course, having the advantage from age.
The gambler's ingenuity, and the pliant capacity of the card
manufacturer, have def.ed the prudence of the accidental or amateur player, in every possible way; so that on cards apparently
plain-backed, and without mark, by a simple contrivance, the
gambler is able to know what his antagonist holds.   This is managed thus- Cards of one suit are made with  the grain of the
paper running longitudinally; of another, transversely; of a
third diagonally; and of the fourth, quartering or bias. These
marks, with the concave and convex edges. place the amateur
player always in the hands of the skilful gambler.
In the manipulation of the cards, practice and application mak
iost of the professional men not inferior to Signor Blitz, Herr
Alexander, or any of the great magicians. Either with or without the novel conjuring we have referred to above, Mr. Green is
able to deal five cards to an antagonist and fifteen to himself without one move to excite attention. His cards fall like clock-work,
with the regularity of a mechanical toy, so that it is impossible at
first to realize the idea that each card is separate and distinct,
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Memory, touch, the eye of the gambler, all are so cultivated, that
even with apparent fair play, he has so immense an advantage
over the common player, that it is impossible for him to come in
contact with the amateur without victory.
We will conclude this article with the description of a feat with
cards which we have seen Mr. Green execute. Eight gentlemen
sate aroundi a table, and each was requested to take a card of each
suit from a pack which was discovered to them, mark them, and
replace them.  The cards were carefully shuffled and  cut eight
times consecutively, by eight different persons, and then dealt ou
by  Mr.  Green: the four aces fell together, as did the kings
queens, knaves, etc., evidently the same that had been shuffled
for; the marks on the face of each card were visible.  All was
not yet done-the cards were taken again by the dealer, placed
for about a minute out of sight, and then dealt out again, falling
in regular suits, each card covering the one counting next below
it.
We left this exhibition, satisfied that in all games of cards
naves are always trumps.   We shall continue this subject.
55. EDITORIAL.
THIRD NOTICE.-Mr. Green deserves well of the country for
his exposition of the methods of cheating which constitute the
art of the gambler. We have already stated that we look on it
as impossible that fair play can exist, and think that the idea of a
sporting man, or one who plays at cards for excitement sake, entirely erroneous. The very element of the game of cards is unfairness. There is no equality except among entire novices, and
more than one-half of the amateur players are secret gamblers.
That this is the case, the book of Mr. Green will offer convincing
proof, and the exhibitions he has already privately made, and pur.
poses to make publicly, are of such a character that any one who
runs may read.   There are, however, other effects concerning
more immediately the inward man, worthy of public attention.
There is a proverb, homely indeed, but true as most proverbs,
which tells us that money easily made is rapidly spent-that man,
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doomed by the behests of the Almighty to earn his bread by the
sweat of his brow, fails to profit by what drops gently within his
grasp. The ravens fed Elijah at the time that he needed most
their aid, but he had won the right to that assistance by years of
prayer and thankfulness. It is vain to expect that wealth to pros per which is taken from the earnings of our neighbors; and in
this world of ours, where cunning makes might, he who by his
wit rifles his neigbhor of wealth, is not less a robber than he who
in the silence of night steals upon the fold of another, or the ban dit who, in the open road, despoils his neighbor of the produce of
his toil. There is, too, in the gambler's life a feverish excitement,
a fierce and angry contest, which unfits him for the calmer enjoy ments-which makes of him, as it were, a beast of prey, and an
Ishmaelite, the hand of whom, lifted against society, provokes
against himself every man's anger. It is difficult, indeed, " to kick
against the pricks.'  Like Torpeia, the gambler must succumb
beneath the accumulating weights heaped on him from those, the
opinions of whom he has defied while he ministered to their depraved appetites. Everywhere a Cain, everywhere condemned,
even by menials, he drags out a miserable existence, until the
arrival of that time which will come at last, when the mind loses
its brightness, and the right hand its cunning, and death overtakes
its victim, consigning him to a future life more miserable, if pos
sible, than the existence he has led.
Sweet sleep is the consequence of labor; the harder be the toil
of man, the more will he enjoy this blessing, sufficient of itself to
recompense us for the labor which has purchased it. He little
knows the human heart, however, who deems that this is a boon
the gambler can grasp. It is true he toils-it is true he expends
upon his unholy pursuit labor which would win for him, if vr'.uously applied, honor and respectability.   The apothegm,  " he
)rayeth best who  toileth most," is also true; but he reaps no
benefit from it. Like those, in the words of the parable, who
sow in the whirlwind and reap in the storm, what should be his
Dlessing is his curse.
We are not yet done with the gamblers, and trust that Mr.
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Green will find it convenient to give in public some of the instructions and expositions with which he has delighted and astounded
numerous private parties of eminent and influential citizens, for
some weeks past in this city.
56. EDITORIAL.
From the Philadelphia Courier.
THE  D ISCUSSION  ON  GAMBLING.-The  discussion  between
Messrs. Green and Freeman, on the subject of gambling, closed
on Saturday evening last, and in such a manner as to lead us to
hope that the champion of the vice, as he at first represented himself to be, is more than half converted to the doctrines of his reformed antagonist. Be that as it may, his defence, such as it was,
was virtually abandoned, Mr. Freeman, at the close, confining himself to denunciations of the existing law, as not being sufficiently
stringent, and the right of every man to do as he pleased with his
own things, so long as he did not entrench upon the rights of his
neighbors. But even this point, which, as we have before said,
he argued with considerable ingenuity, he also abandoned when
he announced that he would himself deliver a lecture on \k.ednesday evening, and offer arguments against the vice of gambling,
having, heretofore, only claimed his right to practice it. This
was, indeed, a most impotent conclusion-" the right to practice a
most degrading vice!"
Before the close of the meeting, the parties settled a point which
had been in dispute in relation to certain tricks practiced by gamblers with cards, Mr. Green fulfilling to the letter a promise which
he had made to the audience on the previous Saturday evening. The
denouement is thus related in the North American: Mr.  Freeman
had brought a pack of cards of his own selection and preparation, and Mr. Green objected that this could hardly be considered
fair, and said that he should prefer the appointment of a committee
to provide cards and superintend the experiments. Upon this Mr.
Freeman commenced declaiming in a triumphal tone against his
antagonist, but Mr. Green cut him short by stating that he was
willing to proceed with the cards that Mr. Freeman had brought.
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Mr. Gibbons then took the pack and marked it with a pencil, so
that he might be sure of recognizing it. Mr. Green then took
them from him, shuffled them a moment with his hands under the
table, and showed them to Mr. Gibbons, who pronounced them the
same he had marked. Mr. Green then dealt them in separate heaps,
and Mr. Gibbons turned up the faces, and showed the audience
that each of the thirteen heaps contained the four aces, four
kings, four queens, and so on down to the four duces. The cards
were then shuffled, and Mr. Green ran theni off, the backs being
upward, so rapidly that the eye could scarcely follow the motion
of his fingers, naming each card as he threw it off, and making
but one mistake in the whole fifty-two cards!  This extraordinary
feat was received by the audience with acclamations, as being
most convincing proof of the power of gamblers to perform the
swindling deceptions with cards that Mr. Green has charged upon
the nimble-fingered fraternity.
57. EDITORIAL.
From the New York Tribune, Sept. 18, 1848.
GAMBLING. —TO secure good without doing good-to acquire
wealth without creating any-to obtain something for nothingthis is the erring aspiration of half mankind. Ignorant of the
elemental law which unites labor indissolubly with beneficent acquisition, or madly hoping to circumvent Omnipotence and evade
that law, the great majority are at all times intent on acquiring
wealth and enjoying luxury virtually if not avowedly at the expense of others. They would fare sumptuously, but on the products of others' toil, not considering that exercise, (more properly
exertion,) is as necessary to the enjoyment they covet as the viands
which alone engross their attention. Yet, without the adequate
and well-balanced exertion of all man's powers and faculties,
appetite palls, health fails, and the fancied enjoyment loses its zest,
its essence. What remains is
" Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye,
But turn to ashes on the lip."
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This, man in his blindness, his grossness, his greediness, will
not see, or seeing will not realize and lay to heart. Hence the
passion for gambling which corrupts trade, degrades labor, and
poisons the very life-blood of society, drawing family after family
to utter wreck and ruin.
But though gambling can never be wholly eradicated until our
social laws and maxims shall be recast in the mould of a purer
and higher wisdom, yet some of its baser and more fatal forms
and manifestations may be measurably, if not wholly, abolished.
There will still be gambling in stocks, in goods. in lands, in the
chances of peace or  war, &c., &c., but the grosser and  unredeemed exhibitions of the vice must flee before the light shed by
inquiry and demonstration. The veriest simpleton in the land
could not be ass enough to stagger into a gambler's den and there
bet money on faro or other games if he really knew the fact that
he had not a chance in the world of winning a dollar except as
the swindlers disguised as gentlemen and combined to fleece him
might think best to let him, in order in the end to strip him more
surely and utterly. The country merchant with well-filled pocketbook, the clerk just dipping into dissipation and his employer's
money-drawer, steps into the theatre or tip-top refectory to enjoy
an evening hour, and there quite accidentally makes the acquaintance of a Southern gentleman or city blood who proposes a drink,
a smoke, and a stroll, which terminate probably the first night at
a sumptuous brothel, the next or the next at a superb
gambling-den, as was the absorbing design of the decoyduck from the first. He, poor wretch, was perhaps liberally educated and portioned, and once imagined himself a gentleman; but
falling into temptation and evil courses, he was himself decoyed
into one of these fitly termed  "hells," there stripped of every
farthing, and sent forth desperate and diabolic-a bankrupt and a
villain. Soon, impelled by necessity and the horrible fascination
of gambling, he became the accomplice and pimp of his destroyers,
sharing their feasts and their orgies, and paying his way while
learning their arts by decoying the unwary into their toils.  But
his victim knows nothing, suspects nothing, of this; he does nIot
even think of gambling, except, perhaps, to a trifling amount; he
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has visited the den to " see life." But he throws down a dollai
in acknowledgment of the civilities shown him, and wins; dou bles it and wins; and perhaps goes home the first night with blood
boiling, brain on fire, and a hundred dollars of other men's money
in his pocket. The next night, or soon after, he meets his
" friend" again, is persuaded (if he needs persuasion) to " follow
up his luck;" again enters the infernal precincts, and is undone.
Whether he is played through two or three nights more, or finished at once, is immaterial; the hook is in his jaws, and though he
may flutter and flounder he cannot escape. He is doomed.
Now, preaching or threatening will not reach the marrow of
this evil. Nothing will eradicate it which does not demonstrate
that the wish to acquire without recompense what is properly
another's, is as well a blunder as a crime. But this demonstration
is a slow, laborious process; the pupil must unlearn about all
the world has ever taught him, and learn something better in its
stead. Taking men as they are, and leaving them as they are, the
only antidote to gambling is occular, absolute demonstration that
against the practiced gambler the novice or occasional player has
not a shadow of chance to win except as his antagonist may see
fit to let him-that utter ruin is the inevitable result of his continuing to play. He who would hold out against such demonstration must be already demented and thoroughly bent on his
own destruction.
The arduous and perilous work of opening the eyes of the
community to the horrible mysteries of gambling, was commenced
some years since by J. H. Green, who, in boyhood and destitute
orphanage, had been forced, by seeming necessity, into association
with gamblers-had been initiated into, and ultimately became an
adept in their nefarious arts, and had thus aided in bringing many
to ruin. At length, disgusted, penitent, and self-abhoring, he forsook the guilty craft, made restitution of his plunder, so far as he
was able, united with a Christian Church, and commenced the
work of opening the eyes of  the uninitiated  to the swindling
nature of the games, ostensibly of chance, by which gamblers
despoil their victims   Having been some timre engaged in the
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manufacture and sale of playing cards, he knows, and can prove,
that they are almost or quite never honestly made; that the
manufacturer is nearly always an accomplice of the gamblers, and
that all his cards are privately marked, so that he who has paid
for the marking. and procured them to be put in the market at low
rates, in order to force their sale and general use, can at all times
distinguish by a glance at the backs either the whole or all those
most important in the game he professes to play. Then boxes
from which cards are dealt in the game styled " faro" (a very common game on which thousands after thousands are daily staked
and quickly lost) are full of fraudulent devices, whereby  the
banker or dealer is enabled to give himself the winning cards
whenever he thinks fit to do so. Add to this the immense advantages which an eye and a memory trained to incredible feats,
whereby the thorough gambler knows from a glance the relative,
position of each card-a sense of touch so exquisite that he can
soon distinguish each card by the edge alone-and a sleight-ofhand so amazing that he can deal with apparent fairness to each
player around the board precisely such a hand as he chooses.
Thus, as between the practiced gambler and the novice or honest
player there is no fragment of chance, but a simple game of plunderer and plundered. He who plays with a gambler has no more
chance of winning in the long run, than in an attempt to dig gold
from the drifting sand, or distil it from the waters of the ocean.
Mr. Green has steadily pursued for years the work of exposing gambling throughout those sections where the vice is most
prevalent; and his representations have induced the Legislatures of
several States to pass stringent and effective laws for its suppression. He has just planted himself in our city, for a determined
campaign, which he proposes to follow up by an appeal to our
Legislature this winter, for the passage of a law similar to those
which have greatly diminished the prevalence of gambling in
Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Ohio. Deeply impressed with the
necessity and urgency of some action on this subject, and especially of exposing to general familiarity and reprehension, the
true nature of gam')ling, as carried on in several hundred scarcely
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secret establishments throughout our city, whereot our thousands
of emnez7lers, swindlers, drunkards, counterfeiters, and burglars,
are nearly all graduates, we entreat the philosophic and virtuous
to countenance and encourage Mr. G. in his enterprise, by bringing their sons to be taught the folly, the madness, of ever venturing into a gambling den, by inviting him to meet private parties
at their houses, and by purchasing and disseminating the works
wherein he has laid bare the mysteries and tearful iniquities of
the gambler's calling.  Every day adds to the number of its victims, though timely admonition would save them. Let each do
his part toward saving all who are as yet uncorrupted.
58. GAMBLING LAW OF KENTUCKY.-Steamboat travellers in the
West will do well to read this law, and remember that over one
thousand miles of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers are subject to
the laws of Kentucky-likewise, that the States of Ohio, Indiana,
and Pennysivania have similar laws.  The travelling community,
we hope, will bear in mind the 8th section.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That if any person shall keep a room, building, arbor, booth, shed, tenement, boat, or float, to be used or occupied for gambling, or shall knowingly permit the same to be used
or occupied for gambling; or if any person, being the owner,
superintendent, or agent, of any room, building, arbor, booth, shed,
tenement, boat, or float, shall rent the same to be used or occupied
for gambling, the person or persons so offending, shall, on convictioni thereof, be fined in any sum not less than fifty, nor more than
five hundred dollars; and if the owner, his or her superintendent,
or agent, of any room, building, arbor, booth, shed, tenement, boat,
or float, shall know that any gaming-tables, apparatus, or establishment, is kept or used in such room, building, arbor, booth,
shed, tenement, boat, or float, for gambling and winning, betting or
gaining money, or other property, and shall not forthwith cause
complaint to be made against the person so keeping or using such
room, building, arbor, booth, shed, tenement, boat. or float, he or
she shall be taken, held, and considered to have knowingly permitted the same to be used and occupied for gambling.
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Sec. 2. If any person shall keep or exhibit any gaming-table,
establishment, device, or apparatus, to win or gain money, or
other property of value, or to aid, assist, or permit others to do
the same; or if any person shall engage in gambling, for a liveli hood, he shall be deemed and taken to be a common gambler, and,
upon conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned and kept at hard
labor in the penitentiary, not. less than six months, no  more than
three years, and be fineId, at the discretion of a jury, not less than
fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, to be paid into the trea sury of the county where such conviction shall take place, for the
use of common schools therein, to be divided among the accepting
school districts in such county, in proportion to the number of tax able inhabitants in each district.
Sec. 3. If an affidavit shall be filed with the magistrate, or
police judge of any town or city, before whom complaint shall be
made of an offence against any provision of this act, stating that
the affiant has reason to believe, and does believe, that the person
charged in such complaint has upon his person, or at any other
place named in such affidavit, any specified articles of personal
property, or any gaming-table, device, or apparatus, the discovery
of which might lead to establish the truth of such charge, the
said magistrate or judge shall, by his warrant, command the officer
who is authorized to arrest the person so charged, to make diligent
search for such property and table, device, or apparatus, and if
found, to bring the same before such magistrate or judge; and the
officer so seizing shall deliver the same to the magistrate or judge
before whom he take the same, who shall retain possession, and
be responsible therefor, until the discharge, or commitment, or letting to bail of the person charged; and in case of such commitment, or letting to bail of the person so charged, such officer shall
retain such property, subject to the order of the court before which
such offender may be required to appear, until his discharge or
conviction. And in case of the conviction of such person, the
gaming-table, device, or apparatus shall be destroyed, and the property shall be liable to pay any judgment which may be rendered
against such person; and after the payment of such judgment and
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TI-ITHE REFORMIED GAMNIBLER.
costs, the surplus, it any, shall be paid to the use of the c ommon
schools aforesaid; and in case of the discharge of such person by
the magistrate or court, the officer having such property in his
custody, shall, on demand, deliver it to such person.
Sec. 4. if any person, called to testify on behalf of the State,
before any justice of the peace, grand jury or court, upon any
complaint, informatioii, or indictment, for any offence made punishable by this act, shall disclose any fact tending to criminate himself in any manner made punishable by this act, he shall thereafter be discharged of and from all liability to prosecution or punishment for such matter of offence
Sec. 5. It shall be lawful for any justice of the peace, chiel
magistrate of any municipal incorporation, or judge of any
court of record, upon complaint, upon an oath, that any gamingtable, establishment, or apparatus, or device, is kept by any person for the purpose of being used to wiln or gain money, or other
property, by the owner thereof, or any other person, to issue his
warrant, commanding the sheriff or constable, to whom  the same
shall be directed, within the proper jurisdiction, after demanding
entrance, to break open and enter any house or place wherein suchl
gaming establishment, apparatus. or device shall be kept, and to
seize and deliver the same to the clerk of the Circuit Court, who
shall keep the same to the next term of the court, and the judge
of the court shall then, if there be no necessity for keeping the
property to be produced on the trial of an offender against this
act, have a jury summoned to try the fact, whether the property
taken be used or was made for gaming; and if the finding shall
be, that the'property was made or used for gaming, the court shall
order the property to be broken up and sold, and the proceeds
shall, after the payment of costs, go into the treasury of the
county for the use of the common schools.
Sec. 6. If any person or persons shall, through invitation or
device, persuade or prevail on any person or persons, to visit any
room, building, arbor, booth, shed, tenement, boat or float, kept
for the use of gambling, he or they shall, upon conviction thereof,
be held responsible for the money or property lost by such invita
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THE REFORMED GAMBLER.
tion or device, and fineu in a sum not less than fifty and not more
than five hundred dollars.
Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of all skeriffs, constables, and all
county and commonwealth attorneys, to inform and prosecute all
offenders against this act; and upon refusal thereof, they shall
pay a fine of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars.
Sec. 8. If any commander, owner, or lessee of any boat or float
shall knowingly permit any gambling for money or property on
such boat orfloat, and does not immediately prevent the same, he or
they shall be taken, held, and considered to have knowingly permit
ted the same to be used and occupied for gambling, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be held responsible for the money or property so
lost, and fined in any sum not less than one nor more than five hundred dollars.
Sec. 9. The fines and forfeitures incun'ed under this act, in any
of the cities or towns of this State, for offences committed in the
said cities and towns, shall go into the treasury of the town or city,
for the use of the free schools thereof.
Sec. 10. This act shall be given in charge to the grand jury by
the circuit judges of the several judicial districts, in their respeotive counties.
Sec. 11. This act shall take effect the first day of June, 1848.
Sec. 12. That any person or persons who shall be guilty of
dealig "faro," or any other banking game, shall be held and deemed a common gambler, according to the provisions of the second
section of this act.
59. A CARD FROM THE INHABITANTS OF NEW HAVEN.
TO THE PUBLIC.
IT is known to many of the citizens of New Haven, that several meetings of gentlemen have recently been held in this -ity,
with reference to the alarming increase of dram selling  t this
community, and the consequent prevalence of intemperance and
kindred vices in our midst.
At the last meeting above referred to, held at the Orange Street
Lecture Room, on the evening of the 9th instant, the folloms.ng
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257 
THE REFORMED GAMIBLER.
preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted, which were
subsequently ordered by the committee therein named to be published:
WHEREAS, The illegal sale of intoxicating drinks has of late
very greatly increased in this city, there being, as is understood,
not far from two hundred shops and tippling houses, where liquor
is sold in violation of law; and,
WHEREAS, These violations of the law have produced a great
increase of drunkenness among us, and are extensively connected
with gambling, with an alarming prevalence of licentiousness and
a systematic desecration of the holy Sabbath, as well as with
night brawls and disturbances of the public peace;
Therefore,  RPesolved, As  the sense of this meeting, that the
friends of morals and of public order are called upon to unite in
the manifestation of a public sentiment on this subject, which
shall secure the suppression of these disorders and the enforcement of the laws.
Resolved-That with a view to this object a committee be appointed, whose duty it shall be to labor for the removal of thriese
evils by an exertion of moral influence, and by an appeal, when
necessary, to the officers of the law.
consist of the following gentle.
Resolved-That this committeen, vz.:
mnen, viz.:
IIENRY ALLING,
CHARLES ATWATER,
ELIHU ATWATER,
HORACE ANDREWS,
ISAAC ANDERSON,
JAS. S. ARNOLD,
J.AMES BREWSTER,
NATHANIEL A. BACON,
WILLIAM BROWN,
EVERARD BENJAMIN,
JO)HN W. BARBER,
.)AVID W. BUCKINGHAM,
JEREMIAH BARNET,
ELI W. BLAKE, 
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JOEL B. FOOT,
E. T. FOOT,
LEwis FITCH,
JOHN W. FITCH,
LEvi GILBERT, 2D.,
EL[As GILBEPT,
IfEZEKlAii GorHAM,
LEVEP,ETT G-RISWOLD,
ABI,TAi-i HOYT,
GILBEFLT J. HINE,
HENRY HOTCHKISS,
GEOP,GE HOADLEY,
PHILEMON IIOADLFY,
WOOSTE1:t HOTCIIKISS) 
THE REFORMED GAMBLER.
HENRY M. DIDWELL,
J. B. CARPENTER,
FRANCIS S. COLLINS,
LEGRAND CANNON,
TIMOTHY P. CHAPMAN,
RUSSEL CHAPMAN,
MATTHEW G. ELLIOT,
WM. H. ELLIS
GEORGE LINES,
TIMOTHY LESTER,
MARCUS MERRIMAN, JR.,
SIDNEY S. MORSE,
ANSON MOODY,
ALFRED S. MONSON,
CALEB MIX,
JAMES M. MASON,
MAJOR MOULTHROP,
JOHN MERRIMAN,
SMITH MERWIN,
JOHN G. NORTH,
GEO. OLMSTED,
DENISON OLMSTED,
ASAHEL PiERPONT,
HENRY PECK,
JOHN PECK,
JAMES PUNDERFORD,
FREDERICK S. PARKER,
ELIAS PIERPONT,
STEPHEN D. PARDEE,
WYLLYS
HEENRY B. HARRITSON
N. S. HALLENBECK,
ELI IVES,
N. B. IVES,
JOHN L. JOHNSON,
CHARLES A. JUDSON,
WM. JOHNSON,
CHAUNCEY JEROME,
IR. S. JOHNSON,
JONATHAN KNIGHT,
J. G. E. LARNED,
CHARLES B. LINES,
CHARLES ROBINSON,
BENJAMIN SILLIMAN,
GEO. F. SMITH,
ALEXANDER STORER,
HARRIS SMITH,
THOMAS R. TROWBRIDGE,
AMos TOWNSEND, JR.,
SIDNEY A. THOMAS,
ABRAM A. THOMPSON,
ATWATER TREAT,
HENRY N. WHITTELSEY;
HENRY WHITE,
ALFRED WALKER,
CYPRIAN WILCOX,
JOSEPH WOOD,
JAMES WINSHIP,
JAMES M. WISWELL,
PECK.
In discharge of the duties imposed on them by their fellow
citizens, the committee would earnestly appeal to those who are
engaged in these violations of law, to stop where they are.
They have no desire to bring down on any one the penalty of
violated law. Let these abuses now cease, and the community
will be satisfied. They will not be satisfied on any other terms.
The amount of poverty, wretchedness, crime, and dishonor to our
city, resulting from these violations of law, is too great to be
longer endured.  There is a force of public sentiment in this community that can put an end to these disorders. Sustained by tha,
sentiment, the committee will now proceed with the work com.
mitted to them by their fellow citizens.
New Haven, August, 1849.
THE END.
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VIOLA;
OR,
ADVENTURES IN THE FAR SOUTH-WEST
BY EMERSON BENNETT,
AIUTHOR OF "CLARA MORELAND," "FORGED WILL," "KATE CLARENDON,"t
"BRIDE OFTHE WILDERNESS," "WALDE-WARREN," "PPIONEER'S DAUlPS  TER,'" ETC., ETC.
READo THE  FOLLOWING  OPINIONS OF THE PRESS:
i We have perused this work with some attention, and do not hesitate to pronounO
It one of the very best productions of the talented author.  The scenes are laid in Texas,
and the adjoining frontier. There is not a page that does not glow with thrilling and
interesting incident, and will well repay the reader for the time occupied in perusing it.
The characters are most admirably drawn, and are perfectly natural throughout. We
have derived so much gratification firom the perusal of this charming novel, that we are
anxious to make our readers share it with us; and, at the same time, to recommend it
to be read by all persons who are fond of romantic adventures.  Mr. Bennett is a epi.
rited and vigorous writer, and his works deserve to be generally read; not only because
they are well  written, but that they are, ill imost part, taken from  events connected
with the history of our own country, from which much valuable information is derived
and should, thereftbre, have a double claim upoln oir preference, over those works where
the incidents are gleaned from the romantic legends of old castles, and foreign clinses.
The book is printed on fine paper, and is in every way got up in a style highly creditable
to the enterprising publisher."
"It is a spirited tale of frontier life, of which' Clara Moreland' is the sequel and
conclusion.   Mr. Bennett seems to delight in that field of action and adventure, whet9
Cooper won his laurels; and which is perhaps the most captivating to the general mind
of all the walks of fiction. There has been, so far, we think, a steady improvement in
his style and stories, and his popularity, as a necessary consequence, has been and is increasing. One great secret of the popularity of these out-door novels, as we may call
them, is that there is a freshness and simplicity of the open air and natural worl   I about
them-free from the closeness, intensity and artifiiality of the gas-ligb-.ed world revealed in works that treat of the vices and dissipations of large cities." —Philadeuphia
aturday Evening Post.
"This is one of the best productions of Mr. Bennett. The scenes are in and near
Texas.  Every page glows with thrilling interest, a,id the characters are well dravin aid
sustained. An interesting love plot runs through the book, which gives a faithful repre.,eutatios of life in the far Souith-West.  Mr. Pctersoa has issued VIOLA in his usual
neat style, and it is destined to have a great run." —Clinton Tribune.
We have received the above work and found time to give it an examination.  The
scenes are laid mostly in Texas, and pictured with all the vividness for which the author is so celebrated.  Those who are particularly fond of wild and romantic adveituires
may safely calculate upon finding' Viola' suited to their taste.  It is well written asd
handsomely printed."-Daily Journal, Chicago, Ill.
' It is a very interesting book. The scenes of this most exciting and interesting Stop
mance are found in Texas before and during the late Mexican war. It is written wIith
much spirit and pathos, and abounds in stirring incidents and adventures, and lwas ain
interesting and romantic love-plot interwoven with it; and is a faithful represe,lati,n
of' Life in the Far South-West.' The author of' VIOLtA,' will rank among the m(,-st
popular of American Novelists, and aided by the great energy and enterprise of his p-si 
isher, T. B. Peterson, is fast becoming a general favorite."-Gazette, BRhineteC/,, N,. I'
"This thrilling and interesting novel-equal to anything the celebrated aut)hor evTa
wrote-has been issued in a fifty cent volume; and we would advise every one,ht,
wants to get the value of his money, to get the book.  Bennett's works are the most in
teresting of any now published."- We;tern Entporium, Germa,ztovn, Ohio.
TIJlS BEAUTIFUL AND CELEBRATED  WORIK is published complete in one ilage
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THE RO IAN TRAITOR;
OR, THE DAYS OF
CICERO, CATO AND CATALINE.
BY HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT,
AUTHOR OF " CROMWELL," "THIE BROTRERS,/ ETC.
READ THE FOLLOWVING OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ABOUT IT.
From the Philadelphia Saturday Courier, of Sept. 10th, 1853.
"Ins, m,torical romance is the most powerfully wrought work which the indomitable
genius of the author has ever produced; and is amply sufficient of itself to stamp tll
writer as a powerful man. The startling schemes and plots which preceded the overthrow of the great Roman Republic, afford ample scope for his well-practised pen. and
we may add he has not only been fortunate in producing a work of such masterly pretensions, hut Mr. Herbert is equally so in the good taste, energy, and tact of his ent,,,r
prising publisher.  The book is admirably brought out, and altogether may be set down
as one of Peterson's'great hits' in literature."
From the Philadelphia Daily Penn.iylvanian, of Se&pt. 8th, 1853.
"The author has made one of his happiest efforts, and given in this volume a tale
which will stand the test of the most rigid criticism, and he read by all lovers of liters
ture that embodies the true, the thrilling, the powerful, and the sublime. In fact, we
would have thought it impossible to produce such a tale of the Republic in thes,i latter
days; but here we  have it-Sergius Cataline, Cethegus, Cassius, and the rest of that
dark band of conspirators, are here displayed in their true portraits. Those who have
read' Sallust' with care, will recognize the truthful portraiture at a glance, and see the
heroes of deep and treacherous villainy (rer,sed out in their lroper devil-doing character.
On the other hand, we have Cicero, the o         rator and true friend of the Commonwealth
of Rome.  We hav              e also his noble cotemporaries and coadjutors. all in this volume.
Would that space permitted for a more extended notice, but we are compelled to firbeer.
One thing is certain-if this book contained nothing more than the story of Paullus
4rvina, it would be a tale of thrilling interest."
From the Cleve2and, Ohio, True Democrat, of Wept. 8th, 1853.
"Those who have perused the former worls of this distinguished author, will not
fail to procure this book -It is a thrilling romance, and the characters bro,ght  forward, and the interest with which they are constantly invested, will insure for it a
great run."
From the Philadelphia City Item, of  ept. 10th, 1853.
"The Roman Traitor demands earnest commendation.  It is a powerful productionperhaps the highest effort of the brilliant and successfol author.  A thorough historisn
and a careful thinker, he is well qualified to write learnedly of any period of the world's
history.  The book is published in tasteful style, and will adorn the centre-table."
From the Boston Evening Transcript, of  6]t. 6th, 1853.
"' This is a powerfully written tale, filled with the thrilling incidents which have made
the period of which it speaks one of the darkest in the history of the Roman Rteputblic
The lovers of excitement will find in its pages ample food to gratify a taste for the dark-)
phases of life's drama."
From the Philadelphia Sundsy Di.spatch, of Sept. 4th, 1853.
(,ataline's conspiracy has been selected by Mr. Herbert as the subject of this stotTaking the historical incidents as recorded by the most authentic authors, he has wovel
*round them a net-work of incident, love and romance. which is stirring and exciting
Ftse taithful manner in which the author has adhered to history, and the graphic style
Jr which his descriptions abound, stamp this as one of the most excellent of his many
successfil novels."
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TE  FORGED WILL.
BY EMERSON BENNETT,
AUT1IOR OF " CLARA MORELAND," "VIOLA. "PIONEER'S DAUGHTER'," ETO
THIS CELEBRATED AND BEAUTIFUL WORK is published complete in one large
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The Press everywhere are unanimous in its praise, as being one f the most powerfully
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THiE FORGED WILL is truly a celebrated work It has been running thrcugh
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weeks, and has proved itself to be one of the most popular nouvelettes that has ever
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were printed,) could not be obtained at any price, and the publishers of the paper
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If Emerson Bennett had never written his many delightful and thrilling stories of
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justice of the law, but only to feel the heavy hand of retribution sooner or later; howe
vice may, for a time, triumph over virtue, but only for a time; how crime may lie con.
cealed, until its very security b-eeds exposure; how true virtue gives way to no temp.
tation, but bears the ills of life with patience, hoping for a better day, and rejoices
triumphant in the end. In short, from base hypocrisy he tears the veil that hides its
huge deformity, and gives a true picture of life as it exists in the crowded city. We do
cordially recommend this book for its excellent moral. It is one that should be circulated,
for it must do goo.
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TABLE  OF CONTENTS OF THIS EXTRAORDINARY WORK.
Opening the Journal.      A View in Lyons             Abelard and Heloise.
Adventure in search of Ruin. Avignonu -  Petrarch and Scenes on the Road.
Parting Tribute to Love.    Laura.                    The "Tug of War."
Three Desperate Days!     Our First Ruin.            "There they are, by Jove I"
T]he Poetry of Sea-Sickness. The Unconscious Blessing.  The Raven-tIaired One!
The Red Flannel NightCap. A Crash and a Wreck.       Heaven and Hell I
A Ship by Moonlight.      The Railroad of Life.      The " Hamlet" of Sculpture.
Arrival in London.        A Night Adventure.          The Modern Susannah.
The Parks of London.      "The Gods take care of Hey, Presto I Change!
Poet's Corner, Westminster   Cato."                   The Death Scene  of Cleo Abbey.                   The Triumphs of Neptune.   patra.
England's Monuments.      The Marquisi's Foot.        An Eulogy on Tuscany.
MNladame  T'ussaud's  Wax  Beauties ofiNaples Bay.   A Real Claude Sunset.
Works.                   Natural History of'the Laz- Tasso and Byron.
The "Beauties" of Hamp-   zaroni.                    The,Shocking Team!
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Love and Philosophy.      Love and Devotion.          The Venetian Girls.
' Love's Labor lost."     The Mortality of Pompeii.   The Bell-Crowned Hat I
A Peep at "The Shades."   Procession of the Ilost.   The "Lion's Mouth."
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English Mother and Ameri- The City of the Soul.      Diana and Endymion.
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An Effecting Scene.       Catholicity Considered.     Eccentricity of Art.
' Paris est un Artist."   Power Passing Away I       Thoughts in a Monastery.
lrhe Guillotine.          Byron Among the Ruins.   The Lake of Como.
' Give us Another I"      A Gossip with the Artists.  Immortal  Drummer Boy
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Fashionable Criticism.    "Weep for Adonis!"          The Cold Bath.
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'Lorette" and "Grisette."  "Sour Grapes."            The "Last  Rose of Sium
Kissing Day.              A Ramble about Tivoli.       mer."
'he Tattoo.               Illumination of St. Peter's. Waking the Echoes.
'he Masked Ball.          The "Niobe of Nations."    Watching the Avalanche.
rhe Incognita.            A Ghostlv Seeiel           A Beautiful Incident.
The Charms of Paris.      "Itoni s(oit qui mal y pense." A Shot with the Long Bcw.
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vttkm %&T (tl&m        t)
OR, 
I CLARA  SJRELA N 
OR,
ADVENTURES IN TIHE FAR SOUTH-WEST.
i,{_u.;~~la- 
BY EMERSON BENNETT.
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LIFE IN TIE S0U 9.
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GREAT INDUCEl                               }ENTS FQO  1859!
PETERSON$ mACAZiNE:
THE BEST AND CHEAPEST IN THE WORLD FOR LADIES!
This popular monthly Magazine will be greatly enlarged fo)r 1859. It will contain
nearly 1000 pages; from 25 to 30 steel plates; and about 800 wood engravings-and all
this for only TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. This is more, proportionately, than any magazine ever gave-hence "Peterson" is emphatically
The stories in "Peterson" are conceded to be the best published anywhere. The editors
are Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, author of "Mary Derwent," "Fashion and Famine;" and
Charles J. Peterson, author of "Kate Aylesford," "The Valley Farm," etc., etc.; and
they are assisted by Alice Carey, by Frank Lee Benedict, by the author of " Susy L.'s
Diary," by T. S. Arthur, E. L. Chandler Moulton, Mehitable Holyoke, Virginia F. Townsend, Carry Stanley, Caroline E. Fairfield, Ellen Ashton, F. L. Mace, E. Dewees, A. L.
Otis, and all the most popular female writers of America. In addition to the usulal
number of stories, there will be given in 1859, Three Original and Copy-righted
Novelets, viz:
JILLIAN: a Domestic Novel, By MRS. ANN S. STEPHENS.
THE OLD STONE MANSION: a Novel, By CHARLES J. PETERSON.
HELEN GRIME: a Novel, By FRANK LEE BENEDICT.
These, and other writers, contribute exclusively to "Peterson."  Morality and  virtue
are always inculcated. Its
COLORED FASHION PLATES IN ADVANCE,
It is the ONLY MAGAZINE whose Fashion Plates can be relied on!
Each number contains a Fashion Plate, engraved on steel. and colored; also. a dozen
or more New Styles, engraved on wood; also, a pattern, from which a Dress Mantilla,
or Child's Costume can be cut, without the aid of a mantua-maker-so that each Number, in this way, will SAVE A YEAR'S SUBSCRIPTION. The Paris, London,
Philadelphia and New York fashions are described, at length, each month. Patterns of
Caps, Bonnets, Ilead-dresses, &c., given. Its
SUPERB MEZZOTINTS AND OTHER STEEL ENGRAVINGS
Are by the first Artists, and one, at least, is given in every number. Its
ORIGINAL PATTERNS IN EMBROIDERY, CROCHET, &o."i
The Work-Table department of this Magazine is wholly unrivalled.  Every 
Number contains a dozen or more patterns in every variety of Fancy work; Crotchet,
Embroidery, Knitting, Bead-work, Shell-work, Hair-work, &c., &c., &c.  Occasionally,
SUPERB COLORED PATTERNS FOR SLIPPERS, PURSES, CHAIR SEATS,
&O., are given-each of which, at a retail store, would cost Fifty Cents.
JI.V F-J.VTIREL I JUEtP COOK-BOOK.
The original household receipts of "Peterson" are quite famous.  For 1859, the author
of these receipts has prepared an ORIGINAL COOK-BOOK, containing receipts for every
kind of dish, with directions for setting the table, &c., &c. Every one of these
Receipts has been tested. A portion of this-the best and most economical CookBook ever prepared-will be given monthly; and the whole finished within the year,
illustrated with numerous engravings.  This alone will be worth the price of" Peterson"
for 1859. The usual receipts, in addition, will be given.
NEW AND FASHIONABLE MUSIC.
A piece of Fashionable Music will be given in every Number. Also, Hints for the
Toilet, Etiquette, and other matters interesting to ladies.
TERMS-ALWAYS IN ADVANCE.
1 Copy for 1 year,  - $2.00 ] 5 Copies for 1 Year,- $7.50 1 12 Copies for 1 Year,  $15.00
3 Copies for 1 year,    5.00 1 8 Copies for 1 Year, - 10.00 1 16 Copies for 1 Year,   20.00
PREMIUMS FOR GETTING UP CLUBS!-Three, Five, Eight, or more
copies, make a Club.  To every person getting up a Club, and remitting the money, our
Premium Album for 1859, will be given gratis. For a Club of Twelve, an extra copy
of the Magazine will be sent.  For a Club of Sixteen, an extra copy and the "Album."
Address, post-paid,                CHARLES J. PETERSON,
No. 306 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
'All Postmasters constituted Agents; but any person may get up a Club.  Specimens sent gratuitously, if written for.