Evansville Journal, Volume 18, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 1 August 1867 — Page 2

THE KVANSVILLE DAILY JOURNAL.tTHURSDAY AFGUST 1. 1867.

IForeign Corraspondence of lue' Boston Journal. LETTER FROM " CARLETON. "

Legalized Gambling at Wiesbaden. A Vivid Picture of the Scene. JIoio the SalLath is Kept in G-rrnany. ; Wiesbaden, June 26 1867. To the Editor of the Boston Journal . i Stick a ria into vour map six miles east of the Ilhine and twenty north of the Main, and you have the locality of this capital of the Duchy of Nas sau. The State is a petty piece of patchwork, made up by the Vienna Quilting party, in 1815, from all the odds and ends of territory lying round loose twenty-three bits taken altogether makinp a Sovereignty about as large as Worcester County, with a population of 400,000. This city has 21,000 inhabitants. It is located at the foot of the southern slope of the Taunus hills which are very much like those of Vermont rounded and green with verdure. Ascend them and look southward you behold the Ithine winding far away through fertile meadows, the Main coming in from the east with a more turbulent tide Frankfort, the city of banking houses, the home of the Kothchilds, and then west of the Ilhine the town of Mayeucc, with strong fortifications, tall towers and spires, old churches, quaint architecture dating back to the eleventh century. At your feet is Wiesbaden, a city of hot springs, hotels, boarding houses, public parks, bread avenues, fish ponds, shady groves, delightful walks, one of the chief watering places of Germany. A few miles east is Ilomlerg, m the Duchy, of Hesse Ilomberjr, and faither up the Ilhine is Badeu-Baden, so called to distinguish it from another Baden in Switzerland. These three towns are noted as piaces where mi' io uvining tables are established by the (ira'nd Dukes of the several, States. As there is an effort being made to introduce the German method of keepiag the Sabbath into the Uuited States, it may be interesting to see how it is kept in the capital of Nassau. Gustave Dore, the greatest of living French artists, has reproduced a "Scene at Weisbaden " iu a great picture now on exhibition at Paris, attracting much attention by its wonderful portrayal of character the play of conflicting passions under the excitement of the gaming table. I fchall only fsini to give an outline pen and ink picture of the same scene. THE KURSAAL. It is Saturday evening a calm and quiet night. Thousands ( f pleasure seekers are walking in the grounds around the Kurxaal, or public gaining house. We steal across the square, planted with magnin'ceut lindens, where are fountains playing, and enter the building beneath an imposing portico. If we wish to play at hazard there are men iu gorgeous livery ready to take our hat and caae. We enter a spacious, lofty hall, its roof supported by fluted colunius, its ceiling ornate wi'h stucco, in golden panntls, with frescoed walls, da mask divans, oaken floors, waxed and polished. This is the great dancing saloon, where, from nine o'clock this Saturday evening till the break r i day on Sunday morning, the waltz and the quadrille will be kept up. There Are coffee rooms and restaurants, and two or three thousand persons are sitting beneath the trees in the park, listening to the music of the baud, sipping coffee and eating ices, supplied fro:u these rooms. Turning to our right hand we enter the gaming rooms four in number large and lofty. Pendant from the gilded ceiling in each room are five great chandeliers their thousand prisms of clear cut glass sparkling with rainbow hues. The walls are hung with damask. There are luxurious louuges, and in the corridors we find cozy retreats for conversation, while reaching from floor to ceiling are pier glasses in gilded frames, refleeting all the scene. In "the centre ot the room is a roulette table, around which are thirty or more chairs. I know nothing of the game, only tba,t in the centre of the table a horizontal wheel, shaped like a dish, is slowly turning, and that a marble is set spinning in an opposite direction inside the wheel, and that when the projectile force of the marble is gone, it will settle in one of the many cells r.t the bottom of the wheel may be in No. 7, or 11, or 29 just as it happens. The table "s covered with green cloth, which is divided into souares as il it was a multiplication table as it is to the managers of the coueern but-4 table of subtraction to most of those who try their luck at the wheei. Besides the squares which are numbered there are diamond shaped figures, triangles and lines: but whi t they all mean I do not know, except that risks and chances are greater in some places than in others. K;ght meu are required to manage the ounk that is to keep the wheel and ball in motion rake in the money, and pay it out when the bank happen. to lose. They have little rakes with ebony handles, and before them are piles of bank-notes andheypsof silver and gold. - They are very bland and courteous in manner, iaultlessly dressed, -with nice regard jo taste and elegance. No teller iu a State Street bank can handle notes more adroitly, or toss out gold with greater facility. All tLe beats are occupied, and there

are hundreds of visitors who would sit down if they could old meu and women middle-aged both sexes young men and girls; some of whom are only lookers on. . You hear a constant clink, clink, clink pf silver and gold, and a rustle of bank-notes. The wheel is always in motion, turn ing at a moderate speed. The ball is set rolling; it glides round the concave, dropping nearer and nearer to the centre; but before it reaches the cell at the bottom there has been laid at every square of ihe green cloth a S'tecc of money a guilder, a dollar, a apoleon, or a thousand francs perhaps. , . , -j , . , . - ' THE PLAYERS. At the first table is a gray-haired man with a white mustache and smoothly shaved cheeks. He has a florid countenance. He must be at least sixty years old, for Time is multyplying ancf deepening the furrows. He is not a desperate gamester perhaps pla3Ts for the fun . of it. He stakes but a dollar at a time loses gains, loses, and after a while leaves the table. A young man with a tuft of hair on his chin and thin side whiskers, hollow cheeks, sunken eyes, wearing a threadbare coat and dirty linen, takes a vacant seat, pulls a lean portmonie from his pocket, lays a dollar on thegreen cloth, and watches with intense eagerness the rolling ball. He is poor and this is the way he has taken to increase his fortune. Luck is on his side. He is a dollar richer. He clutches the shining silver, turns it over; gloats upon it with miserly satisfaction ; he lays another. "Nineteen," says the man at the wheel, and the dollar is scooped away. The next time he will win again. He is mistaken; the bank takes it. He tries once more; sees a second dollar disappear: then ouits h's seat, crest

fallen, looking longingly at the growing heap of gold and silver beneath the hands of the raker. - At the other sidd of the table sits a lady in the bloom of early womanhood, of a fair countenance, and large, lustrous eyes. She was here yesterday evening with a pile of gold before her. and was playing twenty francs at a time. She wears a jockey it with a yiiperb ostrich plume, and her rich silk lilac colored robe lies at her feet in wavy rolls. When she walks it is with the air of a queen, and she sits there seemingly indiffer-, eut whether twenty franc pieces are won or lost, and yet when four successive stakes have been swept away a slight flush overspreads her face; she bites her uadeilip; smooths the wavy hair upon her forehead, and with an air of bravado lays another piece and wins. A little later every oncof the shining pieces of metal have disappeared ; all gone into the bank. Standing behind this lady is a young man, dressed with taste and elegance, who has a well trimmed beard, smoothly brushed hair, who plays but a dollar at a time, but he lays it down with an .air of one who expects to win. lie goes from the table richer than he came. At the end of the table is a fellow with a hard, cold face an eye of the color of steel, who looks not to the right or the left, but only upon the table. He lays down a thousand francs in gold. It is raked into the bank, and not a muscle of his countenance moves, lie lays a second thousand, and sees it drawn away with as much unconcern as if it were but a half-dime. True it is not a great amount, but the wheel is all the while turning, and there are not many men who can afford to lose two hundred dollars every minute. A tall man broad shouldered with a bald crown, thin locks of hair about his ears, great shaggy eye-brows, rough features, wearing a dark suit, with a heavy gold chain to his watch, lays a half a doxen napoleons scattering them all over the table, to divide his risks. He loses, then wins loses and wins again. Some arc intently watching the playing marking the number to see if there is any lucky figure. Among them is a woman wearing a black bonnet and faded black silk dress. She has a long row of figures, and is engaged iu a mathematical calculation to find out the ratio between gains and losses. Look at her face narrowly! it is as cold and passionless as that of yonder marble statue in the park. She could see a man step upon the f;:'al drop and swing into eternity, wh.iout raising her fan to shut out even for a second, the horrid sight. No scene of suffering can change for an instant, the rigidity ot that corrugated countenance as hard as the hardeststeel ! She has finished her calculations, folds her paper slowly, puts up her fencil deliberately, watches the table, ays a double guilder on number twelve, sees it swept away, lays lays another another, a fourth; ail are gone, but the fifth wins the sixth loses, yet there i3 no change of feature in that me tall ie countenance. There is another' woman clothed in black bonnet, shawl and dress all black mourning raiment, perhaps, for some friend gone to the future life. Fifty years ago she was a chi)d, but Time has changed her once raven hair to an iron gray. Her cheeks were blooming once, but now they are bleached to ashy whiteness. II or lips are thin, and at times they are tir.two tightly across the teeth. She is restless. There is a coi.stant movement of hands and arms, a turtinsr of the head, a quick glance upon the throng, now to the right, now to the left, a constant readjustment of her ' shawl, a twitching of the mus;-les ot the face, and when the dollar which she has held disappears, there is a gasp and an involuntary reaching forth of the hand to save it. . She had a pile

of dollars a short time since but they have disappeared. She turns with haggard countenance to go away, but the attraction of the place is irresistible. Shet opens her purse, finds another guilde', and while looking at it breathes upon her fingers as it it were hot. Passion has lighted the fifes,and every fibre, muscle and tendon is heated. She wins, and picks up the coin with a ghastly smile at

this freak ot fortune. . "Twenty-five!" says one of the conductors of the bank. The ball has stopped in that cell. The ebonyhandled rakes go out, and silver, gold, and paper are raked in from those who have lost, and guilders, dollars. and Napoleons tossed to those who have won. It is the work of thirty seconds. Then another whirl of the wheel and roll of the ball repeated kept up from noon till midnight from midnight till morning. Hie bank men, when exhausted, give place to others working and resting like operatives in a manufactory when business drives. Clink clink clink without cessation a sound like a hammer on an anvil dull, metallic, hardening in its influence, blunting all the susceptibilities of the heart In the adjoining rooms the other tables are also surrounded by players. those who cannot find seats reaching over the heads of the sitters to lay theirstakes. rew words are spoken, and those verv low, but you hear in stead the rolling ball, the rustling of bank notes, the .clinking of dollars, the call of the number of the cell in which the ball finally rests, the footsteps of those arriving and departing, and occasionally a long drawn mournful sigh of one who has lost his money. THE SPRINGS OF WIESBADEN. There are several springs which have medicinal qualities, and the water, boiling up from the earth at a high heat, is exeelleut for bathing. When -cold it has a taste somewhat unlike that of the Congress Spring at Saratoga. In the rot miner a band plays at the spring and thousands gather there to drink water, chat with their friends and enjoy a promenade before breakfast. The early hours of the forenoon are given to bathing. At noon gambliug commences. In fhe afternoon the band plays in the park behind the kin-anal to attract the crowd to the gaming tables. Such is the regular order of the day through the week, Sundays included. Services are held in the churches on the Sabbath, which are attended by the people of the town. Few very few of the visitors enter the churches, Catholic or prot e-taut that is of visitors .from European countries. At the English church morning and evening s'-rvices are held. I heard an excellent sermon from a young minister of the established church, which was listened to by a large congregation. Wiesbaden is a favorite' resort for English families, and to their credit be it vsaid very few of them stake their money at the gaming table. It is all right to put up money on the result of the Derby, but gaining in public on the throw of the dice, or the roll of a ball, is contrary to English laws, and no reputable man cares to engage in that which society will not tolerate. Even the most debased of the English visitors will not gamble on Sunday, for the Sabbath is an old established English institution, and, as a class, Englishmen have a great respect for everything that is ancient and English. SABBATH EVENING. Our pathway lies past the knrsial, and I ask your readers to halt with me by the doorway, not that it is a pleasure and a delight thus to use the hours of the day of rest, but that we may see how the Sabbath is kept in the capital of one of the States of Germany, and in several of the large towns. A group of little girls are . playing at hide-and seek in the great dancing hall, behind the crimson velvet divans, chasing each other around the fluted columns, their merry laughter echoing along the gilded roof. Lookiug into the saloons, our eyes are dazzled by the many-colored rays emerald, ruby, sapphire reflected from the thousand prisms of the great chandeliers. There is a sojind of dripping waters in the court. The air is laden with the fragrance of flowers. The light of a hundred lamps illume the surrouuding park. You may sit at will beneath the grand old trees and listen to the cricket's chirp, or the gurgling of the water flowing from the fountains, or you may rest upon the luxurious divans and behold the scene. Art has done her best to captivate the eye. to please the ear deaden conscience "and dream the soul. There are four great saloons radiant with light four restless, anxious throngs of men and women seated", standing, walking nervou-uy, calculating chances, exultir.g over gains, bewailing losses. The d-ors of this magnificent suite of rooms are open to everybody. The gambling is conducted on a democratic plan; prince and peasant, countess and courtesan all-may enter and roam at will through the gilded halls, play if they please, provided they have a guilder forty cents American currency. That man yonder, who has pale and sunken checks and dreamy eyes, who wears ?: oh: threadbare coat, who convu5i '.'ly clutches his las: piece of silver, who, is lie loses it, will go to bed sir; -t-.Ic-s, win a thousand doHa:--. tr. ere daybreak have his pockets bursting with handful of gold; or that portly dama in a chair upon the other side of the table, wearing a white satin robe covered with gold spangles, with a great pile of gold belore her, may go from hence without a penny in her purse. Be it

one way or the other, the men who whirl the wheel and roll the ball will I

be utterly indifferent. They are as remorseless as fate. They work for the bank, and the bank has no soul Come not here for soul, or heart, or conscience. 1 hey are extinct burned up. These men and women are animate forms only flesh and blood, bones, cords, muscles destitute, utterly devoid of a soul, of a conscience to be quickened or animated by moral considerations. Before we leave the hall let us take one more look. There is one player whom we must not pass by; it is an old woman, with thin, gray hair, hollow cheeks, toothless gums, shriveled countenance, deep set eyes, dim with age. and trembling hands. She wears ill-fitting garments, an old straw bonnet trimmed with faded ribbons, a shawl worn threadbare. She is an old habitue of the place. Year after year she has sat by this table. Many thousand francs she has won and lost. She is low down now, and will be lower soon in the grave. Her voice is sepulchral; hollow as if sounding from a tomb. She has six dollars in ti5 corner of a dirty handkerchief ; she plays and every one is lost, then leaves the table, walks round the room, mumbling to herself, her bent form and trembling limbs attracting for a moment the eyes of all around her. She goes to the door, looks out upon the star-lit sky, but sees no beauty there no hand divine beckonin? her upward to a purer sphere. There has been a time in her life when heaven was nearer than perdition. If there are voices still calling her to a better life, she'does uot hear them, or she is averse toward them, for she turns toward the table, raises her arm over the shoulders of the crowd around the table, tosses down a dollar and wins two! Her bleared eyes gleam once more. For a moment there is a hysterical movement of the toothless jaws and a sepulchral laugh at this unexpected luck, and though it is near midnight, she sits down to the table to recover the losses of the evening. ve leave ner there and hasten to escape from such a suburb of the bottomless pi f, where heart and soul and conscience where all that is sweet. teuder, lovely, pure and holy in this life, where all hope of Heaven, of joy and bliss in the life to come, are burnt out of the heart bv the un quenchable flames of passion for play, devouring the frequenters of the place lhey know that the chance? are against them; they know that the bank pays the Grand Duke of Nas sau thirty thousand dollars a year for the privilege ol keeping the gaming tables; they know that the vearlv profits of the bank are enormous, and yet they continue to hazard their money, hoping to have a run of luck which will make them rich. The pic ture would.be dark enoush if it were only here and there individuals giving themselves to the play; but when what is per and society called the entire upmiddling classes of are carried away for play, and when the by passion gamblipg is legalized, patronized and fostered by the government, the picture is horrible. Legalized iniquity is incomparably more baneful than that which is not corporate. Never have I seen a place where there was such utter forgetfulness of God such bold and impious desecration ot the Sabbath, such debasement of the intellect, and such a flaming up of the passions. In these days, when strenuous efy forts are put forth to make the Sabbath in the United States a legal holiday, it will be instructive to look upon this picture, although it is so dark and horrible. Let the people of the United States be on their guard against all the attempts which are made for keeping the Sabbath after the German fashion. CARLETON. QUEEIJSWARE HOLLINGSWORTH BROS., IMPORTERS OF OUEENSWAEK Cliinzi, GL AS SlW ARE, Ac, Ac.,' in all their various branches, HAVE BEEN IJIPOBTISO direct from England since August, and are duly posted as to the demands of the trade, in quality, style, price, etc. Besides the experience of years in this business, we go into the English market WITH GOLD, and buy as cheap United States. as any house in the We import and sell a style of WHITE GRANITE CJOODS which no other house in the city can get from tne factories direct. Tfley are very desirable styles au.l will sell more readily than any goods in the market. Such is the opinioa of ;;ood Judges. That Evansviite is a cheap market for Queensware no viie ic i.ieiy to dispute, and we deem it unnecessary to multiply words. Vou will find ns at the old stand, IV o. s I"ii-t Strce, and Xo. S Sycamore Street, eu26 ati EVANSVILLE INI).

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