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“FAITES VOTRE JEU." Gaming Tables at the German Spas. A CROWNING HARVEST. ee wast The Last Night’s Play at Baden Baden. GAMDLING OUTLAWED IN GERII/ RY. ‘Three Million Franes the Winnings of} M. Dupressoir’s Season. ATTRACTIONS OF THE GAMES. Fireworks, Suicides and Musie of the Summer. ROYAL AND ARTISTIC VISITORS. Whe Pay the Immense Profits of the Gambling Houses. GAMING IN FRANCE. Morality and Immorality of the Green Tables— Seenes During the Last Hours of the Play— Crowds of Peasants in the Gambling Halls—Twelve o’Clock and the “Dernier Coun’—The Fu- ture of Baden Baden. BADEN Bapen, Nov. 1, 1872, ‘The ancient glory of Baden Baden has departed. Last night, precisely at twelve o'clock, the last stakes were won and lost at roulette and trente ct quarant, and therewith the last gambling hell in the Grand Duchy of Baden was closed forever. Although the majority of the wealth and beauty | had left the charming valley with the falling leaves there was still a sufficient number remaining to give some dramatic effect to the unusual scenes at the finis; and, to increase this effect, permission had ‘been given by the authorities for the peasants and working classes of the city and neighborhood to ‘bring in their sparings to the bank on the last night of the play. At twelve o’clock the half of the re- Maining inhabitants of Baden Baden were as- sembled within the playing halls, and some thou- sands, who could not find entrance, promenaded the front of the Conversations House, under the brilliant illumination, waiting to see the last of the fun. At a quarter to twelve the four large halls were crowded to excess, the human walls surrounding them. being five or ix deep, and many could not get near the tables tempt Dame Fortune at all. As the clock struck twelve the last game had been decided; in a few Minutes later the winnings of the day were transported to the bank treasury, and the citizens of Baden Baden, chiefly hotel and boarding house keepers and other persons who have considered Baden visitors as their rightful prey, went home to ponder as to what is to be done next, now that M. Dapressoir’s bait will cease to pring more vic- tims tnto their nets. THE PAST SEASON. Baden has had a very brilliant season during the Summer of 1872, and the bank has made a gross winnings of some three million francs, most of ‘which, after deducting the expenses, has sped into the spacious vaults of the sharebolders, especially those of M. Dupressoir himself, whois the heart and soul of the whole place—a semi-King, who rules Baden Baden with a despotic yet regal hand. His bank, his natural scenery—which he aided God in creating—nis beautiful Oos-Thal, his army of demi- monde, have attracted in the past year some sixty ‘thousand visitors, among them the most brilliant birds of passage that honor Germany with their presence. And that Monsieur Dupressoir under- stands the business of attracting visitors to his paradise is proved by what he has done in the past year. The mere announcement of these attrac- tions, as they are set forth in the official paper of M. Dupressoir, is enough to draw together a large crowd of tourists, who wish to find a place where they can get rid of their surplus funds and enjoy themselves unrestrainedly gt the same time. During the season which has just closed there have been sixty-six concerts, soirées and matinées, nineteen concerts directed by Strauss, fifty-six mil- ‘itary concerts, eleven operatic, ten dramatic and five ballet representations, four lectures, five sotrées de prestidigitation, seventeen balls and réuntons, two gymnastic representations, three days of horse racing, four days of pigeon shooting, four days de grandes battues, two nights of grand dis- Play of illuminations and fireworks. “Among the latter exhibitions (connected with fireworks) the official editors have forgotten a very important at- traction—the dozen cases of suicide by shooting which have occurred during the season. rmance in this department was enacted only last week by a butcher’s putting end to his miserable exiatence after losing his all at the gam- bling tables. BULOW AND STRAUSS. ‘To recapitulate a quarter of M. Dupressoir’s om- cial survey of the attractions of the past season lead you to believe that Baden len is in truth @ very desirable place for residence. Among the prominent artists who have been induced to ‘Visit his valley there were the songstresses Artot, Carlotta Patti, Mallinger, Monbeili, Penco, Rubini, anda dozen more nightingales, besides twelve prom- inent rs, Whose names have not become as yet celebrat enough to bear repeating; one declama- toress, ten ‘pianistes and eight ptanists—among ‘whom Hans von Bulow’s name stands foremost; a host of other cclebrities, violinists, hornists and seven cheys d’orchestre—Hans von Bulow, Johann boil rahms, Konnemann, Schuch, Gots and Neabei The directors did all within their wer, by means of .pald criticisms and vertisements, to make Strauss the great of the season. He stayed sdme five weeks in Baden Baden, ana the official “chronique of the season” is redolent with his oe In October M. Dupressoir’s editor writes the following brary style:—“At the classic fetes of the ancient Greeks an enlivening Play always sucveeded the performance of the more earnest drama; so it was on the 12th of October,” &c., &c., when Hans von Billow ard ingot ae Cate the Vo orchestra Lifes ur e ishment. great force consists in his masterly direction of the more earnest music of BRTHOVEN, WAGNER AND LISZ7. while Strauss, as you are aware, is the great expo- nent of his own dance music. The official editor remarks very naively, “Bilow is growil quite my Sore with our art-ap Ogata public.” Now, tween Bulow and Strauss there is a vast difference. They represent two opposite musical tendencies—the one classic, the latter light and modern. How ridiculous it 1s, then, fer musically educated persons to assert (as did a writer in the & few days ago) that there was no @ifference at all in the excellence of the music when it was directed by the reguiar Kapellmeister , Or by the celebrated Viennar Waizr- ! “Herr Johann Strauss is the musical hero of y,’’ wrote this critic. “f could not find any taste tor his concerts. 1 heard a great noise and pd @ mal lay ridiculous comedy with his irector's and his violin. People act in this on the front of @ market booth, not before sselect public.” ‘The presence of several members of European royalty contributed, however, very essentially to the enjoyment of the Strauss concerts. There were the German Kaiser and the Kaisermm, the Grand Duke and the Grand Duchess of Baden, and many others. One day, I think it was the 18th of October, when all the ace aad dukes, duchesses, lpn = princesses, Emperor an were in the concert room, the Kaiser Wil- gent to Strauss, while at his director's poet, of the Order of the Red Eagle, and the @rand Duke of Baden followed his st uncle's er ae eed travels’ about with a trunk full of his many @rders and decorations.and @ private talk between ‘Withetm and Augusta over tea Sogocide upon a distribution of these favora. For- Scaahe, Hans Von Bulow was already in posses- sion of ‘these orders, or there have been jousy between the two masters, weeks wo. only a few ago to attend the questa, and ldgube very tiuch whether even & very m\ dozen of the Frenoh domi ‘are to be found in the whole of the deserted town now; and, without = Baden Baden loses its principal characteris- “BADEN BADEN IS A POEM,’ says a roaches: “Its praises mre been si i» every tune, ever! prose in verse.” A Uorman oubaour has compared It to the lost paradise, without its innocence and the forbidden fruit. 1 g ol the last sentence. >} natural beauties the valley of the Oos has scarcely its equal in the Black Forest; but it has been hitherto @ parading only for fallen Eves, Bald a German banker from Frankfort to me last night:— “It is a good thing thatthe gambling is to cease to-night. The atmosphere will be purified, It haa been impossible for us to bring our Sanghiors here to spend the Summer among these beauties of nature, for the promenades to the hails of the Kurhaus have been flied with the French half- world, Now, thank God, there will be a chi a ‘The French are selling their villas in the neighbor- hood, and there will be 07 rtunity for respecta- ble people to come ana here.” THE FUTURE OF BADEN BADEN. But, contrary to my expectations, I was assured that these villas have not faliena in price. On the contrary, such property is incre in value. The city authorities, who now take the entire tration of the Kur establishment into their own hands, wil conduct the affairs of the place with as renee to attracting visitors as M. Du- ressoir done hitherto, and life in Baden aden will henceforth be quieter and purer, and ‘the class of visitors will doubtiess be ante Tespect- able.. With the exception of the Baden Baden will present all its earlier Pr becoret in the co! Reason. ‘There will still he ‘the to’ ate wn, with vilias, so afcadian: tn aspects the springs OF the vi 80 art re + ol 16 Brunhen, the rows of. wooden booth an with trinkets and Bohemian glass; the Pig crowd of holiday folk of all the old castle, the Forester’s House, the valley of the Murz—all giving to the @ savor Of fairyland.” A sum. of $100,000 ace will be amply sufficient to meet all the expenses. connected with keeping the grounds and establish- ment in order, and @ great part of this sum will be ‘ovided for out of the interest of a fund already lu existence. The city must henceforth exert more energy in viding for its own existence and pros. perity. jitherto M. Dupressoir has done every- thing, and the burghers have simply had to exert their restricted mental capacities in devising means of getting rich by extortions practised on the visitors, The hotel and boarding house keepers of such places generally deteriorate into @ clique of land pirates, equally as demoralized as their co- laborers on the Ocean, and perhaps more danger- ous, because they sail under respectable sone and ‘thus easily gather unconscious victims wit their dens. x THE MORALITY OF GAMBLING. ‘Thank G esterday was the last day oflife for the gambling tables here, and with the 3ist of Decem- ber the tables of Homburg and Wiesbaden will also be closed, and Germany will be free from all such—I was going to say iniquity, but am reminded of the existence of the hundreds of lotteries, legalized by the government, which systematically draw many millions of thalers yearly, not only out of the pock- ets of the rich, but from the hard-earned savings of the working classes. To say that Prussia (or Germany) has abolished the gambling tables be- cause of the immorality of gambling is simply ridiculous, Ido not wish to uphold the green ta- bles; but no one can believe for a moment that the government has any moral scruples on the sub- ject of gambling so long as lotteries are a Jegal mode by which bankrupt cities, corporations, and even princes (as in the case of Prince Pappenheim in Bavaria), can pay off thelr debts. Still the abolishment of gambling in Germany is con- sidered very generally as a es in the right direc- tion. I think I never saw gambling and its vota- ries in a worse light than on the closing night just assed. Like a good paternal government Baden had permitted all. the peasants, working men, journeymen, hotel waiters and servant girls to visit the gambling taple for this one night and to try their fortunes at the green cloth. At other times the police and the bank directors are very careful in excluding all such persons from the piay, and thus the evil necessarily connected with the gambling hells has been greatly mitigated. How necessary was such a regulation was proved to me last even- ing, for I think that every boarding house keep- eress, every servant gurl, every petty tradesman and all the waiters from miles around must have been collected at the gambling tables. Many HUNDREDS OF HARD-EARNED THALERS were thus put into M. Dupressoir’s bank. was a good sprinkling of stude and from Heidelberg, decorated and ornamente: with corps ribbon, top boots and eyeglasses, who form as a rule a fair contingent at the tables, but were last evening inexcessive numbers. The habt- twés of the halls were absent. ‘The Russian princes, the Wallachian boyars, the-Polish barons, the English milords and dowagers, the German yunkers, from the wilds of Pomerania, were ab- sent. There were only people of the place, ande of | Place of . As to Dupr his benefactions to the city bore, been too hi ak of eat You will hear his advocates spe: the he has given yy to the poor, of the ohu he has helped to found, of the widows and he has aided in their need. When- ever I such et I reminded of rob- am bers ana bandits, whee after the fashion of Robin Hood, would rob the wealthy traveller and pe the praise of the ignorant peasants by distributing part of the stolen property to a widow or a THE FATE OF THE GREEN TABLES. . ot FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN, Oct. 26, 1872. On. the 3ist of December the gambling houses at Wiesbaden, Ems, Homburg, Baden and Nauheim will have to be closed. The viewsof Emperor Wil- lam on the subject of gambling are well known, and no hopes are entertained of his granting the banks any further favors. The paragraph of the Penal code. to the Prussian banks is as fol- lows —“' eVer shall make a business of hazard Play shall be punished with imprisonment of from three months to two yearsand a fine of from one hundred to two thousand thalers, and prohibited from the exercise of his rights as a citizen. If the accused is @ foreigner. he can at the same time be expelled the land.” On the day of closing all the contracts with the playing banks are null and no claims for loss of winnings can be entertained. ‘That these bank’s have many advocates is explained in the fact that they have been a source of great wealth to places that otherwise would never have come into significance, The.nataral attractions of Homburg are certainly very great—lying at the foot of the Taunus range, surrounded by most beaufiful scenery, and but eight or nine miles from Frankfort-on-the-Main. The waters are, however, the least of its attractions, although the bank took care to advertise them as panaceas for all the ills that flesh is heir to. An opera could not have been supported there without the aid of M. Blanc, the bank director, who has contributed to it most luberally, taking care to secure each sea- son @ succession of the finest musical talent of the Continent at great cost. That, however, the society will be improved by the loss of the banks is very certain; for at present Homburg is notorious as the gathering place of blacklegs, swindlers and birds of like feather. Ag @ suburb of Frankfort Homburg might take a prominent place in future if the raiilrpad company would run morning and night fast trains. Rents are so dear in Frankfort that hundreds of families would be glad to secure houses at moderate rents anywhere within half an hour’s railroad journey of the city. It is very questionable whether Baden Baden will be able to sustain its old brilliancy after the loss of the bank so well as Homburg. Up to ka year 1869 M. Dupressoir paid Homburg a year! rental of 300,000 florins and a contribution of 4,000 florins to the theatre at Carlsruhe. The pastseason has been avery brilliant one; the theatrical and operatic entertainments better than at Homburg. It is not thought that Ems will suffer much when the bank is closed there. We have the testimony of a celebrated physician of that city to the effect that sucha change can only be beneficial to the guests coming there in search of health. Thé same authority thinks that in the end Wiesbaden will notsuffer by the change. After a temporary de- rangement he thinks that the place will become one of the most beautiful, most amusing and bene- ficial of spas, having the most excellent arrange- ments for its guests. Ems can only gain by the change, as the gambling bank plays there, as at Nanheim and Weldungen, a secondary rdle. Ems offers in its mild climate the most beauti- ful neighborhood of the romantic Rhine- land, the magnificent spa establishment and promenades, its happy, entertaining, brilliant yet noiseless spa life of the highest char- acter, greater attractions than the gambiing house, which would disappear with moral if not pecuniary advantages. The two banks of Wiesbaden and Ems won in the season of 1871—that is, from April to the end of September—a sum of 1,717,703 guil- ders, leaving out the months till the end of Decem- r, When the Wiesbaden bank closes for the season. Out of the winnings the bank provides the so-called spa funds, the opera subsidy and a hundred other expenses that will in future be paid by the city. A HEAVY TAX AND WHO PAYS IT, The winnings of all the German gambling hells amount to 7,000,000 florins ($3,000,000) per year, an amount contributed entirely by the trav- elling public, mostly rich Russians, English and Americans. Pictures of ruin brought about by in- sane bag 4 have been too often drawn to need repetition here. A certain number of suicides ; occur every year as the result of lost fortunes and ruined characters, and these are most unpleasant events for the directors, who endeavor to conceal the facts as much as possible, The narrative of the sad event is usually found recorded thus in the local papers:—“Yesterday evening a young man shot himself on the promenade, Letters found upon his person indicate that an unfortunate love affair caused the sad step.” Ruined players are an abomination to all gambling bank directors. Homburg has paia annually a sum of nearly twen- v thousand dollars to persons who have lost all their money at the bank, in order to enable them to reach their homes. ‘This is only done for those who have played and lost heavily; the lesser nsh geta second class railroad tcket for Frankiort, and the gods may help them further on their jour- ney. Many young Americans never get further than Homburg, the first gambling hell on the route. Provided with a few thousand dollars for a journey ofa year or more, the temptation just to stake a Napoleon overcomes them, they play and jose, and, endeavoring to win back what they have lost, become reckless and lose all. To wina large sum is next to impossible. The stories of tempt- ing winnings are often fictitious baits. Even the immense gains of M. Bugeja at Homburg are of a doubtiul character, he being believed to be an agent of the bank employed to give ¢clat to its closing season. PUBLIC SPIRIT OF THE BANKS. The “benevolence” of the banks has been most ostentatious. All sorts of humanitarian institutes Were supported by them, and even new churches, which have come to astand-still, were frequently completed out of the bank funds; but asa rule such gifts are made in a manner not to hurt the feelings of reiigious people. M. Blanc arranges a concert “for the benefit of the St. D. church, to aid in its completion.” Since the artists have to be paid at a very high rate, such concerts invariably result in loss. ‘This is immediately covered by the bank, which adds im of three to six thousand francs, ‘‘as the result of @ concert in the Cursal.” Thus the gift comes to the Church in a purified form, though it wowld not do to a it under too sharp examination. Thus the anks are said to have done a great amount of good work as well as bad. It seems questionable justice to close the gambling hells and allow the lotteries to flourish as ever in Germany. The morality of the one is as good as the other. Indeed, I incline to the gambling fells, in which rational men en- tered with eyes open, determined to lose to a cer- tain amount, while they have equal chances of winning, whereas the winnings of the lotteries are very few and jar between. Driven eut of Germany the gambling banks will soon find fruitful soil else- where, for the propensity to gamble seems fatal to these, as | have said, petty traders, portiers, wash- erwomen, the wives of the funkeys and the prom- ising boys and girls of Baden Baden. Even the fmoral brilliancy imparted to Baden Baden dur- ing the height of the season by the raimbow-clad Frencli “daughters of pleasure’ would have been preferable to this scene of ignorance and stupidity at the gambling tables. As carly as eight o'clock there Was not a chance to get even a sight of the tables, but the amounts staked were insignificant—a guiden or at most a Napoleon. The evening concert exerted its usual attractions. The orchestral productions were superb, and the exhibitions of the boarding-house keeperesses astounding. If the assembly I saw (and heard) last night in the beautitul concert room was @ fair specimen, after M. Dupressoir’s musical education, imparted during his many | years of directorship, then I am not surprised at Richard Wagner’s declining the invitation of the city magistrates to build his Nibelungen Theatre in the valley of the Oos. Gossiping, laughing, paying visits during the musical performance—such was the last of the Baden play concerts. * THE LAST ooUP, At eleven o’clock the crowd in the poe rooms had become enormous. At about five min- utes before midnight the telling croupier an- nounced, ‘‘Mesaieurs, this ia the third last play.’ People attempted in vain to push their way up to a table in order to tempt their luck at roulette or trente et quarante, At four minutes before twelve the croupier announced, ““Messieurs, the last play but one,” followed 5: a fresh attempt by the out- siders to plant their stakes. In the succeedii ininute the same voice was | eard, ‘‘Messieurs, the | last play! Faites-votre jeu 1! This was the;last in- vitation. There was a dead pausey during which the guldens were plastered thickly over the board. “Rien né va plus! shouted the croupier. The ball sept te epee oc its course said the game was decide: “Neus, rouge, impair ma f’’ This was the final call. The telling crou- pier gazed for a moment around, with a grim, me- tallic smile and bowed his thanks to @ gen- erous public, whereupon the gruff voices of the police were heard commanding that the rooms should be cleared. I was in tne further room, and the closing of the games at the various tables had been so arra: at a8 you passed out from one room to the other you could see the last game at et table. The scenes at allwere the same. A peculiar laugh followed the closing playin each case. Then came the plush-clad flunkeys with large leathern bags, which, being filled with the winnings of the day, were borne off in triumph into the treasury of the bank. Emerging from the suffocating halls into the open air the players were received by @ vast crowd of persons who had been unable to obtain en- trance. Laughing and joking, as if returning trom a spectacle or a Baden Baden concert, people and players wended their way homewards. #On the following morning Baden Baden was like @ deserted town. It was All-Saints Day; stores and hotels were closed—tie latter for the Winter—and down into the lovely valley the warm Tays of the Autuimn sun descended in golden glory. Croupiers and funkeys were hastening towa the Converrations-Haus, where M. Dupressoir was | to give his employés a parting feas:. Of the former, | 1am told, there wre over seventy, of the latter some thirty of forty, besides an army of other em- | ployés. Some of the flunkeys looked extremely | sleek, bat depressed tn spirit at the prospects be- fore them. ene gentlemen were talking together in excellent German, and among them was one {n- dividual who, when addressed on the previous evening in good, honest German, shook his he and expressed his eee at not being able tospeal the I of Baden. No one seems to know | where M. Dupressoir will find anew home for his bank, his croupiers and his army of fanke; Some time ago he had hinted about removin; establishment to the banks of the Nile—to Cairo— but the pian seems to have been given up. The greatest faith is exhibited by the employéa, however, in their master’s ability to plant his in- stitution somewhere before next Spring; and this somewhere is pointed out asto be in the little avin age of htenstcin, which lies on the rders of Switzerland and Austria, and is ruled by a semi-independent pti} whose possessions are so small that when Austria and Prussia settled matters in 1866 they were forgotten entirely, and have remained unmolested to this day. But from Baden Baden, the scene of his conquests, M. Du- ir must go. Sensible citizens of Baden- aden greet his departure with joy. A celebrated physician said to me, in answer to my questions on the subject of Baden’s future :—‘People will first begin to appreciate the true sanitary mission of Baden Baden when the gambling is oter. The [ee have grown of late so exorbitant that none ut the nabobs and French mattresses can aford to pay them. The people have become accustomed to earning suificient money ina few months to support them during the whole F be . The gambling bank is indeed @ great hospital. As soon as a native does not want to labor at his own business more, and wishes to live at ease, he seeks to get a position as portier, lamplighter, Munkey or jer, and he becomes @ worthless vagabond. AS long as the place was filled with prostitutes no The apparent prosperity of tue place had Deen pre: e apparent prt e DI m pro- duced ts Bate) are raised in a hothouse. Tine opie, of course, complain the whole human race. THE GERMAN BELLS. sidan Lonpon, Oct. 21, 1872, The hells of Europe are doomed. “Ichabod” is written om the magnificently painted, frescoed and tapestried walls of Wiesbaden, Homburg, Nanhelm, Ems and Baden-Baden. MM. Dupressoir and Blanc ny go down on their marrow-bones to the Em- peror William, but their tears, entreaties and protestations will be of no avail. The Reichsrath CLOSING is | has decreed that public gambling shall cease throughout Germany at the close of this year, and even the Emperor must bow to the will of his Par- lament. It is probable, moreover, that this plous monarch never regarded with a favorable eye the splendid establishments in which the jevil’s game, as it is called by the “unco guid,” is car- ried on;’’ and we may safely come to the conclu- sion that he was by no means sorry that the Retchsrath decreed their suppression. WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE HELLS? and, still more, what will become of the towns in which they are situated? Momburg, it will be allowed by every one who has visited it, is charm- ingly situated, and its environs afford numerous delightful excursions. Wiesbaden Is a place where one could spend a few weeks comfortably enough and without, perhaps, being very much bored. Baden-Baden lies in the midst of some of the finest scenery in Europe, and one would not soon tire of investigating the nature of its surroundings. But what proportion of the thousands of visitors which each town has annually drawn were attracted by climate or situation? How many went for the sole purpose of drimking the waters? And what per- centage went for the express purpose of taking part in the gambling and enjoying those elements in the life of cach spot which are due to and live Of the loss of the bank; atl and many others of the citizens oe the new era with joy.” And this, I think, is the view taken by all the citizens of Baden Baden. The in which the city is situated, and the whole neighbornood for around, present in- numerable attractiona for the Summer | gers,” sitaated in the Rue Grange Batelitre. fall with thewestruction of the game—t Special popalarity with the wealthy class nually rush to the Continent for their holtday. has been hinted that as the FRENCH ARB IN WANT OF MONEY M, Thiers would not object to the establishment of gaming tables in Paris, in which case Paris would regain its reputation as the wmbdilicus terrat of fash- fon and pleasure. It may be doybted, however, whether the President would give his sanction to an “dnclean thing” which the Germans had cast out. Gamblers are in hopes that should all other negotiations fail, M. Dupressoir will, as has already been rumored, transler himself and his bank and his croupiers to Monaco, near Nice, where the authorities are not troubled with many scruples of conscience and where there ts now a similar estab- lishment doing an excellent business. 1t is nly —s that thas will be the énd of the affair. The rman gambling towns bave had a RIGH HARVEST THIS SEASON, far more so than they ever nad in their history, From the carly Summer, even until now, they have been crowded with visit who have not only swelled the exchequers of hotels and lodging houses, but have leit many a “lous” on the green cloth. In all the watering places the lan- guage was out of all proportion to the others which one heard tal<ed. You could have ticked off @ member of the English aristocracy or goklocracy in almost every other person who ; and the Yankees, who, from their looks alone, must be great people at home, were met at every turn. There were scores of merry young ladies of both nationalities; the foreigners of the like age and sex were chiefly representatives of the “half -World” of Paris, Vienna and Hamburg, and stuck ‘vo the rooms and the tables, where many of them gambled their thalers and even ‘naps!’ all day, irom the opening of business until half-past ten, when play ceased and the lights were extinguished. It is to noticed, however, that many of those who toss down a thaler or two at a time on the black or red, even or odd, “passe” or “manque,” and 80 on, at the roulette tables and are gradually drawn into th vortex of speculation end by finding pisces at the trente et quarante tabli re they sit morning, noon and seb kt order thet | oO an-* It jes, whe \cking their cards as black or red wins, in it they may calculate the chance of either winning next time and eyei wistfully the mo- tions of the chief croupter as turns the cards. The tables usually draw around them a goodly array of ladies of the “half world,” one of whom 1s Pia selected to ‘cut’? the cards; but other fem: gamblers are nearly always ladies of Wealth and position—most _freqnent Rus- sians—whe care for nothing. ta) Nite but the turn of the cards. Here and there is to seen an English or American lady—not uncommonly young and bloom- ing—but these do not, I imagine, degenerate into gamblers, and are content toleave when they think they have lost as much as they can spare. Though the hells have their ‘atal fascinations,tney lack those theatrical displays with which they are credited in the pages of novels. I saw nobody blow out his brains, and not @ soul would even oblige me by “rushing from the rooms, despair and horror written on bis countenance.” That is buncombe, Still, I cannot doubt that Germany will gain in morality, if not in weatth, by the closing of the watering-place gambling. GAMBLING IN FRANCE. ee The Probability of a Revival of Public Gaming Houses=—The German Green Table to Be Transferred from Ger- many to France. Paris, May 16, 1872, The gaming tables at the various spas of Ger- many will be withdrawn at the close of the pres- entyear, The fact causes a considerable amount of perturbation in the minds of pleasure-seeckers, as well as much uneasiness to another class of people, to whom the existence of the green tables has hitherto been a source of profit, it being esti- mated that $20,000,000 have annually been lost at these tables, With the downfall of the Empire the attractions of the French metropolis have been greatly re- duced, while the price of living is augmented and the number of visitors has decreased, The trade of jewelry stores, of mantua makers and all English- speaking establishments suffers to a fearful ex- tent. Some enterprising men point té the sources of profit derivable from gambiing establishments, Vichy, Barage, Aix-les-Bains and other French wa- tering places were deemed worthy substi- tutes for Baden or Homburg. Others advocated the revival of gambling houses in the city of Paris. Writers in the Constitutionnel and the Journal des Débats—hsth highly conservative and the most respected newspapers in Paris—have favored the views expressed by the Figaro and other sensational journals. Gambling, it is argued, bas grown into # passion that cannot be eradicated. It has existed from time immemorial, and at present is carried on in a clandestine man- ner in and out of Paris. Better that it should be done openiy and in broad daylight. French morals, we are told, have not improved since the year 1836, when the Legislature resolved on the suppression of gaming houses, HISTORY OF FRENCH GAMBLING HOUSES. Public gaming houses existed in Paris prior to | the year 1789; but under a decree, dated 21 Messi- dor, year VIL, the establishments were closed. The suppression did not remain in force for any length | of time. Under the Consulate a person named Perrin was authorized by Fouché, the renowned Chief of Police, to open gambling houses. Special authority was given for tie creation of an estab- lishment where foreigners c@uld congregate. That establishment was known as ‘‘Le Cercle des Etran- It was presided over by three nobiemen, viz.:— rele de Tilly-Blaru, Count de Castellane and Marquis de Livry. These Presidents were al- lowed a compensation of $10,000 in the shape of salary. Gaming was confined to cards—t. e., “trente et un’? and “cxeps’’; the betting bein, unlimited as to amount. Extreme luxury reigned throughout the establishment, sumptuous suppers were provided every evening, and op three days during the week there were gala dinners. Prince Talleyrand and his friend Montrona used to be among the irequenters of the club, and both of them gambled away large sums of money. During the Winter masked baits, called ‘“Bals de Livry, were arranged and attended by all that Paris har- bored of fair and wealthy inhabitants. The leadin; men and women of fashionable society would congregate unuer the patrouage of Madame Tallien, the Baroness Hamelin and others. Nothing has taken place at any subsequent period to equal the splendor amd luxury displayed at the entertain- ments of the Cercle des Etrangers. The revelry, it is recorded, surpassed anything we can im: ean the present age. It is well known that the it Napoleon visited the balls while Consul, and even continued doing so in the early days of the Em- pire. On one occasion Napoleon expressed a desire to close all public gambling places, but Fouché objected, on the ground that the helis rovided him with the best means to prosecute is—i.e., the Emperor’s—plans, To shut up the gaming houses would deprive the police of the | most fertile sources of controlling the public. The | house paid a very large tax® At a subsequent period the licenses to open faming tables were rmed out to the highest bidder. On the return of Louis XVIII. the following houses were licensed | to hold open jing tables :—Cercle des Etrangers. Rue Grange Satelite, No, 6; Frascats, Rue liche: lieu, No. 108; Dunans, Rue Mont-bi: Marivaux, Rue Marivaux, No. 13; Paphos, Rue du Temple, No. 110; Dauphin, Rue Dauphin, No. 36, In the Palais Ko; 129 and No, 154. The terms of the license under which these houses were tolerated stipulated a monthly payment to the government of $92,600, thus securing a total of $1,100,000 annually for the public treasury. Of that amount .the Department of the Mimster of the Interior drew $332,000, which sum went to subsidize theatres and the Conserv: tory of Music. The sum of $480,000 was set aside as compensation for the benefit of the person to whom the license was granted, he paying the ex- penses. HOW MUCH THE VICTIMS LOST. During a period of nineteen years—i. ¢., from 1819 to 1837—the gross revenye, or, in other words, the losses sustained by the gambiing public, amounted $27,462,688, the sums annually realized being as elow :— «$1,536,507 $1,416,028 + 1,560,850 1, S The public gaming houses were closed, conse- quent upon a vote of the Chamber of Deputies, on December 31, 1837. The greater number of the persons employed as crowpiers and otherwise emi- grated to Germany to preside over the tables situ- ated at or near the borders of the Rhine. In the public gaming He tables and trente et [jmp md wer@ licensed; but, indepen- dent of these establishmentk, there existég a perae number of houses known as ‘Maisons Boull- lotte.” Most of these houses were kept Dy widows or other relatives of oMcers who per- ished in battle. In that capacity they het ofl dg ail considered by the (ob segea and ) was tolerated not connived at. The object was to —- an ordinary or table at were introduced by and kept up tilba late hour, lot solely by the gambling? The chief glories of Hom- burg, Wiesbaden and Baden-Baden have arisen tom tcom the existegge of the gaming tables, and mggt | ead GAMING, of any kind in Loge is it Keance, but, pri- anc, No. 40; | ©. yal there were tour large helis— | namely, the houses known as No, 9, No. 113, No. | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1872:-QU ADRUPLE SHEET. ll vately, tmmense gums of money change hands every | fully invited to attend the funeral on Monday, caf irherots aotan important city in France | Neconteye 25, at two P. M., from her late residence, without one or more gambling club houses—at | Tuers avenue, near stables, Jersey City Heights, Bordeaux, at Marseilles, at and in factevery- | Brooklyn rs please copy. sadicted co nenene ee ane poor, C4 are Gant.—At New Brunswick, N. J., on Semen, sidicted io Gambling, and that gambling November 21, 1872, #1xLpinG 8,, son of Benjamin Lrecen tly went the round of iL i sthaated it six or eight places on the Boulevard and adjoining streets, all ad "7 tis, St a convenient ice from the Grand Hotel, and | Yonkers, I was ved to see how much of hard-earned | 95, at one 0’ money belonging to young Americans was leit there. The number They commence at the Champs Klysées, the corner of the Rue Royale and the Place “te la Concorde ; from there you may pass along the Boulevards from the leleine to Bonne No block on both sides of the road includ club houses, At nearly every one o ese private establishments there are gainbling tables, ©) tions commente a little before midnight til the break of day. The Paria journalists have taken these hells to task; they demand their abolition, and while the entire suppression of gambling is a matter of impossibility they advo- cate the revival of public gaming houses. A public establishment, subject to the control of the police, it is argued, cannot be kept open during the night, and that would be one step gained towards im- provement. Here ends my task, confining myself, as I have, to the statement o1 facts. Whether the transfer from Germany to France of the Dice | tables has to be accomplished or not will be deci Probably in a few weeks, when, it is supposed, the subject will be brought before the National Assem- bly. I may add that it isstated that M. Thiers fa- vors the project of reviving public gaming tabies, but Tl Ero unable to vouch for the correctness of the assert THE HELLS OF HONACO. pL EEE hy A correspondent of the Pull Mall Gazette thus describes the fatal allurements which haunt the green tables at the Italian village of Yonaco:— In Monaco play is the sole business of the place. A picturesque but arid rock affords but few re- sources for out-door amusements, With the ex- ception of one or two exclusive coteries there 18 scarcely any general society; each person charita- bly, and usually with perfect truth, setting down his neighbor as a biackleg, and avoiding him pooordingly. There 18 no shooting worth speak- ing of, r even a Frenchman soon gets tired of missing notning but larks, The scenery is cer- tainly lovely, bué constant walking and driving, even along the beautifal Cornice road, is a pleas- ure apt to be followed by satiety when totally un- relieved by other recreations. After @ stay of @ few days the doom of the unwary tourist is almost inevitable. From morning till night play is the sole topic of conversation; at the table d’hote nothing else is spoken of; at the café agents of the Ferme des Jeux relate in his hearing tales of large fortunes won at the tables; as he smokes his even- ing cigar on tne terrace the chink of gold is auaible through the open windows of the Casino. It is hard to withstand so many contbined influences, and, unless he be gifted with more than ordinary strength of mind, sheer ennui and raring for ex- citement will sooner or later drive him into the gambling rooms. The roulette table, with its quiet and impassive croupiers and its ring of eager and excited dupes, has been a hundred times described by abler pens than mine, and I have no desire to dwell at length on that well-woin and unpleasant topic. I only regret that Gustave Doré should haye chosen the comparatively respectable salon ‘of Baden for the subject of his well-known painting. His pencil would have found in the hell of Monte Carlo far more telling scenes. One detail T cannot refrain from mentioning. It is announced in the rules of the Casino that persons under age are not allowed to tay 5 yet I have seen mere boys, in com- pany to whichI need hardly allude more pointedly in order to be understood, flinging down their gold with all the recklessness of coniirmed gamesters. Another and a still more repulsive spectacle may frequently be witnessed here, To many of your readers my assertion ey appear almost incredi- ble, and it will undonbtedly be scouted as a gross ‘one or two last sometimes English, but more brought by their own mothers into the rooms aad seated at the green table, next to some deni- monde celebrity, laying down their silver pieces beside her notes and roweaur. Only yesterday L happened to hear a girl of about seventecn, who had been following the game of a well-known Pa- risian Aspasia, say to her sister, “Just won ten Napoleons by following ‘La Soubise.’ I always back her luck.”” ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS DEATH. Possibly a Police Clubbing Affair—Com- pression of the Brain, Coroner Herrman yesterday afternoon was called to 40 North Moore street to investigate the circum- stances attending the death of August Schuldt, a German, thirty-seven years of age, who died sud- denly on Wednesday evening last. The testimony of Annie Schuldt, the widow, went to show that at one o'clock last Sunday arrested the night previously and locked up in the station house; she asked why he was arrested, but he could not tell, and in a few minutes he became unconscious; restoratives were adminis- tered, and, being partially restored, he was about toieave the room, when he fell to the floor, He to excess. On Tuesday last the doctor again examined deceased, and found he had w# hole in the back of the head, besides covering bruises on his shoulder. Deceased gre worse and died on Wednesday morning. Decease | was unable to tell whether he fell or was struck by design. Deputy Coroner Joseph Cushman, M. D., made a ost-mortem examination on the body and jound a jacerated wound on the left side of the head, echymosis over the right eye and extravasation of blood beneath the scalp on the left side. On open- | ing the skull there was found extravasation of blood on the right side of the brain. sation, the result of violence. not arrested and imprisoned there on Saturday ascertained. Captain Petty, of the Fifth precinct, has taken the matter in charge, and will use his | jiam E. Robinson, 30 Schermerhorn stree' best endeavors to solve the mystery. ‘The relatives and friends of deceased seem to be- lieve that upon failing into the hands of the police the station house, but they have no facts upon | which to base such a conclusion. ‘The injuries such as deceased received may have | exaggeration by many a British paterjamilias; but | I positively state that I have seen young giris— | often American— | morning her husband came home, when she ob- served he had a black eye, and asked him how it was received; in reply deceased said he had been | | Funeral on Monday, November eleven | o'clock. Remains to be od. Patren.—On Frida; ELIZABETH, of the so-called clubgiouses is legion. | No: uvelle, and every | avenue, | November and Mary J. Gant. The funeral will take place from the residence of his grandfather, T. O, Farrington, South Broadway, bis ae Monday afternoon, November GaRpwer.—At Jersey City Heights, on Friday, vember 22, ADRIANA CLEMENTS, wife of William: Gardner, aged 66 years, Funeral on Monday, November 25, from her late residence, Brinckerhoff street, near Monticelle Relatives and friends are invited without further notice. Take Monticello avenue cars @& Jersey ferry. GiGNovx.—On Thursday, November 21, FRANK, eldest son of Dr. J. F. and E. Gignoux, aged 6 years and 2 days, Funeral to-day (Sunday), at half-past two P. M., from the residence of his parents, Monroe, Orange- county, N. Y. GREENLEAF.—In Brooklyn, on Saturday, Nove ber 23, SARAH, wife of Franklin Greenleaf, in te 57th year of her age. The relatives and frienda of the family are re- Spectfully invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, 238 Adelphi street, on Tuesday, November 26, at two P. M. Boston (Mass) papers please copy. GuNseNiAauseR.—On Saturday morning, Noveme ber 23, after a lingering iliness, HYMEN GUNSRB HAUSER, in the 45th year ofhis age. mn His remains will be taken to Philadelphia. HADLEY.—Qn Saturday morning, Novem! 1872, at his residence, 253 Warren street, 83 years, Rev. & F. Hapiny, pastor of Warrem. street Methodist Episcopal church.» Funeral services will be held in the Warren: street Methodist Episcopal church on Monday, a@ Beer Ma Kavemter ier Se Fuaeeay. ee e mnveyed to River Head and ap- fH vet Nervices “will be held in the Methodist piacopal church. The relatives and friends invited to attend, HARMER.—On Saturday, November 23, MINNI@ Linpen, infant daughter of George W. and Anna T, Harmer, and granddaughter of John G. and Ana® Thompson, aged 1 year, 6 months and 4 days. Funeral from the residence of Fos od 199 Lornl- mer street, etry at 3 on Monday, November 25, at one o'clock i. South Side (L. L) Signal please copy. HARVEY.—On Saturday, November 23, 1872, 96 his residence, 33 ‘t Thirty-third street, HARVEr A. Wer», in the 57! ar of his age. Notice of funeral will be given hereafter. Hickky, —On Saturday, November 23, CATHERINE, widow of Daniel Hickey, of Kingston, Ontario, aged 59 years. OpLIN.—At Desten, Ohio, on Thursday evening, November 14, at half-past nine o’cloc! irs. ANNA M., wife of Hon. Peter Odlin and mother of Louisa Howells, of this city. » Jaques.—in Jersey City, on Monday, October 28, J. Westey Jaques, in the 35th year of his age. Funeral services will be held this (Sunday morning, at St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal enters of Jersey City. Relatives and friends are invites TREN AN.—Att tines, in the 73d LIRBMAN.—After a severe illness, in the year of his life, 8. LigBMAN, lrewer. The relatives and friends of the family are re- spectfully invited to attend the funeral, from: his late residence, 37 Forrest street, near Bushwick Boulevard, Brooklyn, E. D.,on Sunday, 24th Noe- vember, at ten A. M. Luckky.—On Saturday, November 23, at his rest dence, 171 Witloughby avenue, Brooklyn, WILLLAM UrnaM LucKry. Notice of the funeral hereafter. Moricky.—On Saturday, November 23, ALLICE Monicry, aged 79 years, Relatives and friends of the family are respect fully invited to attend the funeral, on Monday after- noon, at two o’c! Irom her late residence, 40% West Sixteenth street, Myers.—On Wednesday, November 20, CoRNa- Lvs MYERS. aged 38, The funeral will take place from the Methodta¢ chureh, Charles street, Jer: City Heights, tnia (Sunday) afternoon, November 24, at one o'clock. The relatives ana friends of the tamily, also Valley Forge Council, 59, 0. U. A. M., and the’ Order im general are respectfu attend. McMAtion. November 22, JOHW McManon, The relatives and friends of the family and those of his brothers, Daniel and James, and the members of the St. Patrick’s Mutual Allance Benevolent Association and Quarrymen’s Union No, 2, are most respectfully requested to attend the tuneral, from his late residence, Sixty-tiret etween Broadwiy and Ninth avenue, this (Sunday) afternoon, at one o'clock, MCNANEY.—On Friday, November 22, in the 72d year of her age, Many McNANky, @ native of Car- rickmacross, Ireland. Funeral at two o'clock, this (Sanday) after- noon, November 24, from her iate residence, Sum- mit avenue, Jersey City Heights. Relatives and iriends are respecttully invited to attend, NEWM At Fort Washington, on Savurday,* 18" MINNIE, Wife of August New- Mra. man, in the 20th year of her age, The relatives and friends of the family are re- spectfully invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of her father, Horatio Conklin, on the Kingsbridge road, at Fort Washington, on Mon- day, November 25, at one o'clock P. M. O’ConNor.—On _ Friday, O’CoNNo, in the 57th yeur of his age, a native of Drumeiiffe, county Sligo, Ireiand. The relatives and friends of the family are re- Spectfmlly invited to attend the funeral, from his November 22, DENIS was taken up and placed on the bed, and his | taken’ to § symptoms becoming alarming, a doctor was sent | requiem mass will be for, Who thought his sickness came trom drinking | soi dis- | pei Jate residence, 57 Park street, on Monday, Novem- ber 25, at nine o'clock M. The remains wik be Anlrew's church, where a solemn red for the repose of his metery at one P, M. '3 please copy. , thence to‘ Sligo (Lreland) PARKER.—At P .N. J., on Saturday, Novens. , of quinsy sore throat, LOVIS GRANT PARKER, second son oi Frederick J. Parker and Ann® Parker, aged 7 years, 7 months and 7 days. wife of Daniel Patte Funeral this (Sun aged 28 3 car's ) alternoon, from 138 Hurem street, Greenpoint, at two o'cloc! PEARSON.—At_ Poughkeepsie, on Thursday, | November 21, WILLIAM PEARSON. he iriends of the family, also Long Islan he fends of the famil! iH I Island night, and tne place of his arrest has not yet been | Death, in the opinion of Dr. Cushman, was | Lodge. N caused by compression of the brain from extrava- | the juneral, Although deceased died in the Fifth ward he was | two o'clock P. 382, FP. and A. M., are invited to attend trom the corner of Fulton and Monta- gue streets, Brooklyn, on Bunday, November 24, af Rosinson.—In Brooklyn, on Friday, November 22, JAMES ROBINSON. Funeral from the residence of his brother, Wil- Brook- | lyn, this (Sunday) afternoon, xt one o’cloc! been caused by a fall, but that must be determined | an investigation by Captain Petty and Coroner rrman. FATAL OIROULAR SAW CASUALTY, Coroner Herrman was yesterday called to St. Luke’s Hospital to hold an inquest on the body of Thomas Walsh, @ dealer in picture frames, who died from the effects of injuries ri ed on the 80th ult. by having been struck by a piece of wood alleged to have been thrown from 4 circular saw while revolving rapidly. Deceased lived at No. 43 Sixth avenue, nd MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. Married. ARNOLD—HARNED.—At Philadelphia, on Thurs- oay; November 21, 1872, at the residence of bride's parents, by the Rev. B. L. Agnew, E: W. ARNOLD, of Perth Amboy, N. J., to Miss ANNIE | E. HaRNeb, daughter of Lewis Harned, Esq. Barrow —McCaNiRss.—At Galena, Ili., on Wednesday, November at the residence of the bride's brother, Mr. William H. Martin, by the Rev. ). E. Mandeville, Mr. Davip BaRRow, of New York city, to Mrs. SUE M. McCANLRss, of Stapleton, S, I. De VERGNE—POUCHER.—At the residence of the bride, St. Mark's place, on Sunday, 0 er 38, 1871, by the Rev, G. Elliot, JEAN CLAUDE DE VERGNE, of Paris, France, to KaTaLeEN J. R., daughter of Thadeus Poucher, Esq., of New York. Chicago (lll.) and Oswego (N. Y.) papers please copy. TestaNy—Meap.—On Thursday, November 21, by the Rev. J. H. Tuttle, D. D., GkoRGE A. IRELAND to Carrig E, MvAD, all of this city. No cards, JACKSON—JENNINGS,—On Saturday, November 23, by the Rev. James Millett, at his residence, JouN JACKBON, late of Baltimore, to Miss GEORGIANA JENNINGS, all Of this city. ScHULER—PRicE.—By the Rev. Mr. W. Swindetis, Mr. Davip A. SCHULER to Misé ANNIE M. PRicg, all of Philadelphia, WILLIaMs—ForpD.—On Wednesday, November 13, 1872, at the residence ol the bride's mother, by the Rev. U, 8. Harrower, Gronge W. WILLIAMS to Mary F. ©. Forp, daughter of Mrs. H. Ford, of this city. i Died. Bour.tsx.—On Friday, November 22, at five o’ciock P. M., ALFRED J. B. BOURLIER, @ native of Dijon, France, in the 49th year of his age. ‘The relatives and friends of the family are re- spectfully invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, 896 Broadway, on Sunday, the 24th inst., at one o'clock P. M. Brapy.—On Thursday, November 21, Tuomas Braby, aged 36 years and 11 months. ‘The relatives and friends of the family, and those of his brothers, James, John and Bernard M. Brad; are requested to attend his funeral, froin the re dence of bis brother, 224 Monroe street, Sunday, November 24, at two o'clock precisely. CHATILLON.—On Wednesday, November 20, JOHN CHATILLON, in the 60th year of his age. ’ ‘The relatives and friends of the family, also Pythagoras Lodge, No. 96, F. an . M., are re- spectfully invited to attend the funeral, trom his late residence, 149 Kast Sixtieth street, this (Sun- = afternoon, at one o'clock. The remaing will be taken to Greenwood Cemetery for interment. Davis.—At Charleston, 5. C., on Thursday, vember 21, Maggix K., daughter of Sarab A. and the late Henry Davis, aged 22 years. Notice of funeral hereafter. FLYNN.—On Saturday, November 23, MARY FLYNN, beloved wie of Hi | “Welatives ena | | | | | ing Tu | dence, in Greenpoint, L. 1., SMitH TUTHILL, in the rai Monday, fricnds ‘ot ive family are respect | the residence of be Friday, November 22, Marti 0. Henry Shipman, in the %th year SHirMaN.—O! Surrman, wife he was brutally and fatally clubbed before reaching || of her age. The funeral wili take place from her late reat- dence, 391 Hudson street, this day (sunday), the ith. Sprroarm.—On Friday morning, November 22, suddenly, ArTHcR, son of Mary A. Sproale, aged 39 years. he relatives and friends of the family are re- spectfully invited to attend the funeral from his late residence, 154 Douglass street, South Brooke lyn, on Sunday, November 24, at two o'clock, P. M. Swenson.—On Friday, November 22, Mrs, eELIZAbETH SWENSON, Widow of W. H. Swenson, in her 48th year. The relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend her funeral, at her late residence, 82 Suf- folk street, on Sunday, the 24th inst., at one o’clock, without further no! California papers please co} Terry.—On Thursday, ELIZA TERRY, daughter of George and aged 7 months, 19 days. * The friend: the family are invited to attend the funeral, from 23 Vestry street, this (Sunday) morm- at nine o'clock. = THILL.—On Friday, November 22, at his rest- November 21, 1872, MARY Alice Terry, 4ist year of his age. Funeral will take place on Sunday, November 24, at Wilkesbarve, Pa. VaIL.—On Sixth day (Friday), 22d inst., at Dune ellen, N. J., CORNELIA M., wile of Adelbert Vath, aged 38 years, Funeral at Friends’ meeting house, Plainfleia x , Second day (Monday), 25th inst., at ball-past two o’clock. WALLACE.—On Saturday, November 23, 1872, Epwarr R, WALLACE, Superintendeat of Sleepy Holiow Cemetery, after a long and painful iliness, in the 59th year of his age. The friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, at his late residence, im Washington street, above Beekman avenue, Tarry- town, Y., on Monday, November 25, at half-past two o'clock P. M., witiout turther notice. Watsu.—On Friday, November 22, THomas J. WALSH, @ native of the parish of Glinn, county Wexford, Ireland, aged 36 years. The relatives and friends of the family are in- vited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, 483 Sixth avenue, on Sunday, Novemver 24, at one o'clock P. M., thence to Calvary Cemetery. Watrs.—On Thursday morning, November 21, Mr. CHARLES F. Watts, aged 65 years and 4 months. The friends and re’atives of the family are invited to attend the inneral, irom his late residence, 34 Varick street, New York, this (Sunday) afternoon, at one o’cock. 2 The members of Chancellor Walworth ’e No. 271, F. and A. M., are summoned to pk i s special*communication, at the roc ns No, 38 Unio: square, on sunday, November 24, at twelve o'clock sharp, lor the pur, o1 attending the funeral of our late brother, Charles F. Watts. ‘The members of Manhattan Loage a Lead tbnlin dy! sister lodges e fraternally invited to mee’ nua. = id GEO, W. MILLAR, Master. Frep. W. HERRING, Secretary. WILitamson.—On Saturday, November 23, Jonw C., son of Joun D. and Mary Williamson, ‘The funeral will take place trom his late resi- dence, 188 West Tenth street, on Monday, the 25th inst t hasf-past one o'clock. F COMPANY, SEVENTY-FIRST REGIMENT, N. G. 5. N. Y.—NEW YORK, Nov. 23, 1372.—Uomr. ORDER No, 4.—The members of this company will meet at 138 West Tenth street, on Monda: half-past one o'clock, in citizens’ dy the funeral sefvices of our late comr Williamson. By order of , Jonn Us A. W. BELKNAP, Lieutenant Commanding. WitiaM 8, PHisrice, First Sergeant. WINANS. At Elizabeth, N. Pet icady on Fre Jacob & 25th inst., at eleven A. M., frome t father. 144 Rroad street, we November 22, Many E., daughter Winans, Fune:

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