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Slid HHstlHm. HOW BAMBLEBf BOB THEIB VICTIMS . W« find the annexed statement in the Cleveland Herald : The Cook gambling affair has kd to j some important tlmcloeorea in tire affairs of the "sporting fraternity," but nothing we hero yet seen or heard of. equals ! in in tercet -a discorery made in this city . yesterday. - Cealiak. one of the concerned in deec tag the paymaster, Cook, was a frequent , visitor of the city, and occupied rooms in the third story of the Parson's lilock on Saparior street. He had contracted debt* here, and yesterday an attachment ' was issued against the property in bis rooms. Sheriff Lewis, and Deputy 1 Sheriff Whitney went to strve an -at- * tachmcnt, and in 'the course of their re- , searches made some yich discoveries. ] The rooms occupied by Conlitk, on j the third floor consist of a sitting room, where the gambling was done, and n ; bed-room. The sitting-room whs fur- | nished in the asanl manner,- and had n faro table near (lie-windows, aud a draw poker table in the centre of the room, j with chairs placed do each. The walte : Jujf, ceilings of the room are" papered with a star pattern witti star pattern c

Directly orer these rooms aro two j h~' amall rooms, also occupied by Goalitk, * hot not tarnished. A portion of the | ^ flooring hss been removed In tho room 1 ^ and a amall hole bored th'ough the ceil- 1 iag of the rootp below, above escli of ' ( the tables. As the holes come directly ! ^ tbroogh the star pattern in the paper, they are eearcely "distinguishable from J below, Each hole it so placed as to f ahablaaspersoo applying his eye, toil, ( "to look directly intCf the band . of tho player sealed in tue chtjr bolow. ' An Ingenious le)egr«pV signal -mt- ( chine was dlecoierec^comma'nicertiug he- ( tween those holes and thb chair of the . gambler in tho room below. A wire ^ having a handle near the hole, passed along between the flooring of the room abova and the ceiling of the room below to the corner of the gambling and bed room. Jt enters the bed room and pass- * — e# down la the corner, being concealed by a atrip of board nbiled^fTand papered over It then paooea under the floor of the \gambiing room to. tho table, where a'eoall pieee of the flooring has been ent nway close by the table leg, where the left foot of the player would be placed while ploying There it terminate! in a spring and hammer, eon cealad by tbs carpet. The method of. working this invention for .robbing machinery seems to have been at follows : the victim to be operated npoo Buds two chairs drawn up to the table. In one of tbese the gambling thief seats himself, at once placing his foot over the telegraph hammer. The sjctim Is obliged to take the other, which i« pieced In the proper potition for ploying;. The gambler's ac- * * complice in the room ebove. stretches himself on a maUrtsa, with bis eye at a peephole— and one hand grasping the telegraph handle. The hole Is so placed that be can look down into the hand of his victim. As soon as he sera tha cards he telegraphs their description according 4o an arranged code of signele by pulling the handle, when the hammer strikes tho desired number of raps on the sole of the gambler's boot or slipper the soand bring mnffled by the carpet. Of course it is easy to see that tba man who rita down to p!«y with web a gambler is robbed as surety, completely and systematically us If he had been bound hand and foot, dalivered evar to a highwayman ; and of the two robbers the highwayman would be the more decent Tbsoa room* have bem occupied at , * uartaoa time* by Cocliek. Mayor Barker, and othar gambkn. raridente and aoe residents el this city. Bomjs highly re-

! have visited these - rooms, and have an- j i j doubtedly "foogbt the tiger" withont a | '■ '■ j shadow of a s chance against its teeth jj ! and claws. e | There are other rooms in tbis city j < , used for gambling purposes, which arc , , ) frequented by some of our best citizens ' i 5 1 — who would dread to see their names ! . ' published, end whose names, if published, 1 ' , ! would startle and shock their frieu'd* and j ' r the public. Are there no "telegraph1 ' ■ : in these rooms ?" KO TIME TO BUR IR IpT. '■ | Ad Ohio Reader asks : ■■Would you [ ' 1 consider it prudent fur a farmer having | ' a hundred acres paid fur and well stuck ' ' . ed, and ont of debt otherwise, but nqt 1 * hrtving a comfortable domicile, to inear ■ 1 a debt of five or six hundred dollars in ' building a dwelling house ?" We think * j not.. In tha November number of the , r-Amjrican Agriculturist, we referred to j ; llw cffecLof the incfcgoed relative value | 1 ' IfBWcen gold nnd currency, and showed i • why farmers should seize upon tbis time ' 1 ' to get ont of debt and keep out. The ' ' recent further advance in gold gives od- * . ditioiial force to the reasons then eet ' ! forth. Currency. that wiil pay debts is \ ' I now very ahun lant and will probably be 9 • more so for u lime. The moment tho > war closes, or bids fair to cluse, the

l country will begin to tarn to a specie currency ; and then look out for break- j ' • ers. What now is called $160 will bo- j 1 gin to recede toward $100 A debt of. ' contracted now, when wheat it$lf 1 j per boghel in this city, wiil probably ( , have to be paid, 'Sfhyn wheat w II be . 1 worth $1. This will not probably take * plees at once, for there will be a large ' amount of "legal tender" cnrrency to bo 1 retired from circulation before will be the legal standard, hot the change most xooner or later take place. ' If the eld hwaaia-at all tcaaatable, or ' be made sa with a httle outlay, bet- j ' pat any snrpins funds -aside, where ; 1 wiil bo absolutely safe and can be ' called in dollar for dollar. Then when ' prices of labor, of timber, and of other , ' materials fall, the money and its interest | can be used to far greater advantage. , If there be • mortgage upoa the farm: or bouse, pbBr cropasnd low prices may ; ' perhaps not enable you to meet it This flosh-fieriod is jnst the time to get out uf debt and keep ont, and lay by as much as possible. — American Ayricul tUritL WALKTRO AROUND A FLAG. A correspondent writing from Winchester relates a very amusing incident which lately occurred under hie obser- , ' ration. The correspondent, who is an officer In the army, was silling lu the court room on a court martial, when a i rebel lady passed by. Rather than pass I under the American flag which was , hanging over tbe sidewalk, the sprang ont in the mod and water of the street, and in doing so she borsled the' cords which held op her underskirts, and downthey came in the mad, trlihin the sight t of the whole courL 8he attempted to k replace them by a rapid >«n3 vigorous , tbiusl upward, but the effort was in v rain, so the mortified lady broke for p private quarters, her bedraggled skins . sweeping the street behind her. Very littla sympathy was felt for tha lady, as , all felt .that she had done a very foolish r thing, for which sho was no more than , justly punished. r the - Ocean Wavv." THE SOLDIER'S BURIAL, i A few evenings sgo my attention wns . attracted by hearing the ranflled drum, 1 and though- no strange sonnd, it having 1 become painfully familiar by past mor- . tality, I at once resolved to follow aud B witness the most sad duty of the soldier t I followed the alow paced proeeasion as - they took tbrir way with measured t tread to tba " 0ity of tbe Dnad^" a dty >, founded and populated in a few months i by many a soldier fallen. They halted i- at length before a grave rudely prai, ! puewd, but the »|fpoar«nce 9t vrMcb was

expressive ,of the service in which lie j I fur whom it wss designed had been en- j i gagsa. Tlie> coffin wat placed within j that grave by the unaccustomed hsnds < ■ of brother soldiers, and ^filter three re- I ■ ports of musketry bsd died away, and a ! short prayer, and tho oft-repented | words " earth to earth, ashes AO ashes, I dust to dust." had been uttered, nnd ■ those who were to complete the work of ' covering the grave and placing the brief inscription upon it, had com-1 menced tlreir silent task, the company : moved nwnj. jed J»y tbt more stirring ' martial music. Bat( we tarried behind * - to gaze and admira tbe ^solemnity ond beamy of tbe scene before us. It wa» the holy Imur of opproicbiug twilight, nnd :hc roseate lines of the western horii zon were reflected upon the, undisturbed busoin of the noble ^aaies river, as it flowed iti its grandeur and sublimity, i almost nt our very feet. Anil as we contrasted that placid , river with the turbulent stream of hn- j man life, and rnnemberM the one who, ' upou Us hurrying wti»W,*Vad just b#en borne to tbo ocean of Meruity, we asked j i ourselves a score of qlestions concern- ! 1 ing hini. Who was hu, whence d..i he came, and whither had he goue J H<j ' had come out In his gauntry's defence, (

| and perished a sacriflifc upon his cuuc- n j try's altar, But what bad been bis life, ^ E what tbe manner of his death, what his ■> sud now bis changeless condition K beyond the grave t Au,l inseparably i * connected wiih thaas. werethose other b qaestiona, where art Mb. and whom has ° left behind him f l>oes bis widow, a b i wife no longer, nt tMa - peaceful hour j , think of him and fomlly hope for his i b return f for she cannot yet be eonscioua I % that a stranger has heard his last words, j ministered to hia last want, and . a'raightened liiiu fo| tba _ffrav«, that ' b atrangera have gathered around his bier j " i and bis grave, .and conscious of the no- | 1 ! ble cause in which he died, have " left j ll - n alone in hit glory." Do little ones call the name of that father, fallen to ; ! maintain their liberties ? 1'oea tbe aged j r ' mother clasp her hands in prayer thai 0 ! when tbe sunset of her life shall ■ t ! come, he may be iter stay, aud cheer 1 1 i her last hoors ? And as these questions I ' return unanswered npon us, and we 1 slowly retrace our stepe, they ore lost ' ' eight of in that all-absorbing one. Who , 1 -lew all these, who is implicated in the ! guilt of the ten thousands slsin, npon ! . whose garments shall be the accumulated • blood of not only the thousands slain I - upon every battle Geld, but who shall be j ' exposed to tbe powerfal pleading for justice »f lb.» teais which, like mountain * I torfMU, are flowing from every home I desu.a'.cil, from, every hearth stone desened/from fjvery wife, from every child, ' smitten, robbed and bereaved ? Blessed yea, tbrice. blessed n the man who can say with regard to this thing, appealing to heaven to witness its truth, " I have I ' beefbopright and innocent of the great j ' transgression." C. W. CuMOX. r • • * 1 cebtair suterstitiors. ( From certain statistical tables that bare tweo'drawn tip, it would appear that tome hours are more fatal ,to His than othara. 1 The following eonclusioas are dtarn up 1 from the hour of death ia 2,880 instance*. ' of all ages, in a mixed po| ulation to every respect, the deaths occurring during a pa. nod of several yedfsTTfNba-d/athe of 2380 persoas had occurred iadiffsreatly 4>toujf hour daring the twenty-four, 120 wna*d 1 bare occurred at each hour. Bat this w«s * by no means the ease. There are two I hours in which tbe proportion war unmiv * tsksbly below this— namely, from midnight i to on# o'clock, when .tha deaths nere bi per east below tha mra rage, sod frork soon b to one o'clock, w'hao Ibay were 21 per cent j below the average. Tha groat as I number of drat ha oeoara from IvsAs six a. st.abeo J the excess js 40 per cast ; aoothor hoar of5 excess is that from aire to ten o'clock in d u» morn iag. being 11 1-1 P«T cant abowe. From i*> ♦ h- to three k m. the dwsth* are is Use aemrroass x,.^T

Who are -they T*~Who are tha cowled , ! M opts, tba tooded Priori, who glidfc with t ' shrouded faces Id the procession- of lifc. ( i mattaring in 4n unknown laoBue. words of j strange import T Who ore they i Tho mid. ' 1 night assassins of reputations, who Ihrk in 1 the byways of society, with tongues sharp j ' erjed by invention, noil envi-noinetl by innl , ice ; to draw the blood of innocence, and I ' hyeoa Ids*, to banquet on Ui«- 'lead * Who | , ' : ore they 1 They arc a mulutm'e no man i , i umber — black, stolid, familiar of the in i . i qaisition of slander, scotching fur victims j lu every city. town, and riling*. wb«r»»er j , humanity throbs, or 'he ashes uf mo-tality | , find wat. tfive me the bold brigand, »lio ' thunders along iheTiij-fivftys Willi flashing j I sea|'Uli>, that cut the •• nb«-om« as well as 1 i tbo shades, tiirr me the pirate whu uo j lurk the black flag, and shoas the plank . which y»ur douine-1 feel must t read j but \ I -«v« me frpm They anyeis of society. | whose knives are hiuiicu in a velvet sbeuln, whose bridge of death is aoreti hi tluwers. ' and who spread with invisible poison, even the spotless whtler.e-s .>! tbe wioiiiug sheet I — t'uriduu Let Htnli . T'be* that a re accustomed lu do evil may ; | ; Ethiopian lias i-hange.l his skin, ami the ! leupard bis s|«ts. flown into that crimson ! and it is dour ' With Mie blood of Christ '.to wash away the darkest guilt and the - 1 ; .Spirit of tlod to sanctify the vilest and i .. .... — -

Too late I It is never too late — n old age. tottering to the grave tie p in-.it li the weight of seventy years and a ; great load of guilt, may retrace its step*. 1 and begin life anew. Hope falls like a sun- ! t( beam ou the houry Head I have seen the 1 *, morning viae cold and gloomy, and the sky ol grow thick, and ihe rain tail faster as tbe m wore on ; yet ere lie set at night, the b | sun, bursting through the heavy clouds, has .j I uut to illuminate the landscape, and b j shed a flood of glory on tha dyiug.daj. U ' Said n member of the Cincidnoli Chanu.. ^ | ber of Commerce, a few days ago ; " I bare business to care for by u>y personal nt- - j tontii.n every day ; if ahsenl one or more : dlsys, something will go wrong and 1 suffer ^ So as .10 try religious life; I must go to i church, to tbe society and prayer meeting ! regularly, and though sometimes I do not , feel well, I dare ii.ik frame excuses to «l«y j Staying away once the temptation j strong to stay nway the second time, and then a declension begins : and when a religious drclenVion acts in, it k like | the setting in of a chilling winter rain— no j ono cair'twH when it wiH end, nor a bat I mischief it will work." I Soma thing* become weak, and wear [ owny by B»e ; but not the power of «in — Like ihe muscles of a brawny arm, the I more it is used the stronger it grow* ; and J thus all sinners, ns weH ss - seducer*. w..v worse and wurte." The dead become twice dead ; the dry bone* more dry. Every new - act or sin casts n'p as additional impedi I meat in the wSy of onr rgtarn to rirtueand to Mod; antM^that whirf* was only a molehill- swells -Qtoig mountain, ihot nothing J can remove but the faith at whose bidding . mooutki'aa are removed end cut into thj . depth* of the sea. I I . '■ , ,N*. I^)XOWO«Tll"i WxiLTH. — Nqxt tO ! i William B. Astor, of Now York city, j I Nicholas Longwerlb, of Cincinnati, who j died recently, wno-the richest tnnn in the^ United States.' It hn* been tarioasly^es- 1 timaled that Ills weatfh amounted \6 be i tween. twulvo* and Bfteen nilllionk. Mr i Longworfb'a taxes fov 1862, in Haritjtbn • connty, amounted tu over fifty tbousand > dollars. < A lady wu repeating to her Httla girK • cix years old, the story of tho Hood, and ■ how Ond had said to Noah that hq would ^ oot again destroy tha earth by delate of • water, aod gev# the rainbow aw a pledge of • his engagement. '.O .mother f ext-lafmad 1 -4he child/ when Ood has promised. I'ahbuld not have wanted aoy raiobow to rrakw me 1 believe him T' 3 1 D Yeg may gather a rich harvest of know, t ladgw by" reading ; but thought- is the winr nowlng machine. a y J •*•■ / l»t it not coat* tfpoo you. Live so that n good angels may protect yoo from this terr. ri ble evil tho winter of tha heart. ■ - ■ *ia«i" v- ' $3T Par tbe Printer.

" BY AUTHORITY. iIaws of new jersey, A Fuctfira Supplement to the aet entitJrd "Ab Act ebnci-riting crimes." ! I. Be it wnActed By flu; Senate and Oenera! Assembly of the Stale Of New Jersey. That if any pcrs.m shall rteal. or rip. or cot I or break, with intent to steal, any glata or woJtlvnrk belonging to any bailding whatj soever, ur any lexd. iron. hrar*. copper, or fixture, w-tieiber made of inetul or other material*, in whole or" in pan. respectively, fixed in or to sny building w|iet*u"ver, or anythiiic mado uf ntwtal or wo>d. or of Sunt, CTPd :n anriwml heitrjf ptfwetu frop1 petty, or for » Wnce to any dwelling house. garden or arox, m in an* street, square or other place dedicated 10 peblic a*c ororua. meal, every aucli olff-udcr shall be guilty of a misdemeaour, and on couvictioil ihocafur shall be liable lu be punished in thv same 1 the vain* of Ihe t'ung «o stolen ot ripped', cut or broken, with intent to stoat, shall be I went) dollar* or upward*. A tbe same mannrr a> if convicted of steuling good* and ehaUeta of that value, and if they be - under the prife or value of Lwvtily dpllart, , in tbe son.e manner a* if convicted or sleul. ■ ng goods and chattel* ucfler that' price 2 Ail! bo l charted. Thnt ia case of a } sacli thing 1— tng lived in ;i«v »qu»re. street or other like place. It shall not be

10 allege the win* lu be tbo property of ani person II And be it enabled, That if any person • hall receive or tiny any such article or «n stolen ns aforesaid, knowing the la have been Stolen, the peCsoa so offending shall bw d*mred gbilty id mlsde meaner, utsd upon ctmrirtion thereof shall be punished by fine nofnxceeding two hundred dollars, or imprisonment at hard la. bor n»t exceeding three year* or both, at discretion of tho court. Approved February g, 1863. A Supplement to the act entitled "An act relative tn tho geological survey nTlTila elate." appc red A1 arch Cfleonlfif" elffBtern hitttd.ed and s.xty. M.:re the passage nf the act stmvu pann-d. William Kitchel, therein named, bos died without having complete-! ihe geological survey of this stale as authorized and directed by said act;- and Whereas, the Sir.te Agricultural Soffkty has asked authority to take poaaeasion of the wood C'lls. field maps, 'apparatus, and other materials appertaining tj and heretofore used and collet ted during the progres- of »a:B »oi^ey, flie lisf cT whifli" by said act was given to the said W illtiitii Kitchel, in order that' the aaid stfrvny may be continued and completed by* Professor (jeorgc II. Cook, or some other .mtable person, under the dirvcti.oR' and patronage cf said society, pursuant !b the sii-l act , thetVfore, He it enacted by the Senate nnd Ueoeral' Assembly of the Sthle of New Jersey, ] That the president ortd secretary of .tho NVw Jersey State Agricu! tursl'tfouiaty, or | either of them, he and they are, or either ' of them is hereby authorized to take ohd ' reffive possession of th* srbod cuts, flbld j maps', uppamtus and other materials apj [tertlilning to aud heretofore .used and colj Uctc-I'duriog the prbgress of skid VWWey, J and allow tbe affn* to be used by the said j George II. Cook, or any other person who' may be selected or ippoioted by skid so--iciety to complete tbe slrtd sntvey. according to the terms and condffioos'spetfiflfd in tbe act to which this is a sopplerrfent. suid articles tm remain the property ol the state * -xnd-rt be returned to "the said treasurer by tha ssdd society, or srtiOovej may have postessesion br control of said articles wl-en' saidknrvey may be completed, or sooner, if -required by the legiklature. Approved, Pebruary 25, 186 A NOTICB To' CREDITORS. Emms a. Htldrrth, Exeratrts cf David UilJrrtL' Ui-crwrt^t, dlractiou Ol tha Surrogate of the county ®r Cape »!*y, hereby gives nott«« to the Creditor* ol thesaUl iWoed.Bt, to brtdf|» their drbts. droands sol rl.isi. .g.ln.i tb^assato #P said drerttoat, undse oath, within ntwa mawths 'wr thejt will be ^torvvar barred of aay actios agalmt PKTEK SOLI DEO, SurreeaU, y>» vtst ion. " TERMS OP 6RU8CRIFT10N. PETERSONS' C0TTNT£RF£IT DETECTOR* Batwcrlpliooa way ennrm with -say r^mi Tsrsv. always aa.h la adrancWi AH ls«tan mmtbi T. Ik PETERSON h TIKOTHRRe *91 t-heymut or.