cause a scene when dying: they would not
give a "thank you" to cut their throats in private.

On the 31st of October, the day on which the rooms close for the season,
an immense quantity of players throng to the Kursaal; for though they
have withstood temptation for so long a time, they cannot possibly
suffer the season to go past without making one trial. On the 1st of
November, those birds of ill-omen, the croupiers, set out to hybernize
in Paris, and the rooms are closed, not to be reopened till the 1st of
May.

It has long been a question most difficult of decision whether, leaving
morality entirely out of sight, the watering-places of Germany are
benefited or injured by the continuance of gambling. We are inclined to
the latter opinion; for, though it may be said that it brings a deal of
money into circulation, yet your true gambler is a most unsocial and
inhospitable fellow, and one of the worst visitors an hotel-keeper can
have. Besides encouraging, as they do, all the riffraff of Europe to pay
periodical visits to Germany, they thereby prevent many respectable
persons from settling in that country; for any wife or mother who has
the interests of her family at heart, would fly from a place where
gambling is allowed, as from a pest-house. At the same time, a very lax
tone prevails in these towns, and every finer feeling is blunted--in
many cases irreparably--by constant association with hard-hearted,
callous, and unscrupulous gamblers. That this was a view taken by the
more enlightened of the Germans, is proved by the fact that the
parliament of Frankfort decided on the abolition of all gambling-houses
by a considerable majority, but unfortunately there was no time to carry
such a salutary measure into effect. Had it been otherwise, the Regents
in all probability would, through very shame, have hesitated in giving
their assent to the re-establishment of such a crying evil.

From Fraser's Magazine.

AN ELECTION ROW IN NEW-YORK.

BY C. ASTOR BRISTED.

An election in England is a very exciting affair; in America, from its
frequency, it becomes a mere matter of every-day business. Almost every
citizen has the opportunity of voting twice a year, and elections are
continually going on in some part or other of the country, so that they
form a standard topic of conversation, much as the weather does in
England. No wonder, then, that they usually fail to awaken any great or
general interest.

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