Gamblers In Washington

-There are more gamblers in Washington at present than there have been at any time within tbe memory of the oldest rnhabitant. Within fifteen minutes walk of Willard's there are not less tban twenty first-class establishments, where money is lost and won in thousands nightly prineipülly lost. so far as outsiders are coneerned, Blacklegs frota every city in the Uuion are here - from New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cincinnati and' St. Louis, and cvery game known to Hoyle. aüd inany not known to that illustrious standard, is prosecuted with vigor, from dark in the evening until daylight in the morning. Faro is coneidered the most statesman-like medium for ridding a Congressman of bis cash on hand1. New arrivals from the West confine themselves to poker for awile, but soon gradúate into the higher branches of the.'strategic science of tiger-fighting, and before they have served half a term at the National Capital are abundantly qualified to emulate Mr. Green in an exposition on the subject of gambling, having learned by dear expericnce that it is one of the most costlv nleasnrps nf Mm