Aventures palpitantes parmi les premiers colons, embrassant désespérément rencontres avec les Indiens, les conservateurs, et les réfugiés ; les exploits audacieux des Rangers du Texas et d'autres .. . E regarder, une malédiction, et retourné à thePennsylvania terre, croyant pleinement, que, s'il n'était pas le diable, il était au moins l'un de ses principaux agents. Les joueurs OP LE SUD ET L'OUEST. Dans tout le monde ne peut pas produire une telle collection d'unmitigatedscoundrels se trouvent dans le sud et l'Ouest, quelques spendingtheir temps sur l'eau, certains passant pour semoirs et taverne-conserver-ers, éparpillés dans le pays à quelques kilomètres di

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Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . e look, one curse, and returned to thePennsylvania shore, fully believing, that, if he was not the devil, hewas at least one of his principal agents. THE GAMBLERS OP THE SOUTH AND WEST. The entire world cannot produce such a collection of unmitigatedscoundrels as are to be found in the South and West, some spendingtheir time upon the rivers, some passing for planters and tavern-keep-ers, scattered through the country at convenient distances, making achain of posts for the accommodation of their brethren, and othersprowling about under various guises, as horse-dealers, negro drovers, and peddlers, but carrying on the more profitable trades of negrostealmg, robbery, and murder. Commencing in most cases withgambling, the western scamp seldom pauses in his career, until hehas reached the topmost round in the ladder of crime. 284 THE GAMBLERS OP THE SOUTH AND WEST. No boat ever travels over the Mississippi, Ohio, or their tributa-ries, without the accustomed freightage of Chevaliers dludus-. FEARFUL RESCLT OF GAMBLING ON A MISSISSIPPI BOAT. trie, as much superior in audacity and villainy to their congenersof the old world, as is an incarnate demon of hell to a commonevery-day rascal. Boats are owned by associations of these scoundrels, run to facili-tate gambling and robbing operations, and I would here warn alltyros in western travel to inquire well into the character of bothboat and captain before embarking, and when on board, to beseduced into no game of chance—even for amusement—with astranger. Some few years since, I think in 1842, a man was hung in Cincin-nati, who, although but twenty-four years of age, coufessed totwenty-two murders. According to his own story, he had been, for three years of hiscareer, a nominal barkeeper upon a Western boat, in order that hemight have a better chance to commit and

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