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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 315, 22 September 1874, Page 4

The Evening JPoit says: — Although gambling is Iforbidden in public houses, and very properly so, there is, we believe, no provision of law which renders the proprietors of unlicensed houses liable for affording facilities for the indulgence in the vice of high play. Thesis,, we learn in this town at least one; establishment of an apparently innocent character, where night after ' nighi a number of young men, some mejFeDoyß, meet and play poker, and other similar games, for high stakes, and* often till daylight. The proprietor, on beiog'remob&trated with, coolly said tha£ if he, forbade the practice he would < lose £2 qv } . £3 a week. Only a; few nigJUsago, one youngster won some i £13, and was boasting of it next day. The names of the frequenters of this den are well-known, and will, we trust, be by the police communicated to their employers or parents. None of them i are in a position to lose money, and we need scarcely point oat how strong an incentive gambling of this kind must be to dishonesty. Hundreds of young men every year commit embezzlement to recoup losses at play, bringing ruin i on themselves and disgrace on their families. The matter is one of great social importance, and we regret that the iaw cannot deal with it. The dempp^^ .play claims nearly, if not quite, aa^anj. victims as the demon of drink, yet all the efforts of our legislators seem directed to repressing what is only, ja/i^vil^ea indulged in to excess, to AffjO^^neglect of what is a vice if indulged in, at, all. Two Moraion farmers are neighbors in the south-eastern part of the city, near the £eilitentiary. In the family of .qne^iaoS daughter, aged fifteen, a pretty English girl, with the rosy beauty of' 'her native land in a sweet ana guileless face. Her father is a Polygamißt, and often told his daughter thai Mk i system which tears mothers' hearts taT pieces is, after all, but a Cross of Salvation. This the maiden would not "believe. The other farmer, also one of the plurality cUbb, and an Englishman too, courts the neighbor's child. She so young and comely, would make a charming substitute for thf Il g&tflpMd, / wad , . wrinkled woman who Ksii croa&ed the seas with him. Accord^g^,: the two, men meet for a business talk. At first, the girl's father

said that he expected Elder , one of the Twelve Apostles wanted her, bat finally concluded to give up thinking so. These neighbors, each one fifty years of age, then agreed to the terms of a bargain, by which the damsel was. sold by her own father to the hoary lecher, tbe price beiog a span of work mules. Tbe ceremony, which is to complete the transfer of that girl to her owner, will take place in the Endowment House, on next Monday. A child's hope, virtue, and happiness, are to be sacrificed on tbe altar. Daniel H. Wells, Mayor of Salt Lake City, is to be the executioner in thia moral tragedy. The slavery of former days sold negroes at a public auction block, but in Utah the " Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" robs the cradle, and finds victims for ita hellish traffic. Yet when theee horrible things are published, the demons who do them cry out, "Persecution I Persecution ! "—SaltLahe Tribune.