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2T 00197	GAMBLING	""OUSES	IN NEW ORLEANS —
$10,000 LICENSES REQUIRED BY
CARPET BAG GOVERNMENT OF THE FOUR OPERATING IN
SPRING -	1869
"THAT LITTLE GAME"
Curious Work of a Louisiana Reconstructed Legislature
Gambling Legalized Visit to the Gambling Halls in Nev Orleans
We copy as follows from the letter of a special correspondent of the "New York World," dated New Orleans, Kay 29th, 1869:
St. Charles Hotel
When you come to New Orleans and stop at the St. Charles, where are to be seen all the pretty women of the Southwest, when they cibme down to be betrayed into heinous purchases of bonnets and robes by the far-famed Crescent City modistes; and when, having so come and so stopped, you step out in the evening to the front porch and are there reposing from the fatigues of your enormous travels, you see a wonderful number of bright lights all up and down the street, and hear a surprising .noise.
Lights and Noise
You have been, perhans, before in the city, and are led at first to imagine that those lights are those of an immemorial museum in St. Charles Stre'et, and that the cries you hear proceed from the tortured animals as they are stirred up by the keepers to gratify a refined audience with their poor pranks.
Further considering, it will appear that these lights are at divers points, to the right of the hotel and to the left, and in front thereof, even as the Russian game were known as Balaclava, and th^t the sounds that freight the ?ir come from men. The museum lit up is the museum of evil passions, and no animal is heard but the roar of Ye Tiger in his lair.
Gambling Houses
For these sights and these sounds come from an atrocious nest of gambling houses that have grown up, like noxious weeks, in this city, under an act to legalize the' same passed by the late adjourned carpet-bag and negro Legislature of this State.
In its revenue act, the learned and piebald body decreed that a tax of <55,000 should be levied on all licensed gambling houses.