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who travel the Western waters, who pursue the business? regularly - catch a "green horn", on board of a Steamboat, and "riddle" him of his change - The Licensed Gambling houses? at New Orleans, are pretty things indeed for a State to encourage for the same of Revenue! - The constant idlings too among the whites in the slave states is the great cause of so many gamesters growing up there - Finding an old acquaintance from Boston Mass. in Louisville, my short stay of one day was rendered tolerable - tho' I was glad to get out of that place - fully determined now to spend my says here - Therefore again mounting my fatigued horse, I rode up the River two miles, & crossed the Ohio, into New Albany, Indiana. - a place containing a population of about 500, yet too near Louisville to be very prosperous -