Police Crack Down on Local Gambling Den

A few days since Chief Woolery gave notice that all faro, or banking games, if any there be in town, should at once cease, or the proprietors of the various houses where such games were conducted should be held responsible. All the whites engaged in this unlawful business stopped their games, but the Chinamen concluded to take the chances, and the consequence was that Chief Woolery and Officer Thompson lit down on two of them and arrested the dealers and captured considerable money. They were fined $10 each, by Justice Cann, yesterday. This gambling business would have been stopped long ago, had the police not been laying for a contemptible Know-Nothing who has been attempting to blackmail the gamblers for some time past. There have been affidavits filed against him, setting forth that he made a proposition that for a certain sum of hush money he would keep quiet about their games, otherwise he would publish the fact that their games were running, through a scurrilous sheet over which he had some kind of control. The fellow discovered that the police were after him and let up on his little game. He has not yet been arrested but the authorities are watching him closely, and he may yet be caught at his blackmailing schemes. For further particulars see affidavit filed in Justice Cann's office.