SUNDAY APRIL 7th 1850

Nothing worthy of Note has occured this week. The weather has been quite pleasent with the exception of two or three Showers. Stoutenburgh Placer is numbering in population very fast Many of whome are french Men, and as the increase of Numbers So the increase of Gambling Monte Banks from $3,000 to $1.00 gingl upon the Table every night and day Sundays not excepted, haveing a baneful influence upon the young Men of the Placer whoes pockets are often drained of their hard earned Gold. I am Sorry to have to Say, that Men who once looked upon Such things as Sinful in the highest degree and poisonous to the morrels of any community. I Say men who protested against Such things Strongly, appear to of lost all Sense of their vowes to the Christian religion which they once professed, and are now Seen with the Crowd around the Tables beting, Sometimes loseing and Sometimes winning. Men leave their homes come to California, Stay two or three Months, return with a fortune and tell their friends about what a rich hole they Struck while in California out of which they took their fortune. Where was their rich holes. On the Beds of the Broad Streams, in the Sides of the Mountains, on the flats or in the Small ravines. was their rich holes in any of these No, No, with a few exceptions they found them on the gambling Table. A Boy of 18 or 19 years, who can now be Seen at any time around these places of vice, was detected in Stealing Six ounces of Gold, and no longer ago than last evening I Saw him with My own Eyes take Money from the Table that did not belong to him. See the influence of these Gambling holes, how many Robbers and Murders Spring from these places.