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Show POKER IN WASHINGTON. Thero is no hotel nor club in Washington where a company of men may not call lor cards and a servant, and keep up the combat all night. It remains to bo seen whether a splendid supper and an elegant house will woo the sporting element from its many sanotuma, and realize the i ideas ol" Chamberhn. There are not less than twenty gaming houses, generally of a small pattern and in quarters of ambiguous ambigu-ous respectability, where the Virginians, Virgin-ians, Marylandera aud old District roues make their resort. A young man of fortune resident in Washington, says thnt it has cost him $30,000 to play poker and be had not learnt it yet. In the United .States senate there is a full quorum of poker players. When the cabinet meets together there are said to be two. |