Alexandria Gazette

ANOTHER LECTURER.—Mr. Green, the "reformed gambler," has written a letter to the Editor of the Tribune, for the purpose of satisfying his creditors that he is not making so much money by his lecturing operations as they suppose. Green says he has immense houses, to be sure, but the nett avails of his labors are nevertheless insufficient to the payment of his expenses. His creditors seeing it stated in the newspapers that immense crowds have grown so large as to urge upon him the propriety of more lectures but he tells them in so many words it is out of the question—that notwithstanding vast success of his labors and though the houses are not capacious enough to hold his hearers, he is generally minus in money matters. He says indeed by way of explaining this unfortunate fact that he left Boston 18th of January, spoke 146 times while expenses for houses, travelling, advertising and board amounted to 271 more than his receipts. This is certainly poor pay for philanthropy, and unless the lecturer can manage to improve the financial department of his business creditors should remain quiet. In order to keep them informed of the actual state of things Mr. Green proposes to keep an account current of his operations, to be published weekly in the Tribune, by which it can be seen at a glance how much he makes and how much he loses at each exhibition. This is certainly a fair proposition. There can be no doubt that true and faithful exposure of the frauds and the felonies of professed gamblers, may be made of signal service to society and so far as this individual has really been instrumental in such exposure, he deserves well of the community.—N. Y. Courier.