AMUSEMENTS AND GAMBLING IN NEW YORK.
There are now about twenty places of public amusement in the city of New York. Among these are an Italian opera house, eight regular theatres and two Ethiopian opera houses holding theatrical licenses. These theatres are nearly all new, and about two millions dollars are invested in them, in buildings, lands, decorations, scenery, properties and costumes. The nightly expenses of the Italian Opera seldom fall below one thousand dollars; those of the theatres will probably average three hundred dollars per night. There are at least two thousand gambling houses in New York city, and probably a hundred Faro banks. They are at present in full blast, and were never in a more prosperous condition, according to a New York paper.