Chapter XXII: Section 1: Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, (1)

That if any person shall keep a room, building, or arbour, booth, shed, or tenement, to be used or occupied for gambling, or shall, knowingly, permit the same to be used or occupied for gambling; or if any person, being the owner of such room, building, arbour, booth, shed, or tenement, shall rent the same to be used or occupied for gambling, the persons so offending shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars; and if any owner of any room, building, arbour, booth, shed, or tenement, shall know that any gambling-tables, apparatus, or establishment, is kept or used in such room, building, arbour, booth, shed, or tenement, for gambling, and winning, betting, or gaining money, or other property, and shall not forthwith cause complaint to be made against the person so keeping or using the room, building, arbour, booth, shed, or tenement, he shall be taken, held, and considered to have knowingly permitted the same to be used and occupied for gambling.

SECT. 2. If any person shall keep or exhibit any gaming-table, establishment, device, or apparatus to win or gain money, or other property of value, or to aid or assist, or permit others to do the same; or if any person shall engage in gambling for a livelihood, or shall be without any fixed residence, and in the habit or practice of gambling, he shall be deemed and taken to be a common gambler, and upon conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned and kept at hard labour in the penitentiary not less than one, nor more than five years, and be fined five hundred dollars, to be paid into the treasury of the county where such conviction shall take place, for the use of common schools therein.

SECT. 3. If an affidavit shall be filed with the magistrate before whom complaint shall be made of an offence against any provisions of this act, stating that the affiant has reason to believe, and does believe, that the person charged in such complaint has upon his person, or at any other place named in such affidavit, any money, or any specified articles of personal property, or any gaming-table, device, apparatus, the discovery of which might tend to establish the truth of such charge, the said magistrate shall, by his warrant, command the officer, who is authorized to arrest the person so charged, to make diligent search for such money or property, and table, device, or apparatus; and if found, to bring the same before such magistrate--and the officer seizing the same, shall retain possession thereof, subject to the order of the magistrate before whom he takes the same, until the discharge, or commitment, or letting to bail of the person charged; and in case of such commitment, or letting to bail of the person so charged, such officer shall retain such property, subject to the order of the court before which such offender may be required to appear, until his discharge or conviction. And in case of the conviction of such person, the gaming-table, device, or apparatus shall be destroyed, and the money and other property shall be liable to pay any judgment which may be rendered against such person; and in case of the discharge of such person by the magistrate, or court, the officer having such property in his custody, shall, on demand, deliver it to such person.

SECT. 4. If any person called to testify on behalf of the state before any justice of the peace, grand-jury, or court, upon any complaint, information, or indictment, for any offence made punishable by this act, shall disclose any fact tending to criminate himself in any matter made punishable by this act, he shall thereafter be discharged of and from all liability to prosecution or punishment for such matter of offence.

SECT. 5. It shall be lawful for any justice of the peace, chief magistrate of the municipal incorporation, or judge of any court of common pleas, upon complaint on oath, that any gaming-table, establishment, apparatus, or device is kept for the purpose of being used to win or gain money or other property, by the owner thereof, or any other person, to issue his warrant, commanding any sheriff, constable, or marshal of any municipal corporation to whom the same may be directed, within the proper jurisdiction, after demanding entrance, to break open and enter any house or other place where such gaming establishment, apparatus, or device shall be kept, and to seize and safely keep the same, to be dealt with as hereafter provided.

SECT. 6. Upon the return of said warrant executed, the authority issuing the same shall proceed to examine and inquire touching the said complaint, and if satisfied the same is true, he shall order the officer so seizing such gaming establishment, apparatus, or device, forthwith to destroy the same; which order the said officer shall proceed to execute in the presence of said authority, unless the person charged as keeper of said gaming establishment, apparatus, or device, shall, without delay, enter into a recognisance in the sum of two hundred dollars, with sufficient sureties, to be approved by said authority, for the appeal of said complaint to the Court of Common Pleas, next to be held in the proper county, conditioned that the defendant will appear at the next term of the court to which he appeals, and abide the order of such court, and for the payment of the full amount of the fine and all costs, in case he shall be found guilty of the offences charged, and judgment be rendered against him in said court.

SECT. 7. The officer taking such recognisance shall return the same to the clerk of the court to which said appeal is taken forthwith, and such clerk shall file the same in his office, and complaint shall be prosecuted in such court, by indictment, as in other criminal cases; and upon conviction, the appellant shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, and shall pay the costs of prosecution; and such gaming establishment, apparatus, or device shall be destroyed.

SECT. 8. It shall be the duty of all sheriffs, constables, marshals of incorporated cities, towns, and boroughs, and of all prosecuting attorneys, to inform and prosecute all offences against this act.

SECT. 9. This act shall be given in charge to the Grand Jury, by the President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the respective counties.

SECT. 10. This act shall take effect on the first day of March next.

ELIAS F. DRAKE,
_Speaker of the House of Representatives._

SEABURY FORD,
_Speaker of the Senate._

Jan 17, 1846.

During the three evenings of the debate the Lecture-room of the Museum was crowded with a most respectable audience; and thousands must have read the reports given by the different Newspapers on the following mornings. Throughout the community there was considerable excitement, and we have no doubt that good has already resulted. The evils of gambling are now familiar to many who never previously thought upon the subject; and the excuses and defences urged for participating in the vice have been stripped of their fallacious guises. For this work we owe many thanks to the conductors of the public press who have come forth ably and willingly to our assistance.

But we trust that the immediate advantages from the discussion are not the only ones. It will be perceived from the reports given, that we met with no common opponent. Mr. Freeman is perhaps not excelled, if he has an equal, among gamblers, for talent, learning, and, what is more rare, candour and honesty of character. From a lecture which he has since delivered, we learn that he was on a professional visit to Philadelphia, where he had bought some implements for gambling and was about to return to the South, when his attention was arrested by a notice in a paper that Mr. Green was to give a lecture in the Museum on the following evening. For some years he had formed a resolution that if ever he had an opportunity of hearing him, he would embrace it, and he now concluded that he would stay another day for that purpose. He did so, attended his lecture, and from antipathy to himself and the course he was pursuing, was induced to send the challenge to the Sun newspaper which led to the debate in the preceding pages. It is not improbable that while thinking on the points he proposed to defend, his naturally acute mind perceived their fallacy, as there was a gradual shifting of his position from the subject of the original challenge, till on the last evening of the debate he ended with the astonishing announcement that on the Tuesday following he would deliver a lecture _against gambling_ in the same place. Since then, he has delivered several lectures on the same subject, has taken the temperance pledge, been admitted into one of the divisions of the Sons of Temperance, and promises fair to be an efficient labourer in the cause of truth and virtue. Like Paul, he seems to have been arrested midway in his career, and by the power of conscience compelled to build up what he once exerted himself to destroy. May God prosper him in his labours, and give him grace to continue unto the end.

[_Recommendation._]

Cincinnati, _July_, 1843.

We, the undersigned, believing that Mr. J. H. Green's proposed publication ["The ARTS AND MISERIES OF GAMBLING"] will be eminently useful in counteracting one of the most pernicious and demoralizing vices of the age, take great pleasure in recommending it to the patronage of the public.

Rev. CHARLES ELLIOTT, _Editor of the Western Christian Advocate_.

Rev. L.L. HAMLINE, _Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church_.

D.K. ESTE, _Judge of the Superior Court, Cin. Ham. Co_.

Rev. JAMES P. KILBRETH.

SAMUEL WILLIAMS.

JOHN McLEAN, _Judge of the United States Court._

Rev. W.H. RAPER.

THOMAS J. BIGGS, _President of the Cincinnati College._

SAMUEL W. LYND, D.D. _Pastor of the Ninth Street Baptist Church._

Hon. JACOB BURNET.

Rev. JOHN F. WRIGHT.

H.E. SPENCER, _Mayor of Cincinnati._

LOTTERIES.

This is as deceptive, and as base a business, as was ever introduced into any country. The apparent respectability of it, and of the men who carry it on, is calculated to remove the scruples many might otherwise have to patronizing it. The facility with which it can be patronized, without the liability of exposure, and the promises of sudden gain so artfully held out, are inducements not easily resisted by a money-loving people, totally ignorant of the odds against them in the game they play.

All other games generally require the personal attention of the players who patronize them; but this is a game at which any one can play, and need never be seen, even by those against whom he may be playing. Thousands of persons, who stand high in the estimation of their neighbors for good conduct; men who would not, on any account, be found at a gambling-table, will patronize lotteries. The ease with which it can be done, without exposure, enables them to gratify, to the full extent of their means, their passion for this base species of swindling. In many of our large cities, numerous well-dressed young men are constantly engaged in vending tickets through the streets, or from house to house, and they can be bought as privately as the buyer may wish, or he may send his servant for them. Thus it is that a man may gamble as extensively as he pleases in lotteries, without his proceedings being at all likely to become public.

In my description of lotteries, I shall confine myself to the lottery scheme before us; because it will serve as an example of all others, and because the reader will be better able to comprehend explanations of this system than if I were to write of some scheme not here inserted.

By a reference to the tables of tickets, it will be seen that there are fifteen packages of whole tickets, as many of halves, and thirty packages of quarter tickets. Each package contains all the numbers, from one up to seventy-eight, without a repetition of any one of them. The tickets found in these tables are all that are intended for any one drawing; and every successive drawing is but another edition of the same tickets, all arranged in the same order, and with the same combination numbers; but they have a different class number on them. The proprietors of a lottery furnish the printer with a copy of these tables, arranged in a blank book, and this book is called the _scheme-book_, from which as many as may be ordered from time to time are printed.

The arranging of the class numbers is a matter of fancy, as to what they shall be; their only use being to determine to what particular drawing any particular ticket belongs, in order that a ticket which proves to be a blank may not, at some future drawing, be handed in for a premium, on account of containing some of the numbers then drawn.

THE DRAWING. There are several methods of conducting the drawing; but that which is most commonly used is as follows:--

There is a hollow wheel, as represented in the plate; then there are seventy-eight small tin tubes, scarcely half an inch in diameter, and about three inches in length; these are for holding the numbers, from one to seventy-eight; each number is on a separate piece of paper, which is rolled up and put into a tube; these tubes, when the numbers have been placed in them, are all put into the wheel, and a person is selected to draw out one at a time from the wheel, which is opened, and cried aloud, for the information of those present who may be interested. The number is registered, for the future guidance of the lottery-dealer, in determining what he shall pay those who may hold one or more of the numbers so drawn. After this, the wheel is again turned, so as to mix well the numbers contained in it, and a second is drawn; and the same proceedings are gone over with, until twelve numbers are drawn, and registered in the order in which they are drawn. Sometimes thirteen will be drawn, it being customary, on many occasions, to draw one number for every six contained in the wheel; but I cannot give this as a universal rule, because I have often found it deviated from. Sometimes little boys are selected to draw the numbers from the wheel--to give the impression that every possible step has been taken to render the management as fair as possible; but in this there is also much deception.

Swarms of domestic servants, day labourers, and the most poor and needy persons daily visit these worse than gambling shops, where they risk their little all, and get nothing in return but the delightful anticipation of being rich when the "drawing" takes place.

True it has been the case that prizes have been drawn, and trumpeted forth to the world, as inducements for others to buy. Having known how some of these prizes have sometimes been obtained, will it be too much to suppose that others are obtained in like manner? that is by the proprietors of lotteries being swindled through the unfaithfulness of their agents. A case came to my knowledge of a man who drew a capital prize; and the mode of operation, by which it was effected, was as follows: An agent, who was stationed in a town some distance from the principal establishment, made two confidants, who, doubtless, readily acted with him from hope of gain. One of these was the post-master of the town, and the other an acquaintance, a patron of the lottery. The duty of the agent was to transmit to the principal office all unsold tickets, by the first mail that left after the known hour of drawing. This mail also conveyed the lists of the drawing; but, in a regular manner of proceeding, they would not have been accessible to the agent before the departure of the stage with his unsold tickets. By making a confidant of the post-master, however, he received the lists as quick as possible after the mail arrived, and before it had been assorted. He then examined his unsold tickets, and if any considerable prize remained, he would take it from among the unsold tickets, and despatch the remainder to the principal office, and give the prize to his other confidant; each one giving out that the ticket had been sold to him; and accordingly the prize would be claimed and paid, although fraudulently obtained. In this particular case, the capital prize was drawn, and it appeared that the ticket-holder appropriated all the money to his own use, as he was known to buy much property shortly afterwards. It is believed also, by those who were acquainted with the incident, that he never divided with the rascally agent; and thus was the cheater cheated, who, in his wrath, let out some of the secrets of the manner in which the prize was obtained.

This same man has since met with reverses of fortune, and would now, I believe, find it difficult to raise money sufficient to purchase a ticket even of a low price.

Among the many cases of lottery swindling, every body has heard of the great Louisiana real estate lottery, in which the prizes were to have been the St. Charles Hotel, the Verandah, the St. Charles Theatre, the Bank, the Arcade, and other magnificent buildings in New Orleans. It is quite needless to say any thing of this, as the public has been pretty well enlightened in regard to it, through the public journals of the day.

The following is a copy of a handbill issued by the proprietors of the lottery immediately after a drawing, for the information of ticket-holders, and all others interested:--

DRAWING OF THE LOTTERY.

The following are the numbers which were this day drawn from the
seventy-eight placed in the wheel, viz.:--

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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20 51 61 24 74 77 46 36 69 29 26 3

and that the said tickets were drawn in the order in which they
stand: that is to say, No. 20 was the first that was drawn; No. 51
was the 2d; No. 61 was the 3d; No. 24 was the 4th; No. 74 was the
5th; No. 77 was the 6th; No. 46 was the 7th; No. 36 was the 8th;
No. 69 was the 9th; No. 29 was the 10th; No. 26 was the 11th; No. 3
was the 12th, and last.

Those tickets entitled to the 110 highest prizes were drawn in the
following order:--

1 2 3 $30,000 | 7 8 9 $5,000
4 5 6 10,000 | 10 11 12 2,367 20

Those 6 tickets having on them the

2 3 4 | 3 4 5 | 5 6 7 | 6 7 8 | 8 9 10 | 9 10 11 > each 1,500

Those 100 tickets having on them the

1 2 4 | 1 4 7 | 1 7 9 | 2 3 11 | 2 6 10 \
1 2 5 | 1 4 8 | 1 7 10 | 2 3 12 | 2 6 11 |
1 2 6 | 1 4 9 | 1 7 11 | 2 4 5 | 2 6 12 |
1 2 7 | 1 4 10 | 1 7 12 | 2 4 6 | 2 7 8 |
1 2 8 | 1 4 11 | 1 8 9 | 2 4 7 | 2 7 9 |
1 2 9 | 1 4 12 | 1 8 10 | 2 4 8 | 2 7 10 |
1 2 10 | 1 5 6 | 1 8 11 | 2 4 9 | 2 7 11 |
1 2 11 | 1 5 7 | 1 8 12 | 2 4 10 | 2 7 12 |
1 2 12 | 1 5 8 | 1 9 10 | 2 4 11 | 2 8 9 |
1 3 4 | 1 5 9 | 1 9 11 | 2 4 12 | 2 8 10 |
1 3 5 | 1 5 10 | 1 9 12 | 2 5 6 | 2 8 11 > each 1,000
1 3 6 | 1 5 11 | 1 10 11 | 2 5 7 | 2 8 12 |
1 3 7 | 1 5 12 | 1 10 12 | 2 5 8 | 2 9 10 |
1 3 8 | 1 6 7 | 1 11 12 | 2 5 9 | 2 9 11 |
1 3 9 | 1 6 8 | 2 3 5 | 2 5 10 | 2 9 12 |
1 3 10 | 1 6 9 | 2 3 6 | 2 5 11 | 2 10 11 |
1 3 11 | 1 6 10 | 2 3 7 | 2 5 12 | 2 10 12 |
1 3 12 | 1 6 11 | 2 3 8 | 2 6 7 | 2 11 12 |
1 4 5 | 1 6 12 | 2 3 9 | 2 6 8 | 3 4 6 |
1 4 6 | 1 7 8 | 2 3 10 | 2 6 9 | 3 4 7 /

All others with three of the drawn numbers on, (being 110) each 300 Those 66 tickets having on them the 1st and 2d drawn numbers, each 100 Those 66 tickets having on them the 2d and 3d, each 80 Those 66 tickets having on them the 3d and 4th, each 50 Those 66 tickets having on them the 4th and 5th, each 40 Those 132 tickets having on them the 5th and 6th, or 6th and 7th, each 30 All others with two of the drawn numbers on, (being 3960,) each 20 And all tickets having one, only, of the drawn numbers on, each, (being 25,740,) 10

Now, let us spend a few moments in examining this bill, and we shall see how much truth there is in it. It says, that the ticket having on it the three first drawn numbers will be entitled to the capital prize of $30,000. Now, in the whole scheme before us, there is no such ticket. The combination, 20, 51, 61, is not to be found in this arrangement. Consequently, there was no ticket whose numbers entitled it to this prize. Next, the bill says, the ticket having the fourth, fifth, and sixth drawn numbers, which would have been 24, 74, 77, would be entitled to a prize of $10,000. There is no such ticket in the combination. Consequently this also is false. Now, it is evident that the dealers, in publishing this bill, mean to impress the public with the idea, that tickets, containing the necessary numbers to draw these prizes, are in the lottery, and that somebody must, of course, draw them; but it is all false, and a very little investigation will convince any one, that a greater system of deception can hardly exist. Bear in mind, that the bill says these prizes were drawn. The third prize was $5,000, and the ticket which contained the seventh, eighth, and ninth numbers was to draw this prize. These numbers are 36, 46, 69. There is no such combination in the scheme-book--no such ticket was printed or sold. Consequently, here is another falsehood. The same can be said of the fourth prize--the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth numbers--being 3, 26, 29. There is no such combination in the book, and no such prize could be drawn. Of the next six prizes, of $1,500 each, said to have been drawn, there was not a single ticket in the whole scheme which contained the necessary numbers to draw any one of these six prizes!

It is next asserted, that there were in the lottery one hundred tickets, having three drawn numbers, and entitled each to a prize of $1,000. This I have examined, and I find that, instead of being one hundred, there are but two--the first in magnitude being one from package number six, of half tickets, bearing the numbers 20, 36, 51,--these being the first, second, and eighth of the drawn numbers, and would entitle the holder to one half of the $1,000, subject to a deduction of fifteen per cent. The other is a quarter ticket, bearing the numbers 46, 51, 74--from the twenty-seventh package, of quarters--being the second, fifth, and seventh of the drawn numbers, and would entitle the holder of it to one quarter of the $1,000, after deducting the fifteen per cent. But it is well known that, frequently, scarce one half of the tickets of any one class, intended for a particular drawing, are ever disposed of, and are consequently returned to the manager's office, to be destroyed. Then, what guaranty have we that the numbers entitled to the above pitiful prizes were sold? They are as likely to be among the tickets returned unsold, as among those sold. Next, the bill states that there were one hundred and ten others, each having three drawn numbers, and were entitled to a prize of $300 each. By a close investigation, I find but one single ticket of this kind in the whole scheme. This is the ticket in the twelfth package of quarters, bearing the numbers 61, 69, 77; and if it had been sold, it would have entitled the holder to one fourth of the $300, deducting 15 per cent. Next, the bill says, those sixty-six tickets having the first and second drawn numbers, will each be entitled to a prize of $100. In searching for these in the scheme-book, I find but one that bears the first and second numbers; that is, in package fourteen. The ticket having the numbers 20, 51, 66, is the only one having the two first numbers; and if sold, the holder was entitled to one half of the $100, it being a half ticket. Now, the reader may perceive that I have examined and laid open, so that he too may examine, this masterpiece of villany. I find that of the two hundred and eighty-six highest prizes, which, their own handbill states, existed in their lottery, and which, by their own figures, amounted to the enormous sum of $195,967, and, in order to be drawn, only required that the tickets should be bought,--I find, allowing every ticket to have been sold, and afterwards every holder presented his ticket for the sum to which it might be entitled, that of the two hundred and eighty-six said to be in the scheme, there are but five, and these very inconsiderable; and that the greatest amount of these five prizes, without deducting the fifteen per cent, is only $875, instead of the enormous sum of $195,967. Can it be possible that any person will be found to patronize lotteries, after considering these facts?

I pass over those small prizes named after the first sixty-six having the first and second drawn numbers on them, and will prove the balance to be falsehoods, as the greater portion of the first part of the bill is.

In the first place, let us see how many prizes are represented to exist, not to say any thing of the blanks. In counting up the prizes named on this bill, we find them to be 30,316; and I do not think they would pretend to say that more than one half of their tickets were prizes. Then we will say that they had an equal number of blanks. This would carry their scheme up to over sixty thousand tickets; and even if they were all prizes, and no blanks, (which they do not pretend,) who cannot see the extreme improbability of their disposing of 30,316 tickets in one week? for it must be remembered that these were all of one class, and for one particular week's drawing. But the last witness, whose overwhelming testimony will settle the question, is their own scheme-book, of which an accurate copy is here given, and which shows the number of tickets, for any one drawing, to be but 1,560, the half of which, by great exertion, they might succeed in selling; each successive drawing being another edition of these same combinations, with a different class number on them. Now, let me ask, where are their 30,316 prizes to come from? What a scheme of deception do we here behold! and one, too, that has been so long submitted to and patronized by the public of this and other countries.

Another method of still further swindling the buyers of tickets, is much practised in some parts of the country. The agents who sell the tickets are authorized to insure them. When a man buys one, the price, perhaps, might be ten dollars. The seller, if he has been authorized, will say, "Now, sir, for ten dollars, I will insure your ticket to draw a prize." This is enough for the buyer to have his ticket insured to draw a prize, and possibly the capital prize: he pays an additional fee, and the agent forwards the numbers of all the tickets, so insured, to the office where the drawing is to be held; and there they manage to have these tickets contain one (seldom more) of the drawn numbers. This entitles the buyer to receive back the price of his ticket, after taking out 15 per cent.; and as it was not a total blank, the insurer is safe, and retains the sum paid for insurance. The buyer remains swindled out of the insurance, and 15 per cent, of the cost. These swindling shops are numerous, and are sometimes called _policy offices_.

We sincerely hope that our readers will examine with some attention the developments we have made in relation to the deceptive schemes of the lottery managers; for we feel that they cannot fail to convince every man of common sense, who has a particle of moral principle and moral honesty left, that he who encourages this basest of all swindling, by purchasing tickets, is not alone an enemy to himself and family, but he countenances a species of gambling that is extensively mischievous and ruinous, and has for its victims many of our best citizens, young and old; while, at the same time, he unintentionally throws a veil over the villanous deeds of the lottery gambler and his unprincipled, as well as his inexperienced supporters. We once more invite our readers to examine our statements with attention.

The following tables represent, completely, the entire contents of a lottery dealer's scheme-book, made for the guidance of the printer, in printing tickets. At the close of the tables is represented a ticket, with its class and combination numbers.

+--------+----------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+ | #1# | #2# | #3# | #4# | #5# | #6# | +--------+----------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+ | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | +--------+----------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+ | 1 27 53| 1 28 55 | 1 29 54| 1 30 56| 1 31 57| 1 32 58| | 2 28 54| 2 29 56 | 2 30 55| 2 31 57| 2 32 58| 2 33 59| | 3 29 55| 3 30 57 | 3 31 56| 3 32 58| 3 33 59| 3 34 60| | 4 30 56| 4 31 58 | 4 32 57| 4 33 59| 4 34 60| 4 35 78| | 5 31 57| 5 32 59 | 5 33 58| 5 34 60| 5 35 61| 5 36 77| | 6 32 58| 6 33 60 | 6 34 59| 6 35 61| 6 36 62| 6 42 71| | 7 33 59| 7 34 61 | 7 35 60| 7 36 62| 7 37 63| 7 43 70| | 8 34 60| 8 35 62 | 8 36 61| 8 37 63| 8 38 64| 8 44 69| | 9 35 61| 9 36 63 | 9 37 62| 9 38 64| 9 39 65| 9 45 68| |10 36 62| 10 37 64 | 10 38 63| 10 39 65| 10 40 66| 10 46 67| |11 37 63| 11 38 65 | 11 39 64| 11 40 66| 11 41 67| 11 37 76| |12 38 64| 12 39 66 | 12 40 65| 12 41 67| 12 42 68| 12 38 75| |13 39 65| 13 40 67 | 13 41 66| 13 42 68| 13 43 69| 13 39 74| |14 40 66| 14 41 68 | 14 42 67| 14 43 69| 14 44 70| 14 40 73| |15 41 67| 15 42 69 | 15 43 68| 15 44 70| 15 45 71| 15 41 72| |16 42 68| 16 43 70 | 16 44 69| 16 45 71| 16 46 72| 16 27 57| |17 43 69| 17 44 71 | 17 45 70| 17 46 72| 17 47 73| 17 28 56| |18 44 70| 18 45 72 | 18 46 71| 18 47 73| 18 48 74| 18 29 55| |19 45 71| 19 46 73 | 19 47 72| 19 48 74| 19 49 75| 19 30 54| |20 46 72| 20 47 74 | 20 48 73| 20 49 75| 20 50 76| 20 31 53| |21 47 73| 21 48 75 | 21 49 74| 21 50 76| 21 51 77| 21 47 65| |22 48 74| 22 49 76 | 22 50 75| 22 51 77| 22 52 78| 22 48 66| |23 49 75| 23 50 77 | 23 51 76| 23 52 78| 23 30 53| 23 49 64| |24 50 76| 24 51 78 | 24 52 77| 24 27 53| 24 29 54| 24 50 63| |25 51 77| 25 52 53 | 25 27 78| 25 28 54| 25 28 55| 25 51 62| |26 52 78| 26 27 54 | 26 28 53| 26 29 55| 26 27 56| 26 52 61| +--------+----------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+

The above lottery schemes were accurately copied from the scheme-book of a lottery dealer in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and may be considered a fair specimen of lottery combinations generally. The tables are for a 78 numbered lottery, every three perpendicular lines of figures containing a package, and each package all the numbers, from 1 to 78, inclusive; and there are also 26 tickets in each package.

+--------+----------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+ | #7# | #8# | #9# | #10# | #96# | #97# | +--------+----------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+ | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | +--------+----------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+ | 1 34 59| 1 60 78| 1 61 64| 1 35 36| 1 38 39 | 1 41 43| | 2 36 60| 2 61 77| 2 62 65| 2 37 38| 2 40 49 | 2 42 45| | 3 35 61| 3 62 76| 3 63 66| 3 39 40| 3 41 50 | 3 44 47| | 4 37 62| 4 63 75| 4 29 78| 4 41 42| 4 42 51 | 4 46 49| | 5 38 63| 5 64 74| 5 28 77| 5 43 44| 5 43 52 | 5 48 51| | 6 49 74| 6 65 73| 6 27 76| 6 45 46| 6 44 53 | 6 50 53| | 7 50 75| 7 66 72| 7 30 50| 7 47 48| 7 45 54 | 7 52 55| | 8 51 76| 8 67 71| 8 31 51| 8 49 50| 8 46 55 | 8 54 57| | 9 52 77| 9 68 70| 9 32 52| 9 51 52| 9 47 56 | 9 56 59| |10 27 78| 10 53 69| 10 33 53| 10 53 54| 10 48 57 | 10 58 61| |11 28 53| 11 27 52| 11 34 54| 11 55 56| 11 58 67 | 11 60 63| |12 29 54| 12 28 51| 12 35 55| 12 57 58| 12 59 68 | 12 62 65| |13 30 55| 13 29 50| 13 36 56| 13 59 60| 13 60 69 | 13 64 67| |14 31 56| 14 30 49| 14 37 57| 14 61 62| 14 61 70 | 14 66 69| |15 32 57| 15 31 48| 15 38 58| 15 63 64| 15 62 71 | 15 68 71| |16 33 58| 16 32 47| 16 39 59| 16 65 66| 16 63 72 | 16 70 73| |17 48 73| 17 33 46| 17 40 60| 17 67 68| 17 64 73 | 17 72 75| |18 47 72| 18 34 45| 18 41 67| 18 69 70| 18 65 74 | 18 74 77| |19 46 71| 19 35 44| 19 42 68| 19 71 72| 19 66 75 | 19 76 78| |20 45 70| 20 36 43| 20 43 69| 20 73 74| 20 27 76 | 20 35 40| |21 44 69| 21 37 59| 21 44 70| 21 75 76| 21 28 77 | 21 34 39| |22 43 68| 22 38 58| 22 45 71| 22 77 78| 22 29 78 | 22 33 38| |23 42 67| 23 39 57| 23 46 72| 23 27 28| 23 30 34 | 23 32 37| |24 41 66| 24 40 56| 24 47 73| 24 29 30| 24 31 35 | 24 31 36| |25 40 65| 25 41 55| 25 48 74| 25 31 32| 25 32 36 | 25 27 29| |26 39 64| 26 42 54| 26 49 75| 26 33 34| 26 33 37 | 26 28 30| +--------+----------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+

At the beginning of the first package you will see the numbers 1, 27, 53; they are placed on one ticket; and so with each succeeding three numbers through the whole scheme.

+--------+----------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+ | #98# | #99# | #100# | | #101# | #101# | +--------+----------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+ | 13 | 14 | 15 | 00 | 1 | 1 | +--------+----------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+ | 1 45 44| 1 62 70| 1 27 78| | 1 2 53 | 1 2 60| | 2 46 47| 2 63 71| 2 28 77| | 3 4 54 | 3 6 61| | 3 48 49| 3 64 72| 3 29 76| | 5 29 55 | 4 7 62| | 4 50 51| 4 65 73| 4 30 75| | 6 30 56 | 5 52 63| | 5 52 53| 5 66 74| 5 31 74| | 7 31 57 | 8 51 64| | 6 54 55| 6 52 75| 6 32 73| | 8 32 58 | 9 50 65| | 7 56 57| 7 53 76| 7 33 72| | 9 33 59 | 10 49 66| | 8 58 59| 8 54 77| 8 34 71| | 10 34 60 | 11 48 67| | 9 60 61| 9 55 78| 9 35 70| | 11 35 61 | 12 47 68| |10 62 63| 10 56 67| 10 36 69|Here ends| 12 36 62 | 13 46 69| |11 64 65| 11 57 68| 11 37 68| Fifteen | 13 37 63 | 14 45 70| |12 66 67| 12 58 69| 12 38 67|Packages | 14 38 64 | 15 44 71| |13 68 69| 13 59 61| 13 39 66|of Whole | 15 39 65 | 16 43 72| |14 70 71| 14 51 60| 14 40 65| Tickets | 16 40 66 | 17 42 73| |15 72 73| 15 27 39| 15 41 64| | 17 41 67 | 18 41 74| |16 74 75| 16 28 40| 16 42 63| | 18 42 68 | 19 40 75| |17 76 77| 17 29 41| 17 43 62| | 19 43 69 | 20 39 76| |18 43 78| 18 30 42| 18 44 61| | 20 44 70 | 21 38 77| |19 27 42| 19 31 43| 19 45 60| | 21 45 71 | 22 37 78| |20 28 41| 20 32 44| 20 46 59| | 22 46 72 | 23 36 53| |21 29 40| 21 33 45| 21 47 58| | 23 47 73 | 24 35 54| |22 30 39| 22 34 46| 22 48 57| | 24 48 74 | 25 34 55| |23 31 38| 23 35 47| 23 49 56| | 25 49 75 | 26 33 56| |24 32 37| 24 36 48| 24 50 55| | 26 50 76 | 27 32 57| |25 33 36| 25 37 49| 25 51 54| | 27 51 77 | 28 31 58| |26 34 35| 26 38 50| 26 52 53| | 28 52 78 | 29 30 59| +--------+----------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+

There are, in these schemes, 15 packages of whole tickets, each containing 26, which make an aggregate of 390, and the same number of halves, which, if added to the former, will make 780; also, 30 packages of quarters, making, in all, 1560. These comprise the whole of the combinations here given, and are intended for one particular drawing, constituting one class. For each successive drawing, another edition of the same combinations are offered for sale, only with different class numbers.

+--------+----------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+ | #103# | #104# | #105# | #106# | #107# | #108# | +--------+----------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+ | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | +--------+----------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+ | 1 3 61| 1 3 65| 1 4 66| 1 4 67| 1 5 68| 1 5 69| | 2 4 62| 2 41 66| 2 42 67| 2 5 68| 2 6 69| 2 6 70| | 5 6 63| 4 42 67| 3 43 68| 3 45 69| 3 7 70| 3 7 71| | 7 8 64| 5 43 68| 5 44 69| 6 46 70| 4 45 71| 4 8 72| | 9 31 65| 6 44 69| 6 45 70| 7 47 71| 8 46 72| 9 48 75| |10 32 66| 7 45 70| 7 46 71| 8 48 72| 9 47 73| 10 49 76| |11 33 67| 8 40 71| 8 47 72| 9 49 73| 10 48 74| 11 50 73| |12 34 68| 9 39 72| 9 48 73| 10 50 74| 11 49 75| 12 51 74| |13 35 69| 10 38 73| 10 49 74| 11 51 75| 12 50 76| 13 52 78| |14 36 71| 11 37 74| 11 50 75| 12 52 76| 13 51 77| 14 31 77| |15 37 70| 12 36 75| 12 51 76| 13 29 77| 14 52 78| 15 32 68| |16 38 72| 13 35 76| 13 52 77| 14 30 78| 15 30 67| 16 33 67| |17 39 73| 14 34 77| 14 41 78| 15 31 66| 16 31 66| 17 34 66| |18 40 74| 15 33 78| 15 40 65| 16 32 65| 17 32 65| 18 35 65| |19 41 75| 16 32 53| 16 28 64| 17 33 64| 18 33 64| 19 36 64| |20 42 76| 17 31 54| 17 29 63| 18 34 63| 19 34 63| 20 37 63| |21 43 77| 18 30 55| 18 30 62| 19 35 62| 20 35 62| 21 38 62| |22 44 78| 19 29 56| 19 31 61| 20 36 61| 21 36 61| 22 39 61| |23 45 53| 20 28 57| 20 32 60| 21 37 60| 22 37 60| 23 40 60| |24 46 54| 21 52 58| 21 33 59| 22 38 59| 23 38 59| 24 41 59| |25 47 55| 22 51 59| 22 34 58| 23 39 58| 24 39 58| 25 42 58| |26 48 56| 23 50 60| 23 35 57| 24 40 57| 25 40 57| 26 43 57| |27 49 57| 24 49 61| 24 36 56| 25 41 56| 26 41 56| 27 44 56| |28 50 58| 25 48 62| 25 37 55| 26 42 55| 27 42 55| 28 45 55| |29 51 59| 26 47 63| 26 38 54| 27 43 54| 28 43 54| 29 46 54| |30 52 60| 27 46 64| 27 39 53| 28 44 53| 29 44 53| 30 47 53| +--------+----------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+

The venders of lottery tickets possess an immense advantage over the buyer, which is mostly in the extreme improbability of a prize of any considerable amount being drawn. The numbers 1 to 78 are capable of making 76076 combinations on what I may term the increasing ratio--that is, the second larger than the first, and the third larger than the second, in arithmetical progression; as, 5, 10, 15, &c.

+--------+----------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+ | #109# | #110# | #196# | #197# | #198# | #199# | +--------+----------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+ | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | +--------+----------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+ | 1 6 70| 1 6 71| 1 7 72| 1 7 73| 1 8 74 | 1 8 75| | 2 7 71| 2 7 72| 2 8 73| 2 8 74| 2 9 75 | 2 9 76| | 3 8 72| 3 8 73| 3 9 74| 3 9 75| 3 10 76 | 3 10 77| | 4 9 73| 4 9 74| 4 10 75| 4 10 76| 4 11 77 | 4 11 78| | 5 10 74| 5 10 75| 5 11 76| 5 11 77| 5 12 78 | 5 12 74| |11 32 75| 11 33 76| 6 12 77| 6 12 78| 6 13 73 | 6 13 72| |12 33 76| 12 34 77| 13 33 78| 13 52 72| 7 14 72 | 7 14 73| |13 34 77| 13 35 78| 14 34 53| 14 51 71| 15 45 70 | 15 46 71| |14 35 78| 14 36 70| 15 35 54| 15 50 70| 16 46 71 | 16 47 70| |15 36 69| 15 37 69| 16 36 55| 16 49 69| 17 47 69 | 17 48 69| |16 37 68| 16 38 68| 17 37 56| 17 48 68| 18 48 68 | 18 49 68| |17 38 67| 17 39 67| 18 38 57| 18 47 67| 19 49 67 | 19 50 67| |18 39 66| 18 40 66| 19 39 58| 19 46 66| 20 50 66 | 20 51 66| |19 40 65| 19 41 65| 20 40 59| 20 45 65| 21 51 65 | 21 52 65| |20 41 64| 20 42 64| 21 41 60| 21 44 64| 22 52 64 | 22 45 64| |21 42 62| 21 43 63| 22 42 61| 22 43 61| 23 44 63 | 23 44 61| |22 43 63| 22 44 62| 23 43 62| 23 42 62| 24 43 62 | 24 43 60| |23 44 60| 23 45 61| 24 44 63| 24 41 63| 25 42 61 | 25 42 63| |24 45 61| 24 46 60| 25 45 64| 25 40 60| 26 41 60 | 26 41 62| |25 46 59| 25 47 59| 26 46 65| 26 39 59| 27 40 59 | 27 40 58| |26 47 58| 26 48 58| 27 47 66| 27 38 58| 28 39 58 | 28 39 59| |27 48 57| 27 49 56| 28 48 67| 28 37 57| 29 38 57 | 29 38 56| |28 49 56| 28 50 57| 29 49 68| 29 36 56| 30 37 56 | 30 37 57| |29 50 55| 29 51 55| 30 50 69| 30 35 55| 31 36 55 | 31 36 54| |30 51 54| 30 52 54| 31 51 70| 31 34 54| 32 35 53 | 32 35 55| |31 52 53| 31 32 53| 32 52 71| 32 33 53| 33 34 54 | 33 34 53| +--------+----------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+

In the following combinations there are but 1560, where there might be 76076; and if this latter number were printed and sold, some one must hold the three first drawn numbers, every ticket-holder having one chance out of 76076 of drawing the capital prize. But, in this combination, if a man were to purchase the whole of the tickets, being 1560, there would still be 49 chances against his holding the three first numbers, to one for it. As there are no two tickets holding the same three numbers, of course but one can hold the three first, which is the prize.

+--------+----------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+ | #200# | #206# | #201# | #202# | #203# | #204# | +--------+----------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+ | 15 | 00 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | +--------+----------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+ | 1 9 76| | 1 9 77 | 1 10 77| 1 10 78 | 1 11 21| | 2 10 77| | 2 10 78 | 2 11 78| 2 11 77 | 2 12 22| | 3 11 78| | 3 11 76 | 3 12 53| 3 12 76 | 3 13 23| | 4 12 75| | 4 12 74 | 4 13 54| 4 13 75 | 4 14 24| | 5 13 74| | 5 13 75 | 5 14 55| 5 14 74 | 5 15 25| | 6 14 73|Here ends | 6 14 72 | 6 15 56| 6 15 72 | 6 16 26| | 7 15 72| Fifteen | 7 15 73 | 7 16 57| 7 16 71 | 7 17 27| | 8 16 71| Packages | 8 16 70 | 8 17 58| 8 17 70 | 8 18 28| |17 52 70| of Half | 17 51 71 | 9 18 59| 9 18 69 | 9 19 29| |18 51 69| Tickets. | 18 50 69 | 19 52 60| 19 36 68 | 10 20 30| |19 50 68| The | 19 49 68 | 20 40 72| 20 37 67 | 31 41 51| |20 49 67|following | 20 48 67 | 21 50 62| 21 38 66 | 32 42 52| |21 48 66| Packages | 21 47 66 | 22 49 63| 22 39 65 | 33 43 53| |22 47 65| are | 22 46 65 | 23 48 64| 23 40 64 | 34 44 54| |23 46 64|Quarters. | 23 45 64 | 24 47 65| 24 41 62 | 35 45 55| |24 45 63| | 24 44 61 | 25 46 66| 25 45 63 | 36 46 56| |25 44 62| | 25 43 62 | 26 45 67| 26 43 60 | 37 47 57| |26 43 61| | 26 42 63 | 27 44 68| 27 44 61 | 38 48 58| |27 42 60| | 27 41 60 | 28 43 69| 28 42 59 | 39 49 59| |28 41 59| | 28 40 59 | 29 42 70| 29 46 58 | 40 50 60| |29 40 58| | 29 39 58 | 30 41 71| 30 47 57 | 61 67 73| |30 39 57| | 30 38 57 | 31 51 61| 31 48 56 | 62 68 74| |31 38 56| | 31 37 56 | 32 39 73| 32 49 55 | 63 69 75| |32 37 55| | 32 36 55 | 33 38 74| 33 50 54 | 64 70 76| |33 36 54| | 33 35 53 | 34 37 75| 34 51 53 | 65 71 77| |34 35 53| | 34 52 54 | 35 36 76| 35 52 73 | 66 72 78| +--------+----------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+

By a little investigation, any one may discover that his chance for drawing a prize, even of a trifling amount, is extremely small. By the following method any one may ascertain the number of combinations which any given number will produce, as in the present case, 78 × 77 × 76 = 456456 ÷ 6 = 76076, the number of combinations of three numbers each; the 78 multiplied by 77, and the product by 76, and that product divided by 6 gives the number of combinations of three numbers each, which the numbers from 1 to 78 will produce, no two combinations containing the same three numbers.