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_THE OLDEN-TIME SERIES._

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There appears to be, from year to year, a growing popular taste for
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materials have been gleaned chiefly from old newspapers of Boston and
Salem, sources not easily accessible, and while not professing to be
history, the volumes contain much material for history, so combined and
presented as to be both amusing and instructive. The titles of some of
the volumes indicate their scope and their promise of entertainment:--

    CURIOSITIES OF THE OLD LOTTERY.
    DAYS OF THE SPINNING-WHEEL.
    SOME STRANGE AND CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS.
    QUAINT AND CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.
    LITERARY CURIOSITIES.
    NEW-ENGLAND SUNDAY, ETC.

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    _"There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
    Would men observingly distil it out."_
                           SHAKSPEARE, _King Henry V._

    _"The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,
    And these are of them."_
                                SHAKSPEARE, _Macbeth._

    _"How widely its agencies vary,--
    To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless."_
                                          THOMAS HOOD.




THE OLDEN TIME SERIES

GLEANINGS CHIEFLY FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS OF BOSTON

AND SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS

SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH BRIEF COMMENTS

BY

HENRY M. BROOKS


       *       *       *       *       *

Curiosities of the Old Lottery

"Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread
that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity,
and by delight, we all quote."--EMERSON


[Illustration: Crest]

BOSTON

TICKNOR AND COMPANY

1886




_Copyright, 1885,_

BY TICKNOR AND COMPANY.


_All rights reserved._

University Press:

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INDEX OF NAMES.


                                                         PAGE

    ARNOLD, WELCOME                                        50
    Atkins, William                                        10
    Austin, Benjamin                                       14
    Austin, Benjamin, Jr.                                  53

    BARLOW, JOEL                                       56, 57
    Barton, William                                        35
    Beeman, D.                                             47
    Beers, Elias                                           33
    Beers, Nathan                                          33
    Bemis, Mr.                                             25
    Blake, William P.                                      22
    Blodgett, Benjamin                                     42
    Bonaparte                                          62, 63
    Bridge & Renouf                                    39, 54
    Bridge, Mr.                                            36
    Brooks, Peter C.                                       70
    Brown, John                                            50
    Bryant, William                                        61
    Burr, Aaron                                        62, 63

    CABOT, ANDREW                                          59
    Cabot, George                                          59
    Carlton, W.                                            53
    Carter, Ephraim                                        16
    Clark, Mary Ann                                    62, 63
    Colman, George                                         44
    Connor, Benjamin                                       38
    Cooper, Samuel                                         53
    Cushing & Appleton                 17, 42, 44, 46, 61, 63
    Cushing & Carlton                                      38
    Cushing, Caleb                                         10
    Cushing, Thomas                                        14
    Cushing, Thomas C.                                      8

    DABNEY, JOHN                                        8, 53
    Daggett, Henry                                         33
    Dana & Fenno                                           65
    Dutch, John                                            51

    EDES & GILL                                            15
    Ellsler, Fanny                                          8
    Esty, Edward                                           35
    Everett, Edward                                        70

    FARNHAM, DANIEL                                        10
    Fisk, General                                          19
    Franklin, Benjamin                                     43
    Freeman, Jonathan                                      38

    GERRISH, JOSEPH                                        10
    Gilbert & Dean                                     30, 48
    Giles, William B.                                  62, 63
    Gould & Company                                        12
    Green & Russell                                    12, 15

    HAMILTON, ALEXANDER                                62, 63
    Hancock, John                                          70
    Hardcastle, Samuel                                     61
    Hathorne, John                                      8, 53
    Heard, Edmund                                          16
    Hewes, Samuel                                          14
    Higginson, Henry                                       59
    Hilldrup, Thomas                                   33, 65
    Hillhouse, James                                   62, 63
    Huntington, Ralph                                      28

    IVES, JOHN P.                                          50

    JACKSON, WILLIAM AND JAMES                             12
    Jefferson, Thomas                                  62, 63
    Jenks, Daniel                                       8, 53
    Jenks, John                                     8, 38, 53
    Johnson, Oliver                                        35
    Jones, Timothy                                         33

    KELLEY, DANIEL                                         35
    Kent, William A.                                       41
    Kent, William J.                                       38
    Kidder & Co.                                           28
    Kidder, W. & T.                                        30
    King George III.                                   62, 63
    King James I.                                          72
    Kneeland, John                                     36, 53

    LARKIN, E. & S.                                        47
    Larkin, Ebenezer                                       22
    Leach & Fosdick                                        25
    Lewis, Ezekiel                                         14
    Luther, Martin                                         35
    Lyon, William                                          33

    MACOMBER, EBENEZER                                     22
    Madison, James                                     62, 63
    Martin, Luther                                         42
    Mason, John                                            50
    McIntosh, William                                      33
    Minot, George R.                                       53

    NAPOLEON                                               63
    Nauche, Dr.                                            43
    Newell, Timothy                                        12

    PAYSON, E.H.                                        8, 65
    Pickering, Timothy                                 62, 63
    Phillips, Margaret                                     25

    RANDAL, STEPHEN                                        22
    Russell, Benjamin                                      53
    Russell, John                           8, 16, 17, 22, 23
    Russell, William                                       50

    SAMPSON, EZRA                                          59
    Savage, Samuel Phillips                                14
    Scollay, John                                          14
    Sewall, Samuel                                         14
    Sharplys, Thomas                                       72
    Sheldon, Pardon                                        64
    Sigourney, Andrew                                      41
    Simpson & Caldwell                                     39
    Smith, Robert                                          63
    Sprague, Joseph                                        19
    Stone, E.M.                                            59
    Storer & Son, Ebenezer                                 12

    THORNDIKE, ISRAEL                                      59
    Thurber, Samuel, Jr.                               22, 51
    Tracy, Patrick                                         10
    Turpin, Benjamin                                       22

    WARREN, HENRY                                          53
    Washington, George                         31, 59, 62, 63
    Weld, Benjamin                                         41
    Whipple, Henry                                  8, 39, 45
    Whipple, John                                          51
    Williams, George                                       19




LOTTERIES MENTIONED.


                                                         PAGE

    AMOSKEAG                                           16, 17
    Amoskeag Canal                                         68

    BALTIMORE HOSPITAL                                     42
    Bible Supply                                       61, 62
    Bunker Hill Monument                                    7

    CHARLESTOWN                                            68
    Cologne Cathedral                                      72
    Congregational Churches                                 7
    Connecticut Manufactory                            32, 33
    Continental Congress                                   18

    DARTMOUTH COLLEGE                              36, 37, 68

    EASTERN STAGE ROAD                                     65
    English Colonies in Virginia                           72
    Episcopal Churches                                      7

    FANEUIL HALL                                7, 13, 14, 15

    GLOUCESTER ROAD                                        68

    HARVARD COLLEGE     7, 23, 38, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 51, 52,
                                               53, 57, 64, 70
    Hatfield Bridge                                17, 23, 68

    KENNEBEC                                               68
    Kennebec Bridge                                        28

    LAND BANK                                          15, 68
    Leicester Academy, Lancaster                           16

    MARBLEHEAD                                             42
    Massachusetts State 7, 20, 25, 29, 36, 41, 42, 58, 59, 64
    Matrimonial                                    66, 67, 68
    Milton Paper Mill                                      15

    NEWPORT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH                          19
    New York                                               41
    New York Literature                                    65
    North and South Rivers, Salem                          19
    North Carolina                                         64

    PAVEMENT ON BOSTON NECK                                68
    Philanthropic                                          68
    Plymouth Beach                         44, 54, 55, 61, 68
    Providence Episcopal Church                            47
    Providence Street                              20, 21, 22

    RHODE ISLAND                                           64
    Rhode Island College                        7, 49, 50, 51
    Rhode Island Lottery for Advancement of Religion       34
    River Parker Bridge                          7, 9, 10, 11

    SOUTH HADLEY CANAL                                 48, 68
    Stonington Point Meeting-House                     65, 66
    Sudbury                                            61, 68

    TAUNTON GREAT RIVER                                    12

    UNION CANAL                                    31, 40, 41

    WASHINGTON MONUMENT                                    39
    Williamstown Free School                7, 20, 25, 42, 43




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INTRODUCTION.


WHILE this work does not pretend to be a history, it will yet present
many historical facts. Its object is to show from old newspapers, which
are not accessible to all, such items and comments upon a variety of
subjects as might be supposed to amuse or instruct both old and young.

It is not the easy thing that many imagine to examine, read, and select
from a vast number of newspapers such matter as is believed to be worth
reproducing. Possibly to some it would seem to be a stupid and an
uninteresting work. The Compiler, however, has found it a source of
pleasure to make and arrange these selections; and the value of his work
will be greatly enhanced if these volumes should prove of interest to
any considerable number of persons.

There appears to be from year to year a growing taste among the most
cultivated people for quaint and curious reminiscences of the Olden
Time; and as these volumes will be of a handy size for the pocket or
carpetbag, it is hoped that they will be welcomed by many who would not
undertake to read a more pretentious or cumbersome work on similar
topics.

    SALEM, MASS.,
       _April, 1885._

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CURIOSITIES OF THE OLD LOTTERY.


PEOPLE of the present generation who look over files of old newspapers
are filled with astonishment to see the great number of lotteries which
are advertised, for many years, down to as late a period as the year
1826. The Faneuil Hall Lottery, the Harvard College Lottery, the Rhode
Island College Lottery, the Massachusetts State Lottery, and lotteries
for a bridge over the River Parker, for Marblehead, for the Williamstown
Free-school, for Episcopal and Congregational Churches, were all
advertised, with numerous other projects. A lottery was proposed for the
purpose of finishing Bunker Hill Monument, although the scheme was not
carried out. It is perhaps not generally remembered that this monument
was at length completed by means furnished by a Ladies' Fair, in 1840,
and handsome contributions by several individuals. Among other
contributors was the celebrated _danseuse_ Fanny Ellsler, who was at
that time giving performances in Boston. Some of the best men in the
community were interested in recommending the various schemes, and
members of churches, men in high repute, bought and sold the tickets. In
Salem, Mass., such well-known and esteemed citizens as John Jenks,
Daniel Jenks, Thomas C. Cushing, of the "Gazette," John Dabney, the
postmaster, Colonel John Russell, and the now venerable and respected
Edward H. Payson--who, at the age of eighty, is still cashier of the
First National (formerly the Commercial) Bank, to which office he was
elected in 1826--sold tickets; so did Colonel John Hathorne. Colonel
Henry Whipple, who is remembered as one of our best citizens, kept, in
connection with his bookstore, a "Fortunate Lottery Office." Other names
might be mentioned, but we think we have given enough to show the
respectability of the calling. The better the man, the better the agent.
Indeed, it was generally thought to be just as respectable to sell
lottery-tickets as to sell Bibles; and we have seen them classed
together in the same advertisement. Our observations have been confined
chiefly to Boston and Salem prints, but we have no doubt that similar
matter could be found in other papers. We propose now to give liberal
extracts from some of the old advertisements of the different schemes,
which will, we think, confirm what we have already said on the subject.
Let us take first from the "Boston Gazette" of May 19, 1760, the lottery
to raise $1,000 towards building a bridge over the River Parker, in
Newbury. The managers were the first men in the place, and the tickets
were sold by men of excellent standing in Boston.


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                                         NEWBURY, _May 17, 1760._

                       SCHEME of a LOTTERY,

   FOR raising a Sum of Money for the building and maintaining a
   Bridge over the River _Parker,_ in the Town of _Newbury,_ at
   the Place called Old Town Ferry (in pursuance of an Act of
   the General Court, passed in _April_ 1760) Wherein _Daniel
   Farnham, Caleb Cushing, Joseph Gerrish, William Atkins,_ Esq.,
   and Mr. _Patrick Tracy,_ Merchant, (or any Three of them) are
   appointed Managers. The acting Managers are sworn to the
   faithful Performance of their Trust.

    _Newbury_-Lottery Number Four, consists of

    5000 Tickets, at Two Dollars each; 1655 of which are Benefit
    Tickets of the following Value.


       1     of    500 Dollars,  is     500 Dollars.
       4     of    100          are     400
       5     of     50          are     250
       6     of     40          are     240
      10     of     30          are     300
      14     of     20          are     280
      45     of     10          are     450
      75     of      8          are     600
    1495     of      4          are    5980
    ----                               ----
    1655 Prizes, amounting to          9000 Dollars.
    3345 Blanks.
    ----
    5000 Tickets, at Two Dollars each 10000
            To be paid in Prizes,      9000
                                       ----
                                       1000 Dollars.

    Remains to be applied for the Purpose aforesaid.

    Two Blanks only to one PRIZE.

    _THE Bridge aforesaid is already built, and upon a Settlement
    of the Accounts, and Demands relative thereto, the Managers
    of the former Lottery for that Purpose, were found to be
    greatly in Debt: The Charges of building the Bridge, and
    prosecuting the Lottery, amounting to much more than what was
    allowed to be raised by the former Act of the General
    Court--therefore the present Lottery is allowed._

    _AND since the said Bridge so well answers the Expectation of
    the Public, and the Travelling that Way thereby is rendered
    much more easy and pleasant; the Managers doubt not there
    will be a great Demand of the Tickets, from a Principle of
    encouraging and promoting a Work of such general Utility, if
    there were no other Inducement. But when they consider how
    much this Scheme is calculated in Favour of the Adventurers,
    there being many Prizes of great Value, and but two Blanks to
    a Prize; they doubt not of a very speedy Sale of the
    Tickets._

    _Tickets purchas'd at_ Boston, _if fortunate, will be paid
    off there. Public Notice will be given of the Time and Place
    of Drawing; and as soon as finished, the Prizes will be
    published in the_ Boston Gazette and Country Journal. _Gold
    as well as Silver will be received for Tickets; and the
    Prizes paid off accordingly. Prizes not demanded in Twelve
    Months after Drawing, will be considered as given to the
    common Stock for building and maintaining the said Bridge,
    and will be so applied._

    _Tickets are to be Sold by the Managers in_ Newbury, _by_
    Ebenezer Storer, _Esq., and Son; Mr._ Timothy Newell; William
    & James Jackson, _and the Printers hereof in_ Boston.

       *       *       *       *       *

The town of Taunton, Mass., was favored by a lottery grant in 1761 to
aid in clearing the Great River.

                                       _Taunton, March 16. 1761._

    PUBLICK NOTICE is hereby given to all Persons who are so
    disposed to encourage the Clearing of _Taunton_ Great-River,
    (so beneficial to the Trade of this Province) by adventuring
    in the LOTTERY granted for that Purpose, That the Managers of
    said Lottery have determined to begin to draw the First Class
    on Tuesday the 27th Day of _April_ next; the Town of
    _Taunton_ having voted to take off all the Tickets that shall
    remain unsold at that Day;--And all Persons who have taken
    Tickets to dispose of, are desired to return them, or the
    Money for them, by the First Day of said _April._


    --> Tickets are yet to be had of Messir's _Gould_ and
    Company, and of _Green & Russell,_ Printers in Queen Street,
    _Boston._--As also of the Managers at their respective
    Dwellings in _Taunton._

Next we will take from the "Boston Post Boy" of November, 1762, the
scheme to raise money to rebuild Faneuil Hall, after the fire of 1761.
It will be noticed how small an amount was reserved for the purpose for
which the Lottery was granted,--only $1,200. It seems as if a very small
sum subscribed by every freeholder would have produced more money. If
the population of Boston at that time was, say, twenty thousand, or
three thousand families, fifty cents for every head of a family would
have raised a larger sum than could possibly have been raised by the
expensive and questionable process resorted to. At first sight it may
seem strange to us that this was not thought of at the time; but when we
reflect that even in our enlightened times people are quite as
thoughtless about the processes of raising money for charitable or
public purposes,--witness the numerous fairs and raffles which are
constantly taking place,--we are not so much amazed at these old
financial operations, nor do we think we can boast much of our superior
morality when we look around and see how some things are managed
nowadays.

                                    _BOSTON, November 1, 1762._

                                SCHEME

                             OF A LOTTERY,

   FOR Raising a Sum of Money for Re-building FANEUIL _Hall_;
   agreeable to an Act of the General Court, wherein Messieurs
   _Thomas Cushing, Samuel Hewes, John Scollay, Benjamin Austin,
   Samuel Sewall, Samuel Phillips Savage,_ and _Ezekiel Lewis,_
   or any Three of them, are appointed Managers, who are Sworn to
   the faithful Discharge of their Trust.

    FANEUIL-HALL Lottery, No. One, Consists of 6000 Tickets, at
    Two Dollars each, 1486 of which are Benefit Tickets of the
    following Value, _viz._

                                                Dollars.
       1  Prize of  1000 Dollars,   is     1000
       1        of   500            is      500
       2        of   200            are     400
      12        of   100            are    1200
      20        of    50            are    1000
      20        of    20            are     400
      30        of    10            are     300
     200        of     6            are    1200
    1200        of     4            are    4800
    ----                                   ----
    1486 Prizes,                          10800 Dollars.
    4514 Blanks.
    ----
    6000 Tickets at 2 Dollars each, is   12,000 Dollars.
              To be paid in Prizes,      10,800
                                         ------
                                 Remains   1200 Dollars,

    to be applied to the Purpose aforesaid.

    The Necessity of a large and convenient Hall in such a Town
    as this, upon all Public Occasions, can't be disputed. The
    Rebuilding _Faneuil-Hall_ has therefore been generally
    approved of; and the Encouragement it will meet with from the
    Public, will, we doubt not, be in some Measure proportionable
    to its Importance: We promise ourselves therefore a speedy
    Sale of the Tickets; and hope we shall soon be able to draw.

    Public Notice will be given of the Time and Place of Drawing;
    and as soon as the Drawing is finished, a List of the Prizes
    will be published in _Edes_ and _Gill's Boston Gazette,_ &c.
    and the Money paid to the Possessors of the Benefit Tickets,
    in Twenty Days. Gold as well as Silver will be received for
    the Tickets, and the Prizes paid off in like Manner.

    Prizes not demanded within Twelve Months after Drawing, will
    be deem'd as generously given for the Purpose aforesaid, and
    will be applied accordingly.

    --> Tickets may be had of the Managers, or of _Green &
    Russell,_ in Queen-street, who will receive Prize Tickets in
    LAND-BANK LOTTERY.

       *       *       *       *       *

In 1782 the State of Massachusetts granted a lottery for the benefit of
the paper-mill at Milton.

The Clergy were often asked to use their influence to promote special
schemes. For instance, the Leicester Academy at Lancaster, Mass.,
wishing to raise about $800, advertised on June 28, 1790, a lottery, the
scheme comprising three thousand tickets at $2.00; and the managers,
Edmund Heard and Ephraim Carter, say, "_As the design of this Lottery is
for promoting Piety, Virtue, and such of the liberal Arts and Sciences
as may qualify the Youth to become useful Members of Society, the
Managers wish for and expect the aid of the Gentlemen Trustees of the
Academy,_ the REVEREND CLERGY, _and all persons who have a taste for
encouraging said Seminary of Learning_." Comment on this is unnecessary.
As unscrupulous persons often sold drawn tickets,--for it seems there
were irregularities even in those days,--the following advertisement
warrants the tickets undrawn,--

                          Wheels very rich!

    A FEW undrawn Tickets in Amoskeag Lottery for sale by
                                                 _John Russell._

    --> The highest prize being so fixed as to come out whenever
    Chance shall direct it, it stands purchasers in hand to be
    seasonable in their applications.             July 24, 1807.

    _Lottery Price Current._--In Boston, Amoskeag Tickets,
    warranted undrawn, 6 dolls. In Salem, at Russell's 5.50--at
    Cushing and Appleton's, not warranted, 5.

       *       *       *       *       *

    _Further Information._--The Amoskeag highest prize, of Eight
    Thousand Dollars, is still undrawn, and the wheels are
    extraordinarily rich, having gained, since the drawing began,
    upwards of Six Thousand Dollars. There is therefore every
    probability that the scrip will soon rise. Those who intend
    to purchase for the sake of a chance for the highest prize,
    are advised to do it _before_ it is drawn out of the wheel,
    which may be to-morrow. Those who purchase for the sake of a
    cheap ticket, would do well to wait till _afterwards._ July
    24, 1807.

       *       *       *       *       *


                   *** If any body wants
                   TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS,
                they are requested to call on
                                            JOHN RUSSELL,
    who will, for a trifling consideration, put them in a
           way to realize that, or another sum of less
             magnitude, in the course of September
             next, when the rich Wheels of Hatfield
                   Bridge Lottery will begin
                          to move.

    --> Tickets will rise on the first of September to
    5.50--Prize Tickets exchanged.                 (1807)

In 1776 the Continental Congress endeavored to raise a large sum by
means of a lottery. On the first of November of that year the following
Resolve was passed,--"That a sum of money be raised by way of lottery,
to be drawn at Philadelphia." A committee was then empowered to manage
this lottery, and agents were appointed in the several States to sell
the tickets. From causes difficult now to explain, the drawing, which
was to have taken place in 1777, was postponed from time to time, until
finally, it is said, the whole scheme proved a failure. Many of the
adventurers being large losers, much bad feeling was produced towards
the Government. The design was to raise the money in the way of a loan.
There were four classes of tickets, a hundred thousand in each,--$10,
$20, $30, and $40; in all $10,000,000. In Lossing's "Field-Book of the
Revolution," from which we derive this account, may be seen a copy of
one of these lottery tickets. Probably the people were too poor at that
time to furnish the requisite sum of money, and so the tickets did not
sell readily; or the lottery may have been badly managed.

Congregational Churches used to raise money by lottery, as appears by
the following advertisement in the "Columbian Centinel," May 5, 1792,--

                      _NEWPORT LOTTERY TICKETS._

    --> _A few TICKETS, in the Newport Congregational Church
    Lottery, which commences drawing the 10th instant, may be had
    at No._ 61 LONG-WHARF _if applied for immediately.    May 5._

       *       *       *       *       *

At a town meeting held in Salem, Mass., on Dec. 28, 1789, "George
Williams, Esq., General Fisk, and Joseph Sprague, Esq., were chosen a
Committee to estimate the expense of clearing out the Channels in the
North and South rivers; and to prefer a petition to the General Court
for the grant of a _Lottery_ to aid the town in so beneficial an
undertaking." We believe this project was never carried through; but we
are of opinion that some residents of Salem would now welcome even a
_raffle,_ if in that way their North River could be purified, as at
present no other method seems so likely to succeed, judging from the
controversy which has been going on in that city for several years
without effecting any result.

The "Massachusetts Centinel," May 22, 1790, notifies the "_Friends of
Science_" that "a few ... Williamstown Free-school Lottery Tickets ...
may be had of the Printer."

    MARBLEHEAD, APRIL 3. The highest Prize in the State Lottery
    was drawn by a number of Females: About thirty were joint
    possessors of that fortunate number and five others: The
    highest share in them did not exceed one dollar, and the
    lowest was nine pence, expressive of the different abilities
    of the concerned; by which circumstance, the property of the
    prize is most agreeably divided: It has excited a smile in
    the cheek of poverty, nor diminished the pleasure of those in
    easy circumstances.

                                   _Massachusetts Gazette,_ 1786.

       *       *       *       *       *

                      _Providence Street-Lottery._

                              CLASS 3d.

    THE Managers present the public with the following SCHEME of
    a LOTTERY, granted by the Hon. General Assembly of this
    State, at their January Session, A.D. 1795, for raising a Sum
    of Money to defray the Expences of Finishing, in a durable
    Manner, a Street at the North End of this Town.

    This being the great Continental Thoroughfare and Post Road,
    and much frequented at all Seasons by Persons on Foot and
    Horse-Back, and by Teams and Carriages, merits the greatest
    Attention to its Improvement from Town and Country.

    The old Road was crooked and inconvenient, the new Street is
    Streight, and secured in such a Manner as to be passed in
    Carriages at all Times with Ease and Safety.

    The Utility and Necessity of this work, so obvious to every
    one, and the great Chance to Adventurers, there being only
    _about Two_ Blanks to a Prize, induce the Managers to rely on
    the Patronage of the Public, for a rapid Sale of the Tickets.

    5340 Tickets, at TWO DOLLARS each, are 10,680 Dollars, to be
    paid in the following Prizes, subject to no Deduction.

                              _Dolls._                  _Dolls._
    1 Prize of                 1000      is              1000
    1                           300                       300
    1                           200                       200
    4                           100      are              400
    10                           50                       500
    20                           30                       600
    40                           20                       800
    50                           10                       500
    100                           6                       600
    1482                          3                      4446
    ----                                                 ----
    1709 Prizes,                                         9346
    3631 Blanks,                                         1334
    ----                                                 ----
    5340 Tickets, at 2 Dolls. each, is                  10680

    To commence drawing the 1st June next.

    TICKETS may be had by applying to the subscribers; and the
    Prizes paid on demand. Prizes not demanded within six months
    after the drawing, will be considered as generously given for
    the finishing the work.

                               EBENEZER MACOMBER,    }
                               SAMUEL THURBER, jun.  }  Managers.
                               STEPHEN RANDAL,       }
                               BENJ. TURPIN,         }

    --> TICKETS in the above Lottery, may be had of EBEN. LARKIN,
    of WM. P. BLAKE, and at the Post-Office, Boston,
                                                   Feb. 21, 1795.

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Those who remember the late Colonel John Russell, at one time president
of the Bank of General Interest in Salem, and a kindly, benevolent
"gentleman of the old school," will read with interest his advertisement
of "A New Dispensary," from the "Salem Gazette," March 24, 1807.

                         _A New Dispensary!_

    NUMEROUS are the instances that can be cited of a less, a
    much less, sum than _Twenty Thousand Dollars_ having restored
    to their pristine vigor precarious circumstances, and of
    making the _poor become rich!_ Let stubborn prejudices be
    laid aside, and an immediate resort made to that GRAND
    ANTIPOVERTY CORRECTIVE, CASH, which is now proffered as a
    sovereign remedy for all the complaints that poverty is heir
    to:--in asserting the superior efficacy of this preventive of
    the evils attendant on a state of poverty, it is not intended
    to trespass on truth--let it be fairly tried, when the
    'majesty of its own worth' will be manifest. The door is now
    open for the reception of such as would like to try the
    experiment:--There is _Hatfield Bridge Lottery,_ which
    commences drawing the 15th of next month; this affords a
    _potion_ of EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS; if, after a fair trial
    here, the desired effect is not produced, then there is the
    _Harvard College Lottery,_ which commences in May, which has
    the highly _balsamic cordial_ of TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS,
    which will produce the most wonderful effects, by giving a
    _solid tone_ to the regions of the pocket, and by enriching
    and invigorating the whole system, as can be satisfactorily
    tested:--Twenty Thousand Dollars would

          "Cheer the heart, and make the spirits flow!"

    Perseverance is highly recommended, and if the wishes are not
    gratified by the attainment of the desired object, the
    consoling reflection will recur, that--"_there are not quite
    two blanks to a prize_"--which is more than can be said of
    quackery in general. Tickets and Quarters for sale by
                                                    John Russell.

    --> To-Morrow the price of Tickets rise--purchasers can be
    accommodated until 9 o'clock, this evening.

    --> A handsome Premium given for Essex County Money.

       *       *       *       *       *

The Boston "Herald of Freedom," in December, 1789, advocates a lottery
for that town for the benefit of the poor, among other things, and to
supply the town with lamps to light occasionally for the "safety of the
citizens," etc.

    A citizen would wish to know why among the many lotteries now
    in being, there is not one for the benefit of this town? Can
    it be said we have no need of any?--Sure there are many uses
    the net proceeds of a lottery may be converted to, for this
    town's benefit: Though he means not to dictate, yet would
    suggest the following;--that a granary might thereby be
    opened, and the poor supplied with different kinds of grain,
    at a reduced price;--that several parts of the town might be
    paved; which would serve to employ many of the industrious
    poor among us;--and that the town might be supplied with
    Lamps, which by being occasionally lighted would tend to the
    safety of the citizens. From these, among other beneficial
    effects, he hopes the town will have a meeting, and petition
    the General Assembly at their approaching session for leave
    to establish a lottery for the above, and other, useful
    purposes.

       *       *       *       *       *


From the "Salem Gazette," May 10, 1791.

    No. 17221, which drew 2000 dollars in the Semi-annual State
    lottery, was paid on Friday last, by Messrs. Leach and
    Fosdick, in Boston. The proprietors were _four Africans_
    belonging to Newport.

       *       *       *       *       *

From the "Columbian Centinel," June 5, 1790.

    Two apprentices belonging to Mr. _Bemis,_ Paper-Maker, in
    Watertown drew the 1000 dollar prize in Williamstown Lottery.

       *       *       *       *       *

[Illustration]

    _STATE LOTTERY TICKETS._

    TICKETS in the _State Lottery_ may be had at MARGARET
    PHILLIPS's Shop, CORNHILL, _Boston. Also,_ TICKETS in the 7th
    Class of _Williamstown Free-School_ Lottery. April 28.

                            _Columbian Centinel,_ April 28, 1790.

Lines on the prizes drawn by the poor widows of Marblehead. From the
"Columbian Centinel," April 24, 1790.

                           _CASTALIAN FOUNT._

                          _FOR THE CENTINEL._

                                 LINES,

    _On the Prize of_ FIFTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS _being drawn by the
    poor Widows of Marblehead, written there._

    WHENCE this increase of wealth? What bounteous hand
    Grants more than sanguine Hope could e'en demand?
    Nor _Chance_ nor _Fortune_ shall the merit claim,
    Those fancied forms to _Folly_ owe their name:
    Such airy phantoms ill deserve our lays;
    A nobler object calls forth all our praise.
    That Pow'r Supreme, who knows no great or small,
    But looks unchang'd with equal eye on all--
    Who lifts the poor from their unnoted state,
    And humbles at his will th' aspiring great--
    Whose hand divine hath held us in its span,
    And fed, and cloth'd us since our lives began--
    Hath, sure, this last rich gift in kindness sent,
    To be improv'd, and not in riot spent;
    A further proof of Heav'n's indulgent care,
    In which our poorer neighbours ought to share.
    Accept, Great God, what thankful hearts can give,
    For life and health, and all the means to live!
    Much thou hast added to our former store;
    O keep us still as humble as before!
    What thou hast lent, direct us how to use,
    And teach us when to give, and when refuse.
    To others freely let our bounty flow,
    But not beyond Discretion's limits go.
    Then let us live as useful as we can--
    Grateful to God--beneficent to man--
    Possess obscure the bliss of doing good,
    Never so well _explain'd_ as _understood._

       *       *       *       *       *

    [Illustration]

                  20,000!! 5,000!! 1000!!! Dollars.

    WHO is there that would not give 6 dols. 50 for one of the
    above sums, or 1 dollar 75 cts. for a quarter of one of them.
    Chances to gain one are now selling at the above prices, at
    KIDDER & CO's, _Lottery, Insurance on Tickets, and
    Intelligence Office, No. 9, Market-square._

    Tickets and Quarters will be insured during the drawing of
    the Lottery, which presents an excellent chance for saving
    the cost of Tickets!! Adventurers will do well to call!!!

                                _Boston Palladium,_ June 9, 1807.

       *       *       *       *       *

                        --> _LUCK INDEED!!_

    YESTERDAY No. 2159 in the Kennebec Bridge Lottery, came up
    the valuable Prize of

                      _ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS!!_

    and as usual was sold, at the most fortunate and truly lucky
    Office of

                          RALPH HUNTINGTON,

    No. 14, Exchange-street, 3 doors from State-street. This is
    the 5th Capital Prize in the Kennebec Lottery, sold by RALPH
    HUNTINGTON.

    The highest Prize of $25,000 will be drawn this afternoon, at
    3 o'clock. R.H. has for sale, a few shares in a Company of
    100 Tickets, and a few Quarters. Jan. 19.
                                        _Boston Palladium,_ 1819.

    No. 4072, the _most fortunate_ number, in the State Lottery,
    sold at the Printing-Office, in Salem, we hear is the
    property of upwards of a dozen poor widows belonging to
    Marblehead.

                            _Columbian Centinel,_ April 10, 1790.

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    [Illustration]

                       _FORTUNE'S ANGLERS_:

                        A NEW LOTTERY SONG.

    _TUNE_--"_There are sweepers in high life as well as in
                              low._"

    In the fish pond of fortune men angle always,
    Some angle for titles, some angle for praise,
    Some angle for favor, some angle for wives,
    And some angle for nought all the days of their lives:
      _Ye who'd angle for_ Wealth, _and would_ Fortunes _obtain,_
      _Get your hooks baited by_ Kidder, Gilbert & Dean.
    Some angle for pleasure, some angle for pain,
    Some angle for trifles, some angle for gain,
    Some angle for glory, some angle for strife,
    Some angle to make themselves happy for life:
      _Ye who'd angle, &c._
    Some angle for wit, and some angle for fame,
    Some angle for nonsense, and some e'en for shame,
    Some angle for horses, some angle for hounds,
    For angling's infinite, it never new bounds:
      _Ye who'd angle, &c._

    G. & D. and W. & T.K. for the accommodation of those who
    purchase Tickets of them, keep _Daily Lists of Prizes and
    Blanks,_ and a complete statement of the wheels, which can be
    examined at the close of each day's drawing, free of expense.
    And for the convenience of their country-customers publish in
    every paper, while any lottery is drawing, the numbers of all
    prizes over _seven dollars,_ state of the lottery, &c. &c.

    --> Persons at a distance may be assured, that the most
    punctual and strict attention will be given their orders for
    tickets, (_post paid_) enclosing cash or prize tickets,
    addressed to GILBERT & DEAN, 79, _State street,_ or W. & T.
    KIDDER, 9, _Market-square,_ and the earliest information sent
    them respecting the fate of their numbers.

    *** _Prize Tickets in all the Lotteries taken in pay for
    other tickets._                                      March 24

                              _Boston Repertory,_ March 24, 1809.

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                    --> Washington's Birth Day.

    IT is a little remarkable, that the great

                      _UNION CANAL LOTTERY,_

    commences drawing on the 22d inst. being the birthday of
    WASHINGTON--and the first drawn blank will be entitled to

                     _FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS!_

                                    _Boston Palladium, 1819._

       *       *       *       *       *

                   _PATRIOTISM OF THE LADIES._

    The Ladies of Massachusetts have ever been distinguished for
    their patriotism; and although their peculiar province is to
    soften the cares, and soothe the sorrows of life, yet they
    have never neglected any proper and decent opportunity of
    advancing the publick good:--When the Ladies found that
    Government had established a Lottery to ease the taxes of the
    people, they generally became adventurers, and it is pleasing
    to find that this their Patriotism has been in some measure
    rewarded, by _their sex_ sharing the FIRST CAPITAL PRIZE.

                            _Columbian Centinel,_ April 28, 1790.

       *       *       *       *       *

                        CONNECTICUT MANUFACTORY

                                LOTTERY,

    For raising the Sum of three Thousand two Hundred Pounds.

    The Managers being under oath, and having given bond for the
    faithful discharge of their trust, present the Public with
    the following

                                SCHEME.

         1   Prize of   5,000  Dollars, is   5,000
         1      -       2,500     -     -    2,500
         1      -       1,500     -     -    1,500
         5      -       1,000     -     -    5,000
        10      -         500     -     -    5,000
        15      -         200     -     -    3,000
        50      -         100     -     -    5,000
       100      -          50     -     -    5,000
       300      -          25     -     -    7,500
       325      -          15     -     -    4,875
       500      -          10     -     -    5,000
     4,400      -           8     -     -   35,200
         1   last drawn Blank,    -     -      760
    ------                                  ------
     5,709   Prizes,                        85,335
    11,358   Blanks.
    ------                                  ------
    17,067   Tickets at 5 Dollars each, is  85,335

                Not two Blanks to a Prize.

    Subject to a Deduction of 12 and an half _per Cent._

    This Lottery was granted by the honorable General Assembly
    for the encouragement of a Manufactory of Woolen, Worsted,
    and Cotton, in this State, under the superintendance of
    William M'Intosh, (late of London) a Gentleman of Information
    and Experience in the construction and use of the new
    invented Machines for that Purpose, a Number of which being
    completed he hath now in use.

    The Managers flatter themselves that all Persons will become
    Adventurers in this Lottery, who consider the importance of
    the Object for which it was granted, as they will thereby aid
    one of the most valuable Manufactories attempted in this
    State, since the era of Independence.

    They contemplate a speedy sale of the Tickets, and engage a
    punctual payment of the Prizes, if demanded in six Months
    after drawing, which is to commence on the 21st day of
    October next, and when finished, the fortunate numbers will
    be published in the Connecticut Journal.

                                  TIMOTHY JONES,     }
                                  HENRY DAGGETT,     }
                                  ELIAS BEERS,       } Managers.
                                  WILLIAM LYON,      }
                                  NATHAN BEERS,      }

    New-Haven, May 16, 1794.

    _Tickets to be had of the Managers,_ _and of_ Thomas
    Hilldrup, _at the Post Office Hartford._

                               _Connecticut Courant,_ Hartford.

The General Assembly of Rhode Island grant a lottery for the
"advancement of religion" in 1794. Advertised in Boston.

                             SCHEME _of a_
                              _LOTTERY_--

    Granted by the Honourable General Assembly of the State of
    _Rhode-Island,_ &c. at their Session held in October, 1794,
    for the purpose of finishing a HOUSE for PUBLIC
    WORSHIP--Consisting of 3000 Tickets, at 3 dollars each, to be
    paid in the following Prizes, subject to a Deduction of
    _Twelve and an Half per Cent._

       1 _Prize of_  1000 _Dollars, is_ 1000
       1              500                500
       2 _Prizes of_  250                500
       5              100                500
      10               50                500
      20               25                500
      50               10                500
    1000                5               5000
    ____                                ____
    1089 _Prizes._                      9000
    1911 _Blanks._
    ____
    3000 _Tickets._

    As this Lottery was granted for promoting Public Worship, and
    the advancement of Religion, we flatter ourselves that every
    well-wisher to Society and good Order will become cheerful
    adventurers. For those who adventure from Motives of Gain,
    the Scheme is advantageously calculated, there being less
    than two _Blanks_ to one _Prize_--and Bonds given for the
    faithful performance of the trust reposed in us.

    As a considerable number of the Tickets are already engaged,
    we expect to draw said Lottery by the first of May next.
    Prizes not demanded within six months after drawing will be
    deemed as generously given towards finishing said House. The
    time and place of drawing will be notified--a List of the
    Prizes will be immediately published in the _Herald of the
    United States_--and paid on demand.

                                     MARTIN LUTHER,  }
                                     WILLIAM BARTON, } Managers.
                                     DANIEL KELLEY;  }

    Warren, Nov. 28, 1794.

    --> Tickets and Quarters of Tickets in the above Lottery, may
    be had at the Post-Office, Boston.

    Jan. 31, 1795.

       *       *       *       *       *

               _GOOD FORTUNE IN THE LOTTERY REALIZED._

                     _Boston, May_ 12, 1791.

    ON Monday last, Messrs. _Edward Esty_ and _Oliver Johnson,_
    of Westmoreland in the State of New-hampshire, produced the
    ticket No. 6052, which drew the highest prize (TEN THOUSAND
    DOLLARS) in the Semi-annual Lottery, to Mr. JOHN KNEELAND,
    (the Manager who signed that number, and whose tickets have
    been remarkable for drawing the highest prizes) who gave them
    a check on the Bank for their money, which they received the
    next day.

    A circumstance relating to the purchase of this ticket may be
    worth relating. The owners of it were at Charlestown, late on
    the Saturday evening preceding the drawing of the lottery,
    and had mounted their horses to go on their way home, before
    they recollected wanting a ticket. Mr. Bridge (who sold
    tickets in Charlestown) happened to be then up, at his
    house--and went to his store, in the dark, and from his desk
    took the fortunate number, and sold it to the above fortunate
    persons.

                                   _Salem Gazette,_ May 17, 1791.

       *       *       *       *       *

Dartmouth College scheme, as advertised in the "Salem Gazette" in 1796.

                     _Dartmouth College Lottery._

                            CLASS SECOND.

    THE Managers of Dartmouth College Lottery present to the
    Public the following Scheme of the Second Class, in which
    they have aimed to meet their wishes by making a larger
    proportion of valuable prizes than usual; they flatter
    themselves that the same Public Spirit will be displayed, by
    encouraging the sale of Tickets in this, that was so fully
    manifested in the former Class.

                            _SCHEME._

       _Prizes_        _Dolls._             _Dolls._

         1       of     3000         is      3000
         1              1000                 1000
         4               500         are     2000
        10               200                 2000
        20               100                 2000
        30                50                 1500
        80                20                 1600
       100                10                 1000
      1650                 6                 9900
      -----                                ------
      1896 _Prizes._                  24,000
      4140 _Blanks._
     -----
      6000 _Tickets, at 4 Dollars each, are_ 24,000.

    Subject to a deduction of twelve and an half per cent.

    Of the above prizes of 500 Dollars, one of them will be
    placed to the first drawn blank, and the other three to the
    three last drawn blanks.

    This Class will positively commence drawing at Concord, on
    the 1st day of December next; and when completed, a list of
    Prizes will be immediately published, and the prizes paid on
    demand.

                                   JONATHAN FREEMAN, }
                                   BENJAMIN CONNOR,  } Managers.
                                   WILLIAM J. KENT,  }

    Concord, Aug. 17, 1796.

    TICKETS sold by JOHN JENKS and CUSHING & CARLTON.

       *       *       *       *       *

Harvard College appears to have seen the "misery of adventurers drawing
blanks which were worth nothing," and remedied the matter in 1811,
according to the following advertisement from the "Salem Gazette."

                            Look on this!

    THE serious evil which has fallen upon a great many
    adventurers, by purchasing Tickets in former lotteries, and
    drawing blanks which were worth nothing; appears now to be
    remedied.--The managers of the Fifth Class of Harvard College
    Lottery, have in their wisdom taken the misery of this evil
    into consideration and have given us a scheme preferable to
    any former one; by which it seems that from 20,000 to 50,000
    dollars will be distributed among persons whose tickets are
    drawn blanks in this lottery, which commences drawing in a
    few days; and the greater part of the Tickets are now sold.
    _Whole and Quarter Tickets_ for sale at the Bookstore and
    Lottery Office of

                                            HENRY WHIPPLE,

    June 7, 1811.                   _No. 6, Wakefield Place._


       *       *       *       *       *

A Boston paper of 1811 has the following:

                   Washington Monument Lottery

    WILL commence drawing in Baltimore the 4th day of September
    next.

    The Capital Prizes are
     1 of 50,000 dollars,
     1 of 30,000,
     1 of 20,000,
     2 of 10,000,
     3 of  5,000,
    20 of 100 Tickets,
    And many of 2000, 1000, 500, &c. &c.

    Tickets and Quarters for Sale by Simpson and Caldwell, of
    Baltimore, who request all persons who wish to purchase
    Tickets and Quarters in the above Lottery, to forward their
    orders, post paid, enclosing cash, to Messrs. BRIDGE &
    RENOUF, No. 79, state street, Boston; and they may depend on
    their orders being promptly executed.

    Price of Tickets 11 dollars--Quarters 2 87.

    Aug. 13, 1811.

       *       *       *       *       *

The "Union Canal Lottery" was got up in 1814 to benefit Boston and "make
it advance like New York." Here is a notice of the scheme from a Salem
paper,--

                      _Union Canal Lottery._

            First Class.--Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars.

    It rarely happens that the object of a Lottery is interesting
    to the whole community. To save the _Metropolis of
    New-England_ from declining in its commerce and consequence
    on the return of a general peace--to open its internal
    resources, to unite New-Hampshire & Vermont to Massachusetts,
    by bonds of mutual benefit, as permanent as the rivers and
    canals, by which their intercourse will be carried on--to
    make Boston advance like New York, supported by a populous,
    extensive and productive back country, are _considerations_
    into which every reflecting man, every merchant, and every
    owner of real estate, must enter and must feel. It is
    therefore, confidently expected, that a Lottery, granted to
    complete the great undertaking of opening Inland Navigation,
    will receive peculiar support; and that _many_ who have not
    been in the habit of adventuring in Lotteries, will be
    willing and desirous of contributing to the success of this
    for the sake of _its object._

    The Highest Prize will be paid in ninety days after the
    drawing shall be completed; and all other Prizes in sixty
    days, and payment will be made in bills generally current in
    Boston. Prizes must be demanded in one year from the end of
    the drawing of the Class.

    This Class will commence drawing in Boston, on the 12th
    December next.

    Tickets to be returned on or before the 2d December.

                                          BENJAMIN WELD,
                                        WILLIAM A. KENT,
                                       ANDREW SIGOURNEY,

    _Boston, Nov._ 8, 1814.                 _Managers._


       *       *       *       *       *

After lotteries had been drawn, notices frequently appeared in the
papers announcing the names of the lucky prize-winners. For instance, a
Boston paper of 1790 says: "The highest Prize (£3,000) in the New York
Lottery was drawn by 2 deserving Servant girls of New York;" and in
Sept. 21, 1793: "The highest prize in the 4th Class of the State
Lottery ($1,000) was drawn by Mr. Benjamin Blodgett, of this town;" and
the "Salem Gazette" of 1815 says: "Luther Martin, Esq., has drawn
$15,000, the Highest prize in the Baltimore Hospital Lottery;" and it
adds: "Those who envy the good Fortune of Mr. Martin will call on
Cushing & Appleton for Tickets in the Harvard College Lottery." In
November, 1790, the "Salem Gazette" says that the call for tickets in
the Massachusetts Semi-annual Lottery "has been so great in the other
States that the Managers expect to draw much sooner than the time which
was at first mentioned;" also that the tickets in the Marblehead Lottery
are meeting with a rapid sale; and concludes that "this does not
indicate a scarcity of Cash."

Here are some curious advertisements:--

         From the "Columbian Centinel," Boston, May 22, 1790.

                 WILLIAMSTOWN _FREE SCHOOL_ LOTTERY.

    We are authorised to _assure_ the Publick, and we do _assure_
    them--that the 7th Class of this Lottery will not only
    commence drawing on Monday next, but will _positively_ be
    _completed_ on _Tuesday_ morning--and a list of Prizes will
    be published in the CENTINEL the same week.

    The metropolis of Massachusetts hath ever been celebrated for
    the attention it hath paid to the education of its youth. In
    the elder world, a FRANKLIN hath been a living testimony of
    it, as well as in the younger. But not confined to the youth
    of the town is this benevolent disposition--it extends to the
    remotest parts of the Commonwealth; and hath been abundantly
    manifested in the liberal encouragement given to the
    Williamstown Free-School Lottery. The Class to be drawn on
    Monday next, will perhaps, be the last opportunity our
    citizens may have to gratify their humane wishes--which they
    will not let pass unimproved, especially as great pecuniary
    profit _may_ attend the gratification.

       *       *       *       *       *

                    "Salem Gazette," Nov. 24, 1812.

                             GALVANISM.

    It has been found by Dr. NAUCHE, at Paris, that a person
    perfectly blind may be made to see very lively and numerous
    flashes of light, by bringing one extremity of the voltaic
    pile into communication with the hand or foot, and the other
    with the face, skin of the head, or even the neck. In like
    manner, a person in the gloom of poverty may be made to
    perceive very lively and numerous flashes (say 20,000) of
    good fortune by bringing one extremity of a ragged bank bill
    into communication with the Book-Store and the other with
    the Lottery-Office, one door west of Central Building.

    N.B.--Two grand piles are now offered to the public--Harvard
    College, where the process is now in active operation, and
    Plymouth Beach which is in a state of preparation.

       *       *       *       *       *

                           "Salem Gazette."

                              _Writing_

                      _Taught in One Lesson!!_

    PERSONS of any age, sex, or capacity, _let their Chirography
    be never so bad,_ may by _one_ exercise _make a_ VERY GOOD
    HAND _of it._ The means are found in the Scheme of Harvard
    College Lottery, which contains a most superb assortment of
    capital prizes. Persons desirous of securing the advantage of
    this _dispatchful_ tuition will apply (wholes $5, quarters
    1.38) to CUSHING & APPLETON, at their Lottery Office and
    Bookstore, one door west of Central Building.           1811.

       *       *       *       *       *

                         From "Salem Gazette."

                       _"WHO WANTS A GUINEA?"_

    THIS Comedy by Coleman, has for some years past, been often
    read and justly admired; the name now appears to have lost
    its novelty.

    Something of greater magnitude is wished for; something which
    will furnish the possessor with more than a competency; which
    will assist the industrious and enterprizing man, in
    accomplishing his laudable wishes.

    This surely must be the true Philosopher's Stone, which wise
    men of all ages have sought for in vain.--This inestimable
    Gem, with some of the virtues usually ascribed to it--will,
    after the Fifth Class of Harvard College Lottery has
    completed drawing, belong to some person or persons who will
    now generously lend a hand to patronise this excellent
    institution.

    Those who are disposed from motives of interest or actuated
    by a wish to promote and encourage literature; will please
    call for WHOLE or QUARTER TICKETS, at the _Book-Store_ and
    _Lottery Office_ of

                         HENRY WHIPPLE,

    May 17, 1711. _No.                      6, Wakefield Place._

       *       *       *       *       *

                           "Salem Gazette."

                           Surprising Gain!

    IT is true as strange, and strange as true, that the wheels
    of Harvard College Lottery have actually gained, in the few
    revolutions they have made, no less than

                        --> 5157 Dollars! <--

    Now is the tide, which, taken at the flood, leads on to
    fortune, as the immortal Shakespeare would say. The undrawn
    tickets have all the advantage of this gain, in addition to
    the common chance at the outset. A few for sale (wholes 6
    dolls. quarters 1.63) at Cushing and Appleton's superlatively
    lucky Lottery & Exchange office, and federal book shop, one
    door west of Central Building, Essex street.

       *       *       *       *       *

In 1808 there was a "Real and truly Fortunate Lottery Office" at No. 1
Summer Street, Boston, and Detroit Bank bills were taken in payment for
tickets.

    [Illustration]

                     _Real and truly Fortunate_

    LOTTERY OFFICE, No. 1 Summer street, opposite the North west
    corner of the _New State House_--

    D. BEMAN'S list of Capital Prizes, sold by him at his _Real
    and truly Fortunate Lottery Office_--as follows,

    No. 9031, a Prize of 8000 Dolls.
        14459 a Prize of 1000  do.
         8638 a Prize of  500  do.
         8950 a Prize of  500  do.
           39 a Prize of  500  do.
         3988 a Prize of  500  do.
        12722 a Prize of  200  do.

    Besides a great number of 100--50--20, and 7 Dollar
    Prizes--amounting to a handsome Fortune--over the whole cost
    of all the Tickets ever sold at his office.... This is to be
    considered the _Real_ and _Truly_ Fortunate Lottery Office.

    --> Tickets, Quarters & Eighths in the 4th Class of Harvard
    College, which is now drawing--10,000 Dollars highest prize.
    A complete list of all the Drawing may be seen days and
    evenings, gratis.

    Prize Tickets and Detroit Bank Bills taken in payment; such
    as are guaranteed are taken at par. and those of another kind
    at a discount.

    June 3.                           (5W)

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The highest prize in the Providence _Episcopal Church_ Lottery was
$8,000, and the drawing was to begin on Sept. 29, 1800. Tickets were
sold in Boston at E. & S. Larkin's, 47 Cornhill. Gilbert & Dean, 56
State Street, Boston, make the following exhibit of the Golden Shower in
1803.

    _It is impossible to tell on whom the_ GOLDEN SHOWER _will
    fall!_

    [Illustration]

    YE that have the least relish to obtain 8000 dollars for a
    trifling sum, be "_up and doing!_" The third class of Hadley
    Lottery, will commence drawing the 15th of June.

    _Remark._--The object of this Lottery is of great public
    utility--that of improving SOUTH HADLEY CANAL, in order to
    make it permanent and beneficial to the public--and the
    Proprietors, in this arduous undertaking, have to cut through
    an entire mass of rocks for _three_ miles! Laudable and
    praise-worthy perseverance!

    Tickets for sale by GILBERT & DEAN, MAGAZINE and LOTTERY
    OFFICE, No. 56, _State-Street,_ where a correct list of all
    the prizes and blanks will be exhibited, during the drawing.

    _May 25, 1803._

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In the "Salem Gazette" will be found the advertisements of two of the
College Lotteries. Rhode Island College is now Brown University.

       *       *       *       *       *

                     _R. Island College Lottery._

    THE Corporation of the College, wishing to discharge in the
    best manner the trusts reposed in them for the education of
    youth, and finding their funds inadequate to this purpose,
    have obtained of the General Assembly of the state of
    _Rhode-Island_ and _Providence Plantations_ the grant of a
    Lottery. As the sole object of this is the public good, it is
    hoped that the exertions of the Corporation will meet the
    wishes and secure the co-operation of all the friends of
    science and virtue. The College was founded entirely by the
    generosity of individuals. Though it has received no
    patronage from the legislative body, yet through the
    assiduous labours of its officers it has become considerably
    distinguished, &, it is hoped, has merited the attention of
    the public. It, however, is under great disadvantages for
    want of larger pecuniary resources. Of the necessity of these
    for the establishment of a complete system of liberal
    education, every one must be sensible who entertains a just
    conception of the vast extent of science.--Those who are
    disposed to promote the Lottery now brought forward, may be
    assured that the whole business will be transacted with the
    utmost exactitude and fidelity. Of this they cannot doubt,
    when they are informed that the management of it is wholly
    under the direction of the following respectable Committee,
    appointed by the Corporation, viz. JOHN BROWN, Esq. WELCOME
    ARNOLD, Esq. Mr. JOHN MASON, Col. WILLIAM RUSSELL, and Mr.
    JOHN P. IVES.

    The Subscribers, being appointed by the Committee as Managers
    of the Lottery, and having given bonds according to law, now
    offer to the public the following

                           _SCHEME._

                          CLASS FIRST.

                           dols.            dols.

        1     Prize of     4000     is      4000
        1                  2000             2000
        2                  1000     are     2000
        4                   500             2000
       20                   100             2000
       40                    50             2000
       60                    30             1800
      100                    20             2000
     1000                    12            12000
     3000                     9            27000
    -----                                  -----
     3328  Prizes, amounting to            46000
                        Drawback,           8000
                                           -----
     9000  Tickets, at 6 dollars each, are 54000

    The drawing of this Lottery will commence on MONDAY, the 16th
    day of APRIL next, and continue till it shall be completed. A
    list of Prizes will be published in the Providence Gazette,
    and the Prizes paid on demand. Those not called for within
    six months after the drawing of the Lottery, will be
    considered as generously given to the College.

                                             JOHN WHIPPLE,
                                             SAMUEL THURBER, jun.

    _Providence, November 17, 1797._

    --> _TICKETS in the above Lottery to be sold at this Office,
    and at_ JOHN DUTCH'S AUCTION ROOM, _Essex-Street._

       *       *       *       *       *

                      _Harvard College Lottery._

                             CLASS FIRST,
                     Not two Blanks to a Prize.

    TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND TICKETS, at 5 Dollars each, are 125,000
    Dollars, to be paid in the following Prizes, subject to a
    Deduction, of _twelve and an half per Cent._ for the purposes
    of the Lottery.

    _Prizes_         _Dols._          _Dols._

          1    of    10,000    is     10,000
          2           5,000           10,000
          3           2,000            6,000
          6           1,000            6,000
         10             500            5,000
         20             200            4,000
         60             100            6,000
         90              50            4,500
        100              40            4,000
        120              30            3,600
        161              20            3,220
        200              10            2,000
      7,585               8           60,680
     ------                           ------
      8,358 _Prizes,_           125,000
     16,642 _Blanks._
     ------
     25,000

    --> THE above Class will _positively_ commence drawing in the
    REPRESENTATIVES' CHAMBER, in BOSTON, on THURSDAY, 13th
    November next, and will continue from day to day, and be
    _completed_ with all _possible dispatch._ A list of Prizes
    will be _immediately_ published, and the Prizes paid _on
    demand._

    The Managers believe it enough, to induce the Public to
    become Adventurers, to inform them, that the object of this
    _Lottery_ is to erect a new Building, at the UNIVERSITY in
    Cambridge, for the further accommodation of the Students. The
    Friends of literature are to be found every where, and when
    its cause can be served, and a _good chance_ for personal
    emolument at the same time presents itself; this double
    inducement, it is conceived, _must_ operate in favor of the
    Lottery.

    The Managers of this Lottery, had the conducting of the late
    State Lottery--the Public will do them the justice to say,
    that the _strictest punctuality_ as to the time fixed for
    Drawing, and in the payment of Prizes, was observed by them
    in that Lottery--they pledge themselves for the same
    punctuality in this.

                          BENJAMIN AUSTIN, jun.  }
                          GEORGE R. MINOT,       }
                          SAMUEL COOPER,         }    Managers.
                          HENRY WARREN,          }
                          JOHN KNEELAND,         }

    _Boston, July 14, 1794._

       *       *       *       *       *

    --> TICKETS are sold by J. JENKS, D. JENKS, J. HATHORNE, J.
    DABNEY, and W. CARLTON, Salem.

       *       *       *       *       *

Major Benjamin Russell, in the "Boston Columbian Centinel," March 26,
1791, says:

    The _National_ and _State Legislatures_ being in recess,
    there is a "plentiful scarcity" of domestick occurrences, at
    this time.--This is locally remedied by the Lottery, which
    seems to arrest the attention of all ranks of citizens.--To
    describe the symptoms of the _disease_ is impossible--all are
    fascinated--all expect to be the favoured children of
    Fortune.--The rich court her smiles, as eagerly as the
    poor--and whilst, O! fickle Goddess, the _Young_ pour forth
    their supplications for thy favours,

    "_With falt'ring pace, and feeble knee,
      See_ Age _advance, in shameless haste;
    The palsied hand is stretch'd to thee,
      For_ Wealth, _it wants the pow'r to taste._"

    The delusion is general--and general must the mortification
    be. But as attention must be paid to the infatuation--we have
    endeavoured, by a regular publication of the fortunate
    numbers, to alleviate its frenzy.

       *       *       *       *       *

On March 29, 1814, Messrs. Bridge and Renouf, the well-known brokers, of
79 State Street, Boston, gave notice that a prize of $500--No.
3,394--"had" been "drawn in the Plymouth Beach Lottery." This number had
been "sold by them to several young Gentlemen who purchased 30 Tickets;"
and they also announced that the drawing was "suspended until the next
Tuesday, when the first drawn ticket will be the highest prize, _Twenty
thousand Dollars;_" and besides this, that "there are remaining to be
drawn four prizes of $1,000 each, and four prizes of $500 each."

It should be noticed that there was, even in its most flourishing days,
a difference of opinion among individuals in regard to the morality of
the lottery, as men must differ on all subjects; so that it is perhaps
only fair to cite a specimen or two of the communications which appeared
in the papers in reference thereto. A writer in the "Salem Gazette,"
June 29, 1790, says:--

                             _OF LOTTERIES._

    Lotteries have of late been a very productive source of
    revenue in this State.--The moral tendency of them has been
    supposed by some to be injurious to society; and government
    have been careful to grant them for such purposes only, as
    that the probable benefit should outweigh the evil. By this
    means we have seen the interests of literature supported--the
    arts encouraged--the wastes of war repaired--inundations
    prevented--the burthen of taxes lessened, &c. Manufactures
    might also in this way be established. Those which will not
    support themselves, it is true, will not benefit the
    community; but there are very important ones, which in their
    infancy require the nursing hand of government--to such the
    produce of lotteries might be beneficially applied. There
    exists a spirit of adventure in all societies, which will
    lead a number to throw themselves into the hands of Chance in
    one way or another, & which, under the direction of a wise
    Legislature, may be made to subserve their best interests.
    The monies raised by lotteries cannot impoverish the
    community--as they are not sent abroad, but only taken out of
    one pocket and put into another.

       *       *       *       *       *

There is also in the same paper, of Feb. 25, 1794, another communication,
in which the writer apparently takes an entirely opposite view, and
quotes a letter of Joel Barlow to the National Convention of France, in
which will be found some rather strong language. When one considers the
place where these views appear to have been adopted, and recollects the
horrible scenes of the French Revolution, which were even then being
enacted, one wonders whether the French authorities valued human life as
much as they did property.

                          ON PUBLIC LOTTERIES.

    MR. CUSHING,

    AS our Legislature have lately had under consideration a
    bill, for granting a Lottery to Harvard College, I beg you
    will publish what our countryman, Mr. BARLOW, said on the
    subject of Public Lotteries, in his Letter to the National
    Convention of France. It is as follows:

    "SINCE I am treating of morals, the great object of all
    political instructions, I cannot avoid bestowing some remarks
    on the subject of PUBLIC LOTTERIES. It is a shocking disgrace
    of modern governments, that they are driven to this pitiful
    piece of knavery, to draw money from the people. But no
    circumstance of this kind is so extraordinary as that this
    policy should be continued in France, since the revolution;
    and that a state lottery should still be reckoned among the
    permanent sources of revenue. It has its origin in deception;
    and depends for its support, on _raising and disappointing
    the hopes of individuals_--on perpetually agitating the mind
    with _unreasonable desires of gain_--on clouding the
    understanding with superstitious ideas of _chance,_ _destiny_
    and _fate_--on diverting the attention from regular industry,
    and promoting a _universal spirit of gambling,_ which carries
    all sorts of vices into all classes of people. Whatever way
    we look into human affairs, we shall ever find that the bad
    organization of society is the cause of more disorders than
    could possibly arise from the natural temper of the heart.
    And what shall we say of a government that avowedly steps
    forward, with the insolence of an open enemy, and creates a
    new vice, for the sake of loading it with a tax? What right
    has such a government to punish our follies? And who can look
    without disgust on the impious figure it makes, in holding
    the scourge in one hand, and the temptation in the other? You
    cannot hesitate to declare, in your constitution, THAT ALL
    LOTTERIES SHALL BE FOREVER ABOLISHED."

    In November last, the Convention, in conformity with the
    foregoing sentiments, passed the following decree:

    "Lotteries, of whatever nature they may be, or under whatever
    denomination they may exist, are suppressed."

       *       *       *       *       *

In 1791 the Massachusetts Legislature granted to the proprietors of the
Cotton Manufactory in Beverly four hundred tickets in the lottery about
to be drawn, and three hundred in the next Semi-annual State Lottery.
"Some people, out-doors," says the "Salem Gazette," March 8, 1791,
"murmur at this as an ill-judged act of liberality; but perhaps they are
not acquainted with the arguments which induced the grant. The
disposition of Government to foster our infant manufactures is
certainly laudable." This is unquestionably good reasoning; for, granted
the premises that lotteries are ever beneficial, then there was no
reason why aid should not in this way be extended to business
enterprises which were to give employment to the people, as well as to
schools and colleges. Employment must be provided as well as education.
The Beverly Cotton Manufactory, Stone, in his History of Beverly, claims
to be the first manufactory of its kind established in America, that at
Pawtucket having been the second; and he also states that it was visited
by General Washington on his tour through the country in 1789. The
leading proprietors in this enterprise were George and Andrew Cabot,
Israel Thorndike and Henry Higginson, men of the highest reputation in
New England for integrity and honor.

                  From the "Salem Gazette," Dec. 25, 1812:

                         _The Historical Dictionary,_

    By EZRA SAMPSON, author of the Beauties of the Bible, is one
    of the most useful little works of this nature which we have
    seen. It contains _much in a small compass._ Its subjects are
    Natural and Civil History, Geography, Zoology, Botany and
    Mineralogy, arranged in alphabetical order, and explained in
    such a neat and intelligible manner, as to render it worthy
    of being (according to its design) a _Companion for Youth._
    We select the following article as a specimen of the work.


                                LOTTERY,

    A kind of public game at hazard, in order to raise money for
    the service of the state. A lottery consists of several
    numbers of blanks and prizes, which are drawn out of wheels,
    one of which contains the numbers of the tickets, and the
    other the corresponding blanks and prizes. Besides the
    consideration that this, as well as all other kinds of
    gambling for money, tends to corrupt the public morals, it is
    also to be considered that the purchasers of the tickets are
    never permitted to play the game on fair and equal ground.
    The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly
    fair lottery; or one in which the whole gain compensated the
    whole loss; because the undertaker could make nothing by it.
    In lotteries the tickets are really not worth the price which
    is paid by the original purchasers, and yet they often sell
    in the market at a considerable advance: the vain hope of
    gaining some of the great prizes is the cause of this demand.
    In order to have a better chance for some of the large
    prizes, some people purchase several tickets, and others
    small shares in a still greater number. There is not,
    however, a more certain proposition in mathematics, than that
    the more tickets you adventure upon, the more likely you are
    to be a loser. Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery
    and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your
    tickets, the nearer you approach to this certainty.

    The above is surely a just account of the nature and
    principles of a Lottery; yet it does not destroy the fact,
    that, distributed as the tickets always are among thousands,
    there must be some gainers, and that, in spite of
    mathematics, there is a lucky number, which must draw the
    capital prize in the Plymouth Beach Lottery (without any
    deduction) of 12000 dollars. Both the _Historical Dictionary_
    and Lottery _Tickets_ may be had at Cushing & Appleton's old
    stand, one door west of Central Building;--where BANK BILLS
    are exchanged.

       *       *       *       *       *

Lottery at the celebrated "Wayside Inn" at Sudbury in 1760.

   THE Managers of _Sudbury_ Lottery, No. Two, hereby notify the
   Public, That they shall commence Drawing said Lottery, on
   Friday the Thirtieth Day of May Instant, at the House of Mr.
   _William Bryant_ Inholder in said _Sudbury._ --> A few Tickets
   are yet to be had of the Managers, and _Samuel Hardcastle_ and
   the Printers hereof.

                                      _Boston Gazette,_ May, 1760.

       *       *       *       *       *

Some remarks in reference to supplying Bibles in the eastern part of
Massachusetts by means of a lottery.

    MR. RUSSELL,

    A FRIEND to religion, and one who wishes the memorial of a
    certain respectable society may have a happy effect, but a
    zealous enemy to lotteries, asked a member of an important
    body, the other day, whether he thought the General Court
    would grant a Lottery for the purpose of supplying every
    person in the eastern part of the Commonwealth with a bible,
    who is unable to purchase one, and for the pay of a
    missionary.--Let not the serious reader frown, as that member
    did; for if there is nothing contained in that sacred book
    which can be thought opposed to this method of gambling,
    neither the one nor the other can give a substantial reason
    why, in the present rage for lotteries, the people should not
    be indulged in raising money in the way most agreeable to
    their humour.

                                                   PERSOLUS.

                             _Columbian Centinel,_ Feb. 26, 1791.

       *       *       *       *       *

                        _MRS. CLARK AFLOAT._

    In the Ship Ann Maria arrived at New-Haven the following wax
    passengers, viz. King George III, _Bonaparte,_ Washington,
    _Jefferson,_ Hamilton, _Burr,_ Hillhouse, _Madison,_
    Pickering, _Giles_ and _Mrs. Mary Ann Clark._ The
    Custom-House officers made prisoners of all these passengers
    for violating the Non-Importation Act, but being proved that
    they were of East-Haven manufacture and unconscious of crime,
    we are happy to hear they have been all liberated. King
    George III. was taken in such bad company as is a sufficient
    proof that he is _crazy._ Napoleon undoubtedly rejoiced when
    he beheld the faithful execution in our waters, of his
    continental system. Washington and Hamilton were glad that
    they were in their graves, before their country had been
    plunged so deeply in disgrace. Had not Pickering and
    Hillhouse been indeed made of _wax,_ they would have thrown
    Bonaparte and Jefferson overboard and given them the freedom
    of the Seas. If the custom-house officers had kept possession
    of Poor Madison, they could never have obtained much money
    for him, as he now is a sorry _figure,_ since he has been
    scalped and tomahawked by Smith. Burr, the democratic
    vice-president and traitor, who has now gone home to France,
    ought to be exhibited for the instruction of the People, in
    every village. Giles must have been liable to have been
    York-_sheared_ by Mrs. Clark, who, on a July day, when the
    weather was at blood heat, must have been in a _melting_ mood
    and susceptible of impressions. But he is an advocate of
    Non-Intercourse. The officers of the Revenue, notwithstanding
    they were in such a _taking_ fit, and had conceived such vain
    & high blown hope of the immense wealth they should receive
    as the ransom of their Captives, have not half so good a
    chance of a _prize_ as those adventurers who will call at
    Cushing and Appleton's, one door west of central Building,
    and purchase a Ticket or quarter in Harvard College Lottery
    now drawing.

                                  _Salem Gazette,_ July 12, 1811.

       *       *       *       *       *

    Mr. Pardon Sheldon, a respectable citizen of Providence, was
    the fortunate holder of the $20,000 prize in the North
    Carolina Lottery which was drawn some days since.

                                 _Salem Observer,_ Dec. 17, 1825.

       *       *       *       *       *

                   A Speedy Cure for a Broken Fortune.

    TO all those who bitterly complain of the great dearth of
    "the root of all evil," and a want of confidence in these
    speculating times, and who, tremblingly anticipate a long and
    doubtful conflict, in money operations the coming season, the
    following beautiful and brilliant schemes offer the means of
    a sure and an immediate relief.

    The Grand State Lottery, Fourth Class Extra, with a capital
    prize of $10,000, a prize of 500, and 5 prizes of 1000, will
    draw THIS DAY. Tickets $3 & parts in proportion.

    The Rhode-Island Lottery, First Class, New Series, highest
    prize 10,000, five prizes of 1,000, and a variety of smaller
    prizes, will draw on the 24th inst. Tickets $3 and parts in
    proportion. And last, though not least,

    The New-York Literature Lottery, Class No. 3, for 1825, with
    the truly splendid prizes of 100,000, 50,000, and 10,500 and
    smaller prizes to the amount of more than half a MILLION of
    DOLLARS, will draw on the 4th of January next. Tickets $50,
    and parts in proportion.

    For PRIZES in the above Lotteries apply to

                               E.H. PAYSON,

    At Dana & Fenno's Office, Central street.

    Official Lists of the two first Lotteries will be received by
    E.H.P. on the evenings of the days of the drawings.
                                     tf         Dec 10.

                                          _Salem Observer,_ 1825.


       *       *       *       *       *

                      Fortune's Favourite Sons,

    ARE informed that _Stonington Point Meeting-House Lottery_
    will positively commence drawing the 19th of May--viz. this
    day four weeks. In this Lottery of only 6000 Tickets, are one
    of 3000 dollars--one of 1000--five of 500--two of 400--three
    of 300--ten of 200--twenty of 100, &c. Tickets for 3 Dollars,
    for sale, and prizes in the _Eastern Stage Road Lottery,_
    taken in pay.--Also Cash paid for those sold by THOMAS
    HILDRUP.

    N.B. Adventurers may know their fate from his List of Prizes.

                                        Hartford, April 21, 1794.

                                           _Connecticut Courant._

       *       *       *       *       *

To show how largely men's minds--and perhaps women's too--were filled
with the lottery mania, if we may so call it, in the days of which we
are writing, we will introduce a Southern scheme from the "Petersburg
Intelligencer" of 1816, copied in the "Salem Register," September 11 of
that year. Some of our readers may think that it is not a bad idea.

                            _From the Petersburg Intelligencer._

                       MATRIMONIAL LOTTERY.

    On the 21st day of December last, I was passing through the
    state of South Carolina, and in the evening arrived in the
    suburbs of the town of ----, where I had an acquaintance, on
    whom I called. I was quickly informed that the family was
    invited to a wedding at a neighboring house, and on being
    requested, I changed my clothes and went with them. As soon
    as the young couple were married, the company was seated, and
    a profound silence ensued--(the man of the house was
    religious.) A young Lawyer then arose, and addressed the
    company very handsomely, and in finishing his discourse
    begged leave to offer a new scheme of matrimony, which he
    believed and hoped would be beneficial. And obtaining leave
    he proposed:

    That one man in the company should be selected as president;
    that this president should be duly sworn to keep entirely
    secret all the communications that should be forwarded to him
    in his official department that night: and each unmarried
    gentleman and lady should write his or her name on a piece of
    paper, and under it place the person's name whom they wished
    to marry; then hand it to the president for inspection, and
    if any gentleman and lady had reciprocally chosen each other,
    the president was to inform each of the result; and those who
    had not been reciprocal in their choices, should have their
    choice kept entirely secret.

    After the appointment of the president, the communications
    were accordingly handed up to the chair, and it was found
    that twelve young gentlemen and ladies had made reciprocal
    choices; but whom they had chosen remained a secret to all
    but themselves and the president.--The conversation changed
    and the company respectively retired.

    Now hear the conclusion. I was passing through the same place
    on the 14th of March following, and was informed that eleven
    of the twelve matches had been solemnized, and that the young
    gentlemen of eight couples of the eleven had declared that
    their diffidence was so great that they certainly should not
    have addressed their respective wives, if the above scheme
    had not been introduced.----> Gentlemen under 20 and ladies
    under 15 were excluded as unmarriageable.

    You will be pleased to let the public hear of this scheme,
    and I hope it will be productive of much good, by being
    practised in Virginia.

                             _A Married Man without Children._

The weak spot in this plan, we imagine, would be the difficulty in
keeping the _blanks_ entirely secret.

       *       *       *       *       *

We have not undertaken to give an account of all the lotteries of which
we have seen advertisements, as our limits would not admit of it, even
if it could be made interesting to those who like to read about such
matters; New England alone would fill a large volume. We will name only
a few of the more prominent lotteries,--the Land Bank, in 1759; the
Pavement on Boston Neck, the same year. Then there was the Charlestown
lottery, the Hatfield Bridge, Sudbury, the Amoskeag Canal, the South
Hadley Canal, the Philanthropic, the Kennebec, the Dartmouth College,
the Gloucester Road, the Plymouth Beach, etc. All these, of course,
were public lotteries, and were managed by the first men in the
community. In relation to private lotteries it would now be difficult to
ascertain the facts. There must have been a great number of these;
probably they were not always honestly conducted. We have heard that
there were shops where the inexperienced were supplied with bogus
tickets,--blanks of some drawn lottery. Bad men, unfortunately, are to
be found in all kinds of business; but we know that in Salem all the men
whose names we have mentioned were among the very best in the community.

Although laws are now in force in Massachusetts and some other States
against lotteries, there appears to be no essential difference, as far
as the morality of the thing is concerned, between the old lottery and
the modern raffle,--and indeed a certain species of stock gambling, it
seems to us, is worse than either in its moral effects. After the year
1826, or thereabout, lotteries appear to have become unpopular, and laws
were passed prohibiting them. Their unprofitableness, moreover, seems
then to have been more clearly seen. As we have already said, there had
always been some who saw the evils which must result from such schemes.
Notably among prominent men who in Massachusetts used their influence
against them were John Hancock,[1] of Revolutionary fame, and afterwards
governor of the Commonwealth, and Peter C. Brooks, a distinguished
merchant of Boston, father-in-law of Edward Everett. The "Salem Gazette"
of Sept. 16, 1794, says: "Considering the acknowledged immoral tendency
of _Lotteries,_ it is astonishing how much is said in the Boston papers
in favor of that which our Legislature has lately instituted for Harvard
College. Our late worthy Governor Hancock, in a public address to the
General Court, gave his testimony against this species of gambling, so
calculated to ensnare and injure those classes of worthy citizens who
are guiltless of that vice in its common form."

[Footnote 1: Although we have seen lottery tickets signed by Hancock
earlier in life.]

In some foreign countries and in a few of the States of our Union
lotteries are still lawful; yet we believe there is a growing feeling
against them. But if stock gambling is destined to take the place of the
lottery, we do not think much will be gained by the change. The losses
by lotteries were generally in small sums, and could be better borne by
the adventurers than the entire loss of property, health, and reputation
which is now too apt to follow a large proportion of the speculative
stock operations. In the lottery, too, the risks were generally so small
that the ticket-buyer alone suffered; whereas now, whole families are
often involved in financial ruin, if not in disgrace, by the operations
of a father, brother, or near relative. But we will say no more on this
point, as it is a consideration foreign to the object of this book.

Thus far we have written mainly of American lotteries; as it is not our
intention to take an exhaustive view of the subject, we will merely say,
in reference to foreign countries, that lotteries were instituted in
England in 1567, and abolished by Act of Parliament in 1823, although
allowed until 1826, when the last drawing of a legal lottery took place.
During this period they were patronized by all classes,--royalty, the
nobility, gentry, and commoners. The first lottery was for the repairs
of harbors and fortifications. The drawing took place at the "west door
of St. Paul's Church." In 1612 King James I. granted a lottery for the
"English Colonies in Virginia, ... to be held at the _west end of St.
Paul's,_" and "one Thomas Sharplys, a tailor, drew the chief Prize,
which was 4000 crowns in fair plate."

To this day the lottery flourishes in most of the chief cities in
Europe, and lottery tickets are vended in many shops as well as in
regular offices. The Cologne Cathedral, as is well known, was only
recently finished by the aid of a lottery. Lotteries are upheld, we
believe, by the Roman Catholic Church in Europe, and many of the priests
aid in disposing of the tickets,--at least so we have been told.

The sum of the whole matter as regards this country is that a good work
was undoubtedly accomplished through the agency of the lottery in the
early days of our national history. By its aid schools, colleges, and
charities were founded, bridges, roads, and canals were constructed. In
our time public opinion is, of course, as it ought to be, against
gambling in any form; but although our ways are almost always thought to
be more honest, it is a question, after all, whether we are really more
upright than our fathers, who sometimes engaged in transactions that are
condemned by modern society, but who, on the other hand, knew nothing of
"defaulted" railroad bonds, of "wild cat" oil companies, or of "watered"
mining stocks. It is easy enough to

    "Compound for sins [we] are inclined to,
    By damning those [we] have no mind to."

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