Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-09-21

GETTING FORTUNES LOTTERY. A Pennsylvania
paper has taken pains for the purpose OF show
ing how man may come to drawing prize
by buying lottery ticket First Che says there are
upwards of seventy numbers used in making out the
tickets, and there three numbers on each ticket;
now the question is, how many different tickets can
be nader If but ten figures were used, instead OF
seventy there could be issued 800 tickets each
different from the other; and if twelve figures were
used instead of seventy there could be issued 4T9
000,6 600 tickets man, in the first instance, where
there are ten numbers, would stand one cnance OUT
of 62S 800 chances and in the last instance Where
there are twelve numbers to change by, he would
stand but chance out of 40 100000, and II the
whole seventy figures be used, and II as many olI-
ferent tickets were issued as could be termed oy the
Formulation of these numbers, 1t is probable tnat
there would be enough to than carpet the whole
territory of the United States Of course very few
printed, compared to what might be printed, yet
there is just good chance OF the prize TO a 10 an
imprinted ticket as to printed one. Ii IL does So,
claim the money it remains with those
making the lottery There are, in such cases. thou
sands of chances in favor Of the lottery Again.
if lotteries were fairly conducted there would be hum
dreds of thousands each month receiving fortune
by the high prizes alone; and each year there could
be named from one thousand to ten thousand persons
thus favored by fortune. In this we have only been
speaking of single prize IN each lottery ana as
there many important in each the fortunate
persons ought greatly to exceed ten thousand annu-
ally. Yet, how seldom do you hear that even ST.
900 prize is drawn? Still all the prizes OF every lot
terry should fall on some at each drawing w no
gets them? Where do the favored ones live? and
how does it happen that their names are not paraded
before the public each week? It is simply because
no one holds ticket entitled to the prize and of
the money remains with the maker OF the lot
terry.
Mr.. LoRrNG, of the Wi1nington Commercial has
recently paid flying visit to New England. Speak
ing of New York, he says:
"The city was much more crowded on our return
than on the previous week We found, and it did
us good to find them-nany from North Carolina,
and goodly number of good persons from the
town of Wilmington Our folks may think they
don't like each other very well when at home,
but when they meet abroad, they find out that
they are brethren. We advise any one who feels
little cross at his neghbor here to go and meet
him In New York, any where north of the line
he will lind out that he is not half 50 mad as he
thought he was
1t struck us that persons of certain class might
be greatly benefited and instructed by visit to- one
of our crowded cities We mean the squires and
head men OF the villages; gentlemen young and old
who walk the streets of our small towns with certain
peculiarlties The young ones seeming to say men
tally, : am some pumhins any how y and the old
ones, " Am l not 2 very respectable gentleman, and
entitled TO general obeisance2 Both recurring that
] they be the : observed of all observers,, IF thew.
do not lose their fconeeit in Broadway then there
is purchase IN money, nor meaness in q shot
/ ten herring. They cannot help being Convinced
that there are other personagcs in the world besides
themselves.