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The Winchester home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-08-22
MAGNIFICENT SCHEME!
TO Re DRAWN
Each Saturday i'm AuHust,
Approximation Prizes.
3ij prizes amounting to S2Oi ,OOC
Whole tickets $40; Halves S.; Ours so
RADll of the AAfkGrX


The numbers from to 10000 corresponding with those
numbers the tickets printed separate slips OF
are encirced with small tin tubes and placed in one
wheel.
The first 2G2 prizes, similarly printed and cncirccd are
placed in another wheel.
The wheels are then revovcd, and number is drawn
from the wheel Of numbers, and at the time prize
is drawn from the other wheel. The number and prize
drawn out opened and exhibited to the audience and
registered by the Commissioners; the prize being placed
against the number drawn This operation is repeated
until all the prizes are drawn out
APPROXIMATION PRIZEs.-Thc two preceding and
the two succeeding numbers to those drawing the first
II prizes will be entitled to the 6S approximation prizes
For examples ticket No 1880 draws the 60 900 dollar
prize, those tickets numbered ll2iS tt2i9 1881 t1252
will each he entitled to 225 dollars If ticket No. $50
draws the 900 dollar prize those tickets numbered obs
49, Doll 652, will each be entitled to 200 dollars, and
according to the above scheme.
The 5000 prizes Of 90 dollars will be determined by the
last figure of the number that draws the GO 900 dollar
prize. For examples if the number drawing the Co. 600
dollar prize ends with No. l. then all the tickets where
the number ends in will be entitled to 90 dollars II the
number ends with No @ then all the tickets where the
number ends in will be entitled to 90 dollars and 80 on
to 0.
CERTIFICATES OF PACKAGES will be sold at the
following rates. which is the risk:
Certificates of Packages OF 10 Whole Tickets, $50
" 10 Half 40
" 10 Quarter " 90
10 Eighth /" 10
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The remainder of Genl. Walkers
troops arrived at New York on the
18th inst. III
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In July there were SO deaths in thu
city of Nashville.
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Geo. w. Harris has been appointed
at Knoxville.
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The population of Minnesota is be-
lievcd to come fully up to two hun
dred thousand.
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A war has broken out again be-
tween the Crows and Sioux.
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The number of deaths in Memphi.
the past six months is 337.
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There is one reason why a little
man should never marry bouncing
widow. He might be called "thc wild
Ow's mite"
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The number of deaths in Mobile for
July last was only IS.
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w. J. SLATER.
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,ban one year must be paid in advance.
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and Fifty Gents for each subsequent
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Very liberal reductions made for those
who advertise by the year, half year,
or quarter.
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CLASS "a,
To DO drawn IN the city OF Aana Georgia. In public, on
saturday, August Goth, 1857,
ON TIE PLAN or SINGLE NUMBERS.
Three Thousand Three Hundred and
Thirty Pri2es!
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In. ordering Tickets or Certificates


Enclose the money to address the tickets order
cd receipt of which they viii be forwarded by first
mall Purchasers have tickets ending in any figure
they may designate.
The List OF Drawn Numbers and Prizes will be sent to
purchasers Immediately after the drawing
Gs Purchasers will please write their signatures plain,
and give their Post Office, County and State.
05' Remember that every prize is drawn and payable
n full, without deduction.
G5 All prizes Of 900 and under paid Immediately after
the drawing-ocr prizes al the usual time OF 30 days.
All communications strictly confidential
Address orders for tickets or certificates to
S. SWAN e CO., Atlanto, Gu.
Eay% A list of the numbers that are
drawn from the wheel, with the amount
Of the prize that each one is entitled to,
will be published after every drawing in
the oIlowingpapcrs:-Neao Orleans DEL
Ia, Mobile Register, Charleston Stan,
dard, Nashville Gazette, atlanta MtelH-
gencer, New York Weekly Day Booh,
SaUannah Morning NcacS, Richmond
Dispatch and Neac York Dispatch.
jnnc 20 ly
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NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE

This Great Journal Of Crime and Criminals is in its
Twelfth Year, and is widely circulated throughout the
country II contains all the Great Trials Criminal Cases
and appropriate Editorials on the same together with in
formation on CRIMINAL Matters not 10 he found any other
newspaper
O. subscriptions, %. per annumj al, for six months
TO be RENTED by subscribers, who should write their
names and the town, county and state where they reside
plainly. to Il \ SEYMOUR
Editor q Proprietor Of the National Police Gazette,
Juhe2I New York City.
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MARYLAND STATE LOTTERIES FOR 1867
COKRUN A. co.

MARYLAND STATE LOTTERIES FOR 1857,
CORRIN A. co,
l. CENSED AG ENTS,
Are authorized By the managers To jill
all orders for Packages, Tickets,
or Shares IN tAe
MARYLAND LOTTERIES.
These Lotteries are drawn in public ~ tho
city OF Baltimore under the snpern,rnIenre
of the STATE LOTTERY COMMISSIONER
who guarantees The ialrncss of the Drawings
and the official drawn numbers are published
IN the Journals of the city Of Baltimore, with
ms certl'caie bearing his signature.
ALL FRIES ARE GUARANTEED BY TIE STATE,
O@e r'al may make you rich for life.
splendid Schemes Drawing Daly.
SEND YOUR ORDERS TO
COR BIN q. CO.,
nc "'u o Gs,aG''shed authorized Agents who
""vu noE ~. MORE PRIZES than any
other Office in the State of MARYLAND.
PATAPSCO INSTITUTES L6TTERv
ms 'avorlte Lottery ia drawn daily. The
Cep Hnu ar'zes are $1,000, $1,000, $1,000,
$4,000, &c, Single Tickets, One Dol,r
CtRIlFlCAIES OF PACKAGES,
26 Whole Tickets sl6 co
20 Half Tickets s 00
70 Quarter Tickets 90
Nothing Venture. NoMing Gain.
Tickets bought by the Package are always the
most profitable to the Purchasers.
FOR W. we send package Wholes elves and Quarters
ror Slo we send package Halves and Whole tickets
For y we send packages Quarters and one Whole Ticket
Look at the following
SPLENDID SCHEMES
One Of which is druwna 10 O'Clock each day Of c vco
CLASS 40.
SCHEME.
prize Of $1,000 is s7Mm
prize of 1.3il is l311
prizes Of coo are 1000
Prizes OF 4Oo are LOGO
prizes of 100 arc 400
1o 40, Prizes o, ~ are 4140
1 ioo prizes OF lo are 1920
d doS prizes OF 4 are !52S
"a 1' " ~ prizes OF 2are S.IS4
S'''f" prizes OF are 25.74O
3O,"l6 prizes, amounting to 1853. 253
Tickets is.
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''io Prlzcs' amounting to $53.:
Tickets is.
POKOMOKE LOTTERY.
CAPITAL PRIZE $4,000,

CERTIFICATES OF PACKAGES.
70 Wholes $50 90; 26 Halves $40 oG
70 Quarters 10 90; 2G Fights 10 90
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saturday MORNING. AUGUST %

SIM Pcttingill d Co. New York.
SATURDAY MORNING. AUGUST %.
Read the new advertisements in to-
DAVIS paper. Valuable real estate to
be sold.
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Campmeeting at Goshen closed on
Thursday last. Between forty and
fifty conversions.
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Green watermclons are selling here
at 25 cts per pound--'or thereabouts.'
The editor, of the Fayetteville OBJ
server has been presented with a pear
weighing one pound, and measuring
twelve inches in circumference. Is
there larger one in this section! It
so, bring it in.
The number of deaths in Memphis
the past six months is 337.
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The number of deaths in Mobile for
July last was only IS.
Two bales of new cotton from Tex
ns were received at New Orleans on
the 18th inst. Last year the first bale
of the then new crop was received on
the 10Th July.
A war has broken out again be-
tween the Crows and Sioux.
Geo. w. Harris has been appointed
postmaster at Knoxville.
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The remainder of Genl. Walkers
troops arrived at New York Oh the
18th inst u;
Gov. L. p. Chase has been nominal
ted for re- election as Governor of Ohio
by the Republicans.
In July there were 36 deaths in the
city of Nashville.
Wheat is worth from IS to LOO in
Nashville. Flour 800 a 3.75 per hum
dred
Four young ladies were recently
drowned at WatcrvilIc, Maine, while
bathing.
.
An exchange says the love OF IA lit
tie girl is sweet thing. The love OF
q big one is sweeter.
The Louisville Journal says that the
stock of Kentucky bagging in thai
market on Saturday last, as ascertain
ed from actual count, was $500 pie.
ccs, two half:picces being counted as
one. This is smaller stock than wa:
generally supposed.
The Sunny South, Aberdeen, Miss.
says the boil worms have made their
appearance among the cotton in tha
vicinity.
1t is said to have become the fashion
OF runaway wives in Kentucky t.
take the husbands bed with them
They have no idea of exposing them
selves to 6e advertised as abscondet
from bed and board.
prospectus for German daily pa
per, to be called the New England
Democrat, has just been issuedin Bos
ton, Mass.
The population of Minnesota is be
lieved to come fully up to two hun
dred thousand.
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There is one reason why a littl
man should never marry bouncin,
widow. He might be called "thc wild
Ow's mite"
Four negroes belonging TO Mr.. W
A. May, near Bolivar, Tenn, wer
killed by lightning last week.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-07-04

NEW GRENADA, WEST COAST OF SOUTH
AMERICA, CALIFORNIA AND OREGON,
SANDWICH ISLANDS, AUSTRALIA AND
VAN LAND, NEW SOUTH WALES
AND CHINA.-Closes on the 4th and 10th of
each month. at 6 P. NJ. Arrives on or about the
18th and 2sth of each month.
Bs-Postage to South Pacific Letters, 34c. papers,
&C.
a9rPostage to New South Wales, Victoria, South
Australia, ETC., via England, by packet or private
ships, 80 cents single rate, prepaid via France,
10 cents each quarter ounce, prepaid, is added to
the above postage; via New York, by private
ships, cents, prepaid.
RB-Postage to Peru Letters, 22c.: papers, &c.
Re- Postage to Bogota New Granada:) Letters, lSe.
papers, &c.
H5-Postage to China, New South Wales, Sandwich
Islands, via San Francisco: l0c., prepaid.
R The postage to places the West coast of South
America, via Panama, is: On each single letter,
"a cents !; and on each newspaper, 6 cents, when
sent and 10 cents on each letter, and cents on
each paper, when received.
RB-The postage to New Grenada direct is 10 cents
single rate, and cents each newspaper; and to
the Sandwich Islands, Australia, Van Dieman's
Land and China, (via San Francisco,) is, on
each single letter, 10 cents, payable in advance
R The single letter rate to California and Oregon is
10 cents, prepaid. On newspapers ETC., the do,
mestic rates apply. r. E, NOTATION, P. NJ.
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Clippings

The end of all argument" You're another"
God made Washington chidless that nation might
call him father. 49,. 81 ss,., .tg5s.4
Let virtue and truth be your guide, and not pleas
coat out at the elbow may be buttoned over
generous breast.
Benevolence Of disposition and decision Of charac.
ter united, make man q blessing to the circle in
which he moves
He who means to do well without doing what he
means until the arrival Of some favorable opportunity
will never do it at all.
Meaning to do, and not doing, is Just the same as
determining not to do and saying SO, only it is not
quite SO honest.
true history Of the needle would be tale of mani
fold horrors of signs, groans, tears, emaciation,
broken hearts and premature deaths.
A boy at . recent examination in an English school
was asked who discovered America? "I wish may
die" says British editor, off he didn't answer
Yankee Doodle!"
Can new watch with second hand be called a
secondhand watch
There is place in which one may always find hap
piness-in the dictionary.
What is the shape of kiss? Ground suppose"
Not exacly it is a-lp-ticle"
Infidety kndles no holy enthusiasm, and the
elories of the world are tame and common place in
the Of such scenes Of moral grandeur as the
annals Of martyrdom exhibit
Young men who believe in Christianity and are con.
sequently influenced by its principles Of morality are
kept from many evils, vices, and SORROWS into which
the careless and the immoral fall
"Lola Montes" said Bemus !" is pure innocence
eyes," replied May Lee, " she is pure in-nosense'
little wretch who had for the first time in his life
heard the scripture story Of Elijah and the bears, sat
down on the door step until an old man went by,
when he called out Of course, go up old bald head ~
Then lodging as quickly he could within the door
he called out, I" Now bring on your bears!"
If man should set out calling everything by its
right name he would be knocked down before he got
| to the corner of the street.
| When DR.. H. and lawyer A. were walking arm in
arm, wag said to a friend:
"These two are just equal to one highwayman."
"Why?' was the response .n,
Because rejoned the wag, at is lawyer and a
doctor-yo,tr money or your life"
An, Albany editor thinks his property in that city
would have been carried away by the late flood had
| it not been for the heavy mortgages on it.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-07-04

Be PoLwE.-It is said that George McDuffie was
very polite even when little boy. One evening he
was holding little calf by its ears while his mother
Goo u y e sen M
/" Good evening, SIR with such polite bow, that
the gentleman noticed him and said, Why didn't
you pull off your hat, my little man2' George an
swered,. " If you will get down and hold my calf for
me, will pull of my hat to you.' Georges polite
ness and shrewd remark were the making of him.
That gentleman said to his mother, :" Your son is a
smart boy and if properly trained, will make great
man some day. Ii you will permit me, will give
George good education, and give him start in the
world The mother thanked the gentleman for his
kindness and let him take charge Of her son.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-07-04

. Y..- 2. N.-THE DENOUEMENT.
' Has he come yet, Bobo ?" asked the beautiful
quadroon, nov reclining on q Turkish divan, in a
chamber garnished with the most fabulous magnif.
cence, lit up with soft prismatc light, and sweet
ened with the fumes of burning frankincense.
1" No, missus Y! said Bobo. i
Yes, Eulale, he has GOMEZ" said tender but
manly voice and the fairhaired youth who slew the
Don issued from the silken drapery and threw him
self at her feet.
"Nay, start not, Eulalie hear me ~ and the youth
looked so harmless and implorng, that Eulalie per-
mitted him to remain.
'Know, Eulalie, that I have been searching after
thee for years When infant, was left with the
Cherokee Indians by my father, of whom l knew
nothing, and whomI never afterwards but three
years ago received letter from him, charging me,
in the event of his not writing to again. to search
for his other child-a sister whom / had never seen,
who was stolen away from him in her infancy. Six
months since, upon information given in my fathers
letter. got track of my sster-learned that she was
quadroon-and finally heard that she was to be sold
at auction by her bankrupt possesser On the wings
of the wind flew to the CITY, but the sale had taken
place, and despaired of finding her. But tonight,
by the favor of heaven he continued, rising in his
enthusiasm, ~ met the owner of my sister in gam
ing saloon where despoed of all his wealth, he put
her up for his last stake Iinterfered-I slew him
killed him very dead-and here I am! Eulae, thou
art my long-lost sister, and thy brother' 4
Need we dwell upon the rapture of reunion like
this? Long and sweet was the communion Of the
brother and sister But at length Eualie spoke.
Since thou art my brother, she said, az tell me Of
my father, whom never saw nor heard OF. Does he
still liver"
Alas Eualie, 1 know not. l only know that he
was wealthy-that he was the last of the Barons of
Tuckipaw, and went by the name OF Don Antonio
Alphonsus de la Ding Dong"
sOh, merciful heavens !" screamed Eualie and
she tainted Her brother, startled beyond measure,
soon revived her, with appliances that were at hand
and the assistance of Bobo.
Now tell me- sister" he said " why this alarm !?
What means this strange agitation?'
"Oh,n she sobbed, " wretched children that we
are Oh, brother, my master was my father, and
knew it not-nor did he! And you, unhappy boy,
have killed our father! Oh, heavens, what will be-
come of us !"
The youth unused awhile. ' Well, welln' he at
length said d" I understand his bravery now. No
man but my father could have met death as he did.
Peace to his ashes! 1t was Fate that killed him
not r." ~ ...
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-07-04

PosTHuMous PRACTICAL JoKE.-Old Mr.. Scrudge
dies and after his amented decease will is found in
his strong box, bequeathing to Emily Woodbine the
belle of the village beloved by Harry Honeysucke,
and loving him in return, annuity of ten thousand
year during her life, so long as She shall remain
single and unmarried the whole legacy, principal
and interest in the event of her marriage go to the
Asylum for Idiots. [Punch.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-07-04

CURE FOR FELoN.-To remove felon from the
body polite the most approved remedy is to amply
sufficient hgature around the neck OF the felon after
placing it on platform of convenient elevation At
tach the other end of the cord to stout limb or ost
overhead, and then remove the platform.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-07-04
4 wife who was once Pickpocke

! wife who was once a Pickpocket.
81 20
Oh, when snatched the tender kiss,
Or some such tribe, when courted,
You said, indeed, that lone scds bliss,
But never owned you were transported!
] Or. when my suit I first preferred, @
10 bring your GOODNESS to repentance
Before ! stammered outa toora,
ss How could dream you'd heard sentence
Or, when, with All the warmth Of youth,
stroye TO prove my love no fiction,
1 How could \ guess urged truth
On one already past coauiction [HooD.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-07-04

Next day the young man babe his beautiful sister
an atfectionate adeu, and left for California. The
day after that, the Don's property was seized and
contiscated to his debts and Eulae, having posses
sed herself of all evidences of her slavery, destroyed
Them and left the house free, but penniless In due
time she got her grief at :he death OF her father
and the loss of her brother; and now, any pleasant
summer evening, she may be seen selling flowers
along Canal and ST. Charles Avenues.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-07-04

Thy will be done! the Christian soldier cries
I'd peace or war 10 God my spirit flies;
And at his throne, from earthly passions free,
Chains the best palm Of immortality
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-07-04
CITY BANK.

CITY HANK UF NEW ORLEANS : TO BE
established in the City of New Orleans under An Act to
establish general system of Free Banking In the State OF Lou
isiana approved the thirtieth day Of April, 1853
The subscribers with such other persons Is may
hereafter ION themto associate themselves together for the
purpose Of carryiny on and conducting in this City and
the business Of Free Banking and all other business
connected herewith.
The capital stock to be Of Dollars. 70 DC d i
Into shares of One Hundred DOLLARS ehcn. Win ths
Increasing said capital any that be determined
BY the Shareholders in accordance with law.
And purpose they have covenanted anu agreed
and do by these presents upon the Follow
ing clauses conditions, and spuaons by which the said
Association shall be governed
ARTICLE i.
sncrroxl The assumed to distinguish The said Asso
SECT q The operations of discount and deposit OF the Asso
citation are be carried In the City of New Orleans
SECT. 3. The amount of its capital stock shall be .
of Dollars divided into shares Of One Hundred
Dollars each and to be should be found
advisable and shall be payable follows
s;vp ,aKnrn III Nntary
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-07-04
THE sT0Ic,

I'd die in some sequestered dell,
Where no intruder stood to tell
The anguish Of the parting strife,
Or mark the cry of vanquished life.
The lip Of woman should not press
Ny chilly brow with fond caress;
Her gentle beauty hov'ring near
Might rob my manhood 0f . tear.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-07-04
CRESCENT CITY BANK.
oRESCENT GUY BANK.-THEI

IRESCENT CITY BANK.-THE su Bsohibhhs
~ to the Of the Crescent City Bank are Respectfully w
formed articles of association copy oil when is pun
ed below are ready for signatures between the hours oil III
O'Clock A. NJ o'clock r. NJ daily, at the notare once OF
Messrs Cnver Peters, No 10 Camp street. over the Bank
Of james Robb. .
That delay be had In the organization OF the hk
is that the subscribers nhoud afx their signatures
rIyi ny
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-07-04

[ ErERNrTy. Eternity has no gray hairs The flow
ers fade the heart wthers, man grows old and dies
the world lies down in the sepulchre Of ages but time
writes no wrinkles on eternity. Eternity Stupen
dous thought The everpresent, unborn, undecaying
and undyng the endless chain, COMPRISING the life
of God-the golden thread, entwining the destinies
Of the universe Earth has its beauties, but time
shrouds them for the grave its honors, they are but
the sunshine Of an hour its palaces they are but US
the gded sepnlchres its passions they are toys Of
changing fortune its pleasures, they are but as
bursting bubbles. Not 50 in the untried bourne. In
the dwelling Of the Almighty can come no footsteps
Of decay. Its day will know no darkening eternaI
spendors forbid the approach Of night It'll fountains
will never are fresh from the eternal throne
Its glory will never waste for there is the ever present
God lts harmones will never cease; exhaustess love
supplies the song. -.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-07-04

/" Sambo, whar you get dat watch you wear to
tneetin' last Sunday 7" :. How do you know had
watch r cease seed de chain hang out in 'front.'
go way! Suppose youseea halter round my neck,
you tink dars horse inside Of me n