The Oxford intelligencer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1860-18??, 1860-09-05
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and about Oxford or course, it is expected
that some of those to whom it has been sent
will be verdant enough to Gall into the trap
that is set for them, and forward the $40 90
that is SO " confdentially" solicited. OF
copps sho, each QftAoss persons~iIl snake
his calculations for a handsome prize" but
whether those calculations viii ever be real
lied is very different question. If any Of
our readers have money to throw away, we
confess that we do not know how they can
more effectuaIly dispose Of it to that end than
by responding to the invitation here held out.
| WmMXGros, DEL,
h' Aug. IL, 1860. II
DEAR SIR believing that if handsome
prize was drawn by some one inyour part Of
the State who would show the money, and
make it known to his friends and neighbors,
our business and reputation as Prize-sellers
would be greatly benefited thereby, and
having accidentally met with your name, we
propose to send you the Prize. The arrange
ment, you will Of course understand, is in
tended as an advertisement Of our firm, and
unless you show the money and let it be
known that Egerton & Co. sold you the prize
we shall receive no benefit We make this
offer confidentially, and want you to keep it
strictly private until we send you the money.
We will send you printed certificate, issued
by the Managers, ola full Package of Six
teenths of Tickets in the Grand Havana Plan
Lottery, Class No. II, to be drawn on the
9th day of September, by authority of the
State of Delaware; and if il does not draw,
at the very least, $4,000, we will give you
another Package in one of our Extra Lotter-
les for nothing. AS our usual habit Is to
remit Prize money, by a draft on some good
Bank, you will please give us the name of
your nearest Bank. Use the enclosed en-
velope in ordering the Certificate, and send
$40 in your letter. to pay the Managers for
IT, when we will forward it by return mail.
You may make your calculations for hand
some prize on the goth of September, with
out fail. We.ha adopted this plan to ex-
tend our business, and find that it fully ans
wers our expectations.
We sent in this way, on the goth of July, a
splendid prize of $4,000 to grain merchant
in 0swego county, New York.
Please send for the Certificate without de-
lay. Very sincerely yours, 81. tt
EoERroS & Co.
To the foregoing letter, the following re-
ply, in substance has been made.
MEssRs EoERroN d Co., ti ' /
GESrLEMES IL have just received your
esteemed favor of the 18th Of last month.
cannot account for the delay in its transmits
sion, except upon the supposition that some
rascalIy Postmaster detained il, hoping to
obtain for himself the snug little fortune
which you have so bencvolcntly offered to
me- f '
Some of my neighbors have received copies
of the same letter which You have addressed
to me. We have had consultation on the
subject, and our conclusion is, that We ought
not to take advantage Of your generous offer,
without so modifying our acceptance as to
protect you against some of the risks to
which you have exposed yourselves. We
think it very clear, from the face Of your let
ter, that you intended not only to give each
of us $4,000 at least, by way Of advertising
your business, but to afford to US, indiyidu-
ally, chance to draw much larger prize.
Considering the very slight character of our
claims upon your kindness, we are unwilling
to avail ourselves Of your incautious liberality
to its full extent. We don't like to send you
$40 by mail. 1t might get lost You can
Just deduct the amount, with the usual com
missions, from the $4,000 you have set apart
for each Of us, and remit the residue in a
draft on any of the New Orleans Banks that
are in good credit. If it would be the same
to Won, however, we would prefer not to have
drafts upon the "Faro Bank" of that city. A
gentleman Of this place, some years ago, is
said to have deposited considerable sum in
that Bank, and we have never heard, to this
day, of his getting the money out of the
Bank. .t III I.i s
We think the arrangement We propose
should meet your appreciation. 1t will expo
dite matters considerably, since you can send
us the money at once, without waiting for
the drawing to take place on the goth inst.
The hazard, also, of renting our money to
you by mail, as well as the trouble Of a pro
tracted correspondence, will be wholly obyi-
atsd; and it need scarcely be suggested to
gentlemen of your sagacity in business that
$4,000, less so and the usual drawback, will
be the highest price, which, in any case, you
viii have to pay for the stuPendous service
we shall sevcraIly render to you in the way Of
advertising your business; whereas, under
the magnificent offer which you have so IN
thIakingly made to US, it IS exceedingly prob
able that each Of your advertisements would
have cost You $4,000, or even more.
Please send the money along without de-
Law. IL you can't get drafts, bring the gold,
.h~.l1 liz 40 sno vou and ]