Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-04-04


A gentleman of uaighbOring town, who re-
ceived the circular which we print below, sends
tito us saying that " its publication in your
paper with proper comments may serve 10 put
the Ignorant and unwary on their guard against
the wicked devices Of class of common swnd-
lersland thus become public benefit This
is the circular
OFFICE OF I. SEYMOUR x Co., !
u. S. LICENSED LOTTERY AGENTS, }
NEW YORK, Feb. 22d, 1865.
DEAR SIR AS we write to you on a subject
that concerns your Tecuniary interest, we trust
our letter will require no apology. Knowing
full we'll that if a good prize were sent 10 some
person in your section Of the State, who would
shoW The moafy and make it generally known,
our business and reputation as prize sellers,
would be greatly benefited, we have taken the
liberty Of addressing you 10 tendv TO you a
prize IN the enclosed magnificent scheme We
do this however only upon condition that you
use your influence among yoIr acquaintance in
our favor, You will please understand that we
design this arrangement to act as an advertise
ment of cur firm and you will therefore be ex-
pected to exhibit the money and circulate the
report that you drew it at I, Seymour Co.'S.
lucky Office.
Should you t'rreiulinol against lotteries ard
have any Of9-t)a t1 receive Money IN this way,
you OF course wil not answer our purpose.
Here is our otfr We will send you Tor $40
a full Official certificate Of sIx.tenths ticket
(the one sketched) in the enclosed truly rich
and splendid scheme, Of the Royal Havana
or Cuba Plan Lottery to be drawn on the 3 LIST
March 1865, by authority OF the s. tie Of Ken
lucky, and we are SO certain bat we know how
TO select lucky certificate, that if the one we
select for you does NOT at the very least draw a
$4,000 prize, we will send you another package,
in one Of our ezra lotteries for nothing
All prizes drawn at our agency are promptly
paid at our Office No. 50 Nassau St. in New
York city. by draft or otherwise, as the rurcha.
scr may direct. Send US $40 by return mail and
give US the namo Of your neares. bank 50 that
there may be no delay iD forwarding you a
draft as soon as the drawing is over
Should you doubt either the legality of our
business or our acting under the authority of
U ). license, you are at liberty to address
either the managers Or make such other inquiry
as you deem Deeo 7ary.
10 facilitate the prompt execution OF our pro-
posal, use the enclosed envelope in making your
rcmittance,an write YOUR Post Office, County,
and State in a plain hand
The official drawing Of the above lottery will
be regularly published in the New York Herald
Yours Truly,
I, SEYMOUR Co.
IL hardly seems necessary to expose the rob-
berry which the persons who send out this cir
cular hope to pcrpetrate. Every lottery j, a
swindle, and although there may be different
de lress Of badn here is nothing honest about
any of them. They are nothing but gambling
concerns, and the managers use loaded dice at
that. The money invested IN them'never com
back. And yet while there are fools to Be
swlndled, there will probably be rogu who will
have succe as swindcrs. The particular form
which this swinde takes in the above circular
is only one phase Of the confidence game. -
The person who is so easily gulled, as to for
ward the ten dollars, will never receive as much
money back from g. I. Seymour d Co." lie
may get his package of tickets, and be may not,
bat the prize will never come to hand. As a
speculation one might as well invest in the bag
of gold that is tabled to exist at either end Of
Rainbow, for ne would rellz, a, soon for one
as the other. Then let IT. Seymour ( Co."
and all their confederate lotteries alone and save
money, AMI reputation and s'lfrespect.