The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-28

The peighborhood Of st. Charles end Union
streets was lively one yesterday morning, and Il
or Indifferent observer that some event OF more
than ordinary interest was traDspring In that i'm
mediate vicinity. What could it be, Not at Nos.
SO or Sc were the attractions evidently for people
coming up street passed these, and, ss dld people
street, some looking up, down, around them. in an
inquiring way some stepping out like knowing old
birds, and all sooner or later disappearing 10 the
side doorway Of the three.story granite building
which the Bank Of New Orleans once occupied.
Where could they be going, oil these people
Well! there's nothing like going and finding out,
you know. There don't seem to be any admission
fee charged at the door, for, II there were, some OF
those chaps We have seen entering wouldn,t have
been 30 lively about iinging up their heels behind
them. So we enter and pass up the two fights OF
stairs with the crowd, meeting good many com.
ing down. There is world OF human nature
readable in their faces. What the deuce can II be
that makes some OF them jolly as coons, some blue
as indigoi Whatever the cause We shall soon
know, for we enter door at the third landing,
pass thence along hall to second door, see
large room. filed with people. and pshav-why:
don't you know! how could you have forgotten!
that the first drawing Of the Louisans Lottery was
announced to begin to-day at ten O'Clock A. M.
That's fact, and very few have been oblivious
Of IL. What O crowd there is. The half OF the
room nearest the platform Is packed full ofpeople
The platform itself is worth looking at; looking
" tntoS RcVPs~
at it az the possible source Of future lifelong
liberation from all the woes and cares that vex
impecunious humanity. Look ct this darky here.
He holds IN his hand an eighth, and as each number
and prize are drawn, he screws his neck to TINS
and that side to get glance at the lucky figures.
Would you know what he sees Why. no more
duns from the grocery man at the corner; no more
slim repasts Of corn meal and molssses; bran
new cabin ont near the swamp, tne mas seiec.ea ea
chickens instead OF other peoples. Lor Dress
him, what wouldn't he give to see dat ere number
come out dat wheel
Close by stands q man with blank book and
pencil very much annoyed % the loud converse
zion about him. and endeavoring though with some
difficulty TO take down the numbers and prizes es
drawn. It's a tiresome job, be has undertaken,
and a good many others are doing the same, for
the six hundred prizes won't be all out until about
three O'Clock, they say. For my part, I'd rather
wait and see them in print. Hope deferred is
mighty good, provided only the joy cometh. IL,
on the other hand, 1t don't come, why the longer
you put of the disastrous news, the better.
Now here is another MAXWELL, young man,
we may say. he Is nicely dressed, but be has run
himself into debt. and sees In that wheel yonder
tmilipg creditors apologizinR for having troubled
him so often. he bought half ticket yesterday
and NAV become the fortieth part Of q millionaire
thereby. So IL is not difficult to say why he looks
| at the man at the wheel.
This dark complexioned man, who leans on the
railing on his elbows, with his hands against his
| cheeks, only appears to be dreaming, but Is 10
reality watching the numbers closely and compar'
ing them with one little row of i've figures indei
bly, stamped upon his memory, as having been
| printed on certain piece of white and red paper
which he paid three dollars for yesterday and has
slowed away at home 10 safe corner. II thai
row Of Eve figures fails TO find its counterpart
| upon some Of these little slips held up to view
| you viii see that dark complexioned man winding
up the night In barroom, or possibly In the lock
Up. lit does not 90 fail you will see him with {
bran new skin next week. singing cheerily, and
vowmg 20 inssss ~ !. nos o.e qus;ae' oo' '"eh''
The foreign element appears to predomnste II
the crowd but it IL dif6cut 10 say 70 what extent
so closely intermingled are they all. Better lool
st the platform. Have you ever seen In the Illus
trated papers pictures Of the Wilmington or Louis
vile drawings, If you have. you have seen
fac smile of what that expectant crowd saw yes
terdsy. A railing extends across the hall. and uT
sEairst II press The people, one sovereign evsl