The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-05-17

its integrity.
 HOW HE DRAWINGS ARE CONDUCTED.
 ! the drawings of the Louisiana Com psnv are under the personal supervision 8f t.eBs. =. |. Be .uregard and Iubal A. Eariy. as-is;ed Dy a State Commission. he managers have no interest in the 1 er.s.eirs. a"- nave they anything what ese. - stn ssfn it. Everything is in the a a4a> at .b= commissioners, and they A.e.ie la4ntge ;he distribution.
 ne method Is very simple. There are e4 h month foo 900 uckets sold. ! Numbers rom one to 100 900 are packed In paper tubes and pitced In 4 wheel.
 The prx-, in this scheme numbered i.967, ranging iu value from 575.ooo, wei.l is iae sfeat prize, down 10 s2S, the sri hest.
 4,ae puz-s ranging from s25 to S75 900 are ptin-ed upon slps Of paper and de- pe isssi |. another wheel, securely packed in p.per tu pes, as are the numbers of the tickets. Al the tubes are exactly alike in both wheels, and these wheel, are so turned ;htt they are mixed beyond any posslpit.sy of knowledge on the part of anyaeaS.
 \ nlmoer Is drawn ou, of the whe eel con.dfntag the loo 900 numbers and an. other oat of the wheel containing the prizeS. Bo.h are opened and the holder of the number Is awarded the prize ndI- cated on nc slip taken from the large wheel.
 In the dflwlng 1 witnessed, the iirs, number dEa~n from the wheel was 7i ,II. and the prke mat came from the other MAS s25 Who was the holder. No one knew. l. was somebody. lie might be 4 baroer h New Orleans. a f.rmet Tn Minnesota or millionaire m New York All thssc classes are patrons of the eem- pany. The management know no .aate who ho!is the tickets that draw me Is 4z-s than do the bystandefs all there ls II <. when the ticket IS presented the holder reeelves | cteck on the New Orieans Nttlonzzi E .uk for the amour; < e.ttis i3r, and the Transaction Is over. se fr as the company is eoncerned.
 The drawing ,tat l witnessed took place ai the .eademy of MusIe, March II. The theatre commenced hlilng up n abou. To clock, with people oi ail grades, from the wealthy merchant who has vine as .lis dinner 10 the boot .5laek whose days are skirmishes with hunger 1 hey aii had aa interest m the proceed ings. At about To: ;o dozen men ap- pedred upon the stage, two evidently Tn charge. One oi these two, rather un- detslkcd man with sparkling black eye. legs slightly eiryed, q not large, but ex- eeediagly well proporiioned body. l face expressive of peculiarly quick intelligence. hair. meGs;aei.e and imperial slvery white Ina, IS Gen. C.. I Bcaureaafd. of whom ;he United States knows much. He once ssore 10 water his horse in the Tennessee River, or, if not, Tn some other place n one particular night. He didn 1 water his horse in the Tennessee River that ume owing to circumstances over which he certainly had TO control. But he tised.
 The other of the two is very tall man, with head as bald as an egg on top. and q long white beard tha, sweeps hls bosom, slightly stopped, with a slcuched hat. under which there is q face that j would mark lis bearer IS a Baptist cler- gyman rather than sangunary warrior i II IS kindly face, with nothing especi- ally ehivaltic or bloodthirsly in it, the face ot rather prosperous planter, who attended strictly 10 business and worked his land well. This Is Gen. Iubal 4. 1 Early, oi Virginia, who had the honor of having a difference of opinion with Gen. Phil. Sheridan. in which Sheridan reaped plentiful crop of honors and Early did not, except as l. Is no dlshonor for any man ,o be beaten by Sheridan.
 These men were in the public gaze 70 years ago they are not now They are to-day the commissioners who supervise the drawing of The Louisiana State Lot tery. and they are responsible for every thing connected with t.
 There are two wheels on the stage Into one. an immense affair. are emptled tubes ot pas;eboard. which contain slips of paper. on which are numbers running from one to one hundred thousand. The other wheel, much smaller. contains tubes to the number of .9o7 which IS the number ofprizes to be awarded. There Is tre- mendous difference between the wheel containing the prizes and the wheel hold l ing the numbers. The one requires the i muscle ot two stalwari negroes to turn Il. i while the other d child migh, whirl One represents the blanks in lie, the other the i prires. The proportion runs abou; the l same m everything, in this imperfec, | ~oiio. II taxes great many thousand i men to build railroad, but only one i Vanderbilt 10 own IL.
 The numbers are placed in the wheel. | they are turned so as to be thoroughly ! mixed. One boy blindfolded. at the great wheel takes out tube and hands IL to | Gen. Early, who opens i, and announces n" Two thousand one hund.ed and sixty four.' \ boy, also blindfolded, at the other wheel takes out tube and hands II to ten. Beauregard, who opening I, announces Fifty dollars" The number of the ticket and the prize it has drawn are both recorded. and the operation is repeated till the oo7 tickets are taken from the smaller wheel.
 Those present sit and watch carefully. There Is no sensation while the smaller Piizes are being drawn. As matter of course. there will be five or ten minutes during which the prizes will be Sass and Sso $, with an occasional SIaa These