, 1886-09-15
eaeh month lOo.oOo tickets sold. Nnm.

The prizes IN tins scheme numbered
1867, ranging in value from 1000,
which is the great prize, down to SOP
which is the smallest.
The prizes ranging from $25 to $50, 600
are printed upon slips Of paper and de
posted IN another wheel, securely packed
in paper tubes as are the numbers vi the
tickets. All b tubes are exactly alike
in both wheels, and these wheels are 80
turned that they are mixed beyond any
possibility of knowledge on the part Of
anybody.
A number is drawn out Of the wheel
containing 100000 numbers, and another
out Of the wheel containing the prizes.
Both are opened, and the holder OF the
number Is awarded the prize indicated on
the slip taken from the large wheel.
In the drawing | witnessed, the first
number drawn from the wheel was 7l.5ll.
and the prize that came rrum the other
was S25 Who was the holder? No one
knew. 1t was somebody. lie might be
a barber in New Orleans, Ii farmer in
Minnesota. or a millionaire in New York.
All these classes are patrons of the COM
pany The management know no more
who holds the tick cts that draws the prizes
than do the b~ystInders; all that there is of
II, when the ticket is presented. the hold
er receives q chick ON the New Orleans
National bank for the amount it calls for,
and the transaction is over, so far as the
company is concerned.
The drawing that ] witnessed took place
at the Academy OF Music, March II. The
theater commenced filling up at about ~
o'clock with people Of all grades, from
rho "a a.lfIv t..r..h.tf mhn ha- hta ,rt,.o
with his dinner, to the buUtblack whose
days are skirmishcs with hunger. They
all had all interest in the proceedings. At
about 1880 a dozen men appeared upon
the stage, two evidently in charge. One
Of these two, a rather understood man,
with a sparkling black eye. legs slightly
curved, II bor Large but exceedingly well
pruporlloned body, Il face expressive Of
intelligence, hair, moustache and im perial
sll,ery White. That is Gen, Il. T.
Beauregard, OF whom the United States
knows 80 much.
The Utler of the two is a very tall man,
with II head As bald us an egg on the top.
and u long white beard that sweeps his
bosom, slightly stopped. with a white
slUuched hat, uuder which there is a face
that would mark its bearer as a Baptist
clergyman rather than ~ 4 %sanguinary
warrior. |, * !. kindly face, with nothing
blOodthirsty in II; the lace of a rather
prosperous planter who attended strictly
10 business, and worked his land we'll.
That is ten. Jubal a. early, Of Virginia.
These men were in the public gaze
twenty yeers ago-they are not now.
They are to day the commissioners who
supervise the drawings Of the Louisiana
Lottery, aud they are responsible for
everything connected with it.
There are two wheels on the stage.
Into one, an Immense affair, are einptied
tubes vi p~asteboard, which contains slips
of paper, on which are numbers running
IRON one to one hundred thousand. The
other wheel, much smaller, contains tubes
to the number of .96T, which is the mum
Der Of prizes to be awarded. There Is a
tremendous difference between the wheel
containing she price aui the wheel hold
ing the numbers. The one requires the
muscle OF two ~stalwart negroes to turn it.
while the other Il child might whirl. One
represents the blanks i'll life, the other the
prizes. The proportion run about the
same in every thing, in this imperfect
world. 1t takes a great many Thousand
men to build a railroad, but only one
Vanderbilt to own il.
The numbers are placed in the wheel.
they are turned so AS to be thoroughly
mixed. One boy, blindtoldcd, at tn,
preat wheel takes ont a tube and hands ii
TO Gen. Early, who opeus it and an
nounces il, Two Thousand one hundred
and sixty four" A boy, also blindfoldcd
at the other wheel takes out a tube and
hands it 10 Gen. Beauregard, whO open
ing it announces Fifty dollars The
number of the ticket and the prize it has
drawn are both recorded, aud the opera
ton is repeated till the 1867 tickets are
taken from the smaller wheel
Those present sit and watch carefully.
There is no sensation while the smaller
prizes are being drawn. At u matter of
course there will be five or ten minutes
during which the prizes will be Sos and
S5Os, with an occasional 500. These
excite no special attention. But there
comes one which does excite attention.
Gen. Early p%ronounces a number, and
Gen. Beauregard, when the correspondent
number is drawn, hesitates for Il moment
and slowly Six thousand dol
lais.' There is a perceptible movement
among the audience. Tor $4,000 is a very
tidy sum of money Tor anyone to have,
especially when the investment that pro
cured it was only 80.
Presently there ia another sensation.
A number is drawn, and Gen Beaure
gard is a trifie mOie slow. as If TO whet
the impaIience of the thrung. Twenty
FIVE thousand dollars is announced
That is something like 1t. Six thousand
dollars does very well as a starter in life,
but the lucky winner Of S25, 900 can, if
he be a man Of moderate tastes, retire on
that.
Still this is nothing, or at least it ism t
what they are all waiting for Presently
a number is announced, and Gen. Beau.
regard. with provoking slowness, an
nounces IS eventyfve Thousand
dollars There is Il sensation. for that
is the capital prize. The one that every
boiy who buys u ticket hopes To draw.
Only one gets it, howeser. It is Wander
bllt and his laborers over again.
In this scheme there is one prize o.
S7j.OOO, one of S25.u0O; one of $4,000,
two OF $4,000. five Of $1,000. ten Of
$1,000, twenty of $500, luO OF 500. and
81 on down to 900 of sd zach. with APP
Proclamation prizes OF $3.50, $500 and
$50.
Who bagged the great nrizr? Who
was he or she2 No one knows, One man
may hold the whole ticket and will re-
ceive the whole amount, or il may be iii
vided into dfths. and may be held by five
persons, in which event the comfortable
sun will be divided into five parts.
The successful numbers with the amount
they have drawn are published the next
day after the drawing, and within Il week
or two the prizes are mostly claimed and
paid. In this cast the capital prize went
TO someone in Illinois, who sent for il
thrnnrh thn hunl IL liz r,n...n IL IL.