Rev. CHARLES ELLIOTT,
Editor of the Western Christian Advocate.

Rev. L.L.  HAMLINE,
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

D.K.  ESTE,
Judge of the Superior Court, Cin.  Ham.  Co.

Rev. JAMES P. KILBRETH.

SAMUEL WILLIAMS.

JOHN McLEAN,
Judge of the United States Court.

Rev. W.H.  RAPER.

THOMAS J. BIGGS,
President of the Cincinnati College.

SAMUEL W. LYND, D.D.
Pastor of the Ninth Street Baptist Church.

Hon. JACOB BURNET.

Rev. JOHN F. WRIGHT.

H.E.  SPENCER,
Mayor of Cincinnati.

LOTTERIES.

This is as deceptive, and as base a business, as was ever introduced into any country.  The apparent respectability of it, and of the men who carry it on, is calculated to remove the scruples many might otherwise have to patronizing it.  The facility with which it can be patronized, without the liability of exposure, and the promises of sudden gain so artfully held out, are inducements not easily resisted by a money-loving people, totally ignorant of the odds against them in the game they play.

All other games generally require the personal attention of the players who patronize them; but this is a game at which any one can play, and need never be seen, even by those against whom he may be playing.  Thousands of persons, who stand high in the estimation of their neighbors for good conduct; men who would not, on any account, be found at a gambling-table, will patronize lotteries.  The ease with which it can be done, without exposure, enables them to gratify, to the full extent of their means, their passion for this base species of swindling.  In many of our large cities, numerous well-dressed young men are constantly engaged in vending tickets through the streets, or from house to house, and they can be bought as privately as the buyer may wish, or he may send his servant for them.  Thus it is that a man may gamble as extensively as he pleases in lotteries, without his proceedings being at all likely to become public.

In my description of lotteries, I shall confine myself to the lottery scheme before us; because it will serve as an example of all others, and because the reader will be better able to comprehend explanations of this system than if I were to write of some scheme not here inserted.

By a reference to the tables of tickets, it will be seen that there are fifteen packages of whole tickets, as many of halves, and thirty packages of quarter tickets.  Each package contains all the numbers, from one up to seventy-eight, without a repetition of any one of them.  The tickets found in these tables are all that are intended for any one drawing; and every successive drawing is but another edition of the same tickets, all arranged in the same order, and with the same combination numbers; but they have a different class number on them.  The proprietors of a lottery furnish the printer with a copy of these tables, arranged in a blank book, and this book is called the scheme-book, from which as many as may be ordered from time to time are printed.