Mr. Green then requested Mr. Gillet to mark the numbers from 1 to 42, so that there should be no doubt resting upon the mind of any one that they were the same numbers which should afterwards be drawn out.  The tickets were marked, and Mr. Thaw deposited them singly in tin tubes, from 1 to 42.  Mr. Thaw then revolved the wheel, mixing them thoroughly; he then drew one at a time, until he drew 8, being the correct drawn ballots.  Mr. Green then asked the audience if they had any prizes.  Receiving a negative answer, he stated that he could draw one half of the numbers from the wheel and still they should have none, though they had some 400 tickets against his 42.  The commissioner continued drawing, the prizes still falling in the manager’s package, and the numbers from 1 to 29 were taken out of the 42 before the audience received a full compliment of 3 numbers on a ticket.  The drawing appeared fair; the numbers placed in the wheel were those taken out.  The wheel is one Mr. G. purchased from a lottery vender in Washington city.  Mr. G.’s explanation of his power to prevent prizes being drawn without his consent appeared very satisfactory.  He declared that the managers had it in their power to assort out certain numbers, and by the villany of those concerned in the distribution, were enabled to keep any numbers from the hands of the drawer.

I must own that this exposition of Green’s has taken me altogether by surprise.  I did think that the deluded thousands who live on, day after day, in the vain hope of a prize, instead of depending solely upon their industry, skill, and talents, had some remote chance of getting a good drawn number.  But, it seems that this is all a delusion, and that lotteries can be “stocked” as well as a pack of cards.