*** If any body wants
TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS,
they are requested to call on
JOHN RUSSELL,
who will, for a trifling consideration, put them in a
way to realize that, or another sum of less
magnitude, in the course of September
next, when the rich Wheels of Hatfield
Bridge Lottery will begin
to move.

--> Tickets will rise on the first of September to
5.50--Prize Tickets exchanged. (1807)

In 1776 the Continental Congress endeavored to raise a large sum by
means of a lottery. On the first of November of that year the following
Resolve was passed,--"That a sum of money be raised by way of lottery,
to be drawn at Philadelphia." A committee was then empowered to manage
this lottery, and agents were appointed in the several States to sell
the tickets. From causes difficult now to explain, the drawing, which
was to have taken place in 1777, was postponed from time to time, until
finally, it is said, the whole scheme proved a failure. Many of the
adventurers being large losers, much bad feeling was produced towards
the Government. The design was to raise the money in the way of a loan.
There were four classes of tickets, a hundred thousand in each,--$10,
$20, $30, and $40; in all $10,000,000. In Lossing's "Field-Book of the
Revolution," from which we derive this account, may be seen a copy of
one of these lottery tickets. Probably the people were too poor at that
time to furnish the requisite sum of money, and so the tickets did not