The first is a young man, the son of a well-known politician in this city, but who requests us to suppress his name. A few days since he received the following note:
'You are hereby notified that one of your tickets has drawn a prize valued at two hundred dollars. Five per cent. on this amount will be ten dollars. This amount of assessed per centage must, in all cases, be sent on receipt of this notice, with directions by what express you wish the prize sent. Yours, very respectfully, 'CLARK, WEBSTER & CO.'
The young man, 'green' as he must have been to invest a dollar in the swindling concern of the fictitious Clark, Webster & Co., was yet too sharp to send the ten dollars without an investigation, and accordingly went to a friend, a well-known banker of this city, and requested him to correspond with reliable parties in New York, and ascertain the responsibility of the parties, and, on doing so, Mr. Davis received the following reply:
'Office of Gwynne & Day, No. 7 New Street,
'New York, Nov. 12, 1867.
'Messrs.——& Co., Cincinnati, Ohio:
'Gentlemen: We have received your favor of the 9th, with enclosure as stated.
'In regard to the prize drawn by————, we went to Clark, Webster & Co., to see about it. The prize consists of two hundred shares in the Sand River Petroleum Company. We did not get it, as we do not know the market value of the stock (and probably never will). We enclose it to you, as we do not think it is worth ten dollars.
'Yours respectfully,
"'GWYNNE & DAY.'"
Another correspondent tells his story as follows:
CINCINNATI, November 15.