From the St. Laurence Gazette.
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4 Hoa1-"S2O.OOO No Mistake."-A substantial joke was played off last week, upon certain landlord in Prescott, which rather outstrips the lottery adventures of our countryman Joe Strickland. The story has been related to us as fellows.

 Mine host had purchased at the lottery of

 flee in this village, in the Virginia State or Dismal Swamp Canal Lottery It was agreed with neighbor of his, who had al- so purchased a ticket in the same lottery, that if the ticket of either sohuld chance to draw the highest prize, the one receiving the first information of the fact should ap- prize the other, whose house was then to be illuminated and splendid entertain ment given. Some wag in, the village, 1 who understood the arrangement and who also knew the combination number of the ticket of mine host, on the evening the re- suit of the drawing was known here, pre- paired memorandum of the numbers, making the three first correspond with those Isof the tickets aforesaid, and had it convey l ed across the river that night to the fortu- 1 nate holder thereof He received this brief notice of Fortunes favor at rather a late hour, but notwithstanding, he could not forego the pleasure offingering the cust, which he verify supposed was in readiness for him. Without waiting to go through the formalities of the previous en- gagumcnt, he repaired forthwith to ferry boat which was chartered at price cor responding with the object of his mission and came immediately over with the vou- cher of his airy prize. Finding it had be- come too late to count out 30 large sum that night, he determined by way of a. musement, to fulfil the latter clause of the contract with his neighbor, ,who,b by the bye, had been entirely forgotten, at thefrstpublic house he should meet, with such assistance as might come to hand. Accordinglyone of our public houses was thrown open, and the company present, (which was not