The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-12-29
du ction Of the tariff and possibly war with
Mexico or Spain, or both, with England and
France to back them.


France to back them.
But these patent rights are individual pro.
perties. The most conspicuous among them are
" oodworth's planning machine, Goodyear's IN
dia rubber inventions. Colts revolvers. Hoes
printing machines, and Morse's telegraph Some
oftbese patents have already enriched their own
ers. but none have made them as rich rs they
desire TO be. Hence falling before the Patent
Office after the Commissioner concludes they
have had fair trial, these patentees must APP
ply to Congress for an act of relief IN the shape
Of a further extension for ten, fifteen, or twenty
years as the case may tie. And this is the mo-
dus operGndi John Jones desires an extern
sion of his patent for his improved submarine
air tight leather brooches. He is rich He, or
his chief lobby ageat is amply supplied with
money, gives royal entertainments to the mem
bers, loses some spare change among them at
whist parties, and proves himself altogether
such good excellent, clever fellow, that when
Jones is good fellow. Let him pass. And
Jones passes
Such is the mode, in addition to the usual
boring, of working the patent gold placers at
Washington: ard the same plan of operations
applies to all the rest upon larger or smaller
scale. Thus it is that while Gapitin and Gard
ner claims pass through, the small fry bona fde
claimants, whose bills yield no per centage in
any way, hang on, sometimes from year to ye II.
fuctuating between the two houses till the
claimant, a tax upon some poor widow, board
ing house keeper, OF upon the almshouse, ceases
to exist.
The railroad spoils operations, however, will
this session throw all others completely into the
shade. The success of the great Illinois and
Mobile Railroad last Congress, with its grants
of several millions Of acres, and various other
smaller jobs of the same sort, has laid the
groundwork for the absorption Of every availa-
BILE alternate section of the public domain
These are log-rolling jobs-"you vote for my
bill, and 1 vote for yours after the fashion Of
temptation is great, where the prospect is
directly or indirectly a dividend upon single
vote, Of forty, fifty, or hundred thousand dol
lars. These mines, therefore, exceed in rich
ness those very rich gulches in Australia where
the gold is picked up in nuggets Of fifty or a
hundred pounds weight, and half dozen such
nuggets in a hole.
The Pacific Railroad is the mater monstro-
run-the mother of all these railroad monsters.
w. II. Seward has opened the game on this
subject with bill too hide-bound to
travel. OWNS plan. or Benton's plan.
or Robert J. Walkers plan, or some
other plan covering large haul upon the pub
lie lands, and convenient advance Of twenty
five OF fifty millions in Treasury loan, is the
thing. Upon some such scheme as this the
Pacific road will be pushed forward by all the
means and appliances of gold mining on the
very largest scale. The small fry railroad
Spectators will be satisfied with the pubic
lands.
The steamship projects from San Francisco
to Japan, to Canton. to Australia, and to Val
paraiso; and from New York and other Atlantic
cities, to the West Indies, to Rio Janeiro. to Lii
IBERIA, &C.. are next in Importance to the rail-
road placers. The army, navy and civil list
fifty or sixty millions, are inevitable; but those
involve many items which enter
into the general business of Congressional gold
mining.
The whole grand schedule Of these mining
operations, with their tremendous aggregate Of
two hundred and eighty millions ofdollars, i'm
mediate or prospective, will constitute the
basis of all the legislation of Congress during
this session and the next We shall have de-
bates upon the slavery question, upon the
tariff, the land reform, the homestead bill,
the distribution of the land proceeds
upon the democratic party aud the
manifest destiny" Cuba, So
nora, Santa Anna, and what not; but every
thing else will be overwhelmed by the various
plans and combinations for the working of
these government gold mines.
The Presidents message and documents do
not furnish even skeleton outline Of the real
of Congress. Not a bit of it. The
real programme we have just laid down In
carrying it out, the rush to these rich diggings
by the spoilsmen will be unparalleled. Com
mittees of lobby members, claim agents, patent
agents, railroad agents, French spoliation
agents, including sharp lawyers, stock jobbcrs
:havers, and spoilsmen Of all descriptions, will
gather into Washington, filing the purleus Of
Congress, swarming in the hotels feasting and
being feasted, present everywhere, active every
where-active in the lobby, more active over
he champagne and oysters, bu. most active
With pliable member of Congress by the but
.on-hole, or Cabinet minister open to convic-
ion.
These movements for the spoils will also
give an unusual activity to fashionable
society in Washington; for balls and routes
and evening parties will attract there many
and some charming fortune-hunters
'cpefni of some Of the prizess Such will be
he general onslaught upon thdse Washington
yold diggings and their estimated riches for
his one session. if worked out, Of two hundred
md eighty millions Of dollars.