The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-03-13

Profit to the manager of the lottery. ... 81, o25
These are the figures, nearly can be estimated.
What splendid results They beat out the gains of the
What pital winnings Seventy thousand and odd
dollars made in few months and the per contra-what
ofs Why, nothing except some few people who could
perhaps of them would never think OF devotng to
charitable purpose. We have no compassion for them
They avarcious and deserved to be cheated But
the tens of thousands Of Woodworking mechanics and
poor sewing girls in the large cities and
towns, who could i'll afford the loss of dollar but who
were still less able to resist the splendid alurement Of
the lottery should have been from the magn
cent gambling operation, where all the winning was
the one side. We believe that Mr.. Perham has made
overtures in banter earnest for the purchase of
the Crystal Palace He can well afford now to buy IT up,
and relieve the managers of duty which they so miser
ably msmanaged. Wire la humbug!
Correspondence Of the Buffalo Advertserl
WASHINGTON Feb. Is, 1854.
The Pacific Railroad surveys do not amount to much
have read III ALL They show that on the three routes
whipple the country presents no insurmounable OBJ
stacle the construction of road to the western
base Of the Rocky Mountains Stevens route lay between
tude; Lieut. Whpples along the Miry fifth, and Capt.
Gunnisons between the thirtyeghth and thirty ninth
parallels. Gov. Stevens undoubtedly has found very
voable pass through the mountains, in latitude forty
.tr,n and half called Cadottes pass He reports that
lie dc resscn is lower by three thousand feet than
Tie famous south pass said to have been discovered by
C,i Fremont in 1872 By making tunnel OF one mile
;hroreh that pass the grade eithor side will be re-
ftn II The route between the mountains and the
Sow Stevens report not explicit and TO me 1t appears
rnfaycrstle.
Neither ~ the other surveys extended any further than
the mountains. The reports to them say that rail
,sd made without any greater difficulty than has
zen eastern roads. But they say no
thing about the wcscrn half Of these routes and that
pans to be explored. This question Is OF no practical
importance this year because the subject OF building
railroads to the Pacific will not be touched by either
House at this session The Senate select committee take
little interest in the matter that less than half the
committee attended the appointed meeting last Mon
dav and II postponed until Thursday, when probably
the result viii be the same
Modification OF the Tariff.
Amongst the documents sent to the House Of Repre-
sentates by the Secretary Of the Treasury under
solution Of that body relatye TO the modification of du
tics is the following able and interesting explanation Of
the effect of the tariff proposed by the Secretary,
pared with the existing tariff s-I -
Port Of Boston, Feb 20, 1854. !
SRI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt Of
your letter of the 18th inst enclosing copy of the bill
Of the proposed tariff requesting my views in detail to
any advantages it possesses over the existing tarn
In reply, would respectfully state that 1t possesses
very many advantages the existing tard and
among these the following are suggested to my mind.
Having but rate of duty all descriptions OF goods
liable TO duty with the exception OF liquors. 1t greatly
smp6ce and lessons the duties of very many clerks
ployed in the custom-houses. Take, for instance,
single clerk the mpost clerk who calculates the lutie
instead OF footing up four hye sx seven or eight CO.
calculating the Duties he would have under the proposed
BILL general thing, but one column TO foot up and
but calculation to make, saving as much labor and
time proportion there were different rates OF duty
This principle will apply TO all the clerks engaged In max
ing up the various abstracts Tor the OF the depart
ment at Washington II would aso greatly facilitate the
importer in the making of entry in passage through
tie various offices in the custom house and In gaining
possession OF HIS goods
by the existing tariff three rates OF duty are levied