The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-03-13
WASHINGTON, March 5, 1854
Tie Peaham Lo,tesy-lts History Progress and Resals-
Tie Edr1l. the Fast H0rse DC. dc.

WASHINGTON, March 5, 1854.
Tie Pegham Loie7y-Ns History Progress and Resals-
The Farm, the Fast Horse de-, de-
For weeks past there has been considerable
amount of interest manifested in this capital in
ton with the distribution Of the prizes of the Perham
lotry The fact that the distributing committee
located at Georgetown made Washington, it were the
focus Of all the aspirations and exciting hopes which the
chances of twenty thousand dollar farm, fifteen hun
dred dollar horse, half of pianos half hundred
gold Watches hundred gold pens and thousand
pencil cases five thousand gold pens hundred four dol
lar hats to say nothing Of the ninety odd thousand
cravings and handbooks Of the panorama had created
throughout the length and breadth of the land The
distribution brought into existence, temporarily
set of claim agents quite distinct from the long estab
shed men Of that profession whose splendid business
lies around the departments and lobbes of Congress.
Specimens of this species of that parasitic came
from every city town and district in the Northern and
Eastern States. They had regular scale of charges,
dependant in great upon the population of the
place furnishing them, and somewhat its distance
from the national capitalize latter interest being
what on the mileage principle Of members Of Congress
Thus the Perham claim agents from New York exacted
fee Of only twelve and half cents per ticket on
each they received while from the smaller cities and
towns, and districts lying at greater distance
up to fifty cents per ticket These chaps have gener
ally managed far to make nice little profit out Of
the commission speculation besides the fun and good
living they enjoyed during their stay here. But, unfor
tunately fear for their future prospects in that line
the great prize which coveted above all the rest and
which some eighty hundred thousand people enter
tanned sly expectation of possessing has been carried
off by lucky little hnberdasher in New York. Mr..
May the fortunate winner of that prize should have kept
quiet for three four weeks longer and not have quick
y dashed the autterng hopes which hanging the
casting Of that die am that since the intelligence
went forth to the world the HERALD of Saturday, Mr.
Mays cars must have been kept in perpetual Jingle If
they were at all sensitive to the nnumerable cxclama
tons of nasty execrabe little wretch" which have
pronounced openly covertly by all the wives and
maidens possessing one or more chances in the lottery
prescntent that abe herself be the lucky pro.
rreress, in her right of the farm the banks Of
the relaware Fie upon thee Mr.. May, for SO rudcly
putting an end to the delicious suspense
This lottery has effected incalculable amount of
nischievous excitement throughout the land. II has
disseminated that feeling where il might never otherwise
have manifested itself 1t has been In its conception,
ncpiency, progress and successful issue, one OF the
most remarkable evasons IL not violations OF law, that
has been ever carried out publicly in great metropolis
and with the cogni7ance of the legal functionaries MT
and hired room in the Stuyvesan Institute, think,
for the exhibition Of panorama Qf the Mssissir1 The
people Of New York had been at that time sureited with
all sorts of panoramic and cosmoramic representations
Panoramas Of Palestine and the Holy Land, OF the
Thames, Of Mont Blanc, Of the Falls of Niagara and
every other locality Of interest in the Old World and In
the New had been spread before them night after night
for months before at the low charge Of twenty five cents
admssionchildren, half price But at this nser-
ably low charge the exhibition almost empty
there was no public taste for such amusements and ex
hibitors were reduced in most instances, to state APP
preaching Insolvency II in this epoch of disregard
for the fine arts that Mr. Perham hung up his canvass
and posted his flaming bills every dead wall through.
out tir metropolis. II OF avail The people Of
New York were mseraby deficient in good taste and
the spectacle contained few visitcrs. Not even
dead heads could be prevailed on by free tickets for the
season TO pa'ronge the panorama II then that Mr.
Pcrham resolved upon lucky expedien to create and
foster rcmureraye taste for The fine arts among The
Cotbamites. What though he had tried II on once be-
fae in the Modern Athens and been rewarded for his
philanthropc effort by indictment by the Grand JuryY
He knew that Boston and New York two very diff
fcTcnt places, aud rightly calculated that the civil and
legal furctourrcs would be too much occupied in taking
Of their pecrnsry and political interests TO pay
much attention TO any trling nfraction OF the laws
And so Mr. Perham, in tie genius OF desperation, an
nounced magnificent scheme Of q lottery.
The first prize was 10 be The panorama sSeyen Mile
Mirror itself modestly estimated at Ss00ov. Then
there 10 be the farm, pianos hats and The other
odds and ends before mentioned In cl there were 10
lie hundred thousand prizcs The aggregate yalge OF