The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-01-09

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uries. An sffsir which amounted {
is felony brought Mr.. OBJ. to jail
from which by g technieality he es
capped and made his wsy to New
York. Here he found his opportuni
ty. He was glib tslker and lost N
time in putting himself at the hesd o
3 Fenisn circle, and getting contro
Of band of "repsythers y then hi:
course was plain. Boss Tweed rec
Ognized his merits snd appointed hin
what Why, assistant council tC
the commission for condemning pri.
vate property. ct a salary of $4,000
per snnum, with unlimited stealings.
You will remember that this impostol
had never been naturalized, was not
q citizen OF the United States, and
had no more right to hold an office
or even vote, than the writer would
have in Egypt. Besides, he was no
lawyer. But that made no difference
in New York.
/ For the first time in three years he
remembered he had a family. He
brought over his oldest son-s lad of
eighteen--snd putting him st work
as a type setter in daily psper, had
him appointed "a bis @chiet clerk, T"
at a salary of 50, 600 and his two other
sons were also given places at respec-
lively $4,000 and $4,000. Mr..
O'Brien drawing the salaries for sll
of them-they merely appearing TO
sign receipts each month. 1t wss
fortunate for the country that Mr..
O'Brien's other child vas a girl
else she would hare been quartered
on the city. The mother and daugh-
ter were permitted to remain in Liv-
erpool, where they shifted as best
they could, the girl as a shOp-girl, and
the mother as a washer woman.
! 1t is needless to add that Mr..
O'Brien is one of Boss Tweed's sin
cerest mourners, and that he inveighs
loudly against the "Injoostlce, sir no
shtate interference with municipal
gooverments," and he has been heard
to say that "the raights NV the people
to silr gooverment, sir, are stricken
down." and, likewise he asks indig
nantly if ''this is free country ? or
is it dispotism p
But he mourns not as one without |
hope. John Morrisey will snswer
his purpose just as well as Tweed, for
Morrissev must use the same material
to do the same work. Mr.. O'Brien and
his three sons will all be on the city
payroll ere long, snd trust them to
make up for their enforced abstinence.
Tammsny will be killed whenever
the decent men of the city take inter
est enough in politics to vote, and
use the influence they possess. They
outnumber the thieves and can oust
them if they will. But they never
will. Catch a New York merchant,
leaving his trade to vote, or do polit-
ical work. Not he. He is to busy.
And so New York will continue to
be ridden by thieves to the end of
the chapter.
There is a steady regular revival
in business in the metropolis. There
never should have been panic-in-
deed, this Fall and Winter business
should have been splendid. There
was no cause for the troubles that
came upon the country in September.
A parcel of gamblers, like Jay Gould,
old Daniel Drew, and Vanderbilt |
locked horns in q struggle over
stocks. Down they went, and the
business men, fearing q panic, did
exactly what was necessary to make
one. They shortened up, banks sus-
pended, decent men were deprived of
their resources, and an evil that was
feared become real. Business is re-
suming because confidence is re-
stored. Smith has drawn out OF the
hole into which he hid himself in
September and discovers that it isn't
much Of a shower after all. He finds
that people are going to eat, drink
and wear the same as ever, and must
have his goods, and so he gets his
money out of it's hiding place, and
pays Brown what he owes him.
Brown pays Jones Jones Thomp-
son the mill ia resumed, and so it
goes. People wonder that they were
frightened st ALL There is nothing
"hard" in the times, here or any
where else. The ''times' are all
right, and business will be very brisk
the remainder of the winter.
But there was one curious feature
about it all. During the worst OF the
psnic, when men believed that the
country had gone to the dogs, and
every man was straining to the last
point, there was no dimunition of the
trade of the great dealers In luxu-
ries. Stewards front was crowded |
with CARR ges, and the great je"elry |
stores were thronged as of yOre.
The New York lady OF fashion rec
opnized no such thing as panic or
stringency in money. tits her hts
bands duty to find money somehow
for her, for not a jot or title will she
yield Of her right to spend all the
money she chooses II there be dis
monds that she wants she hss them.
The $4,000 that the set costs, her
husband must furnish, and ne must
do it without murmur For she Is
an imperious dame, and will stand
no nonsense about these things. Half
the failures that occur in New York
may be charged up to this account
Fashion rules with rod OF iron, and
from it's decree there is no appeal.
STYLE must be maintsined, for when it
is relaxed in the least, the relaxer
drops out of sight, and the woman as
good as dies. That is she dies So
cially, and there is not one OF them
who wouldn't rather die actually.
Once more, / thank Heaven, there
is a country to draw from. But for
the influx of fresh blood and fresh
ideas from the country, the great
cities would become worse than can
GERS. But as it takes ten years to
spoil q person in New York, and as
thousands mske their way here every
wear, the old Sodon grinds along
after a fashion, and Sill continue
to do so.
Christmas was more generally OBJ
served this year than eye-. Inc
rich gave gorgeous dinners[the
poor modest dinners-the dIssolute
got drunk, and the police stations
were full. Curious notions people
have Of celebrating the birth OF the
Saviour IIhIK''
TROUBLE WITH SUBMARINE
GABLES.