Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-04-12
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Hail In OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES iiden Ia Doing
An Epidemic or Crime sii ons- Raster.
New York, April z, 1877.

New York, April z, 1877.
Correspondence of the Grant County HEfAID.
Oakley Hail.
Oakley Hall has been found, and it
is as wrote last week;Le is in Lon :
don, and the reason for his being
there, is what | said He was compli-
Gated with the ring. though he has
so covered bis tracks that he has been
living for some years 10 toerable se-
curity. The return of Sweeny, and
the consequent disclosure of the in
side secrets of that gigantic swinde
could not but involve him and put
him in the category of the worst of
the lot. This, with SOCIAL complica-
tions, which, 10 plain English means
tba, he has been keeping women
other than his wife and has been liv-
ing secretly an exceedingly disrepu-
table life, while attempting TO keep
up the status of . gentlemen, all of
which he knew while the world was
in ignorance of it, but which the con-
LESSONS of Tweed would bring to the
surface, so weighed upon him that
he preferred to get out, abandon
everything, and go into exile, rather
than to face the friends who had so
long stood by him, deceived by his
assertions of innocence. And so
Oakley Hall Mayor of New York,
Rulor of the Democracy of THE city,
and the head and front of the re-
spectacle portion of the clique that
has plundored Now York so long, is
in London in disguise, and the mere
sport of a cheap Actress who will
hang to him as long as he has any
portion of the money he stole and
will desert him the moment it is
gone. Oakey Hall passes into ais
tory as an excellent sample Of a man
who has opportunities, but whe pre-
ferred present pleasure to permanent
success. With ability sufficient TO
command any place and any posi-,
ton, be permitted wine, women and
the attendant pleasures of the mo-
ment to lead him into excuses,
which has ended as it always has
and always will | cannot commend
to the youth who read the Grant
County HERALD more instructive
example. Honesty and decency in
the long run always pay better than
the summer pleasures that follow a
career like Oakley Halls. Such sum
mer is always followed by long
and dreary winter. Oakley Hall
will, in year from now, be borrow
ing dollar or two from chance
Americans in London to pay for the
miserable bed be will be sleeping in.
And such mes always end exactly 10
that way
Tweed
Has got tired of being followed by
the law and is making compromise.
He has told all he knows about his
escape and swindle, and very in
teresting chapter it is. He lived in
fsherman's hat in New jersey /;
he lived in the everglades of Florida !;
be went hither and yon, a fugative
and wanderor in the earth, till,
sick and tired no wanted nothing SO
much as to be allowed to quit his
waOderings and settle down to a
quiet life, out ofjail. He has been
hunted up and down the earth,
branded as criminal. till. weary
and faint, he wanted peace. And 80
be permitted himself to be taken,
and came homo, made his statement
and accepted terms. He turns over
to the city all that is left of the
moaey be. and his coadjutors stole,
and will be permitted TO go out and
live unmolested. The great king is
now q poor old man, with no money
to speak of and no power, a past
that be dares not look back upon
and no future at all There are a
thousand draymen in the city who
are better off than he, and who could
not afford to change places with him.
What Tilden is Doing.
Whatever may be the upshot of it.,
there is no doubt but that the arch
consprator, Tlden, wishes very
much to make another effort for The
presidency. He never intended that
the verdict of the joint commission
should be final, if it was adverse to
him, and had the administration of
Hayes been less popular he would
have commenced proceedings long
ago in the Supreme Court. 1t is Ger.
tain that he has gone so far as to
have skilled Attorneys draw up the
papers necessary to contest the cleo
ton, and proceedings will be COM
menced if the temper of the public
should change, and become adverse
to the present administration. Til
den staked his all upon the presiden-
cy, and be has by no means relin-
pushed his hopes. Beaten at the
polls. beaten by joint commission
OF his own making, be still thinks
there is a way, through the courts,
to gain the ambition of his life; and
be will make the effort if be gets
the slightest show. If President
Hayes policy makes the slightest
feeling--if any party is formed
against him. Mr.. Tilden proposes to
move on him through the courts,
and try what legal chicanery can do
to make him president. The papers
were all prepared some weeks ago,
at Tilden's house in Gramercy Park,
and are now liz Washington, to be
used if occasion offers. Morrissy is
in it, but fortunately, if it goes into
the courts, the case will be beyond
the reach of money or the peculiar
influences which Mr.. Morrssey
knows hest how to WELD,
Crime
There is an epidemic of crime,
which has takon, this week, more
than usual horrible features. A
frail woman, and inmate of fashion,
able house of i'll fame uptown, was