Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-04-11
New York Letter.
HALL IN oN-TwEED-WHAT TILDEN
IS DoING-AN EPIDEMIC OF CRIME-FAsH-
IONS-EASTER.

HALL, IN LONDON-TWEED-W TlLDEf
IS DoING-AN EPIDEMIC OF CRIME-FAslI
IONS-EAsTER.
New YORK, April 7, 1877.
Oakley HALL.
Oakley Hall has been found, and II Is as
wrote last week. lie is in London, an,
the reason for his being there is what
said. He was complicated with the ring
though he has so covered his tracks thai
he has been living for some years in toler
able security. The return of Sweony
and the consequent disclosure of the in.
side secrets of that gigantic swindle could
not but involve him and put him in the
category of the worst of the lot. This
with social complications, which, in plan
English, means that he has been keeping
women other than his wife, and has been
living secretly an exceedingly disreputa-
BILE life, while attempting to keep up the
status of a gentleman, all of which ne
knew while the world was Ignorant OF It,
but which the confessions of Tweed would
bring to the surface, so weighed upon him
that he preferred to get ont, abandon
everything, and go into exile, rather than
to face the friends who had so long stood
by him, deceived by his assertions OF ill.,
nocence. And so Oakley Hall, mayor OF
New York, ruler of the democracy Of this
city, and the head and front of the re-
spectacle portion of the clique that has
plundered New York so long, is in London
in disguise, and the mere sport of cheap
actress, who will hang to him as long us
he has any portion of the money he stole,
and will desert him the moment it is gone.
Oakley Hall passes into history rs an OK
cellent sample of man who had opportu-
mites, but who preferred present pleasure
to permanent success. With ability sulll-
Client to command any place OF position,
he permitted wine, women and the at
lendant pleasures Of the moment TO lead
him into excuses, which has ended as it
always has and always will. | cannot
commend to the youth who read the
FREEMAN n more instructive example
Honesty and decency in the long run al
ways pay better than the summer pleas
ures that follow II career like Oakley Halls.
Such IL summer is always followed by u
long and very dreary winter. Oakley Hall
will, in year from now, be borrowing. Il
dollar or two from chance Americans in
London, to pay for the miserable bed he
will be sleeping in And such men al
ways end exactly in that way.
TWEED
has got tired of being followed by the law
and is making II compromise, He has
told all he knows about his escape and the
swindle, and very interesting chapter it
is. He lived in tisherman's hut in New
Jersey; he lived in the everglades of Flor
ida he went hthcr and yon, II fugitive
and wanderer up and down the earth, till,
sick and tired, he wanted nothing SO much
us to be allowed to quit his wanderings
and settle down to quiet life, out of iail.
He has been hunted up and down the earth,
branded rs criminal, till, weary and
faint, he wanted peace. And so he per-
mtted himself to be taken, and came
home, made his statement and accepted
terms. He turns over to the city all that
was left of the money he and his coadju-
tors stole, and will be permitted to 90 out
and live unmolested. The great king is
now poor old man, with no money to
speak Of and no power, II past that he
dare not look back upon, and no future ut
all. There are II thousand dyramen 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 con-
spirator, Tilden, 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 administra-
ton of Hayes been less popular, he would
have commenced proceedings long ago in
the Supreme Court. 1t is certain thar he
has gone so far us to have skilled attorneys
draw up the papers necessary to contest
the election, and proceedings will be COM
menc0d if the temper of the public shoHld
change, and become adverse to the pres
ent administration. Tlden staked his all
upon the presidency, and he has by no
means reinquished his hopes. Beaten ut
the polls, beaten by Il Joint Commission Of
his own making, he still thinks he secs
way, through the courts, to gain the ann
bilion of his life; and he will make the eff
fort if he gets the slightest show, If Pres
ident Hayes policy makes the slightest
feeling-if any party is formed against
him, Mr.. Iilden proposes TO move on him
through the courts, and try what legal
chicanory can do to make him president.
The papers were all prepared some weeks
ago, ut Tiden's house in Gramcrcy Park,
and are now in Washington, to be used if
occasion offers. Morrlssey 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. Norris
sey knows best how TO use.
CRIME.
There is I'm epidemic Of crime, which
has taken, this week, more than usually
horrible features. A frail woman, an in
mate of IL fashionable house of ll.Elme up
town, WAS visited by an unknown man
one evening last week. What transpired
in the room will never be known. The
man rushed out and was lost in the dark
ness. moment later the woman appear
ed at the head of the stairs cnveloped in
flames. She was dressed for the evening