The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-05
Our New York Letter.
The Vanderbilt Estate Oakley Hall
Observation-Disclosures.

NEW York, March 3lst, 1877.
The Vanderbilt estate is to be
settled without lawsuit, much to
the disgust of the lawyers. Will
liamfH. comes down to the. extent
of giving his brothers and sisters
million each, outright, besides the
annuities provided for in their faith
cr's will. This makes them all COM
Portable.
No clue has yet been obtained as
to the whereabouts of Oakley Hall,
but the opinion is that he has gone
to Europe, and the reason therefor
the return of Sweeney and the dis
closures that are expected from
Boss Tweed. The Boss has got
tired Of being hunted and of prison
life generally, and he has agreed to
make over what property lie has
left, and make a clean breast of it,
if the law will let up on him. When
he does this there will be scatter
ing among men who have heretofore
supposed to be free from faint, and
and hundred will take the place
he vacatcs. Hall, doubtless, was
afraid of these disclosures, and
thought it best to put himself in n
safe place in time. There is
great deal of squirming just now,
and Tweed is bcset every day by
men who have heretofore stood well
in the community. AS they go out
from his room locking very gloomy,
and as Tweed throws after them u
very sardonic look indeed, it is sup
posed that they have asked some
thing which he has refused. The
old man is determined to tell all he
knows, and nothing can swervc him
from his purpose. The moMcnt he
fell the other thieves made him the
scapc- goat, instead of standing by
him, and for their treaclcry he will
show them no mercy. There is
heap of trouble ahead for New York
politicians, and others will follow
poor Oakley Halls example. lie is
only the advance guard.
The Bourbon Democracy are
making a tremendous effort to stem
the popular tide, and keep up the
feeling that has unfortunately ex-
listed for fifteen years. The sup
port that is being given to the pol
icy of the President, by the South
crn Democracy, alarms the Bour-
bons. What they are afraid of is
that the South will rally to the sup
port of Hayes to an extent that will
give the Republicans the control Of
the House, and make the nucleus Of
a white Republican party in the
South. When this happens down
goes the Democracy, for If Hayes
can divide them in the South, on
something besides the color line,
there is an end of trouble. l pre-
dict that it will be done. The South
has been made the tool Of the North
ern Democracy, and may properly
charge all their woes to its malign
influence. The New York Demo-
crat has been bowling to the South
ern Democrat for twenty years to
"stand firm" but whenever it came
to struggle, the South has received
"moral support" only, and very lit
tie of that.
The name Of the great Divine Of
Brooklyn has not been in the news
papers much lately, for the memory
of his troubles is fading out grad
ually. Whether guilty or not, Mr..
Beccher has recovered his partially
lost standing. His church is
crowded regularly, as of yore, and
his recent lecture tour was the
grandcst ovation ever given a man.
Everywhere his halls were crowd
cd, people coming hundreds of
miles to see him. lie stands as well
as ever he did, in the popular esti-
nation, though the loss of friends
worries him immensely. Tilton is
lecturing in California, with no re-
markable success. Mrs. Tilton is
keeping boarders with her mother,
and is very poor; Bessie Turner is
entirely forgotten and is, no one
knows where; Frank Moulton has
gone back to his old business, the
salt trade, to rebuild his fortunes
which were terribly impaired by his
chivalrous standing by his friend;
and Carpenter is painting pictures.
The great scandal is dead, and is
never thought of except when di-
vines like DIR. Burlington refuse to
affiliate with Mr.. Bccchcr as he did
last week.
The raids being made by the Po-
lice under the direction of Mr.. An
thony Comstock, on the lottery
shops is developing some very Curl
Gus things. One thing is made
very plain, that there is not, and
never was, an honest drawing oil
of any regular lottery in the coun-
try. The books of one concern show
that tho practice was to send money
in small amounts to such men as,
from the tone of their letters, they
considered the best advertising me
diums with which to rope others in.
For instance to man from Smith
boro who had bought tickets twice,
and expended in the concern $50,
they would write that he had drawn
prize of $50, and send it to him
in good money. InAamed at his
good fortune. and crazy to.gct ono