Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-11-07
New York Letter.

II New York Letter.
5 PLACES OF AMUSESIENT-oAKEY HALL
TIE FIGHT OF THE FACTIONS-sMAlL
BoNDs--THE sTRIKEs-BUTTER ONCE
MoRE-THE BEECHER PEOPLE.
, New York, Nov, 4, 1871
PLACES OF AMUSEMENT.
t People are in the habit of supposing that
theatres and circuses are minis, and that
whoever can get control of place of
3 amusement is on the high road to fortune
, The truth is, there is no business so pre-
carious. Every theatre but two in New
3 York, this season, has lost money, and
those two have only saved themselves by
lowering the prices in accordance with the
: times. The price for seats in theatres has
been for some years $3.50, and the system
of selling the entire house put that up to
$3.50. This was we'll enough when peo-
pie were making money at every turn, but
) now that the tide is running the other way
the managers have found it difficult 10 keep
their houses halffuIl. The Grand Opera
House reduced prices thirty per cent, and
it has lad good bus right along. An
enterprising company of musicians, all
first class, arc giving concerts at Cooper
Institute for 10 cents admission, and the
hall isn't big enough to hold the people,
and they are making money. The lesson
is obvious-with the return to gold every
thing must be be brought down to gold
basis. The extravagallt actresses and ac-
tors must play for less than $3.50 week.
rents must come down, and the prices OF
admission likewise. The war is over.
OAKLEY HALL.
Oakley Hall, Tammany politician, au-
thor, actor, lawyer, and almost everything
else besides, who left New York about
six months ago, between two days, and
who has managed TO keep himself in the
newspapers ever since, returned yesterday
as mysteriously MS he went. He says thai
the interval has been to him like dream,
he intimates that he has been partially
insane, but that his brain is now clear, his
mind unclouded, and that he shall 60 on
and fulfill his destiny. He gives no reason
for his going, and none for his coming,
but people guess. The well-posted say
that it was not fear of the Tweed investi-
CATION, but that, in short, there was not
only one, but two, women in the case.
Whatever may have been the cause of his
escapadc, it has lost him all the standing
he ever had. The city regards him now
us but one degree above Count Joannes,
and long way below Geo. Francis Train.
1t would have been better for his reputa-
ton if he had died abroad. lie is Of no
further use here.
THE FIGHT or TIE FACTIONS.
Augustus Schcll is the Tammany candi-
date for senator in the seventh district,
and John Morrssey has been put forward
by the Anti-Tammanyitos aided by the re-
publcans, or rather u part of the republic
cans, for u large number of them see no
difference between professional prize
fighter and gambler and Il professional
democratic politician, in which they are
more than half right. Morrissey is, how
ever u remarkable man, and had he been
born and bred under better circumstances,
would have been great man. He is the
son of poor Irish parents in Troy, was bred
to the trade Of blacksmith, which he aban-
doncd in a short time for the prize-ring.
He was game fighter, and came out OF
all his contests victorious. Naturally he
graduated as u gambler, and from that
into New York politics, and made himself
a power in the city. Of late years he has
tried very hard to keep himself in some
thing like decent case, without being so
decent as to ALLEVIATE the devotion of his
ragged constituents. He is generous to
fault, and even in his gambling houses has
dealt with toerable fairness. When great
swindes have been necessary, he has kept
them skillfully from the public. He has
acquired Il valuable fund Of information
US TO the government of the city, with
which he frequently surprises his best
friends. He is evidently working to sink
his past in the present and future, and has
an ambition to associate his name with
something better than the prize ring and
gambling table He could beat Schell if
the republicans would all vote for him,
but they will not. Those who refuse assert
that to elect him wouh not split Tamma-
ny-that it would simply compel Kelly TO
take him into partnership, and make it
stronger thpn ever. But John will give
Kelly u lively fight, and may, possibly,
squeeze through. lie has been very sick
for some weeks, which has been very much
against him.
SMALL BONDS.
The recent failure of so many savings
banks, and the terrible condition of life
insurance. has put the poor who have
work, and who, therefore, have made
savings, into qnandary rs to what they
Shall do with their money, There are
thousands who have fifty OF u hundred dol
lars who are keeping it boarded fearing
to deposit it anywhere. A movement has
been inaugurated here, which hope will
spread all over the country viz. 10
have the new four per cent. loan popular
lied. An association is memorlalizing the
authorities to have bonds issued in denom-
nations of twenty-five dollars, registered
and made payable to order, So that in cIso
Of robbery or destruction, there could be
no loss. They argue that it wonld not
only afford convenient and safe means of
saving for those who are saving, but that
it would be healthy help 10 those who
never have saved, to commence. One en-
ployer who has forty men and women ut
| ,,.,rl, told mn thut hi. nnOnlp had not less