The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-04-14
Our New York Letter.
Hall i'm E4OndOn-Tweed-
TTlden is Eboing-An Epidemic
of fGriEne-FashiO
NEW York. April Z. 1877.

in London, and the reason for his be-
ing there, is what l said. He was
complicated with the ring, though he
has so covered his tracks that he has
been living for some years in tolerable
security. The return of Sweeny, the
imminent release of Tweed and the
consequent disclosure of the inside
secrets of that gigantic swindle could
not but involve him and put him in
the category of the worst of the lot.
This so weighed upon him that he
preferred to abandon every thing and
go into exile, rather than to face the
friends who had so long stood by him,
deceived by his assertions of inno-
eence. And so Oakley Hall, Mayor of
New York, ruler of the Democracy of
this city, and the head and front of
the respectable portion of the clique
that has pluudered New 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. Oakley
Hall passes into history as an excel
lent sample of ii man who had oppor-
tunities, but who preferred present
| pleasure to permanent success. With
ability sufficient to command any
place and any position, he permitted
wine, womea and the attendant pleas
uIes of the moment to lead him into
excesses; which has ended as it always
has and always will. l can not com
mend to the youth who read the
CHEF 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 summer is al
| ways followed by Il long aud very
dreary winter. Oakley Hall will, in a
year from now, be borrowing dollar
or two from chance Americans in Lon
don to pay for the miserable bed he
sleeps ia. Such men always eud that
| way.
Tweed has got tired of being fol-
lowed 10y the law and is making a
compromise. He has told all he knows
about his escape and the swindle, and
a very Interesting chapter it is. He
has been hunted up and down the
earth, branded as criminal, till,
weary aud faint, he wants peace. Aud
SO he has made his statement and ac-
cepted terms. He turns over to the
city all that is left OF the money he
and his coadjutors stole, and will be
permitted to go ont and live unmo-
Tested. The great king is now a poor
old man, with no money to speak of
and no power, a past that he dares
not look back upon and no future at
all
Whatever may be the upshot of it,
there is no doubt but that the arch
conspirator, Tildtn, wishes very much
to make another effort for the Presi-
dency. 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 com.
menced proceedings long ago in the
Supreme Court. 1t is certain that he
has gone so far as to have skilled at
torneys draw up the papers necessary
to contest the election, and proceed
ings will be commenced if the temper
of the public should change, and be
come adverse to the present admins
tration. Tilden staked his all upon
the Presidency, aud he has by NJ
means relinquished his hopes.
There is an epidemic of crime, whicl
has taken, this week, more than usu
ally horrible features. A frail woman
an inmate of fashionable house o
, ill-fame uptown, was visited by al
unknown man. What transpired il
the room will never be known. TIL
man rushed out and was lost in th,
, darkness-a moment later the woman
,, appeared at the head of the stairs en-
yeloped in flames. She was dresses
III rich robes of a combustible ma
; terial, aud the flames had completed
enveloped her. She had just time t
exclaim He set ME afre with
, matcll," and fell, and before relic
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