Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-11-16
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Places of Nmusement-Oakey Hall
The Fight Of the PaetiOns-SmaIi
ROnds-The SIrskes- Butter Once
more-The Beeeher People.

| Places Of AnuSemeut-OaGey Hall
The Fight Of the FaetIOns-SmRIi
ROndu-The Strikes IsulIer Once
m0re-The Beeeher People.
PLACES OF AMUSEMENT.
People are in the habit of supPosing that
theatres and circuses are mints, and that
whoever can get control of a place of amuse-
ment is on the high road to fortune. The
truth is, there is no business so precarious.
Every theatre but two in New 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 s.. 80. and the system of selling the
entire house put that up to sou. Ihls
was all well enough when people were max
ing money at every turn, but now that the
tide is running the other way the managers
have found it difficult TO keep their houses
half full. The grand opera house reduced
prices thirty per cent, and it has had good
business right along. An enterprising
company of musicians, all first class. are
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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 everything must
come down to gold basis. The extrava-
CANT actresses and actors 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, who left New York about six months
ago, between two days, and who has man
aged to keep himself in the newspapers ever
since, returning yesterday as mysteriously |
as he went. He says that 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 unclowded, |
aud that he shall go on and fulfill his des-
tiny. He gives no reason for his going, |
and none for his comming, but people |
guess. The wellposted say that it was not |
fear for the Tweed investigation, but that |
in short, there was not only one, but two,
women in the case. Whatever may have
been the cause Of his escapade, it has lost
him all the standing he ever had. The city i
regards him now as but one degree above
Count Joannes, and long way below Geo.
Francis Train. 1t would have been better |
for his reputation if he had died abroad.
He is of no further use here.
THE FIGHT OF THE FACTIONS.
Augustus Schell is the Tdnmany csndi-
date for senator in the seventh district, and |
John Morrissey has been put forward by
the Anti-Tammanyites aided by the Repub
lcans, or rather a part of the Republicans
for a large number of them see no differ |
ence between a professional prize-ighter
and gambler, and a professional Democratic |
politician, in which they are more than
half right. Morrissey is, however, a re-
markable man: had he been born and bred |
under better circumstances, would have |
been a great man. He is the son of poor
Irish parents in Troy, was bred to the trade
of blacksmith which he abandoned in |
short time for the prize-ring. He was q
game fighter, and came out of all his con-
tests victorious. Naturally he graduated
as gambler, and from that into New York |
politics. and made himself power in the
city. Of late years he has tried very hard
to keep himself in something like decent
case, without being so decent as to shenate
the devotion of his ragged constituents.
He is generous to a fault, and even in his
gambling houses has dealt with tolerable
fairness. When great swindles have been
necessary, he has kept them skillfully from
the public. He has acquired valuable
fund Of information as to the government
of the city, with which he frequently sur
prises his best friends. He is evidently
working to sink his past in the present and
future, and has all 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 re-
1uSC doSCLb bldb W oicCL lllu MOuAu uOL
split Tammany-that it would simply COM
pei Kelly to take him into partnership, and
make it stronger than ever. But John will
give Kelly Lively fight, and may, possibly,
squeeze through. He has been very sick
for some weeks, which has been very much
against him.
SMALL BONDS.
The recent failures of so many savings
banks, and the terrible condition of life in
surance, has put the poor who have work
and who, therefore, have made savings, in
to a quandary as to what they shall do with
their money, There are thousands who
have fifty or a hundred dollars who are
keeping it boarded, fearing to deposit it
anywhere. A movement has been inaugu-
rated here, which hope will spread all
over the country; viz. To have the four
per cent. loan popularized. An association
is memorializing the authorities to have
bonds issued in denominations of twenty
five dollars, registered and made payable
to order, so that in case Of robbery or des-
tructiou. there could be no loss. They ar