Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-02-05
LETTER FROM NEW YORR.
Special Correspondence.
New YORK, Jan. 30. 1877

Inc eyes OF the country are turned so
hxedly on Washington during the novel
and memorable proceedings of Congress
touching the political deadlock that To-
cal events seem to be waiting in sus-
pense for the results there to be made
known, before resuming their regular
march. can therefore do little to-day
but, like Mrs. Iago, chronicle small
beer" and note few of the present incl
degts, amusements and vagaries of New
York life.
Phe sleepy quiet of Staten Island has
Der little broken into, this week, by
tas aperations of some adventurous spir-
its from New Jersey. burning with de-
sire to possess the vast wealth supposed
to have been hidden in the soil of that
locality in revolutionary and even pre-
revolutionary periods. Legends assert
ing the existence of such hidden treas
ures have always been more or less cur
rent on the island, and on one or two oc-
casions trifing amounts in old Spanish
and English coins have been either turn
ed up by the ploughshare or found Sc
creted in the walls of old buildings. Of
course these have been sufficient to keep
alive the old stories and maintain an in
terest in the place in all emulators of
Monte Cristo. Of late efforts in this di-
rection have been fruitless, no iron bound
boxes filled with gold and diamonds re-
warding the labor which has honey-comb-
ed. the hills of the island in the search.
however, party of five valiant Jersey
men have three times, during the last
fortnight, crossed the intervening waters
at midnight, and by the CHASTITY light of
a dark lantern dug what the terrified OBJ
server might we'll have imagined to be
the secret graves of murderers. Although
nothing has thus far come of these en-
deavors to discover royal road to
wealth, perseverance is said to accom-
plish all things, and may yet be called
upon to chronicle resurrection of treas
ure which will cover those barren slopes
with gold miners from this hard -pinched
island of Manhatten.
For some time the world has heard
but little of our eminent reformer, phil
osopher aud former candidate for the
Presidency, Mr.. George Francis Train.
Now, however, he is out again-large as
life and twice as natural-in a small,
two cent paper with the motto, Live
Ideas in this Dead Age from the most
Sane man in this Mad World" and call
ed George Francis Trains Paper" IL
the initial number Mr.. Train styles him.
self "The most remarkable man living
or dead" and hardly think it would
be safe to dispute him. The paper is
evidently all from the same pen, and is
the most amusing and astounding collec-
tion of rant and nonsense. sprinkled
here and there with sharp bits of truth,
that it is possible to conceive. Whether
it will be continued is question which
probably the illustrious editor himself
could not answer, but as nothing which
he ever yet did has succeeded, it is more
than likely that the first issue will be
the last as we'll.
Train used to call himself worth $780,
100000 when he controlled most of the
real estate in Omaha, but now acknowl
edges himself bankrupt. There was
enough method in his madness, however
to settle moderate fortune on his wife
in the days of his prosperity, so he live;
comfortably enough now. Throughout
the pleasant weather of the past year he
has almost lived in the open air, the
benches in Madison square being his ia
vorite resort Here he could be founC
morning, noon and night, reading hi;
paper, sunbrowned and hearty, the very
picture of repose and good health. Wher
not thus engaged in watching the affairs
of the world, he was usually busy will
his only friends, the birds and the chill
dren, with both of which shrewd and OBJ
servant classes of the community, to hi
credit be it said, he seems great favor
ite. He scatters bread crumbs to tn,
one, sugar plums to the other, and talk
to them all alike. With the grown VI
portions of humanity Train processes t
wish little to do. He will shake hand
with no one, and allows no one to 81
down beside him. Conversation with &C
quaintances he limits to five minutes du
ration, giving as a reason that such con
versations draw too much on his store o
smagnetism," and has a score of simila
original and recently imposed rules Q
life. Whether he be at present sane o
insane no one who has ever talked wit
him half an hour can doubt that pow
erful and useful man was spoiled b
leaving the balance-wheel out of the in
tellectual mechanism of George Franci
Train.
At the Fifth Avenue Theatre Mr.. Da
r ly's new comic sensation, Lemons
being nightly squeezed to the great sal
isfaction of both manager and audience
, At WalIack's Mr.. Lester Wallack