Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-06-18
LETTER FROM NEW YoRR.
Special Correspondence.

NEW 1ORK, June IL, 1871.
In trying to decide what has been the
most important sensation of the last
seven days, 1 am divided between
the suddenly terminated Ring suit,
the seventeen-year locusts, and the
fish plague. suppose Peter B. Sweeny
would hardly thank me for the compli-
ment of bringing him into such low CON-
pany, and. besides, we have the latter
at least as often as once in seventeen
years, while man like Sweeny doesn't
turn up-luckily for taxpayers-.nearly
as often. So think we shall have to
give this gentleman our earliest atten-
ton.
The remembrance of the dramatic
scenes, the oratory and the great length
of the Tweed trial had whetted the
morbid appetite of the public for this
sort of enjoyment to a high degree of
sharpness and curiosity being further
stimulated by the former prominence
and recent years of exile of this mag
ni6cent thief, the opening of the Sweeny
trial found the court room packed to
suffocation with an audience that was
all eyes and ears, ready for protracted
session. But it was destined to be a
disappointed crowd, for. after the brief
est Of prelimlnaries, consultation of
the lawyers on both sides was entered
into, and, after few hours, it was an
nounced that the claims of the city had
been compromised, and that oil proceed
assemblage that then filed out of the
court, freely expressing their indigna-
ton at the turn affairs had taken; moi
so much, probably, that the idea of com.
pounding felony grated upon theil
sense of prOpriety, as that they were
thereby deprived of the pleasure Of
picking the bones OF such scandal az
the suit might unearth.
The present seems, indeed, to be tn,
time spoken Of by the poet "when tn
swallows homeward fly" Woodward
and Sweeny have already "homewarc
few" been taken in for, and now Dicl
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Connolly's son-In-law pops up an,
plainly intimates that that distinguish
statesman would like to leave the ele
waited society of the Alps and return t
/ the city whose 6nancies he kindly care
{ for some seven years ago, if he can a.
range to do SO without having to COZ
: his nose for period against the gratin
of ludlow Street cell. And the cit,
having her hand in, just now in tn
s settlement business, intimates back thi
s she shall be happy to see him and wi
4 only charge him S1,5oO.OO0 for Il
0 privileges. The two will probably ha
t gle over the price for while, and tn,
t Mr.. Connolly will turn up in his o
y haunts and settle down to the EMO
e ment of the $1,OO0,OO0 or more viii
It this arrangement would leave him.
d Meanwhile, old Tweed shakes the ba
n of his cage in angry indignation at Il
l. easy treatment of his junior confed'
10 ates, but cannot as yet shake off t
r clutches of the law which seems to ha
al singled him out as scapegoat on whc
st to pile all punishment.
IN The seventeen year locust, which CO..
al next to the above mentioned gentry
~ order of present Importance, is, emph
m ically, queer bird. Why he shows
at such long and odd intervals, like
comet, is mystery. The conumdr
of what he does with himself in off We
he is too many for even the bug-fanci,
st- Why he grows so big and accomplis
he so little and dies so soon are all amc
i'll "those things that no fellow can f
i'll out" All that is really known alb
he him is that he hangs around unc
Id ground somewhere for a good while
of he gets good ready" and then |
in rows up to the top, leaving little rol
his hole to mark the place of his appeara
raj as regular and clean cut as that o
wn pistol bullet. How he performs
on. latter operation is another puzzler,
are when he gets to the surface he is {
at tightly cncased in the hard, transpar
eau yellow shell that has protected him {
his ing his subterranean residence.
cry he manages it somehow, and on his
lin rival in the air, cracks his she'll
the comes forth a little soft white bu
the which hardens and darkens and enla
hat with rapIdity totally incredible to
nee who has not witnessed it: SO that v