The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-06-24
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LETTER EROM NEW YORR.
70 tsvitie, June 3re 1888.
Efga}u Corrs.gQg&.1ee Of ne FeHsr Jaurna.

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gre COZ olsy weather-bqund LQt spell
bound for a whole day indoors. The
mouth Of May did some raining as most
people remember bat June, after . sun
py fortnight the start, concluded to have
a splurge that in one day should beat all
Che weather exploits Of Nay into the greIt
deep Vf H4ter Last Saturday viii be
remembered for some while as the day Of
the .deluge All the streams in the city
were syelled to torrents IL % time. In
s4y own street particularly, the creek was
80 high our Bridget could not cross to The
corner grocery for the milk, bread and
tea goodies, and VIC had to wait, supper
ieS%, I'll! the stream should run By, and
what aado tue matter particularly VeXa-
tious was We had Distinguished visitors
from Boston The Light Ini@utry Of
that Juvenile city arrived At our muEici-
pal donlicil in the height Of the storm
W. marched the company UP broadway
and showed them to Mayor Iicmann;
theu we omnibusscd and fcsricd them
over 70 the sity nurseries en- Randall ;
ISl4.id, and wetter set ot Hight Infants
never received the delicate attentions OF
a nursery before These Interesting pre-
liminaries over, hosts and guests passed
on to the order qf the day, which was
drill e4afcise and banner presentation to
ane Island boys, infantry speeches and
juvenile replies, cold (and, for that mat
ter, wet collation., toasts drank in bum
pcfs of rain water, and good time gen
orally in spite of the ooploqs moisture
On Saturday night the company visited
Walacll's theatre, or Sunday DR.. Hig-
bees (Episcopal) church, On Monday,
MARCHED, reviewed, called around from
regiment to regiment on cur own militia
ry, and on Tuesday wheeled into bee
line for Boston, amid the iacowolls Of en-
thu iast:c New York.
Speaking OF guns reminds me that all
pur wars are ended. The Britisher con-
Guided to call off his dogs and apoIo9s:; ];
the Mormon resolved on the va,orous dis
eretion of running away, 50 we can't have
q fight, and the hot blood we get up oyer
the council fires Of our political clubs will
have no help for it but to cool of without
q contest.
We have been enforcing, not only the
right of visit but the right of search, Il
little on our own private account. Mar
shat Rynders, whose "lynX-eyed yisi
lance takes but q moderate amount Of
sleep, thought he smeIied big rat, or a
little "nigger," or at al! evont5 something
black in the yacht WandeTor, q private
pleasure vessel which has been rather
suspiciously fitting out to take Il party Of
gentlemen all along shore on bender
The Marshall had her thoroughly over
hauled; but finding only hams, pickles,
sandwiches, biscuits, baskets, bottles, IN
ghort all the deleca ,ies of coas;ing trip;
but nothing that looked like Africa or
the slave trade, lie let her 90 sgsiu with
an apology-for all the world as England
zoos.
1t is next to impossible to punish our
misunderstanding SO as to hurt :en
any. If we do, with infinite labor, get
occasionally one inside Of prison walls, he
turns out to be sufficiently a man IF sci
ence to break out again. Sailor Dan,
our pet rufIian, who outraged and mur-
dercd Thercse Spitzlein last wint T, and
who was snugly settled i'll Sing Sing for
ten years term of industry, meditation
and repentance, managed in t few weeks,
TO smuggle into his cell not olly cord
of rope, but a cord Of wood and jack
screw, with which he raised the roof one
night and was off in a star-twinkle. His
rq,her out of style prison dress has been
found in a deserted boat in our haIb)r,
but he himself is still at large.
Our city court is now engaged on its
third trial of Cancemi, the murderer OF
policeman Anderson, and some stact!ing
developments have come out this time
such as tampering with an important wit
ness, Offering him $4,000 to leave the
country, and then, failing in the bribery,
smuggling upon the present jury the tool
who offered the bribe--a keenncss Of
practice which Mr. Blankmann, counsel
Tor the prisoner, sharpened himself w
enough to attempt. The arrangement,
however, was discovered en- the first hour
of the trial, the offending juror had to
step out, and the caae, by agreement, now
goes on with eleven Jurors. Trial By
judge and jury has come to be little bet
ter than trial by Punch and Judy-at all
events it is very much Of a farce in this
city. This ''palladium of individual lib
erty? 50 styled by our fathers, has desen'
Grated to be the mere shell Of equity
winch is used as cover "to shove by
justice" No wonder the proceedings Of
some of our courts should make i consci
cntious lawyer crazy, and less wonder
still that the first intended victim Of hi,
insanity should be a judge upon the
bcnch-as in the case OF Chancey Shaffer
WHO with not exactly a Judicial oath OIL
his lir.<, attempted to shoot Justic2 Steer:
gkils IN his seat in court the other day
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