The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-04-29

SUalS N1f. DeVlln. Mr.. COnOVer, however,
made good use of his hold upon the Office,
for in Strengthening out its affairs and
overhauling the old contracts and other
papers pertaining to Devlin's paving and
street opening jobs, the most astounding
frauds, altered figures and perjury were
developed, and prosecutions based upon
the facts are now before the Courts. Dey-
lin, by deputies and agents, has made two
unsuccessful attempts by force and cum
ming to get possession OF these awkward
evidences against him; and now, if this
decision prevails, they are to be surren-
dered to his hands without remedy. May
or Tiemann on receiving news by telegraph
of the decision locked up the Office and
put the keys in his pocket. 1t is within
his capacity to commission this DeYlin to
outer darkness where there is gnashing of
teeth, and he will doubtless do so but
the Common Council are themselves of
the Beeizebub stripe, and they will con-
sent to no such unscriptural heresy as
casting out Devlins by Beelzebub. So
we must 60 on and endure as best we can
If any body hereafter asks, "What is the
matter with New York p it will be sutfi-
cient to answer, " 1t hath Devlin." But
| If you should hear next fall that the SOW
ereign people have dismissed him into the
herd of swine which surround, sustain,
and fatten upon him, and that they have
rushed altogether down into the sea and
drowned themselves, you may know that
for once the hindmost has taken the Dev-
lin and dashed him down to his own place
1t may be matter Of some surprise to
your readers to learn that we have an In
dian war on our hands, right in the heart
of this great city, war that RACES with
all the ferceness of those of the primitive
forests and colonial times. The principal
camp of one tribe is pitched in the Bow
cry, and the council fires of the other are
kept blazing in Mercer Street. Scouts
are sent out in every direction, spies gain
access to either camp, challenges are flung
out on all hands, manifestoes futter in
every breeze and victory perches alternate
ly on the banner of either host A reg
ular pitched battle has been agreed upon
between the tribes, to come off next Mon
day, at the cold Wigwam," which, it is
supposed, will decide the fate of the " Ri
val Sachems." Fernando Wood is the
renowned and lnvincible brave who leads
the tribe of "Foresters" and our Post
master Fowler, sustained by council of
braves of the prowess of Captain Rynders,
heads the regular time honored tribe of
st. Tammany. The weapon selected is
the ballot-can't say, however, but, in the
last emergency, recourse may be had to
the bullet. A new council of Sachems
is to be chosen. Meantime the good and
brave everywhere await the conflict in
terrific suspense.
Passing the Astor House the other day
| saw, looking out Of an upper window,
a group of heads with belted brows and
feathered scalps which belonged unques-
tionably to the genuine aboriginal wild In
dian. [ thought at first some Camanche
Chief had sent on a subsidy of merciless
savages "whose known rule of warfare is
lndiscriminate slaughter" to go in and
win at the ensuing Tammany struggle
but learned, on inquiry, that they were
delegation of Pawnee braves, on their way
home from Washington, with no thought
Of risking their heads in Tammany.
The sympathisers with Orsini, the last
brave victim OF the French guillotine,
whose bombs only slightly killed Louis
Napoleon, but made thorough work of the
English ministry, are soon to have pub
llc demonstration here, torch-light pro-
cesSions and all that, in commemoration
and honor of the patriotic and self-sacri-
fciug regicide.
One of our Police Justices, James II.
W elsh, is down on the masked balls which
manager Ullman has so extensively ad-
Vertised at the Academy of Music. He
has written the manager vigorous letter
uprising him of their illegal character,
and their liability to be suppressed by the
He says The sight of
PERSONS face is, to certain extent,
guaranty of his conduct and a protection
against his designs, and 1t Is serious y felt
that the present is not time to lend dis
gulses to the vicious and to afford new ia
oilities for the perpetration of crime
That's good strong English, Squire Welsh,
which will no doubt "scotch the snake"
in the grass, or rather in mask. Mr..
Ullman will now be compelled to leave
the masks out of his masquerades, and to
DO his dancing with visors up.
WRATZ.