The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-11
10! THE POOR INDIAN.

10! THE POOR INDIAN.
From the NJ Y. Tribune
If the celebrated Logan could look down
from his celestial hunting-grounds and see
the prosperous condi ion of his descendants
such of them at least as wear the paint and
feathers of the Tammany tribe and owe ale
glance to the great sachem in Fourteenth
street-we dare say he would forget his
wrongs and his rhetoric, and ask leave to
withdraw altogether his famous speech
against the palefaces. Whatever rascally
agents and lawless settlers may do to the red
men of the plains, the Copperhead braves of
Manhattan are getting 50 rich, and pros
porous, and comfortable, that the whole
race must feel bound to accept their prospe-
rity as an dnetde honorable from penitent
public.
Of the Tammany tribe the most famous
are, as is well known, Warrior Peter b.
Sweeny, celebrated for his cunning and wise
counsels; Grand Sachem William NJ Tweed,
well known for his long purse and generous
(some think to fault) distribution of the
public wampum among decrepit and worn
out braves who have done the tribe service;
Sachem r. b. Connolly, crafty old warrior,
popularly known as the great scalper of Oliver
Charlick the railroad king and Michael Con-
molly, the big judge, popularly known among
his familiars and admirers as the Daniel
O'Connell of the American Fenians. Those
three chiefs are monarchs of nearly all they
survey. They own much wampum and
lands, and have parcelled out among their
own relations all the scalps that the tribes
have taken Look at the record, and then
contrast the happy situation of these big and
little injins with that of Logans family,
Warrior Sweeny is City Chamberlain, with
an income of $3.50, 900; William A. Herring,
his brother-in-law, is Auditor with salary of
$4,000, and also director in the Transcript AS
sociation, which, together with the New York
Printing Company, receive, in one form or
another, it is popularly believed, about
S400,0 600 per annum from the subjugated
people of Manhattan, for recording the wise
laws made by the whisky braves at the City
Hall, and the long-drawn out account of the
scalps they take when annually on the war
path in November and December. Thomas
j. Barr, his uncle, is Secretary to the Tax
Commissioners, Commissioner for Opening
Streets, and, now and then, Receiver when
railroads bring their quarrels into our City
Courts. They say he also made a good thing
as Receiver for the Fenian Fund, receiving to
his own use $25OO thereof for very small SER
vices rendered.
The second big injin is Grand Sachem Will
liam Nj. Tweed, who aspires to be the national
big ingin of all the tribes.
1t will be noticed that the male members of
Ills ldlnlly are, unfortunately, uOI uuluerOuS,
which puts him to the painful necessity of
holding many offices himself-such as Sena-
tor, Supervisor, Deputy Street Commissioner,
and directly or Indirectly, some twelve or fif-
teen other fat and pleasant places. His pa
poose, William NJ. Tweed, Jr., is Assistant
District Attorney, holds an Office on the Gov
| ernor's staff, was receiver" in the Pacific
and other railroad quarrels, and is referee,
appointed by the judges. Although not over
| twenty-six years old, he is understood to be
on the Tammany slate for Judge of the Supe-
rior Court, to be elected this fall William H.
King, his brother-in-law, is Tax Commits
sioner, with a salary of $4,000; and William
H. King, Jr., his brother -in-law's son, is
Chief Clerk to the Street Commissioner,
with salary of $4,000 per annum.
Next and last comes big iniin Connolly,
who for the present is satisfied with being
Controller, with j. Townsend Connolly, his
son, as Deputy Auditor, at a salary of S6OOO
and who also holds position upon the Gov
ernors staff. Robert G. Hutchings, his son
in-law, is Assistant District-Attorney, and is
now believed to be on the slate for Surrogate
to be elected this fall. Joel A. Fithian, his
sOn-in-law, is Deputy Receiver of Taxes, with
a salary of $4,000, and is also School Trustee
for the Twenty-first Ward.
OF course, the curious reader will notice
that we have taken no account in any of these
cases of the perquisites appertaining to eacl
| position, which are reputed to be, under the
care of the incumbents, growing larger ant
| larger, until they have already reached sucl
princely proportions as to make the stated
salaries look insignificant and beggarly in the
comparison.