The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-12
Big Medicine Man Barnard Bursts Open the
Doors Of the Wigwam with Mandamus
for tho Unterrified SagamOres.
GRAND P0W-WOW AND WAR DANCE.
The Potawatamie Chief Genet Sinks His
Hatchet in the Brain Of tho Seminole
Brave Matthew T. Brennan.
Tho General Committee Meet and Triumph Over
the Red Men and the Father Of the Coun-
oil-Dowling Carries the Sixth Ward
Without Bloodshed-Big Mike Al
lowed to Walk Home to Yorkville.


Once more the Indian tribes Of Tammany Hall
have met IN dread CONFLICT and have shed the blood
OF their brothers. The hatchet has been dug up anc
the war path is strewn with the bodies of the slain
warriors, squaws and papooses all commtngled In one
terrible red field OF slaughter. The council fires are
once more blazing and the warriors returning from
bufTal0 hunting have kindled beacon fires In the
passes Ut the mountains. Last evening Fourteenth
street. In and around Tammany Hall, was filed
with the warriors Of the dlerent TRIBES their faces
dauDed with war paint and their bodies tattooed
with the signs Of the big medicine men OF the diner.
ent tri0es
THE RED MEN OF THE FOREST.
Every tribe was fully represented In the vast
crowds that ch0ked the street In the entrance to
the hall. There were Pawnees, Pequ0ts MO-
Means Blackfeet, Sioux, Apaches Narragan-
sets, Ojibbeways, Shawnees, Cherokees, Mlamis
Ir0quOis, Algonquins, COmanches, Seminoles,
Senecas, Wyandots, Hurons, Mohawks, Della
wares, Chippewas and Onondagas, assembled
the Council Of the Thirteen Fires. But the
Great Spirit was not among the tribes last night,
for the heavy doses of rewater taken by the braves
during the day had made them feel risky that 1t
was with difficulty that the police preserved order.
THE sACHEMs sCALPED.
sachems OF Tammany Hail. which appeared In yes
terday's HERALD. created the most intense excite
ment among the Tammany Hall politicians in the
city during thed day, and threats were made blythe
active workers in the organization that they would
take possession Of the hall, no matter what hap.
pened This card was signed by seven OF the Sa-
chems, asfOll0ws:-James b. Nicholson Huron trbe)
who Is Father OF the Council; Isaac Bell Seneca
tribe), Emanuel B. Hart tPawnee tribe), Matthew
T. Brennan ('1'he Man. Who Eats" Seminole tribe)
Samuel b. Garvin ("The Man who-Pigeon. Holes.
the Papers," Shawnee trlbe), Douglas Taylor l'Blg
Thunder" Iroquois tribei Nathaniel JARVIS C'Hole.
in-the- WALL" Mohican tribel
WAR PAINT.
There are thirteen Sachems and O Grand Sachem
In the Tammany Society representing the Thirteen
Council Fires. or the old original thirteen States
Six OF these sachems did not sign the card which
closed Tammany Hall to the General Committee.
The six who did not sign are Us follows:-Joseph
bowling, Pequot tribe; John J. Bradley, Sioux
tribe; Peter b. Sweeny, Apache tribe; William M,
Tweed, Comanche tribe; A. Oakley Hal, Blackleei
tribe and Charles G. Cornell, Miami tribe.
To keep order superintendent Ke!so-who il ar
Alabama lndian-had five hundred of his blue
coated warriors all armed to the teeth and carrying
dreadful clubs in their hands, stationed around
Tammany Hall and inside OF the building. Que OF
gauntlet OF the blue-c0at warriors was Mr.. Morgan
Jones, who belongs to The Choctaw tribe followed
by Mr.. John Pyne 1.-THE Man .Wno-Thinks, belonging
to the Chickasaws.
Pat CallaghaD, member OF the Flat Head tribe,
and Con. Desmond. Dig warrior Of the Piegan
the surly lanltor, who took them as II they were
hot Goals that would endanger his fingers. Just
before TINS mandamus mad been served on Super
otherwise known as Judge Barnard and the doors
were compelled to fly open at the sight or the
papers. superintendent KeIso, who was only TOO
glad to receive the mandamus, and had
walled Tor nalf an hour, no sooner saw II than he
gave war whoop and the crowd of braves In the
street. who had wildly been chanting the death song
in the street, expecting TO be burned at the stake and
tortured oy ,ne sqaaws no sooner saw the lines OF
the hall with shout and rushed to take seats
the benches and the stage, the place OF meeting
ants Alinstres.
NO wAMrUM FOR THE SEMINOLE CHIEF
The big Seminole Chief Matthew L. Brennan, who
tried to shut the doors OF the hall In the faces Of
the young warriors was not present. and his braves
mad left their hatchets behind In their w1gwams for
their papooses to play with, and they looked as II
they had been on big buffalo hunt and had got
no meat. In their rage they abused the Great
Spirit, Gltchl-Manltou, and swore they would take
be- held next November Jimmy ' Hays ' the
Conan the Man-Who- Puts Up-Jobs, Penobscot
Indlan) and Colonel Nike Murphy, who expected to
awsy be Of Saas 81 S
the squaws to get their good viii. The Sachems
were badly beaten by the sagamores and
when they found that conan was chairman
Of the Committee on Contested Seats that
Pequot chief, Downing had buried In his brain.
BIG MEDICINE MAN TAKEN PRISONER.
Charles G. CORNELL the Miami Medicine Man. was
fioored BY the oneida brave, John winthrop Chan
Ter. who had ut his back Tom Dreamer, a powerful
Oneida warrior. Mike healy' Tuscarora, and John
the success OF Bowling, VINO gives much wampum and
FIRE water to the warriors, and Jim Collier danced
never met such defeat before, ana on every side
and at every call OF the yeas and nays the hand OF
ane sreas SH maSc mrD1 an o tS poo
wattamie tribe, Harry Genet, was visible.
Altogether this was the greatest pow WOW ever
who were not present and The Father OF the Council
VIII gnash their teeth when tney read OF the scalps
siS Judge Connolly t'Tne Man VINO waiksSl. q
Huron Indian lost his scalp last night, the warrior
who took IL being known to fame az John II.
Masters0n.
SCENES In and Around the Wiswam.
Just as the city oices were about to close yester.
day the rumor spread about that the delegates
elected to the General Committee were about to
force their way into Tammany Hall In the evening,
and that there was every prospect OF high and
lively time. The report was extensively discussed
around the City Hall, and the general impress
sion seemed to ne that the Sachems had made q big
mistake, and that If the tribes took the warpath
that they would easily
CAPTURE THE BIG wrGwAM.
Later In the day report began to gain ground
tina; a caucus Of the warriors had been held, with
Harry Genet the chair, and that active measures
were to be the order OF the day. or, rather, OF the
night.
This last rumor produced even greater sensa.
zion than the first, end those who were hitherto
incredulous about the rebellion began to ac-
knowledge that It was Just possible that the dele.
gates would hold the meeting when was rightfully
called by the Chairman Of last years General Com
mittee in accordance with the rules Of The Tammany
Society," The real fact, namely, that the delegation
had
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