It Was No Uncommon Occurrence To See An Indian Waggon By The Road-Side, With Its Pair Of Horses _Sans_ Driver, Who Might Have Been Found Either Drunk Or Quarreling At The Other End Of The City.

And although the horses were always impounded, and a fine inflicted, still the nuisance continued without abatement, in fact, was rather on the increase.

The new Mayor, being a man more alive than his predecessor to this evil, caused a regulation to be passed by the Civic Council, that any Indian found so far the worse for liquor in the streets of Buffalo as to be incapable of taking care of himself, should be punished by being made to work on the high roads for a short period, with an iron ball and chain attached to his leg. When this law was promulgated, there was a strong impression that the Indians would show resistance. This was soon found to be a correct view of the case, for not a week had elapsed before two warriors were brought before the Mayor, and sentenced to ten days' probation at road-mending, in pursuance of the decree. They had, however, only been at work two days in the upper part of Maine-street, in charge of two constables, when a large body of their fraternity, armed _cap-a-pie,_ entered the city, and, with horrid yells and brandished tomahawks, rescued the culprits, knocked off their chains, and carried them in triumph to the Indian village, amidst fearful threats of fire and blood.

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