The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-17 00:00:00

ALLEGED RECRUITING FOR THE FEDERAL

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(FROII OCR COMULSPONDINT.)
LIVERPOOL, WintUsDat.
Late on Tuesday night Mr. Kehoe, the Superinten-
dent of the Liverpool Detective Police, received a letter from
Mr. George Underwood, the proprietor of the Sef ton Fonndry,
in Liverpool, stating that upwards of 180 men and lads had
been inveigled from Aahtoo.under-Lyne, and 30 more from
London, by a Federal recruiting agent, who had intended
to get them on board the Great Western, then lying iti the
Came% Dock, and bound for New York. Mr. Underwood
added that, suspecting the real object of the expedition, he
had warned the men, and that the greater number of those
from Ashton had thereupon refused to proceed, and had ac-
cepted his (Mr. Underwood's) offer of temporary shelter.
Mr. Kehoe sent an officer to make inquiries, and yesterday
morning the information collected was placed in the
hands of the deputy town clerk, Mr. Cnrwood,
who pursued the investigation during the day with a
view to legal proceedings. It appears that placards have
been published at Ashton and elsewhere, inviting young
men to go out to New York, the inducement being per.
manent employment in a large glass manufactory at 15..
' per week, with food and clothing, and it is said that 300 of
them accepted the offer. When the first batch, numbering
about 180, from 16 to 30 years of age, arrived at the Sefton.
street Station at Liverpool, it was dark, and carts were in
waiting to carry them to the Canada Duck. Some dispute
occurred between the men who were hungry, and the agent
who promised that they would find plenty to eat on board
the Great Western ; and the altercation attracted the at-
tention of Mr. Underwood, and led to his interference.
The inquiries made yesterday disclosed only such facia as
warrant the belief that the men were intended recruits ;
and it is doubtful at present whether the agents have
brought themselves legally within the range of the Foreign
Enlistment Act. However, about four or five hun-
dred men—collected from London, Ashton, Liverpool,
and some from abroad—were yesterday on board
the Great Western and the vessel left the dock
for the river, preparatory to sailing for New York. The
Ashton men mention the name of a Mr. Shaw, who has
been active in inducing them to join this glue-making expe-
dition. This gentleman's brother, who is said to have
been in communication with some of the London men, has
been out to the United States and recently returned ; and
it is further said that they are both passengers on board
the Great Western. One of them is mentioned as the per-
son who paid the fare of th- Ashtoo men by rail to
Liverpool. The men from London were induced to enter
into the affair by the appearance of an advertisement iu
the Clerkemeell Neel and several morning papers, directing
them to inquire at some place of meeting in Westminster.
LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
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The Great Western has been iiXerdicted from proceeding
on her voyage until an investig►tion can be made. She is
at present in the river, as required by the Emigration Act.
She is an American ship, the property of Megan Baring
Brothers, and is commanded by Captain Cunningham.
The agents in Liverpool are Messrs. Guion and Co. Fifty-
two men, of whom seven are from London, nine from Staly-
bridge, and the rest from Ashton-nodes-Lyre, have re-
ported themselves to the police, and remain here, having
no means to return to their homes, and no disposition to
prosecute their trip to America. Five of them are labourers,
one a clerk, one • type-founder, one a cabman, one • brick-
layer, three miners, one • painter, and the rest factory
hands. They will be accommodated at the workhouse to-
night ; and an application ou their behalf will be made to
Mr. Rattles, the stipendiary magistrate, to-morrow. All
the Ashton mon state that they were engaged by Mr. lingh
Shaw ; the Staly bridge men name the same person ; five of
the London men say Mr. Startia, or Stantan, engaged them ;
end the other two London men name • Mr. Leicester as the
agent who induced them to go out.

At the Ashton-under-Lyne borough magistrates' meeting,
yesterday, Mr. George DalgHash, chief constable, said be
wished to call the attention of the bench to a system which
was alleged to have been carried on to Ashton-under•Lyne
and the district, of employing young men to go to work in
a glass works in New York. Eighty youeg men had left
Ashtou on the previous night, and, from what he bad beard,
he suspected that they were taken away for the purpose of
being drafted into the Northern army. Mr. Dalgliesh then
referred to an article and a letter, signed George Under-
wood, which appeared in the Liverpool Mercury of yes-
terday morning, and said be read a conversation
with one of the agents, who had told him that the
firm in New York Lad engaged 300 young men in
London, but that the crimp, had got hold of them
in New York, and had drafted them into the army. The
magistrates' clerk said he supposed these young men hid
not been accustomed to work in g'assworks. Mr. Deistic&
said they bad not, and he understood a majority of them
had not a penny is their pockets. He had been told they
had been offered Fidols. per month. He further said that he
understood there had been an agent in the district engag-
ing young men, who gave the name of Roupell or Russell,
leiden.lane, New York. He bed, however, it was alleged,
left the district ; and Mr. Hugh Shaw, Stalybridge-road,
was said to be acting for him, and his (Shaw's)
brother to have accompanied the young men to Liverpool
on Tuesday. He bad been informed that the agent had
been told to look at the teeth of the young men engaged.
The magistrates' clerk further advised Mr. Dilgliesh to see
the mayor as to the dtairabl of r_UTlllllolllog a meetiug of
the magistrates relative to this subject, and Mr. Da igliesh
said he would do se. The matter then dropped.
Oar correspondent writes that only 80 met left Ashton on
Tuesday, and not no, as mentioned in the Mc reury. Several
of them were men of 40 to tO years of age, but the majority
were between 10 and 20. On Tuesday a woman applied at
the Ashton police-otfice to interfere to prevent her son, 10
years of age, leaving home, stating that be had beenlured to
go to America ; but the police dud not see bow they could
interfere. The Liverpool Mrrerry states that Ashton hat
been placarded offering young men work in New York ;
but the chief constable of Aslitoe, our correspondent, and
several other persons likely to have seen such placards if
any. have never seen or heard of one. Our correspondent
understands that Hempel' or Russell, when engaging the
young men, strongly urged that, if they were drafted into
the army at New York, he would receive their pay from
the Federal government until he had been reimbursed
all expenses, stating that the Federal government allowed
him to make such au arrangement. He also, it is alleged,
&aimed those he engaged that, it they got drunk,
they were certain to be got hold of by the crimps, and
would be drafted into the army. The motive of these
representations may be easily understood as s blind though
appearing prima facie as a proof of a bona ps,le engagement
to go to the glaasworks alluded to. The suspicion in the
district is now general that the engagements were not canna
.fide. When the men were leaving Stalybridge and Ashton,
the crowd cried out that they were going for soldiers.
There is little doubt this alleged attempt to violate the En•
listment Act in Ashton-uoder•Lyne and the neighbourhood
will receive the serious attentiou of the magistrates and be
thoroughly investigated

THE EARTHQCASE IN MENlCO.—Respecting the
earthquake, the Con tittition rid supplies the following
additional particulars:—" In the capital the oscillations,
which were brut from north to south. and then from east
to west, were followed by that trembling movement which
renders such phenomena so formidable. Some old buildings
io the suburbs fall to the ground, but no loss of life
took place. At Puebla the consequences were more
serious. A letter from that town, dated the 3rd,
mates that the earthquake lasted from 2S to 30 second..
The cupola and a part of the tower of the church
of San-Augustin, the sculptured shield in front
of the pelves • portion of the Convent of Sen.
Juan de Dios, and a large number of homes, all fell to the
ground. The total number of victims was not known, but
seveuteen French soldiers were killed or wounded, and
twenty-nice of the inhabitants had been taken to the hos-
pital more or Ices severely hurt. According to telegraphic
despatches received io the capital the earthquake was felt
with move or lees violence on the whole line of the route
from Vets Cruz, especially at Acultaingo, Palma, Orizaba,
C.rdovs, and Lit P.oledad. A communication from Telma.
can mentions that great damage was done in that town.
Nearly all the belfries in the place and the town hall he in
ruins, and a large number of houses were in • tottering con-
ditio• ; the inbabitaate have almost all left the tows. At
Orizaba a church tower, recently erected, was thrown
down, sod the walls of • number of homes remain in •
dangerous state."

THE REV. Da. LA a.—The services of the Rev.
John Dunmore Ding. , in the cause of the separation
of quaensland from New South Wales, base been no far re-
cognised by parliament that a bonus of 1,0001. has been
greeted to the viewable seatlemair —Bristow o:swim