The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-08-31
From the Louisville Courier.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE IRISH.

ey thas have been placed at their disposal 10
aid the Irish in their projected revolution.-l
Many of these contributors are beginning to
feel satisfied that they have been ''gouged"
and swinded. We concur in sentiment with
them, and we think that the business should
be exposed. We yield to none in our desire
to see Ireland free from the bad government
that has ruined her, but we think this humbug
ging of the lovers of Ireland, out of their mon
ey, has been carried far enough. If there was
any reasonable prospect that this money could
be made to do Ireland any good, if the slight
est explanation were given as TO what DISPOSE
ton was to be made of these contributions,andl
if they were obtained by honest representa-
tions, there might be show of reason for the
urgent calls made for more money for Ireland.
But in view of the entire absence of all these
things, we are inclined TO look upon the move
ments in New York as huge humbug, if not
giant swindle. Its success falls hard upon
the poor laboring Irishman, for there are no be-
ings vino feel the sacred flame of love of coun-
try more ardently than the Irish do. Hundred
of these poor men have been contributing ev
cry thing they could spare from their hard
earnings towards most delusive project-a
project buried as completely in the dark as the
temple mysteries of Ancient Egypt were
The rapacity Of great many of their coun-
trymen in the United States has stripped
them as bare as their English rulers did in
Ireland.
The game has showed itself since the arrival
of the Cambria. That vessel brought over
news well calculated to dampen the ardor of
the Irish meetings in the East, and in order to
counteract this depressing news cypher letter
was got up and published in the N. Y. Tribune
in the absence of the senior editor of that pa
per. This CIPHER letter purported to give the
most startling intelligence intelligence, it was
argued, was suppressed by the news authorities
of England. 1t carried itsown refutation wi tn
it, and there was a necessity for propping it up
in some way. There was great meeting at
| Vauxhall Garden I'm New York, and it was
very necessary not to permit any tagging to
take place in the contribut ions to Ireland. Mr.
Mitchell, the brother Of John Mitchell, of the
Irish Tribune; addressed the meeting and as
sured those present that he had full faith in the
New York Tribune letter, and stated that its
news was confirmed by private letters then in
the city. The Irish were wound up to the
most intense pitch of excitement-the news
that their countrymen had met the British
forces, and had triumphed over them with
great slaughter of their enemies, was we'll cal
culated to stir the hearts of the Irish, and TO
raise hopes that freedom was dawning on Ire
Hand. In the midst of this profound sensation
a Mr.. O'Conner, editor of the Irish Volunteer,
rushed upon the platform, almost out of breath
with the news that Sarah Sands had just
arrived, and that letters had been received
byher confirming in every particular, the
|, intelligence contained in the CIPHER let
ter of the New York Tribune, and he added,
by way of clincher, that these joyful IT,
dings were communicated by special mes
senger just arrived from the Sarah Sands. The
Imagination Of our readers can easily guess
what tempest was raised In that excited
meeting by this news. No one paused to ask
a question, no one hesitaed in giving credence
to this wild and improbable statement. No
one bethought himself to demand sight Of
the special messenger of the Sarah Sands, but
, the whole batch frauds were gulped down a;
4 one swallow, and there was perfect hailstorm
, OF money contributions from the excited and
deluded Irish. The Sarah Sands, thus oppor-
timely announced, had not arrived up to We'd
e nesday, two days after this meeting at Vaux-
hall Gardens! How can men be brazen-faced
: enough thus to take advantage of the ardent
1 sympathes of the Irish for their country to de-
: Jude them in this style; and to swindle them
out of their hard earnings?
4 We do not believe that the emergency in
: Irish affairs has yet passed-the Irish are blding
their time, and we believ the outbreak is yet to
= come. But We do not believe that this
). country will be able to help Ireland much
h by men. Every avenue to Ireland is watched
e by the sleepless eye of Great Britain, and no.
:, q thing, escapes her vigilance. To show this
n we have fact relative to an Irish gentleman
l. who formerly lived in Lexington, KY, and
Z who is one of the most quiet, inoffensive men
% in the world. young gentleman, in this
|, city, by way of joke, in writing to him while
l. in this country, addressed him as MAJOR oil
I Mooney Irish Brigade, and he; knowing the
10 charac ter of the address, threw the letter into
l. his trunk, and thought no more oft until the
4. custom house officers in Great Britain marched
him of to jail.a the representative of the long
ax.oo,al ,,,l ,rolI xra,,bad Ir;sh hr;,oda In