The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-12-29
RIBBONISM IN IRELAND.


The Dublin correspondent of the London Post
calls attention to startling paper" written bv a
Jail chaplain and published recently in one of the
Dublin journals, which professes to give, on the
authority OF Rlbbonman, an account of the Or
ganZatien, &c, of the Ribbon system. The paper
states that delegates from the various lodges meet
quarterly in Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, Dub
lin, or other large manufacturing towns to make
arrangements for disseminating the signs and pass
words for the ensuing quarter. The lodge meet
ings are generally held in the private room of
public house, to which the members assemble grad
ually. Each grievance complained of is there fully
discussed; the obnoxious magistrate, landlord, or
agent is placed on his trial. sentenced death, (f
pronounced unfit to live,) or, if not to death to
some mitigated punishment, such as beating, or
destruction OF his property by fire or otherwise or
he is pronounced not guilty-the rare exception to
the general rule If murder is determined on
the duty of executing the sentence does not devolve
on the delegate of the country within which the
meeting which passed it was held. The aggrieved
party in whose favor the decision has been made
proceeds to the parish master of district in anoth
country; the first eight ten men who are then
for duty in that district return with him to the spot
which he is prepared to indicate. If any prescribed
punishment is to be inflicted, from murder to beat
ing, or destruction of property, he points out the
individual or place, and keeps himself in the back
ground, whilst the Others execute his purposes; and
if the party which execute these escapes arrest
the spot, his Identification is nearly impossible
Every member of the body is bound by his oath to
obey his leader, at two hours's notice, under the
The neighborhood of Strabane has lately been
the scene of much destruction of property. In the
townland OF Camus, the property of James Greer,
ST., one pike OF hay, and on another farm second
pike of hay and two stacks of oats have been burned
to the ground. At the distance of about quarter
of mile, pike of hay belonging to Mr.. Robert
Gordon, on the estate of the Marquis of Abercorn,
was also malicious destroyed on the same evening
An attempt made to set fire to the outhouses
of Mr.. John Brown, the same estate. In the
outhouses were seventeen head of cattle, but the
fire having died out, little injury was done. No
motive can be assigned for those wanton outrages.
A few days ago Richard Lynch, laborer, of
Tpperary, received notice through the Post
Office. The following is a copy of the nefarious
document: -" Sunday. Dick Lynch, if you drive
kilfles horses with corn any more, take your cof-
fin. Here follows a rude sketch of a coffin. !
When came to see my men this day, they COM
planned that you were trespassing on the carmen
for the old Protestant the agents, Captain
Commet.'" The local paper describes how Gull
foye has excited the ire of his Ribbon neighbors
by hiring horses to perform the extra work of his
master.
One hundred men of the North Lincoln militia
arrived at Bandon on the 30th uIt from Water
ford to occupy the barracks. A large police force
has also been scattered the southwest of Ire
land, and it is rumored that the government intend
sending troops to Skbbereen and Bantry.
FINE Historic ALLUsroN.-Berryer, in his late
defence of Montalembert, before the Court of Cor
rectional Police at Paris, on being interrupted by
the presldlnG Judge, VINO charged him with re-
producing the offence of the accused under the
guise of his defence replied at once, and pointed
ly:
an. lie President, you make me shudder; YOU
carry back my thoughts to a time when the praise
OF good man, the approval of a virtue, of a good
sentiment, of good law, considered as a crime.
| No, do not wish to recall that period to your
memory.
Iegimus capitale fuisse,' ~
These three Latin words are full of significance
to the scholar, and happy instance of courte-
yet scathing retort. They are the beginning of
sentence in Tactus, which describes the fearful
! despotsm of the reign of Domitian, and we repeat
the whole passage, in order to lay the full import
! of them, uttered abusive reference to the
! present condition of France, before our readers.
| The translation we find in the London Eraminer:
''We read that under Domtian two distinguish
| ed personages, Arulenes Rustcus and Herennius
Seneco, suffered capital punishment for celebrating
with their pens the praises of men of worth and vr-
| tue Nor such cruelties confined to the per-
sons of the author but extended to their books
| themselves; orders given to burn these monu-
ments of genius publicly in the forum; in the same
| flames they hoped to destroy the voice of the Ro-
man people, the freedom the Senate, and the
| very mind and conscience ofthe human race. They
| had moreover expelled all the teachers of phioso-
phy driven every liberal into exile, that moth
| ing honest or good might anywhere be Sig
nal was the proof we gave of our power of endur-
ance. As our fathers had seen the consummaton
ofliberty, did we of despotism, deprived by the
agency of spies of the common privilege of social
| intercourse We should have lost memory itself,
| along with the of our tongues, had it been az
easy to forget as to.be silent."-Cor. ", Y Post.