The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1864-04-21
From the irish Times. March ] q.
Federal Enlistments in Ireland.


On Saturday last 500 abls-bodisd young
m eu left the North Wall for New York
They had been collected from this CITY and
the suburban districts, aud were brought to
the quays 10 groups of four, ten, fifteen or
twenty. Wherever in the neighborhood OF
Dublin laborers' work was proceeding there
the Federal agent appeared, picked out the
strongest men, talked them over, and gene
tally succeeded In buying their lives. The
men are not told in express words that thew
must enlist 10 the Federal armies, but they
know very well what they are required to
do, and what they must do. They are os-
tensibly engaged to work at the construction
OF railway for three months. The where.
abouts of the railway we have been unable
to discover. Their passage clothes. and
food are paid for. and they are nomipally
allowed a dollar day until the expiration
Of the three months. Their account will
be settled, and the cost of their passage,
clothes, and keep, Is to be deducted from
the money due from the quarters service
When that settlement is made, the men
may enlist in the Federal armies If thew
please" or, If they prefer it, they may seek
work. The Northerners are a sharp peopls,
aud they take good care that the "thres
months men" must enlist in the Federal
army to keep themselves from prison.
For arriving at New York the 'emigrauts'
are placed by themselves either on some is
land or in an isolated depot. While there
they must buy food. water, boots, and cloth
ing. They are charged ten dollars for what
is worth two. Temptations are offered to
them OF every kind. II they have no money
so much the better. An accommodating
dealer in greenbacks attends every com
pauy, and cashes their notes in advance at
an H..
OF the three months the emigrant has had
some experience in digging trenches, more
in drill, but be is overwhelmed with debt
| He has been exposed to the rspacity of a
warm ct harpies and to legion CT seducers.
he is told he may find employment where
be pleases. t0ten he has paid has debes 10
his difficulty he is offered 1854 in green
backs, a sum which will clear off his La
bilities, and give him some capital to COM
mence a new score. unit; that too Is wasted
and then he us sent to the 'front.'"
There never was devised more iniqnit-
Gus scheme of deception, and, unhappily,
never was wicked device so successful
Misguided young men are hired and then
plundered, and they are plurdered to com
pei them to enlist. When they are once
regularly enlisted, they have nothing before
them but death-death either in the sudden
shock of battle. for they will be placed, as
usual, in the van or on the forlurn hope; or
death after lingering suffering. when they
have been abandoned wounded on the field
or death by fever, which kills them off like
! flies in pestilent hospitals, whose very walls
are impregDated with disease.
Out of every hundred men who leave
their sweethe carts. their families, and their
work behind them, not ten will be alive at
this time next year. aud of these more than
half will be MANNED and crippled for the
brief term of their days. a more deadly
war was never waged than that between the
North and the South-deadly by wounds,
deadly by hardship. deadly by disease; and
in this wa five Irisbme have been slain
for one native American.