Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-16

the Mulligans, are embroiled in DEATH
conflict. Internal and internecine confic
distracts the great Irish Republic. II
Senate and President are at swords pointt
The war-like preparations-the active en-
ergy-which5 erstwhile caused the blood,
Sassenaeh and the cowardly Canuek t,
tremble and turn pale, are how wasted il
Internal dissensions Terrible is the rue
tionl Donnybrook Fair Is 65ihmonpiaei
compared to it, the battle of the Boynt
and the sanguinary struggle of Slievnam
on sink into insignfcance before it
Each faction is spreading proclamn-
tons and posters, appeals and addresses
before the people. Each is telling stories
about the other, which, if half Of them are
true, prove both to be composed of the
most Psseieus set of seo.ndrels and liars
unhung.
at was not always thus Only 50
long ago as In September, whent the Fenian
Congress assembled in Philadelphia, all
was as harmonious as honeymoon, and
as merry as marriage bells. That Con-
gress organized an "Irish Republic in
America" amid the widest and safest
enthusiasm. It adopted d Constitution
therefor. Id Pnfsianoe of its provisions,
John O'Mshony, the Head Centre of the
F. B., an Irish patriot of long standing,
and a participant III tie hasco of '4s, was
elected President of the new republic,
and Senate offifteen members was chosen
to~exercise its Legislative functions. Res
ceipts rolled in ct the tate of hundred
thousand dollars month, and recruits
came by thousands and tens of thousands.
England trembled on her throne, and
Canada shook from centre to circumfer-
ence.
But alas for the Corruption and jealous
les of rulers The new nation needed
capital, and, as certain political reasons
rendered it inexpedient to locate that cap
ital in Ireland, an eligible site for it was
found in the aristocratic precincts of New
York city. A palatial mansion, magnif-
Gently furnished, with ebony and rosewood
desks, velvet carpets, carved folding doors,
and stained windows was selected. Here
the O MahonS and his cabinet, big with
affairs of empire, organized revolution,
Eliminated thunder-bolts against England,
and safely slowed away the funds. But
trouble arose between the President and
The Senate. Bach desired the handling of
he spondoolicks. The senators could not
zee why o MahoRy and his clan should
nave sole charge Of the golden treasure
which constantly flowed in from the offer
ngs of Irish servant girls and Fenian
lavvies. Jealousy and wrangling COM
nenced. The. quarrel finally assumed |
lefnite shape in the refusal of the Senate
0 confirm the nomination by the Presi-
lent of an Agent of the Republic, whose
ignature was necessary, according to the
constitution, to the validity of all its
'onds. Upon this the unterrifed
pMahony appointed himself the Agent
nd issued the bonds on his own hook.
The 5enate-or the anti-O' 'Mahony fac
ion thereof, numbering ten of the fifteen
Who composed that body-thereat assem-
led and by proclamation denounced
} Mahony and warned the public that
is bonds were worthless. Eager for
be fray, the Chief Magistrate re-
with couple of counter-proc-
amaticns, denouncing the Ten as 'long-
imed malcontents," excluding them from
is palatial headquarters, and gently insin-
ating that they were bought with English
old. Not so to bescared from their fixed
urpose, the undaunted Ten again assem-
led, and cited the O'Mahony and his
eeretary of the Treasury, B. D. Killian,
} appear before them for trial. These
allant statesmen treated the citation with
efance and the Senate, after waiting
wenty-four hours in vain for response
} its summons, met on Saturday last,
nd, after grave and solemn deliberation,
'und the OMahony and his Secretary
uilty of treason, malfeasance and perfdy.
nd deposed them from Office. w. r. Rob-
IT'S, the President of the Senate, was chosen
} the place from which the OMahony
ad been so rudely hurled. But the o. Ma
Ony, with persistence worthy of better
luse, refuses to be hurled therefrom. He
ieks to his palace, the richly-carved doors
which are slammed viciously in the
ces of the Senators and their President,
angs on to the funds, and gives notice of
l intention to lay the wholesubject before
Ie Fenian Congress, an extra session of
hich is called to meet en- the second of
anuary. The new President has deliv-
ed his inaugural, and demanded posses
on of the brown stone mansion in which 9
Mahony reposes his democratic limbs in
istocratic luxury-s demand which was
course contemptuously refused. Thus
alters stand, and meantime the contest
ges fast and furious. From the head
larters of both factions issue daily, proc !
numerous and terrible enough, I
ere they ,cannon-balls, to annihilate an
my. Charges and counter-charges, too j
lmerous to be catalogued, are urged with a
ch persistence and zeal that it were a g
ty to disbelieve them. Each party
ems bent on proving the other to
made up of consummate swindlers !
ID each, we must add, succeeds admir-
'ly in its object. The senators, on their
Irt want to know by what authority :
5000 of the contributions of poor Irish !
ork-maids was paid for the rent of q
lace for eighteen months; $4,000 more I
r repairs; and $4,000 more for furniture. {
hey declare that the books of the :
reasury are kept from public inspection,
ID that there is no possible security
.ainst the embezzlement by theo' Mahony :
ique, of the entire million of dollars
hich rests in its capacious vaults. Mean
ne the President and his party assert thas
e senators are jealous because they do d
It hold the power and the purse-strings; 4
ID that the former treasurer, now one eofthe ?
IN senators, loaned $780, 900 of the funds
hfle they were in his hands, and lost