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The Irish republic., 1867-05-11
The Labor Movement.
THE TRADE SOCIETIES IN NEW YORK.

Twenty-Five of the Workngmens Societies in this city
are in the Wokngmen Union and these % have
more than 900 members who keep their dues paid the
last cent In addition these the Union estimates
men, who have aahetcay lost their voting membership
through nopayment of her monthly dues may be counted
active society men in time of emergency Of the 62 oganza
tons which do not send delegates the great representative
body twothe Longshoremes and the Laborers u B. Soc
eare known to have their rolls the of than
5000 men in good standing and the Others estimated to
enjoy mbehp of from so to 400 EACH Thirty thousand
therefore, not an estimate of the actual strength
of the labor organizations in New York. Possibly Brooklyn,
Jersey City, Newark and the Westcheser may have
10000 society who practically banded with our 30000
and these cities and but outlying wards of the
great city, it be fair to estimate the er of who
pledged each other in the of strikes the
mercal metropolis at 600.
These deny the landlords allegation that the
ranted demands of labor the primary of the
nous advance in house rents and they invite the public look
the facts and learn thereom that labor has been
in the market demanding fair remuneration They cite for
example, the paserers the best paid among the workngmen
who represented in the great Central Union:
The pasterers organized protective Union in March, 1868
and then receiving from $l37 $l5O day. In the
Spring 1853 gold having started steepe race they
demanded $75 and then again S. and at the latter figures
their stood until February 1854 when the landlords
having notified their tenants that houseen to be
N if not quite doubled and the groceymen and all other
des OF the necesares of life having advanced their prices 100
200 per cent the Pasteers Society advanced the
$780, and then So and September of the again
$3 so but in October work having Stacked they voluntarily
receded So worked this until March, 1866 whe
the landlords having made another demand their purse
they raised the scale $3 30 In September last the Society
increased the $4 and there it stood until the employ
ing pasterers impeed by the law of supply and demand
overbd each other until they had reached $3.50 Near the
close of December last the employers discussed the question
of reduction but the Society having waxed rong held them
$3.50 the price to-day Here and there
paerer gets S.. The paseers pioneers in the eight
hour movement and first the two hours which the work
ngmen generally demand on Saturdays They have
forced the apprenticeship law, and will work
poyer who has than three apprentices They require
a these shall be regularly ndentured four years and
Il apprentices absond the Society will seek them and
them their employers. To outsiders all this may
like debating employers; but the employers said
to desire change.
The Irish republic., 1867-05-11
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
WRITTEN FOR THE IRISH REPUBLIC.
So.
Who fears to speak of '98-
Who bushes at the name +?

Who bushes at the name?
There was something grand and heroic in the
United 1rshmen, else why is it that in our lowest
depths of servitude, and in our darkest hours of
national sorrow, the very mention Of '98 sends a
thrill of pride to hearts, and the blush-not Of
shame-but of hope to our cheeks, for being the
descendants of the men
"Who rose in dark and evil DAYS
To right their native land;
Who knded there living blaze
That nothing can Withstand"
The veriest coward, whose craven soul will admit
of no bolder movement than with goose quill to
sign petition to g Our Gracious Queen thereby
writing himself down Sl00e-as we'll as the wild
est Young Irelander Red Republican, or Fenian, of
our race, feels raised up toward the high level of
freeman in reading the crimson pages of Irish his
tory, illumed by the heroic actions of the men of
'99.
In The Irish Magazine of 1918 we find the fol-
lowing letter from a '9s man; and, though years
of blood and fire on foreign fields have swept over
his Irish soul, and though honors- soldiers in
centives to gory,-have been heaped upon him,
still his heart turns to Ireland as fresh, and as
3 Tong, as when he handled pike, and led the men
of gallant Tipperary "Patrick O'Meara the
Croppy Genera, -" Patrick O'Meara sold as a
sloye by England to the King of Prussia, (oh, my
Irish friends don't start, many glorious rebel of
our race-rebe to British tyranny, has been sold
and perished in slavery, from the petty Kingdoms
of Germany, to the plague fields Of the West In
des) Patrick O'Meara, the French solder-pri-
VIE, lieutenant, captain, and at last Patrick
O'Meara, General Of Brigade, Colonel 4th Regi-
ment of the Old Guard, Grand Cross of the Legion
of Honor, &C., was "Ireand's ever
The Irish republic., 1867-05-11
HEREMoN.
Philadelphia, Ra., april 80, 1867
To the Editors of the Irish Republic.

New YORK, April 29th, 1857.
All hail, cherished name and welcome ally to the
ranks ofpatriotism. What bright visions of future
glory your name suggests. How it fills the soul
with noble aspirations, and ardent ongings for the
day when the enduring structure Of free Republic
will be raised by patriot hands on the soil long
and previously cursed by foreign despotism.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-13
WHAT ia JAcoBINI

Our racy, piquanl, cutting, fling
saving cotenporury, the Peoria Demo
orat having gone to the dictionary for
the word Jacobin, returns laden
with the following definition by Noah
Webster: "The Jacobins in France,
during the revolution Of 1889, were a
society Of vfoleat repolutfonists who
held secret meetings, in which measures
Ders concerted to direct the proceed
ings of the National assembly. Hence
IA Jacobin is the member Of . club who
opposes government in a secret or an
law(ul manner, or by violent means; a
turbulent demagogue." This is a fair
description of the leaders Of the
ruling party OF our day. Our CO.
temporary next turns TO the Encyclo-
pela Americana. The definition there
given reads thus: "The club Of Jacobins
is one of the most surprising phenomena
in nature. That in civilized nation,
so large body of men could be found,
uniting rare energy Icith erecrable rice
political madness and outrageous
cruelty, committed Gliodys in the name Of
cirtue, is a historical phenomenon of the
highest interest" The curious reader
now understands what the papers mean
when they speak of the Jacobin party in
the country.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-13
BUTLER AGAIN

A Washington telegram says that
during the war the corporation of New
Orleans sold bonds to citizens of Louisi-
ana for the purpose of raising funds with
which to fortify the city against the Fed
eral forces After General Butler cap
tured the city, he made several assess
ments amounting to seventy-fve per
cent Of the gross amount for the benefit
Of the poor IF the department Several
petitions have been filed asking that the
amount Of these assessments may be re-
funded, but without success, aud Robert
J. Kerr, Of New Orleans, has recently
arrived, authorized by the interested
parties to act as their agent in procuring
its return. If he succeeds, General
Butler will, in response to the demand Of
prominent Louisiana Radicals, bring the
whole subject before Congress.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-13
BY TELEGRAPH.
THE NOON DISPATCHES
FROM NEW YORK

New YoRK, April ia Matamoros
correspondent states that the late en-
gagement which occurred near Quertaro
resulte d in the defeat of the Imperialists
The fighting was very stubborn. Esco-
bedo admits the loss on both sides to be
very heavy. The Imperialists offer ten
dollars to armed and five dollars to un-
armed soldiers who will join them. The
commander at Matamoros forced an
other loan OF $4,000 on the merchants
The firm of Frazer, Trenholm 4 Co +,
of Charleston, and LATTE, their Nassau
agent, have been summoned to appear
before the Judiciary Committee to testify
relative 10 blockade running and assets
of that firm at the close of the war.
Secretary Seward has issued a circu-
lar to U. s. Ministers and consular
agents, common ding General Sherman
to their consideration. The Quaker City
is to be supplied with artillery and flags
to be used in saluting.
The Presidents health is much i'm
proved. Thad. Stevens and W. E.
Chandler, Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, are both much better.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-13

The Buffalo AdrerRser has either
placed itself out of the pale Of truth, or
they have a crazy rich man in that city
Such story as the following could have
no foundation in fact in Memphis. We
commend it to our landlords. Says the
Advertiser: ave doubt if any city in the
United States can furnish parallel to
the circumstance that we are about to
relate. A landlord refuses to raise his
rent There are three stores in the
Kremlin block in this city which are
rented frem year to year at the same
rent that was placed upon them a dozen
years agol The owner utterly refuses
to advance the rents upon the old tenants,
though the adjoining stores have for sew
eral years been renting for two or three
times the sum he charges for Lis. He
has been waited upon by disinterested
agents, and aifectionately entreated to
put the property into their hands, with
the assurance that his income from the
stores should be more than doubled; but
he replies that his tenants are already
paying all they can afford, and all the
stores are worth, and their rents shall
not be raised Now we challenge any
city in Uncle Sans dominions to pro-
duce match to this rdUa 0cis.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-13
MONEY LOST.

The latest number of Harper's Weekly
says: The amount OF money lost by
brokers and others since the first Of Jan
uary, in consequence Of the tumble in
stocks, would pay for all the improve
ments which New York will require for
twenty years. We can mention in
stances that come 10 our personal knowl-
edge daily, which would of themselves
astouish the uninitiated public. One
popular and successful author has lost,
within two months, his entire profits
upon three books-the earnings of two
years of toll. A clergyman has nearly
impoverished himself and wife.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-13
INDIAN WAR.

All accounts from the plains indicate
a bloody Indian war this summer. Joe
Reshaw, an old trader, who has lived
among the Indians for a year, says he
has positive information that there is
camp of 1900 lodges of Sioux, about
thiriy-five miles from Fort Smith, on the
Big Horn river; that they have smoked
the pipe of peace with three or four
tribes north of the Missouri, and that as
soon as spring opens they will cOncen-
trate their forces and commence war
Of determination. The long, severe
winter has made them destitute and
desperate. f.I|.I tII.|.
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ArkAnrau nsath..

We find the following in the Little
Rock Gazette OF the 10th;
Ex-Governor John Seldon Roane died
on Monday last, AFTER q long illness,
at his home near Pine Bluff, in JEFF
ferson county. The deceased was one Of
the prominent men Of the State.
At an early day he was Representative
from Crawford county In the Lower
House Of the Legislature AT the break.
ing out Of the Mexican war, he enlisted
company aud went rs Captain. he
was afterwards promoted TO Lieutenant
Colonel, and on the death Of Colonel
Yell, became Colonel OF the regiment.
In 1913, he was elected Governor Of
Arkansas on the Democratic ticket.
During the late war no attained the rank
Of Brigadier General in the Confederate
service.
The hearts Of many old citizens Of
Arkansas will be saddened by the intel
lgence Of the death Of Colonel Samuel
NJ. Ruthford, which occurred At his resi-
dence, in Sebastian county, on the LIST
inst
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-13
WHIPPED In.


President johnson got the Radicals
"down ION the Russian treaty question.
The Senate opposed il at first, but
thinking Of the effect that opposition
might have on the interests Of the party,
ratified Il II appears that no less than
ten Senators spoke against it, and yet
there we're but two votes, those of Sena.
tors Fessenden and Perry, recorded in
the negative. A motion to postpone IL
till December received ten votes, and
thirty against The Secretary of State
declines to allow an authenticated copy
of the document to be published until it
is formally delivered to the Russian
government An incorrect copy is pub.
lished in one Of the New York papers.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-13
TO CORRESPONDENCE


"HAromE BorToM. The document you
send us may be good thing, whore the par;yi is
known, but would not amuse the public.
a"J. K."-somo Of your lines are too long
and some too short. Verses must be con-
structed mechanically, and we fear you have
not studied the art. We cannot publish for
poetry shat which is nothing but prose.
IN. GIVE will endeayor nezt week to
find room for the communication and lines you
send Us, with. perhaps, some necessary Hltera-
tions.
"JAxH."-If the fellow kisses you again, tell
your big brother. Don't bore us with the sub
ject.
"RAvExHoR " is declined. Read Poe's "Ra-
VEN" and cease your poetic . wobbliuEs."
-. c. is accepted, and will appear 10
day or two. We think the production excel
lent.
RuRAL."-Thank you for the flower.
Where did you get the dew you sprinkled on
;t9 Adew
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-13
ruF FnPnPFAK WAR

France and Prussia are on the verge
of war, and the commercial and financial
world is shaken by the danger to be ap-
pretended from a general disturbance of
the peace of Europe 1t is said that ne.
co,iations between France and Holland
fo- the eession of Luxembourg were pro.
eeesing favorably, when Count Bismarck
skiIlfuliy succeeded in suspending the
bargain, By calling the attention of the
Dutch Government to the existence of
certain claims Of the late Germanic Con-
federation upon the Ducal Government
Of Luxemburg, for unpaid federal contri-
buttons and for different Notifications,
and to the fact that Prussia the legal
successor Of the Confederation, would
consider any disposal of Luxemberg by
Holland, to third party, as an infrac-
ton of those claims This protest had
prevented any engagement with the
French Government
What will the ambitious French
Emperor do? is the vital question.
The conduct Of the great powers will
depend on his decision. He would
lose prestige by backing down,
but then, no man can perform that diff
cult feat so gracefully as the powerful
Napoleon. In view Of contingencies,
the nations are arming and replenishing
their arsenals with weapons constructed
after the latest improvements, The Bel
gian Minister Of War states that France
is having four hundred and eighty thou
sand breech-loading muskets manufac.
tured. The arsenals of Prussia are ac-
lively at work. Austria is having six
hundred thousand muskets converted
into breech-loaders. England viii have
three hundred and fifty thousand similar
ly converted by the end of the year
Russia is transforming six hundred thou.
sand. Denmark, Holland, Switzerland
Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Bel
GUM are all engaged in the same war
like preparations.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-13
FoRKEY DEMoRALIzED.

1t is said that Forney's last letter to
the Philadelphia Press is q comprehen-
sive paragraph, of which the purport is,
that Democrats are bewailing the Con.
necticut election because it will have a
tendency to hurt the cause in the South
by losing the votes of the negroes. But
the real meaning of it is, that he, with
others, discerns the inevitable going over
of the eolored voters en- masse TO the
Democratic party, and is doing all in his
tame way that he can to avert the dread.
full calamity which the abolitionists have
brought on themselves. The negroes of
the South have already had sufficient ex.
perience TO know who treats them we'll
and who treats them badly; and the re-
suit will be that when they vote, they
will vote in the interest of their former
masters.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-13
CHARLESTON FREEDMEN.

The Herald $ Charleston dispatch says
at a meeting of the prominent citizens
of that place on the I'd instant, il was
unanimously agreed that the freedmen
should be entitled to run some one of
their color on the white mans ticket to
tAe convention and State Legislature.
The meeting was composed, in large
proportion, of old Democrats and Sc
cessionists, and General Wade Hsmp-
ton sent letter to it, urging the policy
of giving the negroes representation
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-13
RESURRECTION.

After death comes the resurrection.
The Democratic party has died time
and time again, but it does not seem to
have been a very dead die. 1t is coming
TO life in spots, pretty much as farmer
grass appears in the fields 1t has burst
the nails off its coffin in Connecticut and
poked finger out 1t turned violently
over in New Hampshire, and came very
near splitting the ground. There ir no
probability of the Democratic body all
rising together. 1t was killed and buried
in sections, and will rise from the dead
town, city, county, State at time,
until the whole body with the scar Of
the cash received on its throat at Charles
ton horribly conspicuous) will stand
upon its feet. Then wo to its murderers.
By that sign it will be known, and by
that sign it will conquer. The r,sur-
rected innocent, the unearthed Samson,
the reconstructed Hercules-beware of it.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-13
SEWAP-O.

The Washington Entelligeneer says
" Though Seward. is praised over one
half of our country, subordinating
judges, sheriP.s and legislators to his i'm
perious fiji, yet law is still vindicated
north of the Potomac, the Supreme
Court of the United States is enthroned
IN power in the Capital of the nation,
and the process of its Marshal is yet
more potent than the mandate of the
Executive or the enactment Of Con-
gress."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-13
Pertinent question: Ansvered.

The New Orleans Times contains the
following pertinent bit of catechism
which will puzzle some of cur Radical
friends to confute:
Did the Northern States ever have the
institution Of slavery Yes.
Did they free their slaves2 Ne.
How did they get rid Of the accused
thing2 They sold their slaves to the
people Of the South.
Why did they discontinue slavery in
their midst1 Because it paid better to
sell their slaves than to keep them.
Did they make any provision for the
future freedom Of their slaves when they
sold them2 No.
What States were chiefly engaged in
the slave trader The Northern States.
Did they continue the trade after
slavery was abolished in their midst
Yes, they continued it until the com
mencement Of the war.
Which Of the Northern States had the
greatest number Of vessels engaged IN
this trade and made most money by kid
mapping poor Africans and selling them
into bondage 2 Massachusetts.
Could not Congress have passed a
gradual emancipation and colonization
act, allowing a moderate compensation
for slaves Ii could.
Would such an act have been accepted
by the SOUTH Undoubtedly.
What prompted the rebellion in the
SOUTH An assurance that the very men
from whom originally the Southern peo-
pie purchased their slaves, after they
had been stolen from Africa, were deter
mined TO release them without restiiu-
ton Of their own ill-gotien gains in the
PREMISES, and 10 make use Of the 90 =
men Is tools, in order TO perpetuase a. 3D..
own political supremacy.
Have the fears Of the South been real
lied ? Yea
Its unnecessary 20 make further ex-
tracts from this suggestive and retro
speciive catechism II order is to be
brought forth from The existing chaos,
the people Of the whole country must
forget their chickering's, aud exhibit a
spirii Of mutual concession and mutual
f0rbearance.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-13
FROM CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, April NV. B. Kean &
Co loss by FIRE last night was 100000;
insured for $4,000. Goodspeed & Co.,
occupying fourth floor as publishing
agency, lose $4,000 worth of stock, and
Dean & Ottoway, job printers, third floor,
$4,000. Goodspeed and Ottoway are un-
der arrest, charged with firing the build
ing.
Buise & Lapare's brewery, near Cot
tage Grove, was burned yesterday. Loss,
SO, 900; insurance, $44, 1000.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-13
MEDICAL.
Something New Under the Sun.
A New Era in Medicine.

7 EFT THE SUFFERING AND DISEASED
IL read the fellowing:
Let all who have been given up by Doctors,
and spoken Of as incurabie, read the following:
Let all who can believe facts, and can have
faith in evidence. read the following:
K,lo0 all Men bv these Presents, That on this
the twentieth day Of June. in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six,
personally came Joseph Haydock to me, known
as such. and being duly sworn. deposea as fol-
lows That he Is the sole general agent for the
United State and deDendencies thereof, for pre-
partitions or medicines known as MAGGIEL'S
PILLS and SALVE, and that the following
certificates are verbatum copies to the best 81
his knowledge and belief.
Il. 81 JAMES SMEITRE, Notary Public,
Wall Street. New York.
DR.. MAGGIEL: I take my pen to write you of
my great relief, and that the awful pain in my
side has left me at last-thanks to your medicine.
Oh, doctor, how thankful / am that can got
some sleep. j can never write it enough. /
thank you again and again, and am sure you
are really the friend of all sufferers. / could
net help Writing to you and M hSgs yNg vii not
June /, 1866. ll6 Avenue d.
This is to certify that was discharged from.
the army with Chronic Diarrhea, and haves
been cured be DR.. MP9ggg g. rs Pills. vpv
New York. April 7. 1885. 27Pitt Street.
The following is an interesting case Of a man
employed in an Iron Foundry, who, in pouring
melted iron into flask that was damp and vet
caused an explosion. The melted iron was
thrown around and on him in perfect shawor,
and he was burnt dreadfully. The following
certificate was given to me by him about eigh
weeks after the accident:
NEW YoBZ, Jan. II, 1866.
My name is Jacob Hardy; l am an iron foun-
der; I was badly burnt by hot iron in November
last; my burns healed but had running sore
on my leg that would not heal; tried Magsiel's
Salve, and it cured me In few weeks. This is
all trup and body Qf j grJ--
sons Iron Works. Second Avenue.
j. HARDY
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