The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-02-08

to his companions of pleasure stripped for their sake the
founders and suanes of the Norman power in Hbernia
He lavshed in dissipation all the money which he received
from England for the pay of his troops his army badly
commanded and dissatisfied, obtained but little success against
the rebels and the of the invaders be
in peril AS the danger began manifest ITSELF the
young king and his courers took flight and quilted the
island carrying off with them all the money they could raise
and leaving the two peoples who really concerned in
the to fight it out. New YORKER.
New York, January 90 1868.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHARITIES AND CORRECTION
COMMISSIONERS.
The following paragraph has appeared in this document
and is of deep significance:
AN INDUSTRIAL sCHooL-The Board asks in the report
for powers establish Industrial School, which may
under the of Police Magistrate and there to
remain until ndentured to useful pursuit. children
under twelve years age found begging in the publcsree
children under fourteen years having committed first oense
punishable with imprisonment and children whose parents
represent them ncorrgble and given vices and
criminal associates The Board refers the successful
labor necessarily limited however, of the members of the
Juvenile Asylum of the Chidrens Aid Society," and of the
Reormatory, in saving many children from destruction
There says the reporter thirty thousand children in the
city growing up ignorance and deness Then hare mo oc
cupaon but Beg and learn art but to Steal Hordes of
children sent out morning to beg pfer along
the piers and bukhead of the city snatch up unobserve
few grains of coffee handsul of cotton scraps of
iron and their progress from the first of perng to
burglary regular schoolboy from class class At
the of fifteen the girls prostitutes and the boys pro-
fessed thieves The brevy of their e shortened by syph
little diseases is the only check upon the increase of their
numbers To break up and dispense this pretentious evil
only be accomplished by rescuing the children
tender age and before they have entered criminal
moral practices.
What the naonates that contribute this
of vagrancy? Not the American Anyone looking the
habua aspects of this eye-sore that Ger
There is too much brothery love among them too
many helping hands, in the form of mutual aid societies. to
increasing where relief afforded without regard
creed They have four daily papers in this CITY,
They have splendid club where their young men meet
socially in the evenings and amid the refining influences of
song and music find such relaxation from the cares of life
the Purans who would interfere with their enioymens
would do we'll to initiate if they aspire to become better
Christians and better Not the English who live here
until they have made sufficient money leave the country
nor French The the question would be- that
the Irish element chiefly responsible for the foul stain on
Republican institutions.
The compers of this report fix the number of these
bryo citizens thirty thousand standing average 1t
enough and will for many of the crimes that fill our
local PRESS and aso for the neaby dsgracefu influences
that rule New York politics.
Round about this plague spot number of benevolent
institutions whose directors always appealing for help
and warning the public not to give aid unless through them
From what of these people, they remind of
squeers of Do-the-Boys-Hal. have known of the
pretentou of these establishments fight with father
for the possession of his children whom they had kid
Mapped here no other word will convey idea of their
conduc and when eventually beaten and convicted of per-
es to procure the insertion of false decision in of
volumes of law reports where it stands to-day false
beacon-through the completely of judge not on the
bench-so deter other possible htigans Under such
auspices the children taken from our streets being con-
inuay sent West in squads where they are being made to
Names and to despise their old nationality
and then considered recaimed-brands saved from