The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-10-29
new YORK.
City AND VICINITY

New York, Oct. 28.-Tarec deputy collect
ors, while searching ior Illicit distilleries in
Brooklyn yesterday, were set upon by a crowd
and one of them badly beaten. One of the
collectors named FREDERIC B. Lawrence, fired
into the crowd with a revolver and severely
wounded Maria Kelley, who was Just leaving
her house, ~ John street. Lawrence was ar
rested and held to answer
At the meeting of the Board of Health yes
terday, Dr. Moreau Morris presented a report
upon the cattle disease, concluding, from vari-
| Gus observations, that the Texan fever can
be communicated from native to native cattle
as well as from Texan to native.
Michael Mlllgan, held for killing James
McAdams in drinking saloon on Third Ave
nue., was discharged yesterday, the coroner's
jury deciding the act justihable,
Miss Fanny Leiner yesterday committed
for shooting and killing the lad John Condor,
for throwing mud at her. A policeman had
advised her to fire on the boys if thew did not
cease annoying her.
The expected debate on Ritualsm BEGAN
yesterday in the afternoon session of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Convention. IT was yery
animated and interesting, but was not con.
ciuded at the hour OF adjournment in the eve
nlng, and will be continued this morning. The
convention will adjourn tomorrow.
APPEAL OF SOUTHERN freshmen.
NEW YORK, Oct. 2S-An appeal to fellow
countrymen at the North is published from
leans, Mobile and Savannah, whose names are
appended, in behalf OF the disfranchised Irish
men of the Southern. States. They say they
are no longer citizens, have been deprived of
the right to vote, and in many places been
driven from the polls; that Registers have re-
fused to enter their names on registration lists /;
that thousands and tens of thousands of tel
low countrvmrn in the Southern States have
thus been disfrar chised, while every negro who
presents himself is admitted to the rights of
at4T Ia, 1,l
ical party as the inieriO of negroes, and have
no rights, political or otherwise, which they
are bound to respect; that hundreds, yes, thou
sands of Irishmen have been deprived of Off
cal positions to which they were elected or
appointed in different cities throughout the
South. and that in Mobile and New Orleans
those offices were afterwards conferred on Mt
groes. They say to Irshmen of the Northern
States that radicalism is proscriptive, and that
II that party gets into power for another four
years they will dstranchise you as they have
us. and make a strong appeal to be saved by
their votes from negro supremacy and the rule
OF the 5ayonet; that their Northern brethren
be not mlsled by traitors, who have sold out to
our political enemies and yours, reneeades who
have accepted the ever ready bride FOR the adj
vocacy OF policy that has made us aliens in
the land of our adoption. and subjected us in
this country to all The il tu stice and outrages
lofilcted upon us in the III OF our birth, down
trodden and oppressed ireland, and conclude
by saying they are looking to the success of
the Democratic candidates, Seymour and B lair,
to free US from political bondage and the curse
of radical rule.
HEAVY FRAUDS.
A series of extensive frauds on the part of
the carmen of New York, Which has been in
progress for the past two years, have come to
light. The nsodus operandi has been to Obtain
cases of goods for transportation to other parts
OF the country, chiefly to the South, and take
them to the fence shops, where they were
opened and the contents replaced by some
thing OF small value, after which they were
taken to the transportation lines and receipts
obtained for the boxes as if they were original
packages. Three men, named Michael Fee
ney and John and Augustus Mckee have been
arrested, and one of them contesses to having
been concerned in robberies amounting to
$40 600