New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-01-12

Three strangled corpses at hec blood st aimed ieet
Our daIlinFs, they had laid down life's worst load
Ours, and the Wrath OF God!
Like them, and shrine their ashes in her tears,
nd stu keep eyes upon her destiny
Through multiplying years.
Sooner later. from he catacombs
VI ,hat Cursed prison, where they sleep to-day
A ~, nq1iq3 ! IN the dazzling mail of might,
WIN tthsir sacred clay.
And write their names upon the temple front
Ot our pain purchassd Freedom, as of men,
VINO, could they rise from cat their marrow beiF,
would die for us again.
Therefore. keep hope whilst unavang tears
Make women's cheeks and strong men ssyelids wet,
by the AlEseeinH and Eternal Lord
The cause shall triumph YET
Another of these papers, the Weekly
Ne,oS, prints cartoon referring to the
execution. It represents Britannia as
ilendish figure with a gore-dripping dag
ger in her hand running away from the
spot where lie three men whom she has
Just assassinated. A female figure, Hiber
mia, weeps over the slain, and the tall
chimneys of a number of Manchester fac.
tories are suggestvely shown in the back.
ground.
A third paper, the Nation, has the fol
lowing:
at is TO be hoped that when the future
historian of England comes to describe her
GROWING triumph at Manchester be will
not omit that feature in the proceedings
which all the papers are careful to report
for us, namely, the crOuching, yea, YER
itably, the 'crouching down soldiers of our
beloved queen, best of wives and mothers,
'crouching down, say the papers, behind
the paTapet, alongside the scaffold, with
the muzzles of their rifles just resting on
the wall, pointed to the condemned men,
aud the crowd The scene was not in
COnstantinople, nor in DahOmey, but in
England. What did this regiment of sol
diers crouch for? They 'crouched' as the
hyena crouches before springing on its
prey. They .crouched' there to be well
positioaed for executing butchery. just
Heaven what scene When has it been
equaledg When has it been equaled save
under the bloody flag Of England? ~
l have alluded to the fact that whatever
plots the Fenian leaders concoct are certain
to be betrayed by some disloyal person
among them. L%2t spring, when the
" rising was about to take place in Ire
land, the government here was informed of
all its details, and took such precautions
that what threatened to be very serious be-
came comparatively triling affair. When
the attack was to be made on Chester castle,
little later in the season, similar infoTm4-
ton reached the government twelve hours
before the attempt was TO be made, and it
was frustrated. The government knew
that an attempt was to be made to rescue
Colonel Kelly and Captain Deary at Man
chester, and are to blame for not taking
more effectual precautions to prevent it.
And Information is now in the hands of the
government that plots exist for the assassi-
nation of some Of the government officers,
cabinet ministers, ETC., and these gentlemen
now are continually guarded. This is by
no means pleasant state of things, and the
question is how long is it to last
The newspapers here demand that the
two men and the women who conveyed the
barrel OF gunpowder to the Clerkenwell
prison shall be at once tried by a special
commissioner, and executed. One of these
men had the barrel upon hand cart, the
other man and the woman walked by his
side. Arriving at the prison wall they
stopped, lifted the barrel from the cart.
placed it against the wall, and marched off.
They were followed by policeman, how
ever, who suspected them of some evil de-
signs, although he knew not what. He had
recognized the woman as one who had paid
a visit to the Fenians in the prison the pre-
vious day. In a moment more another
man, who was dressed like gentleman
came up to the barrel, took off cloth that
covered it, lighted fuse attached to it,
stood by it a moment, and then retired,
and has not since been seen. In few
moments the explosion took place, and i'm
mediately afterward the two men and the
woman, who had been kept in sight by the
policeman, were arrested. That night The
woman, whose name is Ann Justice, at
tempted to commit suicide by strangulation
in her cell, but was discovered and pre-
vented. The men are named jeremiah
Allen and Timothy Dermond. The first is
a boatmakeE, and the other is a tailor.
They all maintain a sullen silence in re-
lation to the crime.