The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-02-15
Our Dublin Letter.
DUBLIN, January Is, 1868.

illustration In the present pnching dearth OF INTEL
gence however, correspondents will be the parties most
affected for they either lay down their pens in the
resignation of despair make them emgrae into the region
of foreign general subjects Happy the country which has
history said the Frenchman who uttered that more anti
theca but scarcely apohegmnothng is certain but
what is unforeseen AS Victor Hugo says
LIE paradis du porc-n est-ce pas lie cloaque? .
And doubtless the Gaus beaux ideal national felicity
one of the stomachc and the pethorc soh
of the kennel sy AS far Ireland is concerned
nevertheless be confessed that the epgammatst
right for unhappily country has ample history
than which, with the exception of 1882 has been
long tragedy of blood and from the beginning OF the
ninth century, But if she all that could wish her to
be- ree prosperous and powerful then, indeed would her
intellectual and moral forces occupy the pen OF the hlsto
ran who would detail her achievements in commerce.
and and her active sympathy with oppressed peoples
wherever they found in the rerograde and gloomy
places of the earth That such epoch will yet is
certain for the nation indesrucble at home it is
destined become mighty abroad all British experiments
in they will dare again to try them
such scale they have done-haye failed Yes, Mi
rabeau gandly proclaimed kings and governments, those
phantoms of hour change and disappear but the peoples
eternal.
Arrests of suspected Fenans among the few data of
this weeks Among them Patrick Lennon associated
it said with Colonel Burke and who stated in the papers
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attack the constabuay barracks Sepasde and Glen
cullen the night of the 9Th of March umo Yesterday
05h,) Mr. Denis Downey, highly respectable merchants
tailor established in Dawson street. arrested on the Lord
Leutenants warrant and lodged in Kilmainham Jail Some
time since he tried for having in his house, but
quilted In short the list of those throughout the prov
inces and in England who daily reported to be thus
deprived of their liberty under the suspension of the Habeas
Corpus implication real assumed in the Fenian
movement would occupy considerable space, and find it
stated THAT holocaust Of victims shortly about to be
seized by the Government who determined to stamp out
the agtation though by adopting violent acourse pro-
ceedng grounds obviously results have proved
frequently absurd vndctive they will be found to
have put their foot in it." The most fantastic
circulated by the Government press respecting the dongs
hypothetical projects of the Fenansuch that in the
Cork Constitution of Tuesday the effect that intelligence
had been received of their intention of blowing the
mel of the Great Southern and Western Railway part
of which the barack stands and the strength of this
large parties police constantly patrol the place. and great
number of watches seto prevent the consequences OF
paragraph and leading article The country is really
tranquil that those perpetual arrests this marching and
countermarchng of troops oryng of barracks and endless
precautionary against invisible enemy resemble
the purposeess vagaes of insanity than the proceed
ings of rational Everything now associated with
Fenianism people have been lodged prison for song,
couple of words uttered the of stree-for
the espionage system is ubiquitous and after awhile pos
siby may be interpreted from cough and sedtion
manifested in Certainly, the laws under which
such arrests made may well be termed aystem of GRIM
inal codcaon" The maladmnsration of centuries has,
of course placed the British Government in Ireland both
really and metaphoricay barrel of gunpowder but
present. happens it its conscience which raises the
phantom whole organization of repression infantry
cavalry, artillery, courts of justice, detectives, etc.,
shaed against the horica aspect of the danger When
the people really RISE it will not be in twos and three but
naasse, from the Causeway to Cape Clear.
During the several vessels have been driven
ashore the Irish coast among them the Oasis wrecked
Newtown Point Tramore Sunday night and the trans
atlantic steamer, Chicago, in Gureen Bay, near Roches'
Point having missed her way in fog There loss of