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culture and character, is at this very time
occupying a,confdential position connect-
ed with the headquarters of the orgasiz>
alton in New York. On the other hand,
the spy and informer against him with
the Loyal Leagues and the Grand Army
of John A. Logan. is en- Englishman, a
Confederate deserter, and discarded
lover Of Renchase's daughter, who,
through his hatred to the Fenians as an
Englishman and his desire for revenge as
a rejected sutton, found fitting employ
ment for his base nature in betrayiDg the
rites OF hospitality, and in making sIan-
derous representations both as TO Rem
chase and a. to the ex>Confederate officer
renting room in the house. 81 [.
The policy Initiated by Sumner and
Grant IN respect to the Alabama claims
and the British government, for the purs
pose Of winning over the Irish to the
support of the Radical party this fall as
has been boldly avowed by the Radical
press, and embraced in their resolutions
upon the denomination of Geary, as Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, is thus shown to
be the veriest trick and fraud mag ma
able; and if the Irish Catholics suffer
themselves to be caught by the misera>
Bile pretence, they will be left without 9
fIiend in the United States--North,
South, East, or West--to. deplore the
doom that surely awaits them after be
coming thus ensnared. Indeed, they will
find that every party in the land and
every element of population, as well
as every religious sectary, will
stand equally Indifferent to thei.i
fate. While the Radical journals
are loudly mounting the believing speech
of Charles Sumner on the Alabama
claims, throwing dust in the eyes Of the
Fenians and Irish Catholics, this is the |
way that both the Fenians and the Irish |
Catholics are treated in this government
by this pretended anti British party. |
This is the way that the negro is substi-
tuted and to be substituted in the placs |
of the Fenians, and this is the way that |
a Catholic is to be prescribed for marry
ing Catholic. Gen. 0'Neili may lead |
his people into the trap set ! for them if |
he pleases and they are fools enough to |
follow him into the snare, but the end |
to him and them will be no less speedy.
certain, and sure-the loss of their civil |
political, and religious rights in America! |
JOHN TYLER. ,Jr
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Mr. JEFFERSON Days HEALTH.-In-
telligence received from Mr.. jefferson
Davis, of date as late as the 18th Of
June, is to the effect that his health ia
not at all good; indeed, his condition is
said to be enc of extreme weakness. 1t
is said to be Mr.. Davis intention, if able,
to summer in Canada, and to spend the
coming winter 10 Mississippi He is now
in Paris. 49,.
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HOW ROSA WAS TREATED.

On the LIST of the month "he
was punished for insubordinate
conduct in refusing to work in his
cell, and his utensils were filthy"
On the 9Th he was reported .'for
highly insubordinate conduct, re-
fusing to get out of bed, and using
abusive language" CThe truth
appears to be that the punishment
on the LIST, to infict which "three
or four wardens' were probably
required, had left the prisoner sick
and sore, so that he was unable to
rise and incapable to work. But
for this offense the prisoner re-
ceived ''three days of punishment
diet" This stimulating diet, as we
ascertain by reference to an au-
thorlty on the subject, consists of
"a two penny loaf once a day and
pint of water" The end of these
days of feasting brought Rosa to
the 9th of June, and on that day,
being probably stimulated by his
rich food, he was wicked enough to
be guilty of "insubordinate and
disrespectful conduct to the COVER
nor" and further displayed the ex-
uberance of his animal spirits and
the malignsncy of his heart by
''wilfully damaging two vests. B"
For this he appears to have re
ceived six days of punishment in
his cell-of what nature is not
stated - and on the 18th he
was reported " for refusing to
leave his cell, for disrespectful con-
duct to the governor, for refusing
to clean his basin, for damaging
his vest and gutta-percha pipe"
More punishment followed, and ION
the 18th the governor entered the
cell where he was under punish
ment," and on that occasion Rosa
like a wild Irishman as he is, was
so playful, and in such high glee,
that he threw the foul contents Of
his cell utensil into the governor
face" For this offense, said the
Home Secretary, San ordinary
prisoner would have been logged,
but Rosa being an extraordIn airy
prisoner, was reserved for an an
other fate" He was shut up in 6
solitary cell for twenty days, await
ing the decision of the directors
and then was sentenced to twenty
eight days confinement in a pun
ishment cell" Now these words d.
not seem very terrible, but. if an
one wishes to know what they really
mean, let him turn to Charlie
Reade's story of Gov. Halves ant
his model Jail in at is Never to,
Late to Mend. The solitary con
finement for twenty days wa
enough to drive the man mad; tn
twenty eight days confinement
in the punishment cell was enougl
to kill him.
"A PUNISHMENT CELL"
in British prison is ''a pitch dar
dungeon" in which "the darknes
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IRISH.
The Republican Convention at Chicago

The Republican Convention at Chicago
NEw YORK, July 1.-The President Of
the Irish Republican Association Of Penn
sylvania, in card just issued, states that
efforts are being made TO pack the Irish
Republican convention, which meets in
Chicago on the An of July, with Irish
Democrats from this and other States. He
says that no delegate from Pennsy
will be admitted to the convention without
credentials made out ard signed by the
proper authorities; that the convention
will assemble rot in the interest OF any
clique or ring Of Irirh or American poll
ticians, but 10 enunci4te aud give support
10 the principle Of universal suffrage, pro-
lection to the American Union, and the
political elevation of the Irish race in both
henispheTes.
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ANINCIDENroFTHE CANVASS

In the audience at Sneedville there
was a large attendance OF ladies. Col.
James P, Brownlow was present. Many
OF his regiment were in the crowd. He
drilled them and found them enthusias
tic for Senter whom they warmly cheer
ed. As Gen. Stokes was speaking. he
called Senter Rebel A lady who was
present, two Of whose sons were in the
Federal army, and who was setting not
more than five or six feet from Stokes,
screamed out, you are a liar, Mr.
Stokes. You are a liar, sir and you
know it Senter was not Rebel You
are liar, sir p Stokes was greatly con.
fused and seemed entirely discomfitted
--KHOrUWe Whiq, June 80.
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Hon. A. II. STEPHENs.-Ihe AugustI
Chronicle and Sentine!, of June q, re-
erets to learn, BY Letter from a gentle
man of Mr.. Stephens household, that the
health of the great statesman, for the
last four or five days, has been quite bad
A severe bilious disorder has induced a
return of the painful symptoms from
which he has suffered so much lately,
growing out of the injury sustained by
the falling upon him OF heavy gate.
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SITE FOB A NEw Executive MANSION.
The Washington correspondent OF the
Cincinnati Gazette says: THE Presi-
dent and members of the cabinet have
been looking over the ground to find a
site for new executive mansion which
can be recommended to Congress, and
are understood to be substantially agreed
upon a location in the northwestern
part Of the city" ....f
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The GEORGIA RICE CROP. : The Sa-
vannah Republican Of June 26 states
that on the Savannah, Ogeechee, Alta
maha and Satilla rivers, the rice crops
are in a hourishing condition, and unless
some unforeseen disaster occurs, the
yield will exceed that of any season
since the year 1860. The news is very
gratifying, inasmuch as large crops OF
corn and rice are quite as essential to
the prosperity OF the South as good
erons of cotton
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FERDINAND, the ex-King of Portugal,
is not morgansrieaily married to Fanny
Ellsler, as has been reported, but to
Mademoiselle Elise Henssler, formerly
an opera singer. This lady is reporter
to.be highly accomplished, and has al
ways enjoyed high reputation for puri>
ty of character. A morganatic MARI ,ge
only differs from the usual ceremony by
the fact that the children do not inherit
any right to assume the throne which
may descend 70 the noble parent.
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NEW YORK.
Escape of Col. Ryan and Men.-The
Ocean RRnk RObbeFy-HOnOrs 10

Escape of Col. Ryan and Men.-The
Ocean Rank RObbeFy-HOnOrs "a
New York, July Col. Ryan with
two hundred men of Cuban expedition,
were not captured by the authorities, they
being on shore when the gun boats caught
the steamships. --
The box found yesterday con-
tanned two hundred and sixty-eight thou
rand dollars Of bonds, shares, etc from the
Ocean Bank which we're not easily nego-
table. ..... ..
A reception WAS given to
Gen. Dan. E. Sickles, United States
Minister to Spain, last evening.
Among callers were Horace Gree
ley, Cyrus W. Field, Moses III. Grin
nell, and a large number of other prom
ineut citizens.
End OF a FIEIbustering Expedition
The Captured Vessels.
NEW YORK, July 1.-The revenue cut
ter Mahoning yesterday captured the last
flibGsier tug boat, the Chase, with seventy
five men ABOARD, and also the schooners
Fanny aGd Winona, freighted with rifles,
eld-pieces, sabres and ammunition. The
schooners we're seized near Milford, Con-
necticut, All the vessels are now at Brook
Ign navy yard.
Gems. Sheridan aud Meade, Secretary
RaWlins and GOV. Hoffman, have accepted
Invitations to the reunion banquet of the
Army OF tbs Potomac The President and
cabinet, and Chief Justice Chase, have
been specially invited, and are expected to
be present.
Gen. Sickles sailed to day ia The Union.
The Round Table has been purchased
by Mr.. Roosevelt, of the Citizen, which
will be merged therein.
The Havana steamer to-day took $780,
600 10 coin.
In the New York Circuit Court to-day,
Geo. B Davis, convicted of perjury, IN
having sworn to Ihs charge against Col,
lector Bailey, was sentenced 10 five years
imprisonment in Trigs county peni,entia'
~, AID his confederate, John ID. McKin-
ney, to five years in the Albany peniten'
tiary, and fine Of five thousaDd dollars
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The Labor Exchange, established at
Castle Garden, n. Y, by the Commits
sioners of Emigration" has been very
useful in furnishing immediate employ
ment to the recently arrived immigrants.
No charge is made to either employer or
applicant. and every facility is extended
in order to enable the parties to become
acquainted with each other. From May
/, 1860, to December 81, 1868, employ
ment had been furnished to 81 5Sl males,
and 59,6l0 females, or to 80, 1874 persons
IN all.
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1t is curious to observe that our New
York postotfice always sends to Europe
much greater number Of letters than it
receives from that part of the world.
For the month OF May, it sent away
APO SOB, and received 39l .062. This seems
to show that the mass of the foreigners
settled IN this country write home to
their old friends Oftener than the latter
write to them. That rule, however is
broken in single instance. The TIA
lians send home but 4 569 letters for
Z 1913 brought over to them.
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'sPREMATURELY AGEp,r


and was worn out with labor and
torture. If, weak from suffering
and for want of sufficient food, he
failed to perform his allotted task,
he was punished by being deprived
of one-half his food; and the next
day, while thus still more weakened,
was ordered ia perform full days
work in addition to the arrears of
the preceding day. Failing, of
course, to accomplish this, he was
again punished by the Jacket the
punishment cell,2 and "the dark
CELL" and so the internal work went
on. In the presence of the gov
ernor of the jail, Rosa told Mr..
Pigot that for thirty-five days he
was kept in a cell with his hands
manacled. "They were not loosened
even to enable him to take his food,
which was left for him on the floor
of his cell; and unless be elected TO
die of starvation, he had no alterna-
tive but to take it on all tours as an
animal does" The Home Secre
tary thought that this could scarcely
be true, but the governor did not
deny it to Mr.. Pigot And the
Home Secretary admitted that all
of the letters which Rosa had writ
ten to his wife, five in number, had
been suppressed, "as they were full
of false statements calculated to do
mischief" 1t is q remarkable and
cheering fact that since Mr.. PlgOt's
letter Was published another change
has come over Rosa, and that the
governor now reports of him that
"of all the Fenian prisoners he is
the best behaved; ;" and that he now
receives. no punishment" 1t is
curious that this change should be
simultaneous with the calling oil
public attention to his case. The
truth no doubt is that his torturers
became alarmed at the publicity
given to their acts, and have ceased
to prosecute their victim for the
present. j tt-. -rE .-
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NEW ORLEANS.
warh of the Congressional Invcstl-
mailing GOmmiIIee.


New ORLEANS, July 1.-The Congres-
sionsl Committee Of Investigation into
The conduct of The November elections in
his civ and Safe, consisting OF Messrs.
Steyenr, Of Ohio, Burdeue, Of Michigan,
aud Kerr, Of Iud.ana, will adjourn 10. day.
The Isst witness examined being Gov.
WarmOnlh.
THIS committee has been in session con-
t;nuously for tao months, setting generally
seven or eight hours daily. IL has exam
med some five hundred Witnesses, from
every quarter Of The State, and embraces
Eve contested election casts. Ihe most
important # The testimony relates to
,be dis,urbances III this city and the par
i.bes Of s. Lar dry, Bsssier and st. Ber-
rard. Mott Of il relates 10 the recent or
der known as the Knights of White o.
m.Iia The testimony covers some ten
,housspd manuscript pages, equivalent TO
Two tbousand printed pages.
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BOSTON.
Effects of the New Liquor Law.

Effects of the New Liquor Law.
BosTUN, July l.-Hotels and Barrooms
generally closed their bars to-day, in ODE
dience TO the Chief Constable's notification
that the prohibitory law would be enforce
ed. Considerable excitement among
thirsty crowds and an active demand for
private entrances where flids can be OBJ
tatnad
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NEW HAMPSHIRE.

The Fifteenth Amendment Passes the
senate.
CoSooRD, n. II July THE fifteenth
amendment passed the Senate this after
noon. The bill establishing State Con-
stabulary to be submitted to The people in
the month Of November next, passed the
House by msi lrity Of eight.
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is not like the darkness of our bed
rooms at night, in which the out
lines of objects are more or less
visible; it is the frightful darkness
that chilled and crushed the Egyp-
tians, soul and body; it is a dark
ness that might be felt. This ter
rible and unnatural privation Of all
light is very trying to all Gods
creatures; to none more so than to
man, ''and amongst men it is most
distressing to those who have mag
nations and excitability,' like
O'Donovan Rosa. A prisoner who
was confined in such cell only six
hours Was observed on his release
''to be as white as a sheet, and to
trembIe violently all over, bis body
ing, while every now and then
a coGYuIsive sob burst from his bo-
som. " This is the effect of SIX hours
of the punishment to which Rosa,
for the crime of manifesting his es-
TEEN for the governor by the same
means which Madame Socrates
used in displaying her affections for
her husband, was condemned for
seventy-two hours The sentence
was for twenty-eight days, but the
jailers, unwilling to lose their VIC
tim, did not carry it out, and kept
him for the other twenty-five days
in a cell which was lighted. But
they varied the torture by keeping
him manacled, and occasionally in.
vesting him with beng q t1e
3 t'THE PUNISHMENT JACKET
This ingenious instrument has
straps which are drawn so tight that
the sufferers breath is impeded,
and his heart, lungs and liver are
forced into unnatural contact. Then
ne is fastened to a wall so that he
cannot move to ease the frightful
cramps that attack him. As a eli
max there is collar, with rasped
edge, stiff as iron, three and half
inches high !; and Z" in this three
handed iron grippe the victim writhes
and soDs, and means with an
guish." Presently, that is in an :
hour or so, he faints-and then he
IS revived by buckets of cold water
dashed over him. Mr.. Richard $
Pigot, a weli-known gentleman of
Dublin, who obtained permission
10 visit Rosa soon after he had
been subjected TO these fortunes for I
orty-eight days-twenty days in g
"a solitary cell, three days in the
dark punishment CELL and twen-
y five days in eight punish
nent oell"-was shocked by the
appearance he presented. g Before
lis Imprisonment" says Mr.. Pigot,
Rosa was a model of strength
md symmetry, and of a most ro-
Just constitution But he was
l0W
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THE buffaloes found in the tele-
graph poles Of the overland line a new
source of delight on the treeless prairie
the novelty of having something to scratch
against. But it was expensive scratching
for the telegraph company; and there, in
deed, was the rub, for the bisons shook
down miles of wire daily; A bright idea
struck somebody to send to st. Louis and
Chicago for all the brad avis that could be
purchased, and these we're driven into the
poles with a view to wound the animals
and check their rubbing propensity. New
er was a greater mistake. The buffaloes
were delighted. Fer the first time they
came to the scratch sure Of a sensation in
their thick hides that thrilled them from
horn to tail. They would go fifteen miles
to find a brad ewl. They fought huge
battles around the poles containing them,
and the victor would proudly climb the
mountainous heap OF rump and hump Of
the fallen and scratch himself into bliss
until the brad awl broke or pole came
down. There has bsen no demand fOr
brad avis from the Kansas regions SIEGE
the MISUNDERSTANDING.
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MeetIag OF English holders.


LONDON, July 1.-Another meeting Of
holders of Confederate bonds was held
this evening. Admiral Warren, who pre-
sided, said he considered the position of
the bondh elders better than ever. The
Deputy Chairman read a report, detailing
what had been done in prosecuting the
claims aud explaining the action of the
committee. He said they were not fighting
their own but the battle of those whose
interests might be affected by changes of
government. The principle involved be-
ing the sscredness of contracts BIZ de
fscto government The decision Of Baron
Harchuly, Lord Chancellor, was in their ia.
vor; he believed court of equitywonld adj
Indicate the amount of cotton claimed,
which would make bonds valuable. Reso-
lutions protesting against Mr.. Summers
speech, and authorizing the petition to the
Parliament, was read, but without action
the meeting adjourned.
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A NEGRO named Henry johnson was
committed to Jail in Mobile On the 25th
ult. charged with having committed an
outrage on a little white girl aged thir-
teen.
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ENGLAND AND THE FENIANs.
Brutality Toward a Fenlan
. Prisoner.
0'DOnOVan-ROssa in a "PuniSh-
ment Cell"
Horrible Torture Inflicted Upon
,%ad OF 4a Him. '-e#e 90 I


Correspondence of the New York World.
LONDON, June "a horrible
story was told 10 the British Parlia-
ment, on the fourth day of this
month, in reply to a question adj
dressed to the Secretary of State
for the Home Department, in re-
gard to certain long continued and
brutal cruelties inflicted upon the
Fenian prisoners at PentonviIle and
Miibank, andoespecially upon o.
Donovan Rosa The question was
asked r by Sir ], Grey, who called
the attention of the Home Secretary
to a statement published in. one of
the Irish newspapers, apparently
by authority, to the effect that the
prison authorities had inflicted IN
usual, unnecessary, and wanton cru
city upon this prisonel, and asked
whether the officers guilty Of this
cruelty were reprimaneed or other
wise dealt with, and how2 The
Home Secretary made very curious
reply He denied that the specific
acts mentioned in the newspaper le-
port had been committed, but he
confessed that other acts Of still
more atrocious character had been
perpetrated, for which no reProof
had been administered, and which
he attempted to justify and defend.
O'Donovan Rosa, said he, was
committed to Pentonvrlle on the
18th December, 1865. His charac-
ter at that time was described to be,
by those who knew him well, that of
"a man of the most gentle and tract
able disposition" He was shortly
afterwards removed to Portland,
which is sine most cheerful and the
most healthy Of all the convict
prisons" But in this delightful
spot, secluded from the vices
and temptations of the outside
world, such a sad change came over
this gentle and tractable man that
be became evident and outrageous"
and tsproduced such a bad effect on
The other Fenian prisoners, that it
was found absolutely necessary to
end him back to Milbank prison"
When what happened to him in the |
placid shades OF Portland prison |
comes to be explained, one ceases
% wonder at the transformation in |
ais disposition" A report made |
concerning him states that "the |
convict Rosa is a dangerous man, |
and must remain the object of IN |
leasing anxiety and vigilance to |
he authorities. :" When the keep, |
srs of a prison come to regard a |
in this light, it is not diff |
cult to imagine what his treatment |
would be. "The senior warden of |
continues this report,
says that in the whole course of
his career he had never met with |
the equal Of this most unfortunate
man. He must mend his ways. or
abide his fate" His State it ap-
pears, was to undergo continual
neutrality-suspicious. so Sc.
we're that sit frequently required
,hree or four wardens to master
him" while it was administered, |
md to be subjected to mental tor
nents and prosecutions of the most
Exquisite brutality. The Home
Secretary said that he would not
weary the House with a statement
If the otfenses committed by Rosa,
md of the punishments he re-
,eived," but would content himself
With describing what happened in
he month OF June, 1868.
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THERE are two chief reasons why it
must be many years before the tide Of
white immigration will flow to the South
as it now flows to the North ard West;
and these reasons are, a. that Europeans
have deep rooted prejudlces against the
South; and % that the European imnlN
grants naturally follow their friends or
acquaintances, not one IN thousand OF
whom had any idea of coming to the
Southern States. The prejudice of which
we have spoken can only be removed by
time and patience; but we may each day
do something toward giving ourselves a
good reputation, and securing advocates
who will plead our cause across the broad
Atlantic Charleston NeiCS.
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fELooIPEDEs are drug in the New
York market SIS machines won't bring
at auction over So.