Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1869-06-03
OUR CORRESPOND ENTS


. private letter received from Hon. r.
A. Pike, who with his family is now
absent, in Great Britain:
Dublin, 18th May 1869.
While l am looking At Cork and Dub
lin. l notice debate IN Parliament
about Ireland. In the Commons the May
or Of Cork with his Fenianism and dis
charge of Fenian prisoners. has been the
principal figure for week and in the
Lords the Agrarian outrage in Upper
AIRY and elsewhere are occasioning rather
more than the usual talk. OF course
Ireland is chronic subject. Every
BODY on both sides Of the Atlantic has
read about Irish troubles. Just now
there are an unusual number of what
the English call '.ou,rages, more than
\ in any year for twenty five years. The
| immense emigration since the hungry
year" of lsi6-7 has kept the lrishmen
comparatively quiet: but now although
as well fed As usual he seems TO be max
ing \ row about what he calls his
rights.
The truth is Pat has a notion that he
has some kind Of ownership in Ireland.
II is odd that he should. He has been
At work there hundreds OF years digging
and hocing ireland all over again. He
has picked up all the stones and laid
them into walls and covered them with
earth and planted on them the sweet
smelling hawthorn, or the gaudy bios
soming furze. II has taken a great deal
Of labor to make this net work of stone
and earthern walls. dividing and sub
dividing the country into little irregular
chcckerboard patches Of half an acre
and upwards-snd very curious they
are to look at; and lattcrly he has beer
laying the rail through all the considers
bic places and building the most sub
stantial station houses and covering
them with ivy and flowers.
And having done the whole of it 8,
well. and made the fields so productive
and so attractive Pat has an idea that he
has some rights herr. And therefor,
there are lots OF trouble at present ant
In the future.
The landlord. who living in Londor
or on the Continent says, Have not
received rent for hundreds OF wears 2
True, Pat replies. II have paid rem
hundreds of wears and that is lon.
enough. II Is time there was . change
vested rights" on one side and labo
on the other.
Up 10 this time vested rights ha
had the better He has behind him III,
immense force of the British Govern
ment. The rights Of property" mu.
not be trihcd with. aud the red coat EN-
forces the idea.
Pat On the Other side goes 10 work il
his own way. lie grumbles; he write
threatening letter.: he shoots. Tn
|, landlord 10 absent and can, be got a
, and so he shoots the agent. An agen
was shot the other day In marke
town in Tipperary county in open day
Y
TO 20 out among the tenantry to coliec
the rents. and so sent for them to com
into town and pay. They came an,
shot him. when they can't get At tn
agent they shoot the baliff. Ii is q rude
, but on the whole rather forcible way O
! expressing their objections to the paw
ment Of rent.
Any body riding through Irelans
. with his eyes open can see that the PEG
pie who lives in II don't own it: and .,
beautiful l. the country that 1 don
wonder Irishmcn brag over it. n,
lovlier ride anywhere in nv experienc,
than the dozen miles from Queenstow
TO Cork. But when you look over the.,
smooth handsome fields for the CORE.
ponding farm-houscs and barns then ",
see small size stone cabins with thatcl
roofs, stuck in sterile corner. a /;
trespassers, and out OF these come IN.
lAborers who have done all this work
Whatever can be got more than sum
cient TO keep the farmer in working or
der goes TO my Lord Derby or some 9th
er gentleman who lives the other side O.
the channel. some twenty To twent,
millions Of dollars in gold are vearl,
paid To absentes-not dollar Of which
ever finds its way back.
What complexities the matter Just now
is that John Bright, the Bette noir o
English politics is in the ministry. II,
is usually denounced rank agrariar
which is something worse than Re
pudiation' with US. In years gone by
he has had his say about ireland and i,
was that If Ireland were q thousand
miles away. justice would be done or
the landlords would be exterminated by
the vengeance Of the people, No won.
der that the Tipperary Irishman thinks
the accession Of Bright to the ministry
indicates u new state of things. The
English is to be kicked out bv Mr..
Gladstone, but that is not enough.
The 1rishmen want to own Ireland.
Shall they3 That is the great question
discussed in London.
Meantime the population is going to
America. Fourteen hundred lief,
Queenstown in two days last week. But
some came back. Quite crowd landed
from our steamer with me; and there
are enough here now. In the small
county Of Tipperary there are TODAY
more people than in the whole Province
Of New Brunswick, all getting their
living BY farming and paying an annual
rent Of I'VE to ten dollars in gold per
acre?