The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-07-24

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turn which will NOT prove very esreeable to |
The Authors Of tho Commission. A report has /
reached ms that the political prisoners who !
fused to be any parties In tho sham inquiry, |
and that the aotion of the Commissioners |
there was confined to an cxamipation of the |
The prisoners to take part In the proceedings |
stances: L would bs i@possiSis to OBJ bring ont
I'D, as in the present in the scope ofits inquiry,
and partial hearing of 1t would inevitably be |
made to operate to their disadvantage. "A
striking proof Of the injustice of those restric-
GAL prisoners, died in prison u Tuesday. BY |
the rules which FIX the scope of the present IN
quiry, not word relative to treatment which |
broke mp his constitution and brought him to |
his early grave can be given in evidence! We
cannot, therefore, do otherwise than commend
Irish patriots in Portland Prison, and If those
confined at Chatham should take the same
course we shall think i all the better.-Ibid
THE DUBLIN FREEMEN AND THE ELECTION
stated ITS intentions with respect to the Free
men of Dublin and to the vacancy in the
representation of the city, The result of the
inquiry and deliberatiOn is that those Freemen
whose names have been returned as corrupt
shall be DISTINGUISHED. Those Freemen amount
in number to about eighty or ninety. AS soon
as the Bill-disfranchisng those electors shall
have passed into law, the writ for the election
of q member for Dublin will issue. .Runors
are in circulation concerning those who are
likely to be candidates for Dublin; but it is
believed by those who have the best opportu-
mites of forming an estimate that no man
who will not profess national views has the
slightest chance of winning the election.
CAsHEL AND SLIGo.-Those boroughs are ap-
some time at all events. The Bill DISTINGUISHING
them passed through the Commons, and has
been already read first time in the House of
Peers will throw out the Bill altogether, or
will deal with Cashel and Sligo as the Govern
ment about to do with the Freemen of
Dublin-that is disfranchise those of the cleo
tors who have been returned as guilty of cor
rupt practices.
STRIKERS AND RIOTS IN Constituting the
latter half of last week and the first half of
this, the city of Cork was the scene of such
tumult, disorder, and violence, as is never wit
neseed in any Irish town except, perhaps, on
the occasion of o contested election. The story
of the Cork riots is shortly told. The journey
men tailors of the city and their employers
had been for some time Mt variance, In conse-
quence of the latter having used rather exten-
sively sewing machines in their establishments
Masters and workmen at length came to an
omen rupture, and the latter "struck" for
higher wages and the discontinuance- of the
use of machinery. The masters refused to &C.
cede to their demand, and proceeded to hire
workmen in London and on the Continent to
| fill the places of those I" ON strike" The APP
pearance of some German employees was the
signal for the commencement of the distur-
| Dances. Large crowds began to collect in the
principal streets. The roughs-persons hav-
ing nothing whatever to do with the tailors
on strike-took advantage of the disturbed
and excited state of the city to follow thor
usual avocations. The master tailors, the fore
men of the tailoring establishments, those
| workmen who were imported into the town,
| assailed in the streets, first with hooting and
misses, afterwards with sticks and stones.
Then houses were attacked, and some valuable
property destroyed. At length the police in.
terfered and strqve to disperse the excited
1 and stone-throwing crowds; but they were
unable to restore order. Barricades erected
the lamps baffied all their efforts at night
The military we're called out; the Riot Act wat
read; . proclamation ordering the public-houset
peril 81 their lives to be In their houses afte,
nine, was issued. Notwithstanding the adop
ton of these measures, the disturbances con
the police made many charges, and received
many wounds from many missiles flung by thu
crowd. About one hundred civilians were
more or less hurt. On Monday the city wa
was almost entirely restored
OTHER SrRIKKs.-The strike Of the journey
men tailors was followed by numerous othe
strikes. The employees in several timber es
| Establishments struck for an increase of wages
: Then the quay portsrs abandoned their werl
for similar purpose The workmen of sew
eral factories followed their example. Th
porters of the Bandon Railway " were out
l during the greater part of one day. The cal
drivers also thought they were under-paid
. and demanded trifiing increase of wages
4 The shoemakers made similar demand. Eve
y the women joined in the almost general strike
f These proceedings were not confined to Cork
a The employees of factory in Mallow also de
n manded an increase of wages. In nearly all G
a these cases the demands OF the workmen wer
h | at once complied WITH and peace and orde
n were not disturbed.
d MEETING OF THE TRADEs.-The trades held
% meeting to express sympathy with the men o
Q strike; and while they passed resolutions col
y demnatory of the introduction OF forelg
# workmen, and spoke in stropg terms of the
It determination to uphold their rights, they AIS
II to their credit be it said, repudiated all COZ
s. nection with the riots, and denied their re
lie possibility for the excuses that had been con
% mitted. Thes Mayor and some other gentleme
/ strenuously exerted themselves to bring abor
- an amicabe arrangement between the worl
20 men, and their employers; and by the latest q
20 counts it would appear that they have to
N certain degree succeeded.
n OUTRAGE MANUFACTURE,-The Cork Erdn,in
ii reports o strange case which came before tt
IN magistrates at the Baltimore Petty Session
va in the county of Cork. A game-keeper nam.
4 Tobin, in the employment of q Mr.. Lowe,
o. Tipperary complained to the police that son
ID time ago STONES were thrown into his house
lv night, and that, when he searched the premise
~ he found q notice warning him that he wou
be shot unless he left the locality. The sto
was reported by the police to the Castle, al
er the authorities in Dublin referred the matt
al to the magistrates of the district for inve
at tigation. On the case being called, the gam
~ keeper did not appear, and his attorney stat