The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-23
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
O'Mahoney's Funeral-Raid Upon Can
sii-Spscllltiny In Benevolenee---
Neutrality-suspicious..
NEW YORK, Feb. 81, 1877.


THE FUNERAL OF o'MAHoNEY.
Men 60 out of sight very Don
Twelve years ago Col. John O'Mahoney
filed the newspapers, which is the mod
ern trump of fame, and his name was
on the LIS of men. He had been a
patriot in Ireland, had bearded the
British Lion in his den, had emigrated
to this country, and organized the Fe-
nian movement, and was its acknowl-
edged head. He had gorgeous quar-
tiers, a staff" and all the ribs OF a
great warlike enterprise. He had
everything, in fact, necessary to con-
quer the independence of Ireland, ex-
cept men and arms and some other
trifes. But they had a good time of
it, while the servant girls and labor
ers contributed, and when the regular
Irish quarrel came, O'Mahoney sub
sided. AS he was an honest man who
actually believed in the possibility of
military operations against England,
he went out poor, and he has lived in
poverty and %obscurity ever since. His
death last week was the first that had
been heard of him for some time. The
Irish gave the dead "'hero" an i'm
mense funeral. All the societies turned
out in regalia, and every Irishman in
the city got out his plug hat from the
box where it had rested since last st.
Patrick's day, and the city was alive
with them. His body is to be taken to
Ireland for interment. And speaking
of the Irish, would anybody suppose
that human credulity could go SO far as
to contribute money for another
RAID UPON CANADA.
O'Donovan Rosa, who was an Irish
"Hero." is also receiving contributions
Of any sums that servant girls and sim
ple-minded labors choose TO give, and
form u "Skirmishing Fund" Hepro-
poses to organize a regiment of Skin
mishers to annoy the real of the Brit
ish Lion in Canada, while other she
roesm attack him in front on the old
sod. All this to occur rs soon as Eu-
rope gets into n general war, which
will take the attention of England.
The average Irishman is 4 queer insti-
tuition. The race in America may be
properly divided up into dupes and
dupers. The moment n speck of war
appears upon any horizon, the lead
ers =" Immediately issue Il proclamation
that J." Ireland's opportunity :" is mt last
here, and that all that is needed to Sc
cure Irish independence is-money.
Any sum will be received, and from
any source. The servant girls and la
borers take a liberal share from their
scant earnings, and give it to the beats,
who collect all that is possible, and
then let the thing die.
TROUBLE IN THE BENEVOLENT So
CIErIEs.
1t is too bad that n can't give a
dollar with any certainty that it will
reach the people intended to be bene-
fitted. The benevolent societies of the
city are undergoing examination, and
a vast amount of rottenness has been
developed. One institution for shell
tering distressed women was found to
be q purely private speculation of two
enterprising young men, and had no
shelter or anything else, and who were
collecting a great deal of money from
the charitable. They had the sublime
impudence to appeal to the authorities
for a share of the State appropriation,
and were caught.
The Democracy are in the dumps.
They give up all hope of sliding Tilden
in by the electoral commission, and are
arranging for their new campaign.
Their only hope now is in an appeal to
the courts, which Tilden has deter
mined to make, apparently forgetting
that five members of the court will
have declared their ideas of the law in
the case while they are on the commits
sion. This fight is for a purpose. Even
If Tilden is Defeated, they have hopes
that President Hayes can be bull
dozed into being very liberal in the
giving of places, for the sake of con-
ciliating them and healing their bruises.
LABOR.
There are fifty thousand men in the
city of New York out of work, with
every prospect of remaining so till
spring opens. There was but little
building last summer, there has been
none doing this winter, and in all the
mechanical pursuits stagnation has
been the rule. Everybody wears their
boots and clothes a month or two lon
ger than they did, and nobody buys