The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-11-05
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

p From Grave to Gay-Mourning Gives Plac
f to Joy-Aspects Of Now York City Life
r Sligo and Dublin Burning Steamships b
1ncendiaries-The Way to Treat Them
O'Donovan Rosa and the New Depart
ure-Our Defective Water Supply an,
Its Consequences~A Grand Temperance
Move by the Lager Beer Brewers-A New
Way to Make People Temperate-hys
terious Disappearances, ETC., Etc.
New YORK, October %, 1881.
EDITOR CHIEF: ~ -*FE-
The king Is dead; long live the king.
Three weeks ago, three little weeks
: and this great city was wrung with sucl
an agony Of grief as was never seen in
this land before, in tie memory of living
man. Sable trappings, sombre hangings,
grief black as the night everywhere.
All that is changed to-day. While am
writing, the flags, which were half-mast,
now mount the topmost pinnacle of the
staff, and the public buildings, deoked
in tho gapdiest bunting, wear no longer
che habiliments .of the tomb. To this,
however, there is one exception. On the
City Hall all the colors Of the rainbow
float from the summit, though around
the massive pillars there is still the gar
niture of the grave. We are clarifying
the victory at Yorktown.
It would require pretty extensive
knowledge of geography to enable an
average stranger to tell whether he was
in New York OF Dublin. As you go along
the streets, you see posted in glaring let
ters on the fences and the walls, "First
Annual Bail Of the Patrick Lynch Asso-
ciation." "Attend the meeting of the
Terrence Dooley Coterie." "The Michael
Driscoll Phalanx holds it's last Summer
picnic at Donovan's Park; music by Nc
Carly" "Land League meeting tonight
At Hennisy's Hall. Addresses by Phelim
OToo1, Hon. Patrick Dwyer and Ter
renee O'Rielly, late Member of Parlia-
mont for nulingar."
The great effort at the present time of
tho non-politicians, and Of some who are
not non, is to shake the political grip Of
John Kelly in New York and Hugh Nc
Laaghlin in the city of Brooklyn.
Go where you will at. the present time,
you hear nothing but the wrongs of the
Irish nation, sud il you ask any of these
patriots what is the particular wrong Of
which they complain, they answer that
the Irish are deprived Of tho right to
govern their own country. we'll recol-
lect, several years ago, an infamous
wretch had the impudence to declare
| that Americans should rule America, but
| am happy to be able to record the fact
that this monstrous proposition met with
unqualified condemnation from the Kol-
/ lys and MoLaugblins, and to this day
the cbildren Of the men who proposed
this shameful innovation on the rights of
the Irish nation bear the brand Of infamy,
and let us hope they will bear it down
to the end of time. But all is not smooth
sailing in the Irish camp. One party has
possession Of quite number of thous-
ands of dollars, which another party
would like to get. One patriot publicly
denounced O'Donovan Rosa as fraud
and fool, but the great O'Donovan
swears he is the only man who can mako
the British Premier shake in his shoes,
and he proposes to keep him shaking if
he has to blow up every ship that flies
the British flag. By way of u hint, as to
what our brother, ]. Bull, may expect,
the other night couple of young gen
tlemen, with a very suspicious brogue,
attempted to fire the steamer Bothnia, rs
she lay alongside of her wharf. Tho at
temp was unsuccessful, but, nevertheless,
the whole affair has an uncomfortable
flavor about it, suggestive Of all sorts Of
desperate possibilities, which may deter
timid people from attempting to cross
the ocean. l am naturally man of
peace. would not like to get hurt if
could avoid it, and my advice to any
captain, who catches one of these 1ncen-
diaries on board Of his ship, is, don't
hand him over to the police, but just get
a nice piece Of ratline, make at one end
q running bowline, just reeve the other
through block at the end of your fore.
yard arm, and then bowse away.
When O'Donovan Rossa was inter-
viewed by San reporter short time
after the attempt, whilo, Of course, he
would not acknowledge direct COM
plicity, he did not deny that he approved
the method. A night or two after cou-
pie of Irishmen tried to get on board the
Abysix~io, and said they were looking for
a man by the name of Burk. They were
chased off by the watchman, as snspi-
cious characters, and may have been the
men who fred the Bothnio. If detected,
I hope an example may be made of them,
till they learn that this free land of ours
will never afford shelter or sanctuary to
the incendiary or assassin. If ODono-
van Rosa and his friends want to strike
q blow at the hated Saxon, let them go
to Cork or Dublin, and they can get all
the fight they want without endangering
every body's heads but their own.
The Fall is not exactly the season for
conventions, but just as the cool weather
comes on we find ourselves blessed with
two conventions, in which there is an
exceedingly large representation of wo-
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