The Cleveland Leader, 1865-10-03

Ebitob Lzadbr: In your is issues of the 28th and 29lh insL, you devote a leading article to "The Fenian Movement in Ire land." Before expressing my dissent from you views, permit jne, on the part cf our organization in this city, to tender you, and the other membsrs of the public press, our sincere thanks for many acta of kindness extended to us for the last few years. I believe your sympathies are with US' I belie re that it is your heartfelt wish to see an independent government on Irish soil I believe that the majority of thu great American people would hail with peans of j jy the achievement of Irish independence) But I regret to have to say that frequency your opinions are based on false data, pro cured from English sources, and hence partial, illoeical and unsound. What are we contending; far?- We are contending for that principle for the maintenance of men your latners lOusht ana bled ; for which the English tea was emptied into Boston UarDor; lor which the Jtngiun Stamp Act was trampled in the dust ; tor the delense of which Warren and Mont gomery shed their blood the one en the Hill of Bunker, the other beneath the walls of Quebec ; for which the immortal Washington drew his sword, to be sheathed only when this country was declared free and independent It is the ptinciple of Libertv 1 The right of sell government. Liberty unsullied bv a atngle taint of sectarianism. Liberty for all lor the Catholic, the Protestant, the Moth Moth-diet, - diet, Moth-diet, for all sects and creeds ; liberty to till the soil and develop the resources of our native land for the benefit of her children ; liberty, that our people may not starve, but live that Ireland may no longer be a beggar, knocking at the door of every na tion, asking for eleemosvnarv subsistence. but stand erect, hsppv and powerful among the nations of the earth ; and I care not who gainsays it, whether he wears a crown or a mitre, whether ne oe King or caiaer, piiest or layman, to fight, to die for that libSTty is not inconsistent with any principle; human or divine What is the condition of Ireland to day. after seven centuries of British rule, or rather misrule? Let me tell you -and permit me to say that I speak not from ViMlrtav. tint from ertnal ATrtArinnnfL and after sounding the depths ef society there from top to bottom. Four out of the five millions of people arediafiected, and would welcome any change of rulers aye, even the despotism of the autocrat of Buesia : and furthermore, the first blow struck, the first victory achieved by the Fenians, will sind into the field before a week afterward lOO.COOmen. Forty yean ago the poet Byron, speaking from his home by the JEzean sea, wrote of the then condition of Ireland. "The castle f Mil itandi, tho' the fenat-i mmore. And the faniae that dwells oa her freedomleai "are .needing tti oteve to her deeo'a'e shore. To her desolate shore, whsre the emig ant stand For a mt ment to gaze, ere he fl es from hie hea tlx. TVare fill front bie chains, tho' it dr jpe from bis hands, For the dungeon he lcavos is tie plsoof his birth." And the foregoing language truly and faithfully depicts her sad condition at this hour Travel through the Island, what do ycusee? You see black spots like the plague epots ol &gypt; to ten you oi pre presides - sides presides made desolate : to trace the footsteps Lord Tumble Cabbin. And where are the inmates ? Ask the Atlantic to give up its victims the lonely graves by the American forest to give sp their tenants. Travel throoeh the Island, what do you find ? The city, town and village deserted, the merchant bankrupt, the mechanic idle, the peasant starving, and all this in a land favored by nature above all others, teeming with all the resources that make a nation wealthy. Consider for a moment the des potism exercised over the people. Let the farmer but dare to act contrary to me ukase of his heartless landlord, and, though his forefathers and himself have, by their toil and labor, turned the morass into a garden, be and his family are flung houseless and homeless on the world to starve, to die. And then consider the re religious - ligious religious equality, which is practiced by oar rulers. The Fresbvterian and Catholic are obliged to contribute to the support of the Episcopal church, whose worship they never attend, whose tenets they do not be believe - lieve believe in and the Presbyterian or Catholic student is debarred by lata from aspiring the rank of scholar in our Dublin Uni versity, though he was as learned as a Newton or a Melancthon. With these incontrovertible facts before them, what wondor that the people of Ireland should be determined to shake off the incubus that has pressed them to the earth and kept them there. From the tone of your articles one would be led to believe that opposition to British rule has been confined to the ignorant peasant. You have read history to very liwie account, men ; yuu forget there were such men as Lucas, Mol Mol-lyneaux, - lyneaux, Mol-lyneaux, Swift, Grattan, Currau, Burke, Flood, Jbarlemont, vne r rotes taut oimup of Derrv. Tone. BusselL Emmett, M'Nevin and the noble Lord Edward Fitzgerald, hrntfaarof aDuke. and of all those illus trious names I have given, only one was of the Catholic faith. In 1798 the United Irish Society was composed almost exclu sively of Protestants and Presbyterians, and thousands of them laid down their r- r . l -: l : : 1 f.Uh iiooa in aoienaa oi tueir ouiiuuu There are in Ireland, 'tis true, those who would prefer Slavery to uoerty. xnere are those who wear the livery of the Eng lish Government, "who would oarier ineir hirthrieht for a mess of pottage r Alio tne aeiuaea uraugomeu ut uio North, and the grinding, tyrannical land land-lnrrla - lnrrla land-lnrrla who are the English garrison in Ire- p. , rt . . .l. land, and for whose Denent tne iaw are framed, but I tell voo, and I assert it with out fear of contradiction, that the majority of the mercantile classes are seditious, the tillers of the sou and the mecnanicai classes are seditious, and that those who have not yet joined the Fenian organization only wait until they see an armed force of suf ficient strength to anora tnem protection. But vou say we are only 12,000 strong in this country. It is not my wish to tell actual strength, but you would re quire to multiply 12,000 by a goodly round nnmhw to arrive at any thing even near it. And the English government could not to-d&v concentrate zu.uuu men at any one rtoint in Ireland. And where can she re- r-mit her armies from? In Ireland? Ob, no 1 There is no one there now base enough tn take the Saxon bounty. - But you tell us to procure redress from the English government to wait till we am eirontrer. and that we are not fit for liberty. The best proof that we are fit for the enjoyment of liberty is that we are ready to peril our lives in order to obtain it. Soma such slavish advice was given before the Convention of Delegates ol the savaral Counties and Corporations of Vir ginia on the 23d of March, 1775. And I will take the liberty of quoting the reply of Patrick Henry as suitable to our case, as t was then to that of America. Sir. we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm that now coming on. We have petitioned, we have remonstrated, we have supplicated, we have prostrated ourselves before the .mi have imnlored its mterDoai- uon to arrest tne tyrannical u&uus ui un minutrv and Parliament, uur petition have been slighted; our remonstrances hava nroduced additional violence and insult ? Our supplications have been dis disregarded, - regarded, disregarded, and we have been spurned with oontemnt from the foot of the Throne. - In wain after these thincrs. may we indulge the fond hepa of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free; if we mean to pro pro-serve - serve pro-serve inviolate those inestimable privileges far which we have been so long contend ing ; if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glori glorious - ous glorious object of oar contest (hall be obtained, a at to in cf a

Steamship llclajiar,, from XaivorpOOl on the 21st via L jndonderry on the 2 2d ult, has been signaled off this point. Her dates are two days later from Europe. We shall obtain her news about 5 o'clock r. m. There wee no new developments in the proceedings against the Fenians. The examination of the prisoners stood f jr the 33d. James Murphy, one of the arrested at Dublin, who described himself bs a citizen of Boeton, and protested against his arrest, has been set at liberty, after an interview between the American Consul and author authorities. - ities. authorities. It is stated that Murphy is connected with the War Department at Washington, but no explanation is given of his connec connection - tion connection with the "Irish People." A the 88th Regiment was on parade in the Cork Barracks, the Sergeant Major was called into the guard room and shown a roll book of the members' names taken from an arrested Fenian. He admitted that one of the signatures was his own, and was at once taken into custody. A private soldier belonging to the same regiment was also arrested. This caused groat excite ment in Cork, even leading, it is reported, to a run on the Cork banks. A Fenian demonstration was rather ex expected - pected expected at the Limerick races, and the mili military - tary military were held in readiness, but all passed off quietly. James Stevens, for whom a reward of 1000 it offered, was Aid de Camp to Smith O'Brien, at Baldingarry. The American olficer arrested at (J ueens ueens-iowa - iowa ueens-iowa on the arrival of the City of Limerick, tarn out to be a federal and not a confed confederate - erate confederate captain, named McCafTerty. A num number - ber number of Fenian documents of an incendiary character were found in hi possession, with the evidence that he was connected with the movement. The arms of Brig. Gen. Gleason, of the United States Army, who was a passenger on the City of Lim Limerick, - erick, Limerick, were taken from him. The Morning Poet editorially asserts that the American government is strongly op opposed - posed opposed to the Fenians, and would do all in its power to defeat them. It says Presi President - dent President Johnson and Mr. Seward are animated by the most friendly sentiments toward England, and the latter has communicated the Fenian movements to the British Cab Cabinet, - inet, Cabinet, and neither the British public nor the government will readily forget Mr. Sew Seward's - ard's Seward's honorable and amicable conduct. The Daily News think the Fenian col collapse - lapse collapse is likely to settle, in a beneficial way, the relations between the United States and Ireland, and that the political relations be between - tween between England and Ireland aie likely to be far better understood than they have ever yet been. Lieut. CoL Yaborick, late Adjutant Gen General - eral General of Cavalry, writes to the Times a state statement - ment statement that the documents found on the per person - son person of CoL Dshlgren after he was killed, were forgeries. Satterthwaite's circular, dated on the evening of the 20th, says the market for American securities has been very active, and up to the 19th, with steadily advancing rates. &-20S were at one time done as high as 68, but gave way and closed heavy at 686Bj. Erie had been largely bought np to &8, when they reacted to 57, but on renewed buying have again improved to 57167. Ills, in demand at an improve improvement - ment improvement on the week of about of a dollar. Atlantic & Great Western bonds in de demand - mand demand and few to be sold even at an ad advance - vance advance of 2 to 3 dollars. ! The Times say Frankfort advices men mention - tion mention a meeting of American bond holders recently called there by Mr. Laner, of Hew York, a banker, which was largely attend attended. - ed. attended. Mr. Laner stated that he had not come to barrow, as his countrymen were compe competent - tent competent to provide for the wants of the Gov Government, - ernment, Government, but to some communications about present affairs and future prospects, the Secretary of the Treasury having de desired - sired desired him to do so during his stay in Eu Europe. - rope. Europe. Mr. Laner stated that as large im importations - portations importations were now required for the South A large revenue, from cueWmi was

The Herald' Washington special say about the middle of last month General Baker received information of a plot at Lynchburg, Virginia, to rob the Post H uarter Masters' safe of a large amount of money k was known to contain. Tbe esse has worked up, and has resulted in the arrest and placement in old capital jail of Brevet Brigadier General C. Briscoe, of the 109th Pennsylvania volunteers, commanding post at Lvnchburg, and A. W. Lackey, of - , .vtiuvAj mun at that post General Briscoe is an Irish- -man by birth, and has been in command of the post at Lynchburg since Lee's sur surrender. - render. surrender. ICaptain A. W. Alberjer, sen of the Canal Commissioner of New York, has been Quartermaster at Lynchburg, and had in his charge on the 21st of September $120, $120,-000 - 000 $120,-000 in greenbacks beside a large amount of captured gold coin, and bullion, which had been placed in his charge for safe keeping. Britcce approached Albergor through Lockey, and proposed to him as the war was about to dose, and none of them had made money out of it they should make a grand haul in eoncert and pocket $50,000 apiece. ' Alberger kept the funds in a safe which formerly belonged to a rebel officer, and this fact was to give color to the charge that the ex-rebel, having a duplicate key to the safe, had robbed it Briscoe was to arrest the Quartermaster, his clerks and half the people of Lynch Lynchburg - burg Lynchburg to avert suspicion. The General took an impression of the safe key in wax, and sent Lackey to Philadelphia to get the key made. Alberger, ostensibly in the plot, informed the Secretary of War and two or threeof General Bakers officers . were sent down to Lynchburg to arrest the guilty parties. Theee officers saw, through holes in the ceiling of the office, General Briscoe come in while the Quartermaster and his clerks were gone to dinner, and unlock the safe with a false key and -' out three packages ot green -' a 000 each, and load b- cnj of $40, $40,-and - and $40,-and bullion - ' ' "elf down with coin 000 v wane amount of nearly $15, $15,-., - ., $15,-., aaving previously ignited saturated paper and cloth, with a view toburninc the building. They followed him aero. the hall to his own office and burst in upon him fta ha wa. r-nnntinw ant ..nr. . r, mucey Behind his boitea door. The wax moulds and false keys were found on him, and the proof was indispu indisputable. - table. indisputable. Theee proofs are now in General Baker's possession. Briscoe and Lackey are in the Old Capi Capitol - tol Capitol awaiting trial, and Alberger, the honest Quartermaster, is on duty at his old post Colonel Simpson, of the Engineer Corps, who is specially detailed for service in the Department of the Interior, left here a few days ago on a tour of inspection over the 400 mile route of the Kansas branch of the Pacific Railroad. He arrived at St Louis yesterday on his way thither, and he will act on this mission in conjunction with Governor Crawford, of Kansas, and Har Harvey - vey Harvey Scott, of Indiana, who accompany him. The report of the examination will transmitted to the President

- The Teculta of the meeting at Lyman'i Ball last night arc most encouraging to all who desire the triumph of the entire Union ticket at the coming election; for they demonstrate the utter insignificance of the effort which is being made to diride the Union party and give the vic victory - tory victory to the Vallandigham Democracy. The entire movoment is one of the weakest ever attempted, and its almoet pitiable feebleness was strikingly demonstrated last night. Of the "two hundred" signers of the call who had been induced to affix their signatures to the call, some from personal feeling, some be because - cause because the Union Convention had not nominated them or their friends, scms on one pretext and soma on another lets than fifty were present, while of the Union voters of Cleveland, who accept the nomi nominations - nations nominations made by the County Convention, and -"are willing to support them with unanimity and ' heartiness, there were six times that number. It is worthy of remark, as an illustration of the tendency of all bolting movements, that these Union meo,eomprising an overwhelming majority el those present, were excluded from speak speaking - ing speaking and voting in the caucus by a most un unjustifiable - justifiable unjustifiable decision oi its chairman, while a man who declared that he was not a mem member - ber member of the Union party and that he voted for HoClellan at the last election, took an active part in it. This is in perfect accord with the whole character of the move movement, - ment, movement, which can have no other tendency than the election of Ike Vallandigham candidates. The decision, however, proved of no avail, for the majority immediately seceded and held another meeting, at which the Union county ticket was endorsed with emphatic unanimity. We predict that not one hundred votes will be alienated from the Union ticket to the support of the candidate nominated last night. The attempt to divide the Un Union - ion Union party, and thus throw the election into the hands of the Vallandigham Democ racy, will meet with a more decided rebuke from the people than any similar move, ment that has ever been attempted in this county. The only result will be to heighten the excitement ot the election, draw out a larger vote, and increase the majority for the entire Union ticket. The only men who will have cause to regret the move ment will be those who have repudiated the Union party of this county, and at tempted to set up a counter nomination. to

Ia announcing the return of Sir Morton Feto and party from their tour, the Herald says : Among the gratifying results of this visit will be the laying of a double track on the Erie road from New York to its junction with the Atlantic & Great West West-era - era West-era ; shortening of distance on the Erie road seventy miles; the building of a railroad bridge across the Niagara near Buffalo, a structure that will cost some $5,000,000; and, the extension of the branches of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway from all the principal points where the main track is laid. These enterprises will involve an expense of per perhaps - haps perhaps $100,000,000. But this is nothing taking account of the real designs of these Europeans, namely, shortening of the route to the East Indie by a grand railroad across the American continent The Times ef to-day says the steamer. City of Boston and Evin, which sailed on Saturday, are said to have taken $1,000,000 in bonds for the use of the embryotic Irish Republic It a currently repoited that as soon a these bonds reach Ireland matters will assume a definite form, and a proc proclamation - lamation proclamation lso printed here will be spread broadcast through the land, and' so welT guarded are the avenues that there i no possible way of the British government obtaining the document or of interfering with the plan of distribution. It is claimed the bond have nearly all been subscribed for and many by people whom the govern government - ment government most respect.," ' On the other hand the British govern, ment claim to have knowledge of the ship, ment of the bond and to have an agent on board the steamers in question, who at the proper time will seize them and turn them over to the home government In all probability both steamers will be thor thoroughly - oughly thoroughly searched before going to Queens Queens-town, - town, Queens-town, or before any passengers or freight are allowed to land. War vessels are by thi time at Queensrown for the express pnjpcse.

The speculative activity in stocks con continues. - tinues. continues. The railroad list is excited and transaction at this morning's Board ex exceeds - ceeds exceeds those of any day for many months. A. clique ha taken hold of the Cleveland & Pittsburg and run up the price two per cert at this mornings board, with sales of 8,000 shares. Michigan Southern also sold largely, closing at a rise of 2 J per cent Chicago & Alton induced for in investment, - vestment, investment, but orders cannot be filled at the prices bid. The miscellaneous list was strong and active. Gold-bearing stocks are especially dulL Five-Twenties are e lower, and Seven-Thirties better. There ttas a slight decline in stocks at tho Cecohd Board owing to the heavy realisation and agita agitation - tion agitation of the loan question, l"t at the lrnt board the market was steady. The num number - ber number of outsiders in the stock market !i steadily increasing. The following are the closing quotation?: New York Central, 96J ; Erie, 87J j Hud Hudson, - son, Hudson, 111 ; Beading, 116 j ; Michigan South Southern - ern Southern and Northern Indiana, 73 ; Cleveland and Pittsburgh, 74 j; Chicago and Bock Island, ex-dividend, 107 J ; Chicago and Northwestern, preferred, 64J. There was rather more of a demand for money, but the first class houses readily supplied at 5 per cent , and no one paid over 6 per cent The discount market was better supplied with commercial paper, and the rates are from 7 to 18 per cent The new loan will have no permanent effect npon the money market Gold closed at 144. Sterling firm at 109110. aovarutneni securities are lewer; 5-20s 102.