THE GALWAY STEAMSIIIP LINE.
When the Galway steamship line was‘ estab-

lished between that city and New York there

was greatrejoicing in Ireland, and it was pro-

’ phesied that national prosperity, if not national

independence, would come suddenly upon the
land. There was too much fuss made about-the
project, and too much imperial importance attri-
buted to the transaction. For our own part we
only viewed it as a sound and profitable specula-
tion," calculated to confer certain benefits on the

‘old town of Galway, and stimulate commercial

intercourse generally between this Republic and

'her Majesty's province of Ireland, which, to a

certain degree, would be a most desirable thing.
We never labored under the delusion that free-
dom would follow in the wake of the first steamer
from ‘New York to Galway, or that the fetters
would ran from the limbs of the old land at the
first revolution of the Royal Mail Steamship’s
paddbs‘ the bay of Galway; yet the project
enlisted our support, because’ it was viewed with
hostility by British monopoly, and we consequent-
ly advised dur countrymen here to give it active
and generous support. As far as the line went,
it was eminently successful ; but from recent ad-
vices by the last steamer, it seems that the whole
project is at an end, that it is merged with the
Canadian line, to which a portion of the govern-

. rnent subsidy is to be paid, and that direct com-

munication beiwccn New York and Galway shall
now cease-

I It appears that the government coerced the
shareholders to adopt this course, after four
splendid vessels, at a cost of one hundred thou-
sand pounds each, had been built for.the service.
This is precisely what was to be expected from
the Saxon enemy, and also what the people of
Galway, to a certain, extent, deserve for the sub-
servicncy and flunkeyism which they displayed to
their English masters. The Rev. -Peter Daly,
who took a lively interest in the matter, and Wild
had a large pum invested in the shares of the
company, became the constant laudator of Eng-
land's enlzglzlened and progressive policy ; and
in a speech which he delivered at Holyhead, we
believe, he stated that‘ the establishment of the
Galway line would be of more advantage to
Ireland ,than the repeal of the IInion,‘and scolfed.
at the frilly of men who still believed in the right
of Irishufen to govern their own country. They
made. a. member of parliament of Mr.,Lever, send-
ing him to represent Galway inthe British legis-
lature, and were ready to pay the bold specula-
tor almost divine honors; and now they have got
the reward of all their flunkeyism and recreaucy.
We trust the lesson just administered may be
read aright by Father Daly, and that he, will
now preach up nationality first, and he maybe
rule that Ireland will-. have more than one packet
station, and that an Irish republic would build
him such a pier and breakwater outside of Mut-
ton Island as he never dreamed of in the hey-
day of his packet station mania. Ireland can
only be improved; and _made permanently pros-
perous by thelsmashing up of the ‘old British firm
of which some foolish Irishmen have been such
blind worshippers. Nothing but revolution can
save Ireland from utter ruin, or rescue her peo-
ple from the’ calamities inflicted upon them by
English rule. ‘

0 ---—--~—c‘-o<O~¢<' ~ —. » K
J.A.:‘iIE S CLARENCE MAN GAN.
As evcrything'connected with Mangau, who

9:

I. was one of our most versatile if not actually the
first of our na'ti'_<:‘n§l' must be interesting-
to our; Irish::readers,:zwe'esi;uote fromthe Dublin »

Irislzmaain" this curious Fsketch of the poet by his
ogvn pen. Our ‘contemporary says :

The following sketch of. Meagan was written
by himself about six weeks before his death. He
had. previously ‘contributed nine . “ Sketches of
Modern Irish W&'iters” to the Irishman ; and, in
an eccentric mood, under a fictitious signature,
thus describes himself. The sketch is, in our
opinion, rather overdrawn, but few will fail to re-
coguisd its truthfukiess in manv parts. particu-
larly where he accuses himself of “fathering

upon other writers the offspring of his own braing’ "

On this subject his friend, Joseph Brennan, tells
an anecdote most characteristic of Mangan. -. Dr.
Luster once having expostulated With him OM11‘?
impropriety of ascribing to Hafix a poem which
certainly bore little or no resembla‘nce_ to the
01-ig'm31_..“ Ah I" said Mangan, “it is only {Half-
his.” , ’ '

-i

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' is a case quite in point.

-remained almost totally blind.

.Mangan is not an opium eater.

THE P]ElliCEZNIX_.

“ Poor Mangan l” light be the turf upon your
grave.” . .
mar 1.

The somewhat impolite intrusion of this Sl(ell'.ll
into the society of‘ other sketches of eminent
Irishmen, which have appeared in this journal,
will, perhaps’, be pardoned when I state that I
happen to be intimately a<.:qix-ainteil with Mr.
Mangan, and that I llu.V‘4- his illL!"¢,’ s-.i,m:tiun for
giving it to the publii-.. l’..or hlaiiguxi l he -dies
uncared for--he dies unknown, but, as he has
said himself, “ uucomplaiuing.” How far he has
contributed to his own premature death isa ques-
tion, the solution of which must, perhaps, be re-
ferred toeternity. Many voices have been raised
against him ; but, to my own knowledge, they
are those of persons who have never seen him
and do not understand him. I am not a believer

‘in what is popularly called predcstination ; "but I

think that there does appear to be a destiny about
Mangan. He was born amidst scenes of blas-
phemy and riot. If the sins of the fathers
be still visited on the children, here assuredly
His childhood was
neglected—jnst as now his deathbed. He had no
companions. A hair-brained -girl, who lodgedjn
his father’s house, sent him out one day to buy a
ballad; he had no covering on his head, and
there was a tremendous shower of rain ; but she
told him the rain would make him gro1.v—-he be-
lieved her—-went out—strayed through many
streets and bye-places, now abolished—~fouud, at
length, his way homeward-—and, for eight years
afterwards, from his fifth year to his tliirtee_nth,
In the twilight
alone could he attempt to open his eyes, and then
he———read. He never mingled in the amusements
of other boys. His childhoodwas dark and‘joy-
less. Of a strongly-marked nervous tempera-
ment by nature, his nerves, even then, were irre-
trievably shattered. His father had embarked
in an unholy business—-one too common and pa-
tent in every city-——and he was robbed by those-
around him. Upon poor Clarence at the age of
fifteen devolved the task of supporting him and
his mother, even while they were yet in the prime
of life. VVitli ruined health and a wandering
mind, that. knew not where to find a goal, he
undertook the accomplishment of what be con-
ceived to be a duty. Eleven other years passed
away, during which he was compelled to be the
daily associate of some of the most infernally
heartless rufliaus on,.this side of Hell. Yet he,
somehow, battled against what seemed destiny
itself. Very déspairlent him-an eiierg-y. "Allday
at an attorney's desk, amid thick smoke, s1_1lphnr,‘
blasphemics, and obscenities worse than blas-
phemies ; half the night reading, and almost all

the other half sleepless ; -‘so passed poor Man- .
..gan his years atthis period. His father and

mother never ‘spoke to him, nor could be ex-
change ideas with them. He had gold and they
had copper. _ . ,

About this time, as I believe, he became ac-
quainted with the Editors of the Comet, a journal
which, spme fifteen years; back, earned and en-_
joyed a high degree of notoriety through Ireland.
They tried to corrupt him, and failed. He wrote
for them gratuitously; but when he attended at
their drinking bouts, always sat at the table with
a glass of water before him. They, and their
hangers-ou—'most of whom have since gone to
the Ang'el—-at length laughed him to scorn;
voted him a spoon, and would have no more to-do
with him. "lie 9. sad world, my masters l

Mangan then took to writing for -the University
Magaz‘i7t¢.' I have never seen any of his contri-
butions to that world-renowned periodical; but I
have read innumerable critiques upon them-, and

 

‘scarcely in one instance have I seen a disparag-

ing word from the critic. It has been said that
he has translated from fourteen languages ; but
he himself has assured me that he understands
only eight. Like the man who, some years back
published an enormous volume in Germany, and
fathered it upon Sanconiatho-—,(pity he did not
add Manetho, Berosus, and Ocellus Lucanns)—
my poor friend Clarence has perpetrated a great
many singular literary sins, which taken toge-
ther, as a quaint and scntcntious friend of mine
remarks, would appear to be the antithesis of
-p1a.giarism., It is a strange fault, no doubt, and
one  that. I’ cannot understand, that Mangan
she ld entertain? a-"deep diflidence of his ‘own
cap city tof’ai'il‘u€é"or attract others ‘by anything’
emanating fromhimself. But it is the fact. I
do not comprehend it ; but he has mentioned it
to me times without number.

I conclude the first part of this sketch for the
present with a most solemn statement :--That
He never swal-
lowed a grain of opium in his life, and only on
one occasion took—-and then as a medicine-—
landanum. The report with respect to his sup-.
posed opium eating propensities, originated from
the lips of William Carleton; who, for some or
no purpose thought proper to spread it.

e _ mar 11. ’  .

My professional avocations as a medical man
have made me acquainted with many singular
neuralgia cases, but I have never met anybody
.o‘f sucha strongly marked nervous temperament
as Mangan. . He is in this respect quite a pheno-
menon; he is literally all nerves and no muscles:
In accordance with such a temperament Provi-
dence. has endowedihim with marvellous tenacity
of life. He_ has survived casualties that would

i
X‘ ,.

hlive killed thousands—-—casualties of all kinds—-
illuesscs, falls, wounds, bruises, wet clothe ’ no

is misfortuiies ave been very great; and he
ascribes them all to his power of writing face-
tiously deriving calamity from columns, in quill.
People have called him a singular man, but he
israther a plural onc—-a Proteus, as the L/Jubliu
tlozvimo designates him. I confess that I cannot
make him out; and I incline strongly to suspect
that there inust be a somewhat that is dark and
troubled in his mind——-perhaps a something very
sore and heavy on his conscience. Man gan un-
derstands eight languages, and has translated
from many besides that he does not understand.
He hasalso been overmuch addicted to a prac-
tice akin to this, that of 'fa.thering upon other
writers the offspring of his own brain. ‘This is
what. a friend of mine pointedly calls the ‘antithe-
sis of plagiarism.——I cannot commend it A man
may have a right to offer his property to others,
but nothing can justify him in forcing it upon
them. I once asked Mangan why he did not pre-
fix his own name to his anti-plagiaristic produc-
tions, and his reply was ..chax-acteristic of the
man :~—'l‘hat would be no go; nowhow you fixed
it ; I must write in a variety of styles ; and it
wouldn’t’ do for me to don the turban, and open
my poem with a Bismilla/t; when I write a poem
to the Arab Mohu-Ibn-M.ohu—Ibn Klialakan is
the man from whomit should come ; and to him
I give it. And do you really sympathise with
your subject? I demanded. Yes, always, always,
was his answer ; when I write as a Persian, I
feel  a Persian, and am transported back to the
days ‘of Diemsheed and the Geuii; when I write
as a Spaniard, I forget, for the moment, every-.
thing but the Cid, the Moors, and the Alhambra:
when I translate from the Irish, my heart has up
lpulses, except for the wrongs and sorrows of. my
own stricken land. I asked him for his opinion
of German humor :—-—Why, said be, you have,
doiibtless, heard of the author whobegan and
ended a work On Me liars qf Icetaindpvitli the
words, There are no rats in Iceland. So my
opinion of German humor is, that there is no
such thing as German humor. If there be any
exception to this remark, it is to the quaint story
of Pei'.~r Sclilcmidl, the man who sold his shadow.
Peter, you knowfiapplies to a painter to paint a
shadow {or him, and thepainter gravely inquires
how his own shadow came to be.-lost. Peter,
ashamed to acknowledge that he sold it, answers,
‘thaticnono very frosty day it stuck so hard to
the ground, that he_was'forccd to Walk away
withoutit. The painter listens to this statement
with solemn gravity ; and, after a considerable
pause of deep thoughtfulness, closes the con-
versation «with. . the words, I am afraid that
-such a shadow as I might. paint you, not being
naturally‘ your own, would be apt to give you the
slip on the first opportunity, and return tome,
its maker; and then, my dear sir, matters would
be worse than before, for while. you still would
bevshadowless, I should be burthened with two
shadows; and, something str' we concerning
me ' might go abroad.’ This. certainly droll
enough, but perhaps it is no genuine Teuton
after all; the name of the author, Chaihisso, has
a suspicious ‘Italian twang, and he, or his father
before him, may have gone down the Rialto 111 a
gondola.” ,M_augan has an odd manner of ex-
pressing himself, or perhaps I should ‘say /tad,
‘for, alas! he is fast losing that firm hold of his
life of which I have written." He lies upon a

' bed‘ of sickness, forsaken and uncared -for,

steeped in the slough of poverty up to the lips,
and sunk to the lowest depths of sufi'ering and
‘sorrow. His deplorable condition I sincerely
commiserate-—I would I éould do more. From
habits of prayer and fasting, and the study of
the lives of the Saints, Mangan was at one pe-
riod of his mysteriousglife drawn away, and en-
ticed iiito the 8
an aim’s ace of bécbming a Benedict. But a cer-
tain strange circumstances—the occurence of
which he has described to me as having been
foreshadowed to him in a. dream-——interposed

him; -and so, he abode a Maledict, and Hymeu
dispatched Cupid and Plutns to look for some-
body se. Man gan, had a queer opinion con-
cerning dreams, butit is not worth; explaining.
He believes in a particular Providence, as every

that he has often been in the invisible world, and
has conversed with ghosts. ‘Such tricks hath
strong imagination! buhif contradicted on this
point, he never argued it;., he was silent; a fact,
whidh would seem to indicate the possession of
more good sense , on his ‘part than his belief in
the nonsense, to which he, gives credit, would
warrant me iuattributing to him. I have said
that Maegan is neglected.and forsaken; but I
had" forgotten. There is one friend of his, who
hasknown him only in adversity, but who oc-
casionally visits him, and" of late has been ex-
erting himself for the relief of the Poet's exigen-
cies, though hitherto, I believe, without success;
I mean Mr. Mooney, the ‘portrait painter," and
he himself a poet also of "no mean order. If. it
be not too late, possibly -1/Iangan may yet be
rescued and restored to society; but whena fly
is rayidly sinking in a glass of water, and not a
soul in the house besides himself, it is diflicult for
him to forbear conjecturing that he must go to
the bottom. -- V «
» E. W.

clothes at all, and nights at the round table. .

of love, and was even within «

their uugallant 'proportions be_tween the lady and ~

Ohristian should believe; but he- also avows .

VISIT 0}‘ THE EMMET GUARDS OF
' NEVV HAVEN, CONN. ..

This line Company, under command of Capt.
Thomas W. Cahill, and .numbcring 96 rank and
file, will ai'x'iVe in this city by the New Haven
Boat, on 'l‘iie.~irl;iy, 31st iust., at 6 o'clock, A..M.,
and will remain as the guests of the “ Irisli Fu-
siliers,” Co. A, 69th tegt. for 3-days. The
“Fusiliers” will celebrate their ninth iumiversa—
ry on that day in company with their guests by
an e:~:cursion down the bay. A limited number
of tickets for which has been issued.

On VVed1'ies(lay, Aug. 1st, both coinpaiiies will
be reviewed by the Mayor and Common Council
in front of the City‘Hall, at 10 o’clock, A.M.,
after which they will proceed to Central Park
where they will spend the remainder of the day.

The oliiccrs of the 69th‘ have also invited the
“ Emmets” to prolong their visit astheir guests,
and a comniit.tee has been appointed to make
arrangements for them. ‘

   

~>-~o-
THE 1l’[ILI TIA AN D PR1 N 01'.‘ OF -
' DVALE S.

run nicirr srinrr is rni: _RIGI1'l‘ runs.
Under the above caption we find the following

in the "W'ester'n Bamzer, St. Louis. The spirit of

the resolutions are most commendable andfihould

the Union. Is there more truth, manhood and
feeling amongst the militia of St. Louis than
amongst the same arm of the service in New
York ? The common sense which pervades those
resolutions, the patriotism and thorough repub-
licanism which they indicate, -commends them to
us and we tlicrcibre place them before our read.-
ers :——— . _ ,

“ At a special nit.-eting of the Montgomery
G-uards, held at theirarmory, on Friday even-
ing, 13th inst., the following resolutions were
passed unanimously 2-—— g

‘ ' Annur.'v .VIo.\~roousa‘r‘ Gusnns.
St.,I‘._iouis, July 14, 1860.

Whcrcas:'-—--'l3l’ierc sdeiits to be a foolish dispo-

sition abroad among the civic authoritiés t6‘call

purpose of rcceivingginofficial and distinguished
visitors to our sh"ores,, and the said disposition,
on more thanone occasion, has proved to be in-
consistent with not only the well-known rights of
the militia in such cases, butoplainly at variance
with their political and other feelings, and 
Wherea.s,'the visit of .the Prince of_Wales is
likely to be used by civic flunkies and interested
politicians as a fit opportunity for calling’ on the

.militia to show him honor in this manner, and A
against the well understood féelingsiof the great
majority, who are traditionally opposed tothe _

house of Guelph and all its branches, and '
Wlpreas, Silence might be construed into
consent and approval of. this practice.
‘We, the oflicers and privates of the Montgo
mery Guards,.protest, in advance, against any
repetition of this absurd custom in the instance

fellow-citizen soldiers to resent any and every’
attempt which may be made to connect their
name with any celebration in his honor—--, . ‘

Because: ‘A militia force is permitted by its
rules to hold its political opinions, and act on
them as it sees fit, when not called on by the
proper. authorities to protect life and property :*
Because : It is inconsistent with-its character
as a free arm of a free Republican Government,
to recognize principle of hereditary power, the
only principle which can be, recog,niaed",in,a
prince, and not recognized in any other ‘visitor.

Because : The Governmbnt whi'cl_i"‘_he‘ .rgi;iEé.~
sents refuses the use of ‘arms to its subjects unless
when. called out for its own purposes, except
under restrictions which practically exclude two-
thirdsof its people from the knowledge‘ of their
use. I C _

And, lastly, because a decent respect for the
opinionsof the Irish-American portion'of the
militia force should operate to influence not only
it but its associate arms of the service of- other

-nationalities, from »'giving honors to the repre-‘

sentative of a sovereignty which crushed them
into exile, made them partly unfit to take an
early ‘advantage of . many of its blessings, and
first inculcated in their minds that bitter neces-
sity of the injured-that highest hope of the
brave—-retributive justice.

rit'of the above, be, and are hereby, reques 
to publish the same. ’ - ~ - '
P. Nsuenrox, Cgitain.

    

     

WILLIAM READY, Secretary. ,,I..‘ «I

be imitated by the militia of every other city in '

into requisition the services of the militia forthe '

of the Prince of Wales, and to call on all our ‘

Resolved, That all papers favorable to the  .