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T run nnrsssssrsrron or TBALEE.

Tau youngest, and most worthless, of the
clan O’Connell, is, they say, about to assume the
livery of place, for which he has been so long a
beggar, and the representation of Tralee, mort
gaged years ago to that end, is once more
“free.” It is not alone .“ free” but “indepen-
dent ;” and, therefore, as is meet, and just, and
right, and necessary, the next aspirant to be
‘salesman of himself, looks to it as a thing
that will enhance his value and give briskness
to the market,-where such commodities are in
demand.

Accordingly, Mr. Thomas O’Hagan puts him-
self on the stall, and asks the burghers of Tralee
to imprint their brand upon him, as men do on
a brandy cask. He has claims upon them, he
rather fancies. For did he not, when there was
a “fair trial fund,” condescendingly accept of
£200 and travel down to Kerry to be gaped at
by urchins and shouted for by fools—the observ-
ed of all observers—-his ostensible object being
to defend the state prisoners there, and his real
one, to decry their cause, themselves and his
and their country? He met there the most en-
thusiastic welcome. Why ? Not surely because
they thought him a great man. . Not because
he had rendered any distinguished service to
any good cause. Not that he ever made a sa-
crifice for man, or principle, or country ; for he
was never known as anything but a plodding

lawyer and borrower of other men’s sentiments.
N 0, no l He was welcomed, cheered, gaped at,
because he represented, on the occasion, the na-
tional cause and the national inspiration. He
was there, and, for a time at least, even though
a subsidized one, the interpreter of the un-
changeable feeling of the nation’s heart. _ ‘

He contrived, though the task was difficult,
to interpret her feelings falsely, and betray her
great hope. He spoke of the acts, imputed to
his clients, as crime and madness. His argu-
ment was that they could not be foolish enough
to be guilty of the crime, or criminal enough to
yield to the folly. He, at once, belied his clients
and his country. His excuse was the chance of
success—always the lawyer’s excuse——but never
the excuse of a lawyer who has not sunk his
manhood in his profession. His present office is
the reward of the effort. We said, at the time,
that this .was its aim, its drift, its inspiration.

Brit it is one thing to be rewarded by the cue-
my for a betrayal, and another to have the re-
ward endorsed by the betrayed. The latter is
precisely what would be surely done if Mr.
O’Hagan succeeded in obtaining the representa-
tion of Tralee. There are of course many inte-
rests among the electors of Tralee. But least
of all is there any large class who sympathize
with the late state prisoners. Thus the election

‘ may be an imperfect test of public feeling, if the
’ _management be left in the usual hands and the

game played in the usual way. Let us hope,
however, that the public aspirations will find
utterance, and that, the treason to national in-
terest shall be at_, least denounced. -

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AGRARIAN DISTURBANCE IN IRELAND.

THE_ agrarian evils in Ireland may be charged,
in the aggregate, against the British govern-
ment, for it makes the laws which-enable each

“ in,dividual landlord to oppress, extort and evict

his tenantry ; but the odium of giving practical
application to those laws is shared alike between
English and Irish, Catholic and Protestant, resi-
dent and absentee.

In a recent number "of the Dublin Evening
Mail, a West-Briton and landlord organ, we
find the following paragraph :

“On Sunday last, between two and three
o’clock, a respectable Roman Catholic gentle-
man, named Brady, while on his return,from
Mullingar, where he had‘ been at Mass, to his
residence at Kilpatrick, was attacked by four
men armed withgheavy bludgeons, who beat him
savagely, leaving him for dead, and then de-
camped. Mr. Brady was found lying in this
condition by some persons who shortly after-
wards came up and conveyed him back to Mul-
lingar, ‘where his wounds were dressed. Mr.
Brady held some land _uudcr the trustees of
Erasmus Sinith’s schools, and gives a good deal
of employment. Two men have been arrested
and identified by him as being of the party by
which he was attacked. They have beeufully
committed for trial. The only cause assigned
for this wanton outrage is the fact of Mr. Brady
having found it necessary, at the last Quarter
Sessions, to decree a tenant named Dalyfor non-

THE PHCENIX.

payment of rent. It is stated that Mr. Brady is
not expected to recover. ~

The decree involved the eviction of Daly
and his family in the depth of winter, but the
landlord should have his pound of flesh. Until
there shall be an end of landlordism in Ireland,
scenesgof tyranny will be enacted and of reprisal
also. The state must become the proprietor
under which the tenant, on payment of a mode-
rate tax or rent, shall hold for ever. Let good
landlords be fully compensated for the transfer
of their estates,\and the property of the bad land-
lords confiscated, and ‘thus no injustice would
be indicted, and the whole question satisfactorily
arranged.

 

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THE GOOD CAUSE SPREADING.

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Our: Irvington friends are thanked and wel-
comed. They have well begun, and therefore half
done their business. Let them proceed as they have
commenced, and very soou\they will be a power,
and no ordinary one. But ‘they must not be
idle. Even as they have been reached, they
should reach others. They know the way now.
Tarrytown is above them and very near. The
same zeal that brought Colonel Butler among
them, should bring them among the men of
Tarrytown. Thus may the good spiritspeed
from town totown, and village to village, and
man to man. We would thank, if we thought
he did not disrelish thanks, our good friend of
Dobbs’ Ferry. But the business is one of duty
and urgency and not of thanks or laudations,
which, on such occasions, would be equally
unworthy of him and of us. '
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Obituary.

 

   

WE announced, in our last, briefly and with sincere
regret, the premature and unexpected death ‘of Terence
Bellew McManns. Few men were ever consigned to a
foreign grave, by strange hands, tha.t_so little deserved
that most mournful of destinies. But we must proceed
with the notice of his life and character, to which we
pledged ourselves in our last. _ I

He was the son of a wealthy shopkeeper, ‘ ‘ e town
of Monaghan, in the North of Ireland. Hum‘ was a
man of practical energy  stern yesolution. He was
imbued with that strength purpose and collectedness
of will, for which most of the Northern Catholics are dis-
tinguished. He gave his son a practical, useful and
sound education, as most men, in that part of the coun-
try, do.

Young McManus thus qualified, and possessed of an
ardent temperament, generous impulses, “and a stem
will, started early in life, and very soon worked his way
to eminence and respect, such as few men at his time of
life attained. He settled in Liverpool and adopted the
business of a general broker. His rise was rapid and
without a check. His nature was warm and tender as a
sunny clime, his language frank, direct and confident,
his bearing soldierly, affable and gracious-—qualities
which won for him the esteem and confidence of all who
came in contact with him. He was prompt, punctual
and faithful to every business obligation. But, when the
day’s toil was ended, and he sat in his sweet cottage at
Birkenhead, overlooking the Mersey, few men ever made
a cheerful home gladder, and never did stranger receive
a more generous and gracious welcome than in its cozy
parlors. Not a Sunday passed that it was not the scene of
some re-union of his countrymen. '

Indeed, in this respect, he differed from most of the
children of the North. He was all openness, candor and
good fellowship. No dark suspicion ever .crossed his
genial nature or closed up the accesses to his kindly
heart. His impulses were vehement, in their warmth and
in their strength. He had no cold reserve. He was
gentle and genial as if the sun of the South had imparted
its glow to his_ feelings and his heart.

While he occupied this position, respected, trusted and
beloved, the ring of political enthusiasm broke in upon
his business and his enjoyment and gave a different di.
reclion to the current of his life. He became an active
member and correspondent of the Repeal Association.
When the “ secession,” more properly the expulsion,
from that body took place, he went out with the rest;
and ever afterwards sustained the wing of the Confedera-
tion that inclined to the boldest and most perilous
course. The place of danger and hazard was his unva_
rying choice. When the news of Mitcliel’s conviction
reached him in his counting-house, with what speed
steam ,could lend he rushed to the scene, where he thought
is impossible this blow, struck at the dear cause he so
cherished, would -not be avenged. He did not reach,
however, until the man he loved was out in the black
ihulk at sea, a fettered “ felon.” He felt this disappoint-
ment sorely; and nothing but the strongest assurances,
on the part of his trusted friends, could induce him to
abide by men who had suffered, in his mind, so great a
disgrace. _

He did, however, continue, and assisted in reconstruct-
ing the Committee of the Confederation, and excluding‘

from it some who had incurred the imputation of trea-
chery and some who had incurred that of cowardice. In
performing this duty, he gave signal pI‘00f'Of his disin-
terested courage and his lofty sense of patriotism; for
he had to oppose the wishes and refuse the request of
Mr. Duffy, his earliest and most intimate friend, his
school-fellow and relative.

When the sound of revolution at last broke upon his
ear, in his highest flush of business, and when he had at-
tained a position commanding success, he started to his
feet like an inspired man, took his rifle down and kissed
it, and, bidding adieu to no friend, was before the wind
on his way to the scene of strife. He met O’Brien and
his other comrades at Ballingarry, was dispatched by
them to Father Kenyon’s, whence he returned to the
barricade scene at Killenaule, where he rode out alone
to meet the troop of cavalry that so strangely escaped at
that village. He was also at the widow McCormick’s,
nor was it his fault that the affair there had not a very
different result.

His after-wanderings—his search for desperate com-
rades and desperate chances by Keeper and Slievebloom,
with Meagher, his final despair, departure and cap-
ture, his trial and sentence, and the manhood, modesty
and dignity of his hearing through every vicissitude, are
known to all. In every position his honor was without
astaiu, his fortitude unflinching, his courage above re-
proach. He heard the-terrible formula of the death sen-
tence without the twitch of a muscle or the palor of one
retreating drop of his heart's blood.

Of his years of exile we cannot speak. Those who
witnessed him vouch for his well sustained honor, his un-
flinching courage,’liis uncompromising resolution. Tho-
mas II‘. Meagher speaks of him with the feelings of a
brother and the enthusiasm of a boy.

He has passed away, the great hope of his heart unful-
filled. He has passed away at the moment when that
hope seemed brightest and a. new day was breaking in
upon it. At such a time, and under such circumstances,
and so far away from ‘all one loves, it is hard ; oh, how
hard it is to die. To leave dear friends, to snap the cords
of strong love, to go down to a cold grave, in-a strange’
land, is a blighting thing in the terrible hour of dissolu-
tion ; but to die with a long 1ife’s hope dimmed, is the
coldest, saddest, loneliest death in the world. Our dear,
dead friend has had his trials, his reverses, his successes.
his ups and downs, and as we are well assured how he
bore them a1l—with perfect equanimity, uushi-inking re-
solution and a steady heart-—we feel well justified in as-
suming that he met the still severer trial of being taken
away at a moment when the grand hope of his whole
existence seemed on the eve of being realized.

How was that great heart broken ? Was he home-sick ?
Had he dear friends he wished to join again in this wohld ?
Were his aspirations far away when the clutch of the des.
troyer seizedaliim and shut them out for ever? Who
was by him when he died? Oh, many, many thousands
there are whose dearest aspiration it would be to watch
his last throb, to listen to his last words, to look on his
eye ere deathhad iced it o’er; Yet it may be he died
alone; yet it may be no hand he loved was clasped in
his.
More mournful reflections than this lone death sug-
gests, it would be scarcely possible to conceive. He lies
out there, by the stirless waters of the Pacific, almost as
far from the home of his thoughts and heart, as he could
be in any spot on the habitable globe. His great, long-
ing, hopeful heart is yet more stirless than the waters
that come whispering lowly by the place of his rest.

And he is the fourth of his comrades, or fe1low-prison-
ers, now mouldering in a strange land. Patrick O’Don-
oghue lies in Greenwood, where a generous gratitude
has placed a simple monument, on which, at least, his
name can be read. Thomas Devin Reilly sleeps some-
where in Washington, with no mark on his grave.
Thomas Devin Reilly—the brightest, the mightiest, the
gladdest, the most fruitful genius of his years that the
country, in her exuberance, produced —lies with the
common multitude, nameless and unknown,

“ Without a stone to mark the spot,
And say what truth might well have said,
By all thy cou utrymen forgot,
Ah! wherefore art thou lonely laid?”

Poor Patrick O’Donne1l, perhaps the stoutest-hearted
of them all—-his brother rebels laid kindly in Fl-atbush.
And shall this be? Will not a liberated country restore
the dust of those brave men to their native earth? Oh,
it we felt the hand of death upon us, our dearest wish
and hope, the fondest request we would leave the fulfil-
ment of to those we most love, would be that our ashes
should repose in the breast of our mother land, with a
free flag fluttering above them.

Peace be with thee, than of the sternest soul, and
gentlest, kindliest heart. Peace be with thee, “truest
when tried.” Peace be with thee, faithful! brave! loving
and strong! If any nature could make the grave, even
a strange grave, a place of gladness, thine would be,
indeed, a sunny one.

Foreig tems.

As a proof of the intense severity of the winter in
England, a fine jack snipe lately flew into a warehouse‘
in the heart of Manchester, utterly exhausted. ‘

At the close of the old year, and the beginning of the
new, the inhabitants of Siena, in Central Italy, were
startled by the fall of ,rain, on three several occasions,
of a deep red color. The phenomena are more remarka-
ble from the fact that at each occurrence they were
limited to a certain district, outside of which the rain
was of the usual colorless hue.

A missionary residing at Karadiue, Ceylon, a place
famous for venomous reptiles. says that he has killed,
within a short time, twenty-six cobra di cabelos and
twenty-two pudar-an snakes. The bite of the former is
certain death. -

An ingenious dandy conceals his baldness, in Paris, by
having it complete set of thirty one wigs, each longer
haired than the other ; at the end of the month he has
his hair cut by beginning again at No. 1.

The people of Boston, in Lincolnshire, England, have
subscribed $6,000 to erect a monument to the memory
of their late townsman, Herbert Ingram, Esq., who was
lost in the Lady Elgin.

There is a great deal more feeling of animosity now
than ever, in France, between theclergy and the govern-
ment; in several places the bishops refused to pay the
accustomed New Year’ :5 Day visit to the pretects.

‘action.

5

The Austrian government is on the eve of concluding
a_treaty of extradition with Prince Michael, of Servia,
with a view to pass the refugees of the two,Statcs.

Lord Macaulay relates that when Madame Sontag
applied for a passport at the police-oflice in Paris, the
chief, instead of filling out the personal description
under the separate heads, gazed a few moments at her
with respectful admiration, and drawing a line down the
column of particulars, wrote angelique (angelical) against
them all.

One day, when the flag-ship of an American commo-
dor_e_was lying in the bay of Naples, she was honored by
a visit from the.roya| family, with suite, who came out
in gilded barges and full parade of royalty. The ship
was dressed from deck to truck in holiday attire ; side-
boys were mustered at the ropes, the marines presented
arms, the guns thundered forth a royal salute, and the
commodore welcouied his guests to the quarter-deck with
the politeness befitting an officer of rank. One of the
suite, a spiiidle-slianked and gaudily attired Neapolitan
strayed away from the party, and cruising about mid-
ships, espied a windsail, an object he had never seen
before. It was fully expanded by the air, he took it for
a pillar, and folding his arms, leaned against it, when it
yielded to his weight. and he disappeared below, heels
over head, with a velocity that was actually marvellous,
as was his escape from injury. ’l‘he mishap chanced to have
only one witness, this was a veteran tar, who, approach-
ing the quarter deck, and touching his hat, said respect-
fully: ‘- I beg pardon, commodore, but one of them ’ere
kings has fell down the hatchway!”

 

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Overcrowding of the Poor in England.

 

Arriznrioiv has been directed to the frightful
overcrowding of the dwellings of the poor, by
a statement of the relieving officer of the Far-
rington Union in Berkshire. One report states in
some cases twelve persons sleep in one room.
Another characterises a house that came under
notice as a “ regular stye, not fit for human
beings to live in.” In many of the villages
there are no schools, and ignorance and vice go
hand in hand. -Mr. Tucker is convinced that this
fearful state of matters is but a fair example of
the condition of the agricultural laboring popu-
lation in England, and that many in their misery
are driven to emigrate. Those exposures have
led to much correspondence.
T imes says, that in one large parish in London,
two-thirds of the population are believed to be
lodged with their families in single rooms, and
that he is convinced from observation that, at
least, 1,000,000 in London are in this wretched
position. It is suggested that this should form
a subject of inquiry for the census of 1861. It is
next to hopeless to labor for the spiritual good
of those classes which are physically prostrated
by such calamities. It is surely time that the
question should be taken up in its breadth, and
that large schemes should be devised for the

providing of proper houses for the poor, both in .

town and country, though in the country the
work must, to a large extent, devolve upon the
landlords. A great danger to society—to take
the least important ground——exists in the present
state of affairs.

 

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Incident of the last War with England.

Commodore Stuart (Old Ironsides) recently
related the following incident in the last war
with England: Two ships, the Cyane.and
Levant, were sent to take the Constitution.
They were both commanded by captains who
had won distinction at Trafalgar and the Nile,
Captains Falcon. and Douglas. After both
ships had been taken, and their Captains were
on board the Constitution, a coolness existed
between them in consequence of the capture.
Each accused the other of bearing out of the
action and leaving the brunt to his associate.
This question they agreed to leave to me, and I
settled it in a moment. “ It was you, Captain
Douglas, said I tolthe senior oflicer, “who first
bore out of action.” They were satisfied and
shook hands together. While they were further

discussing the matter, and deploring their defeat, 

said I: “Gentlemen, did you expect to take
the Constitution with those two ships? Why,
you went on board of them this morning, and
said they were in as good order as before the
Now, if you like, I will send you back
to them, give you your men and ofiicers and
take you both over again. Take the Consti-
tution with two ships ? Why you couldn’t do it
with a dozen. This is the Constitution of the
United States. You may sink it, and sink us
with it, but you couldn’t take it with all your
King’s :. fleet.” So ‘afraid were the British Ad-
miralty of the Constitution, that they dare not
trust a single frigate alone, but compelled the
Levant to wait until the Cyane was ready to
sail in company.’ «

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The Great Western Plains of America.

 

THESE occupyla longitudinal paralellogram, nearly
one thousand miles wide, extending from the Texan to
the Atlantic coast, and from the Rocky Mountains to the
Western border of Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri and
Iowa. an area equal to the surface of tweriey.1'c;i:' States
between the Mississippi and the Atlantic, without. 21.
gle abrupt mmiiiiaiii, tiiirncred space, (lG>§3l'C or lak
There is no timber on this area, and single trees at
scarce. The soil is not silitious or sandy, buta fine ca
cerous mould. The country is thickly clad with grasses,
edible and nutritious, through the year, and swarms with
animal life. The climate is comparatively*rainless; the
rivers which abound, and which all run from the west to
ihe east, serve, like the Nile, to irrigate rather than
drain the neighboring surface. From their_dimensions
and position. they may yet water the pasture fields
the world, l1l)0l1 which pastoral agriculture may yet
come a .-e-par-are cleparuneui of national industry.

One writer to the ,