DARING OUTRAGE AND HEROIC
RESISTANCE
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| On the night of Saturday last seven men entered the
house of a farmer named MULLAMPY, near this town, for the
purpose of forcibly carrying away a young woman called MARGARET
RYAN, his sister-in-law.—They extinguished the lights,
and attacked the family, consisting of MULLAMPY, the
girl's father, an old man of 70 years—a servant maid, and the girl herself ;
the young woman seized a kitchen chair and knocked down the first of the
ruffians who approached her—she then fled to an inner room and took shelter
under a bed. Three men pursued her, attacked her father, who opposed their
entrance—struck him upon the head with some sharp instrument, and inflicted
several dangerous wounds upon his head, face, and hands, which were hacked in a
frightful manner. |
| They then seized the girl, who clung to the
bed-post, and attempted to drag her away, but finding it difficult to free her
hands, one of the demons proposed to cut off her fingers ; she immediately
disengaged herself, and was carried through the kitchen into the farm yard
thence across two fields to the high road, where a car was waiting to receive
her. It appears that a young man named JOHN RYAN,
living at the old Turnpike, in this town, got some intimation of what was going
on ; he and another man ran in the direction of MULLAMPY'S
house, and reached the road just as the car was about to start, guarded by the
gang, RYAN attacked the horse, knocked him down, and then
assaulted the seven ruffians, while his comrade seized the girl and freed her.
The party made some resistance, and after a sharp conflict, were put to flight
by those two brave and intrepid men. They conveyed the girl back to her house,
and remained there during the night. |
| The perpetrators of this brutal attack are all well
known—two of them are already in custody, and little doubt is entertained but
the rest will have been discovered before many days. The most appalling
circumstance connected with this scene remains to be told—one of the villains
seized an interesting child about three years of age, and flung her into a large
fire which burned in the kitchen, from which her father Mullampy, at the risk of
his life, succeeded in rescuing her. We earnestly hope that the demon banditti
will be speedily brought to punishment. They are known as we are informed, to be
the most depraved ruffians about this town and country—and all whom we hear
speak on the subject, desire most fervently that the neighbourhood may be rid of
such notoriously infamous characters. |
| Too much praise cannot be given to John Ryan and his
comrade, for their conduct upon this occasion ; they deserve the best thanks of
every moral and upright man in the community. We have recorded all the
circumstances of this outrage, with minute accuracy, as they were detailed to
us. We shall ever expose crime where it is really committed, but we will not
silently allow outrages to be manufactured, and acts to be imputed, which were
never perpetrated. We rejoice at the arrest and detection of the criminal, but
we like not the system of wholesale arrest upon suspicion, now so generally
practiced in this part of the country. This cruel practice has crammed our
prison with persons so indiscriminately taken up upon the most vague suspicion,
seven-eights of whom will appear upon trial, to be innocent. It is a hardship,
and gross infringement upon the liberty of the subject, to immure a man, for six
or seven months within the walls of a prison, under every flimsy pretense, or
upon the doubtful testimony of ruffian spies, who live by perjury, and from
habit have become dexterous in their concatenous waving of evidence. Let the
culprit by all means be sought out—let him be cast into the lowest depths of
of the prison—but let not the innocent man be lightly torn frokm his family
and home—let him due protection against the perjured malignity of the
informer, who unscrupulously selects his victim, and cares little as to the
means by which he may earn the wages of corruption. Such judicious
discrimination, and careful inquiry, will tend more to the tranquility of the
country than the system of wholesale caption which has been latterly acted upon—a
system which leaves the innocent man a prey to every designing knave who is
ingenious enough to trump up a story against him, and who has the moral
depravity to confirm it by perjury.—Tipperary Vindicator. |
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FIRE IN CHARLEVILLE.
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| A destructive fire broke out on Saturday night last,
or Sunday morning, in the out offices of Sanders Park, and before assistance
could be procured ; the whole range of buildings were burned to the ground. A
large quantity of oats, several tons of hay and straw, and other property, was
consumed. Fears were entertained for the dwelling house, which escaped by the
winds blowing in the opposite direction. The horses and carriages also escaped.
The conduct of the inhabitants of Charleville was most praiseworthy, no labour
of exertion was spared to preserve the property of Mr. Sanders from the flames.
The exertions of Captain Vechuza, S. I., Head Constable Ward, and O'Keeffe,
were above praise. |
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REPEAL IN AMERICA—NEW BRUNSWICK—
ADJOURNED SIMULTANEOUS MEETING. |
| TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE POUNDS COLLECTED, |
| The above meeting, pursuant to notice, took place
last Monday evening, and far surpassed our expectations in point of numbers
assembled, and the amount collected. At seven o'clock the theatre was crowded,
and Charles Doherty, Esq. was called to the chair, and addressed the meeting at
considerable length, and with political fertility of thought which would do
honor to the leading agitators of the 19th century. His speech embraced master
strokes, which would stagger the man of monopoly, though supported by the crown,
and as strong as the pillars of Hercules. |
| The Rev. James Dunphy, R.C. rector of the city, who
so generously promoted the success of Ireland's Monday, by his princely
contribution and great influence, handed in the sum of 5l. from a friend
to Repeal. |
| Dr. De Wolfe, a native of Nova Scotia, paying 1l.
5s, became a member of the Repeal Association. |
| The Subscription of Denis Burke, employed as stoker
or fireman in a steam-boat, was announced to be 5l. |
| The amount collected last Monday evening was 75l.,
which added to the sum of the previous evening, brought the gross proceeds of
the sumultaneous meeting up to 1,060 dollars, which being announced from the
chair, created several peals of Repeal thunder, showing how loud the public
voice was calling for justice for Ireland. Such a sum was never before collected
at one Repeal meeting at this side of the Atlantic, a fact which proves that the
friends of Ireland in this city know how to organise a meeting better than their
fellow-countrymen in the colonies, or their fellow-labourers in the United
States. |
| The thanks of the meeting having been given to Mr.
Doherty, for his exemplary conduct in the chair, the meeting adjourned with
several rounds of cheers for the leading agitators of the day—St. John
Liberator. |
| The Repealers of this city (St. John) contributed
more at the simultaneous meeting than all British America on the same occasion.
The laurels of the patriotism are blooming on their brow, and to them belongs
the proud boast of having collected more at one meeting than has ever been
received in one day, in any part of the New World. |
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| BIRTHS. |
| On the 21st inst. the Lady of Wm. Abrahall, Esq.,
Manager of the Provincial Bank of this town, of a daughter. |
| At Charleville, the seat of her father, the Earl of
Rathdowne, the Lady Georgiana Croker, of Ballyneguard, in the County Limerick,
of a daughter. |
| MARRIED. |
| At Clonakilty church, on the 20th inst., by the Rev.
Charles L. Coghlan, D.D., Rector of Timoleague, the Rev. John A. Coghlan, Curate
of Wendy, Cambridgeshire, to Mary, eldest daughter of the late Thomas Exham,
Esq., of Cork. |
| On Tuesday, at Kilgory, the residence of of the
bride's brother, Kate, daughter of the late William O Connell, Esq., Toureen,
Co. Clare, to Charles M'Carthy, Esq., son of the late M'Carthy O'Leary Esq.,
Coolmagan, County Cork. |
| DIED. |
| On the 14th inst. at his house, in Liscarrol' aged
73 years, Mr. Charles Osborne, after a protracted illness, which he bore with
trur Christian fortitude. |
| At Armagh, the 19th inst. Leonard Dobbin, Esq. D.L.
and J.P., and formerly Representative in Parliament for the Borough of Armagh. |
| On the 30th of December, at Comfort Hall,
Drummondville, Canada, after a protracted illness, Major-General the Hon.
Frederick George Heriot, K.B. and C.B. He was born in the island of Jersey on
the 11th of January, 1786, thus terminating his useful and eventful life in his
58th year. |
| The Guiana Herald of the 3d ult. records the
death of Major-General Goodman, C.B., K.H., a sad, but we believe, not wholly
unexpected event. |
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CORK LIBRARY SOCIETY
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| The Annual General Meeting was held on Monday last,
James Roche, Esq. in the chair. The report read by the Secretary stated that the
Committee had again to congratulate the members of the society upon its
continued and encreasing prosperity—the subscriptions for the year ending 31st
December last amounting to £436 ; being £13 over the year 1842, and £130
greater than the income of 1832. It is also stated that there was now a surplus
fund bearing interest of £339 6s. 2d., and that the sum expended in
books last year was £148. The prospects for the current year are not less
flattering, for since the 1st of January, we understand, about 30 new members
have been admitted. The following gentlemen have been added to the committee for
1844 :—Sir James Pitcairn, M.D.; John N. Murphy, Daniel Conellan, Dr.
Harrison, Dr. O'Connor, Francis Jennings, Rev. D. M'Leod, Richard L. Jameson,
and Michael Cagney. |
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MALLOW UNION—THURSDAY.
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Present : R. LONGFIELD,
D.L. J.P. ; T. WARE, J.P. ; O. MADDEN,
J.P. ; N. W. WARE, J.P. ; J. DELACOUR
; J. QUINLAN ; F. O'KEEFFE ;
T. PUNCH ; J. BUCKLEY ; T. HAINES
W. B. WILLIAMS, Esq. in the
chair.
Number in the house.......283 |
| Average cost of each pauper during the week,
1s. 11/8d. |
| The Clerk read a letter from the Poor Law
Commissioners enclosing £30 for the Contractor, who is building the surrounding
wall. |
| Mr. T. WARE—Mr. Chairman, I
beg your attention to a matter personal to myself ; I have been informed that
some guardian made an observation here in my absence, to the effect that I
absented myself from attending the Board when the FUNDS
were exhausted ; and I beg to deny that in the most indignant terms, and now
call upon those who asserted it to sibstantiate the accusation. |
| The CHAIRMAN—It was I who
made the remark “the great ones left the Board just when our funds were
run out,” which is the fact ; but I did not mean anything personal to Mr.
Ware. |
| Mr. N. W. WARE—But you made
a general charge. |
| Mr. T. WARE—I beg again to
deny it in the strongest language that courtesy to the Board permits. |
| Mr. N. W. WARE brought under
the consideration of the Board the difficulties under which Mr. Cussen one of
the rate-collectors laboured in consequence of the oppostion offered him in the
court by the tact of legal gentlemen employed against him, and proposed that the
Board should employ a professional gentleman to assist him, which was agreed to. |
| Mr. HAINES desired to have
the Master called in for the purpose of ascertaining if he gave the Board credit
for the diet which he kept from the paupers in the female ward. |
| TheMASTER having entered, he
stated that he did not credit the Board, and he did not think he had a right to
do so, as the breakfast was boiled and of course he could not give it to other
paupers. |
| Mr. BUCKLEY—You confined
some of them in the black-hole and starved them besides, such punishment
is too severe. |
| TheMASTER—Some Guardians
think I don't half punish them. |
| Mr. DELACOUR—I am one of
those who consider that the Master on the whole does not punish them
sufficiently (oh ! oh !). |
| Mr. BUCKLEY—I don't think
the Master had a right to confine them or keep them fasting for a complaint made
by a pauper leaving the house. |
| Mr. PUNCH—I don't think he
had a right to do so either. |
| Mr. HAINES—And some of them
were old women. |
| After a good deal of discussion, a resolution was
passed condemning the conduct of the Master for exercising undue severity. |
| Mr. Vaughan, the revising valuator, left for Dublin
in consequence of an objection raised to his mode of valuation in the borough,
viz.—valuaing houses separate from out-offices and gardens ; the
objection was raised at the meeting of Town Commissioners by Mr. James Gallaher,
who said Mr. Vaughan's plan would disfranchise the borough. The Poor Law
Commissioners have placed his letter in the hands of the law officers of the
crown. |
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