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November 23, 1882.]
REDPATH’S ILLUSTRATED WEERLY.
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THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT AND BRITISH TROOPS SALUTING THE SACRED CARPET.
A TALK WITH FATHER NUGENT,
ond Article.
[Secor e.]
PATHER NUGENT said that he had been a
as
the jail. His experiences there first led him
to consider the problem of Irish emigration
to En; , both in its social and religious as-
pec
“Tt is singular,” he remarked, ‘that while
so many noted Irishmen protest against the
emigration of our people to America, wher:
they almost invariably better their condition,
where they can be placed on their own farms,
and in surroundings favorable to their morals,
no one had ever
lowest quarters of the great cities,
their children brought up amidst immoral in-
fluences, where so often contracted
the debased drinking habits of the lowest
classes of the English, and where there was
no chance for their social advancement.
sides, sir, Iam a priest, and I hold— iWhat
profiteth it a man if he gain the whole world
and Jose his own soul,’ and I looked at this
subject from a religious as well as social point
vi ‘ocated a general
emigration from Ireland : ‘pat T do that
if emigration has to go on—as it does it is
our duty to direct it to where, as in Minne.
sota and Canada, our people can be made in-
dependent and also saved to religion. For
move-
to the agricultural
colonies in Mianesetn, there Bishop Ireland
r needs, both temporal and
spiritual.”
“How has the Catholic colony _Prospered?
‘There have been conflicting re
“The present condition of the peo ple we
sent ont,” said Father Nugent, ‘‘is the best
proof that it was not only a humane but a
a
wise movement. I visited the families now
in n the colony of Evansville. Here is an ex-
“aioe Nugent took out his note-book.
“J. Galligher has 20 acres of land broken;
had ten acres of wheat this fail which is not
yet threshed, 1 cow, 2 calves, 2 oxen for
which he paid this year $125 ready cash, has
2 pigs, a number of fowls, a large quantity
of bay, and is going at once to enlarge his
hou
AR ti e@ Connemara families on the land
have t pair of on whieh they have paid for,
have is year, and none of
them ere less than rt bushels of potatoes,
with corn, oats and hay for the wi
“The people who are working in St. Paul
are all ‘abing fairly well. Some of them are
in prosperity.
‘One man has four daughters earning $52
month and their board, and has bought a
house pnd ot worth $1,200. A number of
those Cont ara men working in St. Paul
have bought t their lots, paying $500 for them.
“It is not only what has been done by the
parents but by the children, No girl in serv-
ico receives as than $12 per month, whilst
many of the young men are receiving $2.50
and $2 per di ay,
“No sir,” continued Father Nugent,
«contrast there facts with their condition in
mara. In 1880, Father Mellet, of Car-
raroe, told me that he had not five men in his
parish who could find £20. Now, some of
these very m in two years, can pay down
£100, or $500, tor’ these ioe id
Father Nugent gave a detailed account of
his visit to the different families whom he hed
sent out in their homes in Minnesota, and e:
plained the origin of the reports prejudicial
to Bishop Ireland's colony. Those men who
proved unfitted for farmers had been sent to
St. Paul and ne towns, and were now.pro-
fitably emp'o:
Father Nogent i is very zealous and sonscien
tious in his work, and never had the nten-
tion of acting in Pe, interest of British vextir.
pation of the Irish race.
The people ohrae I found reported as
inmates of the Pittsburgh poorhouse were not
members of his colony. he never
sent an: n or families to Am merica without
the means to ostablish themselves in the fer-
tile regions of the West.
This frank statement relieves: Father Nu-
gent from the odium that has been cast on
him, in perfect good faith Dut without due
knowledge of the facts, by many honest Irish
patriots in the old country and in America.
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The Bull and Cow Rocks.
The iron-bound coast of the southwest of
Ireland abounds in numerous specimens of
natural excavations, both on the main and o:
the islands that lie off the shore, particularly
about the mouth of the
County Kerry. Of these none fro more wor-
thy of notice than the Bull and Cow Roi ke
‘These huge masses of dark brown or pwi
stone have long withstood the mighty shee
of the vast Atlantic’s wave in all its oe ry ex
posed to the raging tempest, when the mon-
strous billows, dashing with onselees wwoleses
against their base, sends the fonmin spray
over their most elevated pinnacles.
hose resistless surges have already per-
forated these breakwaters throng ‘their very
centre, and in of time will inevitably
demolish, canem altogether, for the arch, al-
ready ust consi
mass, 2a, OW ‘presentin Bt a less solid body,
pocemmbsane te less capable of opposing th
force so continually brought in play againet
The main body of the Bull Rock, through
which the arch runs, appears to cover more
than two square acres.
The surface of this enormous breakwater
shows a most fantastic and indented outline
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jigher, and extends wider, whilst on its
porthern extremity the action of the waves
has deta
lar rock ‘trom the main body, whilst a huge
wedge-like fragment bangs thspended about
thirty feet from the top, between both, wi
apparently but very little hold o1 on either de,
having no other support, as the sea has
washed both facen comparatively smooth.
Here a small f verdure crowns the
summit of the oe solid part, and the mass
altogether covers more ground than the Bull.
The Bull, Cow, and Cult Rocks most proba-
bly have been’so named from the continual
roaring noise they. Produce even in moderate
weat tend ina range, north and
south, “Detter than ¢ a league from the month of
Kenmare Bay, in deep water, at irregular dis-
tances from each other; the Calf Rock es to
the southward, and is considerably less
the Ball and Cow Rock. These drawings
were taken from about a quarter of a mile
distance, as the rocks bore due west.
Representative Irishme:
A. Collins, of. Boston, the last
President of the Irish National Land League
of America, has been elected t ress,
He will distinguish ‘himself there. Mr Col-
lins was born at Mitchellstown, County Cork.
John Finerty, of Chicago, was also elected
to Congress. John is not only one of the
handsomest editors in America, but one of her
mort eloqnent ora!
Foran has been returned to Cor
gress from Cleveland, Ohio. He is an ablo
lawyer and good speaker.
Among Irishmen, or men of Irish blood
elected to Congres we find also the names of
Casey Young, of Tennessee; Williain Cullen,
of Illinois ; ‘William E. Rol bi
Campbell, ot Brooklyn, Ni ohn Mo-
Cormick, of Ohio; Barclay Henley, of Cali-
fornia ; "Thomas Farrell and Wm. McAdoo, of
New Jersey; Jeremiah Murpby, of Iowa; Ed-
ward Lacey, fichigan ; John Cosgrove,
James Burnes, Martin Jlardy | iv Jobn
O'Neill, of Missouri; Geo. ly, of Ne.
vada: William D, Kelley, Daniel W. Connolly,
Andrew G. Curtin and Charles Boyle, 0
Pennsylvania s John Kenna, of West Virginia,
Richard O'Gorman was elected to the Su-
perior Court of New Yor!
J. J. O'Connor was elected to the Assembly
from Elmira, New York.
v. Waller, of Connecticut, is the first
Irish-American et elected to the Executive
chair of Connecticu!
Gen. Butler is of ‘Trish slescent.
Land Leagues in New
The weekly meeting of Pthe Executive Coun-
cil Trish National Land League at Germania
Hall, on Friday rien was Targely attended,
Mr. Breslin, Vice President, in the chair. Mr.
King, Treasurer, announced $369. 30 on hand
to credit of tbe Lea; Mr. Kennedy, of
the Twentieth Ward, stated that iS Braneh
ad in the treasury $350, and expected to be
in a position at the next meeting to turn over
Mr. King. Mr. McCabe said:
“This does not look much like the death of
the League.” Several other members, on the
part of their branches repectively, stated con-
siderable sums on hand merely awaiting for-
rs to pay into the treasury.
After Mr. Hagh King had read the Na-
tional Secretary's report, a discussion arose as
one item in it, and ® motion was carried to
ask an explavatio:
Mr. William MeCabe, Chairman of €om-
as
mittee on Games, reported that he had se-
cured a range for Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 30,
at whic Coroner Knox prize of $100
would be shot for. The rifle to be used o:
that occasion will be the Remington military,
same as the National Gnard are snpplied with
distance 200 yar rds. @ match is opentto
om ache branch of the Parnell
and Irish National Land League. Each mem-
ber of the team anst be iu good stauding in
hie Draneh, and all teams desirous of partici-
pating must potify With jam McCabe. Nou 120
East Eleventh street, on or eee Nov.
e
Irish National League
Uniting County Associations,
In accordance with the resolutions arrived
at three weeks ago, when the re
we was in
the chair, ‘The following del gates from thair
ral associations acted iu their bet
T homas Hassitt, James Clifford Daly Witkin
ryne, Limerick; Michael Dal:
Walsh and J. P. Sh
Dongherty and J. N. erry; D. G.
McGowan, Ei. F. Piel. and vd Wall, Done.
gal; E. J. Rowe, Jobn Ennis and Michael
Lawlor, Wexford; D. Cahil, P. Sheehan a
William Healy, Cork; Mat P.
O'Flynn, Roscommon ; George Spearman, M.
O-Done a leenan, Tipperary. ‘The
session lasted tor several hours, during which
each eae present had the aaoplent opportunity
for expressing his views and o
While there were di erences
Neeghan, Kerry: ; ‘thems
fo
land of their adoption
and the land of their birth.
committee of one from each count
ciation was appointed to visit the associations
not yet heard from, and convey the result of
Sunday’s deliberation us, and invite them to
depute three of their members to attend the
next Conference on Sunday, the 26th inst., at