Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1870 — The Fenian Burlesque. [ARTICLE]

The Fenian Burlesque.

If were no painful features, what a ludicrous record is this morning presented of the Fenian foray. Raw troops, men without arms or commissairat hurrying forward to “the front,” and probably twice as many, who have been at that interesting spot for twenty-four hours, hurrying back, beggars at the hands of the Government whose laws they have violated, for transportation home. The so-called “battle of Trout River”—three hundred men facing a regiment of drilled and well-armed troops, one killed, two wounded and two taken prisoners—this is the whole of the history of the one bloody engagement of the Fenian Army of Liberation. The responsibility of the men who have deliberately planned and led this hopeless raid is fearful to contemplate. Demoralizing society, dragging hundreds and thousands of men away from home on a wild goose chase, without one dollar of funds or one pound of food; violating decency and law; imperilling the Government they have sworn to protect and defend; a half dozen murdered men to answer for, a number wounded, and still more prisoners in the hands of the English government, to be dealt with as it pleases, placed beyond the hope of interference on the part of the American authorities. The President, in his proclamation, is constrained by his duty as an executive of law, to “warn all persons that by committing such illegal acts they will forfeit all right to the protection of this Government, or to its interference’in their behalf to rescue them from the consequences of their own acts.” How will the Fenian leaders answer to the poor people whose confidence they have abused, whose hardearned money they have squandered, whom they have beguiled to death or outlawry? When will the honest and laboring Irishmen of America appreciate the fact that Fenianism is a gigantic scheme of humbuggery, set on foot by designing men for their own personal profit?— lndianapolis Journal.

Swindling ligtning-rod men are reported in different parts of the State. They don’t give the required length of rod for safety. We wonder if we shall not soon hear of undertakers swindling the people in the measurement of coflins?—lndianapolis Journal.

Miss Nellie Badger, a young lady of eighteen years, residing in Marshall county, Indiana, walked twenty-five miles in six hours and ten minutes last Saturday. A young man who started to "make the trip with her gave out on the fifteenth mile. <