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O. box 2935, Boston. Acknowledgments of subscriptions will be made in The Pilot, the Republic, and the Working Boy. The British Army. Irish-American: - The annual statistical return of the British army, which has just been issued, is instructive. men, and 106,810 Englishmen. In twenty years the number of Irish soldiers has diminished by 23,000. In 1867 the proportion of Irishmen in the army was 308 per thousand. It has been steadily falling ever since, until now it is but 163 per thousand the lowest proportion it has ever reached. Yet twenty years ago the population of Ireland was only half a million greater than it is at the present day, and the recruiting officers are quite as zealous now as they were then. MICHAEL DAVITT arrived in Minne apolis on the 5th of October where he addressed the convention of the Knights of Labor assembled in that city. Doctor: "I guess it yaint so serious, aunty; wid a little care I reckon de ole man 'll pull through all right." 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ON St. Patrick's Day, one hundred and twenty-five years ago, a number of Irishmen met in John Marshall's tavern, in New York City, to do honor to the patron Saint of their country. A public dinner was given, at which the health of King George was drank with all the honors, for these Irishmen were Protestants and devoted to the English Crown. Many of them were military men, officers of the Sixteenth and Forty-Seventh British regiments then stationed in New York. Before separating they formed themselves into a society called the "Friendly Brothers of St. Patrick." This society was modelled after one founded in Dublin, in 1740, and, like it, its objects were benevolent and social. Many of the military men, then with their regiments in New York, had belonged to this Dublin society, and hence it was modelled after it. Its members certainly entertained a love for the land that bore them; but the leading idea that pervaded and animated them was, distinctly and emphatically, loyalty to the king and throne. New York was then a town of about twelve thousand inhabitants, and only extended from the Battery to Reade Street. There were numbers of Irish families in the town, who had emigrated from Ulster and other provinces of Ireland, many of whom became identified with the Friendly Brothers, and were as warm and ardent in their attachment to the Crown as the soldiers with whom they associated. From its inception, until the breaking out of the Revolution, the Friendly Brothers met every 17th of March, and, in their own way, celebrated the national festival of Ireland. The first toast on their list was "the King," and until 1776 these annual meetings were held. Of all cities in the thirteen colonies none were so loyal as New York. While Boston and Philadelphia were chafing and fretting at the uneasy yoke which the English had imposed upon them, and the southern colonies had become rebellious, New York remained true to the king. When war at length came, the Friendly Brothers, and other Irish loyalists, raised a regiment for Lord Rawden, which numbered six hundred men. They participated in the southern campaigns, and were defeated by Greene and Morgan. Not one of the New York Friendly Brothers ever rose to distinction; their names are utterly unknown to the present generation, and are not found in the records of American history. In Philadelphia, then a larger and more populous city, thousands of Irishmen resided. It was then the great immigrant port of America, and was thronged with Irish exiles. At that time the city of Penn traded extensively with Ireland. Every week saw ships depart to, or return from, Ireland. Many of the richest and most influential merchants of Philadelphia were Irish. These men, loving the country of their adoption, and not having the fear of King George before their eyes, started a society in Philadelphia, in opposition to the Friendly Brothers in New York, and called it the "Friendly Sons of St. Patrick." It was composed of Irishmen of Irish birth, or descent, who were loyal to America, and antagonistic to the English government. Every member was a patriot, who, when the time of trial came, proved his worth in the ranks of the Continental Army. They were all Irish, or Irish-Americans. No man, unless Irish blood flowed in his veins, could become a member. The only exception made to this rule was in the case of George Washington, and a few others, who became honorary members of the Friendly Sons, and adopted Irishmen, in 1781. Washington knew their worth. They stood side by side with him in every battle of the Revolution in which he participated, and when beaten and hunted from Brooklyn and New York, followed in his footsteps, gave him courage by their presence and bravery on the retreat through the Jerseys, and were instrumental in securing the victory at Trenton. No society has a brighter record than this. They gave soldiers to fight out the Revolution, money to maintain it, and statesmen to form a nation. They risked all, sacrificed all, for the interest and integrity of the United States, and were one of the most important factors in the Revolution. Previous to 1776, we are told by Bagenal, in his history of the Irish in America, that there had been formed by the Irish settlers in Philadelphia, "The Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick." It was founded during the most interesting time of colonial history; composed of the most active and influential men; and meeting in Philadelphia, the focus at that period of all political and national movements, and the capital of the people when independence was declared; all these circumstances give additional interest to its memoirs. Many of the Friendly Sons were excellent fox-hunters, and inherited the sport-loving characteristics of their countrymen. Ten years before the Declaration of Independence the Fox-Hunter's Club was instituted. From it and the St. Patrick's Society was formed the first troop of Pennsylvania Cavalry, whose valor at Trenton and Princeton received the thanks of Washington. He said on the occasion referred to, "Though composed of gentlemen of fortune, they have shown a noble example of discipline and subordination; and in several actions have shown a spirit and bravery, which will ever do honor to them, and will ever be greatly remembered by me." Until the flames of war broke out the objects of the society were purely social and convivial. They met and dined and sang and joked, as Irishmen have been wont to do from time immemorial, and many a time Washington was present at their festivities. Gen. Moylan, "the Murat of the Revolution," the best cavalry leader in the Continental Army, was the first president of the Friendly Sons. He was a brother of the Catholic Bishop of Cork. Besides him were many others who afterwards distinguished themselves in the Revolution. John Barry, of Wexford, who first raised the stars and stripes. on the sea, and who taught Paul Jones to resist British tyranny, was also a member. And there was Mease, afterwards purser of Jones' ship, the Bon Homme Richard, who manned the guns off Whitehaven when the Yankee gunners were stricken down; Anthony Wayne, the hero of Stony Point, with warm Tipperary blood in his veins; Walter Stewart, of Derry, who was a colonel at twenty-nine and a general at thirty; William Thompson of Derry, who tramped with Montgomery through Canada, and afterwards became a general; MajorGen. Henry Knox, who commanded the artillery at the sieges of Boston and Yorktown, and was Secretary of War and Navy under Washington in 1794; Gen. William Irvine, a native of Ireland, who raised, equipped, and commanded the famous "Pennsylvania Line," and who was entrusted with the defence of the northeastern frontier: Gen. Edward Hand, one of the most distinguished officers of the Revolutionary army, who was so high in the confidence of Washington as to become adjutant-general, and was considered one of his greatest favorites; Col. Richard Butler, and his two brothers, all born in Ireland, who distinguished themselves at the charge on Stony Point and the surrender at Saratoga of Burgoyne. Richard became major-general. He was killed by an Indian chief at the battle of St. Clair in 1791. These are a few names of the Convivial Friendly Irishmen who composed the society previous to the Declaration of Independence. Besides these there were many merchants of Irish birth and blood, who swelled its roster, and who, while their brothers were fighting in the field, backed them up with their fortunes to keep them there. While holding their convivial meetings, and indulging in all the fun and frolic which Irishmen are capable of, they were not unmindful of the events occurring in the colonies. Rumors of rebellion and war were wafted to their ears from Virginia and Massachusetts, and the hatred between the Colonists and the followers of King George was apparently becoming more intensified, and daily gathering strength, and was noted by the Friendly Sons. Being a social organization, not a political one, the British government did not fear nor disband them. But within that social circle were men whose hatred of that government was only equalled by the valor they afterwards displayed for America. While others were forwarding petitions to the king, couched in the most slavish expressions of loyalty, the Friendly Sons remained quiet and allowed events to take their course. They did not interfere with politics; but when America promulgated her great Declaration, and called upon her sons to endorse it, the Friendly Sons abandoned foxhunting and the wine cup, and rallied to the side of Washington. Their names illuminate the pages of American history to-day, and their patriotism is acknowledged by Washington himself in a letter to the |