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Grey River Argus, Volume III, Issue 194, 11 April 1867, Page 3

A Martyr Wanted. — The following very comical but genuine letter was actually received by the prisoner Lynch, at the gaol here, from Roberts, the President of the Fenian organisatit ja :— "New York, November 30, IB6o.— Robert Bloss Lynch, Esq., Toronto Gaol. — Sir, Your letter, requesting me to send to Washington affidavits of your non-military connection with the Irish Republican army has been received and the request complied with, in care of Captain Fitzpatrick, and I ■General O'Neil on the sub- ,■ to tell yuu that you are not . So great a crime upon yourself woulcLmake

every Irishman in-. America a Fenian, and furnish our exchequer with the necessary means to clear Canada of . English authority in short order — a consummation • devoutly to be wished, ancl therefore I say I regret that you will not be hanged. It would be a glorious death for you ; aud a life that would otherwise pass away unknown, in a few years at most, would beconie an honored portion of the history of our race ancl of the times. But whatever be your fate, pray God that you will act a brave dauntless part to thu last. Kemembm' that you not alone represent your own wea'< nation, iv the position in which you are placed, but your country and. your race also, and though much 1 regret that you are in tho power of bloodthirsty foes, 1 still trust and hope that, under any and all circumstances, you will make your countrymen prond of you, and your name honored. I remain, yours sincorely, "W. 11. Roberts, President F. 8." Tho match of this production would be hard to find.. Only fancy a man writing to a friend under sentence of death with great regret that he is not to be hanged, aud coolly giving as a reason for this regret that his execution would bring a pile of money into the Fenian exchequer. It reminds one of Artonms Ward's patriotism during the la'e war, in determining to shed the blood of all his wife's able-bodied male relations before he would see the Union " burst up."— To runto Globo, Doc. 17. Family AFtfEeTioy. — The llegeni's Park catastrophe seems to have beon a sort of signal for persons who were not, but might havo been drowned, to abscond. In at least eight or nine cases there have been disappearances by persons either benevolently anxious to give their relatives the temporary pleasure of thinking them no more, or cruelly bent on giving them the pain of a needless suspense, or actuated by more fanciful motives, some of which we have discussed elsewhere. The remarkable unanimity with which — of course without concert — so many persons unknown to each other out of a comparatively small group seized simultaneously on tho idea that it would be an advantage to be supposed dead, suggests a terrible sort of suspicion as to the worth of a considerable niimhor of family ties. When the eight "gentlemen, each of whom had refused the last peach on the plate, found, when tho lamp wont out, their eight hands meeting accidentally on the peach, there was a certain humor in the transaction which prepared. them for a hearty laugh when, on the rekindling of the lamp, the peach was found still unappropriated. But if the eight gentlemen, who grasped simultaneously, by a like strange coincidence,'at the opportunity of being supposed dead by their friends, could meet and have a sudden light thrown on thenmotives, we suspect that, with an exception or two perhaps, they Avould not, cm the whole, feel proud of their new acbetween them. ~