The Boston Courier publishes a lengthy and apparently truthful account
of an attempt made by a Mr. Finney to enlist Irish labourers for the New England railroads, carry them to Boston, and sell them to the agents for the conscription. The plan adopted appears to have been this :—A number of young men were regu- larly engaged for some waterworks or other project at 2/. a month, carried over to Boston, there kept almost without food on pretence of the works being suspended, and then handed over to the re- cruiting-officers. The practice is not illegal in an international sense, no recruiting taking place except on American soil ; but the citizens of Boston are highly irritated, and we wish Mr. Finney,
who is an Irishman, no worse luck than an hour's interview with a Dublin mob aware alike of his object and the means that he employs.
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