The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-16 00:00:00

THE FENIAN RISIN4: IN KERRY,

(FROM ova ONN coRREsPONDENT.)

CORK, I :RI DAT NoRNIN4:.

An abortive rising has been attempted by the
Fenians in the county Kerry. The insurrection
seems to have been conceived in the mere spirit of
desperation, and we shall probably hear of its sup-
pression in a few hours. On Tuesday the ailtho-
rifles in Tralee received information that a Captain
Moriarty, who was an active agent of the brother-
hood in the county, was about visiting several towns
with despatches front the chief in command. The
captain was arrested in Killarney the same even-
ing, and despatches were found in his petession
addressed to the Fenian centres of the vend ry by
General O'Connor, an Irish-American officer who
has resided for some time in Cahirciveen, and who
is stated to be one of Stephens's lieutenants. Two
subordinates of Captain Moriarty were arrested
with him. The captain has himself served in the
American war, and received a disfiguring wound in
the face. The papers seized with him dischised so
great danger of outrage that it was deemed ad-
visable to warn the police in the surrounding towns
and to have the police called in from the country
stations ; and accordingly a mounted constable was
despatched from Killarney to Kilorglin and cahir-
civeen with instructions for the constabulary in
those localities. News of Moriarty's arrest seet,4
to have preceded the orderly.
Ott Tuesday night a party of 200 Fenians
assembled outside Cahirciveen, a thriving town
in Valentia Harbour, and having destroyed
the telegraph wires running between Valen-
tin and Dublin, marched for Killarney, which
is from 30 to 40 miles distant. On their way they
met the orderly riding for Kilorglin. A shot front
one of the party brought him down ; he was de.
prived of his arms and despatch box, and left
wounded, as it is reported, on the road. The
party then went to Kelps, where there is
coast-guard station and a small constabulary bar-
rack. Both places were broken into, and the
arms and ammunition carried off. A melt's is re.
ported to have occurred, and it is said that
a policeman was wounded, but that is nut
certain. The insurgents increased in number as
they went along, and it is rumoured that they were
joined by a party of Irish Americans who had
landed on the coast from a small vessel, but of
this there is no certainty.
Late on Wednesday, the attack on the police-
man, and the cutting of the telegraph wires, be-
came known in Tralee, and application for troops
was despatched to Cork and to Dublin, orders
being sent to the police in the county to retire to
the towns. On Wednesday night 150 men .if the
GOth Rifles were despatched by special train to
Killarney, and were followed almost immedi-
ately by a detachment of the same regiment
from Fermoy. Additional troops, consisting
of detachments of the Gth and 48th Regi-
ments, were sent by special train a few home
later, and at 3 in the morning a strong force of
infantry was marched out of Killarney, in the
direction in which the insurgents were reported to
be advancing. Tho latter, however, hearing .4
this arrival of troops in Killarney, altered their
route, making detour towards Kentnure, which is
at the head of a broad estuary, the Kentnare river,
and about 14 miles from Killarney in a south-
westerly direction. They passed through the Gap
of Dunlo on Wednesday evening, and bivouacked
for the night in the Tomies Woods, on the side of
a mountain, in the midst of a rugged barren
country, very difficult of access. In the meantime
troops were rapidly arriving in Killarney. Yester-
day morning two troops of the 12th Lancers came
front Fermoy, escorting an artillery force and
three guns, under the command of Captain Brown,
and these were followed by two companies of the
71st from Fermoy, under Major Lambton, and at
an early hour on Thursday Major-General Hors-
ford, who commands this district, was able to
assemble a force of 1,200 men in the neigh-
bourhood in which the insurgents were en-
camped. The last report received front Killar-
ney last night was that the Fenian* had been
completely surrounded, and should either tight or
surrender. They were reputed to be chiefly Irish
Americans, and armed with pikes, guns, and mis-
cellaneous nondescript weapons.
The military authorities are neglecting no pre-
cautions to guard against every possible danger of
surprise in any quarter. To replace the troops
sent to Kerry front this garrison, 500 men of the
14th regiment have been brought by special train
from Newbridge, and more troops are expected.
Portions of this force will doubtless be sent to the
west of the county Cork, where there was a great
mass of disaffection. There are already troops at
Kinsale, Bandon, Clonakilty, Skibbereen, and
Bantry, making a chain of military posts extending
front Cork to within fourteen miles of Ketimare.
At every point on the coast there are gunboats and
large vessels of war. The Gladiator is in Valentis
harbour, off Cahirciveen, and on the first alarm of
the rising a considerable force of marines and blue
jackets from the ship were landed and despatced
in the rear of the Fenians. The police are being
assembled in large bodies itt Tralee and Killarney,
and the line of the military front Killarney
is closely watched. In this city equal precautions
are being taken, though there are no symptoms of
danger. The police force, which consists of about
130 men, is concentrated at four central stations;
and the troops are confined to barracks, and ready
to act at a moment's notice.

Great alarm prevails in Kerry. The gentry
living near Killarney collected on NVednesday sight
in the railway hotel, whete a strong guard
of
polka) was stationed ; and all the money in the
banks in the town was withdrawn for safety to the
hotel. The managers of the banks at Caliir-
civeen have put their coin and notes ..n b.ard the
Gladiator. Everywhere in the enmity businots is
completely suspended. Captain Halbert, M for
the county, is at his post, and aeconi;.:lll ICS Maj,,r
General Horsford's expedition. This sudden re-
vival of Fonianism, which most
people tlp.itglit
dead, has caused much surprise. It alTear'•
ever, that the Fenian chiefs really had news aban-
doned their project. In this city, &sin attarthe
sitting of the special commission. a new exeoitivo
council was appointed, and there is said still to it a
formidable number of the brotheriem,cl 31,1.11,4 us.
Every large town in Kern, it appears. had its , calm
and tale of men, who kept together in the here
of a descent being made on the coast by the
American Fenians. It is not believed that the
brotherhood have arms, and probably this is about
the last we shall hear of it.
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In Limerick a man named Donuvan, rce, ntly
arrived from America, was arrested yesterda).
He had a revolver and instruments for surveying
in his possession, and is believed to be an agent of
the brotherhood. The authorities in that county
are taking measures to prevent any movement in
concert with that in Kerry, and where the two
counties adjoin a large force of police ha• been
stationed.