Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-08-30

The passengers on the railroad are ex
amined and sworn TO secresy by the magis
,rates before they are let away to Dublin
Still the facts, it appears, creep out. Th'
report Yesterday from private letters W a
that 5000 Of the British troops, under Col
McGregor and Gen. Mcdonald, thought t.
force the pass to the mountains where y
Brien is. ...l -
The insurgents, it appears, prepared tc
meet them in line; the troops fired; the 9th
ara fell fat and let them fire over theil
heads. then charged with loud shouts; in tn.
mean time another body Of insurgents came
at the rear and cut up tremendously the
British troops; McGregor and McDonald,i il
is sale. are shot. Dublin is nearly empty
Of troops; vet, as communication is cut of
with the leaders, the psople are at loss
how to act.
1t appears the mountain of Silvenamon
ID we'll supplied with provisions, ammunl-
ton and cannon. Certainly the rewards
of f5OO and f300, SC, are Low offered
these ten days back, and Government, with
ali its troops and means, have not arrested
the brave lenders. .-s ...s.
The Tribune says -,
Tbe careful reader Of the details will
find many things to strengthen ms oelief
in the stirring news we publish from our
priyate correspondents The Dublin Evo-
ming Post Of Aug l, says: "Ihe army
concentrated around the district where the
rebels are localed was to have m owed this
morning, under the command OF Gens'
Napier and Macdonald, to scour the coun-
try and effactually crush the insurgent
movement.
q Il will be seen also by a paragraph on
,r,,r outside. that "mountains were black
with the people" Add to this the signif-
cant article from the Pilot, concerning the
hasty movements of troops, SO inconsistent
with the reports Of the suppression OF the
insurrection, and there is strong ground
for hope that the Government Will be over
,hrown. and that Ireland will be free.
let eyerv one who would see Liberty
r;xe from the dust to which she has so long
been crushed, do everything he can noao
for Ireland and she will again be prosper
Gus.
SEARCH FOR THE AMERICAN BRIGADE.-
The Liverpool Journal of the 9th, says
that on the arrival Of the John K. Sklddy,
American packet ship, in the Mersey' a
steami tug, which had been specially en-
gagged for the occasion, proceeded out INTO
the river, with party OF police, to search
among the passengers for armed sympathi-
zine American confederates. The search
was unsuccessful.
rAta recent meeting of the Dublin cor
noration. Counsellor Hamilton handed IN
notice that he would move the following
motion at the next meeting Of the Corpora
tion:
That a dutiiul and loyal address be pre-
sented to her majesty, declaring the sentl-
,oent and attachment of this corporation
towards her crown and dignity.
This was rejected, and the following one'
offered bv Mr.. Stanley was passed:
Resolred, Tha! our opinions on any
question relating to this country, formerly
made the subject of complaint or remon'
STRANGE, remain unchanged, and that we do
not think we would discharge our duty to
the throne if we did not record our convlc
ton ,ha, great and comprehensive remedial
measures are altogether Indispensable TO
the permanent peace aud tranquility OF
Ireland.
The Very Latest News.
Recsirsd by Electric Telegraph a"d Spe-
cial Express from London to L1rerpoof.
Liverpool, Aug. 5 Noon.
IRELAND.
Our Dublin correspondents state that the
trains which arrived from the South at that
city,yesterday, report that large force OF
consta bulary had proceeded fom different
points at II o'clock on the night of the Sd,
and others at an early hour yesterday morn
ing, so as to form Gordon In the direction
of the Keeper Mountain, the main access
to which is by deep and sulled gorge, the
.ummits of which, at each side, are sur
rounded by huge stones. A body Of some
100 constabulary are said to be engaged
in this movement, but none OF the troops
have been called upon to take part In it.
The latter are said, nevertheless to be en-
tirely cut up by fatigue, consequent upon
their numerous and useless marchings. In
the camp, outside Thurles, the poor fellows
have to lie, on their backs, with their am
munition on their breasts, to keep 1t dry,
the weight Of the cartouche box being some
seventeen pounds
The whole line of railway, from Dublin
towards the South, is completely quiescent
and, says correspondent who has travelled
along it during the course of Friday, moth.
ing strikes one so much as the too visible
ness of scantiness of population, effected by
the threefold cause of famine, extermina'
ton, and emigration" ;"
The twenty three reputed rebels of Ball
ingarry. who were brought into Dublin yes
terday, and lodged in Kimainham, are te
be sent back to Hpperary, and tried by a
special Commission for high treason. Some
Of these prisoners were wounded at the skir
mish on Saturday last.
More arrests have taken place at Dublin
At late hour on Tuesday night, the fol
lowing persons were committed to New
gate, on the warrant of the Chief Commiss'
ioner of Police, viz: Gilbert White, law
clerk; Francis Hanvey, alias Hanney, do
and Andrew James Doyle, printer.
The printers Of the Nation, who had
been committed to Newgate, have been re
leased, on bail, with the exception of three
A number Of arrests have been made il
the provinces, viz: at Cork, Galway, Ros
crea. Clonmel, Nenagh. &c.
The commission Of Oyer and Termine
onens in Dublin on Tuesday next. TIL