Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-09-05
IRISH INTELLIGENCg.

- hfOIPooI correspondent OF the Lon
don Times. writing the evening before the
Acadia sailed, says that i, had been dis.
covered that plan was matured TO pre-.
vent The embarkation oftroops at that port
by setting fire to the city.-St. Louis
RereiIIe.
The long line of warehouses fronting
the docks, most OF which are stored with
cotton and other combustible materials.
were to be fired in hundred places. 1t
was expected that the fire would spread
thence to the shipping in the docks. The
project farther was to destroy the water
mains and to cut the hose of the engines.
The S9th regiment, composed mostly Of
Irish recruits, was stationed at LIVERPOOL,
and it was currently reported that they
would not act against the people. The
town was in very excited state.
Correspondence of the N. Y Herald.
DUBLIN, IRELAND, July %, 1s4e.
The impending Ombreak--Search for
Arms-Terrible state of thingS.-The
Lord Lieutenant, and his advisers, have
determined to bring his bloody banquet
upon the green fields of the entire coun.
try, at once They fear help from the
United States and from France, and they
will not wait the ingathering of the pres.
ent abundant crops. They have about
fifty thousand well armed troops of ell
kinds, and an immense feet, now at an
Choir at Cork and the officers of the army
and navy are generally those who have
seen service. There is an effort making
to arm every policeman; and many per-
sons present themselves to be sworn as
special constables.
The Government has had, thus far, but
very slight success in capturing arms of
any kind. or in causing them to be regis.
tered, and yet it is very well understood
that very large quantity are safely with
in the reach ofthe insurgents. 1t is said.
however, that they are greatly in want of
powder and balls, and that they have not
the materials from which TO manufacture,
but they have great hopes that they are
soon to receive cargo from abroad, be-
sides whatever they may capture.
Envoys from the United States, Cana
da, England, Scotland. and France are
continually coming and departing and
the Government spies, although very alert
have been unable to detect them.
The Government have prepared great
number of wooden barricades, and some
ofthem are now in the Castle yard. ready
for use at moments notice. There is,
on the part of the soIdiery, an increasing
tendency TO fraternize with the people
but the policemen, in every town, are
hourly becoming more brutal, and it wo'd
really seem that they are especially PAID
and employed to goad every man, woman,
and child into an outbreak.
The police are now vigorously engaged
in ripping open, by simultaneous move.
ment, the beds, &c, of the poor people of
Townsend and Francis streets, searching
for arms. One thousand six hundred
warrants have been made out, Up to IL
O'Clock this day; but the Government,
owing to some private information, hest
tates to execute chem. The grand review
ordered for TO day, was countermanded al
midnight, last night; 1880 troops were
to have been in Phoenix Park. The town
is alive with horrid rumors as to encamp
ments in Tipperary, to defend Smith o.
Brien. The police are partially armed.
Some passengers from Clonmel and Thet.
ford declare, that there are upwards of
100000 insurgents encamped, this morn
ing, on Slivenan and a mountain six miles
distant from it. and that the men of Wa
terford, Limerick, and Glare are crowd
ing up with arms and provisions, deter.
mined to sustain w. Smith O'Brien, and
defyihe Government. The soldiery here
look dark " on their prospects.
Discovery OF MUMM1Es AT DURAN.