The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-09-20
CHE Aurfolk gast.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1866
LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS.
THE FENIANS.

MENT-FoUR COUNTIES PROCLAIMED.
Private advices received in New York |
through special channels from Dublin,
bring the news that on the 9TH instant |
the British Lord Lieutenant in Dublin, |
bad proclaimed four Fenian coun-
ties, Tiplerary, Limerick, Cork and |
Kerry. These are the colfnties where it |
is understood the Fenians are most |
powerful-some fifty thousand Of them,
it is asserted, being sworn soldiers of |
the Irish republic " in one county alone. |
The intelligence seems TO be of the |
most vital moment to the Fenians, as |
proclaiming" county under the
Parliament statutes amounts to q species
of martial law. Under the Arms act,p
Peace Preservation act y and others,
the Lord Lieutenant has power, in grave |
contingencies, to thus proclaim dis |
trict or even the whole of the country,
and the terms of the proclamation may
be such as to empower the seizure of
arms, search of suspected premises, and |
even the arrest of all supposed leaders |
or members of obnoxious orders. II
may also forbid persons being out after
a certain hour at night, and, in effect,
institute martial law and the rule of the
curfew to all practical purposes.
knowledge of all their leaders and secrets
is had in the castle, the Fenian Order
may now be thoroughly decaptated, rs
was that of the united Irishmen' in
1913. Or, in case of their feeling power
full enough to commence operations, ar
rests would be resisted, and the long
talked of revolutionary fires be actually
set blazing through the Island before
October dawns upon it.
The Fenians, however, claim that this
! contingency was taken into their calcu-
lations ab initio, that they have no pa
ipers, like the 1913 men, to be seized, that
the brethren in Ireland for the past six
months have been actually finding faul
with the Irish American order for no
making better haste in forwarding tn
! stipulated supplies, and that the Irisl
haste and American deliberatiOn have
flor some time been fusing and effectine
mutual notifications, all of which,
fthey say, finds Ireland, even to-day, il
driven, perfectly prepared "to strike
/ the blow" ",,' :. ...g
(From the Dublin cor dependence Dublin Post Sept l.
| The Fenians are vigilantly watched
and there are numerous traitors 10 theil
cause in their own bou.y. Some precau
lions have been taken, st'1llclent 10 NEE
the case at present, and Govefnmentar
fully alive to the necessity Of crushih
| the movement by the strong hand,
necessary This latter remark induce
me to give report that is cautiously rt
I.peated in official circles in this city.
is to tho effect that, at Privy Cnnnc'
held in the Castle during the |eeR
steps tperc taken to proclaim certdM q
ties and totUns uadej. Tic "CfiDle Pre-
rention (Ireldnd) dct.u Dcpots of arms
it is alleged, are Stored in these the po
lice have their eyes upon the depots
and when the proper moment arrives
the town will be proclaimed under tn
i"Crime Prevention act" and the loca
heads of the movement and their mill
tary supplies seized. If IDere to men
ton the name Of one Of the cities aohe1'
liz is said arms are stored, 1t WOutd stdl
tie the public. %. la.#a
The English press is somewhat stal
tied by the developments made, but at
tempts to treat the subject with indiffel
ence, and to keep a stiff upper lip. Th
Sheffield Telegraph says the central OF
CARNATIONS of the conspiracy are i
Liverpool and Lancashire. England
1t thinks the movement absurd and i'm
| practicable, and alludes to it as havin
/ taken its rise among Irish residents
! America, and that it was thence trans
| planted in the soil of Ireland, where
has now taken root, and is fourishin
too fast for comfort, and assuming III
due dimensions.
The Limerick Chronicle, under tn
, canton of "a hint from America,
says:
We have seen letter written by
Fenian in Jersey City, dated in Aug.u
last, to his relatives in this city, in whic
| he writes =" You will soon hay
America at home--for Ireland is goin
! to be freed by America, and that bet01
-four moaths-and perhaps see me
ireland once more, as the steamers al
preparing here for the old country
The following suggestive advertise
ment appeared in the Dublin MAJ
COZ. ied from the Nenagh Guardian:
90 .yNs! GuNs!! GUNS Sill, gul
manu- facturer, begs to inform the publ
that i'm. consequence of the aoithdTd'0t
4 of he proclamation placing Ifpperdr
nndey. the Crime and outrage act, an
} every m an being now at liberty to carr
6 arms. he, in anticipation of an increase
dems,nd, has ordered a large supply
guns and pistols, which he will sell
the very lowest prices Powder, sh 0
wad ding, caps and every article in til
trade, always on hand"
/ In regard to which writer, who sigr
hims elf a Justice of the Peace of moi
than twenty-years standing in that Il
tcality, says:
| Air eady the male population, from tn
man of sixty summers to the youth {
twelve or fourteen years of age, may 2
seen ,uerambulating the county, eac
armed with some weapon of destrn'
ton, to the no little establishment OF
peaceful inhabitants of this county, al
of none more than your present CORES
pondent,
A CHIcl KEN COME HOME TO RoosT.-
The New York Evening Post quotes Il
following extract from leader of II
World ON the Baltimore nomination
Lincoln and Johnson last year:
The only merit we can discover in Il
Raltim ore ticket is the merit of co MS
tency it is all of piece the tail d.
not shame the head, nor the head ST IA
the tail. A raiI-splitting buffoon a N
boor'.sh tailor, both from the backwt lso
both growing nm i'm uncouth ignora I