Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-09-08
Eenianism Growing Belder I'm Ire.
land.

From the Cork Consultation -5si
That the FeDian Brotherhood are daily no
merically increasing in this locality is unques-
tionable; that they are growing more and more
careless as TO whether their movements are OBJ
served or not Is also quite apparent. They 20
longer seek the cover OF the night TO practice
their eyolutions or to hold their meetings. In
open day they assemble, not on unfrequented
mountains. or lonely. out of the way places, bat
close 70 the city, aud even march along the
roads, In military fashion, In closely packed and
well ordered ranks
During the present summer the members Of
the organization in each locality have been in
the habit Of assembling it dusk every evening in
some convenient place previously arranged by
the leaders. Here they go through course OF
| instruction as regularly and attentvely as sol
! der Of the line-are formed into squads and
taught setting up drill; and when they can hold
their heads erect and keep their shoulders square,
| In a soldier ike fashion, are marched in slow
and quick time, then shaped into q company,
told of into Subdivisions, sections fours. &c, in
which formation they perform all the eyolntons
requisite to make the company eligible for its
place in battalion. They are also instructed
in the use Of the rife. AT certain periods the
| squads are marched in from the various parts
where they have been instructed in the elemen-
tary drill, are formed into companies, eaualized,
and work together as battalion does on parade
| -dep.oying into line forming close and quarter
distance columns, squares, &c, from the halt and
| on the line of march. w lille the main BODY is
engaged atdrill ,sentries are thrown out along the
roads and on the bitches tor some distance
round so as to form a complete Gordon, and on
tue approach OF any one unconnected with them
the signal is passed in an instant ranks regular
and orderly as military training can make them
collapse and fall into disorder. a foot ball is
thrown up. or they present the appearance OF
being what the outposts will tell the inquirer
they are. party of men engaged at goang
match. Sunday afte- Sunday during the present
summer this has been going on in the suburbs OF
the city. Frankheld, Lehena, and places in that
locality are frequently visited by them. The
roads there are not much irequented on sunday
and the ground is such as to favor the moderate
degree of secrecy the brotherhood seem TO con
slider necessary.
Yesterday fortnight gentleman saw immense
crowds of men going from difereRt sides OF the
country along the roads conveying at pOnt
near Frankfeld. He inquired where all the peo
pie were going to, and was told goaling match
was TO be held there He watched them, anC
soon saw them assembling in a dense mass in 8
large field Some one from among them mount
ed on an eminence and apparently addressed tht
others in 4 speech. After several other addresses
bad been delivered the whole mass of people ftf
itary movements by several com manders They
then marched out of the field i'm columns OF sec
tons, and the gentlemen timing them found thai
two hours elapsed from the time the first rank
passed out of the field till the last left il. Yes
terday week body of about two hundred youpe
men were seen at Ardarostig drill Seeing the
were observed by man whom most OF then
knew TO be Protestant and consequently not
very favorable to their views. they fret en-
deavored TO induce him TO become a member
and, failing in that, they suggested that be
would show bis wisdom and prudence aud con
suit his personal safety and well being by keep.
ing his mind to himself on the subject This 10
| cality seems to be favorte rendezvous with
the brethren They eongrega.e there at dusk
almost every evening in parties varying from
forty TO couple OF hundred, and not unfre-
quently at night people in their beds can hear
| the tramp of large numbers of men marehiag 9
| past their houses Another of their fsyorite
| review fields is of Lehena, where about three
weeks ago three hundred of them, in training for
camp life, bivouacked all night On the follow
| ing Sunday about six hundred assembled in a
| field near the same place aud spent the day in
drill. In the neighborhood Of Middleton and
| Castlemartyr every Sunday large forces muster
in the same way and for the same purpose, and
occasionally encamp in the open air all night
| At the drills the management OF the rife and
bayonet is taught by sticks extemporzed for
arms Ii is not to be supposed from this fact
that the brotherhood are destitute of firearms,
tor they boast of the possession of large stores
OF rifles and ammunition ready for use when the
proper time arrives. The drill instructors are
stated TO he pensioners and miIitianen, who are
| paid for their services