Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-10-10
Matters.
Spread of Feninuism in ireland.

pupSlo1 ! INV VI OSSAA AAASSbS w hAN
increase of Fenianism in that country. 1t
is now admitted on all sides that such ar
organization pervade almost every corner
of Ireland. The Northern Wing admits
its existence in the North, and suggests
the extinction of Orangeism as a cure for
it. In the West of Ireland, at the Sligo
Petty Sessions u man named James Mac
Namara was charged with, when being
conveyed to the station-house for being
drunk, shouting
ITO HI with the Prince of Wales!
To HI with the Queen ! I am a Fenian !"
He repeated that as loudly as he could on
the public road, where there were hun
dreds of persons passing along. Every
person could hear him. He was very
drunk at the time.
Mr.. Howley, j. J.-"Are you aware if
this man serves in the militia:
Constable Coghlan-"I heard he was
out in Italy lin the Pope's B~rigade), and
that he is now in the Sligo militia"
Defendant-"On four years in it,"
The prisoner was sent for trial to Quar-
ter Sessions, bail being refused, and MIR.
Howley, in committing him, said:
According to what this man says,
there seems to be some sort Of secret So
ciety to which the prisoner belongs. There
is such q society in this neighborhood, and
1 regret it exceedingly, for We know what
these societies lead to. The unfortunate
dupes generally come at last to the gal
lows-one swearing against the other ;
and l have had opportunities myself, in
the year l84S, Of judging how little they
can do when they have to face either the
Government or the local authorities. The
fact of the prisoner being in the militia
makes his case far worse than that Of an
ordinary prisoner who has not sworn ALE
glance to the Queen"
A correspondent of the Dublin Daily
Express gives an account OF n "grcat DEM
onstration" of the Fenians which took
place at Blackjack, within three miles Of
Dundalk, on Sunday. He says:
"They mustered about 400, and, with
their commanders, marched in military
order through the village, and in the
evening proceeded to Dundalk, where
they arrived between nine and ten o'clock
at night, and dispersed in different direc-
tons. There was but q small party of
police at the Rock to operate against such
a body, but they kept a close watch upon
them, so as to be able to identify some Of
the party, who were afteruord arrested
for unlawful drilling and practising mill
tary exercise"
The Cork Examiner cautiously says:
without in any way lending ourselves
to the extravagant statements as to the ex-
tent Of the so-called Feuian organization,
we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that
an organization of some kind or other
does exist, and more extensively than the
true lovers of Ireland and her real inter-
ests could wish. The statements on which
we rely are made by persons of such au-
thority and such means of judging with
accuracy that we cannot refuse to them q
very large amount of credence. We,
therefore, believe that an organization
does exist through the country, or certain
districts of the country-more extensively
in some districts, less extensively in others
perhaps not at all in many"
The Limerick Chronicle says:
ave have been informed by persons
who would not e~xaggerate in the slight
est degree, that drilling is going on in
Clare, Cratoo, Woods, and the mountain
Gus region at the opposite side of the
Shannon, the movements of the Fenians
in that quarter being exactly like what
were described as being carried on in the
environs of Cork"
The Cork Constitution has another long
report of Fenian doings in Cork. That
journal afirms that:
beyond yea or nay, the organization
not only has its being, but is daily in
creasing and gathering strength and mum
bers. Of this the police are by no means
ignorant. On the contrary, they arc con-
versant with its movements, and even
know most, if not all the leaders, and q
great many of the subordinate members.
There is little of dcmonstrativeness about
it, but a settled, quiet air of determination
and a desire for knowledge in military
exercise which shows the belief that an
opportunity for their display will not be
wanting. And that this idea has taken
possession of the minds of vast numbers
of the people is unquestionable. They
look confidently forward to aid from
America, and believe it to be only a ques-
ton of time-and that a not very long
time either-when the green will wave
proudly above the red"