Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1866-12-18
THE FEKIAKS In IRELAND.

Alarm fn IreIaud---TEreats Of English
IOurnaIs---stephens Reported TO be
? in EOndOn---ReWarSl offered for hts
Capture, etc, etc.
Correspondonee Of the y. Y. Times.
LoNDoS, Saturday, Dec. ], ls66.-Ire-
land is on the brink of instruction. So the
English believe, and they are making thsir
preparations accordingly. The coast is
lined With cruisers, troop ships are convey
ing regiment after regiment to Dublin, and
the south and west. The large towns are
patrolled, the police armed, the troops fur
nished, as far as practicable, with breach
leaders The commander of the forces is
on the ground, and every thing Is ready to
crush, to stamp cut, the insurrection when
il makes lis appearance. Fierce and terri
bic are fhe threats of the English journals.
The Irish are warned that the English with
all their cant of philanthropy, have not
changed their natures since the remorseless
days Of Elizabeth or Cromwell, or Of '98 {;
that they will deal with rebels in ireland as
they dealt with them in India, and later in
Jamaica There is a cold-blooded ferocity
in their threats, or warnings of the inevita-
Bile consequences Of rebellion on British
soil, that contrasts strangely with English
sympathy, more or less actively expressed,
for all rebels bat their own.
1t is fact that ireland is in a state of
terror and alarm, and that there is a gene
raj belief that there will be an outbreak be-
fore Christmas. Many suppose that Ste
phens is in Ireland, and this belief is doing
almost as much to excite and terrify as his
actual presence. Even colliers on the coast
are searched to find him, or discover AIMS
and ammunition Boxes and casks ofrifes
and cartridges are seized here and there.
A box containing a Fenian uniform has
been taken by the police in Liverpool.
Irishmen suspected to be Fenians, and
Irish-Americans with square-toed boots and
bushy boards, with military bearing, are
drifting into Ireland by every port and
from every direction, and scattering over
the country. They gather about the cor
ners of Dublin; they hover about Cork In
the country men turn funerals into military
professions, and tramp along the roads at
night to the music of accordeons, There is
a run on the savings banks and business is
dull. Landlords are leaving the country,
or barricading and preparing TO defend
their property.
Worse than all, as the Times points ont
to us, in the midst of all these signs of evil
we see and hear nothing of the loyal people
of Ireland. There are no meetings North
or South, to support the government and
take measures for defense. Even the
Protestants, Episcopal and Presbyterian,
make no sign. Is il apathy or is il terror?
Everything is left to the government; and
the government, we are assured, will stern
ly do its duty. The Morning Herald says:
'The rumOrs Of Fenian enterprises in
Ireland have at length taken a definite
shape, and there is reason to believe that,
in few DAYS, we shall be, unhappily, in
yolyed in a serious contest for the suprenla-
cy Of British rule in the neighboring island.
We are in the presence Of a real danger to
a vital part Of the Empire. 4 They |
have preferred TO stake their cause on the |
chances Of war, and war they will have il
they provoke it, with a vengeance. How |
ever horrible may be the alternative, it is
not for us to hesitate at accepting it. The |
prospect is sufficiently melancholy, but as
there is no escape from it, perhaps the |
sooner it is realized the better. A few |
weeks of sharp fighting in the South and |
West are, perhaps, after all, not the worst |
calamity which can happen to Ireland"
The tory organs in this matter only
chime in with the Times, Post, Pail Mall
Gazette, Daily Nelrs, with English journals !
Of every shade of politics. They an adYo-
cate quick, sharp work in putting down the
rebellion-the more merciful only fear that |
vengeance win go too far, and plead for
mercy when Justice shall have been accom- \
plished. "If England can DO nothing else"
we are told, "she knows how to suppress
rebellion"
A special London telegram to the Dublin |
Freeman s Journal has the the following:
LONDON, Nov. 30-evening.-It is posi-
lively stated thatthegove has received
reliable information that the Head Centre,
James Stephens, if not already in London
is hourly expected to arrive here. A re-
ward Of $4,000 has consequently been is
sued for his apprehension, and constables in
plain clothes, provided with photographs
of the fugitive, have been dispatched to all
the likely ports of Decentralization and to
the various railway stations.
THE REWARD FOR HIS CAPTURE.
From the London Globe. Nov. 80.
The announcement Of the departure of
James Stephens, the Fenian Head Centre
from America, and Of his intended return
to ireland, has been met on the part of the
government by an offer of the large reward
of e2,000 for his apprehension-that is,
el 900 for such information as will lead to
his apprehension, and further el, ,000to
any one who may arrest Stephens. This
notorious eonspirator is described as man
about forty yearsof age, five feet seven inches
high, stout, with broad, high shoulders, fair
hair, bald all round the top of his head,
wears all his beard, which ssandy, slightly
tinged with gray, and long under chin,
broad forehead, tender eyes, and has pc
culiar habit of closing the left eve when
speaking high cheek bones, rather good
countenance and his hands and feet are re-
markably small and we'll formed The
government deserves great credit for the
promptitude with which they have acted
in this NATTER and the largeness Of the re-
ward offered justifies the hope that if ever
Stephens again steps his foot on British
soil he will be arrested before he can go to
ireland to renew the trouble which Fenian-
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