The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-05-04
THE FENIAN TROUBLES.


eIRtlons.-
There is trouble in the Eenian camp.
The time of reckoning seems to be at
hand. The deception so long practiced
upon the credulity of thousands of lib
eral hearted and patriotic Irishmcn and
Irish women, who have given their
money freely TO hperate, rs they sup
posed, their unhappy native land, has
about played out, and now comes the
denouement, wherein we are to see
how the leaders who have carried on
the business SO long arc to save them
selves from the wrath OF their dupes.
In the local column of the Pittsburgh
Dispatch of yesterday, we notice the fol-
lowing paragraph.
"The Fenians in this city are
completely. demornlized. The regi,,
will be disbanded Immediately, and
it is understood that the circles in
organization will be broken up. The
query naturally arises whether the
money contributed by our over-patri-
otto irish citizens towards the cause
of Erin's liberty will be refunded by
the leaders"
Appropos of the Pittsburgh Fenians,
it would seem that there is general
decentralization and bust up i'll the Or
ganization East. The expedition to the
Maine frontier, which the country now
regards as a laughable farce, is the i'm
mediate cause of the rumpus going on.
The Philadelphia Fenians seem to be
peculiarly Indignant. They have APP
pointed an envoy to examine into the
business Mt headquarters in New York,
and ascertain If possible what has been
going on all this long while past, and
what has become of the money, and
especially to ascertain whether Ireland
has been liberated according to con-
tract, and if not, when that event may
be looked for. In New York the
Fenian cauldron seems to be seething
furiously. The New York World pro-
claims that "the O'Mahony bubble has
burst ut last" And further it says:
1.-The gross frauds perpetrnted upon
the masses of the Fenian brotherhood
for the last four months in the name of
patriotism, have Mt last come to II close.
Ever since the Sth of December, when
the Senate, headed by Col. Roberts, left
the organization located mt Union
square, the O'AIahony party have been
bly, and it was only by the most des-
perate falsehoods and the most profuse
expenditures of the moneys taken from
the pockets of the honest members of
the brotherhood for the ostensible
purpose of libernting Ireland, that the
Union square establishment has exist
ed and received life from the hearts
blood of the organization.
The World gives the following of 1.-THE
Killian fiasco," as it terms the expedi-
ton to the Maine frontier. AS stated
in the columns of that paper the expe-
dition was certainly one of the most
thorough burlesques of the age:
The expedition of Lieutenant Gener-
nj killian and his host of Major Gener-
al and lesser dignitarieS to the from
tier, with the advertised purpose OF
capturing the inoffensive island OF
Campo Bello, has at last opened the
eyes of all honest Fenians TO the terri
bic swindle which they have been
duped into supporting and abetting.
The real purpose of killiun in taking
800 badly armed men to Eastport was
to help the cause of confederation of
the British provinces, and to create n
row by breaking the neutrality laws in
order that the government might be
compelled to issue n proclamation
which could only result in breaking up
the plans of Colonel Roberts and Gen
eral Sweeney. For this killian and
O'Mahony have labored assiduously,
and all the money which has been SUBJ
scribed to free Ireland from the shac-
kleS of British tyranny has been devo-
ted merely to pay broken down pOliti-
clans and one-horse SpOuters high
salaries to plumber the honest
men of the organization who have
sought to protect their countrymen from
being robbed and plundered in the
name of patriotism. During the last
three or four days the men who left
their families and their homes, as they
supposed to take shipping for Ireland,
Killian having informed the men that
General Sweeney was already in the
field, and that the movement to East
port was but part of the plan of that
officer, who was to support them by a
diversion on Canada. The men were
induced to believe these villainous
falsehoods, and left for the frontier in
perfect good faith to take shipping at
once. But when they arrived at East
port they found neither transports nor
iron-clads; and, as last resort, the
leaders, DOring, Sinnott, Killian, and
company, wanted their deluded follow
erS to attack Campo BellO with nothing
but their pistols. Colonel Walsh, Capt.
Laynor, and others, who did not wish
to see the men slaughtered by the shells
from the British fleet laying of the ISL
and, refused to accede to this mad
Drained attempt of Killian and his con-
Crere, and the entire scheme fell to the
ground. The men had to beg their way
back to New York as well as they
could, and they are here now to call
John O'Mahony to his last account.
THE TRIAL OF JOHN o'MAHoNY.
On Saturday last the Eastport con-
tingent OF the grand army of invasion
called on John O'Aiahony and deman-
ded that they should receive remunera-
ton for the loss of time and employ
ment that they had suffered in the
wild goose chase. O'NIahony refused
at first, and denounced Killian as
traitor, who had sold the .cause' to
the enemy, Killian having already as
serted the same thing of O'Mahony in
the streets of Eastport, stating that the
reason why his invasion scheme had
come to grief was because "the admin
istration had refused to support him in
the field" (Meaning John O'NIahony.)
This did not satisfy the men, however,
nor it is understood, presented pistols
at the head of the O'Mahony, having
previously locked the doors of the
mansion to prevent his escape. O'Ma-
hony, after slight delay to gather his
scattered faculties, paid the demands
of the men, and they left on their way
rejoicing with $50 per capita in their
pockets.
THE LAST STRUGGLE OF o'MAHoSY.
In consequence of the smash-up of the
invasion and its fatal results to the or
ganization, meeting of the department
of Manhattan, which was hitherto
fought tooth and nail for O'Mahony,