The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-08
Il u R O Il .
TIE FENIANS.

THE FENIANS.
CAPTURE OF THE VICE HEAD CENTRE OF IRELAND.
From the Dublin freeman, February2 21.
On yesterday the movement of the Fenian
Brotherhood received one of its severest checks
in the arrest oil Patrick j. Mcdonnell, Vice Head
Centre OF the Feniars IN Ireland, and the alleged
leader of the conspiracy in Ireland since the dis.
appearance of Stephens, The first clue received
ton 2is S held 'O BY Mcdonnell WAS was '"o obtained
some months since in the discovery, by
the Custom House officers, of box contain
ing arms III the goods store of the City OF Dublin
Steam Company, North WALL and addressed to
Mcdonnell to q rope factory, where he did busi-
ness, at New Row West. From the inquiries then
set on foot it was found that Patrick J, was high
up in the councils of "the Brotherhood" and
was only second to Stephens himself in authority
in this country. He had been conductor of an
other rope establishment in South Earl street
before he took charge OF the New Row West;
but ii appears thai after the discovery OF the
box of arms he felt If prudent, if not profitable,
to retire from his legitimate business, and take
up that of Fenansm. He continued to evade the
vigilance OF the police up to yesterday morning,
and the news of his capture was heard by the
friends of "the movementn with general
dismay, as he had it is said, more OF
the wisdom Of Ulysses than the valor of
Hector, and was Invaluable in the couA-
ellis of the cOnspirators. There is another and a
stronger cause for the chagrin of the Brother
hood" at the arrest OF Mcdonnell which exists
in the fact that he was the close friend and con-
lieved by those best informed is still in Dublin.
In the numerous captures which have been
made, Stephens has lost some OF his best sup
porters and mediums of communication, as we'll
as the holders OF the secret of his
present whereabouts, and it is held firmly
that the operations OF every day are
narrowing the limits that divide "the Head
Centre" from those who seek his recapture.
The thousand pounds offered for information
that will lead TO his arrest, and the thousand
pounds offered for his apprehension, are now
most likely to work effectively, as some OF the
most prominent of his body-guard are in GUS
tody, and those on whom he will have to depend
for protection will be more liable to betray him
into the hands of the police. Wherever he is it
is stated that in the arrest of Mcdonnell he has
lost his sheet anchor, and ''the movement one
of its principal motive powers. Mcdonnell,
after being takeninto custody, was removed to
Green street station house, from whence he was
conveyed to Nountioy Penitentiary.
ARREST OF UNITED STATES GENERAL AND CAPTAIN
GLEEsoN.
From The Cork ECdmiaer February Il.
On Saturday last the brothers Gleeson, one of
whom had been EIigadier-General and the
other Captain in the United States army, were
arrested at Borriso'egh, in the county of Tip
perary, on suspicion of being concerned in the
Fenlan movement They were brought to the
Bridewell of Thuries, where they were detained
until Monday when they were conveyed by
train from that station to Roscrea Junction. and
thence to Nenagh. They were lodged in the
county jail of Nenagh, where they still remain.
Will be remembered as having spent good deal
of time about Cork and Queenstown after his
arrival from America about tour months SINCE
ARCHBISHOP CULLEN AGAIN DENoUNcING THE
ORDER.
The following pastoral from Archbishop Cullen
was read in the Dublin churches on the 1Sth:-
This Brotherhood or Society, so far from pro-
noting the interests of the country, only tends
to aggrayate its evils, checking business, in
creasng poverty, playing into the hands of
Orangemen, as appears from the reioicings of
their press, and giving strength to all our enc
mics. In America some Head Centres and leaders
OF Fenianism, enriched by taxes levied on the
simplicity and good faith of our countrymen,
have been raised to position in which they
can live splendidly, and surround themselves
with the state and pomp of mock court But
how different the case in Ireland Here those
who have lett themselves be duped by agents of
the Brotherhood have been lett without employ-
ment and many OF them reduced TO the greatest
difficulties, and even to state of destituton.
Buoyed up for a while with foolish hopes and
fallacious promises they been held as mere tools
to excite a popular feeling in favor of the Or
ganization in America, persuading our Door
Countrymen that great events, wonderful reVo-
| lutlOnary movements were impending in Ireland,
and thus inducing them to part more freely
with their money. While the Head Centres were
| thus enriched in America, their unhappy agents
| in Ireland having become the victims OF spies
| ard iniormers, we're brought before the public
| tribunals, and condemned to drag out misera-
BILE existence amongst felons, in all the horrors
| OF penal SefVlJuue Inc moral e1eCtS OF Fenl-
anism have been most deplorable. Like Rib
| bonism and other secret associations it Is
| connected with drunkenness, and it Is recorded
| by the public press that some of the leaders.
| while inebrated, lost papers which betrayed
their secrets, and LET, them at the mercy OF the
police. Had not Fenianism been checked in its
destructive career il would have deluged the
country with inddelty; and, initiating Voltaire
and his impious followers, 1t would nave pre-
pared the minds OF the people for the barbarous
scenes which were enacted in France in the last
century.