Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1866-03-09

its met together in New York. O'Connell
was dead, and the men Of '4s in foreign lands
or in their graves. These Eve men pledged
themselves to unite their scattered race, and
effect the Liberation Of Ireland, and through
! sunshine and storm those who are alive have
labored steadily to that end, and fought
against all opposition. Two Of them are
dead one Of them, the gallant Michael Cor
coran, gave up his life upon the battle field,
and the other died in New York. One has
visited the people of Ireland, from one end to
the other, arousing the old feeling within
them, which but slumbered. He has passed
through fire TO do this, and he is now the
recognized head Of this mighty revolution.
His name was James Stephens"
Mr.. Collins affirmed that there were 800, 900
good and true men in Ireland, well organized.
They have carefully studied their policy, and
their ingenuity is unequalled. They could
transform themselves in an instant from SOL
diers at drill to players at ball. and could
conceal arms in places never dreamed Of.
he said the Fenians had plenty Of men In
the British army and navy, and there need be
no surprise to hear tha. British frigates had
been suddenly transferred into Irish men-of-
war. Arms in great quantities and other mil
itary material had already been furnished the
revolutonists.
ExPLos1oN.-A terrific explosion occurred
on the evening Of the 26th ult., at the fur
mace Of j. 81 II. J. Nelly, in Middetown,
Pa, resulting in the destruction Of the furnace,
the death Of five men, and woundng of ak
others. There we're eight boilers in this
furnace. One was raised through the build
ing and carried 500 yards, lodging in the
Pennsylvania Canal. The other boilers we're
carried in various directions, some of them
passing through houses and other buildings.
A portion Of one boiler was hurled through
room in which two women we're lying sick,
but, fortunately. did not hit them. The
bridge over the Union Canal was carried
away, aud many OF the dwellings in the vi.
cinty more or less shattered by the fragments.
The whole town was shaken by the force Of
the explosion. The loss exceeds $4,000.
The increase Of crime in st. Louis led to
the formation Of a Vigilance Committee, some
time since, in the Tenth Ward in that city,
which resulted a few days ago in the capture
Of gang Of counterfeiters, the breaking up
of their den, and wholesome respect for law
and order generally. J
Fifty-four workmen lost their lives by the
burning of building in Cronstadt recently.
There were three doors to the building, but
only one was unlocked, and this opened in
ward. The unfortunate men, pressing for
ward in crowds, kept It closed, and it had at
length to be broken down, but fifty-four men
bad already perished.
Rodolph Dodge, who was arrested in Bos-
ton a few weeks since for embezzlng some
$4,000 of the funds of the Adams Express
Company at Vicksburg, Miss, and who was
returned to that city for trial, has been SEN
fenced to five years at hard labor in the
Mississippi State Prison.
A young man in Quincy, ILL.,, accidentally
set some matches in his pocket on FIRE in
church few evenings ago, and they ignited
some 'eggs of Pharaoh's serpents' also In his
pocket. causing great excitement among the
audience.
A drunken man was taken from house Of
III fame to the lock up in Washington, the
other night, where upon him were found
roll OF three thousand dollars and paper
showing that he was Judge of United
States court in a Western State. The awed
policeman took him home.
John Minor Bolts has just issued an ad-
dress to the people Of Virginia. He says -
g would forfeit forty seats in the Senate
aye, the Presidency tsef-if it were offered
to me tomorrow, sooner than see that ele-
ment Of secession, Democracy, raise to power
again, except that such position would en-
able me to crush it the more elfectually than
by another means"