The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-05-18
.Fenian revelations.

An lrlsh-Amcrican, named Massey. who has the
title of "Goneral, has turned intnrmer, and i'll his
evidence before the Dublin Cor engaged i'll the
trial of Burke and Doran has revealed toe secrets
Of tho Fenans. 1t app 'ars from Masseys state
ments that he served during the war in this
country in the rebel ranks, rising to the colonecy
| of the Second Texas regiment. Afterwards he
was engaged in commercial pursuits III New
Orleans, became Fenian. found his way to New
| York. and became tho contidant of "Hcad-Cc"trc'
Stephens and the military leaders. Ho continues
| his story as follows
II first saw the prisoner Burke Mt No. ~ Chath-
am street, Newsiork, and knew him in America
rs Colonel Thomas Burke. Witness and Stephens
travelled ut tho same time but separately, rom
| Philadelphia to New York, where there was Il meet
ing of Fonlan Centres Stephens, Colonel Kelley,
General Halpine and :othars beng present, about
thirty in all. Stephens presided and made u slaie-
ncnt about the quantity of war material which the
| Fenians had then in New York. which he said was
| not onc-scvcnth of the minimum fixed by himself
which was thirty thousand rifles. He therefore
objected to opening the fight as lC had promised !;
but, to provo his fidelity, Ie offered to come over
to Ireland put himself i'll the hands OF the British
authorities; and get 'lnnEed-a proposition which
WAS secuted by every one present. 1t WIS detor-
mined however, that the fight should be opened,
and tho witness used all his influence to orcrrllio
| tho objections of Stephens. That was i'll Deccn-
brr, 1856.
GA few evenings. afteE a purely military meet
ing. was convened by Stephens. Captain AlcCaf-
fcrty waited to know tho plan of the campaign
but Stephens refused to divulge it. Several OF the
officers present declared that they would leave the
next day for ireland, which they did. Wtness got
list of their names from Colonel Kelly, Deputy
Ch cf Organizer of tho Irish Republic. and Com
lnander-iii-Chicf of the army. There was another
mixed meeting at stephens ;, iodg1nss, West
others were present. Witness left New York for
England OH tic 18th of January last by The way Of
Portland. Before leaving he received from Colonel
Kelly ESQ in gold, British money, to De dlstriD-
L II
and others were to follow. He wrote down . list
of those officers at kcy's dctation, and then de-
sroyed tho,dooumant, having first committed the
names to memory. He lad sent his wife to Ire
land three months before, fully expecting that
there would bean ipsprrcction there he landed
first at SLiverpooE and aa4Et a.staying there day
went on to London, where he met the prisoner ut
the bar, Colonel Thomas Burke, as one OF the
officers whose names had been dictated to flm by
Culonel Kelly, aud to whom Tippcrary had been
assigned as his district. Captain Dunno, Captain
O'Briou aud Captain Dcasy had dit trcts assigned
to them in the county OF Cork, and General Hal
pine was appointed f.r the Dublin district;
Massey came to Dublin and put up at The angel
Hotel, and the day alter his arrival met me- twenty
Dublin Centres convened by O'Berne. They gave
returns showing tho numerical strength OF the Fe-
Iian army to be about Il, 900 men, with 3,OOO
weapons. Witness then won't to Castlcbnr and
Wcstport, in the county of Mayo. Having return
cd To Dublin and stayed for short time, he went
to Cork, stopping at the Italian Hotel. On the
night of his arrival he attended n Feninn meeting
held in the outskirts OF the city, when he received
u return Of 90 600 men and 200 weapons, mostly
pixies, Us the strength o! the army III Cork. Tie
next went to the town Of Tipporary III the irosccn-
ton of his mission. He then, returned to Dublin
and pFoueudea to bOndOn.- Whcro no arrived OH
Sunday. aud repaired. to the lodgings OF Colonel
| Kelly, from whom he got more money, having cX-
haustcd the ESQ. Kelly told him that the 5th OF
| March was fixed OIL for the rising, because on
that day SoIuo Fenian prisoners were TO BE- cXccu.
! ted in Canada. Kelly ordered that the railway
centres, such as tho Limerick Junction, were to
bo destroyed il thoy could not bo hold, und tint
system OF guerrilla warfare was to be maintained
Massey immediately returned to Dublin, stop
ping ut tho Angel for night or two, and then pro-
ceeded to Alulngar for military purposes. lie
camo back to Dublin, and met the twenty crntres,
and anllouuc ed to O'Bicrne that the 9Th o! March
had been fixed for the rising by tllc Commander
! Chief Colonel Kelly. He started forCOrk nuXt
day, where he saw O'.ahony, and made the samc
announcement to him. He then left Cork 'ior the
| Limerick Junction, intending to mass there is
maaiy Fenian troops AZ possible! What they were
to do was depend on tho arrival OF the military
commandcr-n-chi General Fuaely. Fu2cy had
belonged to tue Federal army in Anlcrlca AID Ste
| pions told witness IN New York that he was 10
have the chief command i'll Ireland. Witness was
to mobilize tho insurgents, but t.c moment iic
stepped OH the platform hc was arrested. The
newspapers stated that he swooned; he did not
know WhGthGr he did or not, but il ho did he was
sorry that he ever recovered. lie was arrested on
Monday and before the following Sunday hc gave
| lie did SO because he had himself been betrayed,
and he declared that he had been fully determined
to 60 On with tlin ir!snrrcction aud Csa Dlsh Re
public All the directions for the rising OH the 9TH
were given L, the centres exclusively by him ihg
unoer tho orders nf Colonel nelly.