The New York herald., 1879-11-22

BILE presence. and he does not disappoint closer
acquaintance.
Davitt is full of the land question. and is born
leader oil men. The intensity of his feeling amo
people is immense. especially in his native Con-
naught. He speaks Gaelic with great tuency,
though reared IN Lancashire. and is a true Ceit-
passionate. impulsive, fierce to his enemies. but
gentle ms child to his friends and child among
children At the age of six his family emgrated to
England and settled down in Hazelden. Lancashire
where Michael sent to school, but at nine years
OF age family necessities necessiaJed his being put
to work III mill. At eleven he lost his right arm
py an accident and sent to school again, after
which he became clerk and general assistant in tho
once or the local postmaster also kept printing
managed to make largely for early deficiencies of
education He went into the Fenian movement with
MS usual vim and organzed all that section OF Ian.
participated in the attempt Chester Castle in Feb
ruary 1857 and after the failure OF the rising in
lresnd WAS one of the first to set about the reor-
ganization of the Irish Republican Brotherhood in
England. He selected OF those best fitted
to purchase and introduce into Ireland, and in
1865 tried and sentenced to fifteen years penal
servitude on that charge. After spending nearly
eight years in various convict prisons he
was released "ticket-of-leave," and soon after
came to the United States see his aged mother.
who resides in Manayunk. and delivered series Of
the Cooper Institute. by way of vote of thanks.
resolution was passed affirming the right OF the
Irish people to the soil and demanding the complete
abolition Of landlordlsm. This resolution has
formed the keynote Of the land movement which
now convulses Ireland. Since his return t0Ireland
Mr.. Davits life has been OF incessant activity
and no man Of such humble origin has in recent
times 80 suddenly sprung into prominence as
political leader. If the government dt they can
at any moment revoke his license "t.cket-of-
leave man and make him undergo the balance of his
original sentence but it is hardly probable they
will incur the odium of such act.
A cOMBATIvE CONNAUGHr EDITOR.
Next in Importance to Davitt by reason of his in
fuence over the people Of the West comes Mr. James
DAILY, editor Of the C0aaug Telegraph. published in
Castlebar county Mayo He is also the proprietor
OF hotel in Castlebar and farmer. He is fine
looking man physically, with face beaning with
good nature, and has considerable natural talent.
tensively in Connaughf. and. though not an ably
conducted journal, il full OF life and bristling
with local controversies He mover hesitates
moment to attack tyrannical land
lord, whig priest local magistrate
and has not quailed under the denunciatons OF the
most popular Catholic Archbishop in Ireland. John
of Tuam In answer to that prelates taunt that the
agitators were "strolling Communists. Daily
shouted III his rich western brogue, almost under
the nose of the 'ion of the fold of Judah 81 am
no stroller; my people settled in this country
before the MacHale's were heard Of. They got the
cheice from Cromwell of going to hell or Con-
naught' and they came here. They had name in
the land when the ancestors of Lord Oranmore and
Browne and other foreign upstarts were 'strolling
around the country as drummers in Cromwell's or
Williams army" Mr.. DAILY ono OF the first to
join Davtt in the agitation and has stood firmly by
it ever since.