New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-19

No arrests have been made. The police have
light cew to the scOundrels 1t is believed that the
nen were bitten IN the struggle.
OPINION OF LOCAL IRISH LEADER.
Michael D. Gallagher, jeweller, living at No. 4S
West Twenty-seventh-st. the president OF the Par
oe Land League in this city. last night seemed to
nave been unnfOrmed respecting the attack on
Lady Florence Dixie. " She is a fraud he said,
II reply to the question first put him, " and ths
agitation is all got up by the British Government.
ne believe. The Land League knows nothing abou6
his: its plans are TO have an entirely peaceable
,eitatiop Lady Dixie is regarded by the League
* a sort of crank. She keeps repeating
,lot of falsehoods about the League that certainly
ire rot very pleasant to its members. Her state
nents have all been answered thoroughly.
tsuppose however, Lady Dixie may believe them
herself"
do You think that they could have caused these
attacks upon her!'
They might have done 1t, but not through any
instruction on the part of the League The men who
compose the League in this country belong to the
hest and the most intelligent class of lrishmen
they want TO do what they can to aid
Mr.. Parnell, and to do it peaceably. They
ion't engage in anV of these murderous
,ffairs and they don't countenance them. If they
ind that nothing can he effected in peaceable
way, as they WISH they will drop the whole matter
i has cost me $1,000, and don't derive any pena
II from it, L would not have had anything 10 DO
With the League but for the personal SOLICITATION
)f Mr.. Parnell." - nj:
no; unless it is manufactured for purpose
against Mr. Parnell OF course, Forster would IKE
and then too the English are AFRAID OF Mr
Parnell coming over TO the United States and talk
nc with the Irish here. 1t seems to me they want
N find some preteXt for arTesting him. Perhaps
;hey may make this sufficient to place him under
trrest and prevent his coming To TIE UNITED
States"
A SKETCH OFLADY FLORENCE DIXIE.
LADY Florence Caroline Douglas Dixie is
me second daughter the seventh Marquis OF Queens
berry who was killed in 1858 by the explosion OF his
yun Her mother was the second daughter OF Lieuten-
,ntGeneral Sir william Robert Clayton Baronet She
md her youngest brother, Lord james Edward
Jbolto Douglas, were born May 20, 1888. In
1878 Lady Florence married Sir Alexan-
Ter Beaumont Churchill Dixie, Baronet OF
Bosworth Park Leicestersbre. She has become well
rpown 10 tue reading public by her writings, and is
tnown among her friends as an accomplished horse
woman good sailor and traveller In 1878 his ac-
i've and adventurous scotchwoman went TO Patagonia
because 1t ou.landish place and so far away
and because she tired OF civilization and wanted
10 escape somewhere. She made up party con-
suy of her husband the Marquis Of Queensberry and
,nother brother, Mr. Julius Beerbohm (who had
publ.shed a book on PatagoniaJ and single servant.
The travellers left Liverpool in December 1878, and
inter landing at Sandy Point they out for the interior
of Patagonia they could procure guides horses
and dogs They had no plan Of travel TO reach the
base of the high Andes and return to the Straits OF
Magellan in time 10 catch n return steamer,
and no special motive beyond roughing 1t
md hunting the guanaco and the ostrich They saw
great wild country, cainped in one OF the hsh
Corderas valleys sight OF the three huge RED needes
called Cleopatrls Peaks hunted 10 their hearts content
and made their way back Sandy Point In safety Lady
Florence told the story OF these travels In book caeo
Across Patagonia which illustrated by MT Beer
bJbm. The book does pretend TO be more thah an
accOlDt OF a pleasure trip, bnt 1t IL fresh
and breezy and pictures we'll the whole
some pleasures OF oui-of-door life and ad-
ventra s;rangc country. The best chapters are tie
descriptions OF hdntng adventures Hernext journey was
toZaland where che went spOndent OF The
Lottoa r.ring Post While there attracted atten-
tion % appeal In behalf OF CetewayO. After
Lcr rstw1 England she published In the Land OF
MfiJrt me-"
Lady Florcnc. has tak0n active part Irish affairs