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The Fenians

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Day
22
Month
September
Year
1865
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Public Domain
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New York, Sopt. 18. The Woríd's Cork, Irelsnd, correapondenco saya : Id Limerick meetings of Feniana have been regularly chroniclod, and tho oiganization haa eytablishod an absoluto court, wheroin nanies of those countrymeD too timid or too lukewarm to give ia their adhereece, are aet dowD, and committeea appointed to wait on thom. Delegates from the parent society are aaid to abound in the country, well snpplied with money, and aotively eneouraging & mercenary Npirit. In Cork, Fenians havo boldly marched past the barracke, their officer ürrued with green rods, and chanting as they marched the Dew natioDal eoog, " The Greon above the Red." They wtre pursuod by the pólice, but the country puople, at intiniation of parsuit, wont by a detour through fields and inforiaed the Fenians. I am told by a friend who fully underatand. this subject that there are in the following counties men enroüed as follows : Limerick, 6,000; Kerry, 1,500 ; Cork,ll,000 ; Watorford, 1,000 ; Tipperary, 7,000; Kilkenny, 8,000; Wexford, 1,200; Wicklow, 1,000; Clare, 500; Kildare, 500 ; Dublin, 8,000. This makes a total of oearly 40,000 men, if we estímate for the northern connties, where Fenianism ia yet vreak, and Government has more par tisana, half as maDy. Aa yet these men are not arined, nor do they evarmeet, in publio or private, with weapons of any sort, but at a sigrial could fill the country with musküta. Every Fenian, it is said, who loft the Northern army retained bis musket. Enough Irishraen, trainod in war, have retarued to thoir native isiand to offioer the entire able-bodied population. A monster nuclous of an army a being formed, witb lts headquarters in Amerioa and a burean of iutelligonce. The excitement over these previouü alarma has had an immodiate effbot on capital. Mouey is held more tightly. Dublin papers oomplain that it is being frightened away from Ireland. Englishnion, resident bere, not etipondiariea of the Government, profesa to be weaiy, also, of tho many outbreaks, of which this is tbe last, and anxious to leavo the populaoe whioh hates thom, odco and forover. It may not prove to be the least significant feature of this caprice, that the very Britisb, among which is to put down the Fenians, is composed of nativa Irishmon. In the army the Feniana are at work, and the garrieon of Cork may be to-night plot ting againsfc the interests of the soyereign who employs thom. Thure are in tho Queen'g ranks 5,000 men who are put there by the Fenian brotherhood as a sort of choap West PoiDt, and instructed not only to perfoct themselves fully in aoldierly training, but to corrupt their countrymen of every garrison, when the Fenian revolution begins. We rrmy hear of a revolt from Canada to India whenever thero are two Celts in the same regiment with two Saxons. Tho Limsrick Chronich sayo upwards of 300 young men were seen a few nights Binco in a most retirad corner of the city, going through Military evolutione. Alinost all had sticks, and obeyed in sileiice tho word of command givon in a supprossed'voico.

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