THE FENIANS IN AMERICA.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 653, 3 May 1870, Page 3

THE FENIANS IN AMERICA.

HA correspondent to a colonial paper Lscribes the Fenians in America as raided into three sections. _ The first, MB says, is ruled by two tailors, who, ■ving failed in their special line of Bsiness, have taken to politics. The ■feond section is headed, led, drilled Hganised, and occasionally blackttarded —when he happens to be sober £|by Mr John O'Mahony. Mr O'Maliouy is a native of Carrick-on-Suir, a ■tall town distant about twelve miles Km Clonmel. Of his patriotism no He can, or dare, entertain a doubt. i'4B he managed to steal a baker's y a nd, disguised in that congenial jarel, to escape the authorities, aching America, be entered the vv York police, and did a thriving siness with the thieves of that bominable city," who offered on his irement into politics to present him ih a testimonial, which, however, he destly declined. He afterwards in with Mr James Stephens, and ween them they " founded the nan organisation." They robbed plundered right and left. Mr kahony hired a mansion wherein he jked his legs daily on the mantelce, and grew eloquent over the nation of Ireland and the Southern ;ks. People believed he was sincere, gave him bushels of dollars, picked his bonds by tbe basketful, and deed him tbe sublimated essence of a •iot. Yet he came to grief, and eventually declared a swindler, present he edits—and, I believe, .s—a newspaper known as the h People. He writes his articles military cloak, and honestly divides , attention to literature with blasemy and Bourbon whisky."—The ird party is rather a dangerous one. i adherents, the writer under notice lerts, number in America alone beeen 150,000 to 200,000 fighting men. ey are well trained, intelligent, and fgedly silent. Their chief is thus Iflescribed: —" He is a hardfaced man, ■with a large nose—the organ upon ■which Napoleon depended so much, and so wisely too, Of his capacity there could be no mistake, judging from the keen glance of his eye, his moderate but firm language, his avoidance of all boast, his soldierly absence from pretension. That man leads the Irish , Jpeople in America, and they will follow jmim, wherever he wishes to lead, to She bitter death."