But of succeeding events in Ireland, and the men who controlled them, it is imperative to speak more in detail.  John O’Mahony was their chief, and John Savage his principal counsellor and comrade.  The former, although not compromised by any act previous to the arrest of Mr. O’Brien, evaded the vigilance of the detectives, and continued moving about from place to place, being generally guarded while he slept by a large number of faithful followers.  No man was ever followed with truer devotion or served with more unwavering fidelity.  He might have continued in the same district with perfect safety up to the present hour.  But every moment of his time was engrossed by the endeavour to rouse the country to some becoming effort.  John Savage, who had come to Carrick on a visit to a relation, partook of his enthusiasm and shared his toil.  They spent many anxious nights in counsel together when it was supposed all spirit had left the country.  The first ostensible object that brought the people together under their immediate guidance and control was the reaping of a field of wheat belonging to O’Mahony.  A vast crowd amounting to several hundred stalwart men assembled.  They had scarcely entered on their labour when the approach of a troop of horse was announced.  O’Mahony and Savage were compelled to retire.  The military cavalcade entered the field, and rode rudely among the men and ripe corn.  Still the reapers desisted not.  They proceeded with their labours sedulously and silently.  But there was no pretext for arresting any of the men, and no pretext afforded for further outrage, and the business of the day went on without further outrage from the soldiers.  This occurred on the 22nd of August.  Some days later, sullen crowds were seen ascending Aheny Hill, about five miles to the north of Carrick-on-Suir.  By what mysterious agency they were directed none could tell.  About a similar distance from the town, in the opposite direction, near the village of Portlaw, another camp was formed with equal rapidity and mystery.  With these men John Savage took his station.  He was entirely unknown to the people; and owed his influence over them to his singular resolution.  The understanding was that these two bodies, and a third consisting of an equal number of men which was promised from Kilkenny, should march simultaneously on the town of Carrick and the fort at Besborough where five hundred men were encamped.  He who undertook to lead the Kilkenny men went on the execution of his mission, leaving O’Mahony at one side, and Savage on the other, to contend with the impetuosity of their respective followers who demanded with violence to be led on.  As much perhaps from the precariousness of their situation as from a reckless daring, they could not brook the least delay.  Their leaders, on the other hand, urged the necessity of steadiness and prudence.  It was too late for such policy.  The time between the first step in revolution and action is the most