The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-16 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN FRONTIER.

GENERAL DONNELLY COMMITTED IN DEFAULT OF BAIL.
ST. ALBANS, VERMONT, June 1.
General Donnelly was to-day brought before United
States Commissioner B. B. Smalley, of Burlington. He
waived an examination, and in default of $lO,OOO bail
was ordered to be committed in this place. Owing to his
wound it was not deemed prudent to confine him in gaol,
and he now remains at ,the Weldon House in charge of
Deputy Marshal J. M. Smalley. The following is the
reply which Deputy Marshal Smalley received when he
asked permission, in behalf of Rowe's friends, to remove
his body :

" Camp Eccles' Hill, May 31, 1870.
" Sir,—l have great pleasure in acceding to your re-
quest to permit the friends of the Fenian Rowe to remove
his body, now buried in our lines.—Yours obediently,
" W. OSBORNE SMITH.
" Lieutenant-Colonel, D. A. G. Mil., Canada, command.
ing field force on Southern frontier.
" J. M. Smalley, Deputy Marshal, Vermont."
United States Marshal Foster and his deputies found
in Franklin over six tons of ammunitions left by the
Fenians, 136 boxes of which had not been opened, and
six waggon loads were brought here to-day and placed
under a guard of the United States troops. The destina-
tion of the company of United States troops that left here
this morning was Fort Preble, Portland Harbour.
BUFFALO, N. Y. Jne 1.
General Starr was arrested at his hotel here, this after-
noon by a Deputy United States Marshal, and taken
before United States Commissioner Gorham, and in de-
fault of $lO,OOO bail was committed to gaol. Bail will be
tendered in the morning. The Irishmen of this city are
very indignant at the hurried manner in which the arrest
was made, and bitterly denounce the Deputy Marshal as
being governed by the mercenary 'motive of obtaining
heavy fees in running the prisoner to Canandaigua.
Three hundred Fenians from Malone passed through
here this evening en route for New York. Their trans-
portation was ordered by Governor Hoffman, of New-
York, who also ordered meat and bread for them at this
point.

COLLISION BETWEEN UNITED STATES TROOPS AND
FENLINS.

UTICA, N. Y., June 1.
A special dispatch to the Morning llerald, dated at
Rome, half-past seven o'clock this evening, says—" There
has just been a collision at Williamstown, north of Rome,
between the Fenians and the United States troops. The
troops fired on the Fenians and drove them into the cars
wounding several of them." ,

MORE SECRET HISTORY.
The New York Times special correspondent at Ogdens-
burg, in a letter giving some important additional secret his-
tory of the recent Fenian raid, says :—" I wrote you
in March in relation to this affair. At that time O'Neill
was here getting his arms and equipments to the front,
but no one outside of the Fenian organisation took stock
in the rumours then in circulation. He told the Brother-
hood here that he wanted no men to fight from this
country, but at the proper time he wanted them to furnish
transportation, which they agreed to do, and they per-
formed their agreement well. This thing, though now
ended for all time in a great failure, was well planned,
but most miserably executed. The intention was not to
fight at either Richard's Farm or Trout River. Both
were intended as feints. The plan was to get across the
line at both places and entrench. They intended to have
the line close behind, and hoped to be able to draw the
whole available Canadian forces—volunteers and regulars
—to their front. For this purpose every railroad in
Canada was left intact. Had everything worked well
up ' to this point, another force, by steamer and
rail and every mode of conveyance, would have
come to Ogdensburg, crossed the St. Lawrence,
seized the Ottawa Railroad, and started for that
city. With the crossing of the St. Lawrence the rail-
roads would have been torn up all over the Dominion.
Ten men, on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday night,
could have crossed the river, both above and below Pres-
cott, and cut the Grand Trunk, so that a single soldier
• could have passed up or down without the least danger
of arrest or bodily injury. Up to Tuesday night last no
one here but the Fenians suspected a raid that day ; they
received their orders, and before midnight two hundred
teams were moving down the river. They had in this
section and in Vermont arms enough for 30,000 men.
There is now secreted somewhere in this direction a
splendid battery of six guns. About 5,000 stand of arms
have been seized near Fort Covington. The result again
shews that " The best made plans of mice and men gang
aft aglee." It requires some stamina to be an Irishman
on this frontier now. It has been a worse crime for them
to fail than it was to embark on their unlawful mission.
Had the plan been successfully executed this whole people
would have been completely demoralised- and oblivious to
the obligations of good citizens, and -shouted " Go it,
Fenians !" As long as there was any prospect of a good
snug fight we kept drifting away from our duties.

PRESBYTERIAN IRRECONCILABLES.
The Presbyterian General Assembly held a meeting 3t
Philadelphia on the Ist of June, when the del3go,tion
appointed by this Assembly to visit the General AsseniblY
of the Southern Presbyterian Church, lately in session 3t
Louisville, presented a report and communication frol
the Southern Assembly in reply to overtures of this
The delegation had been sent to procure mutual fFiellalY
correspondence. The communication from the Sciathl
Church states that that Church does not approve of union
with the Northern Church, because it is a total surrender
of all fundamental doctrines, and embraces all shades f
belief. The Southern Church is the only surviving ,
of true, unfailing testimonies, and there are inapbl
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barriers to official intercourse between the two Chocue:
The delegation bringing the communication also sli
witted their own report, shewing what action had been
taken at Louisville. Several of the representatives then
present made speeches shewing what the spirit of the,
Southern Assembly had been. It was thought that the
opinion of that Assembly was not the opinion of t
Southern churches. The report was received, and the
committee was discharged.