Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-04-16
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uateu EastpOrl, MAINE, April 10: Colonel
kerrlgan, with two aids, arrived here las,
Friday. The excitement then commenced and
has continued to increase. They were absent
Saturday IN making arrangements AT the From
tier Bank 10 draw funds from Boston. On
Su nday they seemed anxious TO obtain ne ws
by telegraph, but received none. Monday they
spent III calling at stores, inquiring the price
of five hundred blouses, five hundred caps
DC, which caused great excitement among
our provincial neighbors. All the citizens are
enrolled as soldiers, and drilled four hours
daily, and the people are selling off their stock
OF cattle and moving over TO our side. This
morning one hundred or more Eeniaus arrived
in The boat from Portland. The leaders, upon
thelr arrival here, We're much displeaSed a:
Inc undue excitement which had been gotten
mp. They called secret meetings and are to
hUld another tomorrow morning. Our county
sherlh tells me they think of gong into some
OF the back towns and awaiting further devel-
opments.''
The HerGlds Portland (Maine) dispatch
states that all was CUiet saturday evening
The one hundred cases of guns refused car
riage by the steamship company on THURSDAY,
We're shipped on n schooner Saturday evening
Preparations were made for the reception OF
tour hundred and fifty Fenians, who left Bos-
TOE Saturday afternoon,
The MatamOrOs RcncherO says Jeaning Rose
with an Imperial column six cen hundred
strong, left Caderiota on the lst instant for
emma. Quite an exodus of troublesome char
acters had taken place from Neutral m with
view OF attacking cOadUctd of three millions
coming over the Monterey road. GauZa to
when MendeZ wiIled his command whiI.
dying, had been arrested Tor conspiracy, but
was released by Caroles on condition that ne
would leave the country. Georgia is now in
brownsville. The New Orleans Times
Brownsville correspondent says the Liberals
IL northern Mexico are daily gaining ground,
and tie reinfOrcements at Escipede's camp at
/tnas are three thousand strong, well dIsci-
pinned and III good condition. General Mpua
made another forced loan. after paving only
twenty per cent of the fermer one. Matamoros
las no communication with Bagdad, or aay
other place except the Rio Grande
General Harry j. Hays, who commanded a
brigade under Stonewall Jackson. has been
nominated for sheriff in New Orleans. The
Methodist General Conference have adoDted a
report extending the jurisdiction of the
Southern Church in every direction asked for
The committee on the Episcopacy have re-
ported. advising the College of Bishops TO an
point one of their number TO reside in Calitor-
MA, and also recommending the election of six
addillonal bishops The bishops veto was
again discussed. The crops are rapidly ad-
Nanclng. The recent frost in Baton Rouge
parish killed the cotton. The shin Porter
burned at Apalachicola. has 1,4U0 bales of
cotton on board. half OF which was saved in a
damaged condition. A contract has been
awarded TO remove il At forty per cent Of its
valuation. Cargoes of produce and merchan-
disc are beng shipped from New Orleans up
the swollen rivers.
The Halifax city medical officer reports up
to Friday evening, one hundred and seventy
deaths on board the steamer England, incIud-
ing forty who died on the passage from Liver
pool. He reports the disease as probably a
severe form of ship fever, with many OF the
prominent symptoms OF the cholera. 1t
amounts to regular plague. The surviving
passengers have been removed, some 10 her
Britanic Malesty's receiving ship Pvramus
and others TO tents on shore at the quarantine
GROUNDS. The disease is apparently decreas-
ing. There is difference among medical men
as 10 the disease on board the steamship En-
gland. The number Of deaths and sick were
greatly reduced Saturday. The disease is de-
cidedly checked, and is confined to the steer
age passengers.
Considerable tumult was caused at Proyi.
dence, Il. l., Saturday evening, by the conduc,
of theatrical company from New York
Stuart N Iayleure, managers, who announced
the play OF the s'Merry Wives of Windsor
with Hackett rs Falstaff, at the Academy of
Music. large audience attended. but the
play was so mutilated by the actors in an effort
10 get through AT 93G 10 take the train for New
York, that the audience would not allow the
performance 10 proceed and broke up In an
up1oar. The actors were followed to the
depot by several hundred people, groaning and
hootng, but no personal violence was offered
The man arrested al Cornwall, Canada,
turned out TO be person named Wheeler, an
ex-Confederate officer, and now q colonel in
the Fenlan army. Upon being searched, his
commission was found upon him, and au-
thority given by General Sweeny TO recruit
Fenian battalion in Canada. Several other
interesting documents We're also found upOn
him. He openly boasts of being Fenian but
says he has done nothing TO Justify his arrest.
He is satisfied with the quarters assigned him.
and says that General Sweeny will be over
shortly, and show cause for his release
The Tennessee House of Represo natives has
expelled James r. Hood, one of the absconding
members, charged with. wiilfully absenung
himself TO prevent quorum When
he was brought before the bar of the House he
ptrsistently refused TO answer TO his name
MI. Hood will he remembered as a former
local reporter in Washington.l
The designations of the anti con federate ad-
ministration OF New Brunswick were accented
Internationally by Governor Gordon on the
18th instant. No new administration has vet
been formed. The House of Assembly has ad-
Journed until to-day, TO give the incoming
party time 10 organize.
The brig Mary Jane from Porto Rico for
Baltimore. with sugar and molasses, went
ashore on "Wednesday night, on the coast OF
North Carolina. Wreckers have gone to her
assistance.
The steamer Vera Cruz, from New York for
vera Cruz, went ashore at 3.3O o'clock p. IN. on
April 18th, during thick fog, ON Body's
Island, North Carolina coast. Passengers,
mail and baggage landed safely. The greater
part OF the cargo will be saved.
FIRST ARREST Under THE CIvII RICurs