The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-06-06

Il the harbor are fitted up and armed to act
a. gunboats. Part OF these VIII pioceea
to the Lakes, and the remainder VIII move
about the st. Lawrence IN .ne nelgnoor-
hood Of the city. A French Canadian regi-
mcnt of volunteers has just lett mere Tor
st. Johns, 8 p. M. An attack Is expected
tonight between the Fenians under Colonei
Speir and the troops at st. Armands, VII
iaee about twenty -four miles from st.
Johns. and about sixteen miles from ST.
Albans, VT, one Of the points from which
the Fenians propose to operate.
GETTISG EXCITED IN CANADA.
HAMILTON, June 2.-It is impossible to
describe the feeling here. The excitement
Il intense, but underneath can be noticed
a conviction of undoubted success in re-
pelling Sweeney's horde. The whole popu-
lation are on the streets eagerly canvass
ing the event. There are deep mutterings
of swift vengeance, and the earnest threat
that no quarters will be given. Every
thing indicates the presence of war, and
although no danger is anticipated to this
place, business is almost suspended.
DESIGNS UPON CORNWALL.
Cornwall is a small village on the st.
Lawrence, forty Ililes above Moaffsal.
The Grand Trunk railroad passes through
| il. The Fenians were said to be concen-
trating there.
On the night of the I'd June, two regi
ments of regulars, about five thousand
volunteers, and three batteries of field ar
tillery, and sixty men and officers from the
war sloop Plyades, in the harbor OF Mon
treal, left as a naval brigade to protect the
| Cornwall canal. A large number of sailors
were to follow.
| EXCITEMENT IN NORTHERN CITIES.
! Excitement continues among the Fenian
| Circles of the northern cities; both in the
cast and the west. Fenians are reported
to be departing from all the great cities Of
northwest, as well as the north, for the
| Canada frontier. The numbers leaving
each are variously estimated at from one
hundred to seven hundred. The United
States Government is actively engaged in
increasing its means of patrolling the lakes
and rivers, as we'll as watching the lines
north of the New England States. A few
DAYS will show whether there is any chance
for further disturbance, or whether the
counsels of Stephens against the invasion
of Canada will prevail.
GENERAL SWEENEY.
We have already announced the arrival
of General Sweeney at Albany, New York,
on the Sd. He brought with him a car
load of Fenians. He left in the afternoon
with his car load for P0tSdam, town near
the frontier, in New York, opposite to
Cornwall. From this it would appear
that General Sweeney was directing his
operations upon that place, to which the
Canadian authorities had already had their
attention called, and large force had been
sent to defend the place. General Swcc-
ney had printed proclamation to be
scattered among the Canadians (alrcady
announced in telegram, the last para
graph of which we copy:
"To Irshmen throughout these Pro-
vinccs we appeal, in the name Of seven
centuries of British iniquity and Irish
misery and suffering; in the name OF our
murdered sireS, our dcsolatc homes, our
desecratcd affairs, our millions Of famine
graves, our insulted name and racc-to
stretch forth the hand of brotherhood i'll
the holy cause of tatherland, and smite the
tvrant where we can in his work of murder
ing our nation and eXterminating our
people. We conjure you, our country
men, who, from mistortuneS inflicted by
the very tyranny you are serving,
or from any other cause, have been
forced to enter the ranks OF the enemy,
not to be the willing instrument of your
country's death or degradation. If Ire
land still speaks to you in the trueSt i'm
pulses of your hearts, IriShmen obey her
voice! If you would not be miscreantS,
recreant to the first principles of your ma
ture, engraven upon the very cornerstone
of YOUR being, raise not the hand OF the
matracide to strike down the banner OF
Erin! No uniform, and surely not the
blood coat of England, can cmanci-
pate YOU from the natural law that binds
your allegiance to Ireland, to liberty, to
right, to Justice. To the friends of Ire
land, of freedom, of humanity, of the peo-
pie, we offer the olive branch of peace and
the honest grasp of friendship. Take it,
Irishmen, Frenchmen, Americans-take 1t
all. and trust it. To all who marched to the
call of the enemy, and rally under his
standard to aid or abet his cause, we give
the sword in as firm and earnest grippe as
ever did its work upon a foeman. We
wish to meet with friends, we are pre-
pared to meet with enemies. We shall
endeavor to merit the confidence OF the
former, and the latter can expect from
us but the leniency Of a determined
though generous foe and the restraints
and relations imposed by civilized warfare.
ISipned1 r. w. SWEENEY,
Major General, commanding the
Armies of Ireland"
FENIANS AT MALONE.
Some six hundred or one thousand
Fenians, at last dates, were said to have
congregated at Malone, which is not far
from Potsdam, and in the neighborhood OF
Cornwall.
THE NEXT POINT OF ATTACK.
The route taken by the Fenians indicate
designs upon some point further down the
border, and somewhere not far from Mon
treal. 1t may be that the preparations OF
the Government in Canada to defend
points in that region, together with the
failure of ONeil, may prevent the attempt.
A day or two will tell the story.