Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-06-07

With these few remarks, if you Will ac-
cept them, / will return to my duties,
which 1 only left for the purpose OF
thanking you for the compliment you
have paid me. Gen. Meade then retired
amid enthusiastic cheers.
CONDUCT OF TIE FENIANS IN CANADA.
IBuHslo Correspondents Gin. Commercial, June 4
The demeanor Of the Fenian force dur
ing their s%ojourn of forty-eight hours in
the region where it is to be trusted people
are not really hung for wearing of the
green was not of a character inculcated
in Sunday schools. Every house along
the line of their march was entered, and
poultry and provisions were not the only
articles that tried to bite the Hibernians
and fell a prey to military necessity. Two
or three saloons were cleaned out none
of the liquor was spilled and not much
getting into eanteens. A clothing store
neal Fort Erie was Quilted and its stock
of goods transported to this side, where,
however, the United States custom officer
took possession of it-for payment of du-
ties. The abandoned camp of the Fenians
at Fort Erie was visited yesterday by q
Buffalo reporter, who describes the field
as Uttered with k~napsacks, broken British
guns, IA large number of which were cap-
tured,l sardine and oyster cans, cant3hs
shirts, drawers, hats, playing-cards, chick
ems, geese, hams, legs of mutton, pieces Of
bacon, letters, whisky bottles, &c. This, p
says the reporter, in all sincerity, "shows
that the men took nothing with them but
what was absolutely necessary"
GLANCE AT THE BRITIsHERs.
The street cars that run down to Black
Rock, where the captured Fenian army
lies anchored, have seen the greatest jam
ming of their history to-day. All Buffalo
has tended in that direction since sunrise,
and thousands have gone on foot, a dis
lance There and back of nearly ten
miles. The fields on the Canadian side,
nearly opposite where the steamer Mich
igan lies, are lined with British regulars
and Canadian volunteers. They have
pitched a few tents and have been engag
ed in drilling all day right under our
noses. The river Is about as wide as the
Ohio at a medium stage, and their scarlet
jackets give them d pa~lpableness that is
quite striking. / feel the old nationsl
tincture of dislike towards the red coats
in my own breast, in spite of my convic-
ton that they were proper enough under
the circumstances. While the wood-peck-
ers, las the ~Cis-Niagaran Irish termed
the regulars went through their evolu-
tions in one field, the volunteers trained
in another and in a third, Il four gun
battery Of light artillery leisurely went
into park. The fact that seemed to be
particularly pernicious to the Irish
females near my point of observation was
that the regulars had on white gloves.
One Of the females used a very naughty
word, or phrase rather, in relation to those
articles of military wardrobe, and in do
ing so she threw rs much volume into her
voice as asperity into her manner. She
was ungloyed herself, had a good, honest
hard working hand, and seemed wholly
estimable except in regard to speaking her
mind in improper form and at a question:
able pitch.
SHOOTING PRISONERS.
Buffalo Correspondence Cincinnati Gazette, 9Th.
The British troops yesterday captured
six Fenians in a brushwoOd and shot
them, five being buried in one grave. One
was also hung on a tree. Two regulars
who deserted from the ranks and Joined
the Fenians were captured. One of them
was shot this morning and the other will
be shot tomorrow. \ great deal of in
%dignation is manifested by the Fenians in
regard to the shooting OF the six men.
FENIAN PRISONERS TAKEN To PORT COL
BoRNE.
A correspondent OF the New York
Times describes the appearance of the
Fenian prisoners as they marched into
Port Colborne:
To attempt to describe the scene as the
unfortunate Fenians marched through the
town would be impossible, for the excite
ment was so great that it WAS difficult to
obtain a permanent standing for the feet.
The guard around theprisoners was trebled
and then ii was almost impossible 10 pro-
coed through the place. The appearance
OF the prisoners was most wretched, for
they evidently expected instant death at
the hands of The Infatuated people. The
Fenians were halted in an open square
near the depot and 2 consultation held re-
garding their ultimate destination. While
awaiting their fate several of the
prisoners were recognized by volunteers
from Toronto and Hamilton as men who
had been seen in those cities prior to the
recent movements. Those were immedi-
detached and heavily ironed as spies.
THE FENLAN MORALE.
The special correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Commercial writing from Buff
falo, the Sd, has the following:
The train which brought me from
Cleveland had q second-ciass car, with
about forty -unassuming Fenians, under
command Of General Lynch, of Chicago.
who were hurrying to the scene of con
iict. The men, AS a whole, struck me
l~ntavorably as material for the audacious
scheme in which they had embarked.
several were Irish lads of fifteen or six
zen, full Of freckles and greenness-ex-
food for hospitals. There we're
lalf q dozen veterans in the crowd-one
II them 3 declared Shermsn's hummer,
md who looked like he might have some
hing to say about who burned Columbia.
The squad drank beer at stations, pulled
It f~rightfully strong clay pipes with as
onishing robustitude, and preserved a
triet reticence as to their destination.
If the whole carload, only one face
truck me as having the earnestness of
he revOlutionist about it. This was
ather a superior looking young Irish
nan, with a lumpy forehead and intel
gent eye, who had a good deal of dis
am IN his countenancefOr the Sinking
Indifference of his companions. The fact
), the Fenisns, as 4 class, are not in ear
est. They would receive this statement
With genuine establishment, but it is true.
t was not their kind Of enthusiasm that
formed the Bastile, and tinged the sew ;
Of Paris with blood; nor was it their :
ind Of earnestness that confronted US }
'om Bull Run down TO the last skirmish !,
Alabama When within a mile OF :
'uifalo our carload of Irish patriots was !
off, and there l lost sight of !
lem. :
The Washington correspondent of the l
cndon Times, describing the prayers of =
le Chaplain of the United States House q
Representatives, says: Sometimes he =
artles his hearers by some such passage L
this, which he delivered in a PRAYER P
" weeks ago: % Lord, Thou hast gov P
ened the world six thousand wears. and q
e believe Thou hast governed it WELL u
the appreciation of Congress was I
ven to the government of the universe L
a way that must have been very sooth- :
g to the pride Of sD true American peo-