The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-10

Progress OF tho ExcItemeDt about the
FsnIan IRVasion-A Mine Days Wonder
Already SrOwIMg stale - Int9re stIn Z
RanIOrs from the sG. Lawrence Bor-
deF-FeRian Armies Looming Threat
eninRly ''in the Air''-Head Centres
sim HObnObbing Ina Union square,
New York - Gene raj Relief thai Iho
Whole Excitement Is BOgus-The CANA
dian militia Wide Awake, and Ready
for the ''LtDerauOFs."
OTTAWA Canada, March 9.-Ue here in the woods
we begin to tee the teapot tempest that seems TO be
disturbing your mercHrial people, You already
know that the Government has ordered cut large
force 10 defend If need be- the New York and Mchi.
can borders-that arms are glistenlng III the pale
March sun, and bright uniforms are astounding the
HTchlns OF all our great towns.
The ice is cur tender polnt That once brokeR Up,
We DO not lear lnYasOu5, but who knO US when the
hOthIooded tehisns OF New ork may pounce upon
us by nights march over the solid surface of these
narrow rivers 1t is certain that soon as tho ice
breaks up, tie Home Government will SEND large
lenioTcemeDts to the stations from Que6eS to
Aackinaw, aud every reasonable precau ion will be
taken TO Tepel assault The Government Duildlngs
and ali the banks Ottawa have been placed und Dr.
military guard at night There mas been n moSt
enthusiastic response throughout Canada to the call
for volunteers, and ten thousand men are already
marching towards the frontier.
Paihament has been called to meet on the 10th of
April. Nova Scotia and New Brunswick will imms
dlatey accede 10 Confederation with the CanadIan
Provinces, and common tariff will be enacted, to
include Newfoundland, and perhaps Prince Ed
Ward's Island. English PUnDoats nave been ordered
to the fshin0 grounds in view OF the abroEatIsu OF
the Reciprocity Treaty, These facts show that we
are not quite so dormant as you Yankees believe, 1t
may be that Canada will be swept away by grand
coup de alGtn buI not by the demagogues VINO engl-
geer your so-caed benian movement.
MONTREAL, March 9.-The excitement so sud
denly sprung upon us yesterday by the Govern
menps call for ten thousand volunteers is not per-
ceptbly abated. You meTcuual Americans, VINO
explode at the mere suppOsitlOn of great event do
not appreciate our GOODNESS. We must have tho
very tp.top of excitement before our sluggish blood
can be stirred but when 1t Is stirred 1t is not easily
cooled.
Since my advices to you yesterday-whieh, By the
way, undertake to guess we've the only real facts
concerning the great fight that reached the New
York papers--no very significant event has occurred
The agents OF your American Associated Press will
gence ut their disposal, and merely subjoin their
despR ches W thOut Voaching lor ANYTHING
n In tins city there is peculiar state OF feeling. AS
said Yesterday, tut small portion OF our popua'
lion would, uDQer any circumstances side with tho
Fenian movement. COnsOnant with the action OF
your Roman Catholic hierarchy the magnates OF the
Church in these provinces have set their faces against
the movement and sOmo Of them have spoken yery
freely IN opposition. hear the Arohbp. OF Quebec,
the actual head of the Church IN all Brl lsh America
VIII probably very soon express his condemnation OF
the Fenan movement. HIS Grace may readily be
excused from earlier attention 10 the matter, for It IS
scarcely possible that Fenians can be found
| in all Canada below this city.
In inns town tho fever has some curious and udi-
clous phases The much-courted and petted seces-
| sion refugees lwhl they had money! who are yet
lingering here, and dismally longing tor some gene.
raj amnesty that NAV glVe them leave 10 revisit the
| scenes IRON which they so cowardly fed, are nov
looked upon with suspicion. The people who fol.
lowed Gregory and Laird in cOddling hese men
are suddenly cOnsclencesmitten, and find that the
lovely innOcents OF the was-tobe Southern Confede
racY are elephants OF huge proportions whose saw
ings and doings for the past four years returning
with compound interest, and making this Canadian
Government but little better than that in London
] 10 lar ~ the United States are concerned,