The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1866-04-20
FENIANS IN MOTION
Trouble on the e0rders
Of Maine and New
w Brunswick!
THE FENIANS CAPTURE A
BRITISH FLAG! ...
ANOTHER SCARE IN CANADA
A recent w Washington letter says i:

/ - aCOSSs W ffSbio Ioh iCttSh
I'D" A speculator, we'll known 10 this city
as having made large purchases OF arms,
munitions. DC. sold among other articesv
To the Fe ian leader, Gen >;weenv; week
ago on "Wednesday, twenty thousand
army revolvers and sixteen thousand tor>
age caps. 1t is known that very large
portion OF :he military material sold by the
Wat Department sihcs the rebellion closed
has been purchased by one or the other of
the Fcnian executives
The Toronto (Canada) correspondent
Of the New York Heraa writing under
date of the 10Th saws:
The excitement is very general here this
afternoon, owing to general search of
suspected premises. The only contra
bands Of war found were four revolyers
rusty muske, and two bayone,s in Mr..
Shea's house Murphy SHEA is the opIy
arrest made ID :he city. His arrest was
caused by an intercepted telegram, eau
t:oning him to look out tor himesf.
On Sunday the government received
information that abou. seventy Canadians
had left for Portland, all armed.
The New York World of the 18th
says: The Union Square Fenians received
a dispatch from b. Doran Kilian, re-
porting complete success of bis expedition
The same paper asserts that negotiations
are in progress f,r the union Of ths two sec.
;ions OF the Brotherhood for the purpose
of an immediate coup de main on al the
I RritiSh Nnr,h
A man named Murphy, and several
companions who we're with him were ar
rested on the night Of the 11lh, on a rail-
way train which arrived in Cornwall
(Canada> in toe night. A dispatch from
Toronto, dated the 12th, says:
The military were summoned to aims,
and went on :he double-quick to the sta
ton, and surrounded the train They were
followed by The excited populace. among
| whom the widest rumors were circulating
such a. that one Of the regiments had re-
volted ahd taken possession Of ihe town
tha at the Fenians had crossed at Ogd~ns>
burg, seized train and were advancing
on the town by steam.
Murphy and his associates are kept
( handcutfed and strongly guarded; some
j Of the citizens advocated l., ,hchlag them.
The hostility sgainst the prisoners is in
terse The Attorney General has order
ed the sher e to permit nobody to see the
prisoners tat the officers and counsel
Eastport. Me-, April IL
There is great excitement at Campo
Bcllo Island families are moving over
here aud taking shelter in barns and out
houses. There was great Fenian meet
ing here last night, at which speeches
we're made by B. Doran Killian and Ma
jor Sinnolt.
Calais. Me, April II
There was much excitement Yesterday
and last night at st. Stephens, New
Brunswick, opposite this city. The fears
OF q ten'aD raid somewhere on the from
tier, have been strengthening for several
days past, bu. the precise point of attack
is not Yet known
From 200 10 800 men were under arms
at St Stephens, all night, and all the ap-
proaches to the city are strongly guarded,
| and every preparation made t. receive the
Fen'ans. An attack was expected last
night, but everything passed # quietly.
Ottawa dispatches of last evening an-
nounce that The government has received
information to the effect that several com
pan'es OF Feuians have left Chicago os-
tenshIy for Ogdensburg.
Washington dispatch says the En-
| g'l-h minister is seriously exercised at the
demonstrations of the Fenians, and has
made important representations to the
State department. With view of inducing
our government to adopt repressive mea.
| sures. Secretary Seward takes the ground
that 40 far the ordinary laws against any
violation OF neutrality lava, which will be
enforced, are sufficient 1t is understood.
however, tha, a proclamation will be
| issued.
A correspondent, of the New York
Herald, writing from Eastport, Maine, uu-
der date of the 14th. says:
Yesterday party Of English soldiers
crossed from St. Stephens to Calais. where
they got into dispute with some Fenians, /
when fight ensued, which resulted in
their being driven back over the bridge
which runs over the river between the two
towns. No lives loa,. The citizens join
ed with the Fenians in the fight
The steamer from Boston this morning .
broueh, about two hundred more Fenians |
They we're quartered in town A larp.
number Of Feniaps have JUS, arrived 10
the steamer from New York.
The aame correspondent. writing under
date Of the l5.h. also says:
Nine armed Fenians captured the Eng.
lish revenue Gag on Indian Island last
night. They bell pged TO The crew of the
Fep:an priva,esr, from which thev lowered
tost and rrocesieJ. With nufsei car..