The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-03-15
THE FENIAN MOVEMENT.
On to Canada.
Immense Preparation.

The New York World processes Ia
have obtained information that a
movement is 10 be made by the Rob
erts-Sweeney wing of the Fenians, on
Canada, between the 25th of March
and the 18th of April Il says its re-
porter has obtained access to the book
in which schedules of the men, money
and arms professed are Ferecorded
Chicago offers three regiments of in
fantry, two battaiions Of artillery, and
| 5000 stand of arms, and naval brig
ade of 1000 men for service on the
lakes. st. Louis gives twenty-five hun
dred volunteers and battery of artil-
lery, with fifteen thousand pair of army
brogans Cincinnati promises FIVE
thousand volunteers and two battal-
ions of artillery, one Irish merchant
giving his whole hog crop of the year
toward the cause. Philadelphia has
two Fenian regiments organized, and
profters two more, with six thousand
oVorcoats of the United States army
regulation pattern. Boston will
furnish twelve hundred men fer
sixty days service, completely
armed and equipped The factory
girls and Irish artisans of Lowell will
put battalion of infantry in the field,
also completely equipped, and each
girl of Irish descent contributes one
months wages toward arming the bat
TALON. Indianapolis is to give two
hundred and fifty men the means to
reach Montreal, and the weapons to de-
fend themselves from the attacks of
the British soldiers on the frontiers.
Cleveland is not behind, and the old
officers of the th.Ohio Volunteers have
organized regiment of eight hundred
men, all of the officers having seen ser.
vice. Newark, twelve hundred men
Patterson, two hundred, and Trenton, |
two hundred and fifty soldiers The |
Fenians of Baltimore will place one |
regiment of infantry, and battery of /
SIX guns at the service of Gen. Sweeney. |
Columbus, Ohio, offers four l2-pound |
Parrot guns, and Pittsburg, not to be |
behind, is in the feld with two light /
draft gunboats, FIVE hundred men, one |
thousand pair of horse blankets and a
silk flag Rochester, n. Y, is ready /
with two hundred men and twenty ar
tillery forges, and the Empire City IL
self outstrips all competitors in pa
triotism with six thousand men, fifteen
thousand stand of arms, and thirty
thousand pair of army shoes; in add
ton to four gunboats and eight hun
dred cavalry sabres Richmond, Vir-
ginia, one hundred and fifty men
and six new gun carriages. Detroit
five hundred men and one hundred
barrels of gunpowder. Milwaukee, two
hundred men and two hundred mus
kets, and Memphis, Tenn, one hundred
Enfield rifles and three pieces Of can
non, with three hundred men of stall
Wart build TO transport them safely to
Canada. New Orleans offers q battery
of artillery and Savannah and Charles
ton will furnish conformity one thousand
men and their equipments. This is but
a brief resume of the contributions in
kind from the more prominent cities,
but as will be seen below, the dollars
are not wanting, each locality pledging
itself to furnish IN good faith the sums
opposite their names:
Chicago, S6OOO0G St Louis, S300,00G
Albany, 10000 Philadelphia, 100000
Pittsburg, $75, 1000; New York, S50000G
100000; Richmond, Va, l.
100000; Lowell, Mass, 100000; Boston,
Portland, $4,000; Harrisburg,
$4,000; Syracuse, N. Y, $4,000; Buf-
-alo, 100000 Troy, 1000 Milwaukee,
$4,000; Detroit, $36,0OG Racine, Sl0,-
300; Hartford, $4,000 New Haven, $780,
300, Cincinnati, $250,0O0; Wilmington,
Del, $4,000; New Orleans, 100000
savannah, $l20000 Charleston, Sl05,-
200; Washington, D. C., S250,00q In
Ind, SS0,00G Springfield,
III, $250,0O0; Brooklyn, n. Y, $3OOOO0
Louisville, Ky, $4,000 Toledo, Ohio,
10000; Cleveland, Ohio, 100000. Bur
ington, $780, Bridgeport, Conn, $780,
100 Jefferson, Mo-, $l5 600; Keokuk,
$1,000 Patterson, N. j., $4,000.