Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-18
THE EXCITENEETS ALONG THE BOR-
DER-RETRIBUTION FOR ENGLAND

THE EACtEEzEAES ALONG THE B0ls-
DIFFERENTIATION FOR ENGLAND.
The Canadas are in trouble; and the forces
sent by England to put down the disturbances
cannot be relied upon, since the last dispatches
from PASSPORT announce the mutiny of the
sailors on board an English gunboat. In view
of what is at last taking place in that quarter,
the people along the line of States in this lati
tude, have something special upon which to
congratulate themselves just at present, mas
much as now when excitement RACES along
the Canada border in connection with the
Fenian projects, they are left to quiet and
chance to recover from the disabilities of the
war. Condemned for four years and more to
constant alarms-as this line of States were
by rumored and actual invasions-constant
raids and all the other terrible concomitants
of great struggle, fierce rebellion which
surged up to the very lines, the return of
peace appears to have actually relieved this
section more than almost any other, since now
that the war is over, all the fierce and turbu-
lent spirits seem to have drifted away to the
scene of the new excitement, so that from
Maine to Michigan, every city is in trouble,
regularly organized forces occupying to some
extent the cities of the Canada side, and ac-
cording to the Detroit and Chicago papers,
gangs of thieves and murderers having taken
up their abode on the American side to take
advantage of the disorganized condition of
things which exists, lying in wait to see what
will happen.
In one view of this matter, there is-it must
be Understanding very like poetic JUS
tice in the case. In the very agony of our
own troubles, Canada on one side and Ber-
muda and Nassau on the other constituted the
starting points for numberless hostile expe-
ditions, smugglerS, privateers, and so on, in
tended as well for profit as to help the rebel
lion: and when we remember that Montreal
and Quebec were the headduarters-so long
as the war continuation all the internal plot
ting and wickedness which ended with the as
sassination of President Lincoln, the Ameri-
can people need not give them any great
amount Of sympathy now that those people
themselves are in trouble with the ''Fenians."
And if we look at the case of England her.
self and her now subdued and anxious attitude
as she has to deal with her own troubles, the
matter is no less striking, in the sense Of re-
tributive Justice. The London Times and
subsidized press all over the Kingdom were
never weary Of preaching up the rights of re-
bellion. But now at the first mutterngs Of
the storm which threatens her own peace and
her rule in Ireland, how quickly all the old
machinery for the suppression of 'sedition,
privy conspiracy and rebellion is brought
into play; and how remorseessly and fercely
she hunts down everybody, from Head Centre
Stephens, to the most stupid or insignificant
of his followers. Eloquent over the suspen-
sion of the writ of habeas corpus here, and
never weary Of lecturing us because of our
employment Of military commanders to keep
the rebellious States within bounds, she her
self is found summoning to the suppression of
the Irish emeute one of the most VIGOROUSLY
cruel of her India generals, the man accredited
with blowing the natives from the mouths of
his cannon, and this selection seems to have
been made as if to appal the people of Ireland
in advance.
The horrors of Jamaica are also fresh in
the minds of the people of this country and of
the world; and it might be of some use to re-
mind her presses and people of all this only
that circumstances prove that it all passes for
nothing when she has purpose of her own TO
serve Eager to see Il government whose
growing power she breads, disrupted and rem
dered poweress, no sense Of justice, no de,
mands of neutrality or national comfy awaited
anything, as in every way, short of actually
going to open war, she lent her workshops
and ship yards and foundries to the furnishing
OF piratlcal cruisers for the destruction of our
commerce. and the supply of arms and mu-
nitions of war to the States in revolt.
The people of this country have not had to
wait even for single generation to see this
all regretted, not on the score of having done
wrong, but because it now initiates against
the peace and the interests of British sympa-
thizers with the rebellion We have earned
our present chances of peace, won them
through horrors aggravated to the last degree
by British cupidity, envy, and fear of our ma
tonality; and it troubles US very little now, to
see them commended for the time being to a
ever matters may result.
That the Canadas are in any particular
danger of being wrested from the possession
OF England, seems not at all probable; and as
for the project with which the Fenians are ac-
credited of Selling any islands in the Gulf of
st. Lawrence, were it SO, nothing could be
more foolish. Whatever the Fenian organiza-
ton propose to do, they had better keep from
being circled by any piece of water which can
float gunboat, for the race from any discom-
future at such place is limited their fate
would be sealed.
Meanwhile, with our immediate neighbors-
the Canadas, absorbed with their own troubles
and perils, and Europe too much busted with
prospective wars to pay any attention to US,
we are left measurably to make up as rapidly
as we may the losses so heavy to both sides of
the great struggle. Could we but adjust our
complications, could something but be con-
coded on every hand here to the absolute need
of harmony, there is no telling what immense
strides we might make in comparatively
brief space of time toward a new instalment
of national wealth and greatness. We insist
upon this, less in the interests of party. than
in the interests of the nationality. Believing
that extended trade, commerce, manufactures,
and so on, are the best panaceas for our
present troubles, that where men can be
proftably occupied they have no wish and no
time for distracting political schemes, we wish
to see that permanent lull in angry contro-
Versies which will permit the nation to start
anew. Without concessions from all con-
cerned, we see not how this is to be accom-
phshed; and for ourselves, determined to do
nothing which can aggravate the troubles kept
on loot by demagogues, we shall still do what
we can to throw oil on the troubled waters of
political controversy.
PAPER FROM WOOD.
More Interesting Particulars.
The mills are located in Manayunk on the borl. &c
the Schuyk river, with canal and railroad adioni
Thav Eer in