The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-07

Gen. Sweeney and Col. Mechan, Chief
of the engineer staff, left for ST. Adams.
1t is reported that Spear is about to
cross tonight on the Mississiquoi from
tier with $500 men and two Generals.
There are LOO FenianS in town and
800 regular soldiers of the United States.
The regulars and Fenians are fraterni-
zing, and everything is quiet in the
neighborhood.
a guard of United States troops have
been placed upon the station at Pots
dam Junction, to preserve order.
Gen. Meade is concentrating troops
at Ogdensburg, expecting fight there.
Gen. Meade informed me this morning
that he would enforce the neutrality
laws, providing that there was enough
troops sent him.
A Fenian reconnaissance will be sent
ont tonight by General Murphy IN the
direction of Fort Covington, and it is
possible that fight may take place.
They are willing and determineIto fight
whether they have artillery or not.
General Henferman will command the
scouting party. The weather is terri
BILE.
New York, June Especial dis
patches report monetary panic in
Montreal. There is run on the
Savings Bank. Gold is 200 per cent
premium. General Mitchell, Com
mander in Chief, has gone to st. Johns.
st. Armand, Canada, is said to have
been evacuated by the inhabitants and
volunteers. 1t is guarded only by
British regulars.
The bank deposits at Cambridge have
been removed to the interior. Eight
thousand rounds of ammunition passed
through st. Adams yesterday it is in
possession of the Fenians. Eleven
hundred Fenians, fully armed. passed
through Sheldon yesterday with bag
gage wagons.
Adjutant-G General Washbourne has
been stationed at st. Adams by the Gov
ernor of Vermont, and will net under
orders of the Governor.
General Sweeney and Spear held a
consultation at st. Adams yesterday
ence is said to be that the Fenian pros
poets are frightening and they mean to
light.
equipments and men are now on the
way.
The value of Fenian munitions taken
at Richville is estimated at 100000,
composed of Spencer's rifles, carbines,
knapsacks, ammunition and accoutre-
ments.
Col. Vogdes, of the LIST o. S. artillery,
arrived at Ogdensburg and takes COM
mand of the United States forces. The
arsenal is nearly filled with captured
Fenian stores.
General Lynch, commanding the Fe-
mans in Buffalo district, has ordered a
concentration of his forces at Batavia.
A Detroit telegram says: Scores of
strangers are pouring into Canada,
while there are over 1000 Fenians
Longing about this city. The blow to
be struck on the western frontier is
certainly near at hand. The Canadian
and American authorities are on the
al tho fOrnnr with 200 man and n
battery of artillery and the latter with
three companies of regulars. The rev.
enue cutters Johnson and S. Serman
are armed with six guns.
The Fenians assert that Gen. Swee-
ney will not attack in the East till an
expedition is ready to strike in the
West.
A number of Fenians stole into Can
ada to-day, and are supposed to be tel
egraph and railroad destructionists.
Some were arrested and Jailed at Gar
mia.
At Detroit the Fenians are all enthu-
siastic for Sweeney, and large num-
Der enlisted.
BUFFALO, June 5.-The Express pub
fishes the names of tifty-nine prison
ers ca ptured at Fort Erie, who are now
in Jail at Brantford.
AT a Fenian meeting last night here,
Mr.. Fitzgerald, who is a Fenian Sena-
tor, spoke of the late movement against
Fort Erie, and said it was made by or
der of General Sweeney. It was in
tended to draw the main body of the
enemy from its strong hold, and 1t sue
ceeded far better than was expected.
It was one of the great stragetic move
ments that General Sweeney will du-
plicate to morrow Ito day.) He prom
ised that they should hear the result of
that stragetic movement.
Dispatches had been received in the
City to-day stating that at asmall meet
ing held at Cincinnati, $1,000 was col
lected to aid in the work also, that
brigade, under the command of the
rebel General Magruder and Colonel
O'Dowd, was ready, and would march
in less than forty-eight hours for the
frontier.
General Sweeney was on the frontier
tonight, and before many hours we
may expect to hear of his having done
something.
Another statement is published in
the Express this morning, According
to it some thirteen hundred left the city
last evening on the train Eastward;
about 500 at 6 p. M, and 800 at later
hour. The last mentioned force went
Oft under command of Capt. Donahue,
who had returned during the evening
with his expedition of the night before,
from Dunkirk, apparently having made
1t is all humbug about Batavia being
a point of rendezvous of Fenians. The
report was probably circulated as "a
blind. AT present there are some $50
regulars stationed at Fort Porter, in
addition to the various guards on duty
at points in the immediate vicinity.
The Fenian officers, numbering Is,
that had been held on board the Michi-
gan, were brought out on a writ of ha-
6eas corpus, before Judge Clinton this
morning, and were remanded to the
custody of the United States Marshal.
This was done and they were imme-
diately brought before United States
read 10 them for violating the neutrali-
ty law, to which they plead not guilty,
and they were then remauded to the
charge of the United States Marshal
and taken to the city Jail. There case
will be called up tomorrow before the
United States Commissioner and they
will then be released on giving bail in
a sufficient sum with good security to
answer at some future day. The in
dictments are under the neutrality
laws. The privates are released on
their own recognizances for like Pur-
poses and to keep the peace.
PORTLAND, ME-, June Ga special
dispatch, from Montreal to the Press,
states on tile authority of the Montreal
Herald, that Col. Lowry, of the 37th
British regulars, on learning that some
OF the .Fenian prisoners on board of the
United States gunboat Michigan had
escaped, sent word that if any more
were permitted to escape, he would fire
upon her.
NoTE.-The above report is absurd,
as it is untrue.
[signed, BUFFALO Aa'T A. Press.
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