Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-06-08
LETTER FROM PRESIDENT ROBERTS
ARREST OF GENERAL swEENg.
LATEST FROM THE BORDER
ARREST or PRESIDENT ROBERTS,



BosToN, June IA special despatch from st. Al
pans, W, says tnat General Sweeny, the Fenia
c?mmander, was arrested last night by order of Mai
thereIiSWeeny was in bed at the fremont House IN,
offered no resistance. lie is in the officers quar-
| Last nights train from Boston did not 90 through
| 70 IAontreai wa st armand. but via Rouse's Point
IL peins aPprehended that the track would he tori
| ARREST OF PRESIDENT ROBERTS
| NEW oES June 7.-Roberts has just been arrested
before the United States Commissioned, when he re-
fused fused to give bail The Commissioner committed hin
| tics hold him in custody at the Astor House
| ISECoND DESPATCH.
| ~ PRESIDENT ROBERTS A PRISONER
NEW YORK. June 7-Presdent Roberts upoT
peing arrested, was taken before United States Com
MISSIONER Belts, who required him to eivo $1,000
pau 1or ms appearance whenever required but hC
Indignantly refused to do so, demanding an immedi
ate trial. His friends offered $40 coo and $50 bail
| bnt ROBERTS would not consent.
| ,hoberts having declined a request from Marshal
M iafTay ray TO come to his office. he brought before
oe and declined to give bail for MS
was rendered lie also declined to give his personal
p@Fpg s;J e 70 appear IN compliance with par0le He
SIid ne BAD not violated the neutrality laws The
E9hnlsslOner proposes 10 release him on 100000 bail
he was remanded TO the custody OF the Marshql and
guartered at the AsOr House. l. is reported that
nc Will be sent to Fort Lafayette 1t is rlimored that
Io herrlgan was a so arrested but subsequently re-
,easeusaha Is now keeping out Of sight. 1t is also
rqm9red that warrants have been issued for Coils
hcAenna and Murray, recruiters Of troops at Tam
many Hall. -
The Fenians here are now very despondent. and
army in Canada A''-' --'ie 40i 'li'i4
An examination accordingly took place at once,
IGsuthS IN MS belng handed over to the custody of
United states Marshal Murray, WHO gave him in
Gharge OF SIX DEPUTIES. lie is detained at the Asor
VIII also bo arrested.
GENERAL swEENY ORDERS AN ADVANCE FROM ST.
@ ALBANS.
ST. ALBANs. June g. 1866 -GIeneral Sweeny has or
QereQ advance, General Mnhun c,rp n,on1s tlo
movement. % General Spear brings up the support
anT r, colonel Murphy goes to the front.
Ihcre Is strong feeling of sympathy between the
United states regular troops and the Fenans and it
cannot can ne disguised General Sweeny has issued an
ting Colonel ohm O'NieI to be er rcnerai a5
bTeYeting other officers
here is but British soldier at St. Armand the
odlahce, unaer captain Carter, have gone TO St. Al
eSaEder British accounts state that there are five
thousand Fenians between Newport and Malone
1hey VIII probably move forward
Inc grand movement contemplated here has pro-
.baoly commenced in earnest. On the road between
here and East Hi9hgate, as well as TO Franklin there
were feniaps and supply wagons passing up this af
ternoon and the tenans will soon be supplied with
arms arms ana ammunition, and will make some effective
BUFFALO. June 6-2.2O P. MA Fenian officer.
Wnlle examining the camp ground at Fort Erie was
ness OF British colonel frc ST. Catharines he was
released this morning. He reports that at one
@ us Grn1hg the entlre torce stationed at Fort Erie
was called out on hearing the picket stationed ON the
garrison road near the woods firing at what he sup
posed 10 be body OF Fenians. The Queens own
was tne 1rst regiment on the ground, when Mai. Gil
more ordered bayones fixed to receive the enemy
Inc Tenth Royals were the next, and through some
misunderstanding a cross-fre was the order Of tbC
night between the Tenth Royals and the Oneen's
Own. 1he otlcer could not learn how many were
wounded on either side.
SCENE IN TORONTO.
TORONTO, June 5-Six more Fenian prisor ers ar
rived here about o'clock from Fort Erie aud they
lament street to the city iail when tbov We're met
by the funeral cortese arriving from ST. ames GEM
eiery scene OF the widest and most uncontrolla-
S%sSsu Gt s.ti1S9s @ % sur
buried. The prisoners we're however safely lodged
n N jail. Their names are Thomas Plying P Darby,
GGincnnat; =. b. Sedwith Nashville Jas Lankney,
CleYeland John Reed, Buffalo; Jos. Burke ~ Y.
MORE FENtAN SENSATION ITEMS.
BosT9N, June 7.-Speeial dispatches from st; Al
bans, Vermont report that the Fenians are making
for Strawbridge, G. t., miles from Franklin,
VT 1t is said that they have come into possession Of
Large quantity of arms and ammunition and pro-
visions provided by agents who have been secretly
collecting the same from Canadian sympathizers
Rumor has it further, that horses have been found
in sufficient mum bers to mount all the cavalry divi
SION, and that sabres are also plently. Gen. Spear
bed beavy stan hae 5ae y left eft There
between 0gdensbprg and Pottsdsm last night:
that General Sweeny will have his case speedily in
vesgated 1t is believed that he will be discharged
On bail.
FENIAN ARREST IN CLEVELAND
:. CLEVELAND, OHIO, June 6.Ihos. Laran Qunlan,
bonds Head Gnre arn Crce q has Been
arrested and is now in prison; The United States
Marshal mas possession of the headqu arters and pa
pers. A few muSkets and knapsacks were the only
munitions found.
THE EXCITEMENT IN MoNTREAL-A MEMBER OF PAR
LLAMENT SPEAKS.
Mr.. Rose, NJ. P P, said at q public meeting in
Montreal, that there was nothing in the history of
nations to be compared with this invasion of Canada
by armed men from neighbOrng country without
declaration OF war or pretext of any kind by an
ganized army, without hindrance from the United
States authorities. Parliament was to meet on Fri
day and ne should at once move suspension of the
habeas corpus that all those men who had been
guilty of murder might be hung and if possible he
would have them hung before the week was out
They were murderers and all who sympathized with
one who was found with ar,Hs in his hands executed
by military law. These sentiments produced wild
cheeriI 6, swinging of hats and shouts of Hang
them, hang them
Mr.. Rose said that he would not do it ON any
yndictive feeling but for security for the future
These murderers, and their fellow rufians in the
United States must be taught lesson. The people
of Canada must act promptly in this matter. There
Wr but and ds.Sed
so that hereafter every enian entering Canada with
halter about his neck. The simple question is this:
Shall they be hung? Yes yes The quicker the bet
ter: string them up, >. were the responses. His
speech reused the meeting to high pitch of excite
ment. II the temper of the people in other places
is like that manifested here the Fenian prisoners
Will undoubtedly be executed in very few days
after the assembling of Parliament on Friday next
LETTER FROM PRESIDENT" ROBERTS.
Inc following letter from Roberts was read at the
| Fenian meeting in Brooklyn on Tuesday night:
HEADQUARTERS FBNIAs BROTHERHooD, !
No. 7O6 Broadway.
| MY Denr and Esteemed Friend Futher Gleason:
II have to apologize to you and your patriotic
friends in Brooklyn Tor my absence from your meet
with business of the highest importance to the
Of Ireland and expect to be hard at work to late
hour tonight, answering kilograms from the front
and directing such movements as circumstances re-
quiTe .,..-.
for my absence from your patriotic and noble Irish
friends, evinced by your liberal contributions on
| Sunday evening last. assure you, on my honor
that were it not for the donation of nearly twelve
hundred dollars more than one hundred brave Irish
soldiers would have been kept from their brothers
| in the frent tonight May God bless your brave
Irish hearts, and every lover of our dear old land
Il assure you, my dear Father Gleason, that oul
earth prevent it. if the Irish people will sustain
| us with the means of carrying on the with Eng
| lish despotism. We have all seen the commence
| ment, but God alone can tell when or where it viii
end: Ii the Irish people send on the means (this i
Indispensable you may rely upon it that the lrisi
people will wipe out in the ruin of England the dis
grace which centuries OF oppression has brought
| our country.
Let them now aid us with money and arms auC
we will answer to God and posterity for the fathfu
execution of trust. Could you but see the eager
ness and passion with which our copntrymen strug
gle to get at the fOe you would feel mortified tha
| our wealthy countrymen are the cause of keepin
back the reintorcements by refusing to give the
country portion of the wealth with which this LAM
of freedom has blessed them. tell you, sir, that
we get money at once we will have wall Of fire en-
circling around English foe across the border.
II am told that in Montrealto-day it took two dol
| lars in Canadian money to purchase one dollar i
| gold. You they are beginning to discover tina
the Irishmen going with vengeance; and if the
have shot some of our prisoners in cold bloooC
| through mock trial, we wont leave a supporter
England's power in the Canadas in three month.
countrymen, by every tie Of blood and sorrow, T q
, hope and despair which leads them to the land
their birth, to forward now to sustain the Iris
Republican army, for, thank God. Ireands cause tC
: | day commands an army of strong arms and bray
hearts and skilled heads. Aid them not alone wit
what you can afford, but with every dollar you ca
} give. and time will record our triumph as the mo
brilliant Of race, and most significant to tyrants
| history. II remain yours, fraternally,
Nv. r. ROBERTS,
t 10 President of the Fepian Brotherhood" !"
From Havana and Mexico.
New YORK, June 6.-The steamer Moro Castle h
| arrived from Havana, with dates to the ID inst
L Thn Snanish frioate Isahalla Catnlicn rrith Ga