The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-07
NEWS VIA NEW YORK.

boats on the Western rivers.
Mr.. Conneroy introduced bill to
authorize the Secretary of the Interior
to lease and preserve the public lands
of the United States which contained
mineral springs. 1sfge
The Reconstruction resolution was
then taken up, the pending question
being Mr.. Doolittle's substitute for
the second section. No conclusion
was reached.
In the House, on motion of Mr..
Steavens, the vote by which the Sen
ate bill to enable the New York and
Montana Iron, Mining and Manufac-
turing Company to purchase certain
amount of the public lands not now in
market, was referred to the Committee
on Public Lands, was reconsidered,
and the bill came before the House
for its actien and was passed. s.sy
Mr. Ashley, of Ohio, introduced a
bill to aid in establishing a line of
engines and wagons from the Missouri
River to the Rocky Mountains, which
was read twice and referred to COM
mittee.
Mr.. Fairfield reported a substitute
for the bill to establish Department
of Education at Washington.
Mr.. Donnelly spoke in favor of the
bill.
Mr.. Schenck's bill to readjust the
rate and system of payment in the
army was taken up and passed.
New YORK, June Especial dis
patches report a mOnitary panic in
Montreal and general run on the
savings banks. Gold is 200 per cent.
premium.
General Mitchell, Commander-in-
Chief, has gone to St. Johns.
st. Armaud, Canada, is said to be
Uvacuared by the inhabitants and
volunteers. 1t is garrisoned only by
British regulars.
The bank deposits at Stanbridge
were removed to the interior.
Eight thousand rounds of ammu-
milton passed through st. Adams,
yesterday, in possession ofthe Fenians.
One thousand Fenians fully armed
passed through Sheldon, Vermont,
yesterday, with baggage wagons. Ad-
jutant General WasRburn has been
stationed at St. .Albans by the Gov
ernor of Vermont, and will act under
his orders.
Generals Sweeney and Spear held a
consultation at ST. Albans, yesterday
afternoon. The result of the confer
ence is said to be that the Fenian
prospects are Frightening, and that
they mean to fight. Provisions.
arms, ammunition, equipments and
men are now on the way and an early
advance is contemplated. Sweeney
would remain until to-day.
One special says the Fenians. near
st. .Albans, have artillery and is the
main body of the Fenian army.
General Meade, at Ogdensburg, has
received information that 1000 Fe-
mans had commenced movement
from Highgate, Vermont, on Canada.
General Meade has but 1000 troops
to guard 1000 miles of frontier. He
does not anticipate serious trouble.
The value of Fenian munitions
taken is estimated at 100000, COM
posed of Spencer rifles, carbines,
knapsacks and accoutrements.
Colonel Hodges, of the 1st United
States Artillery, has arrived at Ogdens-
burg and takes command of the forces
and of the Ogdensburg Arsenal,
nearly filled with captured Fenian
stores.
General Lynch, commanding the
Fenians in the Buffalo District. has
ordered a concentration of his forces
at Batavia.
A Detroit telegram says that scores
OF suspicious strangers are pouring
into Canada, while there are fully |
one thousand Fenians lounging about |
the city. The blow to be struck on |
the Western frontier is certainly near
at hand. The Canadian and Ameri- |
can authorities are on the alert. The |
former with 900 men and battery of |
artillery, and the latter with three
companies of regulars, and the steam
ers johnson and Sherman, armed |
with six guns. -.f9-.
The Fenians assert that General |
Sweeney will not make an attack in
the East until an expedition is ready
to strike in the West Quite mum
Der of Fenians stole into Canada to-
day, and are supposed to be telegraph |
and railroad destructionists. Some |
were arrested and foiled at Sarnia.
At Detroit the Fenians are all en-
thusiastic for Sweeney, and large num-
bers are enlisting.
New YORK, June 6.-The Tribuae's |
Richmond dispatch says the President
has expressed confidence in a jury
of Virginia gentlemen, even on trea- |
son. The President has also express
ed his disbelief in the charge Of as