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

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There is said ODE monetary panic in
Montreal, and run.on the banks.
General Lynch, of Buffalo, has ordered a
concentration of his forces at Batavia.
The steamer Halifax, from Liverpool, on
the 18th ult., has arrived at Halifax.
On the 18th Consols closed at s65s@s67s !;
United States 5-20s, 6412@65.
Men, money and distinguished Generals,
it was said, were flowing abundantly to
their aid.
Thirteen hundred Fenians are reported
to have left Buffalo ON Tueeday evening
Eastward bound.
Attorney General Speed has ordered the
arrest of all Fenian leaders who had vio-
lated, and should attempt to violate, our
neutrality laws.
Gen. Sweeney and Col. Mahan left Ma
lone for st. Adams yesterday morning. 1t
was reported that Spear, with $500 mem
would cross the border last night.
There were 900 Fenians and 800 United
States regulars reported in Malone, yester-
day. Many of the soldiers of both armies
seemed to be on the best of terms.
General Meade is concentrating troops
at Ogdensburg, expecting fight there.
He expresses his determination to enforce
the neutrality laws, if troops enough are
sent him.
A Fenian reconnaissance was to be sent
out last night, and fight was anticipated.
The Fenians seem spelling for fight.
st. Armand is said to have been evacu-
ated by the inhabitants, and the money
from the banks sent to the interior.
Great activity in forwarding ammunition
and men prevails on the border.
Generals Sweeney and Spear held con-
sultation at st. Adams, on Tuesday, and as
a result it was said the Fenian prospects
were Electromagnetic they mean fight,
and an early advance is contemplated.
The Fenians at st. Adams are said TO
constitute the main army, and are pro-
vided with artillery.
General Meade has received information
that 1000 Fenians had commenced move
ment from Highgate, Vermont, on Canada.
The Arsenal at Ogdensburg is nearly
filled with captured Fenian stores and
munitions of war.
Scores of suspicious characters are pour
ing into Canada via Detroit, at which place
there are one thousand Fenians lounging
about the city.
1t is believed that the blow to be struck
in the West is near at hand, and the Can
adam and American authorities are on
the alert
The Fenians assert that Sweeney will not
attack in the East until they are ready to
strike in the West.
Great enthusiasm prevails at Detroit.
A Richmond, Va, dispatch says Presi-
dent Johnson has full confidence in jury
of Virginia gentlemen, even in trial for
treason.
The Committee investigating the Mer- |
chants' National Bank, find the most au-
dacious expedients forswindling have been |
resorted to.
The Memphis Riot Investigating Com
mittee have developed nearly two hundred |
distinct crimes perpetrated during the
three days.
The Memphis correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Gazette gives a very gloomy &C
count of the condition of affairs in South
ern Mississippi and Louisiana. A famine
is apprehended.
The Buffalo Express publishes the names
Erie, and now in Jail at Brantford, Canada
West.
Senator Fitzgerald, of Cincinnati, spoke
again at Buffalo Tuesday night and said
the movement against Fort Erie was by
Gen. Sweeney's order, and had most sue
cessfulIy subserved the purpose designed
in his great strategic plans, and promised
that by yesterday they should see startling
developments.
Batavia is not Fenian rendezvous.
From Cincinnati we have the melancho-
ly announcement of the mortal wounding |
of Capt. Menter, the celebrated leader of
Menter's Band, by burglar at Newport,
KY. The burglar was subsequently shot |
and MORALLY wounded by Mentors son.
The three neutral powers have really |
sent an identical note to Berlin, Vienna,
Frankfort and Florence, inviting all the |
powers to a conference, and it is believed |
they win all assent. War-like prepare
tions, in the meanwhile, continue.