Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-03-15
TELEGRAMS. &C.

Inc new York Commercials special Toronto
oispatch says: The authorities are said TO be
IN possession of some startling intelligence
thousands of Fenians will cross the border a
coon As tns weather will permit, and be joined
py sympatnizers IN Canada Government de-
ecuSes are on the alert on this side of the line
ana keep the Canadian authorities informed of
the movements OF the enemy. The panic
SHOWS no abatement. serious run on the
banks Tor gold has commenced throughout the
provinces; The Government is helping the
banks with specie.
special Montreal dispatch SAYS the excite.
ment is sun at fever heat Business is at a
stand-srll, and small depositors are converting
tneii Daiances into gold. The militia are being
arlied many times day. All the public
builoings are strongly guarded. The banks
are restricting discounts to weIl-known Gus
TONERS, and refusing 10 advance upon any col
lateral security
canada very warm for Americans. Suspicious
characters are crossing the border daily A
Thousand volunteers are on the lookout, aud
more are on the way. The Detroit Councils
have accepted the invitation to the New York
celebration on St. Patrck's day. There is a
great STIR among the Detroit Fenians, and
mysterious rockets are sent up Oh the Ameri-
can shore. II is believed tina, some movement
is In progress.
later dispatch says: The Fenian excite
ment is Subslding. The volunteer force is well
distributed at all points on the frontier. Seye-
raj searches have been made for pixies, but All
have been unsuccessful
The following is given for what il is worth,
as the general idea OF the warlike strength of
the Fenian order IN New York. Thirty-two
companies are said to have been formed and
!heIr ranks iuliy hlled; These are divided
INTO three regiments, and rumor gives the post
OF honor in command as follows: First regi-
ment infantry, Colonel Basi! Duke. formerly
commanding brigade OF cavalry under the
rebel General Morgan. Second regiment IN
fantry, Colonel Thibodaux, of the Louisiana
volunteers in the rebel army. Third regiment
infantry, Colonel Murphy, formerly colonel
in the 10th New York volunteer Corcoran's
Legion, Union army.
A dispa;ch from Savannah, Georgia, saws:
The schooner Sunny South, from New York
on the 9th inst, bound to Jacksonv VILE stuck
on Cumberland Island shoals on the evening
OF the 10th inst, and is leaking badly. On the
morning of the 1Ith inst the tide ebbed and
flowed in her. A small part of the cargo has
been discharged. Henry Low, who last week
shot and killed citizen, but was acquitted by
the coroners jury of accidental shooting, has
been rearrested by order of the military. The
Norwegian bark Aqua has arrived here from
st. Thomas in ballast.
The failure of the Whipple File Manufac-
turing Company was announced In Boston
yesterday. Its liabilities are heavy The capi
Eal STOCK OF the company was seven hundred
thousand dollars, and il recently petitioned for
iurther increase. It's suspension is attri-
buted 10 It's having on hand 4 large stock or
goods which could not be sold except at a great
somewhat crippled recently in its efforts to
sustain its credit.
A paymaster of the Schuylkill Navigation
Company was robbed Monday night of 5000,
in money, and checks for $1,000, at public
house at which he was stopping over night, in
Schuylkill Haven Pennsylvania. The checks
and empty pocket-boO were subsequently
picked up, but no clue has been obtained to
the money or how the robbers accomplis shed
the theft
A dispatch from Boston on Tuesday saws
The six citizens OF Melrose who were fined
$500 each by Judge Nose, for tarring and
feathering and riding on a rail person who
reloiced over the death of President Lincoln
were pardoned by the executive council, and
had their fines remtted.
The New Jersey State Senate passed by an
unanimous vote resolutions requesting Con-
gress to increase the salaries of naval officers
TO point adequate to the increase of expenses
OF the times, as suggested by their memorial
now before Congress.
The South Barracks, being the main building
Of the Norwich University, was DESTROYED by
fire Tuesday evening. The fire broke out in an
unoccupied room IN the fourth story, and there
are various rumors afloat rs to Its origin