The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-06-11

DA8AsYaN.IYa sune5p 1867

the Hudson river to this, the Capita'
City of the Empire State. -,
The eleventh annual Convention OF
the Young Mems Christian Associations
of the United States and British fror-
inces convened in this city on Saturday.
and was called to order by theretiring
President. Hon. Cephus Brainard, of New
York. Mr.. 81. Thsyne Miller, of Cincin-
natl Ohio, was elected Permanent Pres
ident of this Convention. There are
between three and four hundred dele
gates here, representing many States
and the British Provinces, The Presi
dent of the Christian Association of New
Orleans, La, was cordially received and
heartily welcomed as delegate to the
present assembly. The Albanians are
unceasing in their attentions to their
| guests, and the delegates were war1mly
welcomed to the pleasant homes Of The
Christian people of this goodly city.
The grand public welcome meeting held
in Tweddle Hall on Friday night was q
pleasant, social reunion, and hundreds
| of Christian hearts united in extending
to the strangers full and cordial well
come to the hospitalities of Albany, On
| Saturday afternoon Rev. s. B. Barnitz,
of our city, delivered an able essay on
temperance. Yesterday the place for
holding the next Convention was de-
| cided upon. Invitations were received
from Buffalo, N. Y, ashington City,
Wheeling, West Va, Poughkepsie, N. T.,
Detroit, Michigan, and Montreal. Mr..
Ballard withdrew Washington, and Mr..
Oxtoby withdrew Wheeling, both in
favor of Montreal. The Withdrawals
were received with applause, and after
short discussion between Messrs. Bar
nitz and Oxtoby as to the peopriety of
! again yielding the turning point"
(Wheeling,) the city of Montreal, Can
ada East, was decided upon as the place
for holding the next Convention. =
In accordance with previous arrange.
ments the delegates and attendants yes
terday afternoon took an excursion up
the Hudson to. Troy, where the night
session of the Convention was held. To
the telegram from Troy yesterday morn
ing "Say, brothers, will you meet u.s."
the reply by the grace of God we'll
meet you" was sent across the wires A
mile below Troy the excursionists were
met by committee of Trojans in pro-
pellor, who were accompanied by brass
band As soon as the Troy party was
discernedY perfect cloud of white
handkerchiefs was given to the breeze
and responded to from the propeller with
music, sounding of whistles and other
demonstrations! The two boats ascend
ed the stream side by side, and upon our
arrival at Troy thousands of smiling
faces greeted us. After short prone
made through the city, the delegates in
procession repaired to Harmony Hall,
where q sumptuous feast had been pre-
pared by the fair ladies of Troy. A glo-
rious meeting was held in the Second
Presbyterian Church, delegates were
again refreshed" and returned to the
boat. The steamer left Troy, the excur-
sionists singing with spirit, s
"Troy, Troy, sweet, sweet Troy
Theresno place like Troy"
The Convention adiourns tomorrow
evening. So admirably have the dele
gates been entertained, and so glorious
and fraternal have been the spirit of the
assemblage, that the guests are sorry
that the hour Of departure is so rapidly
approaching.
The next matter of interest to strang-
ers here is the Fenian movements. Here
the Fenians are alive and very sanguine
of success. Scarcely a train or boat
passes through this city that does not
contain recruits for the "Finnegans."
Aboard the boat upon which we came
to this city there were some fifty or
seventy.fye Fenians, and from the looks
of the lower deck of the steamer, and
the faces of some of the recruits, when
we reached here, we imagined that
conflict had been raging during the pre-
vious night. The boat in some places
was covered with blood and hair, and
black eyes and broken noses were to be
seen among the recruits.
Major General Sweeney was in this city
on Sunday, and left early yesterday
morning for Ogdensburg. We saw him
at dinner, as he stopped at the same ho-
tel, and heard him conversing with his
friends. He is rather fine looking man,
high forehead, fair complexion, with
heavy black beard AS cur readers are
aware, he has lost his right arm. He
was confident of Fenian success, and
said the ball only needed to be set in
| motion to roll like an avalanche over the
| Canadas. I presume our readers have
read General Sweeney's proclamation
issued at 0gdensburg yesterday. From
it's tone, we Judge something's going to
be did, and that quickly. United
States District Attorney Dart, from
Headquarters at Buffalo, has ordered
the Collector at Ogdensburg to arm the
revenue cutters and other vessels, with
as heavy guns as they will bear andsink
any vessels that may attempt to cross to
Canada with Fenians aboard.
Governor Fenton of New York, is not
at present in this city, but we learn that
orders were about to. be issued to the
New York Militia to hold themselves in
readiness to go forth and protect the
frontier of the State. The State author
tiles are very busy at the Capitol
buildings. ,,y pa1 fo-
| This morning we were shown dis
patch received by delegate to the
Christian Commission, from Montreal =
Last accounts report "all quiet on the
st. Lawrence" Two hundred Fenians
had been made prisoners opposite Buffa-
10, and wero held on board the steamer
Michigan. Cornwall, CIV, was threat
ened, and British troops were fastening
to defend it. 4 large number of boxes of
arms had been captured by the British,
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