The New York herald., 1868-06-19
The Feuiaa Demonstration Against thu
New Dominion.

Au0 roman D0mOuetrdtAOu A8aHuos s"o
New Dominion.
An Irish Homer, from Cork, claims in
brief modern epic that the sons of the Green
Isle are and have been, from date in COM
parlson with which the first settlement of China
appears as an occurrence of yesterday, famed
for ''fghtin', an whiskey, an murtber an
love, closing with the fine poetic moral that
this heroic, elegant and unique combination in
the national characteristic has borne the race
triumphantly over the most disheartening diff
culties and will sustain it to worldwide
glory.
General O'Neil Commander-in-C Chief of
the Fenian hosts on this side the Atlantic,
when planning his campaign against the New
Dominion of Canada paid great attention to
the bardic idea-as have all the warriors of
Ireland, from the first soldiers who streamed
from the sides Of the Caucasus down
to Brian Boroimhe and his SUCCESSORS
and seems to have elaborated 1t into new
and effective system Of operation for the
conquest of the confedcrated British pro-
vinces. Attending carefully to heather mytho-
logy and Bible facts the General sounded
grand Irish "croomaboo," which collected
Fenian worshippers of Mars, Bacchus, Cain and
Venus from all quarters of the United States
to the banks of Lake Erie and Niagara
river, near Buffalo, where he organized
monster picnic, including in the programme
of amusements singing dancing, drinking, the
shlleah exercise and military drill The
effect has been quite amazing. The astonished
Canadians were at once seized with univer
sal quake, and have been kept ever since
in shaky and excited condition. The
Queens troops have been mustered, the
confederate volunteers have been called
out, reinforcements of regulars have arrived
from England gunboats are steaming
around the lake fringes, and we hear of
sqnadrons ''qulckly forming in the ranks Of
seem completely nonplussed. Lord Monck,
himself an lrishman, has been taken
quite aback, and British officers bearing
Crimean decorations are utterly ignorant
in face of O'Neil's strategy. Had it been
anything like Napoleonic centre-dash, a
they would comprehend it and know how to
meet it with hope; but the Fenian picnic
system has paralyzed them, and may eventually
bring the territory of the Dominion under
the dag Of the United States without blood
shed.
Indeed, this result is more than likely; for
we learn that O'Neil is about to extend
his lines and complete a chain of Fe-
nian fairs and picnics along the border,
operating all the time on United States
soil. If the Buffalo fair alarmed the
Canadians so seriously it may be fairly pre-
sumed that connected series of Irish picnics,
extending several hundreds of miles and con-
Quoted in the same style, will be decisive in
favor of O'Neil and Ireland.
The General can scarcely fail. His army
material in the United States numbers five
hundred thousand ''Fenian men," One-half Of
these are married and have Eve children each,
while the unmarried half have each six sweet
hearts This gives an aggregate of three mil
lions and o quarter OF the Latin race, all inte-
rested in the O'Neil picnic and war movement
and anxious for the humiliation of England
and the enlargement of our free American
territory. The Fenians enjoy splendid base of
movement and supply. ''By platoons on the
left," and they shake Canada to its centre. ''By
sections to the right and the vast line of citizen
voters Is met by leading men from the different
political parties in the United States, each
more generous than the other in the profEer to
''do something for them" O'Neil will
thus maintain his troops in splendid
condition to the time of the Presiden-
tial election next November, at which
time the Dominion people will be sufficiently
exhausted, if not captured previously, to per-
NIT him to grant extensive furloughs to his
force-the ladies availing themselves of the
opportunity of going home TO ''settle up the
house" little.
In the meantime, General O'Neil has no one
to fear except General Grant. Should the
Irish General do anything outside his picnic
plan or seek to embroil the United States with
Great Britain or Exeter Hall, Grant must
come out against him; for the Robespierre-
Butler radicals are not forgetful Of England's
sympathy with their early political struggle.
General O'Neil is no doubt very prudent, and
will not, therefore, seek to bring Grant to his
Fenian picnic, unless II be as an invited guest.
Railway Litigation-Heavy Verdict.
Within the past year an immense number of
gigantic railway litigations have, by the ras-
calitv or n,isma n 0ament 0f directora hoen