, 1870-04-23

Prospect Of Lively T1mcA Along tho
Canadian Fronlicr-%ccrct Move
aacntz md largo Arrivals OF Ec-
ninn Ar1ns nnd AmmunltIon-Thc
Invasion OF the New Donalulon TO
Commence MT Oncc.
.Sesr FORK Herald.
From the fact that 20 little has reeeutsy been
said about the Fenians and their movements,
it IL evident that their Preparations for hostile
operations have been guarded With The utmost
SECRECY, and this silence has, in fact, strength
encd the opinion Of many that there is really
no ground for the sudden alarm that has taken
place in Canada The truth is, that while
every thing hns l,een done etl5,-altaost IN
known even in the community Whcrb tho pre-
partitions hAye been the greAtest,-a campsign
Tor Offensive operations has been very care
fully, deliberately, and extensively arranged
As long ago As last December arms and mu-
nitions Of war began 10 arrive in this eetton,
and they hayo continued to come in greater OF
1esser quantities untl within 4 week or 4 fort
night past The ammunition, several tons OF
it has sI1ived scnorally in tiercea 1hogsho,ds,
marked "blackfmths' coal. "Aud has been for
uksded over the Vermont Central Railroad and
dropped either here or at the GeorgiA ststion
fa few milcs east), End 1t Essex Junction, near
Burlington. The parties claiming thnse 1uys-
tetions paekagca have almost uniformly hoen
residents Of Fairfield, III 1rish settlement =
haye invariably carried them away Aftcs dart
and probably secrcted them iu some of tho uu-
merous forests winch abound in thtt vicinity.
Eeveu tbousand Spence. rhes, IN casea,
bearing tho mark Of Bristol brick" wcre
Also received by single 6rzn in this town
few weeks since, md quietly and silently sent
on into the interior Of the country in the di-
rection Of the Canadian line. Twcntr-four
Cases Of another kind OF 2rms wcre also nc
ceived 1t about tho same time at the GeoFg1A
etation, and were ~ soon cIximcd and A. rsp-
| idly and quietly taken hsck into the country.
1t certain foundry in the State, on the line
| Of the Genital Railroad, the whole force has
| been employed untit within few weeks 10 tho
manufacture OF shell and solid shot~ At the
time the contract WAS made for them With
tho founder It WAS understood that they we're
| to b sent 10 Cuba bat it w1s asceftaiued on
Saturday that they had not left fernont, and it
= therefore, reasonable to believe, when The
other facts and c3rcumstaures are conmdered,
that they are intended for tho army which
nott asauredly contemplatea Al attack on tho
Dominion.
may seem str1nge, but II ia nevertheless
afA:t, that thers are a1seady eovefL pieces Of
fcp1An artillery safely serntod within the ca
n1oan nosaeE, Which tho invaders expect to
os'ns u.s nter they hava c1ussed the line,
propatly Tor N attack On tho VictariA bridge,
CT to ahel Montreal tsosn thia siae Of the 81.
LArrenco River The guns wcre purchased
| in Nov York and Massachusetts, thcn tak kcn
West and socreted in a carload Of What
which was consigned to Fcnian Confederate
midway between Montreal and the AmaEican
frontier, md when the advancing army Of 1rc-
land reaches this artillery depot the hidden
pieces WIN be brought forth and hurried rspid
" toward tho St. 1aw1cuce-
y. !Entil nith:uE fev weeks thete haa besa