The New York herald., 1870-08-03
r Ed RIVE r .
The Progress OF the Canadian
Expedition.
NIyst Fcnian NToyc-
ncntS.
END OF The INDIAN SCARE.

exception of innumerabe rumors and specula-
lions regarding the approaching Canadian expe-
ditlon. The headquarters of the provisional gov
ernment, since the acceptance of the Manitoba
act, has become the dullest place imaginable.
President Rie is seldom seen outside the fort, his
excursions being confined to visits TO his mother
and the Bishops palace. MIR. ODonohue, tho
Finance Minister rides out on horseback every
evening, and occasionally gets up horserace
between his bay mare and some fast stock belong
ing to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Mr.. Mckay. The Secretary Of State, Mr..
Bum, is attending to his own
private affairs, occasionally visiting :he fort,
and the Postmaster General Mr.. Banra.ym also
makes government duties sort Of recreation
from. the more absorbing business of his mercan-
tile establishment. A few soldiers are quartcred
in the fort, and strict guard is maintained at
night. Occasionally the troops are drilled out on
the prairie in skirmish practice, and once in q
great while there is "leld day' Of target shoot
ing at old -four barrels.
Meanwhile the business affairs of the settle
ments flow along in the same cam unrufled mau-
ner as before the Canadian difficulty Farmers
are quietly pursuing the even tenor of their way
among their crops of wheat and barley and pota-
stantly coming and going as usual with their brig
ades OF ox.carts, and the Hudson's Bay Company
is conducting its matters peaceaby as If no in
terrupton had ever occurred. These trading br-
gades from the plains are curosities to the newly
arrived Eastern man, and remind one very much
of gypsy bands. There are generally from five TO
fifteen carts in brigade, but sometimes one or
two carts will travel hundreds of miles by them
selves Latterly iron bolts and nails have come
into use in the construction Of their carts, but
most of them still built entirely of wood,
without scrap of iron about them. The
wheels have no tire, and in smooth
country will last as long as iron-bound
wheels, but stony roads very soon rack them to
pieces. Each cart is drawn by an OK harnossed
with raw hide, like horse in shafts, and one
man has charge of several, leading one OK and
having four or five other carts following in single
Gle, with the oxen hatered to the respective
carts in front of them. These trains start out
one year with supplies and return the next wi h
furs, buffalo robes, provisions, &C., some of
them making trips OF tso thousand miles
to their places of traffic. Each party has
one or more cOnical skin tents, shaped like
the United States Army sibley tent, and
when camped on the green prairie, with red blan-
kets, horses dogs, carts, white tents and loungng
half-breeds grouped together, it forms very
quaint and pretty picture. The departure of one
Of these brigades OF carts for some remote hunt
Ing ground is not wholly unlike that Of the whaling
vessel that puts away to distant seas. Such a
party left two days ago. II goes TO Fort Edmon-
ton, and will be over two mouths On the journey,
crossing trackless prairie. True, the billows
that ride with the wind upon the tall grass will not
engulf the train as waves may swallow a ship on
the ocean, nor is there danger from sunken rocks
and treacherous shoals, but the pilot who guides
the brigade must be no less reliable than the
skill mariner. Savages worse than the pirates
OF the Indian seas are to be met, couciiiated and,
perhaps, fought, and many little mound marks the
spot where some one has failed by tue way, and
with no medical aid at hand, has died and been
dropped int64he bosom Of the prairie as the dead
are dropped at sea.
THE CANADIAN EXPEDITION
Is now tasting the sweets OF ths Dawson route"
and probably visiting more impre cations ppon
Mr. Davisons head than that gentleman ever anti
cipated when he was compiling his highly imagi
uatiye report upon the means of communication
between Lake Superior and Red river. The
latest advices received here concerning the ex-
peditiOn are the effect that The first portion will
leave Fort William the 10th Of July. The OBJ
stacles hitherto encountered, and which have
occasioned SO much delay are extremely insight
cant compared with the difficulties yet to be over
come in the swamps. rapids and portages Of the
route, and if the expedition, as the Canadian
papers state is already troubled with sickness,
exhaustion and discomfort among tho men, what
two or three weeks in those swamps uuder
July and August sun? 1t must not be sup
posed that the troops will have cool,
pleasant weather 60 far north; for we have
in the shade out here on the breezy plain, and
several cases of sunstroke. The heat in the
ewamps is intense, almost unbearable, and with
the clouds of mosquitoes, which retard work by
day and vanish sleep at night, the march must be
attended by great deal of exhaustion and sick
ness, and will in all probability, not be terminated
before September No one here expects the troops
to arrive before the 1st OF September and those
most familiar with the route predict that shall
not see the expedition before the middle of that
month. Governor Archibald is looked for to arrive
about the miode of August, via Minnesota, though
after what has transp:red it would seem as if he
would prefer delaying his entry into the Northwest
until the troops get here and he can have something
reliable to depend on for support III forming his
government.
It has transpired that General Lindsay's
order prohibiting newspaper correspondents from
accompanying the expedition was issued for the
purpose of preventing a large class Of Canadian
adventurers, including several Of Colonel Dennis
land grabbing "martyrs'' and DR.. Schultz's fiji.
busters, from attaching themselves to the com.
mand as writer's for dIilerent newspapers. There
were number of individuals who had been
kicked out of Red River by the inhabitants that
made arrangements to go with the expedition as
correspondents Of Canadian journals without CON-
lpensation and at their own private expense, in
order to accomplish personal ends in the way of
abuse of the Red River people and Official
tolerance of their dishonest schemes. Determined
not to be annoyed by such pests, tho military
commanders forbade all civilians from accompany
ing the expedition. 1t is now understood how
ever, that few regular salared writers of lead
Ing Canadian papers viii be quietly allowed to go
With the troops, but no correspondent Of any
american paper will be granted the privilege.
This is SAID to be in retaliation for the closing of
the st. Mary's Canal against the expedition by the
American government.
THE FENIAN5
arc still active at some scheme in the Northwest,
and many are of the op Mon that the Brotherhood
stil contemplates a,tacking the exp dition, net
mach 10 help Red Riv,r as to get satisfaction out
cl Canada Tor past reyerscs. Fenian agents have
Deen suddenly appearing and as quickly vanish
ing here, and q lew individuals in Winnipeg, re-
ported to belong to the order have of late been