The New York herald., 1870-04-23
Fcniau BIovements-An Extensive and hx'
traordinary Combination.

Feniau nIovenents-An Extensivs and hx-
traordinary Combination.
The mysterious movements Of the Fenians
are beginning to attract good deal OF public
curiosity and speculation. In the New
Dominion her Britannia Majesty's provincials,
from the Vermont border all the way back to
the savage regions of the Red river OF the
North and Lake Winnipeg, are in great state
of excitement over an apprehended invasion
of Fenians from the United States, and the
mastering, arming and drilling Of rangers, vol
unteers, regulars and Indian mercenaries in
Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and other places
are the order of the day. The Dominion Par
lament has suspended the habeas corpus and
is actively equipping an expedition OF ton
thousand picked men and q force of two thou
sand Indians professedly for the suppression
of the Red River insurgents, Riel and his con-
federates, but really to meet an expected raid
Of Fenians from Minnesota.
On Thursday night last four alleged Fenians
were arrested at Montreal, on the train from
this side. The men said they had been at
work in the States and were going home to
Quebec but the Canadian detective had salts
fed himself that they were Fenians, bent on
some revolutionary mission. Moreover, there
has lately been very mysterious Fenian Con-
gress in Chicago, and another is now in session
in this city, planning, as is supposed, terri
bic foray upon the Canadians at half dozen
different points at the same time. They say,
too. that the number of reticent Irishmen
travelling from place to place, along the whole
line of the Canadian frontier and on both sides,
is very large, and that the movements OF these
travellers are very suspicious.
All these things have operated to create
general alarm among the Canadians and much
talk on this side the border. At the same time
the habeas corpus is suspended in Ireland, and
that unfortunate island is practically under
| martial law. To make matters still worse for
the British government depots of Fenian arms
| have been discovered in Newcastle and Man
| chester, England, and from threats of Fenian
vengeance the proprietors of the Pau MdN
| Gazette, London, have applied to the police
authorities for protection, and the police,
accordingly, were yesterday guarding said
newspaper establishment. In word, there
| appears to be an epidemic of Fenianism in
| Ireland, England, the United States and the
New Dominion, and the question naturally
| follows, what does all this mean? There is
evidently common understanding among
these Fenians What, then, are they driving
at?
Let US suppose it to be the liberation OF
Ireland from British rule and the establish
ment of an Irish republic. The Fenians have
no army or arsenals in Ireland, and they have
no war ships here for an invasion of the island
What, then, can they do? They can get up a
general guerilla sort of warfare simultaneously
| in Ireland, England and the Canadas. They
may thus keep the British government so
actively employed at home in suppressing dis
! turbances as to render it incapable of giving
much assistance to the Canadians; and by
| risings of the Fenians in the New Dominion at
various points simultaneously with the inva-
| sion of half dozen or more different detach-
ments of Fenians fir ON the United States, they
may get the whole Dominion on very short
notice in the ferment of q general rebellion.
| Suppose they thus succeed in establishing ar
Irish republic in the New Dominion, with theil
headquarters at Quebec, what then9 Why,
then they will have base of operations for q
regular war with England, including privateer-
ing and the invasion Of Ireland, with supplies
of small arms and artillery for the Fenians
there, at various convenient points in thu
island.
This, or something like this, we conjecture
is the Fenian programme. Considered with {
military eye, it abounds in difficulties ant
calculations of good luck; but still it may b.
the scheme resolved upon. In any event, il
these combination movements Of the Fenian
in the British islands and in America agains
the British government there is abundan
matter for speculation, and, considering tn
excitement and active arming among the Cana
dians, we may safely conclude that "wher
there is so much smoke there must be som
fire."
How GOVERNOR HOFFMAN CAN MINOR
TALIzE HIMsELF-By peremptorily vetoine
the Arcade abomination if it passes the House
| A SLIGHT MIsTAKE-In our statement yes