The New York herald., 1870-05-29
MAIL REPORTS OF THE INVASION.

Excitement Over the Fenian Raid-Prince Ar.
thur as a Soldier-A False Sccurity-Ru-
n,Ors AbcuG Mcsby-What He il Said TO
Have snid-Thc First Fight and Kanucx
victory-The Raid Considered Over-Intcr.
national llatters-N -NIisce llaneous Matters.
OTTAWA, May q, 1870.
The Fenian Brotherhood are the heroes Of the hour
and Riel has been utterly ecllpsed by O'Neill Your
own correspondents at the front and the speedier
wires will ere now have advised the readers Of the
HERALD OF the campaign OF 1870, and the melan-
choly fact that the golden sunburst does not wave
to any particular deg,ee over Canada. A few notes
as 10 dOngs and feelings on this side the line
may, however, not prove uninterestlng.
FRINGE ARTHUR,
like Malbrook has '.gone to war; and, ike his
namesake and godfather, Arthur, the Duke OF Wei
ngton, was called away from "a sound OF revelry
by nighr' by "tne cannons opening roar.n The
Prince, who was at ball at Mr.. Alan's residence, at
once expressed wish TO serve on the star
Of Lord Russell, end early in the morn
ing set out to hunt Fenians much as his elder
brother Is sticking pigs and shooting tigers In
India There Is reason to apprehend unheard OF
demonstrations on the part of the "trooly loi,
when his royal highness returns from his bloodless
campaign, and II, by any misfortune, he should bag
ne Of the brotherhood, triumphal procession may
be anticipated to which those which greeted Scipo
Africanus, Marius Caius and Lucius Sicnus Den
tatus were not a circumstance.
The present raid has been much more wisely
planned than the
FORMER FIAsCOEs.
The very costly preparations made by the govern.
ment about one month since, the suspension Of
habeas corpus, the loss Of time and disturbance Of
business-all these precautions with nothing in the
form OF q raid resulting mad tended TO lull the
people. "Wolr' had been cried too often, and when
the only and original lupine arrived he had '.soft
thing" The correspondence Of the HERALD two
months ago ridicued the idea OF rad
in April and warned the Canadians that
the 1st OF June the day fixed for the wearing OF
the green II the tactics OF this raid display some
improvement those OF 1865 there still recog-
Of hoping to gather men and munitions sufficient Tor
an open attack on Canada, the greater folly OF
counting on the American government as likely TO
remain passive In the premises, and the peculiar sys-
tenn OF campaigning, whereby the commandments
chief was after the manner OF Spear in 1885, arrested
on American soil, while the rank and file were risk
ing their throats in Canada-all these points strike
the eve at once. The leaders OF the sympathzers In
ment made under such hopeless auspices. ..If u,
wrote one OF them to O'Neil, 'you expect to sue
MOsBY IN THE vANo
II Is likely tnat the next raid will be conducted on
this plan, as have already intmated III the HERALD
system Of rapid and effective raids by small bodies
OF fearless mounted troopers VIII be adopted, who
can Secretly make uaSn outlying
villages or unguarded public works and be away ere
troops to fepulse or punish them can be gathered
Mosby has been you are aware, on the frontier with
the Fenans for some days, and the Canucks have
been cOrrespOndingly 'unaisy In their mondsn The
partisan observed last week that II they would give
him 300 mounted men 'he'd serve Montreal Id
sight worse than Spur and Swager served st. Al
bans.n The Canadians ore tremendously disguised
with Nose Tor going back on them. He is one Of the
refugee seceshcrs whSn they delighted to WINE and
dine during the late unpleasanness. and they
slider him lost to all sense OF gratitude. The
preparations for repelling the attack are unusually
complete The volunteers nave turned out with spirit,
and In good number, despite the ab0minabic inel
hciency which prevails in every department OF
militia administration Home guards have been or
ganized in various places ana men have gone 10 the
their personal safety and property are menaced. by
| the way, the journalists claim
FIRST BLOOD,
as the battalion OF volunteers winch, aided by
| hastily organized home guard repulsed the Fenians
| at Pigeon Hill, was commanded by Lieutenant
Colonel Brown Chamberln, member OF Parliament
for Mlssisquo, OF the editors OF the Montreal
champion Of British connection and the "Oe fiag''
during Mr.. Huntngt0n's famous indepcndence-an
nexatiOn campaign last year.
The attack OF the FeDians was about q fortnight
premature. On the 3ist Prince Arthur and his regi-
ment would have left for England and by the middle
ofJune there would not have been one English soldier
| In Canada.
The raid is considered over and the results are
M. But the scare has been costly ana rather
| too intense. In Montreal they organized home
| guards ana prayer meeting. The Grand Trunk
Railway authorities tore up tue track on the line
leading " tile frontier Tor fear the Ecnans should