Year: 1865




sympathisers- ..Theii Leading Or
gan.


l.. TORONTO, April IA dispatch from
| Montreal says the money voted by Parlia
ment has been paid the st. Albans bank


The Leader this morning has informa
ton which is claimed as authentic, thai
a warrant is to be issued in st. Catha


rines, charging the st. Albans raiders
with breach of the neutrality act, when
theylwill be brought to st. Catharines
This charge will be then dropped, and
the prisoners will be brought before the
Toronto judges on demand for extradi.
ton, with the expectation that they viii
reverse the decision lately given by
Judge Smith, of Montreal.


MONTREAL, April l.-Southeru sym pa
thizers are having lively time here to,
day. Their leading organ has issued the
following extra, and they are circulating
il throughout the city:


Evidence of the Provincial Executive
conspiring for the extradition OF the st.
Adams raiders, by one of those extraor-
dinary interventiOns by which persons
frequently defeat or reveal great crimes,
has been placed in our possession. Our
evidence shows the intention OF the Pro-
yincial Executive to commit an infamy
unknown to modern times, and the means
by which it is hoped to accomplish it.


Astonishing and almost incredible as
is the statement we are about to make,
we not only pledge ourselves to 1t. but
we challenge the Executive to deny IT..
It will be remembered that the charges
against the st, Adams raiders disposed
Of by Judge Smith, was only one OF sew
eral; but the Judgment OF the court de-
clairing the accused to be lawful beliger-
rents, virtually disposes of all the charg-
a. which arose out of the st. Albans raid
ing case The accused were remanded
until to-day, for the purpose OF extend
ing the prosecution to proceed with
out abandoning the other charges,
among which is one of murder.
They were also arrested on q warrant
charging them with breach OF neutral
ity, and un this they were remanded for
examination until Wednesday next The
government is probably aware there is
little prospect Of obtaining correction
of this accusation, for, as Judge Smith
remarked in his judgement, there is no
evidence of q breach OF neutrality hav-
ing been committed Having failed to
obtain the extradition of the accused by
legal means before an impartial tribunal,
they have determined to attempt it by
conspiracy which the designation
Infamous" is too mild to qualify
Last evening Mr.. Cartier dispatched Mr.
Schetter from this city for Toronto, with
instructions to there obtain the assist
ance of Mr.. HARRISON, the barrister, and
to proceed with him to st. Catherine,
and there obtain by any means and at
all hazards, q warrant from some local
magistrate for the arrest Of the St Al
bans raiders now confined here on O
charge of breach of neutrality, and to
return this warrant to Montreal as rap
idly as possible In obtaining the war
rant, we presume Mr. Schetter will make
any little affidavit necessary. The war
rant is to include the name of Mr.. c..
Clay, though it is notorious that he left
the province some weeks ago. When
the case of the ST. Albans raiders comes
up this morning, it has been arranged
that the prosecution will decline to
proceed on the other charge, so that the
prisoners may be remanded without bail
or the benefit of habeas corpus until
Wednesday next By that time the st
Catherine warrant will have arrived.
The charge for a breach of neutrality
here will be withdrawn, and the accused
arrested under the substituted authority
aud will be secretly removed to st. Cath
arine. The charge of breach OF neu-
trality then will fail Thnre is no evil
dence, and there will be no effort made
to procure any But the moment that the
accused are discharged they will be re-
arrested for extradition on the charges
now pending agai nst them here, and they
will be carried for examination and
committed before the Toronto Judges


The st. Catharines warrant is in fact
the cunning device by which the adju-
dication ofthe remainder of the charges
against the raiders is to be transferred
from pure to corrupt tribunal, ana
from Judge who refused to be the tool
of foreign enemy at the dictation OF the
executive, to a Judge willingto pollute
the judicial tribunal by such subserv-
ence. and to prostitute their office by
viler conduct than has been witnessed
on the British bench since the day OF
,Jeffries. Whether the timely discovery
and exposure of this most infamous and
damnable plot will prevent its being
carried out in its entirety, we know not.


The murder of these unfortunate young
men, declared free of all guilt by the
tribunal here before which they have
had so long, so patient and so thorough
an examination; such an outrage upon
Justice, such a piece Of supsrlatiye and
reckless wickedness, such trampling in
the mire of the honor and good name Of
the county, can be attributed to nothing
short of madness, which requires and
should receive restraint. 1t is the duty
of the people of this city to prevent its
consummatiou fpossible at any cost and
if they fail, the innocent blood that their
rulers are plotting to shed Will be on
their heads and on those Of their child
rem forever-a triple curse Of Cain