Year: 1870

MONTHEAL, April ~, loVU.


The nERALD's kilograms have already announced
the fact that the Fenian alarm has somewhat abated
In the different sections Of the Dominion. Although
the excitement is not 80 great as week or ten days
snce the feeling Of security from invasion is far from
general and the government will not'be likely to


lapse into state of indifference or cease prepara-
tons Just yet for possible along the frontier.
About twO-thirds OF the volunteers who have
been doing patrol duty along the Canada
and Vermont line during the past ten days
were withdrawn yesterday, and this fact has
given currency to rumOr that all the forces to
be called IN and the organizations disbanded. This
Is not true. The government has no notion,
with the Information which it processes to
possess, Of ceasng preparations for defence
against General ONeill II he should carry out his
cherished desire Of making attack the British
domain. 1t may also be properly added here that If
the Fenan forces should be placed at the mercy
of the Canadian volunteers they will find that the de-


fensve will be one OF determination. The feel


ing of the people against ONelll and those who SYM


pathize with him is very bitter and as is becoming


intensified daily during this periodical alarm 1t is
reasonable to suppose that very little mercy would be
shown they should happen to fall into the power Of
the British forces


The Dailv Nens of this city, which probably re-
meets e 10 OF tbs ag es as not


share in the belief entertained In some quarters that
there Is no cause for ALARM and 1t rejOccs eOqueny
the people when the call for volunteers was made.
In the course OF its remarks 1t says that, "however
necessity Which forces Us to assert the supremacy Of


authority at the Northwest by force Of arms, and the
fearful expense which attends military operations,


one can dispute the fact that the youth OF Lower
Canada have turned out with devotion and zeal
that every one must admire.' Commenting further
upon the threatened INVASION the same writer pro-


n astiOns the3Q which have
been prOp0unde1 by the American press:-Why


these spasmodic efforts to repe an imaginary foe,


drain the labor market to NIL It's volunteer


corpsf Where is the foe TO be sought, for whom


s.tSat te Fehia demonstraton covers an enormous
frontier. We may be assailabe at hundred points


along line OF frontier extending for 1000 miles,


Every one Is aware that the Fenans have long been


intriguing at Fort Garry. They seek some weak


point where they can most annoy US. 1t matters not


to them whether the locality be st. Armand's, the


shores of Lake Erie the Red river each of those


points they are ready to assail US II we be found


sumbering They calculate all the chances in their
alliance with Riel offers most prospects Of
success our troops will meet them there.
We believe, and have always remained arm


dev0tedy attached to the British Grown; but the


danger Is that old tribal animosities might be revived.


1t Is point Of honor with the red man to remember
and revenge injuries and there are many sore NOM
ories cherished, which might be turned to account
by revolationsts who wanted TO make Of the In
end In a parade or It may be sgnalized by severe
fighting The probabilities that not shot will
be fred in anger; yet no commanding ofiicer would
trust TO chance He must anticipate every contin-
gency, provide against every danger He


must take with him a force certain TO
command success Thus the uncertainties as
TO the future swell the charges to which
we are exposed. II England could induce the United
States to put down the Fenian movements at the
West the cost OF the Red river expeditonary force
would be perceptibly reduced. Hence many think


we are hardly used IN being made as II Is said, to


bear three-quarters OF the load. We are buying the
honor or calling ourselves nation at price which
will be felt in augmented taxation. But glory is
always q costly commodity"


The four men who were arrested here the other


day on suspicion OF being fenian spies have all been
discharged. The men proved that they worked In
the STA es In the winter and came nome to Canada
In the summer and were on their way home when
arrested. All OF them were Irshmen, but were old
residents Of the Dominion, of them having been
stevedOre in Quebec upwards OF twenty-five years