AMERICAN NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 162, 16 July 1870, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS.

THE FENIAN SCARE.

The excitement of the month hoi been the attempts of tho Fenians to iuviido Canada. 'The full.particulars will be found in another column. The papers to hand from the Eastern States are all mercilessly severe at the expense of the doughty heroes who rushed across the border, fired a few shots and then took to their heels. The New York Tribune describes the latest Fenian military enterprise after the following cruel fashion :— " A plain narrative of this story—a war stopped by a Marshal and one deputy, a whole army defeated and utterly routed by two men —is so utterly ludicrous that no comment can improve it. But in fact we hare no desire to dwell upon the farcical features of this new discovery in strategy. We hare no disposition to speculate upon what would have happened if Wellington had been arrested by a sheriff's officer in the battle of Waterloo, or Grant lodged in jail by a Virginia constable while the Army of the Potomac was fighting in the

Wilderness. The serious side of General O'Neil's ridiculous blunder is too painful to be laughed sit. The folly of this charlatan has cost thousands of working people tl.e last dollar of their savings, and perhaps »ome poor fellows their lives. It has degraded Irishmen in the estimation of many of theii1 fellowcitizens, who will perhaps overlook the difference betA-con the patriotism of the people and the imbecile vanity of the lcudei's. Those are tho sad resiilts of the last Fenian invasion. We can only hope that the rank and file may get home quickly and sound, and save their carpet-bags."