LATEST FROM AMERICA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 60, 12 March 1870, Page 3

LATEST FROM AMERICA.

FENIAN DEMONSTRATION AGAINST CANADA. The following American news, to January 3, was brought to Auckland by the barque Annie MaiD. : — Private orders were seut from "Washington yesterday to all the Navy Yards, directing the work of fitting out vessels of war for sea to be vigorously prosecuted. The monitor Miantonomah, now refitting at Brooklyn navy yard, has been ordered to depart at once. Her destination is rumoured to he Samana, as it is said that European powers are taking measures to prevent the cession of that portion of the island of San Domingoto the United States. Boston, 30th December. — Two companies of Fenian volunteers, armed, equipped, and uniformed, forming part of the fourth battalion of the Legion of St. Patrick, were mustered into the servicehere last evening by Colonel John Brown, the mustering officer. The Legion is for Eastern Massachusetts. Each company numbers 50 men properly officered. The Legion is in command of General Burke, whose head-quarters are in New York. It is tho military force of the John Savage wing of the Fenian Brotheihood. The avowed purpose of this movement is to prepare for any opportunity for a coup d'etat in Irelaud. There are companies in Lawrence, Lowell, and all the cities and considerable towns of this section. Their numbers are said to be formidable. The Sun says that an American Annexation League has recently been formed in this city, with the avowed purpose of procuring by force, the annexation to the United States of all the countries aud provinces of North America, aud the islands along the coast. Their motto is "The National safety of the United States demands the acquisition of all North America and the West India Islands." The expedition is to consist of fifteen hundred men, of whom eight hundred have already been enrolled. Twentyfive guides have been hired, familiar with the Red river country, who will conduct the troops from tbe last railroad station across the border liue. Fifteen hundred Spencer rifles have been stored away ready for use. Ammunition and other supplies are also at haud. The first squad starts before sth of January, and perhaps as early as the first of the month. The last detachment is expected to leave the city before the beginuing of February. Four bodies, numbering together 250 men,,have started for the Red river country already, from the four cities of Chicago, Buffalo, Detroit, and St. Louis. Proposals will be submitted to the United States Congress in its ensuing session for the establishment of four new lines of American ocean steamers. The capital required is 30,000,000d015. The large supply, cheapness, and good quality of the wool grown in California has given great impetus to the manufacture of woollen goods in that State, and this is now one of the most extensive and prosperous branches of manufacturing in California.