The Wheeling Daily Register

FENIAN AFFAIRS.

MALONE, N. Y., May 27.—General Gleason has been strongly reinforced. He has 3000 men and now occupies a position four miles beyond the line. He is entrenched strongly and is confident of holding his position.

News is received that after the arrest of General O'Neill and his incarceration in the Burlington prison by United States Marshal General Foster, General S. P. Speer was appointed commander in-chief, and proceeded at once to issue his orders in the face of Marshal Foster. General Speer will either cross the Canadian border at some point heretofore not attempted, or will reinforce General Gleason. The privates express great dissatisfaction with General O'Neill. Some say he is too young to plan, and too inexperienced to execute, and that he is both practically and theoretically incompetent.

TORONTO, May 27—10 A. M.—The Fenians near Trout river commenced an attack this morning, but were rapidly driven back across the lines.

LATER.

The Fenians at Huntington and Trout river got out of the way as fast as possible after the firing commenced, leaving their wounded behind. General Gleason went back to New York in disgust and General Starr has assumed charge.

ST. ALBANS, May 27.—The only Fenians that left for their homes last evening were Burlington boys; the rest remained here and were provided with food by order of United States Marshal Foster and the village authorities.

ST. ALBANS, May 27.—Generals Speer, J. H. Gleason and Prim have, with other lesser lights in the Fenian Brotherhood, been in close consultation over the situation and the consultation culminated in the issuing of an order by General Speer for the men to go into camp two or three miles from here. One or two hundred have obeyed the order. General Speer wants the men to return to Franklin and live, as their presence necessarily draws a portion of the Canadian troops from Huntingdon. Many of the men express an earnest desire to go to Malone and would have done so had they money enough to pay transportation.

The United States Marshal received a telegram last night from Washington that the Government will not pay for their transportation home, but the expense must be borne by the State governments.

Colonel Marsh was reported here yesterday, and left for the border early this morning with fifty picked men. The report, however, needs confirmation.

General Donnelly died of his wounds to-day.

After the Fenians had pretty much all left Franklin, some Canadian troops came this side of the line and seized a piece of artillery and a large quantity of arms and ammunition that had been abandoned. Marshal Foster made a demand for their return, and the reply was that he could only have it at the point of the bayonet.

TORONTO, May 27.—The movement at Huntingdon began at 5 o'clock this morning. The Fenians constructed breastworks of rails across a field on the north bank of Trout river. At half past 8 the Canadian troops came up and opened fire. The Fenians fired a few shots and took to their heels. They were pursued to the boundary line, where, the officers displaying revolvers, attempted to form them into line, but it was fruitless. There was not a single casualty on the Canadian side. The Fenians left a few wounded and one killed on the field. The United States troops are advancing from Malone.

The Canadian papers, in treating the present Fenian raid, express the following views in its effect upon Canada. Fenianism is a miserable pest; a cause of annoyance and expense; a nuisance which the country is forced to suffer from continually without reason, entailing loss of life in an ignoble cause, and a disturbance of the business relations. To these evils the Canadian people would submit without complaint, if they thought the Imperial Government sufficiently considerate of their position, or would assume its share of the responsibility. They hold that the Imperial Government is remiss in not making proper representations at Washington, and demands of the United States Government that it shall take some steps to prevent these recurring invasions, the murder of brave men and waste of money. Canada, being a colony, is in no position to remonstrate with the United States Government. President Grant's proclamation, without a sufficient force to support it, is a farce. Unfriendliness to Great Britain has steadily marked the policy of the United States Government.

OSWEGO, May 27.—A company of the First Artillery, stationed at Fort Ontario, left here this morning for Malone.