14 DECEMBER 1861, Page 1
Military preparations continue uninterrupted. Thedock- yards and arsenals are in
full activity, and Armstrong guns have already been shipped for Canada. A corps d'armee, numbering twelve thousand men, with batteries,commissariat, and military train complete, are under orders, and will sail this week, whatever the American reply. Canada, with Mr. Seward in power, can no longer be left defenceless, and means have been provided to arm all volunteers whom the danger to the colony is sure to bring to the front. Invention is of course at work, and all the sledges sent are fitted with a new axle, by which the breadth between the wheels can be widened or contracted to fit any width of rut. The only arm not employed is cavalry, English troop horses being too thin-skinned to face a Canadian winter.
