The movement was made about 3 o'clock a.m.; but in order to guard against surprise, they left their pickets behind.

These our officers determined to capture, as well as all the stragglers.
The boat then steamed back to Fort Erie, when a party of four men went ashore and succeeded in taking seven prisoners the first haul.

The Welland Field Battery was also landed, with instructions to scour the woods along the liver bank for stragglers.

The boat was then headed down the stream, and was proceeding very slowly, keeping a sharp lookout along the bank.

We had not gone far before discovering a small body of eight or ten Fenians ahead of us, armed with rifles and bayonets fixed, who were about to get into a small boat and re-cross to the American shore.