Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1853-08-18
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RICK 0'DoEoHoE, one of the Irish ex-
lies banished with Mitchell, Meagher,
and O'Brien, had escaped. and arrived
at New York. The Dublin Nation con-
tains the following account of his es-
cape:
We have this week received two des-
patches, one dated from Sydney, on the
18th Of February, the other from Mel
bourne, on me Sd Of January, treating
sf Patrick o'Donohoe's escape. We
are nos now, we believe, at liberty to
reveal the names of our correspondents;
but We hasten to place their narratives
before our readers.
The letter bearing the earlier date
runs thus:
"O'Donoloe is off. On Sunday, the
18th of December, he escaped from his
district crossed Bass Straits in storm,
and arrived on the Australian continent
en- the 29d- The dangers of his run,
and bis HAIR breadth escapes, shall be
given to you hereafter. He wrote out a
Tindication Of his escape previous to
starting. and sent Il by sure hand to
enc of the most distinguished members
of the Legislative Council From his
arrival on the 22d uit., he trayersed 800
miles of the beach and indentations of
Hobson's Bay, seeking ship bound for
America. Once he was received on
board a vessel bound for Spanish set
Element, and had actually paid the cap
tain f19o passage; but the fellow
proved to be a cowardly Welchman, who
went back of his bargain. The poor
fellows sufferings we're frightful. For
many days and nights he was without
sleep or rest, and on one day he travelled
ninety miles through the bush, subsist-
ing on brackish water, without parti-
Gle of food On New Years Day, he
went, disguised, alongside the Great
Britain, in Hobson's Bay, to ascertain if
he could get off by her. But he found
the locality thick with detectives-(one
of those institutions which glorious Eng
land propagates wherever she extends
her empire land he had to fly, in a
hurricane of hot winds, to remote creek.
That night he entered this city, clothed
In sou wester and blue shirt, tar like
and storm beaten. With singular good
fortune, he walked straight into hotel
which turned out to be kept by an Irish
man. He was received with the tender
est welcome, and tended with most
touching care. Four lrishmen, armed
cap-a-pie, mounted guard at his door,
and on the following day he actually
held levee, at which the principal men
of the town attended-every man of
them armed in his defence. Men rep
Tesenting half a million of capital waited
on him and pledged him their friendship.
And, though it was known to at least
FIVE hundred police and government
sympathizers, not one of them dared to
approach the house. Believe it, he will
not be taken alive or undefended.-
Three American vessels lie in the har-
Dor, and our plan is to remove him to
the country till we can secure berth
for HIM, and then we shall embark him
from some one of the thousand creeks
which indent this coast. He is six
miles from Port Arthur to-day, and done
with chain-gangs, skilly, and the Black
Serpent forever"
The communication from Sydney is as
follows, satisfactorily completing the
hurried narrative:
THANK God, third of the deported
Irish Rebels, Patrick O'Donohoe, has at
length escaped from his brutal persecu-
tors, the tyrant Dennison and his con-
viet blood hounds in Van Dieman's
Land. Iregret that it is not in my pow
er to furnish your readers with the full
particulars of Mr.. O'Donohoe's escape
from the moral plague-poison of the
South Seas. Suffice it to say that he
succeeded in reaching Port Philip in
safety, where, having met few trust
worthy friends, arrangements were
quickly set on foot to get him out of the
country. A contract was entered into
with the captain of vessel bound for a
foreign port, to take him of, for which
service the Captain received the sum of
f190. Mr.. O'Donshoe was immedi-
ately after put on board the vessel in
Hobson's Bay. But Judge of his aston
ishment and surprise when, after getting
on board, the Captain informed him that
unless be procured clearance from the
water police Office, he could not take him
away To this treacherous proposition
Mr.. 0'Donohoe demurred-r mon
STRANGE was vain-the cowardly, dis
honest skipper was inexorable. Mr.. O.
Donohoe had but two alternatives to
choose between-to submit to be cheated
out of his money, and leave the vessel,
pennyless outcast, or to compel this
roguish speculator to refund the ESQ.
He determined on the latter, and in or
der the more efectually to enforce his
last demand, he drew loaded pistol
from his bosom, and coolly told the skip.
per that unless he Immediately refunded
hismoney he would blow his brains out.
The threat took immediate efect-the
brave sailor trembled from head to foot,
and handed back the cash. 0'Donohoe
then left the ship, and had to fall back
once more upon his friends in Mel
bourne, who Immediately determined
upon sending him on to Sydney, where
be would stand better chance of ulti-
nately escaping the fangs of his pursu-
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