The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-22
WONDERFUL ADVENTURE.

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The New York Daily Ne1os hes letters from
Ireland which profess TO give accounts OF the
escape OF Head Centre Stephens of the Fenian
Brotherhood, from British soil. We copy the
material portions of the correspondence
DUBLIN, March 8, 1S66.-Stephens has escaped
Will the intelligence be new to your readers, or
shall simply be serving up dish of cTdnbe re-
petite by retailing it? | cannot tell; but this
much l do know, that while the news OF the
Head Centres escape is not even yet generally
known in this city, there are not fifty men IN
Ireland able 10 supply the particulars. II was
only on this evening that the simple fact OF MS
departure was permitted to be bruited about,
and up 10 the present instant, not a line ot ln'
formation on the subject, save an intimaton lhat
some false rumors were being circulated IN rete-
renee to it, has appeared in any newspaper:
am not able myself to give an authoritative
narrative of the extraordinary event which IS
destined to excite so much commotlon IN thls
country and in your own, but am ape TO sup
ply some particulars which believe are correct
in the main and which reach me from sources
which have good reason to believe are per-
fectly Trustworthy.
America is said to have been formed by Stephens
as far back as Christmas last.
a On Sunday evening last, about $50 Z. Ne, lust
as the shadows of night were falling over Ddbltn,
a handsomely appointed open carriage contain
ing FIVE persons and driven by four dashing
horses, two of which were bestriddea by pos
tillons, drew up before second-class hotel in
one OF our DeSJ kITpeUS, not u QUARTER VI Il ullG
from the General Post Office.
The occupants of the carriage were quickly
Joined by a sixth person, compact, muscuIsrlY
built man, with fair beard and piercing eyes,
moderate pace through the heart Of the city,
up Sackvillc street. along the highway lead
ing northward from the city, past the spot
where Clarke, the suspected informer, met
his doom, and then onward at full gauop,
the horses heads still turned to the north, while
their hoois spurned the earth with rapid motion
as they tore along from the city suburbs toward
Drogheda. The lamps were glimmering through
the darkness that Oyerspread Dublin as James
Stephens-for Stephens it was who ha last
stepped into the earriage-tuTned his back on
the City of the Pale.
The occupants OF the carriage Grish Ameri-
cans all except Stephens) were each of them
we'll supplied with revolvers, one OF them carry
ing as many as four OF these formidable weapons
in his belt; and the outriders, both good
Fenians, were also armed to the teeth. Had
score Of policemen crossed their path that night
i am inclined to think Stephens and his party
would have been able to give good account OF
them.
Fortunately for all parties. however, no ne
cessty for resortlng to these desperate extremi
ties arose, and Stephens with his companions
reached the end Of ther land journey, a sandy
cove about half mile distant from Skerries, in
perfect safety, at about 10 o'clock. skerrieS is a
picturesque little fishing village on this coast
some 80 miles north of Dublin. Here they
speedily effected communication through
the medium of a fishing smack with the
vessel which was lying.to a short distance sea-
wards, and which had been engaged for the
work of taking Stephens of, and before day
break on Monday Stephens was far at sea,
beyond the power and jurisdiction of the enemies
who thirsted so ardently for his capture. The
bark which carried Caesar and his tortunes'
was sailing vessel, and her course, after leav-
ing the Irish shore, was steered for "the sunny
land OF France"
Stephens, may add. left Ireland unaccompa
MED by any of those who had escorted him from
Dublin, the whole of whom drove back to this
city on Sunday night / am bound TO state that,
while the above narrative is in perfect accord
ance with information which think is accurate
and reliable in every feature, another version of
the escape, differing from that 1 have given
in some important particulars, is supplied
by persons not likely to be lllinformed.
According to this account Stephens and his
friends drove not toward SkerTies, but to
Kmgstown, where the Head Centre embarked
on board a steam tug, which soon placed him
on board large American steamer, which tnen
proceeded at full speed to New FORK. Which.
ever of these stories is the true one, this much,
at least is certain: that Stephens left this city
at the hour have mentioned, on Sunday even
ing last, and left it IN the manner have de-
scribed; that he embarked on the same night on
boart sea-going vessel; and that he is now far
beyond the limits of the dominions OF her gra
cious Majesty Queen Victoria.