Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-12

The Preparations for his Reception-Gen
Meade ON the Alert

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| NEW YoRK, May l0.-The steamer Napoleon III
has arrived from Havre. The Post says that James
Stephens, the Fenian Head Centre, is passenger in
her.
| NEW YORK. May l0.-The Fenians are making
preparations for grand reception of Head Centre
stephens who arrived this afternoon in the steamer
| Napoleon III.
BUFFALO, May lO.-The Morning Erprsss has re-
| celved special despatch from New York, saving
| that the arrival of Stephens caused an important
| movement among the fenian Chiefs and that Gen.
Meade has been ordered to Buffalo with considerable
number of United States troops
SECOND DESPATCH
| BUFFALO, May lO.-SOme important movements are
expected in this region. The United States steana,
Michigan, which the point of sailing for Erie
mas been ordered to remain here. 1t is rumored that
United States troops have been ordered here
from the New Y ork Heraldl
| The "Knssuth of Ireland the "Head Centre n
| america, James stephens. is here. He arrived in
LnS city last evening from Hayre on the steamship
steamer nearly two hours elapsed before she could
oe brought alongside the dock and land har passen-
geIs; geIs; me news OF her approach, and the fact of
SIephenS being on board, was kept secret as
PIE Tor the purpose OF preventing two great crowd
from assembling. This would have succeeded ad-
mlrablv if the vessel had landed the passengers upon
her arrival opposite the dock about six o'ciocE as
mere were not more than one hundred persons pre-
| news soon spread like widire, so that when tbe
steamer arrived alongside the dock at Quarter he
lore eight r M, there were hundreds of people in.
| SIDE the enclosure and thousands outside
During the whole of the evening small boats fiIIed
with Iris hmen were TOwed to and round the steamer
with the hope that sight could be obtained of the
great Head Centre. One of the boats was struck Nv
| the bow of the tug towing the steamer, in which
there was, fortunately, but one man, who jumped
| 2yerooard and was rescued by neighboripg boat
There was great rush to be admitted inside the en-
closure of pier 50, but only the Executive Committee
of the Fenan Brotherhood the Custom House Of;
A q fpyV dc
successful. The remainder took boats and were
landed at the river end Of the pier. Up to halfpast
SIX o'clock the reception promised to be very tame
affair, but after that hour the people increased to
such an extent that the dock was crowded.
| ~ FIRST sIGHT OF STEPHENS,
| The Napoleon III. was towed to the left of the
per- those on the outside Of the gate being unable
to see her. To those inside she lay broadside and
the passengers were distinctly on her decks
The crowd was ordered to fall back from the front of
tne slngWay, as no passenger would be landed if it
remained there. After the order was obeyed, and
| the Executive Committee were to the left Of the
wheelhouse, Head Centre Stephens and two or three
| gentlemen appeared at the gangway. Mr.. Stephens
was instantly recognized, and loud cheers and cries
from the crowd. Mr.. Stephens bowed once or twice,
when the cheering increased; he then raised his hat
and advanced to the bulwarks, where he stepped
upon something which raised him a foot or so above
| his friends, leaned forward, waved his hat and
| bowed. Then broke forth YELL which was repeat-
| ed back from the thousands beyond the enclosure
| peculiar Irish yells, which were echoed and re,
eee99led until Mr.. stephens stepped down and was
| hidden from view
THE wELCONE.
a few minutes later and the Head Centre with a
friend passed from the ship to the dock In an in
slant he was surrounded, and such vigorous shak-
ing of hands or shouts of JOY have been seldom seen
OF aearai Mr. STEPHENS received these tokens of
was calm and perfectly se-pOssessed smiling bow
ing and shaking hands as ii he only in circle of
Sociabe friends, instead of a joyintox xcated crowd
The pressure was becoming even too great for tina
calm Head Centre himself, when he was hurried of
by the committee, Colonel Kelly having taken his
Rafferty, phe oil
OF the enclosure was thrown open, and they passed
out followed by the remainder of the committee by
two and two. have said that they passed out-a
tame expression for the jamming crowd which surged
and swayed ike the waves of the sea. The cad
Centre, committee, reporters, policemen and the i'm
was the rush that those nearest the fence on each
side Of the deck cried with pain at the pressure and
the shafts and wheels OF carriages snapped like
reed 10 add to the tumul the horses of several of
the vehicles became almost unmanageable, and more
than one person was injured by their restiveness
The crowd centered around the carriage on the
dock and it was with great difficulty that the horses
could be made to move forward. At this moment a
man shouted Take out the horses" and hundred
voices repeated, Yes take out the horses" but the
driver, alarmed at these cries. applied the whip with
ward scattering the crowd right and left Passing up
Charlton street to Hudson on sharp trot with tho
hundreds following and cheering, order was given
to drive slower, but this sooner done than the
cry again arose of Take out the horses' when the
horses were again put to the trot by the frightened
driver, and this pace continued up Spring street
until the carriage arrived at Broadway. The crowd
followed and people assembled at the corners of
streets at this cheering, and rushed from their houses
and stores 10 plain carriage drawn by span Of
beautiful metted grays IN which were Mr.. stephens
and three gentlemen. with shouting crowd of eight
or ten hundred men and boys following
The speed Of the carriage was again slackened
upon reaching Broadway, and there rush in earn est
made to take out the horses, and notwithstand-
ing several policemen nterfered, the traces were
fastened and the horses almost freed from the car
rlage Just as it arrived opposite the. Metropolitan
Hotel, when Mr.. stephens and his friends stepped
out and through a living Fass almost as dense as
the one on the dock passed into the hotel, and was
the stairs, and the rushing crowd prevented from
| following.
The Executive Committee, reporters and a few
prominent members of the I. R. 3. were allowed to
pass and accompany him to his room; and seeing him
for the first time in good light your reporter is
able to furnish your readers with
DESCRIPTION OF Mr.. STEPHENS.
Head-Centre stephens is about forty years of
age having been born in 1928. in Kilkenny, county
| Kilkenny Ireland. Though bald he does not look
| over forty. He has more the look of Scotchman
| than an Irishman. He has a, fine blue eye, small
plexlon. dis hair Is brown and curly. lie wears
whiskers and moustache in true pariarcha STYLE and
has mild smiling look. In stature he is about five
very quick IN his motions steps lightly, turns his
body rapidly and uses his hands with facility. He
coat: He wore turned down Byron collar, with
black silk neckerchief the broad ends lying upon
his bosom. In the street he wore black silk hat.
The Great Telescope at Chicago.
Chicago prides herself with justice, upon possess
ing great telescope which is claimed to be the veri
table ladder seen in Jacobs dream connecting the
earth with heaven. This telescope is now in position
and is tho leading topic in that CITY, Describing the
powers of this remarkable instrument, the Chicago
Tribune says
That lens, eighteen and half inches in diameter
should be accurately formed as that ray of light
striking every point on its surface shall be accurately
refracted through length of twentysthree feet to
meet at the same focal spot, uniting in no
larger than needle point is W0ndrous in the extreme
We saw the telescope few days ago turned on to
Sirius IN broad daylight. The outlined form was
clear distinct broken only by slight tremor due to
/ an atmospheric wave.
In this fact we have a sample of the powers of the
instrument. Sirius and his companion are so near
together apparently that the angle between them
is but about ten seconds of arc, value small that
its tangent is but 0O004S48l35 when the radius is one;
Or IN other words placing the apex of the angle in
the eye at tn the distance Of mile the sides would
over three inches, and but about the hundredth
part of an inch at the distance of six yards. Two
stars so close together ought to be twins Yet il is
known to astronomers that the two are not necessa-
Tily related: The companion, may be, and proba-
| bly, is, millions and billions of miles distant
than Sirius, and the rays Of light from the two so
nearly concident solely in consequence of our acc-
dental position nearly in the prolongaon of the line
The public is doubtless long ere this familiar with
the fact that the companion of Sirius discovered
fcent to give 1t wide celebrity in European scien-
t1c circles; the value of the telescope may be in
| ferred from the facts above glanced at.
When the apparatus is perfectly adjusted,
the great telescope will be at once directed 70 the
1 sublime work of astronomical research, and the
Chicago people anticipate disclosures in reference
| our macrocosm that will pale the Intellectual fires"
OF the old stargazers such Hersche and La Place.
and perhaps revolutioniZe many existing theories.
| A VOLCANO AT VENICE.-The Venice journal
| contain accounts of singular phenomenon which
has just taken place in that city. Works had been
for some time past going in the garden adjoining
the Saint Agnes Church for boring artesan well,
and depth of one hundred and sixty feet had been
| reached. when one afternoon rumbling noise was
heard underground and almost Immediately after a
column of water of the diameter of the well spouted
forth to the height of the neighboring houses. The
liquid accompanied with smoking masses of
Shiny matter and ashes, which emitted suffocating
| smell of gas. Engineers at once commenced works
to make channel for the water, as the ground had
become saturated and the walls of the churches and
were evacuated by their inha btants. The eruption
continued until midnight but in the meantime
| about one hundred tons of sand and other earthly
| matter had been thrown up. The lights in the
| neigh hborhood ordered to be extinguished and
| no smokers were allowed to approach the spot for
| fear of explosion. The cause of this occurrence is
believed to be the expansion of gas compressed in
| the layers of earth which found an outlet in the
| orihce made by boring the well.
RINDERPEsT IN THE HUMAN SPECIES, AND IT'S CURE.
There is story going on in \ orth Stafford hire
that farmer in the direction of Leek, who had lost
some cows was fully persuaded that he had himself
| been attacked by the epidemic. Forthwith he con-
suited his medical man, who tried to laugh him
| out of the notion, but to no purpose The farmer
then went off to old well-knoWn practitioner, who