The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1866-04-06
Escape of Stephens.-Howah he Evaded
the British officials.
Correspondents of The New York News.
DCELIS. March g

teniaHs to- night; loud is their exultalion
high>ton their rejoicing. There are no
tar barrels blazing on the hililops around
Dublin, no illumination in the windows,
no fireworks in the streets, but thousands !
Of hearts are beating exultinglv in this |
city tonight, for the news has gone out
that the British government have been
baaed once again, and that their host. of
spies, detective police, and agents paid
and unpaid have been once more Knocked,
laughed at, eiuded, hoodwinked, and Sc,
at defiance by the captain of the Irish
Fenians
Stephens has escaped.
The intention Of quitting this country
! for America is said to have been formed
by Stephens as fer back a Christmas
last
A part from the serious risks ne ran BY
remaining here, where the whole power of
the government was concentrated on at
tempting to recapture him, he probably
felt that the course of Fenian affairs in
America was such as to render his pres
ence there absolutely necessary TO the sue
cess, if not to the existence, of the ORGAN
ization. The prospects Of the movement
in this country were such as to afford no
Inducements for remaining, and, whoever
might have been led astray by the rumors
or risings" about to occur, circulated
during each week Of the past twelve,
Stephens himself, am inclined to think,
was far too clear sighted to fail in preceiv-
/ ing that the action Of the government and
! the course OF events rendered such an at
tempt, on anything like on extended scale
utterly impossible under existing circum
| stances But however desirable he might
/ have felt it to leave bis country for bis
country's good the difficulties which lay
in the way were such as would appear to
an ordinary mind insuperable. In the
/ first place, it was necessary to charter
/ good sailing vessel or steamer specially for
the purpose, siace the passenger vessels
leaving this country are not only closely
watched at their departure, but take With
| them regularly band Of detectives whose
| sole duty is to look COR the head center
! among the passengers in the next, the
swarms of spies and detectives in every
/ garb that infested our seaports had to be
evaded and lastly, the greatest caution
had to be exercised to prevent the secret
of his intended departure from transporting,
To most men, as have sad, these d FL
culties should have seemed insurmonnt-
able. but Stephens overcome them with
the same GOODNESS, dex Gritty, and ingenu-
| ty tina, have charac,eriz. d so many of bis
previous exploits.
On Sunday evening last, about $50 p.
! m just as the shadows OF night were fall
ing over Dublin handsomely appointed
/ open carriage containing five persons and
/ driven BY tour da,hine horses, two of
which we're be>tridden 10y Positions, drew
| up before a srcond>class hotel in one Of
our best streets, not a quarter Of a mile
from the general postoffice. The occu>
pants of the carriage were quickly joined
| oy a sixth person, musculary built man,
with fair beard and piercing eyes, and the
whole party then drove off at a moderate
space through the heart Of the cit, up
! Sachvile sttet, along the highway leads
ing northward from The city, past the spot
where Clarke the suspected informer, met
his doom, and then onward at full gallop,
! tie horses heads still turned 10 The north
while their hoofs spurned the earth with
! rapid motion as they tore along from the
city suburbs toward Drogheda. The
lamps were glmmering through the dark
ness that olerspread Dublin as James
Stephens-for Stephens it was who had
last STEPPED into the carriage tnrned biz
| kou I he cf =, o., a.,
Of clever men, AS he knew well, were en-
gagged within it, striving to discover a
means OF earning the rev ard placed upon
his head in Castle yard, and detective
Office and police station, the minions Of
! the government were tOrturing their
brains in the endeavor to light upon some
clue which might lead them to the dscov-
cry Of the arch conspirator; and what was
of moIe importance, within the castle it,
self, government officials, high 10 rank,
were celebrating as to the value to be al
tached to the information, which some
traitor bad brought there day before,
that James Stephens was about to temp:
bis fate by endeavoring to Quit Ireland
But Of this last fact Stephens and his
lfieHus were lShoThul. luep ulu not
know that the authorities were on the
scent, and that the work Of searching the
vessels outward bound from the Irish
coast had already commenced Opposi-
ton to their plans they expected none,
but a moderate amount of il they were
prepared to face, TIE occupants of the
carriage Orish Americans all except
S'ephens) were each of them well supplied
with revovers. One of them carried as
many as four of these formidable weapons
in his belt, aud the outsiders, both good
Fenians, were also armed to the teeth
Had score of policemen crossed their
path that night, | am inclined tc think
Stephens and his party would have been
able to give good account Of them
Fortunately for all parties, however, no
necessity for resortpg to these desperate
extremities arose, and Stephens with bis
companions reached the er d of their land
journey, a sandy cove about half a mile
distant from Skerries in periec. safety. a,
abou, 10 O'Clock. Skerries is plctur.
esque little fishing village on this coast,
some thirty miles north o.! Dublin. Here
they speedy Effected communicable
through the medium Of fishing smack