The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-03-27
Rumored Escape Of stephens from
IreIand-A Romantic story.

HUNDRED Escape of stephens from
IreIand-A Romantic story.
The Daily News has adyices from its
Dublin correspondents to the effect
that James Stephens, the Irish Head
Centre, succeeded in making his es-
cape from Ireland on the 4th inst, and
that he sailed either for this country or
France. By reference TO our foreign
news it will be seen that the report was
discredited by the English authorities.
The way in which the escape is said
TO have been effected is thus described,
On Sunday evening last, about 6l
o'clock, Just as the shadows of night
we're falling over Dublin, a handsomely
appointed open carriage, containing
FIVE persons and driven by four dash
ing horses, two of which were bestrid-
den by postillions, drew up before a
second class hotel in one of our best
streets, not a quarter of n mile from
the General PostOfice. The occupants
Of the carriage were quickly joined by
a sixth person, a compact, m~uscularly
built man, with fair beard and piercing
eyes, and the whole party then drove
oil at a moderate pace through the
heart of the city, up Sackville street,
along the highway leading northwsrd
from the city, past the spot where
Clarke, the suspected iuformer, met his
! doom, and then onward at full gallop,
the horses heads still turned TO the
north, while their hoofs spurned the
earth with rapid motion as they tore
along from the city suburbs towards
/ Drogheds. The lamps were gEmmer-
| ing through the darkness that over
spread Dublin as James ~Stephens-for
stephens it was who last stepped into
| the carrisge-turned his back on the
City of the Pale Hundreds Of clever
men, rs he well knew, were engoged
within IT, striving TO discover a means
of earning the reward placed upon his
head, in castle yard aud detective of
/ fee. and police station, the minions
of the Government were t~orturinC
| their brains in the endeayor to light
on some clue which might lead them
TO the discovery Of the arch-conspira-
tor; and, what was OF far more import
ane, within the Castle itself, Gov
eminent officials, high in rank, were
| del. berating as TO the value TO be at
tsched TO the information, which some
traitor had brought there a day before;
that James Stevens was about to tempt
his fate by endeagoring TO quit Ireland
But Of this last fact Stevens and his
friends were ignorant They not know
that the authorities were on the scent
and that the work of searching vessels
outward bound from the IRISH coast
had already commenced Opposition
to their plans they expected none, but
s. moderate amount OF il they were pre-
pared to face The occupants of the
carriage (lrish-Americans all except
Stephens) were each of them well sun.
piled with reyoiyers One of them car
ried as many as four of these formida- .
be weapons in his belt and the out
riders, both good Fenians, were also
armed 10 the teeth. Had A score of
policemen crossed their path that night .
! am inclined 10 think Stevens and his
party would have been able TO give a
good account Of them Fortunately
for all parties, however, no necessity |
for resortlng 70 these desperate EXTERN. |
tiles arose, and Stevens with his com.
panians reached the end Of their land
Journey, q sandy ooy about half a mile
distant from Skerries, IN perfect safety.
81 ABOUT 10 o'clock. Skerries Is q mic.
turesque little fishing village on this
coast some 80 miles north Of Dublin.
Here they speedily effected communi-
cation through the medium Of a fishing
smack with the vessel which was living
TO = short distance seward, and which
mad been engaged for the work of tai.
ing Stevens OF, and before daybreak
Stevens was far at sea beyond the pow
er and jurisdiction OF the enemies who