Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-03
Head Center stevens I'm the Paris
6alOns-What Stevens says-HOw he
was ImprisOned-HOw he Escaped.
and what he Intends Doing.

Paris Correspondent London TInes.1
If the object of Mr.. Stevens (the "Head
Center in coming to Paris was to attract
general attention to his cause OF his per
son, It has proved q failure. Some year.
back this would not have been the case.
he would probably have been the adored
Of the faubourgs and the favored guest IN
democratic banquets. His portrait OF
what purports to be his portrait appears,
indeed, in the Monde MustrS in q few
shop windows, or in q kiosk Of the Boule-
wards, and his name has been mentioned
two or three times In the eh7onique Of one
OF two evening papers. But few stop to
look at the portrait, and few read the Cos
sip. The French pronounce the word
"Fenian" as they do "Fsinesnt," and ap-
pear to attach the same meaning TO both.
Now, SFaineant'i means q lazy, good-for-
nothing person, and no Frenchmsn is
battered BY such a designation. A writer
who declares that he spent some hours in
his company q few evenings ago sat the
house Of an illustrous sssdemician, who
desired to surprise his guests by the pres
ence Of one who at this moment causes
such disquiet to the English government y
thus relates his impression. He says:
The evening I saw him he was elegant
" dressed, observing, throughout a mod
est demeanor; waiting to be addressed
before speaking to any one, and answer
ing all questions put to him in q simple
and natural manner. When asked for
details as to his arrest, his imprisonment
and his plans, he said: any arrest took
place because I wished it. For many
hours I knew thst the police were on my
traces, and it was my pleasure to be ar.
rested, in order to prove that l could
escape with the greatest ease. While In
prison 1 was treated with the utmost re-
gard. l wanted for nothing, and in this
respect I cannot too highly praise the
English government But it was abso-
lutely necessary to depart l had e1-
pressed my desire to do so TO & person
Of whom 1 was sure, with whom an unex-
pected circumstance put me in cemmuni-
cation, and the prison doors, so to speak,
stood open before me. I don't know
whether any one meant to stop me, but
around me I saw only accomplices."
aBut once out of prison." observed 8
listener, show did you manage to leave
Ireland?1 "0nce out of prison l fed 10
the country. Money and a revolver were
given me. 1 then heard that q large
reward Of 10000 was offered for me,
and that any one who discovered me was
TO baing me to Dublin, dead or alive. I
remained, up to the time Of my getting on
board ship, in the country, living during
the day in q hun, and going out at night
to reach another. In every place where
I took refuge / was well known. Indeed,
I was expected there. Notwithstanding
the large sum offered by the Irish gov
eminent for my apprehension, nobody
ventured to inform against me; and this
single fact proves that ireland wa at my
disposal "And now, what are your
plans ?" II am going to America for an
army Of two hundred thousand men who
are expecting me, and I viii retnrn with
them to deliver Ireland, mycountry, from
the British yoke" ~