The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-12
FROM MEUROPEBYSTEAMER

Fsnians, Written Before HIS ExecutiOn
The EruptiOn of Mount Vesuvius-
ThrIllinE Scene.
The following Is published in the Manchester
Guardian as the last letter of the Fenian brien,
alias Gould, addressed TO his BROTHER Just before
the writer was executed
NEW BAILEY P.IsoH Noy ~ lsSH sS MY NY Dsm Ssa5
letter essed TO the Governor OF this prison 9y
state suspense, therefore may as well
let you SnoT al hSw e@ r. S m was nnr rom M
beginning end aud II should die In consequence,
HbOSd i %id SlS iesr % 70 dieY i Innocent as am of the
charge TBcs s e5y Iy Of ssed 3 o % P5s sS
and jury the credit Of saving they believed me guilty
friend 70 liberty IA hs,er , Of s re entlsss cruelty and
exists ia your beautiful island must say, though,
much like to i've cannot roget dying in the cause
me By % 99 sSnSs % IT, ss 9f s the %sty s
have suffered aud died proudly, nobly, ana why
glorious by the number OF its martyrs. aud the hero
@ an % oget hs az Pste9 Ne crow
ley died only a short time since In this cause.
Far desrer the of the prison illumned by
Than the trophies Of all who have risen lioertys
"I should be ashamed of my manhood II thought
myself capable OF doing anything mean TO save my
would beneht myself Let no man think cause ls
thai Ts, Sc who suffer We're 1 earnest and should be-
am INCENTIVE to o. hers to be equalysoso DO their duy
as confident Of the Ultimate OF irish patriot
mercy and goodness viii strengthen the arm Of the
patriot and give him wisdom 70 free his country.
patience, The greater our suilerIngs the more go-
co@nr % is Pop nf e Sfs s 81 our OF the
stricken mother and the helpless infant as well as
God is slow; but Just The blood Of Tone. Fitzgerald
has il done the iyrant aud the roS6erP None.
s. i'm 0'BrsnI McMS91s, and Mitchell suffered s.;
verey, yet their suherings nor those Of O'Dono9an
lRosssl aud MS c9mPanlons aIa not a deter Burke
% spa sna on bs spSect Al SreSer length S
hope have said enough to show you that If man
ies liberty his memory lives In the breasts Of the
sG sST m7 Sn iaSsr %cipst sisters Testony fSsttag
g Whe% esge 1hs to 5S hs wan anfes Ds sn
saints OF % Goo and sing ~, praises tor ali ssefnty;
Joy haPpness a h%Ve Sep
am sorry say we cannot hear mass, the good priest
Is not aISwed to say Il in TINS pIlson Give my love
lirs, Tim SsthSrne. nncles. aunts, aud cousins.
"MICHAEL o BRIEN, alias w N. GOULD"
The Eruption OF VesuvIUs.
The progress of the eruption Is thus described
in a Naples letter, dated the 2lst ultimo: :-"For
one or two days 1t has been enyeloped in such
thick clouds that all we have Witnessed from a
distance has been at intervals the lighting up of
the dense mass with lurid red color. Yester-
day. however, bitter northeast wind sweet
and cleared the cloud-capped summit, revealing
a scene of extraordinary magnidcence. Not
witbstanding the stormy and rainy state OF the
II, NJ
as has been evident at distance from the
torches glitterng like glowworms ou the rugged
sides of Vesuvlus, and borrow from tue report
of friends who ascended last night some ob.
servations as TO its actual state. Starting from
Naples at about eight O'Clock, they got up TO the
Hermitage at hall-past ten o'clock, wellsoaked
with the rain, and were by no means displeased
to find abundant spread laid out for
Smother party of more proyident 'Brltishers.'
Imagine a midnight picnic on Ves1YluS, With
pigeon pie aud champagne dd Hbttunl Still the
rain descended in torrents, aud i. was not until
after 2 O'Clock in the morning that, in sheer des
peration, they emerged from their hospitable
shelter and commenced Inc heavy ascent of the
Srand cone. Yet all our suher1ugs and fatigue
say they were well repaid by the grandeur OF
the spectacle To the crater itself they could
not reach but as near to it as was safe we sat
down on monticello OF cinders, and watched
the scene. Vesuvius shook and trem bled at the
efforts it was making; it painted aud roared ike
some gigantic furnace; there was a sound, rapid
and repeated, as of the discharge of a VOlley
of musketry, and there rose to the heavens,
full one thousand feet gorgeous mass Of
lava stones, both great and small, and hne
ashes We calculated the interval which
elapsed before IC iel at from five to ten seconds,
varying in duration according, to the violence
of the eruptions which took place almost
every second. The larger stones-rocks they may
be almost called-rolled at times down 10 the
SPOT where we were seated, while the smaller
ones were carried by caprice of tue wind jim
various directions. Not lar from us, in the
direction of Ottajano, rolled down stream OF
liquid lava from 40 to SO feet in width and 10
or IL feet in height. Like pebbles on a shingly
beach agtated by storm was the noise it made
in its progress; the scOrie on the surface fell
continually over, and thus ever diminishing,
yet ever increasing in proportions, the stream
rolled steadily on and reached the bottom of
the mountain. There were, however, last night
many streams, presenting the appearance of an
inverted hand so that the mountain on each
side seemed all abaze. The lava is now coming
down towards the Hermitage. We can mark
its red and sinuous course even from
splendor than any we have yet witnessed
We can hear too the thunders of Natures
artillery while each charge IS folio we'd
by display which 1t is useless to attempt to
describe. Different, yet scarcely less grand. are
the day effects. Volumes and volumes OF dark
and then falling and circing and rolling one
over the other, file off like heavy battallons
towards Capri. The column OF smoke Is percep'
f1ble to the eye of all across the bay, lingering
horizontally until it derives fresh impulse
from each successive eruption. For eight day!
this brilliant spectacle has been exhibited witt
ever increasing grandeur, and the probabiitie
are that il will continue some time longer
Within tWenty-four hours, the temperature ha
changed from degree of heat inducing lassi
tude to piercing cold. Every one is muf1le(
closely up, but the bright sun above us will sooI
warm up the atmosphere
Explosion on Board a Steamer at Liver.
pOOl-GreAL Loss OF Life.
From The Liverpool Times, Of NOU. 3d.
An explosion Involving the loss of a tint
steamer, called the BabulIna, and the destruc
tiOn Of large number OF lives, occurred earll
yesterday morning in the Mersey. The Buba
lima, once well known as the Confederate block
ade runner Colonel Lamb, was steamer in tht
service of the Greek Government and wa
apRhnFnO he I,frap fla