Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1876 — The Fenian Escape From New South Wales. [ARTICLE]

The Fenian Escape From New South Wales.

New York, Aug. 19. Thomas Henry,'one of the Fenians who arrived in the Catalpa to-day said to a reporter: “We were expecting for about two years that we would be rescued from prison. We always kept on the alert for a movement of any kind which could he turned to our advantage. We were notified of the sailing of the Catalpa, and expected her in March, but we did not hear of her arrival until a few days before the 17th of April, the day on which we effected our purpose. After breakfast, on the 16th, about ten minutes to eight o’clock, we left the prison gates unobserved, and entered carriages provided for us. Our party numbered about eleven, including outsiders who kept in the front and rear to keep a sharp lookout for enemies. We reached Rockingham at 11:30 a. m., where a whaleboat from the Catalpa was lying, and got on board the boats. The crew were then in charge of an officer from the vessel. During the journey by land we were mot molested, though we met several persons. When we were 2S miles from shore the police came up and captured our horses and which had been left on the beach. We had great trouble in finding the Catalpa, and the police got a boat and were searching for us. A storm arose and blew us out to sea, and our provisions were destroyed,

and m were all wet. Night came on. and we were in a deplorable condition. When daylight broke we saw the Catalpa and made for her. When about seven miles from the vessel we saw .the colonial steamer Georgette and the police cutter searching for" us, but they could not see us owing to the rough cross seas. The police kept the Catalpa in sight while the steamer went to land. We were then twenty miles from land and near .Rottenness, and rowed with all our .strength to the bark. At this time both the Catalpa and a police boat had discovered us, and the latter was fast pulling toward us, but we beaded the i>olice cutter and reached the Catalpa first, and scrambled ou board. “ The crew of the bark gave a cheer, and we rushed over to the other side of the deck and drew our revolvers, and presented them at the heads of seven men in the police-boat. The steamer Georgette was commissioned by the Government officials to follow us. The bark could not go to sea that night as the wind was dead ahead. The next morning the Georgette bore down on us and demanded that the Captain of the Catalpa give up the prisoners, which the latter refused, and the Georgette sailed for the shore.”

Fancy the horror of a man when the vow pbiaetic telegraph sends his wife’s neice shrieking through the Lodge room, with the familiar cry: “You old brute! come straight home or that front door will be bolted.’"—Were York Commercial Adotrliur. Snare April 12,256,000 barrels of oil have been destroyed by lightning in the Pennsylvania oil regiou. ■■ No man is tolerated at Sasntoga unless he has money or can lisp.