TRAIN IN DURESSE.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 249, 19 May 1868, Page 3

TRAIN IN DURESSE.

This characteristic letter from G. F. Train has found its way into an English exchange : " Cell 12, Cork Gaol, spell gaol or cell wardrobe? Monday, Jan. 20. Dear Parker Pillsbury—Am prohibited from writing editors by the Governors. Can receive no letters, nor send any, except endorsed by him with initials, in red ink, ' J.J.' They have taken away everything but my gay-e-ty, so pardon this colored paper. I have been in many gaols, but never before in a murderer's cell. The Government, however, kindly pay my board. Inasmuch as I dropped one hundred thousand dollars in giving them street railways, it is fair that I get back some interest. My cell is nine feet square j walls two feet thick ; lock one foot square]; key ten inches long—weighs a pound ; straw bed, no pillow ] no mat on cold stone floor; no candle allowed. Hence from five a.m. to seven p.m., fourteen hours in the dark. No clothes since arrested—Friday night. Body searched. Nothing left on my person but these few sheets of Monsieur Gayety. No knife to clean fingers ; no comb for hair. No one allowed to come into my cell. Came in with police escort armed with Snider breech-loaders, and am not allowed to see a newspaper. Know nothing of what has transpired since leaving New York, the Bth January. Theory of British law: Every-

body innocent till found guilty. Practise : Everybody guilty till found innocent. No letters to press are allowed to pass unless first submitted to Sir Thomas Larcom, the highest authority at Dublin. First night was whistling 'Yankee Doodle,' when I was peremptorily stopped by the gaoler—not allowed. Sung 'Hail Columbia,' and 'Happy Land ' —not allowed, against the rules. Was told if I repeated it I should be reported. So I began to talk. Reminded me of Peter Caggar, of the Albany Regency, of Chicago, 'Unless the gentleman comes to order, I shall be obliged to call him to name.' Should you see Mrs. Stanton and Anthony, tell them that their paper carried the snake. They gave me fifty copies, and some of the Womens' Rights, Kansas Epigram, Campaign in Kansas pamphlets/ My Irish paper passed, but the word ' Revolution'—the name of the paper—was too much ; all were at once confiscated. Police authorities knew it, though the book and the paper were submitted to the Inspector-General, and he brought me before the magistrate. They read the articles on Finance, Press Woman, and Miss Anthony's speech at Raling on the American papers, and treason was at once pronounced, and here I am. Give yourself no trouble. Shed no tears. My friends Beecher, Phillips, Greely* and Pilton will be sure that I get my deserts. I have just furnished a long statement to the London Times, but the Government has prohibited it. Of course I have heard nothing from Adams. Probably playing poker with Stanley, as Seaward used to play whist with Lord Lyons. Sincerely, G. F. Train."