New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-13

within the ast three weeks orders had been given 10
burn Incense ~ passed. let me now turn to the To-
mates. There were five hundred in all. Some were
in cells Themselves, Manetta the celebrated spy,
whose oily, hypOciiical manner explained 10 me the
Ieastn Of his easy access 10 Ferdn md RI. His son
was in another close by, and another not far Off
III cir mattresses were on the damp stone ground aud
Of them complained Of the awful stiok-it must
come out, no other word will give it--n his cell.
There men ntrited, however, little compassion, for
they bad been the of much greater suffering 10
bendTtds. We saw, too Mscario, the friend and soy
of CampagDa, as visiDous looking fellow as nature
ever turned out, and the executOner Of Palermo aud
others of the crew. who have been the instruments Of
Cespotifn. One fe't sympathy for them, but only
asktd for justice. In other rooms we saw twenty or
more wretohe6.lookiDg men, swelering half dressed
in the heat of an oven. "Excellenza,' shouts one,
six years in prison under the police, aud no trial
When shall | be liberated p Twenty months ~
cIies another, and Fourteen monthsl" another.
We thought the Constitution would lberate us ~
And so we went through a variety Of cells where
spppi'ce were thrust into the Commissioners hands
and enforced by many tear and prayer la one
chamber we came on an cid man, half IDIOT in
Manner who bad been condemned 10 six years
reclusiOn for baspbemy, and if he did not become
ten times the blasphener before his time was I'D be
would be no man. In the short time that ne state
of things bas been introduced much Is been done
az was possible walls have been whtewsshed often
sive smt)ls or the worst removed, and many victim
has been released but uetce is yet 10 be administered
there cleanliness yet to be introduced and those de-
positores,' as Cerberus called them must be closed
My friend with the snui-boX and the Commissioner
represented two different states OF things the past AMI
II G present. and while the former looked with spe-
cies of tenderness his pet relics Of antiquity the lat
ter full of hopes of better things Leaving this
prieon we went to visit the Criminal of the Project
ure. There were shouts and cries of Viva we
entered, and rush OF people. What was the matter
The National Guard just now on duty had brought in
policeman. Pale and trembling, the wretched catif
ftOod in the midst Of them, and he was delivered yer
he nth for az vt
elfe. But let us not strike man who Is down. On
ward we go through herd Of policemen, all h1dded
up together and fearing attack from the mob until
arrive at dark cell where those said police
had probably thrust many poor devil. " hgnt, a
light" and so we CROPPED about this dark, damp, and
filthy place, where stood in the corner large white
vase The common place Of reeffor Fix PERSONS
and bich removed once day. Oh, the vile stencil
which was in this room We returned through the
corridor occupied by policemen, took breath Of
air. went down some more steps, and preceded by our
light, stumbled over heaps Of books which had besn
seized in dOmcilaTy visits There was dark room,
and stone bed in the and stone pillow; all
was stone and all was damp and dark aud this room
opened into another where ia one-thrd part Of il no
human being could stand upright Opening there W 8
for either light or air God only helped those
who have been confined there, and some Of my friends
have been there. We heayed long aud heavy breath
ss came out and then went TO visit another cham
Der which had not yet seen, % which the Others
palaces. We paddle through the filth, and pass by
doorway into III dungeon beyond dark and damp Ike
the other. There is stone ected here and there
against the wall foot square, on which the
pIisoreTs sat. sbould have been choked in half an
hour had remained there 50 horrible WAS the stencil
In the middle was loose stone, and below il a hole
into which all the dirt of the room was empted Chill
Ion was az dark but not filthy. l could not have
imagined the existence of such foul places; foI the re-
speCt baye for our common nature | could not have
believed it possible that man would have so martyrzed
his brother.
have two observations 10 make-these deps ara in
the very center of the capital of the Two Sices not
a stones throw from the Royal Palace in a country
where priests oOUgregate in heds secondly they have
BEEN seen and the facts ca be atested 6y four other
English gentlemen who accompanied me. Let no
EDgliehBan therefore, for very shame hencefOr ward
dare 10 defend they have defended state of things
which has been to humanity and reflection on
the civilization and Christian spirit of the age. IL is
against a system of which these pi sOns form part
that have been writing for years. and the weak and
superficial and the crminay interested have unceas-
iDgly condemned as exaggvratons my statements, be-
eaule f9rsOOth they d not care to have heirrePose