Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-11-26
rha norror. u be PapaI Prl.ans.

The Florence Malone presents US with the
summary ola little work, entitled Il e " Prisons
of Paliano.n II is the record of the experi-
ence of several political pr soners, written in
the Ponti6cal dungeons OF Palialo. These
tombs for the living are now, thanks to recent
events, empty. One prisoner writes:
ain the tort of Paliano there are about two
hundred political prisoners, dressedhke GRIM
inals condemned to the galleys, and Ike them,
shaved. They are divided into i've sections,
Those condemned ftOr life are shat apiR-e cells,
about nine spans wide and about s%ixteenloug,
including the little table of brickwotk j Other
cells. about three spans wider, contain pris-
oners; end Others, not much larger, have
seventeen alhuddled together. In she frs
OF these there is a small grating Oyer ami OF
posite the door, through which the God IS lp-
truduccd The other CELLS have one window,
and sometimes two, With sn opening OF aoout
four spans in breadth and one in height, and
through this the prisoners are hred upo if it
be necessary to Keep them quiet Ihe food
and hospital arrangements NereNIainons-
'sThe patients are neglected and ul.treated.
The medical attendants will hardly ever send
Il patient to the hospital, and when they do
send him they almost always keep him on
strict diet. Perhaps they have a secret IN
t~derstand:ng with those swho contract for the
food. One day, when some complaints We're
made on account of the bad soup in the hos
LpihL the person who made the complaint was
taken by two keepers, and. by DIM of blows
and kicks, was forcibly thrust along into the
darkest dungeons, and there detained many
&c., 49, ~ - fla
prisoner at the point Of death refuses to receive
a confessoL Re is removed into a solitary cell,
and there, after having heaped on him a thous-
nd-outraees, orders are gwen to mi of the
| lowest turkeys to kill him by sufocation.-
The fact is known from the confession OF the
/ turnkey himself who, on one Occazionr refused
to be a party 10 this barbarity. The corpse
lis inferred in the interior Of the fort and the
governor is present at the funeral. Some
times he gives akick tOthe head ofthe corpse,
and commits similar Outrages."
The following is the testimony Of another
victim of Papal misrule:
wWhilst l was an inmate Of this den Of
Horrors, a wife with her little boy obtained
permission to see her husband. 1t was ten
rears since the Papal government had torn
her husband from her embrace; the boy had
never known his father, for heEas born after
the arrest. Neither the prayers Of the attic.
\ ted wife. nor the tears OF the tender child, mol
the sobbings and despair Of the unhappy
/ father, could induce the governor to allow
them hut one embrsee-tO let them mingit
their tears together, Il wouldrbs impossible
to describe the rigors and the t%ortures, always
new and increasing, which have been in
! vented to augment the snfferings OF the pris
0ners after tue last fatal attempt at flight
IN order to prevent the political %prisoreri
from holding the slightest communication
with The outer world, recourse was even had
to the very strange and absurd expeiient tor.
bidding the physician although an iudividua
completely subseryient, to tie government
from personally visiting the sick in the prison
he was to treat them on the report ola erea
ture who but a short time before had beer
in the galleys, and was transferred thence Il
perform the Office of an hospital attendant