The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-21
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A Cry from q Dungeon,

From Ue ~ Y. Tribune.
OF all the delightful asses in the vast realm
of assdom, George Francis Train is the most
charming. 1t does no good to put him in
prison. Stone walls cannot prison make,
nor iron bars cage, for him. Though he is
now immured in a British bastie, as he calls
the Dublin Marshalsea, the tyrannical govern
ment, which Furnishes hitn for not paying his
de bts has not yet subjected him to gagging,
and go long as 1t does not gag him he might
as well be at large. Out OF the darkness OF
his dungeon he bellows most musically, and
not being bandculled, as we are inclined to
think he should be, he writes the longest,
most extravagant, most amusing letters that
have been indited since the days OF Wilkins
Micawber.
The latest, we are happy to say not the
las, epistle Of this delicious nuisance is an
other edition of his own biography. Train
may, il is within the bounds of human faith
to believe, get tired Of boarding the British
tyrant; lie may become weary OF chanting
what he calls 'Jhe grand music OF the Irish
Marselaise;' but he will never tire of talking
about George Francis Train. Ii he paints the
Pyramids he places himself on the extreme
pinnacle OF the biggest. Is it liberty Train
is her great apostle Is it oppressionl Train
is her most wretcbed victim. 81 have only
one passion" he says in his recent letter.
"BOTn an egotist, belief in self, and self
alone. l feel that I could have crossed the
bridge of Lodi, and would have provided
against the burning OF Moscow. ! would not
have been four years, with a million of
men back OF me, making Lee surrender ten
thousand, as Grant aid" Humility, he adds,
is high-a art swindling and of that crime he is
resolved not to be accused. His mature
greatness is founded on his experience in
childhood. At twelve years of age he went to
market alone. Strange as it may appear, he
did, and sold his sausages and fruit before
noon, returning with ten or twenty dollars in
his pocket to his grandmother. 'And yet to-
day." he exclaims, after reaching this climax,
"men who edit newspapers call ne a fool,
1unatic,' a 'charlstau,' a 'mouutebank' men
who never went to market alone before they
had arrived at the age of puberty" Then he
burst out with this characteristic deductions:
"Who wonders feel such terrible seltreliance
in my manhOodp
OF Mr.. Trains religious opinions we prefer
to say nothing it is enough that he says, "My
impressions of the Bible are not good" and
speaks of that volume as the 'NatiOnal Police
Gazette of Jerusalem" 1t is far more pleasant
to hear him talk OF his grandmother, zone Of
the best of women," who taught him to put
the best peaches always on top of the basket,
in his market days; of theI Imes when he "did
not know that George Washington used to
swear like a pirate" or OF those when Lola
Montez, latter dancing the Tarantua threw
u6I ltk over noau III tuo green Will
astonishing grace" These things are in
Trains best style, and so is the way in which
he anticipates our surprise that man who is
a greater military genius than Ma
poleOn or Grant should suffer himself
to be imprisoned for debt. 'Wlth a
yacht at my disposal at Newport,
half dozen horses or more in the stables, as
many servants in the cottage, and carriages in
the coach house, ETC., do you suppose that
remain here six months in British baStila
without an object, and that noble one Some
time | shall be understood by my country
men." Certainly he has an object as we'll as
yacht, and could at any time leave bis dun
geOD, either by the door or the chimney, Just
as certain men of immense intellect, unjustly
confined as lunatics, possess the power OF
flying, and could soar TO the moon, If they
should choose to, which they don't. We
know his object. 1t is to remain in chains
and fetters, suffering untold agonies flor the
glory of Ireland, in order to have the best
material for epigrams on the British Govern
mept, and fresh claims to be dined and wined
as an escaped victim of monarchy, and half
fayed MaIsyss.
But the most terrible Of all the terrible
things that Mr.. Train has done or written is
this. Regardless of the peace of mind of his
unhappy countrymep, he deliberately says:-
81 think | shall live to great age, and have
much to do with the governing of my country,
and the financial, commercial, political, theo-
logical, and medical education and represen-
tation OF my people,"