The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-02-19
Tho Chevalicr Train and JohN Butt.

Tho Chevnlicr Train and JohN Butt.
The American Chevalier George Francis
Train, that extraordinary and chameleon.like
political theories, socialisms and plans Of
moneymaking without hard work which have
been preached or practised in New England
since the landing Of the Pilgrims keeps whiz-
zing away in Irelan with rapidity and effect
to be equalled only by the run Of the first ex-
press mail train on the broad gauge Of the
Pacific Railroad through the Indian territory,
the amazed red men standing affrighted and
partially blinded by the fash. He keeps in
continual motion, lecturing, writing, telegraph
ing, visiting the public works in and around
Cork, expressing wish to enter the British
Parliament. scoliing John Arthur Roebuck,
reading his Rocky Mountain speeches to police
officers, planning Credits Mobilier and Credits
foncier, popping in and out Of jail. politely
requesting Mr.. Disraelito forward him the sum
Of one hundred thousand pounds sterling from
Downing street and intimatlng that he will in
vest large portion of the cash in building
lines of horse railroads In the cities of Great
Britian-begi inning, Of course, with Cork and
Queenstown, where the track could be worked
to facilitate the exodus Of one or two additional
hundred thousand new voters to the United
States, or inward for the movement Of Fenian
troops, just rs Trains whimsical stra-
tegy would suggest. Every time Train opens
his mouth he sends forth scream for
something new which startles the British
officials, just as the steam whistle alarms old
women by the wayside when the engineer
opens the throttle valve.
John Bull is amazed and bewildered. He had
had 81 ght acquaintance with Chevalier Train
previous to his recent landing. from the Scotia,
but evidently measured him only as Train, not
~ Yankee This mistaken idea induced poor
John TO try his old-fashioned plan of police re-
preston on the Chevalier the moment he set
foot on British soil as a Fenian sympathizer
few weeks since; but 1t proved miserable
failure, for Train is not only Yankee, but .
Yankee under full pressure to accomplish
something, and with more steam on just now
lin consequence than would serve for any other
twenty Yankees in the land, and as much to
spare as would comfortably animate the mem
bers OF all the free love and women's rights
associations in the United States, from Lucy
Stone and Elizabeth Cady Stanton down to
Horace Greeley.
Lord Stanley would give any amount Of
money to get this political lunatc Train out
of the country; but Train is determined to
remain, and wants the money besides. Mr.
Disraeli never heard OF such curiosity" as
Train. The Marquis Of Abcrcorn, Lord Lieu
tenant Of Ireland, q very arIstocratic and
pious old gentleman, who shapes his es-
innate of Yankees from Miles Standish
and the ladies of the MayAower, thinks
Train . very Indifferent "boy from Bos-
toni" and Lord Strathnarn, Commander-in-
Chief OF the forces, who made himself so well
known to the Sepoys Of India has gone OF
from Cork to London since Trains arrival.
None of them care to touch the Chevalier.
Indeed, they appear not to know how to go
about IL. II Train were an lrishman "pure
and simple" the British law Off GERS could deal
with him at once for "sedition" or treason
felony" az they have dealt with Mr.. Sullivan,
the Dublin editor just convicted of sediiion,
and with Mr.. Lennon, wh) has been consigned
to Portland Stat Prison for fifteen years.
Train is "sedtious' to England every hour
in the day, and will in the end give her rulers
great trouble; but they cannot touch him or
put him in Jail without making matters worse.
In the meantime his "sedition" pleases the Irish
people hugely. The citizels Of Cork, who think
that their political condition cannot be made
worse by any change, carry him 10 his hotel from
the lecture halls on their shoulders, and at such
an elevation that he is placed almost beyond
exact Identification on the part of the dciec-
lives. Beautiful young ladies' wait on him
and present him with addresses and coniec-
tionery. A delegation of this sort appears, in
deed, to have puzzled Train, for the first time,
perhaps, in his life. The ladies offered him q
peculiar kind of Irish sausage, prepared by
themselves The Chevaler never saw the
like before, either In bis early New England
kitchen or during his tour among the Australian
aborignals. He hesitatcd moment, accepted
10 and acknowledged that he did not know
what to do with It, as he "could not eat i,--a
compliment TO the lades--and he could not
transmit II TO his posterity. AS lrain gives on
spark after spark of his CALCULATIONS concern
ing johnson" Seward" adams" Napo-
leon," "horse railroads." "Grant and grave.
yards in the Wilderness" Plus the Ninth"
Lucy Stone," "Greenbacks and gold.''
Equality and Fraternity" and so forth,
The Catholic clergy Of Cork stand with
their hands folded in prayer and an express
sion Of doubt and bewilderment on their
countenances similar to that presented by the
Fathers OF the Holy Inquisition when they had
to deal with Calico in the year 1916.
In this dire dilemma the English government
can pursue only one course. The Chcvalfer
Train is political lunstic. He must be duly
diagnosed and declared So either by an author.
lied medical commission or summary &C,
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