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Show By W. U. Telegraph DB. HOl'ARD. IS'ew York, 21. Dr. Houard, who has returned from Spanish imprisonment, imprison-ment, attributes his release to the efforts ef-forts of the .American press to which be returns his warmest thanks. He thinks Fish might have acted more promptly, and that tho government, with all the proofs before it that he was an American citizen, might have abbreviated or at least have alleviated his sufferings. Houard will go to Washington in a day or two to present his claim which is for a pretty round um, including the loss of bis medical business at Cienfucgos and his property, pro-perty, the latter being valued at $3u,-000. $3u,-000. He says ho was loaded with chains on the transport ship and lodged in the bold; when he wanted water he had to go on deck, dragging the chains behind him. These exertions exer-tions and bad food gave him the dysentery. dys-entery. The commandant of the prison pri-son at Cadiz was a brute and a thief; some of the prisoners there actually died from eating the food. Houard bad to procure food outside, for -which the commandant charged double. Xo other prisoners were allowed to converge with Houard. No letters or papers were allowed to reach him, while the filth and vermin wore terrible. terri-ble. When sick the commandant refused re-fused to allow his removal to the bos pital, which was only secured by the efforts of the American consul, Dully. |
