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Show T. Weed and Tweed. New York,. 27. Thurlow Weed vieiled Tweed in jail. The former afterward after-ward told a reporter that he passed ' an hour and a half with Tweed and louud him in far better health than lie expected. He had growu thinner, but this hedeenied an improvement, ar.d he regarded him as far better than when he last saw him. Tweed told him he escaped in the evening and drove straight on board the vesael on which ho sailed for Cuba. From the , hour of liis starling to the present he j had snfllTid only Irnm a slight attack of diabetes shortly after the Franklin leftViga. He had taken but little exercise on the voyage over as he was compelled to walk in company with a sentinel, which wasunpleaauut. He bad as yet formed no idea ae to what course of actios he would take. That was under the consideration of his counsel. He had no unkind feeling towards any one and would sUte nothing to affect any one. Te government had his baggage and were welcome to what it contained. Tbey could not find a word that would implicate any one. He thought Tilden bad acted harshly toward him but he had nothing to say in retaliation, retalia-tion, and would not say it if he had.1 The Tribune's account of Weed's interview says: Tweed while a prisoner pris-oner on Black well's Island was anxious to restore to th city all bis proporty, but his counsel objected. |