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Horrors of Moro Castle

A Newspaper Correspondent Arbitrarily Arrested--A Night and Two Days in an Ugly Dungeon--Neglect of Prisoners--A Case of Mistaken Identity--Released, but Apology not Made--The Claim of Clemency, not Justice, Insisted Upon--The Exclusive Society of Gray Rats Not Agreeable.

CHARLES MICHELSON, a well-known journalist of California, was one of the enterprising and lively young men in Havana, engaged in newspaper correspondence, and rather fretful that we had to defer so much to the caprices of the military censorship. He suddenly had the experience of a military arrest, and found himself a prisoner in Moro Castle, without liberty to communicate with friends.