Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-01-30

RASSSSN
Vicksburg. ...-..
M Court is now rushing things, and
from present appearances the docket will be
entirely cleared before it adjourns. The first
case for trial yesterday was that Of Hemp
stead VS.. Draper. The jury were out all day,
and at the time of making up our report, had
not yet agreed.
Toole VS.. Sanford, case of replevin, came
next. Judgment for defendant.
Underwood VS.. Bamford, plea of usery.-
Judgment for school fund in the sum of
$1,000. .e.r
Purrinton VS.. Purrinton, appeal judy
ment of Justice reversed.
Fitch VS.. Stein. Judgment for plaintiff.
Jones VS.. Beebe, guardian. Judgment for
plaintiff ses
At the adjournment of Court, the case of
Dennison VS.. Chambers, garnishee, was in
progress.-Daily, Gath.
A BEAUTIFUL SPECIMEN THE Courier, in
its issue Of Friday last, publishes, with a
great flourish of trumpets, an extract from
letter purporting to have been written by a
good Republican, now soldier in the army,
to friend ia this city. The letter is given
as evidence of the fact that the soldiers are
tired of the war. We copy the concluding
paragraph, in which the writer, with an
effrontery that would shame his Satanic
majesty, unblushingly owns to stealing the
food and raiment intended for his sick and
wounded comrades, contributed, no doubt, for
that purpose by our Soldiers Aid Societies.
Could human nature reach lower depth of
depravity and meanness than this But here
is the extract-judge for yourselves: -
We have first-rate living here at the hos
pital have coffee with milk and sugar in it,
dried apples and peaches, toast, butter, rice,
potatoes, beef-steak and gravy, with once in
while bread-pudding and ginger-cakes, and
Christmas and New Years we had mince pie.
These, yow knoao, are for the sick, but we.
manage to make acquisitions for enough, so
there is plenty left, and rather than throw it
away, you see, we help ourselves to what we
want; and when the clothing is brought in
for the patients are made to change every
weekly we happen to get hold of three or four
extra pair of drawers, and to keep them from
lying around we slip them on. If you could
see me now you would see me sporting bran
new shirt, which fits first-rate, and next week
/ guess will try the mate to it; and so it
goes. Don't you think am progressing?"
Now we venture to say that this miserable
reprobate never has been known or acknowl-
edged as Republican in good faith, the
assertions to that effect Notwithstanding. The
peculiar bent of his mind and conduct, as
confessed in this letter, can leave no one in
doubt for moment as to the school of politics
in which he has taken his most favorite les
sons. Whatever his professions at any time
may have been, his own callous heart and
utter restitution of moral principle betray
him now. As soldier, he is not one of
those who enlisted in the service of his
country from any sense Of duty or patriotism,
nor from love of glory or any other OF the
incentives which usually govern men in
taking such step; but merely for the sake
of plumber. The chances for carrying OF his
nefarious scheme being somewhat circum-
scribed while occupying the position of a
common soldier, he has artfully contrived to
have himself detached as nurse in the hos
pital, where, from the nature of things, he
must be entrusted with the various articles
of comfort and necessity designed for the
helpless inmates articles intended, it may
be, to soothe the last painful hours Of some
noble soldier, who, while his life was fast
ebbing away sacrifice to his country's cause,
craved no other blessing than the morsel pre-
pared for him by loving mother, sister or
wife, which this detestablei villain and pol
troon was fraudulently Withholding in order to
crafty his own morbid appetite and indulge
himself in luxuriousMving Out upon such
thief Call him not again by the ennobling
title Of soldier of the Republic We
hope the gallant a5th will spurn this un-
worthy member from the ranks which he
dishonors and disgraces. 4I
The extreme and extraordinarily infamous
character of the confession above quoted, and
the fact that it has been winked at and cor
daily applauded by apaper' in this city that
layssome claim to decency and responsibility,
will, it is hoped, be accepted as an apology
for devoting. 90 much, space to it. If the
wretch who made it ever was, as it is stated,
a"Wide Awake" we viii offer heavy bet
that he Joined that order for the express