Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-07-18
LEADER
MONDAY MORNING, JULY Is.
Naval IffaiF 10 Enronean Hnters.

The WInslow and Semmes fight has
made q stir In Europe, and " MalakoG,"
the Paris correspondent Of the New York
Times, In noting the dinner given to Capt.
WiGslow and two of his officers by a num-
Der of American gentlemen, including
Dayton, says:
Capt. InslVu Las aenaauSad the sur
| render of the persons who escaped, in
order that, If taey do not comply with
his request he may hang them If he
ever catches them again in the rehei ser
vice. The Captain declares that the rebel
flag was lowered on the Alabama, that he
then stopped firing. that the flag was run
up again, with 3 renewal of the firing,
that lie then recommended firing also, ana
only stopped this time when they dis
charged their lee guns and lowered boat
10 send notice OF surrender Thus the
irregula-ity and confusion about the flag
entirely exonerates Capt. Winslow from
the charge Of firing on q surrendered
vessel, and he claims on the contrary tnat
he treated them with great leniency.
As regards the escaped prisoners, Capt
WinslOW claims that when i man lovers
his flag or by any other sign demands a
cessation of hOstiihes, he is bound to go
and surrender also his person, and that ne
commits 4 disHonoTable act ia taking ad-
vantage of the cessation to escape. He
may fairly escape after he has delivered
himself up, but not before. There was
no act committed on the pars of Capt.
Winslow, between the time when the sur.
render was properly made and the escape
OF Capt. Semmes, which the latter could
urge as an excuse. 1t is question, then,
for naval and military men to settle,
whether man under these circumstances
does not dishonor himself and Captain
Semmes no more than any one else can
afford to allow the question to remain
unsettled.
The brave fellow, GoWan, who had his
thigh crushed while serving one of the
big guns OF the KeaTsage, died two days
ago az the hospital at Cherbourg aud
afGer hearing from DR.. Brown q descrip-
ton of the bravery and fortitude shown
By the gallant Yankee tar, the company
at the dinner party subscribed a hand
some sum to build him monument, DIR.
Brown charging himself with carrying
out the desire Of the douors.
The Emperor, who sympathises with
Captain Semmes, 1t is said, wrote a note
TO the Minister of Marine, the day after
the fight, strongly condemning the Mari
time Prefect ofCherbOurg for not sending
the COurOnne to the assistance of the
drowning men of the Alabama, instead OF
leaving that duty to a private foreign
yacht His Majesty perhaps thought in
that way al Of Capt. Winslow's prison
ers might have been taken from him.
The Maritime Prefect, it appears, has been
able to make the Emperor understand
that he did his duty exactly.
The French afi1ciaI and Semi- fetal no
pers have given us a handsome example
of their neutrality and impartiality In re-
fusing to publish Capt. WinslOW's official
statement in regard TO the fight although
requested to do so. But they publish all
that appears on the other side, whether
official OF otherwise,
The French show further which Way
their sympathy runs by ridiculing without
mercy the demand Of Capt. Winslow on
NJ Bonfils for the surrender of the prison
ers saved by the French boats.