Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-11

| n correspondent OF the New York
Times thus describes Lieut.. Cushing,
who blew up the Albemarle:
| The most astounding part OF this mar
rative is that the hero is a youth of only
twenty-five years Of age, with u record
| gray boards would be proud. When in
troduced to him could scarcely recon-
cile the fact that the unassuming young
man before me, with his frank, open
countenance, and long hair thrown
wildly back behind his ears, looking
like some student just escaped from
college for little frolic, was the man
whose name is already, and so Justly,
prominent before the public. Apart
| from the glory which such episodes as
these throw around the character OF our
navy, this destruction of the rebel ram
Albemarle is really important affair.
! 1t has, for months past, kept employed
in watching and at bay at least five of
our double-enders and some five or six
other vessels, which will now be releas-
ed for any other kind of duty.
.@Two important speeches on Amer
lean topics have recently been delivered
in England. On the 10Th ult. Sir r.
Collier, the British Solicitor General,
addressed his constituents at Plymouth.
In the course of his speech he made ia
vorable mention of our prize courts,
saying: "Thus far the decisions of the
American prize courts have been, upon
the whole, such as we have no reason to
! complain Of" He could not say that he
agreed with every proposition of inter-
national law they had laid down, but
| thought it but fair to say, that upon
the whole the judgments have been
| we'll considered and given with a desire
to Justice" Lord Stanly, NJ. P, son Of
the Earl of Derby, and a liberal conserv-
ative, IN a late address, said of the
American war that the duty of Eng
lands absolute neutrality was plain,
and he had no wish to violate it. He
saw no prospect of an early close of the
war, which would not end until the ut
ter exhaustion of one of the belliger-
ents, and the time for that had not come.
| Neither party is half beaten yet. He
thinks it likely, as :he thought three
years ago, that the North will be able to
overrun in the end the whole Southern
| territory. Then its political difficulties
will begin. The real perpiezity will be,
! to hold such territories and populations
| in subiection. He does not attach much
| weight to the drain of men and money.
Europe will soon supply the men, and
such country cannot be permanently
| ruined. All England can do, all it
ought to do, is to let them fight it out.
THE MAHAsKA COUNTY CoNsPIRA-
ToRs.-The trial of Silas Parr, George
R0hrer and Benjamin A. Smith, for
conspiracy against the United States
Government to prevent the arrest of de-
serters, terminated last week, in the
| United States Circuit Court at Des
Moines, in *erdct of guilty. A mo
ton for new trial was made by the
prisoners counsel, and argued fully be-
fore that Court. The Judges, after hay
ing the matter under advisement were
unable to agree, SO the motion was over
ruled. In attempting to fix the penalty
for the crime, the Judges were unable to
reach one conclusion, and the prisoners
were therefore held to bail in the sum of
81, 900 each until the next term of the
Court. These men were indicted nearly
a year ago by the u. S. District AttOr-
ney, w. H. f. Gurley, and were proven
to be members of the rebel secret order
known as go. A. K's.-Dav. Gos., 3Oth.
A LOST MAN AND A LOST PARTY
A "big Injun having strayed from the
camp, IOunO nln1SelI loSt OH Trying "
return to it. After looking about he
drew himself up and exclaimed " Injun
lost! but recovering himself, and un-
willing to acknowledgement short-sight-
edness, continued, No, Injun no lost
I-wigwam lost; striking his breast) In
ljun here"
Some of our Democratic friends who
find themselves in Vallandigham's cop
perhead ranks are worse confused than
the bewildered son of the forest. Un-
willing to admit their own personal
wandering, they assert that they are not
lost, but that the party is with them,
and that neither the man nor the party
is lost. They will learn their true stu
alton after the election, when both men
and party will find themselves farther
away from the White House than the
Indian from his lost wigwam.-Quiac5
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