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Telescope February 37 where she was cast adrift by the Parsons. The work of raising her was quickly carried out, when she was towed to Sandusky, where in brief time she was again put in running order. * * * We have already spoken of the atrocious crimes committed by a few men who congregated in Canada and set foot an expedition against the peace of the United States. We wish to call the attention not only of our government, but the Canadian government, to an extraordinary feature of this transaction. These men went on board of an American steamer on Monday morning at a Canadian port. On the afternoon of the same day they seized and plundered the boat, fired upon and dangerously wounded--if not killed--the officers of another boat, seized and plundered it, and then returned on Tuesday morning to a Canadian port, after destroying everything valuable on the boat and abandoning it in a sinking condition. There are few crimes more atrocious than this, yet the Canadian authorities in the immediate vicinity of where this transpired never lifted their hands to bring these men to justice. Two of them were arrested for a violation of the revenue laws, but the justice before whom they were arraigned promptly discharged them, knowing at the time that they had committed crimes for which the penalty is death. We trust the Canadian government will see to it that such officers are promptly discharged, and others who better understand their duties, or understanding them are more willing to discharge them, be put in their place. The course of the Canadian authorities, however, was not more negligent than that of our own. It was known throughout our city at an View of the prison camp on Johnson's Island, under protection of the gunboat U. S. S. Michigan. The ship and camp were the object of the conspiracy STOrieS OF THE LAKE ERIE ISLANDS, page 281