The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1862-01-24
THE NEW YORK SUN.
FRIDAY MORNING, JAN. 81 1862.
Governor Andrew and Gen. Batter.

The correspondence between Governor An.
pEFw II Massachusetts, and Major General
BvrtsR, which has been going on from August
10Th, 1851. has at length eliminated in its pub
licstiou in pamphlet Of eighty pages, by orde,
Of ths MASSACHUSETTS Legislature. When Gsn.
BUTLER uas superseded in tho comm aud Of Fort
tess Monroe, 10y Gen. Wool, the Government
appointed him Ma General Of the Department Of
New EnelsLd, with authority 10 raise AMI equip
men y hin the limits Of lis command, fof 500
ciL eHpeditiou. Neatly al the New England gov
eruofs, however, demonstrated 20 enorssticllly
sgains, tho creation Of tho New Department.
that tina. part Of tho project was quietly aban-
dctsd. lut Gen. BrriE was not a man to he
eAsly ps, dosp ard ho proceeded under hi,
commission 10 raise men az though no hing hai
happened though under 4 iIcultits that would
have dishertoncd less -csolu'o m,n. Ills
action soon brought him in'o conflic, with tho
Governor Of Massachusetts,, who denied the
right Of any tni'od = ate ofi'or IN recruit mon
in that commonwealth oN,opt under 60 d ti1u,
specified by bin. General BlifES on vi, pat,
claimod tn rifLt to sol,ct his troops ami com.
mission his officials NitLoIt tho interference o.
tho Executive. \ sharp controversy snsod
and General brrIrTis le,tor, dated Oct 12h,
rlnquiahsd tho right claimed by him 9 Az
point his own officers only requesting tho pi-
vilsgo Of selection, the Governor exercising tho
vso,ng power. II also appears hat Goyur or An
DREW odorod tho War Department to detail for
Gen. SrERMAN's Expedition two Of tho rcgi.
men'A slrcaiy attached TO General BUrirMs
command. The controversy bot'sven 'he p,rtios
grew warmer, AID on the 2S.h Of Dl,cmhcr
General Buu It IN a note addresseit to the Gov
ernor., who h,d li,ctod that some Of hs ohi 3ers
were improper characters, ssid
''wrih r.R,fd g. the other officers their god
conduct, AFTER several weeks trIl, commend th"n
luth 10 me and Their men. n any b,.o charge can
lee sIhetntiGt,d against either OF them, AL he
fappy 10 substitute "thers; ! believe, however
that neit or ufthem have ever done anything worse
than sciucing mother, and m king father vif'-
les, ALd children muihrr, ~ and that yuu know,
Is M objection t"a high military cpmmi-e ou IN
h,-nachurctts"
On the demand of Governor ASDREws for
the name of the officer guilty Of " sedueing a
mother, and making a father wiioless and
children mothoresa," General BurLER re-
sFonded by giving the name Of Col. WYMAN,
of the 10th Regiment, who ran away and lvod
with the wife OF Capt. BKsSNAN. On this the
Governor replied that the officer in question
was appointed at the request IF he most ro-
spectacle citizsLs Of Boston.
Tho latest phase Of the correspondence, ava
that tho whole question has been referred to
the dec'sion Of the government, with the proba.
bility that the authority Of Governor ASDRKws
will DO sustained. The dispute might have
been avoided in the frat place, h I'd no. the 20.
vemment shown a disposition TO temporise
with both parties.
We have had In this state somewhat stint
last case cf disputed military Jurisdiction, in
the case of General SICKLEs Governor NOR
GAN refused to commission the officers sppoint.
ed by him, and it was not till last week that the
War Department cut the knot, by deciding
that the regiments Of the SICkIGs' Brigade
should DO considered OF as ttate troops but as
United States volunteers
The MAJ on and Slidsll Surrender Known In
EBElRnd.