Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-12-28
Fee, FaW, Fum.--A Terrible Story for
English Nurseries.

1
George Augustus Sals is either "prac
ticing" on his credulous English readers
absolutely stufing them with incredible
bloody bones stories, or he has been most
magniacently stuffed himself Hethus re
lates the advent Of General Butler in New
York, before the Presidential election;
It behooves everybody in the Empire
City to take care of himself or herself Just
now, for tho devil is loose with a ven
gesnce. Those who have large stock Of
bitumen on hand should take care to keep
their pitch hot, for there is somebody tc
pay. Mothers should be careful to keep
their children within doors, and the
nursery gate fast locked, for the Ogre is on
the rampage" Bank managers would
do we'll to secure, in fre-proof vaults, their
| greenbacls and seYen-thirties, with such
stray gold watches and silver spoons as
have escaped the hegira Of specie. II
there be any jewelry about, tell it not in
/ Gath; don't let it be mentioned at Asca-
Ion; forbesr to speak of it at Jopps. A
little bird may carry the news to the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. There broods q bigger
bird, portentous bird, bird of the most
evil omen-a bird whose >talOns were
Whetted at New Orleans, whose beak wss
sharpened at Fortress Monroe. who -hHs
been lately trying his strong wings at the
james River. BE is very horrible bird
a baEd-headed eagle with wsll-eye, a
bloated craw, and dull, coarse plumage.
His eyrie is full of crinoline skirts, cotton
"permits," blood-thirsty proclamations,
beef contracts, fans, gloves, silk stockings,
and the bones of dead women and child
ren. His name is Benjamin Franklin But
Ter; and Butler the Terrible has Just as
sumed military command of the City and
State of New York.
The terror with which the news Of the
appointment Of this notorious person to a
temporary dictatorship has been received
in this city of a million and q quarter of
inhabitants would 30 ludicrous, were it
not pitiable. HIS very name seems to be
productive of psllor and palsy. The all
absorbing theme Is Butler. What is he
doing here2 Why has he come What
does he mean to do2 How long will he
stay2 Why was he sent? VIII he super
esde General Dix? VIII he suppress the
Democratic newspapers Viii he plum
der any banks2 viii he exact any forced
loans from areputed philanthropists y
VIII he shut up the New York Hotel and
send Hiram Cranson to Fort Lafayette
Does he mean any mischief to Fernando
Wood, or to Governor Seymour, or Erss-
tus Brooks VIII he hang anybody ?
These are questions you hear nervOusly
and anxiously asked on every side They
shake, they tremble, their fingers twitch,
their knees knock together, they have
goose flesh, their voices die away in faint
and inartieulate whispers. Two or three
nights since he went, with a numerous
staff, and in full uniform, TO the opera.
"a thousand hearts beat happily" of
course, and Emusic arose with its vOluptu-
Gus swell" when suddenly Begey appeared
in box. I should like to have felt how
the thousand hearts beat then. The vari-
alton Of pslpitation was not discoYerable,
but it is certain that u thousand pairs of
hands began forthwith to beat. The su-
dience absolutely spplauded Benjamin
Butler, and he posed, he did the an
cient statue, he looked !. unoD- them
am hero; 1, Jupiter Fero1. Fear nothing
unless you feel my power. just now
wear tho white kid glove over the hand Of
iron. Sometimes forget to put on my
gloves. am come for all your goods, and
for your ehattels, too. So long rs you be-
have yourselves won't eat you up, but
my appetite is uncertain, and when srous-
ed. insatiable. There sat in the next box
to General Butler one of the most noted
millionsires in New York. He looked
very uneasy, and from time to time wrig-
eled, say like tomtit under the ocular
Inspection of a bssilish. The General
vhispered4o one Of his aids. It was, per
haps, to ask how many millions his neigh
Dor wss worth, Then he fixed his solitary
eve upon him, and there seemed to twin
kle in that orb something equivalent tC
this at like milliOnAires very much
They are very good eating, much bettel
than ortolans or eanvass-backs. used Il
eat them down in Louisiana. YCu haven
such a thing as a trifs Of 100000 tha
YOU could oblige my orderly with befOr'
YOU leave this house2" The millionaire
however, managed to creep away, and
have no doubt that, fastening home, b
| Immediately buried couple of millions il
gold in the back garden for fear Of acei
dents.
Butler, the terrible, is, as have tolC
YOU. an inmate of the Filth Avenue Hotel
He is fond of taking up his quarters 8
handsome hotels, and his enemies go 5,
far as to say that when he pstronizsd tn
st. Charles, at New Orleans, after stay o
many months, heforgot to discharge his bill
he would be beld man who could nerve
himself to the task of asking Butler 70
his bill. 1t is i'll dunning tho master of s
many legions. The Fifth Avenue peOpl
must feel as though they had the Dragol
of Wsntley in one of their private parlOrs
and well will it be for them If the Dragon
dosen't demand million of dollars, her
Of white COWS, brown stone house with
marble facade, and the black hair Of twen
tY marrisgesbls young ladies, every morr
ing for breakfast.
had some business to transact at tn
Fifth Avenue on Saturday night, an
rambling through the interminsble corr
dors in quest of friends room, I coul
scarcely resist an uneasy misgi7ing lest
should turn the handle Of the wrong doc
and find myself suddenly in the presenC
of the Dragon. Ny nerves are tolerabl
r strong, but I think, under the circun
stances, might have felt like the Roma
boys in Lord Mscsulsy's ballad, VIII
UKangIng tho woods 20 md u bGrs,
Come to the mouth Of some dark lair
Where, growing low, fierce old bear
Lies amidst stones and blood"
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