Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-11-18
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Avery large number of people waited on
Gen. Butler last evening, at the Fifth Ave-
nue. Hotel. to offer him their congratula-
tions for the success which has attended
the stupendous cxertions of himself and a
large body of staff officers and aids, in pre-
venting the awful raids, and terrible fires,
and horrible bloodshed. and appalling COM
motion, and dreadful upheaval of society.
and general wreck of matter, and crash of
worlds, which, in the opinion of Secretary
Seward. and large number of timoronS,
and credulous, but otherwise estimable cit
izens, who believe implicitly in the proph-
ecies of the Secretaty of State. would 9TH
erwise have occurred. The rooms were
filled from o'clock until 10 or II O'clock
with ladies and gentlemen, and unfortun-
ate lodgers not known to the gentlemen OF
the hotel who guarded the stairways with
an utter obliviousness of anything on the
earth or in the heavens, except tickets,
found considerable difficulty in got ing to
their peaceful but lofty couches.
Tie ladies were all exceedingly we'll
dressed, with waterfalls and opera cloaks,
and the gentlemen mostly wore white
gloves. Major General Butler was dressed
in full military suit with the two stars upon
his shoulders, and large red, white and
blue rOsctte upon his prOtruding breast.
Among so many ladies his appearance was
comparatively harmless, his face broke out
into smile which partially relievel the gen.
eral obliquity of his face at every separate
presentation of each of possibly thousand
people, and he appeared exceedingly well
pleased when a lady remarked to him that
he was as cheerful looking beast as she
ever saw. The menagerie, to continue the
metaphor Of this loyal lady, was scene of
vast deal of staring and ofmuch expended
curiosity for three hours; and it was pc
culiarity noticeable in this. as, in perhaps
somewhat less degree, at all similar recep-
tiOns, that the lion of the occasion was gaZ-
ed at as though he were in reality lion or
other wild beast, and timid ladies had to be
pushed up to him by husbands or brothers
to let that which they seemedto have fan
cied to be an ogre, grasp them by the hand.
Among the distinguished, and especially
noticeable gentlemen present, were George
Francis Train, General Hiram Walb; idge,
Charles Gould, Prosper M. Wetmore, Colo
mel Frank Howe, Joseph Hoxie, S. B. Chit
tenden, George Opdyke, our Mayor, VIM.
Curtis Noyes, Henry Ward Beecher, and
Horace Greeley. Many other prominent
gentlemen whose names we did not gather,
passed through the rooms and shook hands
with General Butler.
A band of music was in attendance and
discoursed pleasant music during the eve-
ming.
Toward the latter part of the evening.
and before the dinner, which was served to
a select few, and at which all the distin-
guished people, political persons or other
wise, were exceedingly jolly in drinking
toasts and cracking jokes over good food
and excellent wine, the Hon. James Wads-
worth was introduced in one of the parlors
to the ladies and gentlemen there, and pro-
ceeded in formal manner to address Gen
eral Butler, requesting in few remarks,
the Generals opinion on matters In general
and politics in particular.
Most of the prominent gentlemen who
had just preceding the election considered
the word 'olive branch" synenim of trea-
son listened to the part of General Buffers
speech proposing to offer the right hand of
fellowship to rebels with the greatest de-
light, and even applauded when he said
that pardon should be offered even to the
leaders of the rebels. There were some of
the more discreet of the Loyal Leaguers
who feared that the man who voted sixty
nine times for JEFF. Davis as candidate for
President was returning to his old love.