Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-04
BUTIER's LAST FAILURE.
FROM the Richmond Examiner, Dec. s

1t Butler were anything else thanthe
beast he is, he would have been long shoe
relieved of all command by his governmtut
for the crime of i'll luck. But in the eys
of his countrynen even his bad fortune j
redeemed by his bad character. His meth
cd of administering captured town, When
poor women and clergymen are left at hb
mercy; his emiuence as a bully, thief anG
jailor, not only save him from Disgrace in Z
service where the worst disqualification il
to be.a man OF honor, but procure. bin a
over srduou5 enterprises, in ~
which he regularly fails. His failure in the
mighty expedition against. Wilmington lis
dhitel ss signal as his failure to come to
Richmond by the Pete,s' arg railroad, Or
Afterwards to lay siege to PetsEsburg itsdf.
Yankee. newspapers cannot now preteId
thatthe vast Butler Porter nArmAda" sent
todVilmington did uotgotO take that plDe
but only by way of Reconnaissance. Tat
would be too absurd after the amazing
yalntB and mysterious foreshadowingsof
CONS erushiog blow 10 be struck whth
aco6hlpanied the departure OF the expeli-
ton. All the newspapers were filled With
graphic Inscriptions of the vast feetot
Chips be Earsanj transports-hoW the grst
IFonaidealapd Wabash aRd Colorado wire
thefe;i B6R the feet sailed in five divisions;
aud how the ocean was covered tar md
wide With countless iron wooden monstrs,
bearing tho hopes of the nation and DIS
tined TO sweep down in q tempest of vFn-
keRneS aud destruction upon some "doGn-
/ edH city of our coast, which they neer
conceded iEas Wilmington. If Porter lad
tAFoi51 BRfleB sover6odrd perhaps no stqm
would have blown that feet out to 90,
and cd Sumhlad and jumbled together hr-
ssa, Btbres, guns and sore sick landsnen
fortdat 10 ana night of peril and terror, as
u derange the. .RiGteTiGL as we'll as the ply
siqtIS and the morale of the invincible g.
m4d& The rtEath is that Buffers partof
the 4brces, namely, the land troops dis-
TIM to marcel; upon Wilmington, being
all 1nased to navigation, must have le-
com - disgusting and abominable thRtit
is a bnder Porter WAS not tempted to
pitch the whole ,6e them, as we'll as thlir
comma oder OVoEhoard into the nsuseaed
sea. law many of the feet may have besn
actually lost Row, q of the men ,drow1-
ed, we aFe aB yet. uniformed; but pFota-
bly, thoss losses didnot eontribute 80 much
to deran - tn entetptiss as that unuttga.
BILE oonfdsioR and. disloeation caused by
several ds5s' rough weather in the accu.
rate and psEfstERpp6 ients of an arna.
ment on whose lehieFenents the whole
Yankee nation hung with SO intense ar
interest. fss.s q ~
ades were at lehE "a, fanded on the spit O.
i sand near Foft Fisher tkay were but ball
alive, felt the nd king udder them Ike
a tossing dec sgF the fott Keeling beflrs
their ewes IlksJa M6hitor "a, q gale of vino
and after two dlhFsaf 6bl attempts msdC
bv the invinclbIS armada they were gao
~ avail thernsei Ses df tlle 6Fsl calm wea.h
Ar and return fri 81 u flsnc5 they came, Esd
der and wiser men, Yet it may well bt
presumed that NJ even thi9 Foke OF II
fortnne will dimihfsh the confidence of :h
| fsitbful Yankees tf1T Shai oW& beloved
Beast. In fact, they know As g coTn to JGi
a Eyerv military tapFise. That is moi
properly speakingI hat they keep biz
for: but as they ats forsyet % he. yer!
i point Of marching Eidnp lntiS Into al
our cities, especially ishnand when, Q
course, marital law Fshsls
oaths Of allegiance ana RhlI " "a vii
! l.have TO eome into tplsItTs desire I
have him near at kaud that hs mag enSe
mon his own. d1ties 4at e1es Hsl We
probably regarded O1ly Aso oi ice
general of the troops sent ing