Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-01-21
Corrssp0adenee Of The Chicago Times.

NShNrAN~cANF u y NLllako ZINES.
WASHINGTON, January IL.
General Grant never intended Butler to accom-
paay the recent expedition against Wilmington.
Re intended Gen Weiizel 10 have command of
the troops. But Butler thrus; himself in with
that impotence which is SO characteristic of the
man. and behold the result
Blockade running vessels have recently been
crowding into Wilmington with unprecedented
apidity. Between the frst of November and
the enc OF December sixty feur vessels, in all,
arrived at that port and Charleston, aud four
more at Wilmington since New \ Tears day.
The cargoes OF those vessels consisted of those
things which are most needed at the south Just
now: $4,000 muskets, 30 pieces Of cannon, 500,-
600 pairs of blankets, 600 600 pairs of shoes, &c.
New that Butler is really removed, Il will do
no harm to say that the president has simply
taken his choice between him and GeneralGrant
for II has become impossible for him to have
both. Butler meddled and interfered with
everything that was going or, and ruined eyery
thing that he touched. He presumed on the ia
yor in which he vas held at the White House 10
shield him from the consequences of his insub-
ordination ia numbeTless instances, until at last
his vanity and self-conceit became insufferable
Ii was impossible 10 accomplish anything while
Butler remained with the army, and 50 General
Giant informed the president.
The removal of this incubus will be immedi-
ately followed, il IS SAID, by the restoration to
their proper rank and command In the army of
those gallant and able officers. Gen. Badly Smith
and General Gilmore. 1t i. also said5that the
president INTENDS TO be understood that, by dis
missing Butler. he Giscards, at the same time,
Buffers brutal principles, as illustrated in bis
administration at New Orleans, and that hence
forth, in all conquered cities, the mild and mag
unanimous policy. adopted by Gen. Sherman IL
Savannah, which has been productive of such
happy results, is 10 prevail. | must not conceal
from you, however. that, by the removal OF
Butler, the president has drawn down upon bis
head tue maledictions of several very infuentis
re publican politicians, who are already clamOr
ing for Buffers transfer To some other field OF
duty, such as military gOyernorship of Savannah
for example. The manner in which the presi
dent disposes of the demands OF these marplots
will indicate whether be prefers Sherman's OF
Buffers mode of crushing the rebellion.
The utmost harmony aud good feeling have
always prevailed bstw ecu General Grant and
General Sherman; but both have enemies here
who are striving 10 SOW enmity between them
The proposal to create another lieutenant gener
alship, and to appoint General Sherman to fill it
is received with favor by many members of con
gress in both houses, and there is IA good pros
pect that it will pass. Those who are most in
terested in the matter declare that some such to-
ken of appreciation is due to the gallant soldier
who has done so much during the last year to
wards the suppression of the rebellion. But the
especial friends OF General Grant are sensitive
on the subject, and declare that, il Sherman i
Dide d lieutenant general, We must follow the
rebel practice, and create the rank Of general
for the present Lieut.. Gen Grant. They are not
unwilling 10 reward Sherman, but they want il
understood that General Grant is not 20 be sup
planted. OF that, however, there is no inten-
ton on the part OF any one.
IL your readers wish TO see the most marked
manifestation of hostility to General Grant OF
the part of the republicans, they will ifnd it now
for a week o. two to come, in tue Washington
dispatches to The Tribune. Butler was the Tri
bune idol; and that paper can never forgive Gen
Grant Tor his instrumentality in causing Butler.
removal. The Tribune now sneers at Grant f0
insisting angrily that the attack on Fort Fisher
should have been persisted in" and gloriies But.
Ter because he nobly " insisted that TO have don,
so would have been to sacrifice hundreds o.
brave men cruelty and uselessly." Yet this j.
the same paper that applauded General Grant tc
the echo, last May, for causing the frightfu
slaughter of the overland march. The Tribun,
now carps at General Grant because he 9 il
known to be supreme. He puts generals up ant
he puts them down. His word is law on all mil
itary affairs"
Now, where DO your readers suppose that thes,
ceutiuculS VI uOctliliN 10 Uen. OThnI originate
They originate with those influential member.
OF the republican party who have espoused tb,
cause of the deposed Butler. and who are striv
ing with all their might to lessen the "suprem,
power OF Gen. Grant, and TO persuade tho pres
ident to r~einstste Butler in some important com
mand. They even want him to be made secre
tary of war.
The blowing out ofthe bulkhead Of the Dutct
Gap canal turns out to be, after all, a very seri
Gus business. The immense mass of earth which
remained suspended in the air" unfortunately
found it necessary to obey the law OF gravita
ton, and fell back into the canal. At first il wal
thought that it could be removed by dredging il
a few weeks. But subsequent examination show,
that the whole canal is now in the direct rang,
of several rebel batteries, so that it is impossible
to work on the canal at all until these batterie.
are silenced aud this will be no easy task. The
country was positively promised that this cana
would certainly be finished for the passage o.
vessels long before this time. 1t is unfortunate
that this promise has not been fulfilled. Y.
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