The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-12-28
Butler Furnishes the Confed crates with
Powder, &c.
Correspondence Of the Cincinnati Inquirer.
New ORLEANS, La, Oct. 8.
!Oh damned villain n-ShdkSDeare.

Correspondence Of the Cincinnati Inquirer.
New ORLEANS, La, Oct. 8.
"Oh damned villain. "-iShakspeare.
While the Confederate army of tho
West was at Tupclo, Mississippi, General
Butler was in New Orleans, and for
months this noble, patriotic, unse6sh man
supplied them with boots, shoes, salt,
gunpowder, percussion caps, &C., &c.
Does aay man doubt this assertion? If
30, let the man 60 to jackson, Mississip.
pi, or to any point on the New Orleans
Railroad below Jackson, and ask anybody
living on the railroad if supplies of all
kinds were not regularly sent over the
road from New Orleans.
Let the unbelevor inquire for certain
Capt. Colby Qormerly known in Cincin-
natl, Ohio) who was commissary ia the
Confederate army, and stationed ut Jack.
son, Mississippi, whether ho did not re-
.ceive constantly large supplies of coffee,
salt, &c, NC, for period extending over
einghteen months. The writer of this ar.
ticle, while in Jackson, Mississippi, in
the summer Of 1862, had occasion to visit
the chief clerk of Capt. Colby, Mr.. Bliss,
formerly Governor Of Colorado Territory,
and while there heard q conversation take
place between Col. Jones, of Gen. Bragg s
staff, and confidential agent of General
Butler, in which it was agreed on the part
of General Butler to furnish the Confed
crate army of the West with shoes, blank
cts, salt, &c, aud 1900 sacks of salt
should be delivered-ifI remember right
in three weeks. Bliss and myself were
separated from the speakers by board
partition, not we'll made, and could hear
the entire conversation. AS we listened
we became interested, and exchanged fire.
qucntly significant winks, both being good
Confederates
Bliss stterward "sloped' to avoid the
conscript law; he was a fine fellow for
all that, however. Buffers agent wanted
bale of cotton for sack of salt, and the
parties came near splitting on tho point.
Don't know how it was settled, but know
that supplies came in regular.
Upon the evening of the same day that
the conversation above reported took
place, visited the headquarters Of Gen.
Van Dorm, and while talking to two of
my old acquaintanccs-Col. Ned. Dillon,
Chief Commissary, and Col. Lomax, both
graduates of West Point-General Van
Dorm hiuself came in laughing-"Well,'
said be to Col. Lomax, 81 have just had a
proposition from General Butler, and he
proposes to supply our army with all We
want, providing | will send him cotton. !"
"What an internal scoundrel he is,' said
Van Dorm. 10 this we all unhesitatipgly.
agreed. "What spectacle Of depravity
is here rsprescnted-a man furnishing
gunpowder to STAY his comrades, and
clothes and food to supply their enemies"
| have been Confederate soldier of
the fighting department, and have met on
many fields the noble soldiers of the
Northwest, and | have thought when l
have seen them dead and lying around
me, that they had probably fallen, killed
by ammunition furnished by Gen. Butler.
Now this beast, this "shape iuferual,'
presents himself before the people of the
North, and has been hailed with applause
by thousands.
Is there a just God above, who will
pour out the walls of his wrath upon those
who defy him There is, and Beu. But
Ter will como to horrible end-m .rk
the prediction, this man is destined to o
terrible end. 1t might have been said Of
him that he was simply brute for pub.
fishing his order No. %, or for present
ing a loaded pistol to the head of weep.
ing lady; but where are the terms 10
which to characterize tho utter dcpravity