The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-01-09

tfap, anu Wien she pms lile CiotieS together
that way, it means that Lee is only trying to
draw us into his fish trap"
AS long as the two armies lay watching
each other on opposite banks of the stream,
Dabney, with his cohesline telegraph, con-
tinued to be one Of the promptest and most
reliable of Gen. Hooker's scouts.
Frank Moore's Anecdotes.
Butler.
Correspondence of the Cincinnati L quirerl
New ORLEANS, La, October 8, 1866.
o.! damned villan.-I SHAKESPEARE
While the Confederate Army of the West
was at TupeIo, Mississippi, General Butler
was at New Orleans, and for months this noble.
patriotic, unselfish man supplied them with
boots, shoes. salt, gunpowder, percussion caps
ETC., etc. Does any man doubt this assertion?
II SO, let that man go to jackson. Mississippi,
or to any point on the New Orleans railroad
below jackson, and ask anybody living upon
the railroad if supplies of all kinds were not
regularly sent over the road from New Orleans
Let the unbeIIever inquire for certain
Captain Colby formerly known in Cincinnati,
Ohio) who was a commissary Of the Confed-
crate army, and stationed at jackson, Missis-
sipp, whether he did not receive constantly
large supplies Of coffee, salt, etc, ETC., for a
period extending over eighteen months. The
writer OF this article, while in Jackson, Misss-
slppi, iii the summer Of 1862, had occasion
to visit the chief clerk of Captain Colby, a
Mr.. Bliss, formerly Governor of Colorado
Territory, and while there heard a CONVEX,
salon take place between Colonel Jones. of
General Bragy's staff, and confidential
agent Of General Butler, in which it was
agreed on the part of General Butler
10 furnish the Confederate Army Of the West
with shoes, blankets, salt etc, and that
5000 sacks of salt would be delivered If
| remember right in three weeks Bliss
and myself were separated from the speak
crs by board partition, not well made,
and could hear the entire conversation. AS
we listened became much interested,
and exchanged frequen; significant winks,
| both being good Contederates
Bliss atcrward ''sIoped" Y avoid the
conscrpt law; he was fine fellow for alt that,
however. Buffers agent wanted bale Of
cotton for a sack of salt, and the parties came
, near splitting on the point. Don't know how
it was settled, but know the supplies came in
regularly.
Upon the evening of the same day that the
conversation above reported took place, Wis
tied the headquarters of General Van Dorm,
and while talking to two Of my old acquain-
tances--CoI Ned. Dillon, Chief Commissary,
and Col Lomax. both graduates of West Point,
General Van Dorm himself came in, laugh
ing-"WeI," said he to COL Lomax, Il have
just had a proposition from General Butler,
and he proposes to supply our army with all
we want providing | vii! send him cotton.
! What an internal scoruurel be isl" said Van
Dorm. TO this We all unhesitatngly agreed
''What spectacle Of depravity is here pre-
scned-a man furnishing gunpowdcr TO Stay
his comrades, and clothes and food to supply
their enemics''
| have been a Confederate soldier Of the
fighting department, and have met on many
fields the noble soldiers of the Northwest
and have thought when | 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
INTERNAL" presents himself before the people
of the North, and has been hailed with APP
p)ause by thousands
Is there just God above, who will pour
out the Walls of his wrath upon those who defy
him! There is, and Ben. Butler will come to
horrible end-mark the prediction, this man
is destined to a terrible end 1t might have been
said of him that he was simply brute for
publishing bis order No. 28, OF for presenting
a loaded pistol to The head of a weeping lad =;
but where are the terms in which to character
Use the utter depravity of the man who would
Stay thousands Of bis countrymen for gold?
Come forth, ye hundreds of Witnesses of
this mans depravily, and make it known to
the world! | summon you to the inquisition,
not as partisan, but for the cause of human
ity. Benjamin F Butler must he unmasked'
Somebody must undertake this task.
Some months ago wrote to Secretary
Stanton, giving him 1.-THE points against
Butler, and the names of the witnesses, but
nothing has been done. wrote private let
ter to Secretary Stanton in regard to this mat
ter, but not a move has ever been made against
him.
Butler is worthy son Of New England.
He is loved there a good, true and patriotic
man. Wait for time and ''see his guilt IN
kcnneled'' JOHN E. WATsos.
Losses OF GEORGIA BY THE Wharf.-The re-
port of the Comptroller General of Georgia
makes some remarkable statements respecting
the losses consequent upon the war in the
State. By the tax returns Of 1866, the taxa
bic property is estimated at 1929 1888. 1877,
while in $50 it was returned at S672, 292,-
AT, which, reduced to currency, would be
81 ,00e, 458, 663, making over seven hundred
millions as the loss accustomed BY the war in
one Stale alone. Nor is this all. This esti-
mate does not include the amount swallowed