Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-10
Union aud gispatfh.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE no. 1855. ?
I.areest CIFeaIatI0n D CIty end Sac.
BUTLER AMONG THE rRLRGRAMs,

The Washington correspondent Of the
Chicago Tribune (Radieal) furnishes the
following:
Il is at your peril in these days that you
say anything by telegraph. StraightRay
Butler cites yoH before him, shakes you at
the Sergeant-at- Arms, knocks you down,
and then damns you for falling. lie asks
about that little peccadillo Of your Uncle
William. He suggests that you tell tie
precise truth upon the case of your sister
WHO married barber 10 get his property
and cheat the children Of his FIRST wife. Net
by this kind Of cross-examination, you sur
render at will. There is no reply 10 a cart
whip. 10
To imagine genuine case Of happiness,
as telegraph operator relates 1t, you must
see Gen. Butler let loosesupOn several bar
rels Of kilograms. lie is all activity. He
has blank subpenas, and sends for folks by
the wholesale. Being himself familiar
with speculations, his inquisitiveneas is
whetted 10 the sharpest edge. He pene-
trates all their aliases Coming TO the fol-
lowing dispatch, he feels that be has struck
a lively mystery:
"Pae, SELL Go one straight Raw egg.
Charge % my account. Diao his end. Loo
aey.''
: 'TNow," says Gen. Butler, "answer me.
Why do you sign yourself 'Looney >"
81 don't sign myself 'LoOney." .s..
sHai Sirrai Look there" says the
General. Spell that What is il?
Quick p
why" says the man, Chat amt Loo
ney its ]. w. Ney"
"Silence," says General Butler; 81 know
you, sirra / know your
After considerable ciphering, the General
proceeds:
Nov, Looney, who is Pete {?
"Pete Hurley, my partner All that is
said here is 'Pete Hurley, sell ont my ae-
count and take a drink, just as am doing
at this end.
"But what is this about raw eggs? Why
eggs2 Answer on your oath, why eggs2' p
Eggs and sherry, says Looney, prompt
~ 81 wonder you don't keep EN- here.
Sergeant-at-Arms, says the General,
" put this contumacious witness in custody
But hold on Loouey, how much did Pete
sell for YOU"
THAT amt got nothing to do with i'm
| parchment" says Pete. "Iwon't tell you
cake care" says the General answer
on your oath Where did you get the
margin to put up, and how much did you
buy"
The Ge1efal then, by successive refer
ences to the Sergeant-at-Arms aud stern
4 interlocutions, gets to the bottom of the
incendiary matter, which Looney only
| wished 10 conceal because his transactions
had been so ridiculous that lac was ashamed
Of them.
He calIs, perhaps, for the kilograms o
Zach Chandler, and Investigates hi
friends finances He probes the Sumnei
Geneslic difficulties. file sees whelheI
Forney got old James Buchanan 10 sigT
away a. trustee 90 his Eighth street prop
erty. Aud the telegraph, in our day a
trusted and sacred as the mails, beating il
private burden of grief, sudden poverty
the shame of ones daughter, the foley o
ones wife, has been for nearly two week
in the custody of man with bOundless in
uuisitiveness and fearful memory. t'
What is the defense Of the General whei
twitted with this:
1.-THE English government" he said
seized even the mails st the time OF tn
Ohartist riots"
Perhaps 80 but that was the desperat
device Of tory Ministry to retard the sui
frage, and this is an inquest to remove
President who stands in the way of uhiyeI
sal suffrage. Altogether, this trial BIS
shown Surprising morals in New York an
WashingtOn-aP residenPsdrunken speech
es, a gdano job, a whisky ring, wholesal
seizure of kilograms, copious use Of spie
and the manners of General Butler.