The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-01
serenade 20 GeucraI Bu tier.

Since the serenades TO Andy job nson,
Washington has had no such roaring
farce as the meeting held in response to
the call of Friday of the friends of Gen.
eIal Butler. No names were appended
to the call, but the fact that 1t was ap
pointed at Union League Hall, the place
where the female suffrage bippodrome
was held for several months, excited
general curiosity as we'll as ridicule,
so far as Butler's friends had anything
to do with it, the object appeared to be
to palm it off as gathering of soldiers
and sailors who had served with bin at
New Orleans, anxious To express their
gratitude for his assistance in getting
their Just claims, prize and bounty IN
the Fsrragut case now pending ia court
ut Washington. The meeting was made
up of brass band and little less than
one hundred people. The first speaker,
unknown to the audience, forgot entirely
about the prize business, and launched
out into q defense eff Butler in the Whit
temore matter and finished with & very
poor imitation of Butler on the news
papers. The second speaker, also IN
known, Informed those present that
General Butler possessed more eXsCu-
tive ability than any other living man
and had forgotten more in day than
all the Bonapartes and BismaTcks ever
knew in their lives. and that the time
would come when the colorCd mon
would elect him President, and when he
reached the depot four colored men
would seizs him and bear him aloft and
in triumph on their shoulders To the
Whits House-tO the White House to
the White House" The latter repeti
ton being shouted in the rapidly
ascending scale. DR.. Lockwood, who
is at the same time great
champion aud fearful example of female
suffrage, worked himself into a sublime
rage over the ISLANDERS hu Id at Mr.
Butler. Mr.. Crane, the hero of seveIa
spontaneous ouiLur's, declared himself
o great adviser { Butler, but the same
time he Was unable to see any special
reason for tue meeting, aud If Bl lei
was 10 lie ihs Republican candidate il
would damage his prospects to an
nouDcs the fact just now. After three
or four other speakers, whom nobody
knew, had endorsed General Batter for
the Presidency, and various other
things, q resolution was un IuimOUslN
passed, thanking Butler for drfrndIng
Me-. Whit emuro IN the Honse of Rel rs.
sen6atives Tie announce mrnt was hen
made that the baud aud fi.nds of tue
GeneIal would proceed at Oace TO
the house of the latter TO serenade him
After q march of bearly "a mile, during
which the party following the band
was constantly greeted with cries of
Spontaneous outbursts are played out
in Washington" exactly forty nine
individuals, of whom eight were white,
two policemen and six colored ladies,
drew up arousd Buffers door. Captain
Z. d. Kennedy, who is a we'll known
"desd beat" from Louisville. DR.. SGcd-
grass and Captain Jones, led the col
umn and assembled the steps to call out
General Butler. While the band played,
avigorous pulling was kept up ut the
door bell. Shortly the door opened, and
Captain Kennedy, after carefully blow
ing his noss with his fingers,
went in with three other gentlemen to
announce the object of tho gathering to
Butler. They evidently told him the
soldiers and sailors had come, for in a
few moments Butler came out and took
q searching glance Oat into the dark
he could not estimate the size of the
crowd or its character, and catching a
glimpse of the policemen's buttons be
began by saying he supposed he saw
before and around him representatives
of the soldiers aud sailors who fought
with him at New Orleans. This was
said in onetitted for large audiences,
but as his eyes cleared up he
saw the crowd did not reach to the curb
stone, and was only two or
three times IA long rs his door steps.
With this he stopped on New Orleans.
and said the whole affair was entirely
unexpected, which was proved by the
fact that it was announced in Friday
mornings papers, that the house was
partially illuminated, ard he himself
appeared gotten up most gOrgeOuSly,
apparently for the occasion.S At this
point a man close to BntSf cried in
Tremendous tones "tbree cheers for
General Butler" and in response oue
man in the crowd set up fearful vel,
but failed to start any one else. Butler's
eyes having become accustomed to The
dim light, he changed his speech to suit
the crowd, and referred to the swearing
in of Revels as Senator, and the FIT
teenth Amendment to solve the question
and tyranny of the capital, which clio
TIED applause from Captain Kennedy
and two bootblacks. The idea that he
had been egregiously fooled seemed nj
this moment to occur to Butler, and
UhaDkipg his friends for their visit he
abruptly bid them good night, and
withdrew, carefully closing the door