The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-21

pairs. and would not pay any more thah le nau ie.
take that nor would he sre wall NE h ne OoS hs
money for the purpose OF buying another boat, he
having been informed that boat quite az suitable
come Into port; MI. Hunnewel said, then, that he
never saw nor heard OF Mr.. Hanneweh again until
the commencement OF this suit; he let 1t be known
70 sa s he mad S "a 70 s 10 ne ks
that It might be bought for what he had paid for e
and the cost OF the REPAIRS meantime General
Butler was informed by his harbor master that the
steamer Estrelia, an iron steamer and blockade
runner. vas in port; he sent for her owner. en-
tered into negotiations for the purchase Of her,
ported her as worth $4,000; that she was strong
and stanch and drew some Ave and half
SIX feet 81 sss aR
Of the Estrea on trial TRIP in her down the river
and that she would hold up her guns without fur
Their REPAIRS he ordered his quartermaster, VINO
d a a. a r % % o Se
ber eight days after he had bought the Nassau; but
his quartermaster did not pay for her because he
party owning her took certificate Of Indebtedness,
as he was going North; thereupon the Estrela was
fitted out she went down the river; the Diana ana
the Kinsman met her at Southwest Pass, and she
went around to Berwick Bay, co-opcrated with the
land forces and captured the whole Teche coun;
appear in the report OF General Wetzci
the Nassau was not sold until the 10th OF October,
what General Butler had paid, and what had been
reported to him as the expenses OF fitting her up,
when General Butler ordered her to be transferred
to hlm she was never used as a towboat, but sent
to Havana by her owners with freight aud pasSen-
gers; General Butler was not aware that Andrew
j., his brother, had any interest In her-indeed ne
would have had no hesitation In selling her to An.
drew J. If he had had any desire to buy her-untll
after the commencement OF this suit; General But
Ter himself never had any interest in her in any
shape directly or indirectly, after her transfer to
the towboat business on the Mississippi, there be.
Ing but one set OF towboats there up to July, when
the towing fleet consisted OF the =; Anglo.American'
tured by the army aud navy when they took
New orleans; II July upon an application
he owned the Anglo American and the st.
Charles, that he was loyal man and that they
davis to that effect, which application and aidavits
will be produced in court, General Butler ordered
his quartermaster to transfer the Anglo AMERICAN
and the st. Charles the two best towboats, to INF.
Stanton, who ran them as towboats until the fall
OF Baton Rouge, when they were taken by General
Butler and used for transporting the troops to Baton
Rouge ana afterwards in bringing them away at Its
evacuation; the Lands and Fox were In the
hands of the quartermaster, under the charge OF
direction of the Quartermaster's Department as
part Of the army operations; no other towboats
the purpose Of bringing out cotton or sugar. or any
other produce, because the rivers and bayous could
that could lie up against the banks to be loaded,
and she never was used for that purpose; General
nuter, denied entirely the statement Of Mr..
himself and. his brother ever having taken place,
but testified that Mr.. wiegel was not in his office
during the absence of Strong, who was Adjutant
General and Chief Of Staff was awhile In the Adju-
outdoor S business e' and Signed special orders as
Acting Assistant Adjutant General; those special
orders were produced. and 1t was shown that no
fha 10 fha fJQv NJ al from
that time General Strong and Captain Davis, the
regular officers signed all the orders following some
petition was made to Ponchlfoua and Tangipoho
under the command OF General Strong Chief of staff;
and
field; flag OF truce was at once sent over by Gen.
eral 'Jeff Thompson informing General Butler that
Thornton, and that he was too ill to be moved, ex
cept upon bed to any great distance, up to their
would exchange Captain Thornton for anybody the
General would indicate; thereupon nag OF truce
was despatched with the officers in General Buffers
yacht, under the command OF Captain Puifer and
Lieutenant Wiegel; Lieutenant Wiegel, In the
course Of the night, fell into quarrel with the
son. and beat and bruised one very severely,
which caused Captain Puf1er to put him under
arrest and to return back to New Orleans without
10 General Butler under arrest he having delivered
TO Captain Pufrer his sword; thereupon General
Butler, not knowing how the attack upon the off,
GERS Of the flag OF truce by him had been made, or
dered Lieutenant Wiegel into close arrest In his
quarters, which were an upper room in the house
Kept by General Butler and more than half mile
from his o1lce in the Custom House; and Captain
puHer was dispatched with the officers Of the flag of
truce with letter to General Thompson, apologize
ing 70. the attack upon his officers and informing
General Thompson that the ofllcer who did 1t was
arrest in his room, his meals being sent to him,
until, by his letter. which will be produced praying
@ he should NOT 9e ay w ana
was on the ed day OF September the day of the
final transaction OF buying the Nassau from Hume
well: Mr.. Wlegel was not IN General Buffers office
at all, nor out of the room where he was In close
arrest from the time he returned from the fatal
sau was purchased; and in obedience to his re-
quest and because 1t was supposed to be O drunken
freak, he was allowed to resign and sent home. the
Wiegel never was stan ofncer Of General
from about the time the Nassau got into port up to
the time that she was sold Mr.. Wiegel never did
was in his office in regard to the force supposed to
be used to cause Hunnewel to transfer the boat on
he h sha as ne sSs ne was
that the boat was never registered at New Orleans
until after General Butler sold her to Griffin, so that
conld be transferred until after the I'D OF septem
Der, when General Buffers bill OF sale was written,
dated and recorded; Mr.. Hunnewell did not trans
fer the boat to General Butler on the
18th, either by durcss or otherwise, did no
ming a. inc M Sera o s Sy 70 G he
cept TO record his own bill OF sale, which was the
4 only business he had at the Custom House, without
/ being in charge of General Buffers orderly or any
! body else; so far from Mr. Hunnewell ever buying
the boat he never owned her at all; Buell. owned
one-third OF her from the beginning, which cost him
$1,000; he went down to New Orleans with her for
the purpose of selling her. and after General Butler
began to talk about buying her he himself bought
her Of Mr.. Van Wickle and paid him with his own
hand the money for her; MI. Hunnewell did not
buy her at ALL and his statement that General But
Ter said upon his Offering Jacob Barkers check for
her. that he could not have her, because
| his quartermaster wanted her. was testl-
fed to be untrue, because at that hour
the quartermaster In New York, as
shown b. his letter, which was produced, dated the
10th Of september In that city; furthermore, tt
meet the statement OF Hunnewe that his second
interview with General Butler was interrupted by
the entrance of Admiral Farragut, General Butler
showed from the official letters written at the time
that the Admiral was not In New Orleans from the
Both OF August until the 9th OF October that period
| covering the entire transactions OF this case.
General Butler concluded his testimony by pro
! ducing several letters written to him within the
last three years by the witness Wiegel, among
which were the followng:-