The sun., 1873-12-26
GOING OFF HALF Cooked.
INrERESTING accom- or THE
HIWLEY- Y-BTILER 1ROTBLE.

unwiey collars Batter on the Bnnl ef the
james rhc secret OF Benianin's Ni"ient
Pr iud &c against Newspaper Wen An
Houcst Cicrgyman's Troubles.
,orrcs pondcnct OF rhe san.
COLUMBIA. :. G.. Dec. sl.-Cominp on the
train from Wilmington this morning fc.l in
with Col. seward " orient l.. l. He was for
merry on the stan Of Gen. Joseph u. Hawley Of
Connecticut.
"what Kind of man Is Joe e. | asked
"well," the Colonel replied, three years
companlonship in the army ought to give sman
n pretty good insight into another's character.
I know Joe Hawey like book. He Is
straightforward II. honest man, never afraid Of
EXPRESSING his opinion and as brave As lion.
He's one Of the best fellows you ever saw"
Hes making good record in Congress,
said "Dead down on salary grabs and Credit
Mobilierizlng. I see that he don't hesitate to
rap the Presidents knuckles when he thinks
he's doing wrong"
"oh, Joes a good fellow" Col. Seward re-
piled. lone Of the best you ever saw. Now
he's Joined the church he amt afraid Of any
thing. He's down on all stealing, whether in
Congress or in the army. Many a time when
I've sat down TO dinner with him In little wall
tent I've heard him say, seward. where did you
get these chickens? They're mighty good and
I've had to lie like blazes to get him to eat
them. He'd never allow one Of his soldiers to
take a chicken from a rebel hen roost He'd
heht the rebels like h-ll. but he would never
steal their chickens. That's the Kind OF man
he IL
him as "A probable candidate for the Presidency
| said.
"Yes," was the response. "well, Id Ike to
see Joe get tho Republican nomination. | don't
know Of better fellow on the lace Of the earth.
II he was President there wouldn't be much
,teS'ipe going on. on; Ihsrfs one n thing about ,,
or other. Hes mighty liable to 30 On half
cooked. That's the way. you know, vi IN all inn
pulsi-e men. II YOU leave him alone long
enough, he comes around all right In time. Rat
IN some INC II his hnpulsive moments he might
slip and sail down hlll when there was no one TO
II Thought That Joe held his own very well in
his row with Iiutler" saiu |.
seward hraced his knees ac.inst the car seat
iu front Of him and laughed. YES" he replied.
"Ben forgot what had happened down ON Ia,
James river when he woke ~ Joe lIIwllv IN
ihat Springfield s:'cch. That was the first
trouble hei Necu q rin.'
"Nuat Wd- it 30 tAquired.
BuTt.hR BOTTLED.
q" We'll" said seward. you know that Butler
had about 4DOu men at Bern uda hundred
while Grant was fighting lee Ia the Wilderness.
gone into Richmond like book. But he got
bottled up. a. Grant said. aud that WAS The
end of him. Then Grant touk the most of his
troops away from him. leaving with him about
i.0u OF 5,OO men under Generals Terry and
/ HaMleN. II cut Butler up terribly klOCked lls
military dignity into cooked hat. ~ Butler
got his back up, and determined 20 do some
thing on his own nook. lie had his engineers
cat new road through the woods, which would
bring MIN out m tue open country between
! Petersburg and Richmond lie ordered Haw-
les brigade tn march over this road during the
night expecting that Joe could reach the open
ture Petersburg lie sent knutz with a regt-
| meut of cavalry around the other side of Peters
/ burg To- make sn assault on the works south ~
/ that city. at the same time that Hawlev struck
D ftt tnsa MOL HOS At tad M ia Ina
brigade during a. DARK night ever You saw.
/ II was the night that Grant was f-hting Lee at
the guns - that battle. But Joe found that
Buffers road wrs wonderfully and fearfuy
[ made. II was hacked out II a thick forest. His
/ engineers had left the stumps two and three
| feet nish. Il WAS almost impossible for
/ Joe t. get he batteries over them lie
/ worked like beaver tut az DAY hight he was not
more than haf way TO the open ground. Butler
/ heard oi IT, and sent message TO Joe. want ng
/ TO know WY IN hell he wasn't In the open
country. ID - YOU" said Butler, don't YOU
/ know that have removed Najnr-Generas for
was doing the hest he could, aud il II was not
] satisfactory to Butler he could remove and tie
hanged to him. Ii was well along tow ard noon
] when joe strurk the open country. There WAS
line of works extending toward Petersburg
for milcs.
LIVELY sHAKE Up.
1t would have taken several hours TO
! reach the city IN straight march. II so far
] awuv that you could only see one Of its church
ground al thai. But Joe ohcyed orders lie
carried liue after line Of works at the point of
/ the biyonet. hut tha cttv seemed ~ far IN ~
/ ever. About suuGuwn kautzs cavalry formed
! a Junction with binl. hauN reported That he
had assault 81 the works az inherent places, and
! found them well manned. lie hld b~cu re-
! pulsed on every side. strong force was already
! uas.iug IN front o' H1Wley snd common pru-
dcuce dictated ai'f lrn to rH'Up. n wos late at
I night when the truors reached tneir quarters.
/ Joe sat down without going To- bed-hls news
raper life had made him sort Of night owl
| aud wrote out his official report. sending " 10
| Butler a. soon AS IL was finished. Next morning
| an orderlv came to the tent, and said that Gen.
/ Butler wanted TO see Gen. HawleN Immediately.
! | 70 te up To Butler's headquarters with Joe.
Joe got "a hi horse and went inside. re-
| mained without. could hear them al II Inside
Butler was roaring Ut joe, aLd hrowhsa atine him
| as though he acre witness IN rape case.
| Every once IN While Butler would shout, You
-tN IN y"uy psport 50 ana So. Hawley would
+sWei, on misguote my report; say n
such taIng. Then Bdtlet would swear and talk
about the s9Jor;Generals he had removed; For
! direct wss given. It was too much. Joe went
for Benjamin. lie chugl him hy the coat col
lar, and shoos the stutins out Of him. was
thiuAing about going IN when Joe appeared at
the door of the tent. lie was as calm a. a sum,
nlcr sea. Come. Seward he said, let Us go.
shall be removed II | stay here much longer,
And Wt went back 90 our qAarters'
BUTLEW AND TIE RFroRrrRs
What did Buicr de- about T. - ,kri.
"Why, the hfiAug coward did nothing,
seward answered. " lie Was ashamed tn hly,
Unknown. Ne took the II king ~ a :, and
never spoke oft ftrrward. when Batter wa f1
TIE first time attempting to get the nomination
Tor Governor ot Massachusetts, HawI-y opened
upon him In the Hartford TouIdHt Butler Ht
tempted a reply in hts speech At Springfield. III
began Co ridicule J e's military record, bat on,
| of the ttsiTdiu reporters cork ed him up by rls
| ing IN his seat and call!ng hun a litr. Then DO,
threw editorial vitrtol on him, ana since th'
the nght has RACED with more or less intensity
] Ever since llawleY licked him Butler has ex
/ pressed the most profound contempt for news
| paper men. but the meanest tllug he ever die
was his action toward Chaplain Thomas You "
heard Of that, haven't youF
! NO" res ponded "what is IT,"
! " ell Thomas was a chaplain In our brigade
] Some reporter from the Nttr orb Htfdld askrC
! him what he thought of Rlter, Thomas sait
he was a good lawyer, bur a mighty poor gen
cral. The HCTdid man printed the story. SooI
after that Thomas disappeared. HIS frieud
looked Tor him high and low Tor long time
six weeks afterward he released from
military prison where he had been kept In clos,
confinement bY Gen. Butler on account OF hi
conversation with the HcTdLl reporter"
EvrRYBoDY LtRRs JOE.
"Well, CoinDel,' / said, 4" II the Democrats o
/ Connecticut had known that Joe liaWleN hcke,
Ben Butl,I ! dou't believe thcy would haN
reelected Ferry United states senator whel
HaaIey was candidate.
" Iher re- mighty sorry now that they did II f.,
Seward replied. " Ferry went back ON then
before their hands we're cold. You theI al
liked Joe. They oil said thtt Joe was a Eoul
fellow. They would all rather have had Joe Il
the senAte tuan Fery.'
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