The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-01-01
The Hayley-Butler Trouble.

THE SECRET OF BENJAMlS's VIOLENT PREJUDICE
AGAINST NEWSPAPER MEN.
A correspondent of the New York Sun,
writing from Columbia, S. c., says:
Coming on the train from Wilmington
This morning fell in with Colonel Seward,
of Orient, L. /. He was formerly one of the
staff of General Joseph K. Hawley, OF Con-
necticut.
"Wbat kind Off man is Joe?" 1asked.
"Well,n the Colonel replied, "three
years companiopship in the army ought to
rive a man pretty good insight into an
oo,bers.. character. know Joe HaWley like
q book Hd Is straightforward, honest
msS never afra;,a OF expressing bis opinion,
a n"', 20 hrsve as lion. Now he's Joined the
church he amt afraid Of anything. hes
down on all stealing, whether in congress OF
in the army" ,,.,
of him as a probable candidate ZOE Tue 1 fe COL
dency," said.
e Yes ,, was the response. "Well, I'd
like to see Joe get the republican non,na.
ton. If he was President there Wouiunt
he much stealing going on. There's one
thing ohont him however, that may hurt
him some time or other. He's mighty Liable
to 90 off half cooked. That's the way, you
know. with all impulsiye men. If you leave
him alone long enough he comes around all
r;oht in time. But in some one or bis inn
pnlsiye moments he might slip and sail down
hill when there was no one to catch him, you
.sI thought that Joe held his own very
| we'll in his row with Butler" said l.
dyes. he replied, &c Ben forgot what had
hammered down on the James river when he
woke I'D Joe Hawley In that Springfield
speech. That was the first trouble between
them"
| "What was it ?" inquired.
| .Well," said Seward, you know that But
| Ter had about 10000 men at Bermuda Hun
| dreds while Grant was fighting Lee in the
| Wilderness. II he had been prompt and
bold he might hare gone into Richmond
| like book, Buthe got bottled up, as Grant
! said, and that was the end OF him. Then
| Grant took the most OF his troops away from
him, leaving with him about, 4, 900 or 5000
men under Generals Terry and Hawley. 1t
! cut Butler up terribly Knocked bis military
! dignity into cooked hat. So Butler got
! his back up and determined to do some
thing on his own hook. He had his engi.
neers, cut new road through the woods,
/ which would ,briRg him out In the open
country between Petersbu and Richmond.
He ordered HaRley's brigade to march over
this road during the night, expecting that
Joe could reach the open country by day.
light, and then assault and capture Peters
burg. He sent Kautz with a regiment OF
cavalry around the other side of Petersburg
to. make, an assault on the works south OF
that city at The same time That Hawley struck
it on the north. Well, Joe started of, with
his brigade during as dark q night as ever
you saw. t,.,.,l ~. .l...;...;s..; l.ss !
g But Joe found that Buffers road was
| wonderfully and Iearfully made. It was
hacked out Of Q thick forest. His engineers
had left the stumps two and three feet high
It YVES almost impossible for Joe TO get his bat.
i iteries over them: Be worked like beaver, but
| at daylight me was not more than half way
! to the open ground. Butler heard of 1t, and
sent a mes:ogeto Joe wanting to know why