Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-30
Some of Gen. Buffers Traits.


 q fear no one and love but few" said the General in speech some years ago Tue first part of the sentence is said to be strict ly true but the General displays such kind ness to those about him that the last part is doubted The sense of fear seems to have been spared him. He sometimes appears timid about crossing street crowded with passing vehicles, but if he is told that there is no danger he will step abruptly into the most dangerous spot and begin to argue upon the risk there is of being run over. In re- turning from a court house last winter dress ed in heavy overeoat that reached nearly to his heels, and shod in. a pair of rubbers inside a pair of arctics, he was talking over the case he had been trying with another lawyer, when he slipped in mass of slush at the curb and fell headlong to the pavement with such force that he seemed to have broken
 bone His companion in trying to break his fall was borne down by the hea " weight
 with which he had to deal and fell upon the General. He quickly arose. and fearing that Gen. Butler had been fatally injured, asked
 in aquavering voice, Are you hurt, General!'' Hurt ?" said Gen. Butler. ''No; when I
 fall always fall like meal sack. Now, as I was saying about the case" He help
 ed himself up and went on with his converse ton.
 Gen. Buffers aversion is for newspapers and West Pointers. When he reached New foundland, on one of his yachting tours, and learned from Capt. Haworth of the royal na- " that there was not newspaper in the province, he clasped his hands, comically rolled up his eyes, and said: 'Now, Lord, let Thy servant depart in peace.H The popular conception of him, that he is rough, coarse and bullying man, with the epidermis of 0 rhinoceros, which conception seems to be product of the caricaturists and his political detractors, appears to his friends in singular contrast with his gentleness, affection and consideration for others in his daily life. In public life, they say, he has had to deal with the rough side of the world and has fought with the same weapons used against him. The road he has travelled from the time he
 was poor boy, paying his way through col l lege by making chairs for 30 cents day to the time when he became millionaire law yer and manufacturer, with the largest prac- l tice of any lawyer outside of New York, has been one requiring strong arm and cour- ageous front for he has had the powerful Beacon Hill aristocracy sneering at him, It's creatures slandering him, and it's parasites swelling the cry against him It IS secret l in a marrow circle of his friends that since he hanged Montfort at New Orleans for pulling l down the United States flag from the cupola of the court house. Gen. Butler has cared for I Montfort's widow as though she was relative. l The exigencies of the cruel period of the war I made the taking of Montfort's life necessary, but Gen Butler took his family under his l care, cleared of mortgage upon the widows home and obtained for her position in one I of the departments at Washington. Some l time ago she was displaced. As soon as he heard of it he took the next train for Wash ] irgton and did not return until she was rein l stated. The widow and her children feel that no harm will come to them as long as Gen. Butler lives.