New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-15


pected nv wife /, die aud while was sitting at ner
bedside servant came mp and said There Is MILITARY
officer sr tho door who wants you went down M"
asked hat the have an oraer ior yoaf
arrest said he. Il can't co. replied am PROV.
ably at the death-bed OF my WIFE,. Cant nep 'nas
said the oalcer. 1T Is pc emptory.' Well must
must said Il so sent for carriage ana was .ason W
the Custom House. told them the situation and IL was
suggested that had better so to see Butler hi'nse
Said 7: General what am arrested fort You kno"
az well as do said he. Certainly have done noun
ing General since you came to the city, and whateVor
was done before that you know oil about; besioes my
wife Is dangerously ill., you go down to tie Custom
House. said Butler and give bond In $4,000 not 20
leave New Orleans which hear you are about TO d.
So went do gn there and gave the bond Time passed
on aud my wife better but the DOCTOR toio Inc -
take her on a sains vessel to Europe. as IL was
tive for her restoration Butler then occupied tue 1eh
eral Twiggs mansion and went up there ana saw one
of his leading officers and told him my Grand SAD NO.
syou can't see General Butler to-day. must see
him, said Il there vessel here just about to SAIL
and want to know whether cen go with my wiio sno
family advise you not to see General butier saao
he: he il unusually ont OF sorts to-day, and says
mo- to everything. Never mind; Lot me see aiin
The ol ser went in and came out In few minutes say
ing This is very strange the General says that you
are TO come up here at o'clock this evening. ne
seemed to receive your message Win the hrs' 49,
naturc have seen for several days 80 was at ou'
S~"-'--o
from dinner Come here said he; anu no at once
gave orders that nobody should he admitted 10 MIN nAs
evening no matter who or on what erraha no asA
me hov my wife told hun she was oester anu
wanted to take her away, aud explained no 'noh "eA'
into dissertation lead poisoning when steo MAI An
hour That suggested something else To him. ana IN Inc
most singular he continued to tax RON 'opio
tonic until II was last o'clock. Said 1: General,
have not got my yet What release saa NO.
why I am under bond here mot to leave the CITY,
oh psha UP said Butler, go down to the Custom
House and see Major - Eut they won't give IL 70
me-, Yes they will said Busler. you go there.
don't want to seaany more Of you said no In MS Or
hand way | went down there next day, and TO my
surprise they released my bond ana let me s'ar' i''
Spain, and that was the last saw OF New-orieans.
aYou never saw my oldest son." said Mr. Hildreth-
have got son fortytwo years old. by my hrst VIE.
Here "a piece OF poetry Just sent ME, speaking
ayoraby of Butler though my son was In tne
Confederate Army" lie then sho wed the piece Wnion
was quite clever There is queer genius" said Hi-
dreth; when the closed my boy was 80 poorly TO
constructed that would not stay In the country ana
cot I'D colony to 90 the Argentine Confederation,
and there lie founded town aud worked away seVerai
years but fate was against him and had at last to SEND
him money to come home with. Then put him In
brokers' Office where be perfect satisiactoh anu
finally bought him a seat in the Board After ne hao
tried IL few years he came and said: Father.
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see Mary and sale at swampscott' Mary ana saiiie
WIRE his grandnothers Of old Puritan stock That boy
had eleven grandmothes and grandfathers al the same
lime; that say generations lived so long saa'
his grandfathers and grandmothers ana toer ancestors
were alive ut time 70 the number OF eleven lie haa
two grandothers you and their two parents were
living and also his great grandparents My son
went mn there and there he has lived for ten years.
catches fish like his ancestors in the early days OF inc
colony and sends them up Boston market and seems
perfcy contented Ia old Bay state though ne gave
the freshest years his life to the Southern cause He
Owes nobody any trouble writes me letters on
and matters phosophicay. and here as you see ne a.
taking the part Of Butler who arrested his father.
Josenh willard the elder Of the well-known Willard
| Brothers at Washington who has been areclnsc iof
many wears and of whom stiff stories told about his
severity with debtors, etc. performed an act some tune
| ago which, though little known has astonisled and
somewhat revoutionzed Washington sentiment Joseph
O. Cooke the lessee OF Wizards Hotel died suddenly
with an nj most expired lease, and his widow had about
| $4,000 worth of furniture in the house. Ihere was
rush on the part OF hotel from all parts Of the
country TO get the property and they all ndnged the
suppostion thstf they obtained the lease Mrs. Cooke
would have 10 sacrifice her furniture and they could get
II for a mere song But Mr.. Willard stepped Ior~ara
and leased the widow the hotel knowing that she Soud
not undertake TO operate IT, but resolved that whoever
leased II should take her furniture on equitable terms
nearly It's fell value since no one could lease the hotel
without including the chattels
Montgomery Blair VIII, has not had much 10 say about
his friend Tlden for weeks or months though ne
wan the lion against eondoning the Great Fraud, mar
red the daughter OF Levi Woodbury., who was Andrew
Iacksons Secretary OF Treasury and of the Navy,
and who filled the former office undcr Van Buren, as Well
and was New-Hampshire Senator and Justice OF the
Supreme Court he died in 1851. hannibal Hamhn
remarked In arcent conversations: was IN fayor
OF Mr. woodburys nomination be President in place Of
! General Cas- in ls4s Had he been nominated there
would not been the schis OF Mr. Van Buren, who
having put Woodbury. In his former Cabinet wonid not
have opposed him. 1 think" SAID Btr Hamiin, that
Woodbury. was OF the ablest men New England has
ever had in public life; not the peer of Daniel Webster,
bar ranking with Mr.. CollsmeS Sir. Edmnnds and the
Others"
| Mr. O'Brien, the manager OF the Southern Express
Company who is much Of the time in New-lork, said 10
me on the third day Of July: II Is just twenty-five years
this day entered the service of Adams Express az
the driver Of wagon Mr.. Adams, the founder OF the
| company kept bar In early life" inquired about
Mr. H. b. Plant the president Of the Southern Express
Company and Mr. Bren said He came originally from
the Eastern States but has lived very many years oil
Augusta Ca and Is of the chief railroad builders
in the South the railroad south OF Savannah
not only 10 jacksonville and the AppalachicoaRvei but
he has built line TO Tampa Bay In South Florida and
will put on steamers next winter TO make the across
to Havana In twenty hours so that less than one
day and night sf voyage will divide the people In
New-York from Cuba. which think win become the
most popular resort Of Americana"
saw at Long Branch recently Mr.. William Sngerley
OF Philadelphia young appearing who is roputed
10 genial and hospabe, and who has not only man.
aged OF tine largest properties IN this country In
street railroads but has managed his newspaper 7As
Record, which he bought from the son OF William NJ.
wayne that II has of the largest CALCULATIONS IN
the world His son-in-law Mr.. Balch. told me that he
10 a nut Of IAe year