Daily globe., 1883-06-16

THE ORIGIN or Il POPULAR LIE.
The malice with which number of min
listers IN Massachusetts attacked Gov. But
Ter in their fast day sermons has brought
veteran who signs himself as zone who
he lped to guard the spoons to the front
He seems to have been particularly dis
gusted with one Rev. Eustis, who in his
sermon carried the inference that twenty
years ago Gov. Butler was carrying on an
illegitimate trade in spoons in New Or
leans and robbing the poor and disabled
soldiers" For more than twenty years
the veteran says she had heard class of
men, who when they felt their patriotism
boiling over had INDUCED in this style of
mud-throwing, but he had never supposed
the spoon stealing epiteth would ever be
appli,d to the general in sermon by a
learned divine in a New England pulpit
In communication in the Springfield,
Mass, Homestead, non-political journal
having large circulation in central New
England, the veteran proceeds to say that
the ''dear name of beast was applied to
Butler by drunken mob because he would
not allow things in female attire to spit in
the faces of union soldiers in the streets OF
New Orleans, and issued the so-styled
woman ORDER on account of which a
reward was offered for his head.''
The veteran further proceeds to give the
exact facts as to the sell part of Buffers
name-"spoors:'
If [ mistake not, during the year 1859 the
secretary of the easury called in all the ole
silver coin known as Mexican half dollars.
| These were sent TO the United States mint al
New Orleans just before the state seeded, to bt
recOlned into our money, together with a large
| amount of silver brick.
But when the s ate seeded this treasure dis
appeared. Gen. Butler being acquainted witt
these facts, set his detectives at work to ferret
out and if possible, to find the stolen property
The mint was empty, not even a tool could be
| found there. At last this treasure was found
| secreted under the protection of a foreign flag
| By force 1t was taken from its protectorate the
| consul of the Netherla nds, and placed in the
! custom house. The kegs of coin still bore the
seal of the United States, but the silver bricks
| had changed their original shape. They had
| been rudely melted into shape half shovel and
| half spoon, and about two feet in width. 1t was
| Sunday morning when the stolen property was
transferred from the vault of a consul who gave
| the lie of neutrality, he protesting in the name
| of his government. 1t took many days to trans
port the plunder, and it with great difficulty
that theguard kept back the mob, when the treas
ure was placed under the protection of our flag
What became of that plunder? Butler sent
| it to the United States treasury. The govern
ment was afraid to receive it because the party
that secreted it claimed it as his So it was de-
posted IN Buffers name, $4,000 worth, where
1t remained till after the war Then the CRY
was, Butler has cheated the government out of
1t, but the government didn't say so.
The veteran further adds that the
stealing of spoons as applied to Butler was
in the words of the mob who yelled as the
treasure was being removed to United
States protection, spoons! spoons! old
cockeyc is stealing spoons" and they thus
became a byword and slur to the name
of one who in those trying days endeav-
ored to save the Union, its property, and its
soldiers from INSULT