Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20

ton of call which he then made upon
Caleb Cushing, who was then Attorney
General.
Congressman Banks had Massachusetts
man with him for whom be wished to get an
office, and he wanted Gushing, who was also
a Massachusetts man to help him to it.
Attorney General Cuahing was supposed to
have the command of the appointment
General Banks presented his friend and
asked for it. General Gushing replied that
he could not grant it, as the Office had been
asked for by Jefferson Davis, "and," SAID
Gushing, sit should be thoroughly under
stood, and it will certainly be known soon,
if it is not known now, that nothing can be
gotten from this present administration
without the consent of Jefferson Davis. -
Davis dominated Congress as we'll as the
President, and it was the coalition made
against him and his friends that elected
Banks Speaker.
A CONTRAST IN WORLDLY GOODS.
A movement to place General Banks on
the retired list of the armvas Major General
will probably pass. He is, l understand,
not in good circumstances and the contrast
between him and Butler in this respect is
remarkable. Butler is worth his millions
He makes, it is said, So 900 month at the
law and be still owns his Washington man.
sion with its big mortgage. He has invest
ments all over the United States and he has
been largely interested in West Virginia
mines.
His law practice at Washington is so
great that he keeps an office here in little
white brick building Just across from the
Capitol, and he can step out from his papers
into the Supreme Court room and open his
mouth at the rate of a dollar a word almost
any day of the week. He is one of the hard
est workers of the lawyers who practice be-
fore the Supreme Court, and he scruples not
to burn the midnight oil upon occasion, He
uses a stenographer and typewriter to help
along his work, and he is as methodical as
the calculators of the Treasury. He never
destroys letter and as rule answers all of
his immense correspondence. He notes on
the back of every letter he receives its con-
tents, and in shorthand notes the answer
which has been sent TO it. These letters are
filed away and General Butler can lay his
hand on anything he wants at a moments
notice. His correspondence would make a
worry interesting book, and it is said he began
work upon his memoirs some years ago, but
She matter seems to have been dropped.
BUTLER's TWO PECULIARIrIEs.
Two curious things about Butler are his
ligar and his buttonhole bouquet. The but
tonhole bouquet he wears summer and win
Ger, year in and year out The cigar he
wears between his lips periodically every
day, but unlike the flowers in his button
hole, you never get any fragrance from
them. He is one of the dry smokers of the
United States, and in this he surpasses
General w. T. Sherman. He will take
Havsna cigar and, putting the lighting end
in his mouth, will suck and chew and think
and talk, and think and talk and suck and
chew, for hours at time. Now and then,
as be becomes animated, he will take the
halt chewed cigar from his rosy lips and
gingerly lay it down upon the table while
he utters paragraph. At the close he picks
it up, blows at it to remove any particles of
dust that may adhere to it and puts it back
home, between his teeth.
General Butler has little respect for the