Morning journal and courier., 1893-01-12

ment at Washington, after an investiga
tion. ordered the money to be returned
On December 16, 1852, General Butler WA
recalled, as he believed and declared, at the
instigation of Louis Napoleon, who sup
posed Butler to be hostile to his Mexican
schsmes, and towards the close of the yea,
1858 he was placed In command of the de
partment of Virginia and North Carol,ns,
and this army was designated as the "Army
| of the James,"
In October, 1864, there were grave sp.
prehensions of trouble In New York city
during the election, and General Butler was
sent there with force of troops to keep
the peace. In December of that year he
conducted an Intellectual ex expedition against
Fort Fisher near Wilmington, n. c., and
WAS soon afterward removed from his com
msnd, and he returned to his home In
Massachusetts
In 1856 he was elected member of con-
gress by the republicans for the state of
Massachusetts, and remained there, with
the exception of the term of S75 to 1877,
up to the year 1879. He was the most
active of the managers appointed by the
house of representatives for the impesah-
ment of President Andrew johnson. In 1871
he was the successful republican nominee
for governor of the state, and In 1873 and
In 1879 he had left the republican party
and was the candidate of the greenback
party and q wing of the democratic party
and was sgain defeated. In 1882 the dem
ocrsts united upon him as the candidate
for governor and he was elected, but the
rest of the state ticket was defeated. Dur
ing his administration he made a charge of
gross Encouragement of the state aims
house at Tewksbury, but after long in
vestigation by a committee IL was not sus-
tanned. In 1888 he was again nominated,
but was defeated, and in 1884 was the last
time that he appeared in politics as the
candidate of the greenback and anti
monopolist parties for the presidency. He
did not carry a single state and his entire
popular vote was but 175. $40, while Mr..
Cleveland received 4.S74, 9S6 and Mr..
Blaine 1851 1881.
General Butler was a very shrewd and
successful lawyer, and while In the height
OF his practice was engaged in more cases
of counsel for one side or the other than
any other lawyer in Massachusetts,. He
had two Offices, one In Lowell and the
other In Boston, and his aid was often
sought by corporations, in the manage
ment of whose suits he WAS extremely,
successful. His peculiar management of
case. where he collected the wages for
several hundred factory girls that q cor
porstion refused to pay, on tine ground of
having no funds, by placing a writ of at
tachment on the large turbine water wheel,
the sole motive power of the establish
ment, is often quoted and the discontinue
of the company when they found
themselves overreached in their schemes,
made Butler known throughout the state.
He was very wealthy and owned much val
liable real estate in Lowell and Boston and
it is said that he was worth from So, 600, 900
to "a 600, 600. His wife Sarah was three
years younger than her husband and was
the daughter of DR.. Israel Hildreth of
Lowell. She was an actress from 1887 to
1912, after which she married General But
Ter and retired from the dramatic profess
sion. They bad two children, a son, Paul,
and daughter, Blanche, who married
Adelbsrt Ames, an officer of the United