The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-05-30

4 W DO dp lIlttO OlHO OpClI W dlly
I IN the navy.
After serving for time on the Eutaw,
Lieutenant Boutelle was placed in COM
mand of the gunboat Nyanza, stationed
on the Louisiana coast; but a few
! months later, eager for active service,
he obtained transfer to join the attack
upon Mobile, Alabama. His was the
first vessel of the fleet to break through
the instructions laid down in the chan
mel, and Admiral Thatcher at once dis
patched him up to Tombigby River in
pursuit of the Confederates On re-
turning, he went up the Alabama River,
through the heart of the enemy's coun-
try, bearing important dispatches to
General Sherman.
| Lieutenant Boutelle was present at
the final surrender of the Confederate
fleet, in May, 1865, and then was placed
in charge of the coast from New
Orleans to Mobile, with headquarters
at Pascagoula. But he did not care to
remain in the navy when the war was
concluded, and at his own request he
received an honorable discharge on the
18th of January, 1866.
For a few months he commanded a
passenger steamer plying between New
York and Wilmington, North Carolina
Then he went back to his native State
and in May, 1866, he was married tC
Miss Elizabeth Hodsdon the SECOND
daughter of Adjutant General John l.
Hodsdon of Augusta. He then joined d
New York firm in the shipping com
mission business. He had always pos
sessed a taste for journalism and il
1870, he accepted, for three months or
trial, the position of managing editor
of the Bangor Daily Wing and Courier
His temporary engagement was OF
course made permanent and lasted til
1874, when on the death of Mr.. Lynde
publisher and proprietor of the Wing
and Courier, the establishment was
purchased by Mr.. Boutelle and Mr. Ben
jamin \. Burr.
Mr. Boutelle'S management of his pa
per was energetic and successful. 1t
gradually gained a leading position
among the Republican journals of the
State, and in 1880 its editor received the
compliment of unanimous nomina-
ton, at the first ballot, for congress-
man from the Fourth District of Maine.
He made a vigorous but unsuccessful
canvass of his own district then he
took the stump for Garfield and Az
thur, addressing large meetings in New
OH Sldte dllu OlllO.
In 1882 he was nominated and elected
as congressman-at- large from Maine
He was elected by substantial major
tiles to the Forty-eight, Forty ninth,
Fiftieth, Fifty-tirst, Fifty-second, Fifty
third, Fifty fourth Fifty-ffth and Fifty
sixth Congresses, in which he has been
the leading Republican member of the
/ Committee on Naval Affairs, and its
chairman during the Fifty-first Con
gress, in which he drafted and secured
the passage of the laws providing for
the first three modern battleshipS of
the new navy, and for the commerce
deStroyers, Columbia and Minneapolis,
designed to be the fastest in the world
He was also the active champion of
the policy that has resulted in the es-
Enlistment OF the great steel armor and
gun-forging plants at Bethlehem, Mid
vale, Homestead, and elsewhere, the
equipment of the unequalled gun fac
tory at Washington, d. c., and the de-
velopment of the finest ship building
works in the world at Philadelphia,
San Francisco, Bath, and other places,
where modern war ships unexcelled in
power, speed and armament are con
structed upon American designs and
from materials now produced in oul
own country.
In spite of his illness MI Boutelle S
constituents again elected him mem
Der of the incoming congress last Sep.
TENDER. Last winter he resigned ard
under special act of congress was
appointed by the President a captain on
the retired list of the navy.