Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1889 — Page 2

She jptpUMiran, Gao. E. Marshall, Publisher. BKSBBELAER; • INDIANA

A Texas railroad has sent its agents to Oklahoma to induce thosewhjL.cannot get land there to come to Texas. The railroad offers good land on easy terms, and has 7,000,000 acres to sell, while all Oklahoma contains is only 1,800,000. Texas hopes to get 20,000 emigrants from the overflow. Moks Progress has been made by the English sydicate for buying tip American breweries than was supposed. The Wall Street News states that over $25,000,000 has been paid over already, and that the syndicate has a much larger sum in hand available for further purchases. But so many large breweries have declined to treat that nothing in the nature of a national, let alone inteinational, beer trust is likely to be formed Wyoming is adopting well-devised plans to keep its claims for Statehood before Congress and the people. One of its arguments is a remarkable one, and may be cited as a telling rebuke to fashionable jokes about ignorance and illiteracy in sparsely settled districts in the far West Of Wyoming* population over 10 years of age only 2.6 per cent are unable to read. Comparison with a few States and nations gives flattering results for the ambitious Territory. Thus in New Mexico the percentage of illitera’es is 60.2, in South Carolina 48.3, in the United States 13,4, and in England 13. No State in the Union can approach Wyoming’s figures, and its closest rival among the Territories is Dakota, where the percentage is 3.1.

We have further news from Buenos Ayres, says the N. Y, Sun, concerning the extraordinary rush of Italian and Irish immigrants to the Argentine Republic. They are welcomed by the Government, which aids them in finding land upon which to settle, and also by the natives, who are looking forward to an era of prosperity through the development of the resources of the country. They are introducing hew industries into the republic, and are furnishing larger supplies of labor than have ever before been procurable there; yet wages are rising instead of falling. The immigration to Buenos Ayres this year from the two countries spoken of has been larger than that to the port of New York. It is a very interesting movement of population. The day of miracles seems to have returned. An importing firm recently entered at the port of New York a quantity of what purported to be vinegar. It was inspected and the officials were convinced that it was wine; the importer protested and upon a review of the matter, the department at Washington has decided that the fluid is, in fact, wine and must pay duty as such. Now the gentlemen who entered it, assert with all gravity that it was vinegar when it war shipped, and must have been changed by the ocean voyage. The changing of wine to vinegar somewhere between the restaurant* wine list and the customer’s lips is not uncommon, but this reversal is most extraordinary, and if these gentlemen have the exclusive combination,they should grow rich. TriK horrible stench that arises from the scene of the great calamity in Pennsylvania, says the Indianapolis News, does not proceed from the bodies of the dead, except in part If any one will walk down a river bank after high water the rank smell that salutes him will be a key to the Conemaugh Valley vapor. It comes from decayed vegetation. An editor of the Boston Herald who was on the spot immediately after the Great Mill river calamity in the western part of Massachusetts—the most frightful occurrence of the kind in this country up to the present calamity —says that the air of. the valley there was likewise filled with a disgusting stench, which was found to proceed from the decaying vegetable matter, myriads of trees and shrubs have been killed and crushed by the force of the rushing water and .floating debris. The same thing wav observed in the great flood at Sheffield, England, so dramatically pictured by Charles Reade. Complaints are pouring in from Paris about the extortion of hotel keepers. It is the general consensus of o; inion among the visitors to Paris, and has been for a great many years, that the hotel keepers of the wicked city are about the most rapacious and remorse less brigands on the face of -the earth, and people can easily believe the most extraoidinary story about the greed of thu French hotel keeper. To expect aim to forego this opportunity of fleecing the public is too much. For the benefit of Americans who are coming to Paris, it is as well to say he is ready for them. When a man hires a single room in an ordinary hotel, and is obliged to pay f 4 a day for it, without meals, he naturally ohj acts to the additional charge of 11.50 for the services of a chambermaid, 50 cents for candles, and SI? for hot water. But these things, with more or less variety, are exactly what he will encounter unless vigorous steps are taken by the Government. Fortunately, such steps are probably imminent. The Government has an-

nounced that it will revise the tariff of hotels and restaurants if complaints grow much stronger. There are several thousard letters a day pouring in from the swindled public, ao that relief by the Government is not unlikely. One pleasing feature connected with the close ofthe civil war in Hayti is the fact that the end has been brought about without any foreign -aid to either combatant. Reports were*; common a few months ago that Germany was secretly assisting one belligerent and trance the other, while a more recent rumor had it that a treaty had been entered into between one of them and France, that country to obtaip a section ot Haytian territory as compensation for its aid. All these stories, however, were undoubtedly false, which is a decidely fortunate thing for Hayti, if not to the other countries mentioned. Another crusade against secret societib j , says the Globe-Democrat, is being organized by recent seceders from the United Brethren Church. The famous an»i-Mason crusade of sixty yearsagp helped the Masons much more than it fault them, and the present movement will propably have a similar effect. To attack all secret societies because some of them are objectionable is to court defeat and failure. The G. A. R. is a seciet order, but it would be difficult to work up anything approaching a feeling of hostility to it in consequence; and the same might be said of a large number of secret societies which do excellent work in the interests of thrift and aood order.

An examination into the habits of French criminals shows that 79 per cent, of vagabonds, about 50 per cenr. of assassins and incendiaries, 53 percent, of those guilty of immoralities, 71 per cent, oi thieves of the common sorts, 88 per cent, of those guilty of assaults, 77 per cent, of fraudulents were also drunkards. It was also found that of those under 2 >, as compared to those over 20, the number of drunkards was quite as great. These . statistics only confirm those gathered Irony our own prison life. Criminality, as a rule, marks a low grade of vitality, which finds it easy to resort to stimulants or narcotics. It may be set down as a confirmed fact that to cure vagabondage and criminality, as well as drunkenness, the vitality of the victim must be improved. Ths Central American republics o Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaraaue, Costa Rica and San Salvador have failed in their attempt to form a federation. Another movement in the same direction, but which does not go so far is now on foot, however. It is proposed thatthesa five nations, in the future, settle all their disputes by arbitration instead of war, and that none of them shall form an alliance with any outside power withcu* the consent of the other four. Nothing except the ambition or "stupidity of the authorities of these toy nationalities, it would seem, w mid prevent this scheme from succeeding. Ultimately, though, federation among themselves or annexation to tne Mexican Republic will probably be the fate of the Central American countries. England is suffering heavy punishment for its prolonged misgovernment of Ireland. When the Home Rule question forced all other political issues aside some great schemes of reform were indefinitely p ostponed. John Morley, in his great speech last week, reminded his audience of this fact, and also that in their zeal to impede Irish relief measures the electors had hindered national reforms of at least as great importance. The Liberal party now stands pledged to a policy which includes legislation to abolish trusts, excessive and perpetual pensions, and State aid to or interference with religion, to reform and reorganize the House of Lords, to establish real in place of nominal county self-government, and to effect a reduction in national expenditure by abolishing a whole host of unnecessary offi.es. Such a progrmme should surely reconcile the most antiIrish Radical to the much-dreaded policy of j ustice to Ireland. When Stanley Africanus was in this country seveal years ago he gave it as his firm opinion that there is a white or light colored people somewhere in the heart of Africa, and entertained the preposterous notion that they might possibly be the lost tribes of Israel. He said that he had found traditions of such a people among the natives of the regions through which he had traveled, and who believed that they were yet in existence. Livingstone himself enetrtained some fancies about this matter, which he had gathere I during his wandering, but he died without throwing any light upon it. We shall doubtless soon learn whether Stanley hgj; found any during the past few years. O rer a hundred years Swedenborg, the seer of heaven and hell, told of the existence of a civiliz jd people in the unexplored parts of Africa,the spirits of some of whom he cm versed with in the other w jrld. The fact that he spoke of these people ai “Gentiles” mightseem i to preclude the idea of their being Jews, scribe men born out of the Christian Church. It would be hard to believe that the lost tribes of Israel are in equatorial Africa, or, if there, that none of their members have ever traveled away . from it in the course of ages. But we will wait for the news by Stan!ey. |

LETTERS OF GREELEY.

WRITTEN TOCHAS. A. DANA PREVIOUS TO THE GREAT CONrLICT - The Remarkable Personal Characteristics of the Great Editor Clearly Defined— Ttie Xewgpaper Art Expounded—Light Shed on th® Politics of the TimeSSWLt and Humor Abounding Everywhere. IX. Washington City, D. C., Jan. 28, 1856. Dana:'You are wrong everv way about old Brenton. If you will look through my despatches, you will find that I distinctly stated that he had come back to Banks after the caucus following his bolt, and was voting steadily for him. (I think you will find this not far from a week ago.) You can not have looked at a number of The Globe without finding his name recorded among the voters for Banks, and you ought not to have Ditched into hirfa without being sure you were right. How did you suppose our vote had gone up so high of late? Besides you let Ball be attacked in a communication from his district for bolting, after he had come back. You should not have omitted mv despatch. Brenton will tell in the House how I promised him and did not perform. Itwasupin the House to-day, and he promised to bring it up again. He has got Giddings and lots of such to certify for him and denounce Tne Tribune. It is very easy for yon to make light of this matter in New York, but for me. in the face of thirty double-dyed traitors, ten of them voting against us, and the other twenty cursing me because they can’t do likew se, and assailing me every day or two on the floor, it is a different matter. You have terribly weakened our power to hold these villains incheck or punish their misdeeds. I wish you had made an editorial correction. Sadiv, H. G.

Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 30, ’56. Dana;-! retain your note of Scott Harrison. I have no doubt of its truth, and it was well to print it at home, but I think it would do no good to put it in The Tribune. He has laid himself open by voting for Dann’s cheating resolves, and there will be abundant opportunities to show him up before Spring, As to - tioned as seldom as possible, and then with suppressed loathing. The little wretch is more malignant and indefatigable than anybody in the House. The night we sat up all night, he acted as whipper in, waking up Dunn and hunting up Richardson on purpose to present a choice. I will enclose ’s letter to him; but never let him be treated with so much respect as is implied in printing —— 's letter. It will do not the least good, but would elevate in his own conceit. The Brenton business has put me under foot here, and I shall require time to recover. Rust’s attack on me yesterday was emboldened. I think, by that. When a man’s friends are set against him, he stands a hard chance v jth his enemies. There are other assaults to follow this. Drunken Bowie of Maryland was threatening me in the barrooms last night, and several others; but we are making up a fighting party of Northern men that will ultimately do good. Several pistols will be bought to-day. Y’our remarks of yesterdav on Brenton are very well, and, now that you are in that fight, you may as well go through with it; but I think I-would say little more about it. The article on Lew Campbell was in excellent taste, thoug I hear he complains of it. Since he required it, it Could not well have been better. But an attack upon him would have been a very different thing. I wish you would attack no man or project here without consulting me. Print the facts, and let the comments wait till you can teiegraph me. I enclose you a piece of an article from an Indiana paper, showing what 500 disclaimers will never stop, that I am responsible for whatever may appear in The Tribune affecting the House. The article referred to in this extract was one of the most foolish and impolite, because obviously false, that ever appeared in The Tribune, It tends to exasperate our enemies, not encourage our friends. If you had printed mv despatches respecting Brenton in all the papers it would have helped me, I always endorse “private” "all that is not for publication. Yours, Hoback Greeley.

XI. Washington, Feb. 7, 1856. Dana: Fer God’s sake speak the truth to me. The Tribune is cursed all over the House as having beaten us today by your most untimely article on Bavard Clarke in yesterday’s Tribune. We lost to-day by two votee, and Lew Campbell wanted to givens the casting vote, but one would not do it. Now, Bayard Clarke had promised to vote for us if his vote would carry it, and in this case it would have done it with Lew Campbell’s. But when he was railed on he would not do it, and gave as his reason your article of yesterday. Of course I am not supposing the false knave would have done it at all but you have given him what served him as an excuse for not doing it, and the Tribune has to bear the credit of beating Banks—for to-day certainly, perhaps for ever—in spite of your promise never more to attack any one here without consulting me. ~ 1 must give it up and go home. All the Border Ruffians from here to the lowest pit could not start me away, but you can do it and I must give up. You are getting everybody to cuiee me. I am too sick to be out of bed t too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors. I shall go to Pittsburg on the 22d and I guess I shall not return. I can just bear the responsibilities that belong' to me; but you heap a load on me thgt will kill me. That article on War and Insurrection in the South is bad in spirit and doesno good. Such will cause The Tribune to be stopped in the South. Yours, Horace Greeley. XII. Washington, Feb. 3, ’56. Friend Dana: Of course you understand that tne election of Banks was “fixed” before the House met yesterday mornifig. He would have had three votes more if necessary, perhaps five.

There has been a‘great deal of science displayed in the premises, and all manner of negotiations. A genuine history of this election would beat any novel in interest I see you are into Dr. . Valk again, which perhaps was necessary, but please don’t attack any other member of Congress, We got Bayard Clarke’s vote, yesterday for the Plurality rule, and he didn't vote against us on Speaker, though he had voted for Aiken the night before. We shall want him fifty times this session, and if we only get him ten times it were better so than not at all. Pray allow me to judge with regard to what is passing under my own eyes and not under yours. We are determined henceiorth to reclaim Dunn, if poßsibie, and do not despair of the other jFillib asters, though Moore voted for Extra Billy Smith, and Scot Harrison promised to vote for Aiken, but bieked out. Bat we shall want all these on Reeder and Kansas. I would not publish articles about Rust’s assault on me, but especially these that speak of my weakness, inoffensiveness, etc. Ido not desire any sympathv. At all events 1 don’t wisn to beg for it. Y’ours, H. G. Xtil. Washington, Feb. 6, 1856. Friend Dana: 1 had to meet Clayton last evening at Seward’s, where I bad a quiet talk with him, Col. Benton and uov. S. as to Kansas anti what is to be done. Judge wnetfief It is either pleasant for me or profitable to The Tribune or the cause to have had him a sailed in The Tribune as he was. I rode fajme with Col. Brenton, who is every inch as vulnerable as Clayton, bat he’is now on the right side and is doing good service; would it be wise to attack him for any of his bygone errors? And, above all, should you attack him in New York in utter disregard of the fact that I am in friendly understanding with him here? I want your answer to this, dictated by your own good sense. How can I exert any influence here, or maintain my position, if at the very moment lam trying to placate and win some one, you are shying a stone at him? 1 went over this ground before when you came out so savagely and so mistakenly on Brenton. You thereupon wrote me that you would sssail no member of Congress without first consulting me, and yet not a week elapsed before you come down in full force on Bayard Clarke, one of the weakest and most excitable men in the House—merely because he had franked a Democratic speech to a constituent. Yet at that very time we were bringing every influence to bear on that same Clarke to induce him to vote first for the Plurality rule, and then not vote for a Democratic Speaker. He had promised to do what was required. But just then your article came in, and he broke away from all he bad promised—voted against the Plurality and for Aiken. Your attack was his • pretext. And had the final vote been taken just then, he would have gone against us, and perhaps carried Valk and Whitney along. And I should have been cursed as having defeated Banks, as I had promised that there would be no more of this maladroit warfare. Ought this to have been? Was it consistent with the assurance you had given me? Now as to the other matter; I have said nothing about subscribers stopping at the South, but the article on British invasion, pointing out the ways and 1 means or overrunnirig the South, rous ing and arming the slaves, is calculated to induce the stoppage of our Mails —a far more serious matter. Subscribers may please themselves, but we cannot 1 afford to have an edition taken from the Mails and burnt on a true charge of and inciting insurrection. That article was calculated to excite intense aversion to us at the 1 South, and is good nowhere. It implied that we foment Abolition as a means of weakening and destroying the South—- ’ not of regenerating and upbuilding it. Oi can have no friends in the 1 South if we seem to invoke upon that regran tbe scourges of fire and sword. And again, by seeking to prove the South at the mercy of Great Britain, we virtually challenge all the Hotspurs of that region to vie with our B’hoys m 1 provoking a war. You do not want i war with England, and I abhor the thought of it; yet that article was strongly calculat id to foment one. Do let us make the Southrons see that we desire abolition, not because they opposed the two Adamses, particularly old John—not for their injury, but for their good. Of coarse I don’t believe a word in the insurrection programme. Invasion always arouses intense hostility, especially among the lowest strata of society. I believe two negroes would volunteer to fight against an invading force to every one who would flee to their camp. But this is immaterial. I do wish you would consider my position. In yesterday’s paper I see you talk of Rust as drunk when he assaulted me. Now, I don’t know this and have never asserted it. Of course, the barbamn will regard this as a fresh attack upon Snd defiance of him by me, and I can.do nothing to undeceive him. I wish you had said nothing of the sort. I doubt that it is just; I am sure it will tend to harm. Let others denounce or revile Rust; I mean never to speak of him unless obliged to. He is very likely to have trouble here before the session closes, and I must not even be suspected of it. Somebody in Monday’s paper is quite wrong in saying “the only Know Nothing, avowedly such, who voted for Mr. Banks, was Mr. Eddie, of Pennsylvania.” Eddie is a very poor shote, and President of the Pennsylvania State Council, not the Twelfth section gang, hut the other. Every Banks man from that State bntGrow is a Know Nothing. Robinson, J. H. Campbell, Pearce, and others have avowed it on the floor. Lew Campbell is eternally boasting of his “American principles.” The Connecticut, New H mpshire, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts members were all chosen on “American” nominations. it is our policy to sink the distinction as much as possible, but the remark above quoted tends to revive and aggravate it. Please avoid this as much as possible. P?rcy Walker, of Alabama, is not Anti Neb. but is Know Nothing; Oliver and Caruthers, of Missouri, Talbott, of Kentucky. Watkins, of Tennessee. and Bowie, of Maryland, are not Know Nothings, but Anti K. N. Whigs. Cox. of Kentucky, is not Anti Neb, but is Know Nothing; so is Evans, of Texas. I cannot guess how these blunders were made, with the Whig

Almanac at* hand. Ohio “gives but 17 votes for Banks—you haven 18. 1 shall go to Pittsburg. Yours. H. G. C. A. D. —I can’t see how my letter of Bunday should fail for Tuesday’s paper, when, you have The Union’s article of same date. _—i——— —= xtv. Washington, Feb. 9. ’56. Friend Dana: Although this is to me the most detestable spot on earth, I want to stay here through the Reeder fight, if you will let me. I will stand my chances to be horsewhipped or pistolled, if you will keep me clear of being knocked down by The Tribune. But bear gently on the K. N.’s while I have to operate with them here; and pray be careful of letting in such anotr er remark as that none who voted for Banks claim to be K. N.’s except Eddie! Such remarks destroy all our reputation for accuracy or sagacity, since it is generally known that the majority of the Banks men are now members of Know Nothing Councils, and some twenty or thirty of them actually believe in the swindle. Half the Massachusetts delegation, two-thirds that of Ohio, and nearly all that ofPennsylvania are Know-Nothings this day. We shall get them gradually detached if you will let us, but some of your letters on Gardner, tend to keep them where they ought not to be. Do be circumspect, and draw, no lines of discrimination to our detriment. 1 am not asking you to do anything, only to forbear doing what can only work harm. If you have nobody who knows how to classify members of Congress better than the Scandinavian bard, please leave them unclassified. But, in fact, my despatch of last Sunday nieht stating who were present and did not vote, who threw away their votes. A.:., was suppressed, and in ite stead Ottarson’s budget of blunders inserted as Tribune statistics. Now, I don’t pretend to know much; but if I don’t better understand what is passing under my own eyes than any one can who is 250 miles away, I ought to be recalled and dismissed. But I have been treated like this throughout. The Tribune Almanac affords for the blunder of calling Percy Walker AntiNebraska, Bowie and Watkins K. N. Ae„ &c. I can npt see how such blunders were made. But remember that 1 don’t expect you to do everything or to oversee everything. All I ask is that when a thing can not be done right do not have it done at all. House’stelegraph is very near me, and when you are in doubt as to a Washington matter, please consult me. Just that in Brenton’s and Bayard Clarke's case would-have saved me grert mortification and injury. You think It isn’t hard to say of a weak man like Clarke that, “not, knowing enough to make a; speech, he distributes -the speeches of c there.” But he feels very sore of it. Beside, it is not a just re mark, since the House is not organ ized and has yet afforded no chance to make a speech. Let the past go, but spare me henceforth. Yrs. H. G. XV. Washington, Sat., Feb. 16. My Friend Dana: Please don’t say such things as the above without consulting me. nhey* prejudice ns, and cannot do any good. I know this Aouse as you cannot; and i tell you we have not eighty men who would "vote as this article suggests. Will not (I fear) admit Reeder; we cannot admit Kansas as a State; we can only make issues on which to go to the people on the Presidential election. Now, the issue of admitting Kansas as a free State is a great deal better than that of stopping the supplies, or anything of the sort. Please do nothing likely to distract attention from the main question. And don’t lead off on such an important tack without Consulting me. You see what a handle The Union makes of this to prejudice me. 1 wrote last night a letter on Kansas which you will have to suppress or modify, or incorporate with one I shall write to send herewith on future electiens in Kansas. The Union to-day says our Kansas news are spurious, on« which point lam about to write. The differences are not essential, yet they are superficially serious. Chubb, who made up the Kansas article in the Almanac,‘ought to be blown up. I shall write him about it. If you see -in New York soon, make him give you a private account of tho Banks election—inside view. may be as great a rascal as he is represented; if so, I begin t® see the utility of rascals in the general economy of things. Banks would never have been elected without him. He esn tell you a story as intesesting as the Arabian Nights, and a great deal truer. He has done more and incurred more odium to elect Banks than would have been involved in beating ten Speakers. I shall try to find some one to write and telegraph while I am gone to Pittsburgh next week —probablv Schuyler 1 Colfax. HarvOy is gbod for nothing at nurend of the Avenue; his use is at tho other. Yours, H. 4 C. A. D. P S.—You understand that the letter on Brenton’s new certificates, of which I have a proof this morning, is not to be published. I only pointed at them and thev came down. XVI; Washington, Feb. 17, 1856. Fbiend Dana: I enclose the Banks manifasto in reply to the furious assaults of The Union on his committees. I believe it is not in B’s handwriting, but you will easily recognize the voice of Nathaniel. Please print it on Tues day (if you can) as editorial, though it repeats some things I hav ealready written. It contains, besides, important facts not before set forth by any one, relative to the packing of committees, and, on tne whole, will be good. You will soon begin to receive letters on Washington society from Bell Smith who onlyigrrived night before last and is unwell) If able, she .will write two this week —one of them describing the next levee. It is absolutely necessary to the freedom and piquancy of these letters that we should give no hint as to their authorship. ' Please correct for me two bad errors in mv last letter on Public Lands, on which I have bestowed much labor and thought, and which is to subserve an important purpose.

ROMANCE CONDENSED.

The room was dark, the maiden rose To fetch a match, she said; But he persuaded her to stay And make a match lost ad.

BEN BUTLER AT SEVENTY.

An Interesting "Pen Picture of the Great Buliaoser in Bis Old Age. I Philadelphia Record's Washington Letter. 4t seventy years of, age Butler is a stout, puffy person, whose unsymmetrieal figure, especially when he is standing, strangely reminds you of the late Henry Ward Beecher’s. Somehow his way of standing up is almost exactly like Beecher’s. His head is like Benjtrain Franklin’s, for whom he was named, as Franklin’s head looks in the conventiOnal portrait. It is large, long and broad, and bald from front to back on top, while a thick curtain of gray hair falls all around it, mingling at the sides with thin gray whiskers, which do not appear in any picture of Butler that I have ever seen. His face looks elephantine, It is in the wrinkles and puffed flesh around his eyes for all the world like an elephant's. When he laughs thißfl.eah cloßefrin all over~ both his" eyes and all his wrinkles come together in a most extraordinary fashion. He does not seem cross-eyed until you look directly at him, but his eyes are set obliquely in his head, although they aie just the opposite angle to a Chinaman’s—higher at the nose than on the outer sides. He has two plates of false teeth and they do not stick very well, so that when he talks, they are very apt to fall together suddenly and cut every other word in two. Most of the time he is chewing a bit of white spruce gum, which he carries in an old fashioned jewelled snuff box when it is not. in his mouth. His face is one of the most mobile and under his direction one of the most interesting that I ever saw. His skin, wrinkled more from quantity than from quality, is easily worked into the most varying expressions, and he uses it constantly. Now he opens his great eyelids wide apart, brings his head up suddenly, puffs out his lips, and therefore his thin little gray mustache, which plays so small a part amid the wrinkles, and looks’out aUyoil from a frowning beetling fortress. Again, he wrinkles all his face into a smile, makes his eyes small, tucks in his lips and looks very mild aad agreeable, or he takes up a book, holds it lovingly to his bread, bends his eyes closely to it (he wears no glasses or spectacles of any kind) and drinks it in. . But his laugh, a deep, dangerous chuckle, followed by an internal convulsion, is most startling of ail. Butler is a great many men in one, and one of them is an actor. He would have made a great comedian. As it is he finds his hisironic talent very useful and exercises it all the time. Butler is always the lawyer whenever he is in his office, however sociable and companionable he is elsewhere. At his desk he is always alert, oh guard, watchful of chances. He locks much younger than he is for this reason. But it is his vigorous thinking and his still more vigorous talking which make him seem a comparatively young man. He has a marvellous memory. He can remember apparently almost anything which he has seen or heard or read, and is seldom ata loss for a date or a name. His perceptions are very quick and comprehensive, and he has one of the quickest tongues, in spite of the false teeth and the chewing gum, that I ever heard— a rough tongue, too. The half that he says about his enemies for publication is nothing to the half he* says about them privately. He likes to be called a good hater. He enjoys a fight, and every damaging fact and every criminating admission is rolled like his chewing gum under his tongue. Butler dresses well. He usually wears a silk-faced frock coat with a boutonniere, always of several flowers, in his button-hole. He wears a heavy gold watch chain, with a pilot’s wheel for a charm, heavy gold cuff buttons. In his office here he is very apt to wear thick carpet slippers, for it is connected by a passage-way with the house where he lives while in Washington as the guest of his niece, although he owns the house. It is the middle one o* the three built of Gape Ann granite opposite the Capitol, which are generally lumped together, and pointed out to tourists as “Ben But)er’s house.” He wants to sell them to the Government for $250,000 more or less, to be used as committee and store rooms for Congress, but so far has not been able to get the money out of Congress. The southernmost house is, however, rented by the Coast Survey, whose building, it adjoins, for storage put poses, and the northernmost is partially rented by Coneress for committee rooms. ILwm in thiahouse, then rented by Senator Jones, of Nevada, that President Arthur carried on the Government when he first came here after the death of Garfield. The houses are handsome. Butler’s office is very plain. It is in a small rough brick toil ling just back of the middle house, and it is divided into two rooms, which are nncarpeted, have no Wall decorations except a clock, and no furniture except the absolutely necessary desks and well-filled bookcases, all of the very plainest description. O. D. Barrett, a white-haired lawyer, who represents Butler ip Washington, and a young man with gold-rimmqd spectacles who manipulates the typewriter very rapidly, are his companions in the office, while his intelligent contraband or body servant waits in the passage without.