Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1874 — Butler and His Danger. [ARTICLE]

Butler and His Danger.

A Washington letter says of Gen. Butler: “On the 18th of next November he will be 56 years old. He has never been sick. His feonstitution has been like iron. He has worked for tea years as few men ever work, even in this busiest of lands. His favorite saying has been that when he retired at night, unless he was asleep in fiye minutes he thought something was the matter. lie has enjoyed absolute, uninterrupted health, and has reveled iu it. Hut there must be an end to aH things, and especially to overworked men. Butler lias grown obese,« and, inferentially apoplectic. His political fights

begin to tell on him. The contests at Worcester have helped pull lfim down. The Simmons’ fight set - - ■ -j, , f • his nerves into a frenzy. I Li’s lie ad was clear but'his blood was hot, and his face livid at times, lie had wound himsHf up to a fearful pitch of excitement. When the victory was won and tlie relapse came, the blood left his face, lie became quiet and seemed to have weakened perceptibly. Ilis friends on the floor said he looked-fifteen years older. But with his im j mouse interest on his hands there j is no release from the tread- ] mill—no long hours of relaxation. Ills affairs are as inexorable' as those of an emperor. Someday, i his life will go out like the light of a hastily snuffed caudle."