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Arrest. --Officers Seal and Bibb yesterday arrested John T. Butler and Samuel Harrard, charged with breaking into D, Lamber's office.
. Castein, It co A., 3d N. C., J. Rossler, it co I, 13th N. C. Movements on the Southside — Butler reported to be in command--two fights at Port Walthall — the enemy Twice repulsed. Owing to vacillating character. Gilmore and Baldy Smith are in command of the white troops, while Beast Butler is in supreme command of the expedition. One large brigade, numbering about 4,000, are negroes,he signal station, capturing the signal corps. This was done under the immediate supervision of Butler, who came up in the "Greyhound" at the same time. When our flag was hauled down the Beast is saave operating in that quarter, can repel, if not annihilate, any force the enemy can bring. Butler together with his staff, narrowly escaped being captured by our pickets on Friday evening last. led. Prisoners taken say they belong to Gilmore's corps, and are recently from Florida, and that Butler commanded in person. the enemy lost heavily — prisoners say 2,000. All quiet to-day, save <
sponding members of the dominant party of the two are beginning to work diligently. They are anxious to get their heavy business off their hands in season for the Baltimore Convention. They seem to be on hand among the jugglers of that body delegates or no delegates. " Old Abe" for the succession, like Captain John Tyler in his day, excepting a corporal's guard, is without a party in either house.--The anti-Lincoln men are mostly for Chase, a few of the red hot radicals are for Fremont or Butler; but the whole pack agree in this one thing; that Gen. Grant has the entire case in his hands. The game of the Chase faction to put off the Baltimore Convention is played out, or put off fill the meeting of the convention. They expect a great and decisive struggle in Virginia in the interval, and that something may "turn up" that will create such a noise and confusion at Baltimore as to compel the convention itself to postpone the nomination of a ticket till August or September. The
General Butler. The Beast, Butler, as he has been complimentary designated, is by no means the greatest beast of Yankeedom. He has not the leonine qualities atButler, as he has been complimentary designated, is by no means the greatest beast of Yankeedom. He has not the leonine qualities at all, unless it be those lions which abound in regions where the inhabitants are timid and unarmed. He is not so much of a vulture as Seward, nor equal as an ass to is not in the predominance of any one animal quality, the genius of vice, that Butler is distinguished. It is rather the harmonious development of all animal appetiintend no injustice to the other beasts of North America. We have no idea that Butler is the worst of them. On the contrary there are hundreds and thousands who, inwaste its venom in the desert air." Let them not burst with jealousy of Butler. In him we see them all. He saves us the trouble of examining whole likenessese volume, with life-like illustrations on every page. No special compliment to Butler could ever have been intended by the proclamation of outlawry. It is impossibl
e and ably prepared editorial on the condition of affairs, in which Butler is severely berated, and his whole campaign pronounced a disgracefue Times asserts that Petersburg could have been easily captured had Butler made the slightest effort upon first landing at Bermuda Hundred; an of the subordinate Generals in candidly avowed, and the removal of Butler very plainly intimated. The Times adds that all hope of capturing Richmond by Butler having been abandoned his forces have been so reduced as to place him entirely on the defensive. Baldy Smith and Brooks, at the head of a large force, were sent off from Butler last week, and reached West Point on the 3 st. The Times says the news from Grant licans is to take place in Baltimore on the 7th of this month. Butler telegraphs to Stanton that a very intelligent and highly respectablder for entertaining such views, where he has been ever since. Butler telegraphs that he has repulsed the rebels on every occasion, both
One of the Portsmouth Orders. --We recently published a number of the orders issued under Butler's rule in Norfolk and Portsmouth. The following is an addition to the list. It is published in the New Regime, Butler's official organ: Provost Marshal's Office, Portsmouth, March 15, 1864 Rev Chas E. W Dobbs, Court Street Baptist Church: Sir — On Sunday last, at the reading of the prayer in the morning service for the President of the United States, Mrs Susan Williams, a meButler's official organ: Provost Marshal's Office, Portsmouth, March 15, 1864 Rev Chas E. W Dobbs, Court Street Baptist Church: Sir — On Sunday last, at the reading of the prayer in the morning service for the President of the United States, Mrs Susan Williams, a member of the congregation, behaved in a very improper and disrespectful manner. Complaints were made at this office, and Mrs. Williams was arrested. She was released upon writing the enclosed humble apology, which you will please read from your pulpit for the benefit of the parties offended, and at the same time admonish the disloyal of your congregation that, hereafter, a mere apology will hot atone for so grave an offence as that committed by Mrs. Williams. Very respectfully,Your obedient s
knew it was not so, and now, to divert attention from himself, he falls foul of Butler, and calls him names. This is very wrong of Raymond. To be sure Butler is a BButler is a Beast, and a most execrable Beast. But Raymond ought not to make a scapegoat of him for all that. Though a Beast, he is not a Beast of burden. He is of too a filthy He feels how different would have been the result had he been there instead of Butler. Great men like Raymond cannot conceive how small men should stumble at obstacselves would scarcely notice. Beauregard and his army were such an obstacle in Butler's way. Raymond would have brushed them out of his path, as the lion brushes off a swarm of mosquitoes, and he cannot pardon Butler for not being as brave and as energetic as himself. It is one of the wonders of this wonderful war that Lincoln h tactics. Raymond, however, in the midst of his concern for the failure of Butler, is not with out consolation. He tells us what it is.--Grant, it seems, has po