Why General Butler Was Relieved

Colonel Woochvorth told somo good Btories about General Butler. He said that Butler himself told bim as late as 1884 that henever knewtho real reason wby be was deprived of bis military command by General Grant. It was only a few years ago that Woodworth got tho faots from Graut's brother-inlaw, Major Dont, who was the staff officer sent -with the ordtr tor Butler's relief. He said that whilo do reason was openly given at tho time, Butler was actually displaced because ho was not a gradúate of West Point. This would not appear on tbe face of it to be a üuffleient cause, but Grant explained it to Dent one day in tho course of a confidential interview. "If, " said be, "I were to send Butler a specific order to dosometbingwith bis arrny, he might obey and be might not. He was too able and original not to reason himself into the belief that I might have given different instructions if I knew all that he kuew of the local situation. He thereforo almost always had a plan of his own tbat he thought was better than mine or anybody olse's, so that I could never teil just what he would do or where he would bo at a given time. Of course that was fatal to any systematic campaign, and I had to replace bim with a West Pointer, whose first lesson in war is the necessity of prompt obedience to the commanding general. Butler was too brilliant to be