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where the African slave-trade, which is piracy by the laws of my country, is approvingly ad vocated." When the war broke out and the first call for troops was issued, he was commander of a brigade of the State militia, and at once issued orders for the mustering of his command. The call was made April 15, 186i,and on the next day the Sixth Regiment left Boston, General Butler start ing on the 18th with the Eighth Regiment under orders to proceed to Washington by way of Balti more. Two regiments of the brigade were sent by another route to Fortress Monroe, which they garrisoned. By the burning of bridges, General Butler was rendered unable to reach Washington by way of Baltimore, and therefore seized Annapo lis, repaired the railroad between that point and Washington, and reached the capital in time to pre vent its falling into the hands of the hostile forces. On May 13 he entered Baltimore at the head of 900 men, meeting with no opposition; and May 22, having been commissioned a Major-General in the United States service, he was assigned the command of Fortress Monroe. It was while at that fort that he made his famous point in regard to runaway slaves, refusing to send such slaves back to their owners, on the ground that they were "property contraband of war." Having taken part with Admiral Farragut in the movement on New Orleans, he entered that city May i, 1862, and remained there until December 1 6 of the same year, when he was relieved by General Banks. His government of the city was vigorous and successful. In November, 1863, he was placed in command of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, and in the winter conceived the project of attack ing Richmond from City Point and Bermuda Hun dred, — a plan which he entered upon by occupy ing that peninsula in May, 1864. Here he aided the movement of General Grant upon Petersburg. He was ordered to New York during the Presiden tial election of 1864, and in December of that year he was sent against Fort Fisher, his expedi tion proving unsuccessful. He was subsequently relieved of his command, and at the close of the war was mustered out of the United States service. He served in the State militia some years after the war, holding at one time the position of MajorGeneral, — an office which was abolished on the reorganization of the militia in 1878.

General Butler was elected to Congress from the Fifth Massachusetts District in 1866 as a Re publican, receiving a re-election for three succes sive terms, and serving from March 4, 1867, to March 3, 1875. In the election of 1876 he was defeated by Charles P. Thompson, but two years later was again chosen. He ran as an Indepen dent and Democratic candidate for governor in 1878, and was defeated by Hon. Thomas Talbot. Running the next year on a Democratic and In dependent ticket, he was defeated by Hon. John D. Long. In 1882 the Democrats united upon him as their candidate and he was elected, though the rest of the State ticket was defeated. In 1884 he was the candidate of the Greenback and Anti-monopolist parties for the Presidency, and received 133,825 votes. Since his retirement from the Governorship the General had devoted himself with his accustomed assiduity to his law practice, flitting between Bos ton, New York, and Washington, with the activity of a man far younger. His last case — that is, his last appearance in public — was in the Sawyer will case, which occupied the last two weeks of 1892 at Salem, Mass. At the time of his death General Butler was the only surviving volunteer general officer who had served in the war.

Lucius Q. C. LÁMAR, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, died at Macon, Ga., January 23. He had been in failing health for some time, and his demise will cause the public no surprise. He was born in Putnam County, Georgia, in 1825, and graduated from Emory College in 1845. For a 1'те after his graduation he taught mathematics in the University of Mississippi. Then he returned to Georgia to practise law, but soon drifted into politics, serving in the legisla ture for a term or two. Subsequently he became a resident of Mississippi, a district of which sent him to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses of the United States. In 1860 Mr. Lamar resigned to take his seat in the Secession convention of the State. On the outbreak of the war he entered the Confederate army as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Nineteenth Regiment, and was promoted to the Colonelcy. In 1863 he was intrusted by Jefferson Davis with an