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Show Out of thf) Kutlcr Family I'roi 1 Jed lor, New York, 8. Tlio Tribune's Washington special sa'3: Butler's re-muv:il re-muv:il wai b:is'.-d upm a lutter written by one of lh-iu..rtt prominent clorymau of the Methodist douomi- nation in New York to an officer in the pielollicu department. This' ciurgyiiv.njjays that while travelling! to Ctiichgo a few d ys ago he met a man who said his nwne was Butler, aud wiio claimed to have receivtd. an Appointment from tho poetofficej department na special agent to organize mail routes in the Black Hills. Butler exhibited his commission commis-sion repeatedly, and boasted that ho wasrec iving a gocd salary and six; dollars a day for expene.1. The clergyman said he had a bolllo of brandy, from which he drank fre j quently and copiously, and that ho pasted it toothers in the car to drink, even alter they had informed him that they never indulged in spirituous liquors. Before retiring the first night BulUr was thoroughly drunk,1 and hij conversation waB of such a profane at.d vulgar character that he made himEoIf diacgroeable to every one in the car. Tlio clergymen remarked in his lettor that he did not know whether this fellow was an impostor or not, but if ho actually did hold a commission from the post-office post-office department he certainly would not be in condition to transact any business for the government so long as bis brandy held out and he could get more. Tho letter closed with the suggestion that so long as there are enough good men with whom to fill government offices such fellows as this ought not to be, employed. On receipt of this letter the postmaster general immediately directed the commission to bo revoked re-voked and in his letter to Butler informing in-forming him of this fact he gives the reasons as stated above, and adds: "No person who conducts himself in i the manner descrfbed can hold nj commission," ' |