Considering the success and importance of his labors, the following order relieving him of his command, reads rather coldly:

WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-General's Office,

WASHINGTON, November 9, 1862.

GENERAL ORDER No. 184.

By direction of the President of the United States, Major-General Banks is assigned to the command of the Department of the Gulf, including the State of Texas. By order of the Secretary of War,

H. W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief.

E. D. THOMAS, Assistant Adjt.-General.

The precise reason of General Butler's recall has not, up to the present moment, been made known to him.

On his return home, every city he passed through gave him such honorable welcome as is given only to heroes. For a time he reposed in the shade of his laurels.

General Butler was not, however, destined to remain long inactive. He superseded General Foster at Fortress Monroe, to participate in the present great campaign against Richmond under General Grant. Which statement brings our brief summary of General Butler's services down to July, 1864.

As a man, General Butler is of a warm, impulsive temperment, generous, combative, and brusque. As a politician, he is earnest and formidable. As an advocate, he has never ranked with the leaders of the Massachusetts bar, though his success as a criminal lawyer is, perhaps, without parallel. As an orator, he is fluent and effective, but seldom eloquent. He is apt at reading character, and sometimes applies his knowledge with consummate shrewdness. As a soldier, he has evinced many very high qualities: he has undertaken and performed various onerous duties with such éclat, that none but his most ungenerous political adversaries can withhold their commendation.

LOVELL HARRISON ROUSSEAU.

OVELL HARRISON ROUSSEAU was born in Lincoln County, Kentucky, in 1820. He is descended from a Huguenot family, who emigrated from France to America after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and settled in Virginia, where his ancestors for many generations resided. By the mother's side he is connected with the Gaineses and the Pendletons of that State. His father was a first cousin of President Harrison.

His parents were too poor to give him a good education, and indeed he never went to school after he was ten years old. When he was thirteen his father died, leaving a large family of young children unprovided for. Lovell, being the eldest son then at home, obtained work on a macadamized road from Lexington to Lancaster. His education had not been entirely neglected. With the help of his mother and sisters he had continued his studies after leaving school, and even begun the study of French; and now he used to write out his French verbs at night, and when he went to his work in the morning, spread the paper out before him, with a stone upon it to prevent it from blowing away, and learned the conjugations while he beat rock.

In 1840, he removed to the neighborhood of Louisville, and began to study law. He had no help or direction from any one, and never was asked a question or had a conversation on the subject of his studies until he offered himself to be examined for a license. For about six months he applied himself closely to his books, reading law fourteen hours and history two hours every day. This intense application brought on a severe sickness, and after several months' confinement he arose from his bed with only five dollars and a half in the world, and no prospect of having more until he could earn it at the bar. He resolved to go to Indiana, thinking he could combine study with practice much sooner there than in Kentucky. He did not know a man in the State; but having made up his mind to settle at Bloomfield, he started afoot, with all his worldly goods tied up in his cloak and swung over his shoulder. Arrived at his place of destination, he went to the principal hotel, frankly told the landlord that he had no money, but would have plenty some day, and asked if he would trust him. The worthy host consented, and treated his guest so generously then and on many subsequent occasions as to win his lasting gratitude.

After a little more study, young Rousseau applied to Judge McDonald for a license. At the end of a long examination, the Judge said: "Sir, you are not a lawyer, but you will make one; I will give you a license, though you do not deserve it." The Judge was not deceived. Mr. Rousseau did make a lawyer, and took a very fair position at the bar from the start. In 1844 and 1845 he was a member of the Indiana Legislature, in which he exerted great influence. Raising a company of volunteers for the Mexican war in 1846, he was commissioned Captain in the Second Indiana volunteers-the same regiment which suffered so severely at Buena Vista. Captain Rousseau lost more than a quarter of his men, but brought his company in good order off the field, and was highly complimented in the official report of his commanding officer, Colonel Humphrey Marshall. Immediately after his return home, he was elected to the Indiana Senate by an immense majority in a Democratic district, although he had always been a Whig. Before his term of office expired, he removed to Louisville in 1849, but his Indiana constituents would not allow him to resign.

A Kentucky lawyer in those days had need of many qualifications besides a knowledge of the law. If he would defend an unpopular cause, he must be able to stand fire; for while his professional opponents confronted him in court with Kent and Blackstone, the mob was very apt to assail him outside with bullets and gunpowder. Mr. Rousseau had all the requirements for such a career, and he still carries in his body a leaden memento of his experience at the Louisville bar. His defence of the Joyce negroes, indicted for murder, was a striking instance of his readiness to face popular odium and grave bodily danger in the discharge of his professional duty. The intrepid and chivalric spirit which always prompted him to espouse the cause of the weak and friendless, and which, in his subsequent military career, has won for him the sobriquet of "the Bayard of the West," we may be sure was not without its influence over Kentucky juries. It was in jury trials especially and in the management in court of difficult cases that he made his reputation.

In 1860, he was elected a member of the Kentucky Senate, receiving the nomination of both parties. When the doctrine of neutrality was broached in the Legislature, he strenuously opposed it, holding that Kentucky was in duty bound, as a member of the Union, to put forth all her energies in support of the Government. Being overruled in this, he went to Washington and obtained authority to raise troops in Kentucky. But even the Union men of his State opposed him. "Old friends," said he, "whom I had known well for many years, passed me in the public streets of my own city without recognition, because they had turned traitors and I had remained loyal to the Government of our fathers. This state of things growing worse daily, I finally resolved to speak to no one who did not first speak to me. I walked the streets of my own city as if in a strange town,