I had a call to-day from Wylly Woodbridge of Savannah. We were fellow students and fellow boarders at good Parson Cornwall's at Cheshire Academy forty-four years ago. He much younger than myself. Time has ploughed his furrows deep since then, and of our companions much the larger portion have passed from earth.
General Butler called on me while we were conversing and had a pleasant interview. In speaking of his brief administration at Baltimore, General B. said if he had not been summarily displaced and called to Washington, he would within forty-eight hours have had Winans hung in Union Square. Had that been done, he is confident it would have checked the Rebellion. To have executed a man of Winans' wealth and position would have struck terror, - showed we were in earnest.
