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BUTLER 489 185,009 of Indian corn, 12,018 of oats, and 48,245 Ibs. of tobacco. There were 1,309 horses, 1,355 milch cows, 2,340 other cattle, 2,680 sheep, and 12,605 swine. Capital, Pop- lar Bluff 1 . VII. An E. county of Nebraska, bounded N. by the Platto river, and intersect- ed by the North fork of the Big Blue ; area, 576 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 1,290. The principal productions in 1870 were 18,668 bushels of wheat, 21,020 of Indian corn, 9,350 of oats, 6,050 of potatoes, and 2,261 tons of hay. There were 574 horses, 460 milch cows, 8(il other cat- tle, 478 sheep, and 606 swine. Capital, Sa- vannah. VIII. A S. county of Kansas, E. of the Arkansas river; area, 1,519 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 3,035. It is well watered by the White and Walnut rivers and other affluents of the Arkansas. A railroad from Cottonwood Falls in Chase county, on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa F6 railroad, is projected, which will run S. W. through the county. The chief produc- tions in 1870 were 5,344 bushels of wheat, 38,- 915 of Indian corn, 2,406 of oats, 1,640 of po- tatoes, and 4,465 tons of hay. There were 987 horses, 1,082 milch cows, 4,454 other cattle, 2,603 sheep, and 684 swine. Capital, Eldo- rado. BUTLER, Alban, an English theologian and author, born at Appletree, Northamptonshire, in 1710, died at Saint Omer, France, May 15, 1773. He was educated at the Roman Catholic seminary in Douai, France, where he became professor of philosophy and theology. He was sent on a mission to England, and was for some time chaplain to the duke of Norfolk, during which he began his " Lives of the Saints," which was completed during a subse- quent residence in Paris. He afterward be- came president of the college of Saint Omer. He wrote several works, the most important being the "Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and other principal Saints " (5 vols. 4to, Paris, 1745), which has been .several times republished (8 vols. 12mo, Dublin, 1779; Edinburgh, 1800, edited by his nephew, Charles Butler; 12 vols. 12mo, Derby, 1843 ; 4 vols. 8vo, New York, 1846). BUTLER, Andrew Piekens, an American senator, born in Edgefield district, S. C., Nov. 17, 1796, died near Edgefield Court House, S. C., May 25, 1857. He graduated at South Carolina college in 1817, and was admitted to the bar in 1819. In 1824 he was elected to the state legislature, and in 1831, during the nullification excitement, was chosen colonel of a regiment of cavalry. In 1833 he was appointed a judge of the courts of general sessions and common pleas, and afterward of the supreme court of the state. In 1846 he was elected to the sen- ate of the United States, and was soon after made chairman of the judiciary committee. In the senate he took a prominent part in all dis- cussions in which the interests of the South were involved. His report upon the fugitive slave law was sustained by him in an elabo- rate speech. His last speech in the senate, in defence of South Carolina, and in reply to Mr. Sumner, led indirectly to the assault upon Mr. Sumner by Preston S. Brooks. BUTLER, Iti'njiiniin Franklin, an American lawyer and politician, born at Kinderhook, N. Y., Dec. 15, 1795, died in Paris, France, Nov. 8, 1858. He studied law with Martin Van Buren, and on being admitted to the bar in 1817 became his partner. He was appointed district attorney of Albany county in 1821, and held the office four or live years. In 1825 he was appointed one of the commissioners to revise the statutes of New York, and in 1828 was a member of the state assembly. He was attorney general of the United States under President Jackson in!831-'4, and acting secre- tary of war from October, 1836, to March, 1837 ; and from 1838 to 1841 he was United States district attorney for the southern dis- trict of New York. He afterward returned to the practice of the law in New York, and was principal professor of law in the university of the city of NewYork, of which he had been one of the founders. During the greater part of his life he was an influential member of the demo- cratic party, but on the passage of the Kansas- Nebraska bill, abolishing the Missouri com- promise, he joined the republicans, and voted for Fremont in 1856. BUTLER, Benjamin Franklin, an American law- yer and politician, born at Deerfield, N. H., Nov. 5, 1818. He graduated at Waterville college, Maine, in 1838, and commenced the practice of the law at Lowell, Mass., in 1841. He early took a prominent part in politics on the democratic side, and was elected member of the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1853, and of the state senate in 1859. In 1860 he was a delegate to the democratic na- tional convention which met at Charleston. Here he endeavored to persuade the conven- tion to simply reaffirm the principles enun- ciated in 1856 at Cincinnati, by the convention which nominated Mr. Buchanan for the presi- dency, but was defeated by a vote of 105 to 198. When a portion of the delegates reas- sembled at Baltimore, Mr. Butler, after taking part in the opening debates and votes, an- nounced that a majority of the delegates from Massachusetts would not further participate in the deliberations of the convention, on the ground that there had been a withdrawal in part of the majority of the states; and fur- ther, he added, " upon the ground that I would not sit in a convention where the African slave trade, which is piracy by the laws of my country, is approvingly advocated." In the same year he was the democratic can- didate for governor of Massachusetts. At the time of President Lincoln's call for troops in April, 1861, he held the commission of briga- dier general of militia. On the 17th of that month he marched to Annapolis with the 8th Massachusetts regiment, and was placed in command of the district of Annapolis, in which the city of Baltimore was included. In