Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-07-06

NEW YORK, June 30.-Yesterday
I went over to Governors Island to
see the military candidate for the
presidency, General Hancock.
The general occupies sixty,four
acres Of land, worth, if it were sold
for city residences, about SIS, ,OO0,-
900. Governors Island has ceased
to be Of any value as a defense for
the city or harhor. 1t is simply
used as the residence of some pet
commanding general. A gun fred
from G, ,ernor's Island at passing
ship would go crashing into the
heart of Brooklyn. If public
enemy should ever get within reach
of Governors Island, with the new
improvement in long range guns.
he could send a shell through the
Astor House, Trinity church, the
ock exchange, or sub treasury.
Here on this fifteen million dollar
farm, surrounded by several huns
dred servants. the taxpayers of
America support General Hancock.
Here seventy FIVE soldiers make Gen.
Hancock's garden, dig in his
dooryard, trim his grapevines, and
wait upon him as if he were king.
At his command is a steam yacht,
with steam algays I'D. ready to take
the general over to Delmonico's to
dinner or down to Coney Island for
sea-bath or a Irritation with the
ladies. Va-EGlQ4EEf
Though we live in time Of peace,
everything around Gen. Hancock is
on a war footir 9. An armed sen
tinel stalks up and ..down in front of
his residence all day long and on
through the weary night. What
for, nobody knows, but tired and
iaded, in sunshine and storm, this
poor soldier must walk up and
down before his great master. At
the generals residence everything
is done in a pedantic, military way.
No ordinary citizen can see the
general. An orderly, buttoned up
and baking in a regulation uniform,
receives your card. A naughty
chief of staff examines it, and, il
your clothes are good enough, he
will permit you to stand before the
general while he sits, listens, and
waves you away. The ordinary
i Illinois farmer, with his face
I Drowned and hands calloused with
honest toll, would never be allowed
to enter the presence of the com
manding General.
HOW GEN. HANCOCK LOOKS.
l The first thought as you look al
the general is that he must be Bar.
mum fat boy grown old. His face
is gross and sensual. His cheeks
puff out like the fat boys, and ther
his whole head grows. smaller anC
smaller till your eye rests on his
forehead, which is low and narrow
The general is a great eater and
liberal drinker. He takes wine a.
every meal and whisky when ht
} feels like it. High living and lib
eral drinking have given him q fab
by, sensual double chin, which
hangs down and rests over hi
smashed down shirt collar. rs Th'
, general is ffty>nine years old. H
wears q white military mustache
, and weighs about $50. He is not |
good talker, and never succeeded il
making the simplest semi>publi
speech. He is lazy, phlegmatic am
does nothing but eat, drink and en-
Joy himself sensually. He neye
9 reads books. If he were not
major general he would be coun
! try landlord, who sits around AM
: let's his wife do the cooking while hi
e son attends to the bar. If electe'
: president he will do nothing him
. self. He will simply be lump 0
8 dough in the hands of the rebe
\ brigadiers of the solid south. Th
sixteen southern states hate Han
!, cock as they do the old flag, bu
thay have taken him up as swee
bait with which to catch the north
ern democrats and the soldier vote
."a SMALL POX. q b.