Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-08-19

1SDAY, AUGUST
and trimmed with double knife-pleat-
ing and reverse embroidery. / give
the full particulars, as they are sure
to come out sooner or later, and al
though they may seem rather trivial
yet much more trivial things are daily
fed to the American public, and the
American public seems TO swallow
the stuff and demand more.
That well-known, not to say noto-
rious fact-stater, Mr.. Eli Perkins, for
whose existence we shall be able to
account when we know why Divine
Providence permits also fleas and
mosquitoes and green flies, made an
excursion to Governors Island the
other day, and found out more things
that l knew could not long be kept
back. l need not rehearse them; l
have enough beside to do, but, in
connection with this visit, there is a
charge TO be laid at Gen. Hancock $
door not to be easily cleared away.
An outraged public demand a full
and unequivocal explanation. He
had Eli there on Governors Island,
on his stamping ground, as it were.
and now will he please rise and ex-
plain why he didn't take him and
chuck him into the deepest, darkest,
dampest dungeon Oh Governors Is
land, and keep him there for the rest
of his existence, and thus earn the
lasting gratitude of Il large majority
of the American people?
The oversight does not go to show
that Gen. Hancock is a man of great
executive ability, one to seize the
golden moment, and. l am afraid,
will tell heavily against him ON the
stump.
/ But it may he that Eli did not &C
to Governors Island. The exigen.
cies of tins campaign seem to demand
a good many lies, and perhaps in this
instance Eli departed from ais usua
method and he'd about it.
II has also transpired that he was
so emotionally insane at the time o
McClellan's removal from the com
mand of the Array of the Potomac
that he proposed to turn the Unioi
forces on Washington, and
! DISPOSE LINCOLN AND STANTON
From their respective offices. Bu
the half has scarcely been told. No
only was Lincoln to have been de
posed. but jeff Davis was to hav,
been elevated in his stead. Confed
crate shinplasters were to have beef
exchanged for new greenbacks as fas
as the presses could have turne'
them off, and general transforma
, ton scene was to have occurred.
was a nice little scheme, but someho,
it fell through-how, / hardly know
everything was so beautifully arrang
ed. 1t seems, at the first blush,
little improbable, and some of m
r very sober-mindcd readers NAV pre-
nounce it astounding, but the oni
7 astounding thing about it is that
should have been kept secret for Sc,
entcen years, and then he discoyere
If so promptly and SO easily after th
q Cincinnati convention adjourned.
If Gen. Hancock's heart failed hil
: after conceiving the magnificel
. scheme outlined above, he SCENE
:, atterward to have recovered b
q stomach for fighting and stood b
y ground passably we'll at Gettysburg
But then no one can deny thu
II there are circumstances under whie
q he might have run away, and proh'
>. bly, he would have done so at Getty
~ burg, only that he happened to g
N shot through the thigh so he couldn
run.
:. Leaving now these interesting co
, tributions to the unwritten history
~ ~ our late unpleasantness, l will rela
" . some equally well authenticated inc
! dents in Hancock's career which ha
,s not yet been placed before All omni
y y orous public, and l hope the afor
i, said public will be able to brace +,
" = under the load which shall now pr
. ceed to dump. He is the man wi
~ struck Billy Patterson.
a. The full particulars of this trag
= affair have never before been reveale
W. ~, but they are briefly as follows: L
- sad occurrence took place in the ci
-, of Baltimore, Mr.. Patterson being
y scion of one of the first families
b., that place. Gen. Hancock, then on
';s M Capt. Hancock, Mr.. benjamin
is is Butler, the unfortunate Mr.. Patts
ns m son, and myself had been having
.o ~ quiet game of ''draw," Capt. -Ha
=, cock and MIR. Patterson cross-lifti
~ against Mr.. Butler and myself.
=" ." need nos describe the game at leng'
no Suffice it to say that Mr.. Butler a
.al myself, by strict attention to bu
ness and bland determination 7
to take any bluffs, had depicted I
- exchequer of our antagonists in I
Nv language Of Hoyle, chad warped
=. as to 'em pretty bad. -
:" MIR. Patterson did not take his {
feat and the pecuniary penalty the
lis to attached with philosophical eqt
c; nimity, and, after the conclusion
ed the seance, accused Capt. Hanco
on of losing the Jackpot by bluffinglo
in bobtailed flush. This deadly ins
'as Capt. Hancock instantly resent
ise with blow. l myself did not
1st the blow, being at that tine engae
mt in contemplating the frescoed ceilil
Mr.. Butler was likewise engaged,
se, it seems had without difficulty K
ly, one eye on the disputants, and
es- afteward told me how it was. G
len Hancock hit Billy but once, but
em laid William out for good and all.
be We ''fixed' the coroner, and
on had the verdict brought in,, which
stl- a matter of history, to-wit: st
d's the aforesaid William Patterson,
MT all appearances, came to his ,
KY through the ministrations of a 3
OF rick, but if SO, the derrick respo'
ow bic therefor is unknown to the jur,
This was not altogether satisfact
OF to the public, and the questi
his sWho struck Billy Patterson!"
the been frequently propounded, {
sen never satisfactorily answered.
ght Gen, Hancock is also srespOns