And when the nomination came I congratulated General Hancock, receiving from him in return a quick and graceful reply.

The magnetism of the nomination, like the magnetism of the man himself, flew like wildfire over the country. It was hailed with delight in Europe by all classes of our visiting countrymen. A correspondent in Paris states that the delight of the Northern and Southern men when the news of Hancock's nomination arrived there, was something like the delight of the North when they heard the war was over, and the surprise of the South when they heard that General Grant had led the way for their forgiveness.

How it was received in Philadelphia until the ring politicians began to try to convince our people that General Hancock did nothing for them at Gettysburg, on the 3d of July 1863, the world knows. On that 23d of June, 1880, our Bankers recollected that on the 3d of July, 1863, they were packing up their treasures for New York, expecting the arrival of the Confederate Army across the Schuylkill. Our clergy recollected how they had offered thanksgiving to God for the opportune arrival of General Hancock on Cemetery Hill, and even the politicians of the present hour remembered their own joy over the rescue. The halt in this storm over his nomination for the Presidency was, however, a very short one. And now, as I write, the boom which began with

Dougherty marching along the streets on the 19th of June is resounding all over the land.

Several weeks after, on Tuesday, July 14th, the committee of the Cincinnati Convention notified General Hancock and Mr. English of their nominations for President and Vice-President, and visited Governor's Island to fulfil that duty. The scene that took place then was in itself so picturesque, that I regret I can only give space to the following account taken from the New York World, of Wednesday, July 14th.

HANCOCK AND ENGLISH FORMALLY NOTIFIED OF THEIR

NOMINATION.

The committee appointed by the Cincinnati Convention to notify General Hancock and Mr. English of their nomination for President and VicePresident of the United States visited Governor's Island yesterday to fulfil that duty. The special committee appointed for the purpose was led by Senator John P. Stockton, its chairman, and had in turn invited the members of the National Committee to go to Governor's Island with them. At 10 o'clock in the morning the sub-commitee on the letters to the two candidates reported to the full committee charged with their presentation, and after official copies had been made, Secretary Bell called the States in alphabetical order and the committee-men signed the letters. Wm. H. Green, of Illinois, was absent and S. S. Marshall signed as his

proxy. O. B. Hurd signed for De Forest Sherman, of Indiana, ex-Governor John McEnery for John Clegg, of Louisiana, and J. S. Morton for F. A. Harman, of Nebraska. With these exceptions the letters were signed by the committee-men appointed at Cincinnati. Every State in the Union was represented, and the letters, when signed, bore the names of many men of national reputation.

At 2 o'clock a number of coaches arrived, and the committee-men were conveyed to the foot of West Twenty-third Street, where the Wm. Fletcher lay with colors flying. The members of the National Committee came down from the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and said they had had a short harmonious meeting, and had unanimously and immediately upon assembling chosen Senator W. H. Barnum, of Connecticut, Chairman, and Mayor F. O. Prince, of Boston, Secretary. The party on the Fletcher, as she left her pier at 12.45, included all the signing members of the committee and the proxies named, and all of the members of the National Committee. Among others were Milton Sayler, of Ohio; Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, and W. Armstrong, of Pennsylvania. Senator Wm. A. Wallace, of Pennsylvania, was not present, being busy in the city. In all there were about one hundred gentlemen on the boat. At 1 o'clock a landing was made at the steamboat dock on Governor's Island. The military post, which is free to the visit of any person, without pass or permit, was about its business as usual. The sentries passed to and fro, and in the court-martial room the members of the Warren Court of Inquiry were busy reading the record. General Hancock was at home, but in great sorrow at the death of his favorite grandchild, Winfield Scott Hancock, four months old, who had received that name the night before at the hands of the Rev. Dr. Thompson, of Trinity Church. The child had died at 6 in the morning, and General Hancock had watched with it most of the night.

The two committees went up the shelving pathway from the landing and up the steps of the parapet landing to the green, headed by John