The Daily Gazette

Among the last probably in the list of gifts to General Hancock as the Democratic candidate for the presidency, says the New York Herald of yesterday, was a bust of himself, the work of Mr. John O'Brien, of Baltimore, sent by some of his Democratic friends in that city. The box containing the bust arrived several days ago, as also a letter announcing the presentation to him by a number of Democratic friends in Baltimore 'as a testimonial of their regard' for him 'as a citizen, as a statesman and a soldier.' As no one, however, came to make the presentation personally, the box, which meantime had been lying in the quartermaster's storehouse, was yesterday taken to the General's house and opened. The bust which it contained makes the third of the general which has resulted from the campaign.

The present was made to Gen. Hancock pending his candidacy make up rather a curious list, to say nothing of the moral such presentations teach of the mutability of human expectations as to Presidential candidates. Canes take the lead, there being no less than seven of them, the most of them the gifts of church fairs, and gold-beaded, and one additionally enriched by diamond ornamentations. Quill pens with which to write his inaugural are second on the list, not ordinary goose quill pens with which ordinary mortals might write ordinarily well, but quills plucked from the pinions of far soaring birds, to give wings to his imagination. A massive gold pen concludes the catalogue, with a monster bronze inkstand as a fitting supplement. His friends, in fact, gave him every requisite for writing a presidential inaugural. A stuffed American Eagle among the most prized of his gifts, stands on the top of his book case. A bed-quilt, the gift of a church fair in Newark, N. J., is still to come, the last tribute of confidence in his election.