The Cheyenne Daily Leader

Butler's Blow.
Boston, December 29.—General Butler has written a letter to explain the substitution of the name Stickney for Pond in a recent communication to the council, declining to pardon Hathaway. The governor says the reason the mistake did not strike his attention was that he never considered that Stickney was pardoned at all. He remitted to him thirty days only, which he thought he had earned by good conduct. The governor adds:
"I admit the mistake. It was a lapse of memory. I have only one palliation to offer for it: There have been so many republican senators who were treasurers of mills, and otherwise prominent convicts in the state prison, or who would have been there if caught, that I get them a little mixed sometimes when I think about them. I cannot always distinguish the special incidents of the crime of Winslow, the Herald's friend and controlling proprietor of the Post from that of Pond, the friend of the Worcester Spy, or Stickney who was convicted, from the treasurer who ran away to Canada, who was not. Nor does it aid me any when I attempt to distinguish one as a Sabbath school teacher from the other as a preacher, as I do not always know which is which, but know one was one and the other was the other. If you will inform the public of the difficulties under which I labor when I am dealing with convicts of this high grade, for whom pardons are very much sought for by very respectable men, you will at least give them an opportunity to sympathize with me."