New-York tribune., 1868-11-05
THE CANDIDATES.
NOW THEY RECEIVED THE NEWS
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GENERAL GRANT.


GENERAL GRANT
GurNA. ILL.,, Nov. 4-After depositihs HIS ''''
ro,,rs.sonal and State candidates, TINS ai'einoo"
Gen Grant went to the house oi the ho" H. d. '''''
.horo arrangements had been made TO receive
=. ..,.orophic returns. The first report was irom
H.. 7 q Blaine-"Maine pledged $4,000 MAJOR
-, and she has kept her faith" The next
announcement was received from the Hon. Wm'
T. Chandler that NewHampshire had gone Repub-
lican by at least 5000 majority. Soon reports came
a. thick and fast from all parts of the country but as
vet they are varying. Many of the friends of Gen.
Grant came n anxious to hear the news. Much
.port was made by tho General, who had written
out an estimate of the majorities for either can
didate in the different States several days
before This he allowed no one TO see except as each
slate was compared with his estimate and in nearly
cvefy case he proved prophet The two States hrst
named gave exactly the majorities he had predicted
and the Presidential candidate seemed mnch Hlo'o
pleased at bis political sagacity than al DIS
Indeed during the evening he manifested hei'"e'
anxiety nor elatiOn. while every one else W"e Ga
cited as the changing returns came lh' iho "
evitable cigar" was Indispensable us e'ei' anu
the calm which he had displayed az 'chS"''s . ",,
. ,,,,r,otox was "a conspicuous if he had stlli
been At the head of million soldiers. uaieh''
which had almost always been strongly Denno-
cratic and had given Mcclellan majority vi I'o
tbers in 1854 was announced as having gone l"'
-, ~, a majority of nine, at the very moment
when dispatches came in proclaimlng hepuoiich
,ai, IN Sevmour's own Deerfeld. When Connecticut
60 ca,tain for the Union the whole room, Grant
only excepted. applauded. but soon the General was
He
1900 majority in Massachusetts,, but the OLD
Ray State was announced as giving him 1000
majority, and he acknowledged the error IN his
calculations As the evening wore away the success
of the Republicans in Pennsylvania. ONO ana
Indiana became sure. Messages from GrOw, ana
Colfax declared that all doubt about these states
was past. Every New-England State was now
certain. .
Michigan and California came into line. the Pacihc
coast resnondinr to the Atlantic and the Lakes, and
West Virginia with an Unexpectedly large majority,
took her place while Nevada and Nebraska reached
across the Rocky Mountains, hailingthe Aleghenles'
Bands of music saluted the victor irOm the
streets: fireworks illuminated the neighb0rhood ana
cannon announced the peaceful victory ot Uiah''
Rut Grant was still as calm and impenetrable as
aver. His adherents were elated but his equanimity
was undisturbed. At length word was brought that
North Carolina was loyal more, the first South
ern State that had voted since 1861. The room wa
crowded with Congressman, Judges, town ana
country politicians. army officers, reporters, all
apparently more eager than the man ON whose ac-
count they were gathered. While they compared
the returns and fingered to receive more, dispatch
arrived from Petroleum V. Nasby. who forwarded
his resignation as Postmaster, and announced
that he had gone in the grocery business
After this the torrent of news and congratulation
was ncessant, interrupted only by the comments
the little party but more than the requisite numbe
Of electoral votes secure and by degrees TIN
citizens dropped away. and little after mdnigh
the President elect of the United States retired from
the scene of his latest triumph modestly he haC
left the little house at Appomattox, where fouryear
ago he received the previous surrender of the enc
mics of his country.