Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-20
How General Grant Received the News
or His Election.

A special to New York exchange from
| Galena says
"After depositing his vote for Congress
| sional and State candidates, General Grant
went tothe house of E. B. Washburne, where
| arrangements had been made to receive
the telegraphic returns The first report
was from ]. G. Blaine Maine pledged
thirty thousand majority, and she has
kept her faith The next announcement
was received from VIM. E. Chandler, that
New Hampshire had gone Republican by
| at least five thousand majority. Soon re-
! ports came in thick and fast from all parts
of the country, but as yet they are varying.
Many of the friends of General Grant
came in, anxious to hear the news. Much
! sport was made by the General, who had
written out an estimate of the majorities
| for either candidates in the different States
| several days before. This he allowed no
one to see except as each State was COM
| pared with his estimate, and in nearly
every case he proved prophet. The
| two States first named gave exactly the
majorities he had predicted, and the Pres-
idential candidate seemed much more
pleased at his political sagacity than at his
success. indeed, during the evening he
manifesto ed neither anxiety nor elation,
while every one else was excited as the
returns came in. The inevitable cigar
| was as indispensable as ever, and the
calm which he had displayed at Vicks-
| burg and at Appomattox was as conspic-
uous as if he had still been at the head of
a million soldiers.
"Galena, which had almost always been
! strongly Democratic, and had given Nc
Clellan a majority of 1870 in 1894, was an
nounced as having gone for Grant by
f<NY.sfr Ne Of 10 n1.f
when dispatches came in proclaiming
Republican gain in Seymours own Deer
field When Connecticut was certain for
the Union, the whole room, Grant only
excepted, applauded, but soon the General
was doomed to a disappointment. He
had calculated on $4,000 majority in Mas
sachusetts, but the old Bay State was an
nounccd as giving him $4,000 majority
and he acknowledged the error in his cal
culations. AS the evening wore away,
the success of the Republicans in Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio and Indiana became sure.
Messages from Grow and Colfax declared
that all doubt about these States was past
Every New England State was now Ger.
tain.
Michigan and California came into line,
the Pacific coast responding to the Allan
tic and the lakes, and West Virginia, with
an unexpected large majority, took her
| place, while Nevada and Nebraska reached
across the Rocky Mountains, hailing the
Alleghanies. Bands Of music saluted the
victor from the streets; fireworks illumi-
mated the neighborhood, and cannon an
nounced the peaceful victory of Grant.
But Grant was still as calm and impertur-
bable as ever. His adherents were elated,
but his equanimity was undisturbed. AT
length word was brought that North Car
olina was loyal once more, the first South
ern State that had voted since 1860. The
room was crowded with Congressman,
Judges, town and county politicians, army
officers, reporters, all apparently more
eager than the man ON whose account they
were gathered.
"While they compared the returns, and
| fingered toreceive more, a dispatch arrived
from Petroleum " Nasty, who forwarded
| his resignation as postmaster, and an
nounced that he had gone into the grocery
| business. After this the torrent of news
and congratulations was incessant, inter
rupted only by the comments of the little
party, but more than the requisite number
| of electoral votes was now secure, and by
| degrees the citizens dropped away, and
| little after midnight the President elect OF
| the United States retired from the scene
| of his latest triumph as modestly as he had
| left the little house at Appomattox, where
four wears ago he received the previous
surrender of the enemies of his country"
-
G5y~ The best relative gain and the best
| fight in New England have been made in
| Connecticut, where Grants majority will
b. at least $500; a gain of more than
| 5000 since last spring. This will secure
the State against the Democrats next
April, and does great credit to the Repub-
licans there. No State has it's Democrats
better disciplined than Connecticut, and
it is no joke to beat them there, but Haw-
ley and Jewell and their friends have done
it handsomely.
~ "Tilden, this is terrible"
| Two more unfortunetes,
H Weary of breath,
Rashly importunate.
| Gone to their DEATH
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