Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-11-13
How the Candidates Receive the
News.

particulars VI Ile sCcuCS NJ NaitIt,
South Bend and Utica, on election day.
After depositing his vote for congress
sional aud state candidates, Tuesday af-
ternoon, Gen Grant went to the house of
representative f. b. Washburne, where
arrangements had been made to receive
the telegraphic returns. The first report
was from j. G. Blaine" Maine pledged
$4,000 majority, and she has kept her
faith" The next announcement was re-
ceived from William L. Chandler, that
New Hampshire bad gone republican by
at least 5000 majority, but as yet they
are varying. Many Of the friends of
Gen. Grant came in, anxious to hear the
news. Much sport was made by the gem
eral, who had written out an estimate of
the majorities for either candidate in the
different states several days before. This
he allowed no one to see except as each
state was compared with his estimate,
and in nearly every case he proved a
prophet. The two states first named,
gave exactly the majorities he had pre-
dicted, and the presidential candidate
seemed much more pleased at his politi-
cal sagacity than at his success. Indeed,
during the evening he manifested neither
anxiety nor elation, while every one else
was excited as the changing returns came
in. The inevitable cigar" was as in
dispensable as ever, and the calm which
he had displayed at Vicksburg and at
Appomatox was as conspicuous as if he
had still been at the head of million
soldiers. Galena, which had almost al
ways beel strongly democratic, and had
| given Mcclellan a majority of 120 in
1864, was announced as having gone for
Grant by a majority of nine at the very
moment when dispatches came in pro-
claiming republican gain in Seymour's
own Deerfeld When Connecticut was
certain for the Union, the whole room
Grant only excepted, applauded, but
soon the general was doomed to disap-
pointment. He had calculated on SO, ,000
majority in Massachusetts,, but the old
Bay State was announced as giving him
10000 majority, and he acknowledged
the error in his calculations. Other
states followed in rapid and convincing
succession, and last of all came dis
patch from Petroleum V. Nasby, who
forwarded his resignation as postmaster
and announced that he had gone into tn,
grocery business. By degrees the citi
zens dropped away, and little aftel
midnight the president elect of the Uni
ted States retired from the scene of hi!
latest triumph as modestly as he left thC
little house at Appomatox, where, fou
years ago, he received the previous sur
render of the enemies of his country.
AS soon as the returns announced z
gain for Grant and Colfax in South Bend
Colfax's home, over the October vote
the people crowded into the court house
where the returns were to be read, anc
Mr.. Colfax and his stepfather, with a few
of his friends, went to the depot, wher
three operators were soon at work receiv
ing on six wires of the Western UnioI
telegraph company the news that poured
in from all points of the Union, whicl
was copied and sent down to the throng
ed court house. By nine o'clock the fac
that the triumph was even more over
, whelming than had been anticipated be
came manifest, and by ten o'clock hi
townsmen insisted on his coming to tn
court house to see how happy they felt
Arriving there the whole audience ros
and gave vent to continued cheers
throwing up their hats, and repeating
loud and long, and it Was with difficult
6 that order was restored, so that he coul
be heard in return for their enthusiast
congratulation. During his remarks h
was frequently interrupted by most ez
F., uberant and rapturous applause.
, On the democratic side of the hous
, the manifestations were of another sor
} A ten o'clock dispatch from Utica an
2 nounced "Gov. Seymour had retire
o across the Mohawk and is safely intrencl
a ed on his snug little farm in Deerfelc
: A dispatch received from there fer
e minutes since announces that his ow
: town had gone against him by four ms
!; jority--a republican gain. Mr.. Pea
e son, the proprietor of the Butteriel
5 House, democratic headquarters, ha
b arranged for the announcement of di
y patches to all parties in his dancin
e room, and as the returns came in frol
/ Connecticut, New Hampshire, Obi
a Maine and New York city, the sensatio
+ produced on the democrats was of sicl
:. ening character. B. ID. Nixon, the pr
n vate secretary of Gov. Seymour read tt
l. returns to the democrats in the main ha
l. of the Butterfeld House, and thus f
his announcements have been greet'
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