The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-03-20

ROCKINGHAM House I
Portsmouth, \. H., March 18th, 1868. I
Last Tuesday was an eventful day for
New Hampshire, and many Democrat
all the United States over has since car
ried long face, a heavy heart, and a
light purse. One man in Boston lost
$4,000 on the result of the election
another lost ten hats, and 80 on. The
number OF small sums that has changed
hands in consequence, is incalculable.
1t was the hardest fought political bat
tie ever known in the State: well con-
tested by the d" Hindoosr but won by
the Black Republicans As this city,
owing in p--rt 10 the reputed navy yard
interest, has been considered doubtful
in its tendencies, it has been made the
scene Of especial effort; and though poll
tics do not seethe, boil, foam, overflow,
and drown everything else, here, a. they
do i'll Concord they hold Is important
a place in the lives of men as they ought,
when one considers that election day
may lot see the termination of their
terrestrial existence
The last stir to the political pudding
was given on Monday afternoon by
number of addresses, at the Temple.
The Hon. James w Patterson, and
Generals Sicllles and Cochrane, being
among the speakers; while in the even
ing the Temple was held in the Demo-
cratic interest and Generals Sickles,
Cochrane and others spoke to packed
street from the steps OF the Rockingham
House. From the roof of the Porters
Lodge band discoursed patriotic strains
between the speeches, and there was
quite a pyrotechnic display, consisting
chiefly of rockets, Roman candles, blue
and white lights, etc.
Tuesday morning was dull and threat
ening, but there was no more valid ex-
cuse than dirty walking to keep any
one from the polls The two Generals
took the early train for Concord, and
the world was astir early and late. The
streets had been unusually crowded for
a number of days, but this day all the
masculine part of the population delibe-
rately spent upon the street, and such
grouping, gathering, going to and fro,
standing upon the sidewalk and in the
middle of the street, shouldering, elbow
ing, buttonholing, with never ending
talking, is rarely seen. When late in the
afternoon the city returns were made,
the Republicans got possession Of the
bells and every bell in the place rang
joyously for half an hour.
The Miss Bessie Bisbee whom men
toned in my last letter rs lecturing up
on the Democratic side, is native of
Vermont, but since her fathers death
some ten years ago, she and her mother
have made their home in New York city.
She graduated at school in Lexington
Mass, less than a..year ago, and is now
but twenty-One years of age. 1t was
while visiting her brother, who is pas
tor of church at st. Paul Mimi, that
she was induced by her friends to ad-
dress the public on National affairs. 1t
was Miss Bisbee's intention to close her
labors in this state on Thursday last,
but she was so earnestly solicited that
she spoke in Greenland on Friday, at
Rye on Saturday, and ON Monday at
Hampton. She left ON Tuesday for
New Haven, Conn. and is to speak in
the principal cities in that State. OF
course her own party and some members
of the opposing one, pronounce her to be
superior to Miss Dickinson. Governor
Hartman has also been strongly urged
to take the stump for the coming cleo
ton in Conn.,, and will probably follow
Miss Bisbee during the present week,
urged by strong desire to counteraet
her influence. We in New Hampshire
can readily imagine the excitement that
Connecticut will undergo during these
two weeks that precede her election.