The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS ASTOUNDRD BY THE
DEMOCRATIC VICTORIES IN THE STATES
OF OHIO AND INDIANA.
Especial to the Courier-Journal.1

Especial to the Courer-Journal.1
WASHINGTON, Oct A-f the heavens had
opened this morning and rained an inundation
Of negro babies, all orphans and clad in bloody
in truly loyal circles could not be greater than
has been produced by the Ohio and Indiana
elections. The Administration confidently
expected to carry both States, and in Ohio
thew counted on at least 30, 900 majority, and
fourteen or fifteen congressman. Attorney
General Williams left the seaside in the dog
days of August to start his outrage mill at the
so-called Department OF Justice, and it was
not supposed by the Republican officials that
this attempt to infame the people OF the
North could possibly fail Of its purpose.
THE DEMOCRATS JUBILANT.
Even the Democrats were apprehensive that
this hellish appeal to the passions of the war
would wake an echo sufficient to prevent a
calm consideration of the ruin to the South
and the laboring poor of the country wrought
by Republican rule. They are to-day jubi-
liant, and regard the result of yesterday as the
prestige to yet greater victories in November.
NOVEMBER ANTICIPATED.
The general opinion to-day Of politicians is
that the elections of November will go heavily
with the Democracy. 1t is supposed that
with some hope of tightening the Republican
ship in New York and New Jersey, a great
pressure will be brought to bear by portion
Of the Republicans opposed to third term to
get Grant to come out over his name and de-
clare that he will not be a candidate.
PRESIDENT PARSONS.
Hon. Lewis E. Parsons, who presides over
the Chattanooga Convention, was, in 1868, the
most extreme and violent opponent of the
reconstruction acts and negro suffrage. He
took the ground in this city that if the vote
for President between Grant and Seymour
should be SO close that the South could turn
the scale, the Southern whites should, by
armed force, drive them from the polls, and
secure, beyond peradventure, the election
OF Seymour and Blair. His propositions
were SO ultra and violent as to startle the
strongest ex-Confederates and opponents of
negro suffrage. The policy OF the White
League, as he describes it to-day, is simply
his own thunder, as he proposed it for Ala
bama and Mississippi.
THE NEXT CONGRESS.
In view Of the elections already and the po-
liticl drift manifested in Ohio and other
States the politicians here are beginning to
prophesy an anti-administration majority in
the next House of Representatives. The
body is composed of 1872 members. The Dem
ocrats have now about 80 members, and have
to gain 81 members in order to secure ma
jority. They have gained already: 2 in North
Carolina; 7 in Ohio l in West Virginia; and
if not 4 in Indiana; total, Is. Gains are
claimed as follows: Alabama, 4; Arkansas, 4;
California, 2; Connecticut, 2; Delaware, l.;
Florido, 1; Georgia, 2; Illinois, 4; Maryland,
2; Massachusetts,, 1; Minnesota, L. Missouri,
1; New Hampshire, l; New Jersey, 2; New
York, 8; Pennsylvania, 5; South Carolina, l;
Tennessee, 5; Virginia, 3; Wisconsin, 8
making in all 50 members. This would give
an opposition majority of about 20 votes.
The gains above claimed in Delaware, Arkan-
sas, Georgia, Virginia and Tennessee, from all
the information received here, may be re-
garded as positively certain, and the rest are
sufficiently probable to justify the hopes thus
confidently INDUCED.