The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-11-17
CHaRJOTTESVIILE.
POLITICAL EXCrTEMENT-FALLING OF A POR-
TON OF TIE CHARLOTTESVILLE NATIONAL
BANK BUILDING.

POLITICAL EXCTrEMENT-FALLING OF A P0R-
TION OF TIE CHARLOTTESVILLE NATIONAL
BANK BUILDING.
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.I
NOVEMBER Is, 1879.
Our community has been laboring under
the most intense excitement since the cleo
ton. The party feeling has been exceed
ingly bitter, and the uncertainty in regard
to the results had produced suspense that
Is painful in the extreme. We have been
standing, as it were, over a rowder-maga-
zine, with the match ready to be applied.
The Conservatives are confident of the
triumph Of the cause of honesty, while it
has been industriously instilled into tie
negroes that Hayes is elected, and that the
success of the Democrats insure their re-
ensayement. Their insolence has been
almost mbearable, and an e'neute has been
in daily expectancy. On Thursday night
last they had procession and took every
method to annoy and defy the authorities.
No outbreak, however, resulted. On Fri
day evening q wanton attack was made on
student by a brutal scoundrel. That night
about one hundred and fifty students came
down to avenge the outrage, but not find
ing the fellow they sought they retired
with good order. Since then there zig
tween the students and the negroes, each
expecting to be attacked by the other. On
Sunday night the issue appeared to culmi-
nate, and it was deemed necessary to place
heavy guard at the negro churches to meet
the expected attack of the students, while
the community at the University were on
the qui uiue for the negroes attack. As the
thing now appears it is very ludicrOus.
Since Sunday the feeling on both sides has
become calmer and more quiet. There is
less demonstration on either side, and the
election excitement has been absorbed by
that Of q local character. s
On Tuesday evening it was discovered
that the northwest corner OF the Charl0ttes-
vile National Bank building was yisibly
breaking away from the rest Of the build
ing. Messrs. George 81 Watson, who owned
the adjoining building. had some weeks ago
torn their building down and commenced
the erection of q new building on the same
site Of more extensive character. In the
course OF erection it became necessary to
remove the earth from near the foundation
Of the northwest Gornerof the bank bulld-
ing, when the walls began to sink rap
Idly, tearing away about 0ne-hith OF I the
building, occupied principally by the Aide
marie Insurance Company, whose heavy
vaults and safes were il, this Immediate cor
n II. The cracking OF the walls was discovered
about 4 O'Clock, when the Workmen engaged
on the new building precipitately fled, but
some OF them afterwards returned and
made: an Intellectual attempt to brace up the
wall. The wall continued to settle slowly
until about 6 o'clock, when a crack was
Horned In the west wall and north Wall from
top TO bottom, when all effort to secure it
was aband oned, and the excited people,
lYbo Ind assembled In large numbers,
waited III anx lous suspense to SEQ itifall.
4 Up TO IL O'Clock, however, no further
| movement was seen on account OF the dark.