The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-11-10

There was more excitement than ever in
Richmond Yesterday. The election news
did not come in half fast enough to satisfy
the cravings OF the public. The kilograms
were often conflicting and unintelligible.
Sometimes before the cheers for " president
Tilden" had died out later advices had
made it uncertain whether he would be able
to get the 1S5th vote. There was constant
and painfuI alienation from certainty TO
uncertainty, and from the pinnacle Of glad
ness to the depths of despair. True, the
calm and calculating politicians, who know
lust how to estimate every return, and how
to valu@ opinions where figures were
not given, did not participate in
this fuctuation OF popular sentiment,
neither did their cool demeanor impart to
all others confidence in their Judgment.
Nearly everybody. indeed, wished to be-
lieye that Tildcn was elected, but the en-
couraging news was "too good to be true"
and the bad was "iust as was expected
Throughout the hve-long day doubts
harassed the public mind, and faith in the
success OF our cause sometimes grew weak,
next favorable dispatch up would 60 the
tide of Joy.
OUR FRIENDS AND PATRONS.
On Tuesday night the crowd first assem-
bled at the Dispatch Office, and from that
time to the hour of this writing it has been
ever present with us. 1t often numbered
1000. 1t would occasionally dwindle down
to few hundred, but whether early in the
morning or late in the night the announce
ment of important information, particularly
if hopeful for Tilden, and the cheering that
invariably followed would swell the crowd
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neighborhood even to get their meals, and
consequently the restaurants and saloons IN
the vicinity did thriving business. The
crowd was with us before sun up. 1t re-
NAMED from breakfast to dinner-time, from
dinner to supper, and till the damp sheets
were taken from the press. Then would
come rush for papers, and the lightning
speed of a Hoe double-cylind der-press was
all too slow for the impatient walters. .
~sg-t OUR BULLETINS. !
Our. dispatches were given out within a
few minutes after they came from the wire.
Whether the tidings We're good or bad they
were given to the public. Nothing was
kent back. We left to the discriminating
people whom we knew we were serving to
separate the wheat from the chaff, the pro
bable from the improbable. And they did
it. They were as ready to dlsbelieYe the too
confident assertions OF enthusiastic Demo
cratic correspondents as to detect the false
hood of Radical bulletins coming from "the
last ditch" . .,
Such was the press Of people in our
couptinr-room those wishing to get to the
counter with advertisements found it in
many instances impossible to do so, and
some who wrote out their advertisements,
nocketed them and came to the office, forgot
the prime object of their mission after ming
Iinp a few minutes in the excited crowd.
WORSE THAN WAR DAYS. Il,
Richmond people are not Of excitable ma
ture. Their schooling has been OF another
sort. With battle raging in few miles OF
us-with alarm-bells appealing to the old
men and boys to come forth to defend their
city-our people better retained their COM
posure than within the past two or three
days. The feeling mas been in the main
ioyful, now and then, however, streaked
with painful forebodings that perhaps after
all Tiden was not elected. With the ifuc-
tuation Of the news from good to bad,
bringing confidence +or creating distrust,
through all the variable portents Of the time
the popular heart responded as accurately
as the thermometer to heat and cold. nrs,tt
t.. ~.:,' RADICAL BOASTS. t@i.' St.i'. -
The Republican committeeman, after days
OF painful suspense and hours OF immea-
surable agony, yesterday evening succeeded
Florida. South Carolina, and Louisiana had
zone Republican. AS they wished 1t so, it
was not difficult for them to believe this
news. They had also adYices that they had
carr;ed New York by nearly 5000. They
were also informed that SeSer had defeated
Goode by about 500 majority. ..o-i....
They made the most OF these dispatches
for the time being, They read them to a
considerable congregation OF colored men
ON the corner OF Tenth and Main streets,
and the ignorant darkies cheered Justify.
They thought it was all right. They con;
cJnded That Sammy j. was sick, and would
onIy remark. "Put me In my little bed.n
II is but truth to say that the positive as
eertions of the Republicans, and their ap-
narent faith in Hayes's success, for awhile
STAGGERED the faith Of many Demo ocrats. The,
wires were promptly set to work, and In o
short time it was proved that the Radicals
were building great expectations upon
poor foundation. %gi5 = III; ~
.,.. ALMOST 4. RIOT ab:lilie:rai .
i Tn the few moments. OF bliss Youchsafed
the Radicals. Hon. John Amber Smith was
called unon ior speech, and he responded
as promptly as he. did the day before when
the oyerioyed Conservatives carried him
along in their ,triunphal car, to speak.
He advised the gdarkies to go home and rest
contented, and promised that in the morn
ing when they got up they would find that
Hayes was President q il iag 49, NJ
~ MANY of the darkies, men and boys, went
marching up town singing and cheering,i
and at every step receiving 3accessions TO
their ranks. They passed1up1 Broad and
Second streets to Jackson Ward, ana aIter
making q circuit resntered Broad DysWay q OF
Brook avenue. Down Broad street they