Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-10-18
TELE6RkPHIC.
FROM WASHINGTON.
what the washinsten People
Think Of the Picayunc
Majority in Indiana.
The Drift Of Popular Sentiment
II Against the Reform
Promised by the Do
mocYacy.
whax,s: rhought Of the Election.

WAsm1NaroN, Oct. 13.-The election
returns were scanned very closely
here throughout the day by the man
ayers of both political parties. Meth |
er could conceal considerable disap-
pointment. The republican managers
had confidently hoped for a greater
victory In Indiana than the election
of four Congressman which, accord
ing to the returns now received here,
seem to be all the republicans can
claim, except q greatly reduced DEM
ocratic majority. The democratic
managers, however, notwithstanding
their forced exultation over the assur-
ed success by picayune majority Of
conceal their deep chagrin at the loss
of certainly ten Congressman In the
two States. Some of the managers
were even frank enough to admit in
private that this result is the condem-
nation by the people of the methods
of the Confederate House. 1t had
been hoped, also, by the democrats,
that Hendricks, In his own State at
least, would have obtained large
majorities, as he was nominated at
st. Louis for the very purpose of
securing Indiana beyond question for
tine democratic party in November,
out the returns received here, even at
the democratic headquarters, show
that there has been q republican gain
in the towns of both Hendricks and
Blue-Jeans Williams. The republi-
can managers accept the result rs q
hopeful augury for November. One
of them said to-day that the lesson Of
Tuesday points certainly to a repub.
lican triumph next month. The voice
of the prophetic States, he said, give
no uncertain sound. They show in
Maine, in Vermont, in the Connect.
cut towns, in the New Jersey towns
in Colorado, end in Indiana, that the
drift Of the popular sentiment il
against the reform promised by thu
democratic party as illustrated in thu
: acts of the Confederate House. Tit
democratic managers here now as
sumo that the field Of battle for No
: vember is transferred from the VALLEY
of the Mississippi to New Yorl
I State. They claim that in Tilden'
| own State, the Presidential question
is to be determined in November
D They accompany this claim by tn
/ very exulting reflection that as New
t York goes, so goes the Union, and a
New York City goes, SO goes tn
State. They do not hesitate in privat
to admit that the vote Of New Yorl
;, City is absolutely in the hands o
= John Kelley, John Morrissey an
= James OBricn, three ignorant Irish
: men. The democratic managers VIII
are to direct the rest of the campaign
openly state to the people of the entir
0 Union that the destinies of the Re
Q public are now dependent upon tn
10 despotic power and arbitrary will Q
d these three c0rruptionists.
fl WASHINGTON. Oct. 14.-Tyncr ha
returned from Indiana, and j. &
!. Smith, commissioner of Indian affair
= from Ohio. r. Ducll, commissions
= Of patents, returned from his vacation
= In addition to the application {
I Gov. Chamberlain, for troops f0
= South Carolina, representation
made to the government of probabl
trouble in the I'd and 4th districts {
e Virginia and 1t is suggested that tn
v marines should be held in readinel
: at Norfolk and company Of soldier
d sent from Fl. Monroe to prevent viz
o lations of the peace in case the cit
d authorities cannot do so.