Morning journal and courier., 1880-11-04
After the Battle.
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 The city was very quiet last evening. The
 racket of tie preceding night was succeeded
 by stiffness which might be felt. At 10
 o'clock, although it was fine weather, Chapel
 street wore a deserted look. The stiffness
 was broken for a moment by the passage of
 horse car laden to overfowing with Fair
 Haven ladies and gentlemen, and then
 quiet was restored. Occasionally the
 foot-fall of some one making bee
 line for home The battle was over. The | public had either cheered itself hoarse or &C., cepted the inevitable, with an immense loss of interest in politics. The band platform l in the Green loomed up in the darkness, | empty and bare, no flaming torches around | it, no bright colored uniforms or uniforms of any kind about it except when squad of policemen passed that way en route for their
 beats. No helmeted campaigners were to be
 seen, no band broke the stiffness of the night
 air, no red fire blazed. There was a meet | ing held at the Veterans headquarters to
 talk up the coming celebration of the victory but it was over with l by nine o'clock. People had been ! celebrating so much the night be- fore that they were good and ready, even | the most inveterate owls, for turning in early.
 A few early in the evening sought to extract | crumbs of comfort from the Register bulletin, 1 but even this subsided early. Up in New Brit ! ain the Republicans were celebrating and had made arrangements to make Rome howl, !" but they hadn't been up all the night before l nor been so full of business as those in the larger cities. In Milford also last night the | Republicans had great jollifcation, all cele-
 brating the victory with enthusiasm up to the ! top notch. The boom of the cannon salute | in honor of the President-elect was heard in ! this city. They had torchlight procession and everybody on the route lit up their | houses, while the flags were out and many places were finely decorated. Speeches were also made, and it was a notable jubilee in the l old town. Some idea of how the election
 news was received Tuesday evening in various places is given as follows:
 The Retruns in Hartford. In Hartford great scene of excitement l and jubilation was presented at the Opera l House, where in the inside or crowding about | the doors as late as o'clock at night there | were 5000 people, wild with joy and satisfac- | tion. Alexander Harbison presided and speeches were made by Joseph l.. Barbour, Rev. Joseph H. TwitcheIl, Hon. John R. Buck, Rev. Dr. E. P. Parker, Mark Twain | and others. A committee was sent after Gen. | Hawley. When he came in he greeted | with tremendous cheers. He made a brief | speech, which started out another great burst | of enthusiasm. Mark Twain delivered what l ba lad ha
 cratic party, concluding follows:
 60 friends this is not time for jests Ievity, but a time for pended forms and uncovered heads;
 for we stand in the near presence of death "a grisly and awful death for it is death from
 which there is resurrection. Heaven bless us one
 and all-heaven temper the blow to the afflicted fami ] ter fife
 MT. Barbour read a number of extracts
 from the Times, producing uproarious enthu- siasm. Other addresses were made and there | was capital singing by combination of cam paign glee clubs 'America" was sung at the | breaking up by the whole audience. Outside | the widest enthusiasm prevailed on the streets
 until long after midnight, not less than 5000 people assembling near the old State House | in the square and giving vent to their joy by l the burning of an immense bonfire, which l was kept burning until after o'clock in the l morning-in fact, till daylight appeared. 1 Campaign songs were sung and the triumph al procession was immense. The Mayor, l Morgan G. Bulkeley, swung forth United States flag by the light of the great bonfire, causing an indescribable outburst of enthusi- asm.
 l The following dispatch was sent by Mayor Bulkeloy to General Garfield, the President 1 elect, as follows
 | To Ja,nes A. Garfe2d Mentor Ohio
 Five thousand shouting Republicans in the streets @ | six electoral votes of Connecticut. In New London.
 The Telegram says: Later in the evening 1 the headquarters on Bank and Washington | streets were crowded with eager listeners to 1 the special dispatches which were read from
 time to time. It didn't take long to empty Allyn Hall, and the news from New York act ed like an emetic on the men who swallowed
 the sweet assurances of the Jacksonian chiefs
 with that guileless credulity characteristic of the great unterrifed. At Armory Hall the
 scene was exactly the reverse. The very first dispatch read counteracted the depression | caused by the local defeat, and from that | time until after midnight every bit of good ! news was received with uproarious cheers and applause. The intervals between the
 rivals of the telegraph messenger were re-
 heved by short harangues from various
 speakers, and Colonel Fitch electrified the audience in one of his apt and witty talks.
 Still the dispatches kept rolling up the ma
 iority for Garfield and Arthur, and the ex- citement showed no symptoms of abatement. The morning hours were creeping on before
 the crowd finally dispersed, with three cheers
 for Garfield and Arthur, Bigelow and Bulke-
 ley, John T. Wait and everybody else. A edit o1s6a ho chn of
 cocks funeral pyre under the liberty pole, as the last loiterer left the Republican head
 quarters and the doors were closed for the l night.
 I'm Norwich.
 The Norwich Bulletin says Dispatch fol-
 lowed dispatch, rolling up the majorities for
 Garfield and Arthur in all parts of the coun- try, cheer followed cheer Tubbs' band
 played lively airs and an enthusiastic Repub-
 lican entertained the crowd with several jig dances. By II o'clock the assembly was cheering with ardor for s'the solid North" ;"
 and at midnight, when Paul B. Greene an-
 nounced that the Democrats of Connecticut
 had been thoroughly routed, a scene of en-
 thusiasm followed that beggars all descrip-
 tion Eight hundred men remained in the
 hall to the end and only retired to join the
 joyous throngs in the streets who were sing
 ing ''We won't go home till morning, " etc.
 The Hancock boys found things so gloomy at their hall that they built a bonfire at the
 junction of Union and Main streets to cheer them up, at about Il o'clock. This was fol- lowed by another in Franklin Square. The partisans of both parties gathered and shared the honors, Garfield and Hancock fires be- ing run in opposition to each other. The
 Hancock funeral pile near the old hat-iron
 building became so intense and sent up such a cloud of fire and smoke that Engineer Car rier felt constrained to reduce it, and the boys quietly submitted The chief engineer with several men had hose attached to the hydrants ready for use provided they were needed.
 The Garfield and Arthur Tigers were on deck and joined in the celebration with first class pyrotechnic demonstration in Main street, which was all ablaze for an hour with Roman candles and Bengola lights. Their ranks were greatly increased at 1 o'clock, at o'clock a. m. five hundred men were parad ing the streets to the music of Tubbs band expressing their joy in songs, music and fire works. Such scene is seldom witnessed in a town like this. The Democrats did not