Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-10-13
FROM WASHING7 ON.
Special Correspondence Of tho Azera. Gazette

Spec1Gt Correspondence o. TIC dteed OuIette'
WASHINGTON. D. O.. O,t. l3. 1880.
There ia no other news 10 here today, and moth
irg else talked about but election news. Notnlos
is doing in the departments, the clerks thereon
being the most interested readers of the dis
patches put upon the bulletin boards 10 ttoot OF
the several newspaper Offices. While gloom
oppress.s tho breasts of the democrats, delight
exhibits itso.f 10 the smiling countenances o.
the republicans, but the surprise Of tho latter
is no less than that Of the former, and they
cannot sc,ount for The result. Never was mole
harmless election excitement greater IN VASE.
iugton than last night, and the maDneria which
the news was received here then and to day
proves beyond all question that the District OF
Columbis. barring, of course, it's negro populaa'
ton and department employees. IS democratic
to the c)re, for the smiling faces alluded 10
above we're like osses 10 desert OF dlsappolot
ment AID dependency. Among the speakers
at the great democratic gathering 10 front OF the
Imperial Hotel last night was DIR. Holmes
Conrad. of Winchester, whose speech is spoken
of highly by all who heard it. Among those
VITO addressed tho republican meeting 10 front
If the National Republican othco was MI.
Edmund Burke, of Alexandria. who also mado
speech that was much admire By bis audience
and that was received with loud applause. lsWas
long after midnight when tho crowds olspeissd
ard PENNSYLVANIA avenue became deserted.
This morniog all the Blu latin boards 10 the city
wero Surrounded at an early hour by anxious
sec kers for tho latest" ADD will eontlDus 10
bo uni! late hour to sight. Ohio is given
up by the democrats. and many OF tho faint
hearted among them also concedo the loss OF
Indiana. A dispatch was received at ten o'clock
this morning from Senator Mcdonald. stating
that Indiana was all right aRd would give 5000
democratic majority, and one was received from
j, G.. Thompson, stating that Banning. Hurd
and McMahon had been elected to Congress in
Ohio, but the hopes revived by these dispatches
were dssipatcd at one o'clock p. m. by the
following dispatch to republican headquar-
tiers from Marshall Jewell, chairman ut the
nstioual republican committee 10 New York:
Ohio republican by moro than $4,000 and l6
congressman. Indiana republican by more than
S 600, With IS members of Congress aod the
Legislature. A dispatch was slso received
from Secretary Thompson. DOW 10 Indiana, TO
tho effec, that the republicans already had
good majority which was Increasing as the 70.
turns came 10. Notwithstanding all this, how
ever, there is DO doubt that up to 2 p. 10. to-
day but 90 Dor cant. of the whole State of To-
diana had boen heard from, but it is also true
that up to that hour the republicans showed
gains in all quarters. The effect the news pill
have en- The November election is of course tho
subjec. of much comment and it is needless to
say that comment ia BY no means favorable to
democratic success MI. Upton, Assistant Seo'
rotary of the Treasury. going 30 tar as 10 say
that one of the results will DO the election OF
three republican congressman in Virginia, end
that thousands of Southern psople being tired
OF afiiiatog With defeated party will now Wheel
into the republican line. The Virginia Ma
honites here seem to be az much pleased with
the election news as the republicans.