Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-11-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. d. c., Nov. 5. 1854.

WASHINGTON. d. c., Nov. 5. 1884.
Washington is all store to pieces" to-day;
The stores are doing no business, ana an
operat!ons at the government departments
are practically suspended, the employees
women as well "a men, devoting their wnoie
time TO reading the bulletins and discussing
the probabilities of the election. The re-
nnbIicans are woefully downhearted, labor
mo under direful forebodings of the newt
ahia consequences of defeat, and the demo-
Gratis exuberant and exultant in anticlpa-
ton of the benefits of victory. The repuo-
licans were so low down this morning that
something had to be done to cheer them,
and they seized with avidity, about eleven
o'clock, as means whereby TO preVeh'
them from sinking into despair, upon tel.
egram from New York saying that that
State had gone for Blaine by some seven
thousand majority, and Virginia, as tele
grabbed there by General Malone, by
five thousand. But though they played this
card for all it was worth as a stimulant to
their dropping spirits, it was evident they
did not place as implicit reliance upon IL
az they desired Large crowds were around
all the various bulletin boards, especially at
the newspaper offices, and the successive
dispatches were cheered by the crowd re.
spectively as they contained news that con-
Grmed the sanguine hopes of the demo-
Gratis or indicated a possible chance by
which the republicans might be saved from
defeat. At democratic headquarters MIR.
Merrick said that dispatches or no dis.
patches he felt in his bones that Cleveland
was elected, and that expression seemed o
represent the feelings of every body about the
place. A private dispatch from republican
newspaper correspondent in New York to
his republican newspaper in this city, re
ceived at one o'clock this afternoon, says
| the vote in that State is so close that an
official recount may be required to DECIDE
it. A private dispatch received here THIS
morning from Mr. Hendricks says that In
diana has certainly gone democratic by at
least FIVE thousand majority. Republicans
conceds that New Jersey and Connecticut
| are both democratic. Democrats claim Cali
fornia, Nevada and Wisconsin, and say that
Cleveland is elected even without the vote
of New York, aud some of them even
claim tie in the next Senate, with
their man, Mr.. Hendricks, to cast the
deciding vote. Mr.. Barbour is here
from Virginia, and says that his State
has gone for Cleveland by from five to
eight thousand majority, no matter, what
General Malone may have telegraphed to
New York, as large democratic gains have
been m ,de in some ofthe districts, and that,
TOO, even On Inc vote of last year, when the
State went democratic. The democrats
here doubt the reliability of the republican
news from New York, and place their trust
upon two dispatches received here this
morning, one from Mr.. German, that New
York has given Cleveland fifteen thousand
majority, and the other from Col. Lamont,
Mr.. Cleveland's private secretary, which
says that Cleveland has two hundred and
forty four electoral votes, land is elected. ="
The republicans, even in their revived hopes,
are sorcly puzzled to know how it is that If the
reports favorable to Blaine be true. the Gould
stocks took such fall in the New York stock
bard to-day.