American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-08-19
Baltimore Gllpper.

WAsmNGToN, August IS, 1916


We were last evening visited by very urea
tennr thunder storm, which on its first APP
proach towards this city looked like the black
mess of darkness Itself or as one may fancy,
the upper Jaw of the devourng gull Few phe
nonenn are more calculated TO strike the be-
holder with feelings of profound reverentla!
awe than the onward careering Of one of thCs
storms NJ one instant shroudng the earth in
intense Gloom at the next lighting up earth
and mir with the terrific fash, and then rolling
miGhty reverberations enough to storm a
world.
have heard of no mischief done to life or
property, though several times the bolts Of hea-
ven were sped in OF our near vicinity.
On Saturday last great retrocession meet
ing was held at Balls Cross Roads, in Alexan-
dria county, i'll this District, at which great
numbers attended. | learnt that Mr.. Edgar
Snowden, editor of the Alexandria Gazette,
and 4 great stlckler for retrocession, addressed
the meeting. Nothing very effective was per-
formed, as | understand, in the way of con-
vincng the people of the county to support a
measure so little likely to be advantageous to
them, or indeed to Alexandria itself. am ut
teTly unable to see any ground for the strong
hopes of improvement entertained by the AL
exandrlans, for to my common sense 1t would
appear that if Alexandria is now hardly able to
float with her present incubus, her buoyancy
will be decreased when she puts upon her
shoulders an additional State Tax. Our neigh
bors of Alexandria look with unfricndly eyes
towards this city, but it is to Baltimore and not
Washington that she should ascrlbe her COM
paratively forlom condition. The day may
come when the Railroad now terminating at
our depot will be continued TO Georgetown,
and if so where would Alexandria be with all
the supposed opportunities and advantages de-
rived from annexation to Virginia!
am sorry to say that this retrocession meet
ing terminated unhappily in two or three row.
dy fights at the Cross Roads, in one Of which a
man was stabbed, TO all expectation MORALLY.
If this meeting is any thing Of an earnest OF
what the people are to have at every coming
election, fear they will repent Of beng en-
dowed with that much vaunted, but in their
case really needless blessing, the power of suE
rage.
Should retrocesaion take place, as it probably
will, from the unfair provision of the act OF
Congress which leaves it to a bare ma Iority TO
determine what ought, at least, to have had
two.thirds, (the question to be settled being so
important it will not be two years before our
neghbors will deploIe the infatuaton that now
hoodwinks their usually clear aud sharp-sighted
optics. They will wish to come back again to
their present condition, but it will be most pro-
baby too late, unless the Supreme Court ofthe
United States should in the meantime determine
that the act Of IstrocessIon is unconstitutional,
and, therefore, null and void.
a serious accident occurred yesterday at
Georgetown, whereby one man got his nose
shot of and face considerably injured. Another
sys,andcr was also injured, but less so than the
first.
The temperature to-day is much Pleasanter
than for week or TWO past. Bilious tevers
have been prevalent and severe, often taking
the typhoid form. Deaths rather Numerous,
particularly among children Of the fist and
second summers, who, when once taken, seem
to be almost beyond the power Of any medical
skill TO restore, I.