Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1847-10-15
MARYLAND.
MARYLAND.
The representation in the next Congress wi

stand ihus
l.. John G. Chapman, Wing.
2. J. Dixon Roman, Wing gain.
3. T. w. Lyon, Democrat.
4. r. Nj. McLane, Democrat.
5. Alexander Evans, Wing gain.
6. John w. Crisfeld, Wing.
The majority for Thomas, the Democratic
Governor, is about eco, and the Legislature is as
before largely Wing. (Whig majority in Senate
5, and in House 34.)
When we remember that this Stale gave Mi.
Clay upwards of 5000 majority-that MI. Clay
carried FIVE out of the six districts by handsome
n,aiorities-and that The Wings counted certainly
upon fire al koa-we are justified in regarding
the late result az most honorable 10 the unterrided
Democracy of Baltimore and Maryland.
The Baltimore Patriot copies from The Boston
Advertiser a translation Of a letter in The n. \.
Courier (French) dated Sept. 10, from a resi-
| dent of The city OF Mexico TO a Spanish house IN
New York; giving a detailed account ol The en-
trance Of our army into the city Of Mexico II
seems 10 be the same lelIer published by US some
days since from the N. Y.Sun; which many have
pronouncei as having been rriuen in New, York.
The Courier, however, speaks OF il as authentic.
The Patriot i. filled with melancholy accounts
of The late food. On The Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, The track from Great Cacapon Bridge
TO The Black Rock was covered with from SIX 10
eight ieet Of waler-bul The damage 10 The road
is comparatively slight and no bridges washed
away. On The National or Cumberland road no
bridge was carried away. Near The FONT OF
Rocks a heavy break was made in The Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal, and The embansment
washed away level with The bottom OF the canal.
AT Williamsporl, Cumberland and Frederick the
! hood was very destructive. The Patriot learns
| from The American that 'the Winchester and
Potomac Railroad, leading from Harper's Ferry
10 Winchester, Va, has been much damaged,
Two large enbankments having been entirely
swept away. The county in and around Har-
per's Ferry was completely inundated, and the
damage done 10 private properly is represented
as very great.
II moreover copies from the Sun the following
letters:
HARpEa's FERRY ARMoRy, Oct. 9, lS41.
lne CuHlDeTidHu Cdlo VI JcStSiaoJ - W
vet arrived; The wafer near Martinsburs being
some feet above the railroad track, and some OF
The bridges above being carried away-so
/ has il. AS | predicted, al 4 o'clock, p. NJ, OF
Yesterday. the streets were filled with water, &C
cess being made 10 dwellings BY means OF boais
and ladders 10 upper stories. The water had ri.
sen : inches beyond the mark Of 1913. (l o.
clock this morning) which was 3. feet. II is
now falling, though slowly.
The armory buildings are entirely surrounded
BY wafer 3 10 i teet in depIh. The hme house has
lust burnt. The government will he a loser oil
about S3. 600, Wills, The losses OF citizens will be
much more. II is stated that The Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal Company will sustain an I'M
mensc loss-some say $4,000. Their lcw-paih
is emil cly covered.
A terrible place This will be when The water
falls.
WINCHESTER, Va, Oct. 8, A. Nj.
Our town was visited by one Of die most de-
~s,ruotiye floods last nigh known 10 me oioes' IN
babirant. There has been a succession oi heaVy,
showers Tor some days past, and u ralned nara
nearly all day YESTERDAY. Al aoout !. NJ, y
sasn,od 49, ,roush the 1oodgalcs Of heaven were
opened upon us. About The cellars began TO
fiji. and the water continued 10 rise rapidly until
about 9, p. l., when all the buildings (save very
tew) on Loudoun street, betwee Picadilly and
Cock, The first floors were covered with water
from three inches TO two feel. The same scene
was witnessed on Market and Braddock streets,
al The railroad depot; the first floors OF The ware
houses were generally under waller, from three 10
), four feet. The loss OF our merchants is i'm
mense, and one on Loudoun street is said 10 have
lost fifteen or twenty hossheads Of sugar, 10 say
nothing about the other articles in his cellar,
whilst those OF The depot are equally heavy. The
current OF water drove the cars from their houses
al the depot, and landed them in Market street.
Our worthy tanners, Messrs. Sidwell, Blown and
Shecrer, being directly in the current, lost nearly
all their stock in The yais. Our streets in many
places are larricaded with timbers, &c, whilst
The pavemcnts are partly torn up. Up 10 This
hour | have heard OF no loss oil life, although
some hair breadth escapes are reported. The
water was abou. ten inches higher than The great
flood OF 1915.
WINCHESTER, Va, Oct. S, 1917.
| write in base, to inform you Of one OF the
greatest calami.ies that ever beiel our town.
We are in the mids, Of destruction. For The
last lew DAYS we have been visited by rains,
and Yesterday in particular We had a very
hard one. Last night, al dusk, the water began
10 rise, and by eight o'clock our whole town
was filled by The devouring element. Our mer.
chants are very heavy losers; some OF them have
lost nearly all in The grocery line, as their eel.
lars were all well filled with their fall purchases.
Indeed, in many OF our stores The water rose
above The counters. Our dry goods men have
also suffered. The Farmers Bank, churches,
and private dwellings, are in most deplorable
condition. Our tanners are almost ruined; they
have lost all; and many families are ibis morn
ing destitute OF fool. In one case, The only one
yel heard OF, Two women had 10 be dra WI from
the basement window, The wafer coming in so
fast that before they could be taken out il was up
TO their necks. | have heard of one house being
washed away. Catle and hogs were dashing
down Wafer street. unable TO resist the CURRENT;
trees uprooted; and a vast amount Of properly
destroyed which cannot now be estimated. | have
heard of no lives being lost. Never will The past
night be forgotten. So vivid was the lightning,
and so loud the thunder, and then TO hear The
cries OF distress, was appalling indeed. 1t was a
memorable night in The annals OF Winchester.
Yours, in haste.
A note from The Postmaster al Brookyille,
Montgomery county, (Md.) dated on Saturday,
says:
"The storm of Thursday night was The mos,
destructive we have had for thirty years. il
swept away the bridges al Triadelphia factory.
and three or four others below the factory, on the
Paluxent, and has done immense damage in break
fences, and 10 the mills and mill dams, and hun
dreds Of barrels OF corn along The water courses
have foatcd off"
EARLY IN THE FIELD.
We see in The Portsmouth Chronicle that al a
MEETING of tho Democratic Marty of princcSs