Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-10-31
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. e., Oct. %, 1878.

WASHINGTON, D. e., Oct. %, 1878.
The National Capital has reason for
self-congratulati0h in the fact of her
comparative exemption from the dam
ages and loss OF life inflicted on neigh
boring cities aud on vessels at sea, but
without sufficient offing to have escap-
ed the perils of a lee shOre-the great
est dread of the mariner. The storm |
seems TO have constantly increased in |
I force from the time it first struck our
coast near Key West, till it passed to
the north of Philadelphia, where the
velocity of the wind was registered at
y miles AN hour. 1t formed some
where in the Gulf, and from its first
contact with land in Florida, its center
appears to have been few miles inland
and TO have moved up to the North
aud East by a course nearly parallel to
our coast line till it reached Long Is
, land Sound. Some local storms of last
lsummer inflicted heavier damage in
cbimneys, awnings, signs and cornIces
blown down, trees uprooted, gardens
demoralized, buildings unroofed, eel
] lars and wharves flooded, roads wash
] ed out and sewers bursted-items that
e now, as then, include about all the
= losses we, or cities farther south sus-
: tanned, by the late storm. Baltimore
a suffered much more severely in all
5 these directions than We, besides
great amout of damage to shipping at
her wnarves and at anchor in her
If harbor; while there WAS added in Phil
/. adedelphia many buildings more OF
ii less completely WI cked, among them
e 40 churches, several railroad depots
n many warehouses and other buildings
K public and private. We have reports
l. of isolated marine wrecks streWn al
'e along the coast; and the full reports
'e from the disasters in Chesapeake Bay
)r show their number and the loss of LIT
k to have been appalling. One steame
r of the Baltimore and Washington lint
t. foundered in the Bay with loss of =
n lives; AMI two others of the same lin'
k were driven on the beach, and had no
v at date of last advices, succeeded II
le getting off. Notwithstanding Caution
y airy signals displayed, the lost stetme
ne the 'EXpress'-started from Bdltl
IS, more at the usual time. She was OLD
a. and had only battled few hours wit
aa the demon of the storm, when her me
Drt chinery broke down or became dlsa
n bled so that the effort to beach her wa
TX frustrated, and her cables instantl
St parted on an attempt to hold her hea
es up to the ale by anchOrlng. She drit
g ed helpleSsly for while, and Was ult
N mately beaten to pieces by the SCI
IS. Passengers and crew with the saloo
Oh and rything else above the mai
lb- deck, were carried away by large
a. an ordinary wave. The hull the
ler turned bottom up, and finally sanl
ed, Nine survivors are reported to hay
its been saved from the floating de6ri
though it is now intimated that on
tly three were saved.
nd Either leaders of the ku kluX VIII
he of the Democracy who have its raj
the aud file SO well i'll hand as to be able
an control it, have become alarmed
10 the ruffaaly onset male against Sur
ore ter Is. c. and other Republicans,
wn they may think their inhuman pr
ed gramme has been carried Suffi .ient
one far TO disSuade them from any turth
hat attempt at organized opposition to
IN perp atuati0n Of the Ku KIuX rule.
lew any rate, there is now OTninous silen
the in the terrOrzed districts. But ii the
Was men suppose they can now murder
i,ic naltreat at their own brutal will, tn
out are making most egregI0uj biund
JUN duu OIO IudI Will COSG tIIGiIl uSuAs
the have never, in more than 10 years
rcy servation here, seen such evidence q
settled purpose to put an end to bu
less doing, at all hazards, as has been p
the voked by the exploits of Hamptn
, in militia. Republicans are no Ions
Dect constrained to hold their peace by
int Poll Parrot taunt of "bloody shir
con- Mr.. Wade Hampton's red shirted c
the throats and bravadoes, with those gui
re- of similar atrocities il other sectit
mo~ of the South, have furnished the
and provoci citive needed to reunite the
per publicans in a determined dema
sion that this butchery cease; and
N a leaders of Southern Democracy will
It be wise if they confine their hatred to
ere North, that has extended her hand
,her peatedly to them when starving
'e in their poverty, when overfowed
and food and when paralyzad by pc
the lence. De WITT