Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-09-03
How Charleston Feels.

The Augusta Chronicle says: Au
gusta's sympathies are with her sister
"city by the sea" in her storm ordeal
It is hard to think Of millions Of prop
erty swept away in the gust Of a gale
but it is pleasant to know that the
people. take it bravely and well. Our
neighbor, the NeaOs and Courier, gives
these brave and beautiful words
which We reproduce
There is no disposition to under.
rate, the extent and Importance o.
yesterdays calamity. It is safe tc
say that in their power for evil the
brood of Swamp Angels" who pour.
ed their shot and shell into Charles.
ton during the siege, were nere pop.
guns in comparison with Heaven {
red artillery, as it spoke in this city
but few hours ago. The record is
not easily made; but how far reach'
ing is it, and how significant Every
spire in Charleston, which two days
ago Aaunted its cross in the face of
the empurpled sky is to-day shorn
Of its fair proportions. Ls;itnot like
wise the ssaddestirony Of Fate that
the pallid spire' Of st. Michael'S,,
which had triumped over the vicissi.
tudesof centufyiupon century ofpeace,
and was the target for the Union ar.
tillerymen year after year, should be
smitten down .bysthe winds'in these
piping days Of fraternity and fellow.
ship. This is not all. The people
they who made Charleston what tits,
and will make it what it is to be-are
bowed down for the moment. One.
fourth, at least, Of the homes, the
aweet, sweet homes Of Charleston, af.
ford no longer the shelter which was
their pride. The floods reached the
spot where the cradle stood, and the
anxious mother, through the gaping
rafters, can see the azure vault, be.
sprinklel with it's stars. The very
streets are rendered impossible by
the entanglements Of civilization, for
the electric wires which enabled
Charleston to put a giirdle around the
world in moment are powerless to
tell us what the nextabor neighbor
thinks, and in their Prone confusion
are hindrance to communication.
The wharves, with their spacious
docks, which had just been prepared
for that extensive trade which is sure
to come, are shattered to-day. The
residences which give to Charleston
it's title as the American Venice,
springing from tb"> bosom Of the
aaa--are nnplss netian inSths:
dampness Of their lower stories, and
were so, also, in the need Of gondolas
or some craft of the sort to maintain
communication with the psrturbed
but not alarmed inhabitants. The
steamers which form the floating
bridge between Charleston and Sulli-
vans Island are aground it is said,
and the new bridge which was to con-
meet Charleston with the mainland
across the Ashley, is swept away.
Happily, however, there has been no
loss Of life. All other loss can be re
covered and redeemed, and Charles
ton is not daunted.
There is, it should be said, just this
little compensation at 80 disastrous a
season. Had Charleston lost a million
by gambling in stocks and bonds in
New York or elsewhere, the money
would have gone absolutely away from
us; but when a million is lost by
storm, as yesterday, the bulk Of that
loss will be distributed and redis-
tributed in Charleston. Charleston
mechanics will take the front place in
the work Of restoration, and while the
distribution of capital will differ, the
loss, as regards the city as a whole,
will be comparatively easy to bear.