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GOLD AND PROTECTION. KXTRAOTS KltOM McKIMiKY'a LKITKi: OK ACCKl'IANCK. Ho Argues Against '"roe silver -The Kcuuhiiccii and Democratic 1'tutforms <'outrusted. liclc.M* can be fouud extract-i from Muj. MeKiuley's formal acceptance of tho Republican nomination for President: To /Ion..[</! T/i'irx/nii oik/ <)//icr.*t Mr,ii/ , .*nj'/f:r Xo( itirO fiolt ('on,miltrroj (/;. jtilbfirtlll Xo/ioout ( 'on cot ion: (Jknti In pursuance of the promise made to your ootniuittee when notified of my nomination as tho lie publican candidate for President, 1 beg to submit this formal acceptance of that high lienor auil to consider in detail questions at issue in the pending campaign. Perhaps this might be considered unnecessary in view of my remarks on that occasion and those 1 | have made to delegations that have visited u.c si tied tho St. Louis eonven- { lion, but in view of tho momentous | importance of t::c proper settlement of I the issues presented on our future j prosperity . ml standing as a nation, j and considering on the welfare and , the happincf s of our people, I could not be coi.tt nt lo omit again er.lliug at tt .ilion to tue "iiestious which, in niv opinion. \ i.i.lv iitU'ct our strength und , position ntui.ng tho governments of! flio ivorM mm.I our morality, integrity r\ I U( . '-"v-^v vr^?>\ jtf\ r j - * v-Vii.' \ ^ \ .' % ~1 ?'$ V. /?>v- 4) WILLIAM MCKINLEY. aud patriotism as citizens of that re- j public which lor a century past has I been the best hopo of the worhl ami the inspiration of mankind. We must not now prove false to our government, nor unmindful of tlio noble example aud wise preeepts of our fathers or cf tho confidence and trust which our conduct in tho past has ulways inspired. For the first timo sinco 1808, if over n tiorn i u nvituntif/t<1 f/> 4 )wi A turn*. cutvi in j?? vnoiiii;ii t\? iiiu ?\iiiv:i iean people thin veur a clear and direct issue as to our monetary system,of vast importance in its cfleets and upon the right settlement of which rests largely the financial honor and prosperity of the country. It is proposed l>y one wing of the Democratic party and its allies, the People's pud Siiver parties, to inaugurate tho free and unlimited coinage of silver l>y independent action on tho part of the United States nt a ratio of ll? ounces of silver to I ounce of gold. The mere declaration of this purpose is a menace to our iiunucial md industrial interests and hasalready rroatod universal alarm. It involves great ponl to the credit and business nt the country, a peril bo grave that conservative men everywhere are breaking away from their old party associations and united with other patriotic citizens in cmphutio prvtost against j the platform of the Democratic nation- j nl convention as an assault upon the ! faith and honor of the government and ' welfare of the people. We have had i few ipiesti <ns in the lifetime of the re- ! public mole serious than the one which .s t has presented. Tho character of the money which s?ball measure our values and exchanges I and settle our balances with one another aud with the nations of the world, is of such primary importance, nnd so far reaching in its consequences, as to call for the most painstaking in- ' vest ignt ion, and, in tho end, a sober I and unprejudiced judgment at the polls. We must not be misled by phrases nor deluded by false theories. Free silver would not mean that silver dollars were to be freely had, without cost or labor. 51 would mean the free, i use of the mints of the United Stated j for the few who nro owners of silver . bullion, but would make silver coin 110 freer to the many who are engaged in other enterprises. It would not make labor easier, the houra of labor shorter or the pay better. It would not make farming less laborioua or moro profitable. It wouhl not start a factory or make a demand for an additional day's labor. It would ereato no new ocou pationa, it would add nothing to the comfort of tho masses, the capital of the people, or the wealth of tho nation. It seeks to introduce a new measure of value, but would add no value to the thing measured. It would not conserve values. On tho coutrary it would derange all existing values. It would not restore business confidence, but its direct ell'ecl would be to destroy the little that remains. Tha free coinage plank adopted at Chicago is that auy one may take a quantity of silver bullion now worth tifty-tbreo ecuts to tho mints of the Tinted States, have it coined at the expense of tho government nud receive for it a silvei dollar which shall be legal tender for tho payment of all debts, public or private. Tho owner of the silver bullion would g?t the silver dollar. It would belong to bin and to nobody else. Other peoph would got it only i?y their lubor, tht products of tlu-ir land, or something of value. The bullion o.vner ou tin basis oT present vulues, would receivi the silver dollar for tifty-threo centi worth of silver, and other people wil be required to receive it us u ful dollar in payment of debts. The gov erutuent would get nothing from tin trail uetiun. It would bear the ex ins.* of coining tlie silver and tin I.I ...,11.... I...U i.,-o V ? III (Lilt ? H WUIH UllliVI i UO.J ? 1^1 lib". We huvo coined since 1878 niori hundred millions of silve dollars which arc iiiuiultiiucu by I Lie government tit parity with gold, ami arc a full legal tender for tho pay mont of all debts public, and private. How arc the silver dollars now in use different from those which would bo in uso under free coinage? They me to be ot tho same weight and lineness;they are to bear the same stamp of tho government. Why would they not be of tho same value? 1 auawer: The silver dollars now in use were coined on account of the government and not for private account ox gain and tho government has solemnly agrerd to keep them as bullion at it.market value and coined it tftito silver dollars. Having exclusive control ol the mintage, it only coins what it can bold at a parity with gold. Tho profit, representing the difference between the commercial value of the silver bullion and the face value of the silver dollar, goes to the government for the benefit of the people. 'flu government bought the silver bullion contained in the silver dollar at very much less thau its coinage value. It paid it out to its creditors and put it in circulation among tlio people at its face value of ?>no hundred. wills or a full dollar. It required the people to accept it us a legal tender and is thus morally bound to ninintuin it at a parity with gold, which was then, as now, the rocogni/.ed standard with us and the most enlightened nations in the world. The government having issued and circulated the silver dollar, it must honor and protect the holder from loss. This obligation it has so fur sacredly lcept. Not only is these a moral obligation but there is a legal obligation, expressed in publie statue to maintain the parity. These dollars in the particulars I have named, are not the same as tin* debars which would lie issued under free ruinate, 'l in y would be tlie same in form, but dillerent in value. The government w-iuld huvo no pnrl in the transaction, except to coin the silver bullion into dollars. It would share in no part oT the prollt. It would take upon itsell 110 obligation. It would not put the dollar into circulation. It could not only get them as any citizen would get them by giving something for them. It would ib'liver them to those wtio deposited the silver and its connection with the transaction thero end. Such are the si|ver dollars which would ho issued under free coiuage of silver at a ratio of It to I. Who would then maintain the parity; What would keep them at par with gold; There would be no obligation resting tipou the government to do it. and if there were, it would be powerless to do it. Theslmplt truth is wo would bo driven to a silver basis, to silver monometallism. These dollars, therefore, would stand upon their real value. If the tree and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio ol sixteen ounces of silver to out ounce of gold would, as some of Its advocates assert, make fifty-three cents in silver worth one hundred cents and the silver dollar equal to the gold dollar, then we would have nc cheaper money than now, and it would be 11c easier to get. But that such would be the result Is against reason and is contradicted by experience In all times and all lands. It means the debasement of our currency to an amount of the difference between commercial and coin value of the silver dollar, which h ever changing and the effect would be to reduce property values, entail untold financial loss, destroy confidence, impair the obligations of existing contracts, further impoverish the laborer and producers of the country, create a panic of unparalleled severity, and inflict upon trade and commerce a deadly blow. Against any such policy, 1 am unalterably opposed. llinietallisin cannot bo secured by independent action on our part. it cannot be obtained by opening our mints to the unlimited coinage of the silver of the world, at a ratio I sixteen ounces of silver to one ounce ?>i > jld, when the commercial ratio is more than thirty onces of silver to one own I gold. M?-xi--o and China ha ve i ri>-d t lie t x pertinent. Mexico has free. ,,image of silver and gold at a ratio slightly in excess of sixteen and a hall ounces of silver to mm ounce ol gold, and while li?-r millt:* lire freely open t> both metals ut that ratio, noi only a singh dollar in gold bullion is coined and eireu fated as money. (i>?h! lias I ecu driven out of 'iri'iilation in tl,e-e countries ami they an pn a silver basis alone. Until international iigre-Miwnl is bad. it is the plain duty of tin United States to maintain the gold standard. It is the recognized and sole standard of tin great commereial nations of the world, with which we trade more largely than any otln-r. Eighty-four percent, of our foreign trad, for the fiscal year IS!>5 was with gold standard countries and our trade with other countries was settled on gold biwis. After pointing out that the United States has now more silver than gold in circulation, .Major McKiiilevcontinues: On lie- 'Jlid of August, im'.u, in a public address, I said: "If we could have an international ratio, which all the leading nations of the world would adopt, ii:.d the true relution be li.xed between the two 111,-tabs mid all agree upon the ipiuiity of silver which should constitute a dollar, then silver would be as free and unlimited in its privileges of oinugo as gold is today. Hut that we have not been able to secure, and with the free and unlimited coinage of silver adopted in ;he United States at the present ratio, we would be still further removed from any international agreement. Wo may never be able to seen re it if we enter upon the isolated . oinugo of silver. Tiio double standard implies equality at a ratio, and that equality nu only bo established by the concurrent aw of nations that made tlm double stnudird; it will require the concurrent law of tuitions to reinstate and sustain it." Tim llcpiiblicau party has not bcon, and is aot now, opposed to the use of silver money, is its record abundant I v shows. It has done ill that could he done for Us increased use .Tom other governments. There are those who think that it has already gone beyond the limit of ilnuncial prudence. Surely we false lights t<> luro us across tlm danger line. Debasement of the currency means the doit ruction of values. No one suffers so much 'rom cheap money as the farmers ami Inhoi>rs. They are the ilrst to feel its hail etTeets ami .ho Inst to recover from them. This has been .lie uniform experience of all countries ami lore, as elsewhere, the poor, ami not the ieh, are always the greatest sufferers from svery attempt to debase our money. The silver question is not the only issue nfectlng our money in the pending contest. Not content with urging the free coinage of diver, its strongest champions demand that jur paper money shall be issued directly by lie government of the United States. This is .he Chioago Democratic declaration. The Ht. Louis declaration Is that our national money ihnll be issued by the general government >nly; without (he intervention of bnnks >f issue, be full legal tender for the rmytnent of all debts, public and private, bo listributcd direct to the people and through awful disbursements of the government. 1'hus in addition to the free coinage of the world's silver, we are asked to enter noon an ?ra of unlimited, irredeemable paper our1 re toy. j Tno question which was fought out from 1803 to 187'J is thus t<? l?: ro-o|>eued with nil ts uncertainties aftd cheap money cxperiE nents of every conceivable form foisted upon js. Ttiis indicates a most sturtliug reactioniry policy, s-trungelv at variance with every requirement oi sound llnauce; but the d'-claJ rations show the spirit and purpoau of those _>y combined action are contending for the E n.ntrol of the government. Not satisfied with the debasement of oureoiu which would inevitably follow the free coinage of silver at sixteen to one, tliey would still fuither de rade our currency and threaten the nubile lienor l>y tin* unlimited iss o of an irredeemable paper currency. A graver mennuco to cur linanciui standing and credit could hardly be couccivcd and every patriotic citizen would lie aroused to promptly meet and effectually defeat it. It is a cause lor painful rogret and solicitude that an effort is being inndo by those high iti tho counsels of tho allied parties to livide the people of this country into classes ami created distinctions among us, which in fact do not exist and are repugnant to our form of government. These appeals to passion and prejudice are beneath the spirit and intelligence of a free people, nud should be met with stern rebuke by those they are sought to iulluence, and 1 believe they will be. Another issue of supremo importance is that of tarift protection. The peril ot lrco silver is a menace to bo feared; wo nro already experiencing the effect of partial freo j trade. The one must lie a verted; the other | corrected. Tin* IP-publican party is wedde.l j to the doctrine of protection and was never 1 more earn* st in its support and advocacy ' than now. II argument were needed to [ strengthen its devotion to "the American I system" or increase tho hold of that system j up n the party and people, it is found in tho I lesson and experience of tho past three years. Men realize in their own daily Jives j what hi-ioro was to many of them only re* port, history or tradition. They have hail j a trial of both systems and know what each I has done for them. Major Melvieley hen considers at groat j i length tlie tariff net of 1H1M) and 1894, con-i j trusting in receipts und *r tin* former with | | those under the latter and adding: Tho net loss in tho trade balance of tho United States has been .tl'J(i,9S3,607, during tin.- lirst llftecn months operation of tin* tariff of 1894, compared with the lirst flitoen months of tlie tariff of lS'.M). Tho loss has been large, constant and steady at tie* rate of ? id, 130,000 per mouth oy $500,000 for every ousincss uay 01 iuu year. Wo havo either been tending to much money out of tho country or getting too little in, or both. Wo huvo lost steadily in both directions. Our foreign trade has boon diminished and our domestic trade has sufforod incalculable loss. Does not this suggest thocnuso of our present depression aud indicate its remedy? It is not an increase in tho volumeof money which is tho need c'thotimo, but an increase in tho volume of business. Not an increase of coin but an fhcroase of conndonce. Not more coinage but a more active use of tho money coined. Not open mints for the unlimimited coinage of the silver of the world, but open mills for tho full and unrestricted labor of American workingmen. Our farmers have been hurt by thecliangca in our tariiT legislation as stverely as our laborers nnd manufacturers, badly as they have suffered. The Republican platform wisely declares In favor of such encouragement to our sugar interests "as will lead to the pro* ductiou on American soil of nil the sug&L which the American people use." It promises to our wool and woolen Interests "tho most amplo protection," a guarantee that ought to commend itself to every patriotic citizen. Never was a more grievous wrong done the farmers of our country than that so unjustly indicted during tho past three years upon the wool growers of America. Although ttmong cur most industrious nnd useful ci.izens their interests have been practically destroyed nnd our woolen manufac turers involved in similar disaster. At no time within tho past thirty-six years and perhaps never during any period, havero many of our woolen factories been suspended ns now. Tho Republican party cnu bo relied upon to coirect these great wrongs, if again entrusted with the control of Congress. The letter here treats exhaustively of the nd vantages to American trade of the Republican principle of reciprocity. Statistics nre quoted to show the increase of foreign trado under the reciprocity clause of the tnrilT Act of lH'.K), and a return of tho system is urged. The declaration of tho Republican platform touching foreign immigration is treated an one of peculiar importanco at this time and Major MeKlnley announces himself in hearty sympathy with tho present legislative restriction of for? ign immigration nnd as favoring such extension of the laws ns will secure tho United States from invasion by "the debased and criminal classes of the old world." It shall be my constant aim to improve everv oKOortunitv to advance tho cause of I tfooii jrovernnieiit liy promoting that spirit <>( I forbeuritneo and justice which is so essential ; to our prosperity and happiness by joining j hps' Iio.irtilv in all proper efl'orts to rest o it* l!i?* relations of brotherly respect and ntTeetion which in our early history elm motorized all the people of nil the States, i would Ik) triad to eontriluile towards bindint; in indivisil.lf anion the different divisions of the eountry, wliioli. indeed, now "have every induce* mi'iit of sympathy and interest" to weld them toyther more struiiirly than over, i would i rejoi.-o to sen demonstrated to the world that the North and the South and the Kast and the West are not separated or in danger of beini; separated heeaitso of seetional or party ?liffereneog. Tito war is louff sinee over. "We are not enemies, lait friends." and its friends : we will faithfully and eordially co-operate unj der the npprovinirsmile of him who has thus far so signally sustained and iruided us, to preserve inviolate our eoimtry's name and I iionor, of its peaeo and trood order, of its eontiniied ascendancy iinioii^st Hie Kmntest governments on earth. (Signed) AVsr. MoKisi.f.y. TIIK ?KAHOA:*I> KKSTUAINKI). lnjiinetIon firuiiled Ity .ln?lf;e Kobln sou Wliteh I'lnjoliieil tlie Seahonrd to Carry Kxpress on Sundays. The Southern Kxpress Company hni brought an action against the Seaboard Ail I.iuo in order to light tho decision of tin Ashovillo magistrate, that no express mnttf) savo perishable articles can he transported it North Carolina on trains on S unlay. Th? Seaboard Air Lino and Southern ltailwai have both issued notices to the Southern Ex | press Company that orders had been Issue* forbidding the carrying of such express matter. Last Sunday this order wen' into effeet and was rigidly carried out. Judge Kohinsou has upon applieatioi of I'. <?. Ibihignon, of Georgia, nud P. II. Uushee, of Laleigh, N. C., attorneys for tb? Southern Express Company, granted an or der restraining the Seaboard Air Line froit refusing to carry express matter on Sundays It is set forth in the express company's pies for a restraining order that it lias a contracl with the Seaboard Air Line for the transportation of express matter on double dallj trains, including Sundays, that the enforcement of lite order would bo most disastrous ; to its business, and tbat carrying matter oc Sundays Is not n violation of the State Cods. The case will bo argued before Judge ltobinson, at Ooldsboro, September 10th, and in the meantime there will bo no stoppage oi Sunday express traffic of any kind. , WASHINGTON HAPPENINGS CRRAM OK TilK NKW8 AS CULLKl FROM TIIIC DAILY PKKS&. Which Will Ho of Morn or Loss Interest to the tJenerul (Courier. There Is talk hero ami in some of the pa r.ers (it is nothing hut talk) that Ohairma Butler has an idea of proposing thut Sown uud Watson both bo withdrawn, and a i??e luau chosen. lion* is tho story: ".If 8ow? 11 tuiks iu Maine ami Watson tnkcs in the Wrf during his stumping tour llutler hopes to in duee tho withdrawal of Hawaii and liavo hi nominee for Vice-President accepted. lint ii probably seas that Watson will not tuko i tho west. In this ovent it is said that Hen ator llutler will present a substitute for hot I Bewail and Watson, llo has upbraided th Chicagg convention for not casting aside th sectional bugaboo and nominating a South ern Democrat for Vice-President?say Walte Clark, of the North Carolina Hupreiue Cotirt Homo persons who know how strong tho Hen ator's admiration is for tho Justice, and ho\ ho has recently used his name in eouuectioi with tho ofllce of Yico-President, say thn they aro convinced his programme include the offer of Clark to the Chicago conventioi lenders as one person entirely acceptable ti Populists." * * * Chairman Ilu'ler, oT tho Populist Nation;: Committee, has announced that Tom Wat son, tho Populist candidate for Vice Prcsi dent, would begin his spanking tour a Dallas, Texas, on Labor Day, Septembe 7th, and from that time forward would be 01 the stump until election day. From Italia Mr. Watson will go through the Northwest us far ns Nebraska, returning by way of Mis 80uriand Arkansas, and thence to Georgia where ho will reiuaiu until (Georgia's earl, election. After .that occurs Mr. Watson wii again enter the Northwest, going .us far a Idaho and Washington. He will come l'.as la time to give seine attention to Fasten Htutes beforo election. * Acting Secretary of State llockhill has an thorir.cd tho statement that there was ti truth in tho report of frietiou between tli Department ami Mr. Terrell, United State Minister to Turkey. Mr. llockhill says th tho Minister has been commended by th department in the highest terms for his ad ministration of the ntTuirs of the Unite States Legation at Constantinople during r? cent emergencies. There has 1 no iuti mutton of a resignation due to friction ordu to any eau.se, as there is every reason to In lievo that all concerned are entirely sntisfie with the official and personal stat as of affair * * * There socras to have been a change in th sentiment at the Populist headquarters i regard to tho question of notifying Mi Bryan of his nomination by the Populist eoi veution, and it now appears certain that ii will be formally notilicd on some ncarb date. Senator Butler, ther chairman of tli Executive Committee, says that this woul probably lie done and that the notilleutin comniitteo and the Executivecommitte woul soou have u meeting at which the dctui would be decided upon. Further than th the Seuutor hud nothing to say. * The Treasury officials on Wednesday r celved a telegram from Assistant Treasuri at New York statiDg tiiat arrangements hn iieen perfected for tho impoitation of $1 750,000 in gold coin. This sum, togotln with the ili.VOO.OO'J now on the way, inaki the total importations within the last fe dava 4,500,000. Those statements are sai to be a part of the general movement in No York, having for its object the mnintenum of the reserve at or above the l00,000,0( point. * * Gen. J. B. Gordon, United States Senate from Georgin, has recently declined an intei view on politics or the financial issuo no before the people. lie said that he w? {iractlcally out of politics nud would absc utelyretiro from political llfo at the cud < his present term. Ho added: "Of course shall not lose interest in public affairs, but 'feal that I can do more good in anotlic held. * * * Tho State department has received a cop rf tho French law anuexing Madagascar t France. It provides that French goods sha be admitted to Madagascar free of duty whil other foreign goods shall pay a duty of 10 po cent, ad valorem. This rate is the same the the United States paid under the treaty wit the llovas government. * * Chairman .Tones is said to be defraying th preliminary expouses of tho National Dome eratic Coinmitt"e in the campaign, chiofl out of a $10,000 check which t umlidnte Sew all is renorteil to have iriven him as his < ??< tril'iitiou to tho campaign fund, just after tli Chicago Convention, and which is said to li l.y far tho largest Rift ho lias received. * * + ('onsul O'liara reports the details of seri Otis floods alotlg tlio Mosipllto eo! st in til neighborhood of lilueiields. Nicaragua. Th town of llama was ooinpleiely submerge, the water rising to tlio roofs ami sweepia away many houses. * * Acting Commissioner of Indian Afl'ai: ,v:iith has a warded the eontraet forereetin s.eiiooi buildings at the lioseluid and 1*:ii llidgo Indian agency to Owen X 11 ill, . Minneapolis, at .~lti,r>25 for Kosobud an cl l,7(?t> at Pine limge. * * Secretary Smith's future plan is to rotur to AUantii, Cm., after Sept. 1st, .and devot his tine to the praetiee of iawand privat luisine s. lie will ted enter aetively in tli campaign, hut will make one or twospeeehi in Georgia for tlio Statu and National tieke It is reported that the United States wai sliip Monoeaey lias heen lost in Chines waters. She was an old hull, .and had hue resting ia the mud in the river. It is n< likely that any lives were lost. * * A telegram received by the chairman of th 'committee of arrangements of the Distriet < ,Columbia indicates that Mr. llryan will 1> in Washington between the lf>th and 20th i September?probably tho 17tli. * Appointments to tho United States Navi Academy have been made as follows: (1. 1 Viinl Kltnn Mnrinwu . l>!.iL'?t?a I.* sou, lionhfim, Texas. * fhe Democratic and Silver pnrties !inv tntly ordered ono million documents. Murdered and Made I'lckle Of. A special from Fredericksburg, Va., snyi Dallas Bruce, n white citizen of Carolin county, living soino 23 miles from here, li; appeared at the Confederate re-union i ltich' ond on July 1st. He was known t have some $100 on his person, llo was sej a rated from his wife and had boon livin with a colored woman in his neighhorhoot Wednesday afternoon into, his body wi found in noma pickle barrels at the negr woman's house. The body hnd been cut I pieces and a piece put in each of the sever barrels and pickles put on top and a stroii brine over the whole. The pieces of the bod were in sufficiently good condition to 1 clearly identified. OUR ORIKNTAL (JUK8T. The Viceroy of China Royally Uelcoined to America's Shore. 1 LI Hnng Chang, Viceroy of C'liiua. ambas- ! sador to ltussia and the world-renowned di) plomut, arrived in Now York Thursday and beeatne the guest of the nation. The day was a perfect one. Jfriglit sunlight overhead, nn atmosphere clear as crystal, with a tiugo of autumn coolness in it, and a light broere that ruffled the surface of the bay, comL. bin"d to make tho llrst view that I.i n lluug Chang bad of the harbor of tho " ^ metropolis a pleasing oue. Added to j\ its natural beauties was the imposing spoota.. ele furnished l>V the nreseneo <if tho lines! licet of warships Uuclo Satn has ever gathered togcthc,*. They were tho ln<st of tlio now navv, and every vessel was painted and pol, islu'il and mado ready, liristol fashion, for the 'ption of tho honored finest. Mnj. (ion. " Thomas Ituyer, ooannandor of tho Department of the Fast. as the personal representative of President Cleveland, with his twostnIT o fillers, M.ijor George \V. Davis and ('antaiu Mills: Wm. ltoekliill. First Assigns IH'Nti (1IANO. l_ till.I Inn. ..I UI..I.I ...li *? - o \>artment: tho ( hineso minister, Yang Yu. ami o scorotary; the Chinese consul, Ssm\ and a rep's rcsivitativo of the Southern Associated Press, a boarded the United States dispatch boat earit ly in the morning and Mourned down the l?ay I- to meet the ambassador. d The a mincemeat, was to allow a clear vision of each man of war to the visiting I- Chinaman. The St. Louis was eseorted e through the lower bay by quite a flotilla of t- yachts, tugs and excursion boats. Whistles d were blown, cannon IIred and the people s, aboard the dilTereut craft shouted words of welcome to Li Hung ('hang and his party. When the steamship was sighted by the ware ships the men were at oueecalled to quarters n on the quarter-deck, where they lit id their positions as a mark of respect to the )- Oriental visitor until the St. Louis had 10 passed. y After (Jen. linger and party stepped aboard in the St. Louis they went immediately to the d aft drawing room, where they were "met by j n Vice President Wright of the American Line. Id Li was in his state room, and word was font Is to him that the government representatives is were ready to meet him. About the big liner were gathered craft of every description, crowded with people auxious to get a glimpse of the celebrated Chinamen. Whistles were c~ kept going, yachts boomed cannon, and on some of the tugs flre crackers wore set olT. 1<1 Cotnrfig by Fort Wadsworth the St. Louis i- passed outside the warships aud the flagship 3r New York fired a salute of 19 gnus, which is -s the English Lord High Admiral's ofllciul W recognition. l" Li Hung Chang, after a delay of 15 minw utes, was conducted to the drawing room by Vice President Wright, and his interpreter and secretary. Ho was at once presented to Gen. Ituger. who said: "I nm directed by the President of the United States to meet >r you and to extend to you tbe freedom of the r- nation. I bid you welcome.' vr The Viceroy bowed ltis hend and said: "I is thank you for tho courtesy." Li wore that , >- highest of Chinese distinctions, the fumous >f Yellow Jacket, with Us accompanying ornaI meat, the peacock feather. I When the steamer came to Castle William a >r anlute was fired. The envoy asked what It was. ands(* ned plca-ed when told it was in his iionor. All along the water frout v crowds had gathered and cheer after cheer 0 went up in honor of Li. II It was 1:20 p. in. when tho steamer touched |0 the pier. Li's sedan chair was gotten ready )r for him, but 1??? turned to the men and said: ^ "I do not need it. 1 prefer to walk upon b American shores." At 1:30 p. in., accompanied bv tho official party, ho left the'steamer l>y a private gangway, and was greeted by tlio Laval militia, e who boat a welcoming tune upon drums. The party descended from tiie upper pier by ele.. vator, which was elaborately decorated with * Chinese colors, to tho lloor below, where another company of the naval reserves lorined ,. a cordon. ilere eight carriages were in 0 waiting for the foreigners. There was a delay of half an hour in getting away. In tho meantime an immense crowd had gathered outside the Amotion I.ine deck at the foot of 1 Fulton street. A largo force t>f police wnsou hand, and the.-e had all they could do to re. I stain t lie throng. I | A detachment of the Sixth Cavalry, U. H. | A., was in waiting to escort the envoy and " | his suite to the Hotel Waldorf. A start was made at 2 p m. In the, Jlrst earriago was Li Hung Cluing, his secretary and interpreter, ! Gen. linger and Mr. lioekhill. Tho rest of 1 his suite followed in tho other carriages. As 'J soon as Li's carriage oamo off tho pier into West street, half of the cavnly detachm* nt ,1 fell in and preceded the procession. Tho other half joined in behind tho last carriage, and in this order tho march to the Waldorf Hotel was begun. Tiio route was down We.-t street to Howling Green, thence to lirond" i way, up that thoroughfare to Fourth street, over to Fifth avenue and through that street 1 to the hotel, where they arrived several 's hours later. ' All along the route large crowds were gathered. The name of LI Hung Cluing was upon everyone'" lips, and he received a great *vati >n, probably the like of which was never r" tendered a foreigner in this country.. The streets were jammed all the way with a 1 eheeilig multitude, it An Advisory Hoard. From tho political organizations not IH-tuo ocratic but in sympathy with tho Chicago '[ platform, Chairman Jones of the Democratic ,f National Committoo has nppointod an a ivisory board, tho members of which will act as advisors of tho Democratic national campaign committee. Tho board consists of ,i Hcnator Teller, of Colorado; Henator Dubois, of Idaho; Beuator Dutler, of North Caroliua; l' C. T. Wasburn, qf Massachusetts; |,N. Htovens, of Colorado, and Uoorgo 1'. Keeny, of California. l>oesn't Nominate. Tite South Carolina senatorial race fs ?tlll an unknown quantity? From reports and estimates in, it looks as .if lit will have to bo *' run over, in which case F.vans will lie beaten. ? Actual returns in shows a total vote of 5.1,300, h- of which l.nrle has 21.Hf>S; F.vans 25,597, and u Dniienn 0.093. A majority is necessary to , nominate. *1 hero will probably be 10,000 or 12,000 moro votes to hear from. . . i; 1. To Run a Mile a All nuts. 0* The second attempt of I.oo Anderson to ? v*or a mile in one minute in a bicycle paced ? >y a Joco.7io*lve, which was to have taken 1,1 jiace Ht. .Louis, Mo., Sunday, has been 'K postponed until September 0. His machine ly will i>? Ronrod to 120 Inches and he eoulldoiit>? ly expects to clip the three seconds off his present record of 1:03. THE COTTON CROP SHORT. 1IKAVY l)KCRRA8K KKPORTEB TlIKOUdllOUT 'I'llK SOI'1 11. , * ? Commissioners of Agriculture or State onicluls ICeport 41 lairgcly Increased ArreuRC, Hut Not u Corresponding Yield. A prominent authority has furnished soma figures that may be relied upon; This year's Nouili Carolina cotton aereago is placed at 1,999,200, as against 1,777,028 in 1894, and 1,783,027 last year. The production in bales in 1804-95 was 708,810, and tlio condition of tho crop on August 1st. was .95: tho production for tho season of 1895-90 was 088,956, ami the condition of tho crop on August 1st. was .81. Tho condition of tho present crop on August 1st. was .88, with every prospect of being much lower on Sefitembor 1st. Tho acreage for this year is very large, but the condition two weeks ago was only .84, which would indicate, allowing a good margin, a crop of 791,705 balos. llie condition has fallen oil 10 points since August 1st. and stands nt .78 now. This would indicate a crop of 701,729 bales, which is slightly larger than last year's production, but not as large as that of tho preceding year. So general and extended is the injury done by the heat and want of rain that only sea island cotton escaped, and that is ripening prematurely. OKOI'.O/A. 11. T. Nesbitt, commissioner oi agriculture, reports condition of Georgia eoUou crop: The early planted cotton (about half the crop) started of well, has crop which has matured, unit is now being picked. The balance of crop, however, eumo up Into ou account of tho unusually dry April and May. This late cotton nindu rapid growth, and up to August 1 looked very orominsiug, but without any mntuied bolls. Excessively hot and dry weather of past throe weeks has ruined this cotton, causing shedding of leaves, forms and young bolls, and leaving only n few half grown bolls on stalks. Rains now can do this cotton but little good unless there should be an unusually Into fall, when possibly a littlo top crop might bo made. On 1st of August crop promised splendidly nil over Georgia, uoW I shall be agreeably surprised if the State makes over 70 per cpnt.- of a crop. In my whole experience I don't think I have overseen so great a falling off in so short period of time." KI.OltlDA. E. Ik Wombwoll, commissioner of agriculture, reports the condition ol tho Florida cotton crop: "The acreage planted of cotton this season exceeded that of last year by about :u> per cent: about one-half of tho crop was planted just before, and during tho llrst I >i>i7 .-('i.nh mullein', uin ri-uiillimt'r | was planted at the close of the dry weather I and was late, there lore, iii coming tip; tho I ilrst planted made a poor stand on account of tho drought, and the last planting on account of the excessive rains, followed by extreme high temperature, rusted, and shed both leaves and fruit badly in many localities. The combined adverse inflenbes have brought about a change in conditions that will in all probability reduce the yield enough to completely offset tho oxpectod gains .by Increased acreage. Both varieties of cotton have lost considerably during the past two weeks and the percentage of- condition stands: Upland cotton 78, sea island 88, average condition of thecctton crop of all varic^ ties for the state 87,per cent, ' ' LOUISIANA. The following is the statement of tho condition of cotton in Louisiana, as made by J. L. Lee, commissioner of agriculture fQr Louisiana: "The cotton crop throughout the State has been out short the past four or Ave weeks from 10 to 30 per cent. The uplands or'hill sections of the Htate, embracing the parishes of Union, Clairborne, Webster, Bienville, Jackson, Caldwell, Winn, Grant, Lincoln, Western Catahoula. Western Ouachita, part of Morehouse, Bosslor, Natchitoches. 8a? bine, DeSotO and Caddo, are short froqi 70 to 80 per cent. It Is in these parishes that the drought with the excessive hot weather of the past Ave weeks existed and almost complete failure is the result in pnrl.-bes named above. The alluvial district, excepting lllchland, East and West Carroll, where the drought has also been severe, Is probAbljr short from 25 to 35 per cent. The parishes named (alluvial) are short 35 to 45 per cent, linpides is from 15 to 25 per cent, short, as Is also Caddo, Bossier, Kt. Landry, Point Coupee and West Feliciana and East Feliciana 50 percent. East Baton Bougois 10 per cent, short. Estimating last year's crop nt 100, tho total crop for tho Stute this eary is not over du 10 liu per cent. TENNESSEE. * ... Tho State commissioner of agriculture lias oot heard from morn thou one-half of his agents ami correspondents in tiift ninety-six counties with regard to theerop status for | tin' month <-f August. An estimate bnsoit i upon tlm returns from these counties ^riel usual information from the other | liiebs-tho ! Top at about 50 per vnjt. of the. average. The eil'eets of tlio protracted heat and lrought are painfully apparent in the damage to the corn and cotton crops, ami it is not unlikely that 50 per eent. is too hjgh an estimate for these stajiles. Later returns, however, may materially nicer these llgurcs. Nor.i ii i auoi.iNa. From information received from different portions of the Stat" of North Carolina (I'ov rnor Carr feels satislii'ii that thet ot'.vti crop for this year has been injuVed 40 |ier cenf. du' recount of the excessive dryness ami in ton so U'ttt. Mississirrr. The Southern Assoeiated frosts ro present aive has interviewed farmers from ninp uremics in Central Mississippi sis'to erop etindlions. Cotton is declared from 25 to 5(1 por rent.short of lie-average yield. T>.?-ly planted' orn good. but May eorn sorry. Cane, nota ami rieo promise fair yield everywhere. Pastures dried up. , , . ; Cl'liAN INdl ltUKMS. . Taking Hulls From a Track to Throw Tp Entrenchment. Reports front the province^ of,Piijar d.el ltio are to the effect that the insurgents linvo taken rails from that rooks for Ihe purpose of throwing up entrenchments uw?r Taco 'I'vo. It is estimated that at least two kilometrus of the track have been torn up. For this irehsou, pnssonger trains an<l two freight trains have returned from Artemesia and .the through traffic on the railroad line is now interrupted. Gen. Oliver, tho governor of the Vartrosft Cabana, will return to Hpnin .September 30. ncinioieemeuis 01 mo npamsn army are t*x-? pected here shortly. Theso reinforcement* consist of 400 infantry officers, arid 3^.':r2H privates, 4 cavalry officers and 4?6 envalrymon, 34 artillery officers and 1,21>& nrtiilerj^ men, 34 ofllecr.s In charge of tbe engineering t corps and 1,517 men belonging td the dnglheorlng corns. Col. Segura ami Col. Hernandez rop rt an engagement with fiermu-> dez, ti>e insurgent leader, at Lomo del Toro. province of Matunr.a.s. Fifteen of the-'insure gents are reported to have been killed while 22 of the Spanish troops nere wounded. WoJISE THAN INSrROKNTfk A special iron* Houston. Texas, says A. E. Elijahla has arrived here. He is an agent of the Spanish government and has come to Texas to buy 2,000 horses for the Spanish army la Cuba. He will purchase bronchos as they are hardy and can stand the tropical .un. The Spaniards will have a hard time, h wovcr, because after a rest the broncho always bucks when first saddled and Spanish cavalrymen are not familiar with this style viI horse.