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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 18-TWELVE PAGES
HEN HARRISON.
Letter cf Acceptance.
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svitem. The methods suggested by our
convention will not need to be exhausted in
order to effect the necessary reduction. We
... , _ . . . are not likely to he called upon, I think, to
The Republican Nominee S make a present choice between the surrender
ot our protective system and the entire re
peal of the internal taxes. Such a contin
gency, in view of the present relation of ex
penditures to revenue is remote. The in
spection and regulation of the manufacture
and sale of oleomargarine is important, and
the revenue derived from it is not so great
that a repeal of the law need enter into any
plan of revenue reduction. The surplus now
■n the treasury should be used in the pur
chase of bonds. The law authorises this use
of it and if it is not needed for current or
deficiency appropriations the people and not
PROTECTION THE SONC HE SINGS.
He Hnkes a Clever Dodge A* to Free
Whisky ami Stumble* Over the Sur
plus—An to Contract Labor
and Chinese Immigration.
TvmiviPAin e*nt 11 The following i the banka in which It has been deposited,
Indianapolis, bept. ll.-Ihe following ehou)d h * v * ad vant ace of its use bv slopping
u Ur. Harrison's letter accepting the repub
lican Presidential nomination:
Indianapolis, Sept. 11.—To Hon. M. X.
Estee and others, comai ttee: Gentlemen—
When your committee visited me on the
Fourth of July last and presented the official
announcement of my nomination for the
' Presidency of the United States by the re
publican convention, I promised, aa soon as
practicable, to communicate to you a more
formal acceptance of the nomination. Since
that time the work of receiving and address
ing almost daily large delegations of my fel-
low-citizens, has not only occupied all of my
time, but has, in some measure, rendered it
unnecessary for me to use this letter as a
medium of communicating to the public my
views upon the questions involved in the
campaign. I appreciate very highly the
confidence and respect manifested by the
convention, and accept the nomination with
a feeling of gratitude and a full sense of ther
responsibilities which accompany it.
TARIFF THE ISSUE.
It is a matter of congrathiation that the
declarations of the Chicago convention upon
questions that now attract the interest of
onr people are so clear and emphatic. There
is further cause of congratulation in the fact
that the convenlion utterances of the Demo
cratic party, if in any degree uncertain or
contradictory, can now be judged and inter
preted by executive acts and messages and
by definite propositions in legislation. This
is especially true of what is popularly known
as the tariff question. The issue cannot now
be obscured, it is not a contest between
schedules, but between wide-apart princi
ples. Foreign competitors for our market
bare, with quick instinct; seen how one i sue
of this contest may bring them advantage
and our own people are not so dull as to miss
or neglect the grave interests that are in
volved for them. The assault upon our pro
tectire system is open and defiant. Protec
tion is assailed as unconstitutional law or
as vicious in principle, and those who hold
such views sincerely cannot stop short of an
absolute elimination from our tariff laws of
the principle of protection.
THE MILLS BILL.
The Mills hill is only a step, bat it is
toward an object that the leaders of demo
cratic thought and legislation have clearly in
mind. The important question is not so
much the length of the step as the direction
of it, judged by the executive message of
December last, by the Hills bill, by the
debates in concrete and by the St Louis
platform. . he Democratic party will, if sup
ported by the country, place the tariff laws
upon a purely revenue basis. This is prac
tical tree trade—free trade in the English
--■II'-'. 'I In- I.-L'-II'I n pon lli- ir I .IIIIM r ill IV
not be "free trade,” it may be the more
obscure “tariff - reform,” but neither banner’s
inscription is conclusive. or_ indeed very
important. The asinUtl itself is the
important fact Those who teach that
the import duty upon foreign goods
sold in our market is paid by the con
sumer, and that the price of the domestic
competing article is enhanced to the amount
of duty on the imported article; that every
million of dollars collected for custom du
ties represents many millions more which dc
not resch the treasury, but are paid by our
citixens as the increased cost of domestic
productions resulting from Oie tariff laws,
may not intend to discredit in the minds of
others our system of levying duties on com
peting foreign products, but it is clearly
already discredited in their own. We can
not doubt, without Impugning their integ
rity, that if free to act upon their convic
tions, they would so revise our laws as to lay
the burden of customs revenue upon articles
that are not produced ia this country and to
place upon the free list all competing for
eign products,
PROTECTION.
I do not stop to refute this theory as to
the effect of our tariff duties. Those who
advance it are students of maxims and not
of market!. They may be safely allowed to
call their project “tariff reform,” if the
people understand that in the end the argu
ment compels free trade in all competing
productions. This end may not be reached
abruptly, and its approach may be accom
panied with some expressions of sympathy
lor our protected industries and our working
people, nut it will certainly come, if these
early movements do not arouse the people to
effective resistance. The Kepubli -an
party holds that the protective tariff'is con
stitutionai, wholesome an necessary. We
do not offer a fixed schedule, but the princi-
p e. We will revise the schedule, modify
the rates, hut always with an intelligent pro
vision as to the effect upon domestic pro
duction and the wages of our working peo
ple. We believe it to be one of the worthy
objects of tariff legislation to preserve the
American market for American producers
and to maintain the American scale oi wages
bv adequate discriminating duties upon lor-
eign competing products. The effect of
lower rates and Urge importations upon the
public revenues U contingent and doubtful,
out not so the effeet upon American produc
tion and American wages.
THE QUESTION OF WAGES,
Less work and lower wages mutt be ac
cepted as the tnevitble resultof the increased
offering of foreign goods in our market. Dy
way of recompense for thu reduction in his
wages and the loss of the Amcrirau market,
it is suggested that the diminished * ages of
the workingmen will have au undimintsbed
purchasing power, and that be will be able
to make up for the loss of the home market
by an enlarged foreign market. Our work
ingmen have the settlement of the question
in their own hands. They now obtain higher
wages and live more comfortably than those
of any other country. They will make a
choice between the substantial advantages
they have in hand and the deceptive prom
ises and forecasts of those theorizing re
formers; they will decide for themselves
and for the country whether the protective
system shall be continued or destroyed.
The tact of a treasury surplus, the amount
i of which it variously stated, has directed
public attention to consideration of the
methods by which the national income may
best be reduced to the level of wise and nee-
essary expenditures. This condition bit
been seized upon by those who are hostile to
protective custom- duties as an advantage
ous base or attack upon our tariff laws.
They h ne nmcnilied and nursed the surplus,
should have advantage oi its use by stopping
interest upon the public debt. At least
those who needlessly hoard it should not be
allowed to use the fear of a monetary string
ency thus produced to coerce public senti
ment on other questions.
IMPORTATION OF LABOR.
Closely connected with the subject of the
tariffis that of importation of foreign laborers
under contracts of service to be performed
here. The law now in force prohibiting such
contracts received my cordial support iu the
Senate, and such amendments as may he
found necessary effectively to deliver our
workingmen and women from this most
inequitable form of competition will have
tny sincere advocacy. Legislation prohibit-
kg the importation of laborers under con
tract to serve here will, however, afford
very inadequate relief to our working
people, if the system of protective duties is
broken down. If the products of American
shops must compete in the Americau mar
ket, without favoring duties, with the pro
ducts of cheap foreign labor, the effect will
he different, if at all, only in degree, whether
cheap laborer is across the street or over the
ocean. Such competition will soon reduce
wages here to the level of those abroad, aud
when that condition is reached we will not
need any laws forbidding the importation of
laborers under contract, they will have no
inducement to come, and employers no in-
du-cment to send for them.
I -i the earlier years of our history public
agencies to promote immigration were com
mon. The pioueer wanted a neighbor with
more friendly instincts than the Indian.
Labor was scarce and fully employed. But
the day of the immigration bureau has gone
by. \Vhile our doors will continue open to
proper immigration, we do not need to issue
special invitations to the inhabitants of other
countries to come to our shores or to share
our citizenship. Indeed; the necessity of
some inspection and limitation is obvious.
We should resolutely refuse to permit for
eign governments to’send their paupers aud
criminals to our ports.
THE CHINESE.
We are also clearly under duty to defend
our civilization by excluding alien races
whose ultimate assimilation with onr people
is neither possible nor desirable. The fam
ily hai been the nucleus of our best immi
gration and the home the most potent assim
ilating force iu our civilization. The objec
tions to Chinese immigration are dis
tinctive and conclusive aud are now so gen
erally accepted as such that the question has
passed entirety beyond the stage- of argu
ment. The laws relating to this subject
would, if I should he charged with their en
forcement, be fiiithiu-ly executed. Such
amendments or farther legislation as maybe
Deceasert and proper to prevent evasions of
the laws and to stop further Chinese immi
gration, would also meet my approval. The
expression of the lonveulioa upon this sub
ject is in entire harmony with tny'views.
Our civil compact is government by the
majority, and the law loses its enaction and
the magistrate urrr-j-ectwhen tins compact
is broken.
Tuc .•::;; roes.
. The evil results ui el-. iion frauds do not
expend th-mseiv- s up-ia V'tcti .vlto are
robbed of their rig 1 tfu' iufl-ien - t iu public
affairs. Tin ]'dividual, or community or
party that practices or eiiiii.ivea at election
frauds, has suff red irrecHruide injury, uud
will sooner oria nr lo ii'z : that to exchange
the American •) stem of nmj iritv rule for
minority cuutr ’i is not out - unlawful and
unpatriotic hut very unsafe fur those who
f ironiote it. The disfranchisement of a single
egtil elector by fraud or intimidation is a
crime ton grave to be regarded ligh ly. The
right of every qualified elector to cast one
free ballot aud to hare have it honestly
counted must not be questioned. Every
constitutional power should be used to make
this right secare and punish frauds upon the
ballon Our colored people do not aak
special legislation in their interest but only
to be made secure in the common rights of
American citizeuship. They will, however,
naturally mistrust the sincerity of those
party leaders who appeal to their race for
support only iu those localities where suf
frage is free and election results doubtful,
ana compass their disfranchisement where
their votea would be coutrolliug and their
choice cannot be coerced.
FEDERAL AID AND NEW STATES.
The nation, not lets than the states, is
dependent for prosperity and security upon
the Intelligence and morality of the people,
This common interest very early suggested
national aid in the establishment and endow
ment of schools and colleges in new states.
There is, I believe, a present exigency that
calls for s ill more liberal and direct appro
priation in aid of common school education
in the states.
Territorial form of government is a tempo
rary expedient, not a permanent civil condi
tion. It ia adapted to the exigency that sug
gested it, but becomes inadequate and even
oppressive when applied to fixed and popu
lous communities. Several territories are
well able to bear the burdens and discharge
the duties of free commonwealths in the
American union and to exclude them is to
deny the just rights of their people and may
well excite their indignant protest. No
question of the political preference of the
people of territories should close against
them the hospitable door which has opened
to two-thirds of the exiting states.
Bn. oiiuuid ue resolutely re
fused to any territory the majority of whose
people cherish institutions that are repug
nant to our civilization or inconsistent with
: rcpabiiettu form oi government.
trusts.
The declaration of the convention against
“all combioations of capital organized in
trusts or otherwise to control the arbitrary
condition of trade among our citizens,” are
in harmony with the views entertained and
publicly expressed by me loug before the
assembling of the convention. Ordinarily,
capital shares the losses of idleness with
labor, but under the operation of the trust
in some of its forms wage workers alone suf
fer loss, while idle capital receives its divi
dends from the trust fund. Producers who
reiDse to join tha combination are destroyed
and competition, ss an element of prices, is
eliminated. It cannot he doubted that the
legislative authority should and will find a
method of dealing fairly and effectively with
these and other abases connected with this
subject.
PENSIONS,
it can hardly be necessary for me to say I
am heartily in sympathy with tho declare-1
atl empting to discuss particular propositions,
I may add that measures in behalf of surviv
ing veterans of the war, and of the families
of their dead '■omradeo, should be conceived
and executed in a spirit of justice and of
most grateful iikerility, and that, in compe
tition for civil appointments, honorable mil
itary service should have appropriate recog
nition.
CIVIL 8BRVICE REFORM.
The law regulating appointments to the
classified civil service received my support
in the Senate, in the belief that it opened
the way to a much needed reform. I still
think so, and therefore cordially approve
the clear and forcible expression of the con
vention upon this subject. The law should
have the aid of friendly interpretation and
be faithfully and vigorously euforced. AU
appointments under it should be absolutely
free from partisan consideration and in
fluence. Some extensions of the classified
list are practicable aud desirable and further
legislation extending the reform to other
blanches of the service to which
it is applicable would receive my approval;
In appointments M awry grade and depart
ment fitness an 1 not party service should be
the es-eiitial and discriminating test, and
fidelity aud t ffieieuoy the ouiy sure tenure
of oflioe. Only the interest of the pnblie
service should is g-n removals from office
1 know rile prseited dilli up > .nu-n-ling
the att. nipt to apply the spirit of civil ser
vice iiiit-s to all appointments and removals.
It will, however, be my sincere purpose, if
elected, In advance the reform.
1 notice with pleasure that the convention
did not omit to express its solicitude for the
promotion of virtue and temperance among
our people. The republican party has al
ways bteu friendly to everything that tended
to make the home life of our people free,
pure aud prosperous and will in the future
lie true to its history In this respect.
THE FISHERIES QUESTION.
Our relations with foreign powers should
be characterized by friendliness and respect.
The right of our people and our ships to
hospitable treatment should be insisted
upou with dignity and firmness. Our nation
is too great both in material strength and in
moral power, to indulge in bluster
or to be suspected of timoroumess. Vacil
lation and inconsistency are ks incompatible
with successful diplomacy as they are with
national dignity. We should especially cul
tivate and extend diplomatic and commer
cial relations with the Central and South
American states. Our fisheries should be fos
tered and protected. The hardship and risk
that are necessary incidents of the business
should not be increased by exclusion from
near-lying ports. The resources of firm, dig
nified and consistent diplomacy are un
doubtedly equal to the prompt and peaceful
solution of the difficulties that now exist.
Our neighbors will surely not expect in our
ports the commercial hospitality they deny
to us iu theirs.
I cannot extend this letter by special ref
erence to other yibjects upon which the
convention gave an expression. Ia respect
to them as well as to those I have noticed, I
am in entirr'agreement with the declara
tions of the convention. Tho resolutions
relating to coinage, to the rebuilding of the
navy, to coast defenses and to public lands
express conclusions to all of which I gave
my support in the Senate. Inviting calm
and thoughtful consideration of these public
questions, «e submit them lo tin- people.
Their intelligent patriotism anil the good
provident ! that to «te sod Imp kept us a
nation, will lead them in wise and safe con
clusions. Very r. spectfu'ty, your obedient
servant, Be.sj.' Haiuiiso.v.
AUGUSTA’S FLOOD.
Communication to Be Re es
tablished To-day.
THE STORY OF THE OVERFLOW.
The Street* Converted Into lied* of Raging
Torreut*—The Store* all Closed —
1 touting In the Streets—Los* a
Half Million in the City.
fdivoui ori.si* .vs.
nrrisou'H Letter n« tic«*»,<) by Editors
Various Mlm!*,
New York, Sept. 12.—A. might have i
beeu expected, republican journals through
out the country generally heartily support
Gen. Harrison’s letter, while democratic pa
pers regard it as a weak and insiucere docu
ment. Following are brief points made by
journals, taken at random*
Chicago Times (Dem.j: It is a carefully
prepared document, lucidly written, plausi
bly urged, and though far from conclusive
in its argumentation, will strengthen him
with his party.
Pittsburg Commercial Gazette: It is frank,
decent and foricble. Ue defines the issues of
the campaign with sharpness and precision.
Chicago Daily News (independent); With
one eye on the Chicago convention, another
on Mr. Cleveland’s letter, candidate Harri
son lias managed to “scatter* mightily.”
Laboriously, painstakingly, he has followed,
plank by plunk,' his party platform and at
the end of each he no less piously but more
grama'.ically than a New England deacon
ejaculates, “Them’s my sentiments,” bolts
it all.
Chicago Inter-Ocean (Rep.): The letter is
concise, cogent and felicitous in both man
ner and matter.
Boston Globe (Dem.): It must be called
a colorless letter. Compared with Presi
dent Cleveland’s, it is aa the work of a mild
essayist is to the manifesto of a statesman.
St. Louis Republic (Dem.); On no single
point docs it exhibit the decisive firmness of
a man who bss mastered the subject con
cerning which he desires to express convic
tion. nor is the letter, from beginning to end,
brightened bjr a single phrase that will catch
the public mind or thought.
Cincinnati Kpquirer: It really carries him
off the Chicago platform; it really takes him
out of alliance with Mr. Blaine; it really
proposes to profess a sort of desire to sec the
tariff reduced and to have lust regulated.
Detroit Tribune (Rep.): It Is most ad
mirable for its clearness and frankness.
There is no evasion, there are no hidden
meanings. It is a remarkably cogent pres
entation of facta and principlea underlying
the whole question.
Indianapolis Journal: The style is the
man. Gen. Harrison can fight, bat lie does
not carry chips on his shoulder. He has a
great deal of self-assertion, but he does not
flaunt it in people's faces needlessly.
Minneapolis Sentinel: It is the letter of
a demagogue. It is uncandid. dishonest «p<t
sopbtstical in its treatment of the principal
issues before the country. It is a pettifog
ging document from the first word to the
last. Rut the general is not only insincere,
he ia cowardly in his discussion of the tariff
issue.
Augusta, Sept. 12.—[Special.]—The re
ceding waters of the biggest freshet in Au
gusta's history are watched by the entire
population from windows and boats. The
water reached 38 feet IK inches, aud at 5
o’clock this morning began receding.
All to-day the water has flooded the entire
business part of the city. The streets were
filled with boats, men wading waist deep>
and water in the stores was 1 to 3 feet deep.
During the afternoon the river subsided
rapidly, leaving stores and ail first floors
with thick deposits of mud, and cleaning be
gan immediately.
BUSINESS AT A STANDSTILL.
Business was entirely suspended, and as
there was neither gas nor electric
lights (last night, so there
was no communication to day. The post-
office was waist deep in water; bankers were
unable to unlock their vaults, or even enter
the banks, and the telegraph office floor was
over a foot under water. All the stores were
closed, and added to this there were no trains
coming or going, and telegraph communica
tion could only he had to Charleston last
night and Savannah to-day. By this route
this may reach you.
Locomotion was very difficult to-day on
account of torn-up streets, and during last
night boats and meu refused to go in the
darkness upon the angry currents. Your
correspondent was lodged in a half block of
the telegraph office, and could not reach it
even with a beat.
CASTAWAY ON A CORNER.
One unfortunate man was swamped on a
street corner iu the center of Augusta, and
his piteous cries were heard for hours before
a rescuing cyew got ropes and, by lashing
themselves together, finally reached and
saved him.
Strange to say, only one man, Williamson
was drowned, although several cases o:
drowning are rumored. Many narrow escapes
from death are recorded.
Greene street, the handsomest residence
avenue in the south, is turned into a torrent.
The third level of the canal, which empties
the main canal back into the river, over
flowed and broke at the head of Greene,
making that street its course through the
city. Several small houses were washed
down, and piazzas, trick foundations and
Comers of large houses were washed out.
The corners of the houses of Jos. Myers and
S. Thomas Wright, two of the largest in the
towD, were undermined. The street itself is
terribly torn up, and the eddying current is
dangerous, even for the strongest boats.
The railroad bridges across the river are
all right, except the trestling on the Carolina
side of the South Carolina railroad, hut
pearly half the spans of the old foot-bridge
are swept away. This ancient structure lias
)>een dangerous for some time. The bridges
geross the lower canal levels on several
Streets are gone, hut the main canal is nil
right. It was in danger from the river above
town last night, hut rip-rapping will put it
hack in condition.
Augssiae&u icsll? he calico the American
Venice, for the past two days, and its appear
ance was beautiful.
THE LOSSES.
The loss cannot be fairly estimated till the
subsiding water shows the condition of the
streets and sewers, but cannot fail far short
of -I )0o,(KHi to tilt- city ami ri--iili-nt«.
Crop in the low lands are a total loss and
they will make the Iota $1,000,000.
Telegraph and railroad repairing crews can
hardly get out of town before to-morrow,
when Augusta will again be in communica
tion with the entire world.
HIGHEST EVER KNOWN.
The worst flood known in tUe history
Augusta is subsiding to-night. The river
began rising ominously on Friday, and at 11
o’clock Saturday reached 21 feet S inches
At this point it began falling and went down
to 21 feet by Sunday noon. This fiiled
people with a sense of security. All idea of
a flood was generally abandoned and the
citizens retired on Suuday night not gener
ally apprised of the fact that at -4 o’clock oa
■Sunday at ernoon a second rise had set in.
This was the most rapid rise ever known in
the history of the river, the gauge at the
bridge showing a rise between 7 p.m. and 1
a. m. Sunday of 5 feet 1 inch, or over
13 inches an hour. From 4 to
t> inches is considered a rapid
rise. After 1 o'clock the rise continued at
the rate of ten iDches an hoar, and by day.
light had flooded the lower portion of the
city, and people were awakened by water
running in on them. This occurred in many
instances before daylight and, connected
with the darkness, caused great fear among
them. They had to remain In their honses
until daylight came. The panic was cam
plate.
This, however, was confined to limited
area, embracing the upper eastern portion
of the city, on river front, a most seri
ous point being the square
territory covered, the waters have reced so
slowly all day that boats have been in gen
eral use until to-night.
THE DAMAGE.
As to the full extent of the damage to
property no accurate estimate can be given.
Bridges and fences are washed away on
every hand and the canal is injured consider
ably, two breaks in the hanks being reported.
The foot bridge over the river from Augusta
to llamliiir.'. 8. t\, Imd a large portion -if it . „
washed away. No trains have arrived or de- »s the dentist mentioned Dr Out " ’
cssf ’■ * a--*.'-'- w lA -
curred, and only one or two deaths are re
ported.
The Chronicle will say to-morrow, •‘Au
gusta has narrowly escaped a culamitv which
hich they affect to deprecate, seemingly ; tion of the convention upon the subiect of I vl l ue -
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Question* nml Answer*.
From tfce Mauachasett'a TariffP/imer.
Q. What is the import tax upon some
articles of common use?
A. Upon woolen clothing 01 per cent, of
the foreign value.
Upon cotton clothiog 35 per cent, of the
foreign value.
Upon sugar 82 per cent of the foreign
value.
Upon rice 64 ]>er cent, of the foreign
value.
Upon salt 5C per cent, of the foreign
value.
U|>on lumber 16 per cent, of the foreign
value.
Upon women’s all wool dress goods 83
per cent, of the foreign value.
Upon crockery and china 66 per cent of
the foreign value.
Upon linen :;5 per cent, of tho foreign
for the purpose of exaggerating its evil in ! pensions to our loldiera and sailors,
order to reconcile the people to. the extreme '■
rein dy they projiow .
REPEAL OF INTERNAL TAXES.
I n- pro; er redo tioa of rerenur does not
necessitate and should not evggest the aban
donment sr impairment cf the protect!?-
What 1
Upon glassware 59 per cenL of the for
eign value.
they gave and wbat they suffered, I bad ™". c * ,, , , .
tome opportunity to observe, and iu small Upon tinwsre 4-5 per cent, of the foreign
measure to experience. They gave ungradg-
iogly; they say it was not a trade, hut an Ujion carpets 47 |>er cent, of the foreign
offering. The measure was hesped up, run- valucq
““*• What they achieved, ooly distant Ujion books 25 per cent of the foreign
»u auequsteiy teXL Without value.
the square of mill
< peratives' houses in a particularly
low section. All inmates were rescued,
however, without injury and taken to points
of safetv. The river rose rapidly all day
Monday and Monday night, reaching the
maximum of 39 feet one inch at one o'clock
this morning, which is the highest point on
record. Tne whole city from first level of
the canal to the river was completely sub-
nrad. the water varvimr from 3 to 15 feet
in depth. Private residences and stores in
all portions of the city were flooded, very
few first floors escaping water damage.
THE CHRONICLE’S TRIBULATIONS.
The Chronicle building, located on Broad
street, in one of the highest sections of the
city, had the first floor flooded. In the
pressroom employes were up to their knees
in water, and it was only with great effort
that it was kept out of the engine room long
enough to run the press to get out this morn
ing's edition of the Chronicle. The high
water precluded the service of hoys, and
one of the editors of the Chronicle had to
wade between the office and the Western
Union telegraph office in water, because too
high to send a hoy, and received the Asso
ciated Press dispatches. To give an idea of
the extent of the flood it is only necessary
to state that river boats could have navigated
many of the streets. The Mississippi river,
iu its augriest mood, never lookel more dan
gerous than the floods that rushed through
our streets.
Crops in low lands along the Ntvanniih
river have been utterly destroyed and the
loss to planters must be very great In the
freshet of IS 10, the severest ever known,
the water'did not reach its present bight by
fifteen inches. There is considerable dis
tress in portions of the city where the peo
ple were compelled to seek refuge in second i
stories, and were cut off from food supplies 1
by the waters.
threatened destruction to person and prop
erty more general aud appalling than
the Charleston earthquake or Chicago’s
great tire. Bat whatever the loss of prop
erty, onr people are profoundly grateful to
the giver of all good for their deliverance
from threatened disaster and are undaunted
and determined with renewed energy to face
the future and keep the city the great com
mercial and m auufuctunng center of
the south Atlantic states. To-mor
row’s sun wiii l>e brighter auu
our hearts will lie stronger
by reason of the danger through which we
have passed. The citizens of Augusta will
be closely united by the public welfare. Our
national exposition will be opened O.t. 16,
and to this exposition tffe people of the
United States are Invited to witness the
marvellous growth of the agricultural, man
ufacturing nod mining Interests of tha south.
This exposition will easily demonstrate Au
gusta’s cloim to be the leading cotton manu
facturing city of the southern stater.”
PKOF. 1‘iM.CTOH DEAD.
The Great Scientist Dies nt New Yerk
With lllack Vomit.
New York, JSept. lS.-rProf. Richard A.
Proctor died at 7:15 this evening with black
vomit, at the Willard Parker hospital, on
Sixteenth street, this city.
Prof. Proctor hod an observatory at Oak
Lawn, Mnrffm county, Florida, nnd he re
sided there with his family. He intended to
go to Europe and arrived here last Monday,
having already engaged passage on a
steamer sailing next Saturday. He stopped
at an np town hotel, the name of which is
suppressed. He usvallv stopped at the
Westminster while in this city. Monday
evening he complained of feeling ill, and ns
he had been troubled with Bright’s disease
for some time, his symptoms were
attributed to this disease. The physi
cian visiting him thought he would
bo about on' Tuesday. He slept at
the hotel. Ou Tuesday, however, he became
worse, and began to show symptoms of yel
low fever. As the day wore on the symp
toms became more marked, and no douot
was had of the nature of the disease. It was
then decided to remove him to ’ North
Brother’s island, hut it steamed so hard that
it was subsequently considered imprucent to
remove him so far, and lie was removed to
the hospital mentianed. The board of
health was not informed of the case until to
day, when it caused ooti-rr rnstion in the
office. Everything iu the apartment he had
occupied was destroyed; aud liis room and
the balls were thorougiiiy fumigated. Presi
dent Bayless decided to keep the office of the
board of health open to night for fear of anv
further coses. Dr. Bayless, however, says
that the efforts of the department will prob
ably prevent the spread of the disease, in
case of an outbreak of fever, he said he was
prepared to accommodate many hundreds
of patients on North Brother’s Island. But
he feared uo such outbreak.
Prof. Proctor was about 65years of age
and robust. lie said there had been no yel
low fever in the part of the country lie had
come from, and he was unable to account for
his attack.
Prof. Proctor had been in the hospital
since Tuesday night last, hut as late as night
fall to day the health authorities of the city
were reluctant to admit the true character
of his ailment The professpr’s death, how
ever, at 7: 5 o’clock, was preceded by the
characteristic 1 ) black vomit, which set all
doubts at rest. Prof. Proctor arrived in the
city Monday from Florida by rail, and pat
up at the Westminster hold, East Sixteenth
street. He had spent the summer at hi*
place, Oak Lawn, Marion county, Fla., and
wes not known to have been exposed to the
dreaded disease. There had been no cases
in Marion county. He was enroute for Eng
land, where he was Jo lecture this fail and
winter, and had led Ms wife and other mem
bers of his family in Florida. lie had en
gaged passage on the Umbria for Saturday
Yesterday he complained of feeling unwell.
It soon became apparent that the Professor
was a very kick man aud the health
officers were called in. The
sick mau had a high fever and
was vomiting. His temperature was 103)4.
There wus a jauudieed apperance of the face.
His resent arrival from Florida made the
case suspicious. Late in the afternoon the
professor became better and the patient did
not believe that he was suffering from yellow
fever, but thought it was malaria. It was
fiaally directed, because of the bud symp
toms of yesterday afternoon, to take him to
Willard Parker hospital on tiixteenih street,
as the beat and most convenient place. It
was done last evening. At an interval be
tween showers he was removed and he
wished to walk down stairs, but was pre
vailed upon to be carried down. Everything
possible was done for the tick man. He
rested well ail night. Early this morning a
relapse set in and the Double was compli
cated by the appearance of Iiright’s disease.
At 7:15 o’clock death occurred, preceded by
slight convulsions and the black vomit of
the yellow fever.
The Chewfug Gum Cult.
From the Providence Journal.
It is a droll, and at first sight a mystify
ing spectacle—the appearance of the gum
chewera, with gum in their mouths, their
maxillary and mandibular jaws falling
and rising, and this the more, in that they
are to be seen everywhere, and at all timea,
chewing. That the fashion of gum chew
ing should rivet itself upon the people of
this conn try last at this time was a natural
thing, but it was not really expected.
Its naturalness springs from the fact of its
origin. This wss, as near as can be
learned, from use by athletes. Baseball
players found that by keeping
gum in their teeth they could stop
gritting them, when they made a bad
play, and yet ought not to awear. Tennis
players discovered that with a respectable
mouthful in management, they were less
liable to try to exert an influence on the
r. feree than without it, and so less likely
to be laughed at when they lost their pa-
Deuce. The habitues of gymnasia tried it
because it was active exercise and the man
ager approved it, aud this fall it will be
regularly furnished to subscribe**. But
from the athlete it spread to the rest of
the world. His gentlemen friends like
the idea. His young lady friends
were juat looking for such a fad.
It would do for “bluffing” at
the vineyard, for the rocks at Narragansctt
>icr, for hearing up in the crowd at Rocky
’pint gates, to prevent the mixed ocean
and Providence water at Bullock’s Point,
SOME DAINTY DENTISTRY.
The Remarkable Operation Performed v,
Dr. Ottolengul.
From the Charleston World.
The following clipping taken from th.
Herald of Health will no doubt be of verv
great interest to many persons in this c it7
as well as to the dental profession at large'
mtioned, Dr. Ottdenwi’
Charlestonian by birth, who will V
very pleasantly remembered by many 0 f
the World readers, and who has since hi.
removal from this city made a very v.l„
able reputation for himself in his c wl'
professton. The following is in refereme
to some important and most delicate on*,
atious recently performed in New Yorsl.
Dr. Ottolcngui, and which seem to haw
attracted very general interest in the pro
fession all over the country. These verr
favorable critictms will he quite gratify*
to the Doctor’s many Charleston friend..
The operation was performed unoa
patients at the dental rooms of Dr. J a;
bert Kimball by his chief assistant, I),
Otto eugui The root cavities occupied bv
the decayed teetli were deepened ami nst
ural teeth from other mouths, which had
been extracted a considerable length of
time, inserted. In one instance, an in.
ward growing sound tooth was extracted
anew root cavity bored aud the same
tooth inserted in an opright position. So
skillfully indeed were these operations
performed that dent sts who were permitted
to examine the work after the lapse of a
few days, failed to detect the newly-in-
stalled member. We regard the achieve-
ment in dental surgery which dispenses
with the ob|ecnonable plates and pivots,
and replaces the lost members with step,
children that good mother nature takes to
so kindly as the ue plus ultra of dentistry.”
Assuming that this operation which has
excited so much interest in the dental
world would be of interest to the public
at large, a World reporter yesterday called
upon several prominent dentists in this
city for the purpose of securing their views
on the subject and a great deal of informa
tion was gleaned which is not generally
known to those people who have always
regarded a dentist’s pffice with horror, as a
place inseparably associated with the most
excruciating kinds of operations and filled
with all manner of diabolical instruments
and apparatus.
The first office the reporter visited was
that of a well-known Wentworth street
dentist, who was found up to his ears, so
to speak, in work, surrounded on all sides
by numerous instruments and engines
which, as Mark Twain says when applied
to a sensitive molar, makes a man feel
that his immortal soul is being tampered
with.
“I am glad you called,” said the Doctor,
as the report sr made known the ohject of
his visit, and exhibited the above clipping,
“as I am just on a piece of work very “sim
ilar to the operation described there, and
l think it would he of considerable in
terest to the public to know something
about it."
The doctor then exhibited a tooth which
looked as thougli at one time it might not
have been Die cleanest in the world, and
which had two good-sized gold fillings in
the crown.
“That tooth,” he said, “I extracted from
a gentleman’s head n day or two ago. Yon
sew that I have cleaned it, and put two
fillings of gold in it, and to-morrow he is
coming back to hate it replaced, and I
"ill be very much diccppcintcd :i the
operation does not prove successful. These
operations are not altogether new to tne
profession, although that of taking out the
tooth, making the cavity for it, and rein-.
serting it, is considered the most difficult
nnd delicate. This was first practiced by
Dr. Younger of San Francisco about three
years ago. He has been very successful in
this practice, although it has never be
come very common in the profession.
The operation, when one thinks of
it. might seem to be exceedingly painful,
but this is a mistaken idea. It is attended
with comparatively little pain, as the ti»
sues which are cut are not at nil inflamed
or6ore. If you will just think for a mo
ment, you w’ill remember that a cut with
a sharp knife is not painful at the time.
The pain comes afterwards if you disturb
the wound when it has become inflame
and sore. And so it is with this operation
The cavity is made in healthy fissile, and
the operation is therefore not so painful u
peonle imagine. It requires very great
skill, however, to perform it, and looking
at it from all aides it is a very remarkabl
feat of dentistry, hut it only illustrates th
great strides that this profession is mat
ing.”
“Doctor, what are the pivots referred to
iu that article I showed you?" asked the
reporter.
“The pivot.” was the reply, “is another
thing in dentistry which is very interest
ing to examine into. When a tooth it
worn down to the gum, we fit a thin band
of gold around the top of it, and then place
an artificial crown on toj>, soldering it to
the gold hand nnd securing it with a little
pin. This crown and hr dge mirk, as it is
called, is, unfortunately, patented, and the
dentists have to pay a royalty for doing it,
and this, of coarse, makes the operation a
very expensive ono to the patient, and,
consequently, poor people cannot avail
themselves of it. The patent will not ex-
ire in a good many years, so it will bw *
ng time before it can he placed within
reach of those having slender purses. The
patent is under litigation, however, and it
is hoped that it will bo decided invalid. At
present, dentists have to buy a_ regular
license for the privilege of doing this
work.”
A Mg Transaction.
From the Philadelphia Times.
An exciting scene in the Chicago cham
ber of commerce on Tuesday is thus de
scribed by au eye-witness: “Just as the
wheat market began to sag to-day, after its
long continued upward movement, 1- B.
Hutchinson, the eccentric speculator,
commonly known as ‘Old Hutch,’ startled
the bosrd by apparently reckless buying.
The old gentleman made two or three pur-
chaaes himaelf, and then i is broker, I r * n ’ t
Magiun. began to chaff with Dealer Bloom
about December wheat. Bloom, tn a
bluffing spirit,said: ‘I’ll sell you amtllipn
December at »3ia«34.’ ‘I’ll take that/ said
Maginn, quietly. AU trading on the board
stopped immediately and the broker*
crowded breathlessly around the two dar
ing operators while they arranged for »
$250,900 deposit for margins." The deal
is the biggest that has been made in recent
years.
Mrs. Stowe.
and above that point, from running into j Front the N. Y. Commercial Advertloer.
her mouth, and to keep her from inhaling Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is at the
the malarial atmosphere of the Pawtuxct brink of the grave, and her recovery seems
river after the last car. Then the young ; beyond hope. Nor, perhaps, should her
lady’s younger brother taught it to hu girl, I true friends wbh a life prolonged that in
any case must bring misery and mental
7 ’ - great
nmg o
kjcucraiiuua
ihr * y.mnj'er brother tang
gj 1..T —rurn. i to her other young man, and «o on,. ^ P .
The water* commenced receding *Iow!t one cannot*) out, to a public place 1 darkn***. Her rcrit b dace, and a
about 4 o'clock thh morning, and at 6 there » of amuiement, or to a private part J Of two t work it was. w women have ever nytu
had bees a fall of three inebe*. On account i Ifiiwlw* uuicm one nets the everiafeting who exerted ayu a vasi iuuucDC« 05 •**“**
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of the extent cf the deed and the extent of gum paseirelj operating.
ml veneration.