Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-09-07

The dispatches from Geneva report that the
board OF arbitrator have about finished their
| business. What they have done has not been
made public. Newspaper reporters have sought
diligently to know all about it, and make full
report of proceedings; but their endeavors have
not been successful. They have discovered, that
attempts at interviewing these arbitrators, or at
| getting possession of their secrets by other
means, are not as hopeful as similar operations
upon clerks Of congressional committees and
| executive departments.
Nevertheless, we are told, in one dispatch,
that the arbitrator have decided that England
mus pay the UuitediStates "about fifteen mill
ion dollars" OF course, this is nothing but
guess work 1t may be a shrewd guess, or it
may be very wild; but the reporters send this
item of intelligence" because they feel it neces-
sary TO send something. Meanwhile, we are
assured very positively, chat the litigant gov
ernments will receive the Judgment of the
court of arbitration, before it is given to the
press" Ii it is true, that the sittings of the
board will be concluded this week, we shall soon
know what no cleverness of the reporters has
been able to find out.
The Greeley newspapers have greatly dis
turbed themselves about Senator Wilson's
knownothingsm. They exulted in the evidence
that he belonged to that party eighteen years
ago, but wept metaphorical tears in great profu-
sion when they read the letter, falsely attributed
to him, which denied that he ever was a know
nothing. Their grief at learning that Mr.. Will
son was unruthful, was really distressing; but
their joy when they discovered that the letter
was an imposition, and that the senator had
not been guilty of that deception, was less con-
spicuous. 1t is little curious that from their
| point of view, Mr.. Wilson's early mistakes,
| though atoned by SO many years of faithful and
honorable service, makes him unworthy of
| confidence now, while what Mr.. Greeley sa id,
wrote or did ten, FIVE, or even one year ago, is
not of the slightest importance as affecting his
present fitness for office, However, if being a
knownothing is the only objectionable sin,
forgiveness must be refused to Greeley, as well
as to Wilson, for he was in the same boat. The
New York Evening Post says:
IN September, 1854 or 1855, but in which
year we are not quite certain, a knoWnothing
meeting was held at Kingston, Ulster county,
in this state, and OF that meeting Mr.. Greeley
was one oil me speakers. Resolutions were
passed, and though they are not given in the
| brief report of the meeting which we remember
to have seen, it may be fairly assumed that they
were of the usual knownothing character MIR
| Greeley, in his speech, avowed his approval OF
| them. He attended the meeting, not as in OPP
ponent, but as a friend and an advocate of
knownothng doctrines"
Of course we are not so foolish as to expect
the so called independent journals" to say
no more about Mr.. Wilson's knownothingism
or to invite foreign born citizens to remember
| Greeley's escapade In that direction. They viii
continue to upbraid the former for his offence
and pass over in silence that of their own candi
date. As they are in the habit of saying, this is
the way with "organs," and the organs of Gree
eyism are not less addicted 10 it than 9th.
ers. 1t is fortunate, however, that their power
to do harm is Insignificant.