Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-09-17
Hard on Poor Old Dix--His
unf1tness for Governor.
Wendell Phillips makes an
other 1ncendiary Appeal.
He calls for determination
in the South, and Long
Live Ulyssis.

NEW ORk, sept. lO-MesSrs Josiah
Keck and James Fitzg raid, Presidents of
CINCINNATI Board of Aldermen and Common
Council, who arrived lsst week TO present
official invitstions to Mr., Greeley and Presi-
dent Grant to visit the Cincinnati Exposi
iion, have had interviews with Grant at
Long Branch, and Greeley in this city,
Grant stated that the presa of official bust
ness prevents his going West At present DE
mentioned that he visited the Cincinnati
Ex position last year and concluded by writ
log q short letter TO the municipal authori-
| lies of Cincinnati declining the protfered
honor. Mr.. Greeley accepted the invitation,
aud, In company with M4ssrs. keek and
| Fitzgerald, will leave New York on Wed
nesday morning. On Thurt day he viii. fill
ao engagement N de some time ago, by de
hvering an agricultural address al the town
of Indiana, Blair Co. Pa. He will imme-
diAtsiy resume hls journey to the West, and
arrive in Cincinnati on Friday. From that
city be vii probably proceed to lndianSpol
Louisville, Nashville, Chicago, Detroit
| Toledo, Cleveland, and Erie, returning
through the Pennsylvania mining regions to
New York.
New YoRK, Sept lG.--The Grant man a
gers are iudusIrlously aud very quietly lay
ing their schemes to avert the defeats whisb
they cannot honestly avoid in October iu
/ Pennsy Ivania aud Inuians. They have had
their grand prelenuous hurrah oSerN ermOnt
and Maine, but their decreased msjoritIes IL
those most Radical of States have proved to
them, by q very sImpie mathematical calcU-
lation, that their Inflated cause will burst in
| October unless they can defeat The Liberals
oJ )boerY and corruption. OF the 81 50O,-
00U sxturted from othce-holders, about $500 =
OUO ~eTe expended ia Name alone. " nat
remains ITO II Ihe recent elections will be
y anGed 10 Pennsy wanna and Indiana. Sen
ator MOrsons fund to purchase voters is
stated by The W orld to be alout ha ia 1i
lion. A hulataIloo will be made IN Indiana
over D COBOT ald Adams, notwiIhs,AndIng <
O'ConOr's repeated absolute refusal TO accept
a nomination. The LINES opens this line
ot sIraIergy to-day by special from Logans-
port, Ind, stating that al meeting there
he BOURBON SrAights crowded the CUurt
douse so toll tnat huadreds were turaed
away.
10 Pennsylvania the immediate pro
gramme Is a desperate effort TO WhIteWash
HartrAnft, by Cameron emissary visiting
GeTkees In prison, and cAJolIng bIm, oJ
promises Of freedom, TO reiratt his sthdAyi
exposing HarGrAntt's robbery of the Stat,
Treasury. He is told If he will do this b,
~Il be set a. liberty ImmedIatel after lht
October eiecuon. Forney's batteries, how
ever, cannot be spiked.
The Grant wlTe-puilers consider Iowa safe
and are ust beginning to feel concerned
n about Ohio; but 1t ia certain they have NJ
nope 10 carry Pennsy wanna and lnd,aDi
except by mont Y and ell the varieties o
dlshonesI strategy. The Liberals IN Ihes'
States must be prepared TO fl sht stupsndou
!, brioery at all points
q A large insIalpent of Radical orators ar
i advertised in IndiaUa aud Ohio, amor
n .hem Speaker Blaine, Messrs. Boutwell,
; Wilson, Garfield, Schotield and other emi
uent beneGcIaries of the Credit MobilIeI
Arrangements have been made at each q
the tir meetings in those States to catechis
i them closely on their relations with Oake
|, Ames, and the consideration they receives
y tor their votes aud influence in favor of tn
Union Pacific.
There is no escape from them. Oake
Amss was in this oity yesterday and day be
" fore, and had several interviews with prom
nent parties in connection with the Cred
Mobilier revelations. an effort was mad
TO get him to deny hA,Iy that he eve
N wrote such letter TO Colonel McCOmt
Colonel MoComb is in the city Als0, an
will not permit himself to be made a soaps
, goat. He has Ames' original letter IN b
- possession, and can have it photographed
lis authenticity is denied.
CLEVELAND, Sept. l6.-The second au
uuai convention OF the National Cathol
temperance Union will be held in III
city October 10Th. Delegates are ez
pected from every State in the Union. q
well as a number from The Canadian DomiI
ION.
=. New YoRK, Sept. 16-A Washingtc
dispa'eh says thai the a~srd of the Gene'
tribunal does not ex lite the slightest en- h
- siam 10 oficlAl circles. Attorney Gener
Williams, who ia the only m mber OF Il
~ high joint com mission now IN WashlOgto
rs says inAt the award covers fully all that Il
'st American members expected could
awarded, while the sum is actually short
what the English members conceded mig
- be due under the declaration of Earl Ru
sell, as set forth in the correspondence b
tween Minister Adams and the Britt
Premier, asking for the es;ablishment of
new principle Of international law. 1t
IN said on the authority of a repre- sentative
lg the British government nov 10 Washln
ns ton, who is fully posted on the sh1le que
tion, that ss long ago as 1865 Russell wou
~ have been glad to cancel all legIsatl
- claims against England for more than
the amount awarded by the Tribunal, pI
vided he could have gained what has III
II been gained and accom- plished for SUN Il
in dollars but richer in principle to Grs
=. Britain.
NrU Yoar Sa1t l5-Tha Sun aay