Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-09-12

on account Of not having been in the State
long enough, withdrew to-day. The State
Central Committse have placed Chss. G.
johnson, (Liberal) of St. Louis, on the
ticket in his stead.
DETROIT, Sept. 1.-THE Liberals of the
ninth district have nominated for Congress
Samuel P. Ely.
WAsHINGToS, Sept. 1.-The President
today transacted some public business, in
o uding several formal appointments to office
,he President will return to Long Branch /
Tomorrow night.
LEWISTON, Me-, Sept. I3.-The Lewiston |
Journal publishes the returns from 249
towns, casting more than piue-tentts of the
vote of the State, which gives Perham Is 339
ma ajority. The remaining towns gave last
year 154 Democratic majority.
AUGUSTA, Me-, Sept. 11.-0fficjsl returns
received up to ibis evening include some
thug more than 81 per cent Of the total
vote of the State, and the msjorities in the
several Congressional districts foot up very
nearly as follows: In the fret district Bur
leigh has l, $50 majority in the I'd Frye
has 1888; in the Sd Blaine has 3,700 in
the 4th Hsrsey has 8 $50; in the 5th Hale
has 2,700. This foots ID $40 majority.
These aggregate majorities do not differ
| materially from Perham's majority.
NEW YoRK, Sept. l0.-AmoDg the callers
at the Grant headquarters yesterday and to-
day we're a mum ber of The Bourbon strsights,
who did not wish to register their names at
the Literal headquarters.
There is abundant confidence of decisive
Greeley victories in the October elections,
Al IL l. e
tiou has strength both in prominent men
aud public journals, which Is certainly not
the case in Maine and Vermont. The
Grant meu are trying desperately to
| believe the contest already settled in
their favor, bat in truth their alarm is as viv-
id as ever, since their ma jority has fallen off
80 per cent IN North Csrolina, 20 per cent in
Maine, and per cent in Vermont. If this
tendency settles the conflict, it will be Far
ner Grant next u ar, and President Greeley
WARRINGTON, Sept. l0.-The work of tax
ing voters into Pennsylvania in behalf of the
Radical party for the October election in
thai Stale has already begun. The frat In
sralnsnI left this city last evening. under
the ssoort of two white men, and consisted Of
twenty-five blacks. The men, on being ues
toned, said they were going to Philadelphis
| to work on the railroad; that they did no
know for whom they were going to work
nor the particular railroad on which theJ
we're TO be employed, but that their expan-
ses had been paid, and that they you'd re
turn about The middle OF fOetober. They al
so gave the information that they intended
10 vote for Grant ct the October election
they nndou btedly believing that they coulc
vote 10 that State for President at that time
| SPRIEGFIELD, Sept. 10.-The Grantite'
here do not get much encouragement fron
the news fro m Maine They conhdentl,
pred csed that shey would have q large
msiority than thai of four years ago, ant
the significant reduction of the me ority, n
reported to-day, falls 1i,h crushing weigh
upon the most sanguine of them. They se'
that the same percentage of reduction il
each State would shut out from their view
all the Post Offices, Assessorships, snC
Pension Agencies in this part of tbs coun
ry.
Judge Joseph Ledlie has disappeared al
= most entirely from the political arena sine,
his return from that exquisite failure 8
louisville He has little faith in Mayo
Jack Smiths advice as to the mode of get
uug up a convention, and it is said, on the
lon of Jossphs executive and tiasncial abil
sty. One thing is certain, and that is, thai
there are no Bourbons in this part of the
state any longsr, since the men who were
6rying to use them were caught in the trick
Hon. o. II. Hatch, Secretary of the State
Liberal Executive Committee, leaves to-
night for Chicago, with all the hooks and
papers belonging to The Com
The Work of Importing Negroes Already Be
gun.
TRockport, (Ind.) Letter to the Indianapoli,
Sentinel
This orning two strange negro men go
off the packet, and suspt citing something, ]
W. Laird and r. NJ. Nixon, City Marsha
cal ed to them and entered into convers sa
sIon protesting great anxiety in the election
of Grant. This caused the negroes to oper
the whole secret They said: "We live il
! Greencastle, Kentucky, and have come her
TO work, and Vote tor General Grant.
, They gave their nsmes as Robert Hall ant
, Thomas Gisb, and sad they had been raise
IN Kentucky These gentlemen then eX
plsined to the negroes that they we're no
l-gal voters, and that they ought not to at
tempt it any ~heTe. The negroes then sai'
+ hat if they could not vote shey might e
D we'll go back. They we're shcrtlYs safterwar,
seen in conversation with GRANTEES, AM
> then changed the story and said They ha
lived 10 Evansville, and came here to wor
Z on the railroad"
!. These facts can all be proved by the gen
tlemen named. There is no shadow O
/ doubt but what the work 10 already begun
y and every honest man must be on the sIeIt
| 10 hau Lar hHr ha Q1