The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-12
A General Reign of Quiet Elsewhere.

Tpesday october 10, eection-day is upon us
me tolng OF the bells at dayDreak awaSehe9 tne
.n Snd aroused the combatants to the Dattle NOW
ha danoth and breadth of the city-nay through
ont the State-the fight iercely RACES; InSre Is no
Sonnonadnp-no ascending clouds Oh snoke-anu
i issues az important as those conended Tor on
Inc bloody field are at stake to-day; 49,, ooo,o 4,
10, nc u'he heavens frown. But when was known
hright and CHEEKY election-day? me mlsts OF an
ndsohor morning have hardly yet dsslpated, Dut
@ octooer ersrnnnded rT n few hundred feet aoft, COM
minSled with descending moisture that warts only
nt% tne sap indeed the sun has made to pierce the
nry veil that shuts him in, but, bootless in his Ia
nor has retired in displeasure. ...
WI, ,or @ many reasons the political contest now raging
Of Ee polls in this city and State is of the most ex
SunS SS ticSets are being scored and split; are
voting by Judgment and conscience not oy partisan
shin When the day declines ana the nght IS over,
stranqe developments, unexpected returns, will
starte many of the candidates and the citizens. AS
i m ss Of the battle have been shifting and surgng
.,u day Records have become muddled, and
accounts ot SceS5 y9ies bs one will exhibit polling Of
i,straipht tickets in number vastly less. Hardly
ballot enters window but Is marked ana "plas-
Tontrarv TO expectation, however, whatever may
he the case outside the city, the voters here are out
in force. Appearances would indicate that full
vote will be poed; that the verdict rendered at the
baot-box win be by the many, .n not the few AS
soon as the polls opened this morning they were
surrounded by throngs, and have continued crowded
thus far into the day.
hRessrye Policeman No 4 Slightly OGicions.
Yesterday evening scene occurred In front Of the
Nayors Office, which was highly characteristic OF
the DemOcracy, and disgraceul in the extreme, in
which Democratic politician and Democratic
noliCeman figured extensively. Samuel Carson,
Whose name Is known in every part Of the city, being
anxious to invest little Of his surplus cash on the
Of the a5 pays but sa nt mo @cs E@
Sans Treasury, offered to bet with gentleman who
was standing at Fifth and Chestnut sts The friend OF
Seary and Carson stepped into the Telegraph Olice
but the latter couldn't find enough money. They
both retired-the Geary man going on the steps in
NJ Tho Carson
up Fifth street. The latter, however, turned and
went up to the man and struck 1toS him Reserve
him and locked him up, allowing Carson TO go on his
way. But shortly afterwards, tins wel-Enown poll
suited and who was sitting in an ambulance in front
Of the office Of the Chief Engineer This man was
the arrest of Carson. Two other arrests were made
of parties sitting in the ambulance, and at O'clock
all the prisoners except Carson and the man he
struck before the shining light % who attempts
administer justice at the W GeRtrs Station The
Pote, and Robert Osborn. The following testimony
was adduced:-
Cloak N S and EsgeoR heRTa Ten
latter Jumped Of the ambulance and knocked the ct
zen oseman Pat German hoering hard
naHSs %Semsn anS snyRodg body ., tno ,,,
and wR Tsa a ehap Se in clothing forward ant
I6n sG hS BernSrd naa MGen Of first Police district and
i0stiSa Ss ss6o9 3 sesHE say, e to the near
Mr. Joseph Allen said he desired to ask this witness
&idsy%an Their ast o G0uGiS sRSR o,.,or
Alderman KerrHAie you member of the Bar:
NJ AenJNS oS 2% viii ksep Quiet then
Poll enan Bernard Mullen resgmednIhs ed man beat haC
aS to 9e Ss Skem man has been following asking who
Policeman Berna,d IN! MuienmIhls M nn3GGs one
Alderman Kerr to Policeman Bernard Mullen Are yor
afralu OF thls fna phan. rd M,yen am sir
Alderman Kerr to o0k spt sed med
nS fS EbsG E and
he arrested brought in Pote urged on the disturb
alderman KerrI hold Eggestqn, Pote and Osborn
s es aen and vii ssr sc ba @ oT AdoTan
desn A9 &snf viii sH s% woTs don't
the necessity for making me go to the trouble of gettin
ny Alderman KerThat is one of the contingencies 70
Mr AeneYour course is altogether owing to the pol
fics Of those men recOllect a
of the people, and TO morrow the people will speak.
The magistrate left his seat when Dr. Setzer dc
manded and procured transcript of the docket
of the power conferred in his position by law for tn
first time since his induction Issued WflG OF habea
corpus on which the prsonbTs Mere aken % 5eior
no one seemed to know, although ne was, as befor
stated, locked up by direction n 9L hign Consta5l
by Mayor Fox OF the conduct OF his policemen an
the committing magistrate at the Central sta!lot
in far more important cases than this.
ANY Quantity of Plug UglIes In TOwn-NIc NIuI
Inns Threnu Partly Verified.
At one of the closing meetings OF the Boa0d
Aldermen the magistrate OF the Fourth ward lad
OF threats that the city would be filled wit
people who would not allow the election to procec
under the operations of the Registry law 10 wa
whispered around Yesterday afternoon that thcT
would be an arrival OF Plug Uglies from Baltimor
who were to participate in the election to-day i'm an
manner in which they should be directed by m
Chief of the Plug Ugies of Philadelphia. It was nm
derstood that they We're TO vote in the names of dea
men. of non-resdents, and particularly their duI
was defined to be TO take possession Of the moi
during the early hours OF the day and vote in N
names OF Republicans SO that when the latter a
peared they would be ruled out by the election OF
GERS on the ground that that name had been -Yoti
before 1t is believed that by the latter course alo
several hundred Republican citizens, in the Thir
Fourth, and Fifth wards VIII be cheated out of the
After / O'Clock this morning the gang W
loaf about Ninth and Chestnut streets cOud be Sc
vending their way westward and on being ''pin
the neighborhood OF Broad and Prime streets, The
they were joined at O'Clock by Alderman McMull
and the whole party went into the Baltimore dep
where the train containing the rOughs arrived
$40 O'Clock. In detachments OF two ana three I'll
left the depot, took the carriages in waiting a
drove rapidly away
For time sight was lost OF them, Dut on reachi
Eighth and SAMSON streets the whoeparty We're
covered in front Of puollc house in the last-nau
street.
establishment, and mere agaln tie leader OF the
mOcracy in the First Congressional district hgur
The work OF this crowd we may be able TO chrOn
in our edition of tomorrow.
HIclIuIlin's Domain.
To vote early the adherelCs VI King william
not care They preferred evidently TO sleep aY
their recoections OF night OF hard work and bT
ali their energies TO ear on the main question of
day-'Vote often" AT O'Clock, therefore, eve