The Morning herald., 1875-10-06
.PHIL.4DELPHIA NEWS.
what Took Place In tho QuaKer
City, Yesterday.

City, Yesterday. ga.
Reported 1SpeciaAytor the Herald. m ''
lugl 3 DRl CHARLEY ROSS CASE. .t1
Il The excitement in police circles, ,yesterda.
morning concerning n the appearance O
! Baker, one of the 'sknowing creatures,
constantly coming to the surface in th'
Ross abduction case, has subsided. Bake
says simply, that he knew Nelse Boothe ,on'
Of the selGadmitted abductors Of Charley
Ross, for period Of three months, in South
| Carolina, but that he never impaired to hin
Bakery intelligence Of the boys where
abouts, that ever amounted to anything
Baker resides in Philadelphia and expresses
his willingness to assist the police; but If he
doesn't know any more of the case than he
appears to, his assistance wont amount to
much.
| MOoDBY AND sANKEY.
Mr.. Geo. H.~Stuart, the King Bee of
Quaker City Soul Savers, thinks Msody
aud sankeyi will receive warm reception
next Thursday week, in this city despite the
opposition of the Lutheran ministers who
are ofthe opinion that the itinerant preachers
and singers,are pair or religious "blather-
skites." The sanctimonious cosmopolites will
fnaugurate their seige against sinners at
the Methodist Church, Broad and Arch
streets, and there is the faintest probability
that said: inaugural service will not be Of
the most harmonious character. Mr..
Stuart however, expresses his determination
to"go for" all opposition to free rostrum
"tooth and nail" )" HGl
THE REFORMERs APOLoGIzING.
Some five or six days ago the Political
Reform Association of this city addressed
letter to Judge Craig Bddle, candidate
on the Republican ticket for Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas, asking him to
make known his intentions with regard to
the appointment of Prothonotary of that
Court. VIM. B. Mann is o prominent can
didate for the position, and at the prospect
of his being successful, the reformers
shudder. To this request of theirs Mr..
Biddle returned a polite but positive
answer-refusing to commit himself to any
course of action which might be construed
into bid for the judgeship-in effect, sug-
gesting to the Reformers that they mind
their own business. To this answ er L. P
Ashmead, Secretary of the Municipal
Reform Association, published an apollo
getic reply yesterday afternoon, regretting,
at the same time, that it was beyond the
power of his questioners to read the Judges
mind.
AN OFFENCE AGAINST LIBERTY.
house at Front and Spruce streets, while
they were sleeping, and their subsequent
sentence to the house of correction by Mag
istrate List, as vagrants, and the magis-
trate's censure for so doing, ly Judge
Briggs, there has been systematic contin-
uancc Of these outrages on liberty. In each
case it is discovered that Democrat, for no
other offence than his political persuasion,
has been the victim, and very popular
hue and cry is being raised in consequence.
The municipal organization of the Republi-
cad party has become so thoroughly de-
moralized at the prospect of utter route on
election day, that in their frenzy they have t
had recourse to this suicidal policy, hoping
hereby to reduce the'number of Democratic
votes. That this is the reason for the per- '
'etration of these outrages against liberty,
must be conceded, when it is known beyond I
III doubt that at least fifteen thousand en- T.
ries of false names have been made on the .
lists. Putting both these wild
undertakings together, it can be understood il
y the wayfarer, though he run, that II
.oodly Republican majority would be the =
esult. But the Democratic City Executive r
under Benz. l.. Temple, Esq.
las exposed the latter fraud, and Judge y
'inletter, Ga Republican Judge) sitting in y
he Common Pleas Court yes I
erday, put an effective if not Il
ffeetual damper upon the practisers of i i
he former rascally scheme. A case came ~
p before him on habeas corpus, in which o
appeared that man named John Far n
ell had been arrested at the corner of Fif- Il
centh and Callowhill streets, taken before :,
Police Sergeant, and committed to prisoa 81
'ithout hearing on the threadbare charge III
vagrancy. In the meantime the writ was u
sued and the case presented to court. 1t eei
AS proven that the man was sober, honest cl
nd industrious, and the officer who made IN
lc arrest could only give as his reason for NJ
} doing the pital le excuse that the man ~ ~
as standing on the corner at half past w