Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-10-13
vAsHIHaroN NEWS AND 9 oss1.

tions which have just taken plane in their |
State show an aggregate Democratic majority |
of about 40, 900. If true-and we doubt it
the change there since the election Of last fall
has been even more sweeping and astounding
than in Ohio.
PESNsYLvAS1A.-Asf far as heard from the |
Democrats have gained four State Senators
and forty members of the Legislature.
Lancaster county, which gave q majority
last year Of 6, 1858 for the Know Nothings, now
gives a small majority for the Democratic
candidate for Canal Commissioner, and elects
a Democratic County Treasurer, and two out
of the FIVE Asasmblymen. Z,
Columbia county gives about 600 majority
for Plumer Carbon, 400; Fulton, 200. !
Centre gives 200 for Nicholson.
The Democratic gain in Wilmots district is
about 1000. -.
In the Senatorial district composed Of tn
counties of Lycoming, Clinton, Centre, AZ ID
Sullivan, Mr.. Dietrich (Democrat) is elects d.
Dieffenbach and Bech (DemOcrats) are elect cd
to the Assembly in Clinton, Lycoming, and
Potter
GEoRe1A.--The vote of the Temperance can
didate for Governor is about {, 200. .--
CoNNEcrIcUr.-In the township elections
tie anti.Know Notbings and anti.Fusiouists
have triumphed in sixty-two, and the Know
Nothings and Fusionists In ffty-one towns
About forty towns are TO elect at future day,
| most of them on the first Monday Of Novem.
Der. The Union says:
a. In rnnst nf tha tArns returned as--dfvlGed,'
the Democrats and national Wings united upon
a ticket in opposition to the Know Nothing and
Abolition Fusionists, and carried the election.
The same one hundred and thirteen towns,
| if they vote the same way next spring, will
elect a majority Of oper thirty members of the
Legislature opposed to fusion and its INJURIOUS
| Doctrines
Or. Kane's Report. Navy Department,
yesterday evening, received DR.. kane's first
report. In looking over it, We find that it
substantially amounts to what was published
in yesterdays New York papers On the Sub.
ject of his expedition, and its adventures and
results. necessarily meagre in details, as
matter Of course. In another column, our
readers will find all the facts it gives lin ad.
dition to those published by US yesterday of
much public interest
Lieut.. Hartstein's first report has also been
| received, and, like the other, embraces little
more than the facts found in the New York
little squadron, the Arctic (propeller) and the
Relief We may, however, say that his ships
so hastily prepared by the Department for the
expedition, turned out to be admirably arran
ged and qualified for their duty. The little
steamer, built originally for light-bo did
perhaps better than any other steamship of
any nation that has so far essayed the navi-
CATION of the Arctic regions.
Lieut.. Hartstein's Expedition, though leav-
ing New York as recently as the 4th Of June
last, penetrated farther north than any Arctic
expedition of any nation ever did, except
that of DR.. Kane-going at least degree
higher than that Of Sir John Ross
| The British will not like having to alter
their Arctic-regions maps to suit the discoye.
ries of Kane and Hartstein's Expeditions, in
regions where they have advanced beyond
European navigators.
A Knowing 'un-A Washington cores
pondent of the New York Times, having re.
Gently /" resurrected" and sent to that Journal
as mews the information published in the Star
more than fortnight ago relative to the prob.
able action Of the Government in Mr. Cramp-
ton g case, the editor makes his communion
ton the subject Of comment, in the course Of
which he says
The offence of Mr.. Champion might have
been pardoned if he had only succeeded in
| furnishing the succor referred to- He would
then have stood on equal footing with some O!
our own people who did succeed, and in equal
violation of neutral faith, in giving large aid
and comfort to the allies in the shape of SUPPLE
contraeand OF war. For now that the trans
action Is of the past, and Sebastopol has fallen,
by the combined means of French and English
| valor and Yankee poicder, we presume we
violate no confidence in stating from well au-
thenticated rumor, that two or three thousand
tons of American made powder, from the most
approved mills OF Delaware and Connecticut,
have been shipped frsm this port to the order
of the British official agents, to the Crimea.''
His notion is worthy of remark only to set
him right about articles contraband of war
of which g YanAse poacaer'' is not one. The
trade in powder with either party to the cur.
rent war, is not " contraband Of war; trade.
Overhaul your international law dictionary,
MIR. Times, and make note ont.
Unpaid Letters -When the new postage
law, (msking it obligatory to prepay postage
On letters first went into operation, postmas-
tiers were permitted by the Department to de.
liver unpaid domestic letters on the payment
of postage by those to whom they might be
addressed This was necessary, because time
was requisite to enable the public as well as
many postmasters TO comprehend iully the
changes that had beer ade in the law. As
sufficient time has now elapsed to make it
certain that the law in all its bearings IS ve1y
generally understood, We hear the Department
have directed tina: on the receipt at their
offices in the -aails of unpaid letters deputy