Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-10-10
.wAsHIHaFoN news AND GOSSIP.

Pennsylvania is overwhelming The follow
ing despatch from cautious and well-inform-
ed friend in Philadelphia, tells the tale Of the
Pennsylvania result in few words
"PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 10, DAM.
The Democratic triumph is unprecedented.
They have carried the Legislature - both
brsnches-by very large msjorities, and have
also elected their candidate for Canal Com
missionerin similar way.
From the fragmentary dispatches, to which
We refer above, the publication of which would
only serve to confuse the ordinary reader,
it is clear thst the Democrats have gained in
every county of the State. in some almost
5000! votes lin each) as compared with the
election Of last year.
From Ohio, we learn nothing whatever up to
noon, owing certainly to arrangement of the
wires, which up to that hour provokingly con.
tinued. Our arrangements to obtain them ut
an early hour this morning were go complete
as to prevent disappointment in any other
way. A first gun from Ohio, received last
night, says that Chase had made considerable
gains in six counties. Itcame from Columbus,
and amounts to nothing; As it cannot be that
he has gained upon the anti administration
majority thrown there last year.
From Indiana We have nothing whatever
30 far t.as
By-the-by, shortly after noon to day the
telegraphing agent of the associated press
sent up to us copies almost verbatim of the re-
turns from Pennsylvania, which we found at
A. M. printed in the Baltimore Sun. This
rs enterprise with q vengcance!)
We have nothing on going to press from the
local election in progress to-day in Baltimore
r. IS. Just as We 60 to press we have dis
patch from perfectly reliable friend, in Co.
lumbus, Ohio, on whom we are depending.
He telegraphs US at 10, A. NJ. to-day, that
sufficient has been heard from all quarters Of
The State to render certain the election Of
Gov. Medill, Dem y and also of the rest Of
the Democratic State ticket, by majorities
over which their friends throughout the Stat,
are shouting themselves out of breath. Rail.
roads SO traverse the State, that reliable
news from almost every county west, have con-
centrated in Columbus by o, A. NJ. to-day. So
they 60. /
The Late Capt. Folsom's Accounts-wc
find in the New York Times letter from
Charleston, s. c, esssying to explain the &C
counts of the late Capt. Folsom, formerly As
sistant Quartermaster U. S. A., for disburse
ments in California from the first quarter OF
1850 to the second quarter of 1854, which is
au 1or tlv "a tan -
edge on the subject. We have taken pains to
inform ourself with reference to this matter.
as it is understood by the accounting officers of
the Government, it being one of great popular
interest, more especially on the Pacific side.
Its gist is as follows Captain Folsom had,
placed in his hands for disbursement, large
amount of public funds, and he rendered
vouchers for his expenditures up to within
some four montha of the occurrence of q Ger.
tain fire; alleging that, in it. the vouchers for
the previous four months expenditures asore-
said were burned. The balance thus unac.
counted for was s275, 736, which he and his
friends claimed to have been expended for
public purposes and covered by the lost vouch-
ers.
As the average rate Of expenditure on Tat
station, both before and after the alleged period
covered by the lost vouchers, was .ruch less ttan
as alleged by him for that time, the testimony
offered in place of the vouchers was considered
too vague and general to be allowed; amount.
ing to little more than statement that tho
expenditures had been made and the vouchers
had been burned. The Government sued him
for a balance of 1915, 1885.
Congress, in the army appropriation bill last
passed, included a clause authorising parole
testimony Of the alleged disbursements during
the four months Of the lost vouchers To show
how improbable the testimony rendered was
We have only to remark that the amount
claimed as discussed during the four months
was nearly SO, 500 greater than his Captain
F.'s) total disbursement for two years and five
months, in which he was disbursing, from the
first quarter of 1850 to second quarter Of 1854,
exclusive of the time covered by the lost vouch.
ers. The order for the suit against his estate
went out by tho last steamer. He certainly
disbursed something; but in the absence of
anything resembling PROOF In the matter, the
Department, we presume, will continue 10 de-
cline to allow credit of more than the ave.
rage for the time-four months-which is some
where between $40, 900 and $50, 600
The Last Bribery Case -Yesterday we
noticed the fact Of the indictment of Judge
Stuart, of the New York city court, for bri-
berry, and compounding felonies it was his
duty to punish according to law. We were
struck with fact bearing on the case an
nounced in the same paragraph which we
were then without the space to notice
properly. That is, with his alleged effort to
induce the grand jury to let him appear be-
fore them with testimony in his own defence.
1t strikes us, that any judge Of court of law
who could deliberately purpose thus to trife