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Show A BRACE OF SENATORS. " Mack," tho Washingfon correspondent corre-spondent of the St. Louis Democrat, refers tbuswiso to the two Mississippi senators: "It is lovely and pleasant to see brethren dwelling together in unity ; but 'it is neither lovely nor pleasant to see senators from the same State expose each other's follies and foibles. And yet the scene is not of rare occurrence. The rule is dissension, dissen-sion, aid the raro exception is perfect accord between two gentlemen of the same politics, and representing the same State, on the floor of the senate. The latest illustration is the quarrel between Ames aud Alcorn, of which the last round occupied more than two hours yesterday (May 2ltst). Ames,; who, I regret to suy, will be better known to lauio as Ben. Butler's son-in-law than as a senator of the United States, attacked the personal character of his colleague, Alcorn, on Monday night, with ail the forcible feebleness of which he was capable. He accused ac-cused him of personal dishonesty, corruption, fraud and other uncharita-blcntss, uncharita-blcntss, and left him weltering in his moral gore, so to speak. Alcorn could 'do nothing less than defend himself from the attacks of the distinguished son-in-law. He "went for" tho son-in-law as afores.aid, on Tuesday morning, morn-ing, and, unless my knowledge of the English language is greatly deficient, he left the impression that, according to his judgment, the son-in-law was a liar in particular, and a fraud in general, gen-eral, lie did not use Mr. Greeley's expressive noun, but he said his colleague col-league had been guilty ojsaying "that which he knew was out true," In uMtu Liiiii;a tLia wuuld Liivu provoked a "sui. i now it uuiy rebuus in a mutual mu-tual drink and a friunuly greeting. A statesman will fit;ht, but a son-in-law is a meek and dove-like creature, who finds earth so pleasant that he is in no hurry to take the chances on heaven which to the majority of sons-in-law will ever remain a distant land. To sum up the result of the allegations made by the Mississippi senators, each, against the other: The son-in-law is, according to Mr. Alcorn, a carpet-bugeer carpet-bugeer and a fraud, whom the people of Mississippi did not elect, and who has no interest in common with the constituency which he assumes to represent ; and Mr. Alcorn is, according accord-ing to the son-in-law, a dishonest person per-son who., has mysteriously made away with $50,000 of the public funds of Mississippi, and done various other nau tuiugs, wiuca it would take too much space for me to enumerate; It is not worth while to inquiro whether the son-io-law is right in what ho says against Alcorn, or whether Alcorn is correct in what he alleges against the son-in-law. It is safer to admit that each understands the other, and is correct in his portraiture " |