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Show A letter to tbe PilUburB Dispatch says: "The senate is supposed by tbe people, generally, to be a much snore dignified and serious body than the noun, but any one present for tbe firBt time last night would have been ' filled with wonder and amazement at what tbe bouse could he if it were moro disorderly than the "higher branch" of the national legislature. Tbe spectacle of noble senators cautiously cauti-ously moving about on uncertain legs with wavering step; others disputing and w ran ling over tbe Billiest possible possi-ble points in an excited manner; others standing in grctips of twos and threes in maudlin embraces, while others carelessly loitered about smoking smok-ing their cigar, not in tbe cloakrooms, cloak-rooms, but oh tbe door, was not calculated to give Ibe cool headed spectator anything like a feeling of reverence fjr the members wbo are supposed to represent not counties, hut sovereign slates." |