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Show tiii: imiociuiH nut. kintuou A He) ubllcan senator being replaced by a Democrat lu an unlooked-for place setthti the atatus of tho noxt upper houie of Cougreit beyond all cavil. This occurred In Kansas and tho winner loirs thn rather common place cognomen of John Martin. lie lea lawyer of Topekannd will be len known when ho takoa his sett, perhaps, per-haps, tlun any other man In the liody. He was nominated by the lpjlta aud elected by them with the aid of a few Democratic votea, aud Is undoubtedly undoubt-edly n Democrat himself, one of tho "straight-out" variety at that, or Mm. I.eaeo would not havo beon ao er turbedand lmlitelaoatrongly on an other organlzitlon ut the 1'opullst patty. The rather lengthy strugglo In Wis cousin terminated yestvrJay In the choice of John I. Mitchell, Democrat; be will aucceed I'hlletus Hawyer, whose term expires on the -lib of March next. Tne most prominent, or nt least the best known, ol the candidates from this state Cleneral I.dward H. llragg waa looked upou in the most likely mm to gain the prlzi, but aa la often soon, aenatorlal elections are apt to bo as uncertain as to their out corneas any others. Mr. Mitchell la not, however, unknown by any metus; belt ipilto a prominent mm, whose qualities and atandlng are kuown throughout bin atato and In many places outside of It. The DsmocrAts have now retlral four Ilspublloana In favor of an equal number of their own men, thusmtklng a change of eight la the relative vol I nit strength of themselvea and the Itepubllcans, and making tho necesairy forty-four to secure control with tliu aid of the Vl03l'resldent. If Mon tanaanl Wyoming shall elect Djmo-oratsthey Djmo-oratsthey would then hsvo forty-six agalust forty-one llspublloaus, a pin-ralltyol pin-ralltyol flvo and a mijorlty ol four; but whether they di thli or not, a shown tho Deuioorats will hive complete com-plete control for a while at lout In eory branch of the government after Mr. Ulevelaud'a Inauguration. |