Show senatorial the momentous question which party will have the house of congress hos decided by the result of the election in tennessee legislature with the election of senator jackson whose name ought to be a fair and promising indication of his democratic di the democrats have 37 tote out of the 76 sure and it will de pend on the inclination of the so called independents david davis from mabone from virgia which party will hare the majority if they both tola with the democrats they giva that party the preponderance but if they vote between the two sides the republicans have the upper hand as with an even division of the senate 38 to 38 the casting vote of the vice arcs reasonably sure to defeat the democratic si de thus while the election of jackson did not increase the republican Ee coundit coun tit neither put the ascendancy of the democrats beyond cavil the situation la the more deplorable as it places too great power into the hand f a man like mahone of virginia whose political character is in a very bad order when the parties come so low down as to quarrel with each other for such a ro anthore can be little of reasonable results expected oa the whole the changes in tho senate give anything aut promises of an improvement of guat legislative body aa is well know every two years one third the senators retire the man who i of the greatest weight and condei quence to the democratic party bay ard of delaware has fortunately been reelected reele cled the other retiring members of the senate of the united states are bootha Boot hf california wha so deplorably disappointed high strung expectation beaton of connecticut undoubted lya man of good intentions but also of erratic eccentric dispositions MoDo of indiana a very able honest man whose departure from the senate chamber is universally regretted II amlin of maine who might long since have made room for younger while of maryland a very respectable and reasonable senator baldwin of michigan who during his occupancy of the unexplored term of jacb chandler distinguished himself by silence Bruce of mississippi a respectable black figi of no importance imp orlance except for his color paddock of nebraska cipher sharon of nevada who has eo charitably spared the leather seat of hia chair randolph of new jersey a windy politician whose losa is a real gain for democracy kernan of new york respectable but weak especially by the beof his collea guethe virile conk ohio in whom the senate sustains its greatest loas he being destined to play a preeminent part in american politics wallace gone bailey of tennessee wither olvir ginia Uarl ford of west virginia cameron of wisconsin all small calibre il takes to make a dozen except thurman and mcdonald tb senate loses nothing with all these changes likewise the re elected gentlemen jones ol 01 clotida Flo tida dawes of McM iUan of minnesota cookrell ol 01 missouri and burnside of hod ifland might hare been left to bibi in the privacy of their respective homes only th reflection of eds munds of vermont and bayard of deleware lay in the interest of a re US senate they being each the first and foremost viaud facile prin dept of their respective parties of the newly entering senators only of sher maut of ohio are men of decided importance and of a political character worthy the exalted pretensions of the senate chambler hale and of indiana ire expert politicians and the latter especially may yet mature into a statesman van wyck whom has elected in former days played a not insignificant part as representative for the state of new york plait of new york and fair ap pear to be almost out of place in the banate conger the Ther of the house ia little likely to enhance the dignity of the american upper house affects to be punctiliously jealous of its virgin dignity oen miller of california is aby some suspected to be a representative senta tive or at least a friend of the monopolists of whom our national legislature already contains a too decided from hiis B appi comes a homo awu in the peron of a certain nondescript mr george maryland sends a not much more illustrious mr gorbun and elected reelected re maxey thus all in all the prospects for the US senate are not very promising there is little probability of an improvement and new york exchange thinks there is as little of it getting worse than it is the improvement if any is decidedly on the lle publican side and we much fear that abe demo brats have lost more than they will very soon be able to repair low |