In the Weekly for March 14 we gave a large engraving of the House of Representatives, in which the same features were accurately portrayed. This companion picture of the Senate is on the same scale and plan, and the two together represent the two principal chambers of the national capitol more accurately than any similar drawings yet made. On our first page will be found two engravings which explain themselves. When it is known that crowds of old ladies, negroes, etc., etc., indignant at being refused admission to the Capital of the nation, are continually asking questions, making appeals, and muttering threats, it is apparent that the position is not a sinecure. Four or five policemen are necessary to keep back the crowd which is always waiting here during the session of the Senate for the trial.
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