Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-03-30

The SENATE THE UNITED STATES. The per-
sonal and political notices of United States SEN
ators now in session at Washington, will doubles
attract much attention. Tine first point of obseTva-
ton in regard this body is. the amount Of talent
existing among the members, compared with the
Senate of other days. 1t may be safely asserted, we
think that the character OF the Senate is deIer
Grating. If there to be found in the present
Senate supply the places of w ebster, Clay, Cal
houn and Benton, ii will he found that the average
amount Of talent is kept up in the whole number, and
that the proportion of really inferior men, is small
among the Senator'S On running over the personal
notices which have ven, it is curious to observe
the Of political training most of the Senators
have undergone in their respective States, by public
services of various kinds. before they have been
sidered qualified for election TO the Senate. These
services have been executive, legislative, judicial or
military, according TO circumstances.
The leading men debaters in the Senate, as at
present organized, leaving the free soers out of the
question, will doubtless be Cass, Hunter, Mason,
Soule, Atherton Butler, Douglas, Rusk and Houston
on the Democratic side-wlth Clayton, Everett,
Pearce. Dixon, Jones, Badger, Truman Smith and
Geyer, that of The Wings. Gen. Cass and Gen.
Dodge, the two oldest men in the Senate, being
over seventy years of age Most Of the others have
been born during the present century, and the averages
of the forty-fve Senators whose ages are known is
about fifty.
With regard to nativity the old States still pre-
the pTePonderance in furnishing national legis
ators less than thfiynine out of fortynine Sena-
Tors whose birth places are known having been born
In The OLD thirteen StateS; VIZ III Tie I'VE" Eng
land States IA, in New York 4. Pennsylvania 2,
Maryland A. Delaware 2, Virginia 5, North Carolina
2, South Carolina 4, and Georgia 2. Of the others,
there born in Tennessee 2, Indiana 2, Ohio l,
Missouri l. Ireland l, France 1, West Indies 3 Eth
noIogcally considered, the ffty-sx Senators. Qhere
being six vacancies,) may be classed as follows:
OF Anglo-Saxon origin 80, Scotch 5, WEIGH 6, Irish
l, French 3, Spanish l, German Total Sc.
One of the most striking points in the list of SEN
ators, is the preponderance of gentlemen in the
legal profession. foreigner, in looking at The
cuPa'lcns in private life of the executive and legs-
lative branches of government, might well sup
pose that the constitution provided that lawyers
should always have the preference, the same Prin-
cipe that the cha tier of the Mechanics Bank of hs
city provides that majority of the Board of Direc.
tors shall be mechanics. No less then forty lone of
the United States Senators are, or have been, law
yeTs, leaving fifteen for all other occupations. OF
these last, the medical profession have 2; the
chanics, two the military, the Planters and retired
gentlemen, the renainder-the merchants moi having
one of their own number 10 represent them Truly,
the legal profession is the favored class with the peo
pie of this country. ~ Y. Herald.