New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-08
FROM FLASHING TON.
THE SENATE IN 1856.
sueo Of The n. z. Tabes-.

mundane result prior aad PREDATORY to whi n. we
sre Enthusiastically growing old realize itDo Nhere
more forOiblg tbeu on returning, after prolonged
absence, to The SeDafe chauber Of tte United
States. The first thought here is inevitably Of the
great departsd-Of Clay and Webster, Calhoun
and Forsyth, Silss Wright aud Paindexser, whom
with younger eyes and 'resher heart, more hope
ful spirit / saw sitting here On my hrst Visit
nearly twenty years ago. Toe9 have passed away
rom earth, with john Dsyi. and Roger Huntington,
J. T. More be ad Phelps, Prentiss, and many others
who have since filled their seats while Corwia
and Ewing of Ohio, Tyler and Rives OF Virginia
Benton of Missouri, Mangsm and Badger of North
Carolina, though still living have gone into retire
ment, and no longer challenge the public regard
No, it lie not merely that look through DINNER eyes
and regard with cslmer interest, more iaoguld
pulse: know that the Seoate Of 1875, tested BY
the most uas CRYING standards was ADLER than that
Of 1855.
Perhaps this Senate is composed Of younger
men than that of twsnty years ago but doust 1t
For here sits Gen. Csss, 7eteran who hiss al
rea5y passed the seventy years allotted to man.
LOOKING heavier and duller than when first saw
hip, bat still unwrinkled and healthy, striking
example If rbe conserv alive power of rigid tenn
perapce, even though confronted By the distrac-
tious ana anIeties o. political life. Here is No
Cri.euden Iet1rned again, after many vici'sisudes,
Looking libby older, and with seeming AGAR
on he right side of bis face which mars his physl
opnomy but who seems as alert as sanguine, as
ready for parliamentary tilt. as in his vlVaclous
prime As to John Il. Claytoa-who, l am cont
dent, vas sitting here twenty years ago i know
not how much longer-he looks better, heartier'
brsBer, ant positively younger to day tosn he did
when hs left The Senate in l849 to become Gen.
Tsylor's Secretary of State. His circu nferecce
is still generous but he looks as if there were
m,pv Years life and work in him trust there
usy be
John P. Hale's rosy face Lights up the Senate
OK ce more, and bis humorous co nmsnts on what
ever is going forward serve greatly to relieve the
solemn dullness which hsbitual broOds over this
haunt of Fcsyism. Hale used to threaten to re-
sign when here before but be seems now quite
resigned to the dispensatiOn which sent him back
again. l think his resignation to this will prevent
bis resignation out oft bisnew colleague James
Bell, is pale, slim elderly lawyer, who will COM
maud the respect Of the Senate By problty anc In
dustry without wasting much Of its time in bril-
liar tly useless speeches
i bad not thought, a few years since, ever to see
Pitt Fessenden here as q Senator from Maine but
the change from the line Of Shepleys. Fairods and
Bradburys which be succeeds, is very welcome
Nor have yet quite 81" got the hang Of seeing
Henri Wilson, d" the Natick CObler," 10 tho seat
Of Daniel Webster. As my eye lights on his
rou1d, full earnest face aa tempted to beckon
him out and quietly inform him that the Senpts is
rsrp particular in excluding outsiders from its
seats; and then il flashes over me that he 10 there
the accredited representative of State street. Har-
ward University, and The Daily Adocrtiser; so L
hold py brea and inly wonder what will turn up
next. AID practically, Massachusetts, has not
often had more faithful or useful Senator than
Henry Wilson. Mr.. Sumner has been longer here,
and wears his S. natoribl honOfs as matter of
course. Shall we not soon see PennsJ lyAnia and
New jersey likewise representa- Ia the interest OF
Universal Freedom?
You viii bsve heard how the majority of the
Senate have resolved not to recognize the Repdb-
licans as belonging to National party or entitled
to consideration ia the Daking up of Committees.
So Messrs. Seward. Sumner, Hale, Wade, FeSsen-
dep, and Others will figure at the latter end Of the
Committees en- Revolutionary Pensions, Enrolled
Bills SC while the lead ia the Committees on
FinaIc e, Foreign Affair. the Judiciary, &c will
be assigned to state smen of the grasp Of mind and
tullless Of Information of Billy VIZ ght, G. ".
Jones, and Weller state this not 81 way of
complaint, but Of illustration. DOeberry long ago
spunciated the stern truth that When two ride q
" horse, one ast ride behind" aud / cheerfully
accent tie dispecsa But how is the majority
to navigate. in vie of the report sd fact that Mes'r
Fish Pratt Jones, Benjamin., aud perhaps one ortwo
other I'D line Whiss have thrown down the wesp-
cns of their rebellion, and applied for admission,
IL not fully into the Democratic camp, at least into
some limbo Of neutrality, where toey may De mace
uelcome to q share Of the good tdiags dispensed
II ON the usjorty table, These being stricken Oh
Cd the one side, and the Republican, on the other,
there will remain for regular a" National opposi
ton only Nil CTitteeden aforesaid and bis COL
league with John Bell ofT-nnessee-wh first came
into Congress soue thirty years ago, and who
esiDs t. show Oh bis dark. broad. anxious visage
the burrows Of age and care-and James A. Pearoe
of Mary land, the scholar and gentleman for excel
lei &C. who never discredited his place in the Sem
ate By a. angry rude or impertinent observation,
and whose sunny countenance bespeaks calm good
will and peace with all mankind. Rasher q select
\ s,iopal" party this must be- bat you might
belong to one far more numerous yet good deal