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TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST IL, 1857.
THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
N Q n B z r VI.

1oEoDhI MOhNlNJ, ADJUST Ii, leof.
THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
TUMBER XVI.
Having completed our notices Of the Senators on
be right Of the main aisle leading to the Presidents
hair, we come now TO the other side Of the chamber
the Democratic side as it may be called, for there
not Freesoiler to be found there. The first one
We encounter is the Hon. James A. Bayard, of
Delaware.
Mr. Bayard is tall, middle-aged gentleman, with
light hair, parted, like Fremonts, in the middle. He
vas struggling to get into the Senate several years
oefore he succeeded-but finally attained the object
Of his ambition, and is likely to retain it as long as
he chooses. His term expired on the 4th Of March
last but he has been reelected for six years longer
He is man of some ability, but he destroys all the
effect Of it by redundant verbisge. What any one
else might easily say in five Minutes Bayard will
elaborate into speech of half an hours length.
What any other Senator would say in two hours, it
would take Bayard two days to accomplish He pos
seses none of the art Of concentrating his deas-but
dilutes them so largely with superabundance of
words, that by the time they reach the ear Of the
auditor, they are as weak and wishy-washy as the
phrases of Fourth Of July Grafton.
He is remarkable too for always having the last
word. After having made half a dozen speeches in
the course of debate, he will frequently interrupt
the Secretary after the ayes and noes have been
dered, and tire the Senate with halfhour speech.
He is the evil genius of the reportorial corps who
anxious to send off the result Of certain vote are
appalled, by Bayards rising, after exbaustng ses
sion of FIVE six hours and when the vote is about
to be taken, and making an elaborate speech, taking
his own time about it. Moreover, he never prepares
himself beforehand but speaks always after hearing
what everybody else has said. He rarely speaks from
his own desk, and never twice from the same place.
After making one speech from the northern corner
of the chamber, he may be often found five minutes
afterwards rising to another speech from some desk
in the south. Evldisposed persons would be apt to
consider this affectation.
He was one Of the leaders Of the Cincinnati Con.
vention which nominated Mr.. Buchanan, and the man
who settled the difficulties between the Hard and
Softshell delegations there, by taking them as the
delegates took their brandy and waterfall and half
1t was supposed that Mr.. Buchanan would reward
him Ito use stereotyped phrase-as though one
could do nothing these days without expecting re
ward,) with Cabinet seat or foreign mission. But
Mr.. Buchanan either failed to do it, or, what is no
bored with him for six years longer
Next TO him is Gov. Pratt of Maryland-a large
jolly looking parsonage, who appears to take every
thing as it comes, without giving himself much con
about it. In the days of the Wing party be wa
elected Governor of Maryland beating one of th'
strongest men Of the State. Subsequently he wa
transferred to the Senate after serving several year
| in the Maryland Legislature.
He is not, by any means, an orator-and rarely par
ticipates in the debates of the Senate. He woul
have made more successful merchant than politician
1t was due to his financial skill and foresight, Will
| Governor OF Maryland, that that State was enable
to work through the tremendous financial ditcultie
which at one time involved her, and placed her th
brink of repudiation Gratitude for this service ma
have perhaps led to the election of Gov Pratt to h
Senate.
During the late Presidential election Gov. Prat
like his colleague flew off the handle and refused
sapport Mr. Fillmore for the Presidency. This We
not une5pected-for Gov. Pratt belonged to an ol
Catholic Whig family, and was descended from th
original settlers of the old Catholic county Of S
Mary's. He took much stronger ground against NJ
Fillmore than his colleauge did-and, his term havin
expired on the 4th of March last, Hon. Anthony Kel
nedy was elected to succeed him. His political ca
reer, it is likely, is at an endand not much agains
his will as he appears to have no ambition for Office
and is fond Of enjoying the social comforts and d
pensing the elegant hospitality which his great wealt
allows him.
On his left sits another eX-Goyernor-Brown
Missssippi-a gentleman whose reputation has grow
more rapidly within the last few years than perhap
any other member of the Senate. Indeed, it WE
only during the last session of Congress that Co
Brown displayed his full powers as an orator and
statesman. His speech on our difficulties with Grei
Britain, during the first session of the last Congress
astonished Mr.. Clayton and Gen. Cass. Subsequent
his rebuke of the Northern and Northwestern Dem
Gratis for departing from the ancient Democratic fat
and leaning to the agrariansim of the times, Il
finest specimen of severe and polished invective. Al
this constitutes the distinction of Gov. Brown as
Senator. There is no Democratic Senator on the tlo
in whose honesty and sincerity so much reliance cs
be placed as in his. Unyieldng as is his opposite
to Black Repubicanism, he does not hesitate still
lash his own party when he finds it departing fro
the true faith. His protest against the admission
unnaturazed aliens to the right of suffrage in IL
Territories was Of the most Indignantly eloquel
speeches to which it has ever been my fortune
listen.
He frequently takes a tilt with Seward-the latt
seeming to be fond Of discussion with him. Not th
he gets the advantage, but because Brown alwa,
treats him courteously. He plays sad havoc vii
his arguments and declarations, but he makes no u
necessary display of resentment.
1t is said there is some doubt about his re-elect'
to the Senate. Politically opposed as am to him
have to say that Mississippi could not, by any pos
bty, do better than return Gov. Brown to the boz
of which he is now, and will be in future, most &C
spicuous member. In all the qualities of statesma
few Seators in the chamber will rank with hi
should his reputation be sustained and increased
the future as it has been in the past ESSEX.
{ COMPLEMENTARY Doubtful. - The Boston Pc
says:
The Bee has more lies in it than any other paper
: Boston.
1t must have required vast amount of calcuIatl
: and comparison to reach such conclusion.
} TCharleston Courier
y Probably if one in propagating talsehoods, en-
u lates the industry of its respectable little namesa
the name of the other was suggested by the old
preston, lying like sign POST