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The next q. ). Senate.


The operation of consigning to obscurity
Representatives who have betrayed the
cause of Freedom, and filing their seats
with men who can be trusted has ceased to be
a novelty in the House, The Senate has now
begun,to feel sensibly the effects of the same
process. Recent elections have subtracted
four from the number of the tools Of Slavery
extension and replaced them with SOUND and
earnest Republicans. Another soon to be
chosen from Wisconsin, will make the mum
Der of Republicans in the Senate, tpeat y
After the next 4th of March, Mr.. Toucey,
of Connecticut, resigns his seat to a better
man, James Dixon. Mr.. James of Rhode
Island, is superseded by James F. Simmons,
Republican. Mr.. Brodhead of Pennsylya-
mia retires in dishonor to private life, and
Simon Cameron, the personal and political
enemy of Mr.. Buchanan, represents Penn
s%ylvania in his stead. And Mr.. Chandler
Of Michigan succeeds to the seat of the
uperannuated and dishonest Cass.
From Massachusetts,, Mr.. Sumner has
been chosen for another term of six years.
In Florida, Senator Mallory is reelected.
In Missouri, James S. Green, democrat, is
elected to fill a vacancy. No nomination
has yet been made Of a successor to Senator
Geyer, whose term expires on the 4th of
March.
There remain ten senators to be elected
from eight states, to make the Senate COM
plete on Mr.. Buchanan's accession to the
presidential chair, viz n senator to fill the
full term for which Senator IIamlin, of
vacant by his acceptance of the Office of
Governor of Maine one to succeed Fish, of
New York one to succeed Thompson, of
New Jersey one to succeed Jones OF Ten
nessee one to succeed Bright, of Indiana,
and one to fill a vacancy in the same state
one to succeed Geyer, of Missouri one to
fill the uncxpired term of Harlan, of Iowa,
recently unseated by a vote of the Senate
one to succeed Weller, of California, and
also one to fill a vacancy from the same
state.
In the following table will be found the
names of those who will constitute the
United State Senate on the fourth of March
next, so far as they are known, and the
probable political complexion of the senator's
yet to be chosen.
JONI Z. BRECKlNRIDGE, President.
THE figures denote the expiration of the terms of
the Senators.
MAINE. MISSISSIPPI.
HANNIBAL HANLiN, 1893 Jefferson Davis, 1893
W.PIrr FEssEsDES, 1859 Albert @. Brown. 1853
NEW HAMPSHIRE. LOUISIANA.
ions p. Hale, 1859 j.. Benjamin, 1889
JAMES BELL. lsOl John Slidell. 1851
VERMONT. ARKANSAS.
SOLOMON Foor. 1853 VIM. X. Sebastian, 1859
JACOB CoLLAMEn. 1sGl Robert W. johnson, 1851
MASSACHUSETTS. TENNESSEE.
CHARLES SUMNER, lsG3 Uncertain, lsC3
HENRY WILSON, 1859 Joha Bel. 1856
RHODE ISLAND. KENTrCEY.
JAMES +. SIMMONS, lsG3 j. b. Thompson, 1853
Philip Allen. 1893 ,J,hH J. Cnronden. lsGl
CONNECTICUT. ONO.
JAMES DIXON, 1868 BENZ. F. WADE. 1853
l.. :. Foster. 1sGl George Il. Pugh. 1sGl
NEW YORK. MICHIGAN.
a REruBLIcAs, lsG3 ZAcu. CHANDLER, 1858
WV. II. SEWARD. lSGl Charles T.. Stuart. 1853
NEW Jersey. INDIANA.
Wi III mo' Wfi'sbt. i isS5 Probably none. Issj
rENSsYLYASIA. ILLINOIS.
SIMON CAMERON, 1893 stephen a. Douglas 1852
DELAWARE. MISSOURI.
James A. Bayard, lSG3 James J. Green, l-Gl
N. W Bates. 1859 Trusten Polk. 1853
MARYLAND. IOWA.
Anthony knncdy, 1853 George W. Jones, 1853
James A. Pearce. lsGl A RErrGLc,N. 1851
VIRGINIA. WISCONSIN,
James NJ. Mason, 1868 A RrrupLIcAy, 1888
II. VI. L Hunter. 1913 Charles ITuEFg. 1Nr1