Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1859-08-19

atlVe StrenStn, and their possible DIVISIONS
and combinations, in the new House, which
will assemble at Washington on the first
Monday in December next:
Republicans 10Y
Democrats 80
Anti ecomptonites II
Southern Opposition o6
North Americans 5
Full House 237
Majority 1l9
From these figures it will be seen-drst,
that no party has majority Of the House );
secondly, that the Republicans are within
striking distance ola majority; thirdly, that
the Democrats are in decided minority,
including the nti-Lecomptonites and last
ly, that the Southern opposition party will
hold the balance Of power
1.-The organization of the House will in
clude the election of the Speaker, the Clerk
and the Printer In the Congress which
assembled in December, 1856, neither of
the three parties represented having ma
jority, there was dead lock of many weeks
upon the struggle for the Speaker, which
was fnally settled by the plurality rule,
under which Mr. Banks was elected Next
without any apparent struggle, Mr.. Cullom
Of Tennessee, was elected Clerk, and Mr..
Cornelius Wendell, Printer. Thus the Or
ganization including a Republican Speaker,
a Know Nothing Clerk, and Democratic
Printer. This looks like joint stock COM
promise, and from the slight resistance to
Cullom and Wendell we are at liberty to
assume that there was compromise, includ-
ing the alleged cash and lobby contributions
from Wendell in behalf of the general ar
rangement.
''But any such compromising will be ex-
ceedingly difficult in this new Congress, be-
cause of its intimate connection with the
Presidential question. Thus, it may posi-
bly, fall within the power of the Speaker to
determine the Presidential issue upon nice
rendering of the rules of the House thus.
the House Clerk, with his patronage, per-
quisites, and unlimited franking privilege,
will be an important Presidential election
eering agent Of his party but the spoils and
plumber of the House printing to the party
securing it will be equal to an clectioneer-
1.-The Republicans will doubtless, as in
1855, make a dead set for the Speaker f; but
the prize of the House printing will this
time be too valuable to surrender for the
Speaker, except in the last extremity. For
ney is understood to be the anti Lecompton
candidate for Printer; but this idea requires
a fusion of the antiLecompton Democrats
with the Republicans, which Mr.. Douglas,
the chief of the anti-Lecompton faction. may
not be disposed to permit. The Southern
Opposition faction will be apt to demand
concessions instead of granting them. So
that, from every point of view, turn and
twist it as we may, the organization Of this
next Congress promises to mark one Of the
most extraordinary exciting and moment
Gus party struggles in the history of the
country
The organization Of the next Congress
will enable US to form correct idea Of the
probable coalitions and intrigues of the Black
Republicans than the statement from the
Heruld ..... ...
The Black Republicans certainly appear
to have every advantage, and there eau
scarcely occur any coalition from which
they will not profit They can safely rely
upon the five" North Americans men
toned by the Herald, and such is the en-
venomed hostility Of the "twenty-six"
Southern Opposition to the Democratic
party, that we have no right to look to that
faction for aid in any emergency. The
next Congress will be one Of plots, intrigues
and combinations, and the House of Repre-
sentative is not the body to which we should
like to see the solution Of a Presidential G
lection left in 1S60.-Rich. Erumtner.