, 1863-11-18

From Our Special Correspondent
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 1s, 1858.
The leading event Of the past neek is the
Senatorial election. The flrst ballot Was taken
or Thurfday, when B. Gratz Brown gained
ten On hIs highest vote at tho pre7Ious ses-
sion. From this moment the proposed coali
ton between the ClaybankB and copperheads
wss broken up, irasmuch Us the probability
Of such q fusion had taken Oft several clsy-
banks rho Were Union men Ut heart, and
because the further attempt to prosecute such
4 fusion would have inevitably driven other
CLAY banks into the ranks OF the Radicals.
Tae ab.ence Of several msmbers on both
sides reduced the number OF votes requited
to elect. and the secret OF the real strength
Of tie Radicals Was wise]y Keps until the bal
lot began, fom fear Of tlllibnsterlng parlia
mentafy tactics oa the part Of The C1aJ Jblnks
to prevent an election. The result was sur
price to the Cleybanks aud copperheads, but
It WAS then too late to do any mischief. Tne
election Of B. Gratz Bro N Is q glorious tri
umpb, aud added to the SUCCESS Of our ticket
at the late election, places Missouri right or
the record It seals the downfall Of the Gam
Blair sehofe1d policy, and must speedily
alter the Presidents view OF the Missouri
question.
The selection Of John B. Henderson as the
second Senator flor tho long term,) 1.-THE col
league of Mr.. Brown, has excited coneider-
able notIce. The Missouri Republican and
the Clsybanks' claim him as an ardent Con-
seryatiye, Ehich view Of his politics Is
tested by the German Radical papers over his
election. It is simple truth to say that Mr.
Henderson Is not noW, nor has he ever been,
the choice Of the Radical party; but the
question OF Jefferson City was Henderson and
Brown or Broadhead and Phelps. 4 mere
men Of the Gratz Brown stripe, might hare
been credilable in one point Of view, bnt
| In many others the election Of Henderson
mubt meet With the appreciation oflo3al men.
| John B. Henderson professed the most rAdt-
cal sentiments. Personally he has no respect
good company. BE has sufficient political So
gacity to tee the popular current, and will
| not attempt to breast the tide. The late elec.
| ton has opened his eyes wonderfully, aud
backed BY Gratz Brown, and such able Con
erce.fonal representatives as Blow, Boyd,
tident1y believed, will yote right. He is in
! favor of another convention to consider
the Emancipation question, and Wfu earn
his election by voting to reject the nomlna-
tion Of 8chofeld as Major General
Radicals, % seems I settled I'll @ 5sJona d dispute. Ths
follows: Badical, 1880; Conservative.
g., 5s5-Coneeryative minority, 6,595. The
Republicans figures are little different, bs
ing as touoH8: RADICAL. 20 ,1tU; Souselfas
Tive, SO, 3,1S8-majority 6,660. The soldiers
vote Is ignored by the Espu1ltca,s but the
Democrat publishes the vote In detail; It
eeryatiye, 5s5. Ifadded to the home vote,
according to the Democrat, It gives majori'
ity Of 593 for the Radical; OF according to
the Republican. a radical majority Of 342:
There are about twelve hundred soldiers
yotes, which will be nearly all Radical, to be
sddei, and the final result cannot be
less than from fifteen hundred to two thou
sand in our favor, leaving wide margin 70,
Illegal or Informal returns thrown out BY the
canTafsers. It is quito probable an efoE.
the military vote, but such IN operation will,
j; if tried, raise terrific storm about ths heads
Of the Conservatives. The question cannot
be taken into the Supreme Court, as all the
Judges nre personally interested IN the de
cision.
Gen. schcfeld Is considered doomed to re
moval. With Gratz Brown and Henderson
thrown into the Senate, to Increase ths for
mer Radical majority in that body, 1t is duflcu,
to contemplate such possibility ~ schofsld'
confirmation. Gsatz Brown will thorough,