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U. S. Senators were elected in . dozen or
more states during the past week, making
considerable changes in the personnsl Of the
''most dignifed and august legislative body
in the world"
In Pennsylvania John Scott, of Huntingdon
county, takes the place of Senator Buckalew.
Scott is the representative of the Pennsylva-
mia Railroad Company rather than of the
people of that state, and his election Is but
another evidence of the irresistible power of
that mammoth corporation.
In Maine the Hon. Hannibal Hamlin was
on Tuesday reelected for six years from the
4th OF March. Hamlin SO nearly realizes
Summers ideal of negro in the senate, that
the Massachusetts, Demosthenes would evi-
IDENTIFY feel uncomfortable without Lis pre-
sence. He is q man Of good sense, though
rather heavy, and has the quality of looking
out for his relations, every available one OF
whom, down to the 4th cousin, it is said hold
some government position through his influ-
ence.
Michigan returns Zachariah Chandler to
the Senate for another six years. We quote
the language of a radical paper, in saying
'that he is the worst drunkard in the Repub-
lican party" which, considering that there is
Yates, Sprague, Logan, &C., in that party, is
certainly strong language.
Delaware re elects James Bayard to the
Senate shining member of that small but
highly respectable little group on the left of
the chair known as the Opposition
Massachusetts, has just reelected "the pol
lshed Sumner for another six years the
"polished probably having reference to the
polishing down he received one day from
South Carolina Brooks.
Alex. Ramsey is reelected from Minnesota.
He is very industrious and useful, though
not over-brillant member.
Wisconsin elects Matt. II. Carpenter to the
Senate in place Of Doolittle. Carpenter has
been standing candidate for gubernatorial
or senatorial honors for number of years
past, and it is said only succeeded in forcing
his election by frightening the caucus by the
threat, that in case of his defeat he would
leave the party. There must have been some
thing Of unusual force to operate in his favor,
a. he was elected over Washburne
In New York Ex-Gov. Fenton is elected to
the Senate in place of Morgan. The N. Y.
Times said, week ago, that "money would
decide the contest" between Fenton and Nor
gan. Both have been leeches to the Treasury
long enough to realize colossal fortunes. Nor
gan made half million by a single operation
at the beginning of the war in buying ships
for the government. He is q close, stingy
man, however, and Fenton probably shelled
out more Literally.
In Missouri fierce and protracted fight
between Loan, Shurz and Henderson has end
ed in the triumph Of the hero of Chancellor
vile. Shurz was opposed to the bitter end
by Senator Drake, who spent week at JET
ferson city organizing and leading the opposi-
ton against him. The point on which the
battle turned was, whether Shurz was mere
malicious and inferaal in his hate of the dis
franchised citizens of Missouri than Drake,
and reduced to that issue, Drake was COM
PEELED to surrender to the German inidel.-
Shurz, who is under sentence of death for
treason in his native country, is a fit subject
to pursue with such unrelenting fury those
who are barely accused of treason in the state
that now elects him to the senate. ~