New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-11-03


successor to Mr.. Morton will reduce the Republican
majority to four, when all seats full. As Senator
Sharon is habtually absent, the actual majority is
only three The admission Of the Democratic claim
ants from Louisiana and South Carolina would bal
ance evenly the strength of parties upon the floor,
but the Republican supremacy would still be
maintained by the casting vote of VicePresi-
dent Wheeler. Since 1871 the Republicans
have lost sixteen Senators, and gained one
not considering the seats now in dispute. The
gain in California and the losses in tho fol-
lowing States: Connecticut (2), New-York, New
jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana (2l, Illinois, West
Virginia, North Carolina, Florida Mississippi, Ar
kansas Missouri. and Texas ~ Unless a breaking
up of parties should occur, the Democrats will
be certain during the next two years. to make fur
ther gains of one Senator in each Of the following
States: Ohio South Carolina, Florida Alabama
and Arkansas In State have the Republicans
any prospect of gaming seat. unless it be in Con-
necticut. 1t would therefore seem well assured
az anything can be in politics, that the control OF
the Senate will pass into the hands Of the Democrats
in 1879.
II seems to be a good year for serenades. They
had one at SantO Domingo on the 10th ofSeptember,
more than month earlier than the one at Gramercy
Park They serenaded Christopher Columbus.
him an uncOmmonly lively time Of it with martial
music and cannon-fring, aud everything that makes
life desirable. So far as is known, Christopher.
although the victim Of one Of the greatest frauds
ever known, he having been cheated out of the
credit of discovering continent by the late Mr..
Vespucius refused to say word on that subject, or
any other, in response to tho serenade. Ii might
have been different if Mr.. Augustus Schel had been
there to introduce him and get him sort Of fired up
for the occasion. We are living or are dwelling in
grand and awful time. Brass bands were not in
vogue when the prophet Ezekiel looked down into
the valley and inquired incredulously, Can these
dry bones liver
"As the bird Of our country ceayes the cloud on
upward wing, and, piercing through the tempest,
scars alOft in the blue regions of imperial space. so
General Mcclellan, rising above the cyclone
Of Republican calumny, and buOyed up by
tho placid atmosphere Of nations love"
ETC., ETC., etc. This beautiful extract is culled
from the Grafton Of the Hon. A. A. Hardenburg,
delivered at the late Mcclellan reception in Jersey
City, More recently Mr. Hardenburg's decided stand
in the Committee on Banking and currency for hon
est money aud good faith, proves that gentleman.
whose speech is liable to cabbage out into very
loud and intense form of poetry act occasionally
with as much discretion a. one who never ven
lures to talk anything but prose and Sc nse.
The defeat Of Tammany Hall in NewYork, and
General Mcclellan in New-Jersey, would be the final
overthrow of all the reactionary malignity IN the
North which has enough organized life 20 offer an
encouraging alliance with the ineconcilable Bour-
bonsm in the South. and talk about preserving the
results Of the war would never again enter into
political campaign.
The nomination Of Mr.. Welsh seems to be ac-
cepted as something better than happy escape Of