Lapham of Canandaigua and Lyman R. Bass of Buffalo, both well known
at the bar of Western New York; Simeon B. Chittenden, a successful
merchant of the city of New York; Winthrop W. Ketchum, for many years in
the Legislature of Pennsylvania; Charles H. Joyce of Vermont, with a
good war record; William M. Crapo, a lawyer with large practice at New
Bedford, Massachusetts; Julius H. Seelye, the able and learned
President of Amherst College; Henry L. Pierce, a well-known
manufacturer of Massachusetts; and Thomas J. Henderson of Illinois, a
Brigadier-General in the Union Army.--Henry W. Blair of New Hampshire
was a member of the bar, enlisted early in the war, and attained the
rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He had been in both branches of the
Legislature of his State, and was a leader in the Prohibition cause.

In the Senate, the Democratic gain, though it had not changed the
control of the body, was very noticeable. William W. Eaton of
Connecticut, an old-fashioned Democrat, honest, sincere, and outspoken
in his sentiments, succeeded Governor Buckingham. Francis Kernan of
New York, who had already served in the House of Representatives, took
the seat of Governor Fenton. Joseph E. McDonald of Indiana, a man of
strong parts, succeeded Daniel D. Pratt. William A. Wallace of
Pennsylvania, an extreme partisan, but an agreeable gentleman and loyal
friend, took the place of John Scott. Allen T. Caperton, an estimable
man who had served in the Confederate Senate, now succeeded Arthur L.
Boreman of West Virginia. Samuel B. Maxey of Texas, a graduate of
West Point, succeeded J. W. Flanagan. Charles W. Jones of Florida
succeeded Abijah Gilbert. Robert E. Withers of Virginia succeeded
John F. Lewis. Last and most prominent of all, Ex-President Andrew
Johnson succeeded William G. Brownlow from Tennessee.

These nine Democrats took the place of nine Republicans, making a net
difference in the Senate of eighteen,--a difference somewhat increased
by the fact that Francis M. Cockrell, a decided Democrat, took the
place of Carl Schurz, who, as between political parties, was always
undecided. Nor was this uniform series of Democratic gains balanced in
any degree by Republican gains. The new Republican senators all took
the places of Republican predecessors. The other new Democratic
senators took the places of Democratic predecessors. The Republicans
had lost the power to command two-thirds of the Senate, and had
entered upon that s