The Daily Gazette

From the N. Y. Sun.

POLITICS IN WASHINGTON.

Washington, Nov. 7.-The Republicans have not carried the Senate, but besides the President they will have the House of Representatives by a small majority, and the Senate will be controlled by Judge Davis as the case now stands. This estimate rests upon the supposition that Tennessee will return a Democrat and Nevada will do likewise. The result of the election in Virginia has set Mr. Mahone against those whom he calls the Bourbons, and it is not at all improbable that he may in a certain contingency act with the Republicans, who have the power to make terms with him and the disposition to get possession of the Senate on any conditions whatever. With the acquisition of Mahone, assuming that Judge Davis will act generally with the Democrats, the Senate would be tied, and for two years legislation and nominations would be in the hands of the Vice President elect. The Republicans now have, and will continue to have, by filling the coming vacancies, mastery of the Supreme Court. It will not cost the Republican leaders a second thought to make an alliance with the Mahonites in Virginia, or any other alliance in any other State, if by that means their hands can be strengthened. They are moved by the present expediency, and not by any principle. In any event the present Senate ought to be purged of its official impurities. The Democrats unfortunately elected John C. Burch as Secretary, and Richard J. Bright as Sergeant-at-arms, both of whom had been criminally indicted in their own States. Tennessee and Indiana, from which States these officers hail, have given their judgment upon this operation at the ballot box. It is openly announced that the Republicans mean to recruit their small majority in the next House of Representatives by unseating several members from Southern States upon various pretenses. The preparations for carrying out this programme have already begun