Richmond Semi Weekly Times

Where is Benton to go?

It has been suggested that Col. Benton, (Lieutenant General Benton, Mr. Polk would have had him, had the Senate permitted the outrage) will endeavor to take a seat in the House of Representatives, since the Legislature of Missouri has excluded him from the Senate. But there is very little reason to apprehend that his minor would be any more successful than his major aspirations. We suppose that in every district in Missouri, the Democratic party is divided, as it was in the Legislature, into Bentonites and Anti-Bentonites, and in each one there is a homogeneous Whig party. In the St. Louis district, the confidence of which the Great Exploded would probably strive to secure, the Whigs are well nigh competent to carry the day against both of the opposing factions. There would be little chance for him there. Some have thought he might attempt a political speculation in California, but the wane of Col. Fremont's star in that quarter is certainly an inauspicious omen.