The Evansville Daily Journal

The Indianapolis Cz'n (Independent) has the following comments upon the state of parties in the new Legislature:

Notwithstanding the fact that both the political organs claim certain men as belonging to their respective parties, there are some members of the new Legislature thus counted who, when any extreme party measures come up, will act independently, and in a way to surprise those who count on them in such extreme measures. For instance, the Republicans claim 52 representatives, giving the Administration 44, and the anti-Lecompton cause 4. In the 52 claimed by the Republicans, we notice three—Messrs. Blythe, of Vanderburgh, Edwards of Vigo, and John S. Davis of Floyd—who call themselves Old Whigs, and who have steadily refused to identify themselves with the Republican party. It is true that they are opposed to the Administration, but they will not lend their aid to any ultraisms, nor will they, in voting for U. S. Senators, assist in elevating to that position any Philadelphia platform, Congressional Sovereignty advocate. They are just as independent in this respect as are the anti-Lecompton Dems., classed as Independents as against the Administration. There are others in the list whom we believe to be independent in their sentiments, viz: Messrs. Gregory of Ohio and Switzerland, Duvall of Boone, and Boyd of Lawrence. There may be others. We could take the Democratic list and specify some who are mentioned as Democratic Representatives but who are doubtless independent, but as the Democratic force in the House falls into a minority, it would be labor lost. In the Senate, the Republicans count 25 members—13 who hold over and 12 new. Of these, Messrs. Anthony of Floyd, and Robinson of Ohio and Switzerland can not be counted as Republicans "through thick and thin." Of the Democratic Senators (25, according to the Sentinel's count), three—Messrs. Jones of Bartholomew, Cobb of Lawrence and Martin, and Connelly of Greene and Owen—are open and avowed enemies of the Administration, while there are several whose hostility to the President's Lecompton policy must lead them to oppose Messrs. Bright and Fitch, and make war upon the Administration in any attempt to procure an endorsement for its Kansas policy at the hands of the Legislature. We can mention Messrs. Wilson of Johnson and Jennings, Fish of Ripley, Johnston of Putnam and Clay, Gooding of Shelby and Hancock, and Wallace of Montgomery, as these men, all of them having been identified in the Douglas movement. We have said enough to show that this Legislature is made up of all shades of political opinion, and that no party has a majority. When it comes to electing United States Senators and other officers the Opposition may be able to unite, by apportioning the officers out to the various parties composing it. They can bring on an election in no other way. The conservative Popular Sovereignty sentiment must be respected, or nothing can be done. It is evident, therefore, that all calculation based upon the political proclivities of the members of the new General Assembly, are futile. The dissenters in that body from the two leading faiths held by the larger portion of its members, are not the men to be whipped, coaxed, or bribed into the work of either of the Federal parties. They will hold the balance of power, and we may liken them to the regulator of a steam engine, preventing it from going too fast or too slow.