“What though the spicy breezes
      Blow soft o’er Cuba’s isle;
    Though every prospect pleases,
      And only man is vile?”

The Senate would say with CICERO, de non apparentious et non existentibus, eadem est ratio, and they would remember with reference to the revolutionists of Cuba the great saying of Lord BACON, “Put a beggar on horseback, and he will go to the Senate from Massachusetts.”  Whatever the issue of the Cuban contest might be, he could lay his hand upon his heart, and say with the Mantuan bard, “Homo sum.” or, in the language of our own Shakespeare, that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.  These were all the sentiments he could find in his library which bore directly upon this subject.

Senator SUMNER then introduced a bill to provide for the resumption of specie payments.  The bill sets forth that it shall hereafter be a felony for any person to make tender of any thing other than gold and silver to any person of African descent, in any of the States lately in rebellion.  In moving the bill, the senator said that its passage was imperatively demanded by several negroes whom he knew, and that he would not consent to deliver these helpless persons into the hands of their late masters without some such guarantee as this bill furnished.  He quoted from ARISTOTLE, LOCKE, and BURKE to prove that classes liable to oppression were apt to be oppressed.

Senator TRUMBULL wished to know what that had to do with the resumption of specie payments.

Senator SUMNER considered the inquiry impertinent.  The great principles of justice were always in order.

Senator GARRET DAVIS took the floor, and made a neat speech of three days and a half in opposition to the bill.  He said he was a Democrat, and he always had been a Democrat.  The founders of the republic would weep if they could see what the government had come to.  What would CLAY and CALHOUN have said to seeing such men as his honorable friend from Nevada (Mr. NYE) and himself in the Senate?  If he might be permitted to infringe upon the domain of the senator from Massachusetts, he would quote Shakspeare, “What should such fellows as I do, crawling between heaven and earth?” (Loud applause.) At the close of Mr. DAVIS’S speech his friends came in from WELCKER’S, and congratulated him on having got through.  Exhausted nature made the Senate adjourn.

HOUSE.

After some general sparring, of which a set to between Mr. GARFIELD and Mr. HAIGHT formed the most conspicuous feature, the cadetship question came up.  Mr. VOORHEES explained that he never had sold any cadetships.  Mr. LOGAN wished to know who said he had.  Mr. VOORHEES remarked that Mr. LOGAN was another.  Mr. VOORHEES explained that he had appointed the son of a constituent, and that subsequently to the appointment he had taken a drink at the expense and the request of the constituent.  He always took his straight, and the cost to his constituent was only fifteen cents.  Which one of his colleagues would have acted otherwise? (Voices, “Not one.”)