Zach And Matt--the Virtuous Ones

The Washington correspondent of the Chicngo Jouj-nnlsa,ys : The coiQic event of tho wwk has been tho presentaron to the Seríate of a petition of certain ladies in New York, whioh etates that the tidal wave of the temperauce crueade is rapidly approaching Washington, and requesting that Senators CWpenter, Chandler and Sprague ühould receive, at the bar of the Senate, the band of praying women that is ehortly to arrire. Odi prefanum ! Of all men in the Senatc to reoeive tht baud of praying women, to drive out the eTÜ spirit of whisky toddy, a droller choice could not have been made than "Zach." and " Matt." Of course they are virtuous.- A oorrespoudent has just been expelled from the gulleries for saying that " Zach." ia not ; while they gay- the wioked say- that Senators ah a min i+ „1 ._._„ ,.j „ mío DIO UUl iiVT(lY8 reared upon bran-water, that they re among the diBoiples of the Paulina philosophy, who " take a little wine for the stomach's sake," and ag medicine ocly - They do say further- the wicked say- that, on rare occasions, the eiperienced eye oan detect in the private innermoat penetralia of the Senate restaurant, where Senators assem ble, the genial " crack" of champagne corles, and the fizz of the gaseous fluida And, perhaps, in one or two ot tue leading committee rooms, it inight be tound that an astoundiiig number of Kepresentatives seera to be mombers of one committee, and to be animated by a Bingul'irly common purpose, aud a mutual hope.